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Originally Posted by Triple_R
Why is that even worse? Why should novel readers be amused at seeing characters they liked in the light novel be portrayed in a much more negative light in the anime? What exactly is funny about that, Relentlessflame?
And anime-original viewers are obviously being left out on the joke, unless they run across some information like what Undertaker provided. As far as most anime-original viewers are concerned, these major changes are simply ruining certain major characters for them.
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They're not being portrayed in a "much more negative light" here. What the anime is conveying through this episode and what the novels were trying to convey through their story were entirely different things. The anime is using this episode to develop Kyousuke and Kirino, and what it accomplished for their character development (given what we've seen in the anime so far) is a lot more significant
to the anime's story than everything in the aforementioned summary. What's funny is that people are getting so hung about the anime not being faithful to the novel in an episode whose primary illustration was anime not being faithful to novels (it's very much pun intended), and missed the key point about what the show was trying to suggest in the story as a result.
What is the purpose of this episode? What is the central message? How it did develop the characters in the story to support the message? How does this message contribute to the overall plot of the show as shown so far? What does it to suggest to us about where the story is headed? These are the important questions. But very few people in this thread are asking those sorts of questions. They're focused on words and actions but not on the
meaning beneath those words and actions. And this episode is all about providing context and meaning to Kyousuke and Kirino's behaviour, which is the very thing that people keep complaining about ad nauseum from week to week. This episode on its own tells you everything you need to know about Kyousuke and Kirino to understand everything that's happened in the plot so far. And yet people are continuing to bitch and complain about the same things they always have, in addition to complaining now about the lack of faithfulness (despite that being an obvious pun intended). That's why I called it a troll to the light novel readers. For everyone else, I would have thought this episode would have filled in a lot of gaps (gaps that probably didn't need filling for the novel readers in the first place), but few are seeing it because they're focused more on the "what" than the "why" of the plot.
This episode may not have been the greatest on its own, but I would argue that it was actually the turning point of this season of this show.