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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
It hasn't failed "as an adaptation", it's failed as a standalone story, if you imagine that was ever their intention. As an adaptation, if things aren't yet revealed in the source material and are coming later, it makes the most sense for the anime to hold off on those elements and wait for them to be revealed as the source reveals them, because their goal is to present the original story in animated form. Them randomly changing things could have an unknown impact on the timeline of the story. In particular with this adaptation, each arc is named precisely to match the novel titles, so they've made it pretty clear they're adapting each novel, not creating a new story based on the novels. So even if the anime ends, they never claimed that was the whole story -- they just animated the first four novels.
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Semantics. If a character comes off as flat and incomplete, that's a failure as an adaptation as it relates to that character - which is exactly what I said. If an anime is going to use a character as a major plot driver with no intention of developing that character because they aren't developed in the parts of the story they plan to adapt, that's one choice - but it isn't their only choice. Knowing they don't have time to adapt the entire story, they could incorporate elements from later volumes to allow the character's actions to have meaning in the context of the volumes they
are adapting.
It's not as if studios don't make changes to source material to give the best possible presentation in the time allowed - it happens all the time. Maybe Taichi isn't developed in the novels either, I don't know - but in the end, it doesn't really matter. An anime has to be able to stand or fall on its own terms.
@Chaos: in terms of being a person instead of device, how about a little motivation? How about some exploration as to
why Taichi does what he does, instead of just having him stand wherever the plot needs him to stand? "White Knight Syndrome" is a character trait and no more, and liking pro wrestling isn't even that much - it's a gag. We know why Yui is afraid of boys, and why Inaba feels inadequate and overcompensates by acting arrogant and superior, and why Nagase has identity issues. We don't know why Taichi does any of the things he does - that's the difference.