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Zeydra · 2012-09-26, 02:50

I'm going to be honest here and say I really don't get how the series was too short.

There are many anime series that have 12 to 26 episodes, in that amount of time the well done ones are fully capable of building a world, setting up and developing the cast, and creating a plot that has a conflict of some kind and a good resolution.

AGE's problems with pacing come from the fact the people who wrote it write video games and clearly haven't got a proper grasp of how to do a TV show. The world was built in Flit's arc, most characters also returned, there is absolutely no excuse for wonky pacing.

I mean look at Unicorn, after a single episode it has created a conflict and a plot and a cast so robust it puts the 21 hour show to shame. And that is a single hour.

Frankly more episodes would have only made the already present flaws in AGE worse, not better. They simply lacked the skills to tell the story they wanted to tell well, that's all there is to it.

2012-09-26, 02:50	Link #16
Zeydra A random passerby Join Date: Jul 2012 Age: 32	I'm going to be honest here and say I really don't get how the series was too short. There are many anime series that have 12 to 26 episodes, in that amount of time the well done ones are fully capable of building a world, setting up and developing the cast, and creating a plot that has a conflict of some kind and a good resolution. AGE's problems with pacing come from the fact the people who wrote it write video games and clearly haven't got a proper grasp of how to do a TV show. The world was built in Flit's arc, most characters also returned, there is absolutely no excuse for wonky pacing. I mean look at Unicorn, after a single episode it has created a conflict and a plot and a cast so robust it puts the 21 hour show to shame. And that is a single hour. Frankly more episodes would have only made the already present flaws in AGE worse, not better. They simply lacked the skills to tell the story they wanted to tell well, that's all there is to it.