2013-04-29, 23:19 | Link #901 |
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I have to admit this show wasn't what I thought it would originally be. I didn't thinking it would focus completely on dating. The advisors are for dating, every initial conversation with a new spirit is a like a dating sim, etc. After watching the first episodes, I figured this would turn into a harem. I want Touka to end with Shido. Yoshino seems like the adorable little sister. However, the show has a few more episodes with a few more spirits being introduced.
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And no, the series won't go about the dating thing the same way every time. It actually gets pretty hectic a couple times........... Quote:
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You don't have to surprise everybody; getting them to like what they see, surprise or not, is the goal. Not every viewer is like you, no offense; many/most viewers/readers are plenty satisfied with something they simply like, not something that surprises them. And obviously Date A Live cleared the goal of attracting readers, with an anime announced after only two novel volumes: "According to Fantasia Bunko, it has never planned an anime adaptation of one of its titles as quickly as this one." And there's the PS3 visual novel that was in the works before the anime even began airing and (sort of) soon-to-be-released. (even Oreimo, with all its popularity, only got a VN released shortly after the anime on the PSP, its sequel still only made the PSP, and it's only getting a PS3 version long well after the first season aired)
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Thats why the three episodes rule exist. Maybe you don't need to wow them, but you certainly need to hook them with something. Quote:
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Date A Live got its Anime so soon is the results of the Anime industry 'burning' through tons of titles for adaptation, so much so that they need to grab titles earlier and earlier. As for the VN, OreImo back then were the ones who helped set the trend for PSP vn games to be developed together with the series, before then nobody really did that. Date A Live isnt doing anything new.
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Just don't say something arrogant (again, no offense) like that proves Touka isn't a popular character. But the fact that the DAL novels shot into anime-dom so quickly should that Touka is far from unlikeable, since she'e the main heroine after all. And at the time the anime was green-lit, only she, Yoshino, and Kotori had been introduced, and since the popularity poll showed Touka is more popular than either of them.......... Quote:
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And I didn't say Date A Live was doing anything new with its game. Lots of things don't do anything new. They just do it faster or slower, just like DAL did it faster.
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Touka's popularity is not my focus, I was only talking about how her 'capture' was handled. Her popularity might be a result of many other factors within the story that has not occurred yet. Quote:
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2013-04-30, 01:18 | Link #906 | ||||||
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Wanting a surprising opener isn't wrong at all. But It's not the Law of Storytelling. Not having a surprising opener and just working things up works to bring in viewers/readers just as well, as has been proven for years. I get that you were looking for something with a surprising opener, and I get that DAL didn't do that for you. But your preferred way of storytelling isn't the only one that works. Quote:
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But yeah more to the point, again there's no rule that says the author/director has to drop everything at a certain point in the series. And remember that this is a novel adaptation, not an original anime, so its plot is operating on the novel's schedule unless the anime were to go full-swing original; we're only at a space between novel volumes 2 and 3 (the upcoming hot spring episode is anime original, as people have said already) of more than 7, and it's highly unlikely that volume 8 will be the last one. I really can't say anything without novel spoilers coming in, but you're not going to have to wait long at all for things to heat up. Quote:
On the other hand, saying DAL was only anime-ized by default, based on a murky and unsupported view of the anime industry that the novel/manga industry is running dry of adapting material is problematic at best and sounds more like anattempt to explain away DAL's popularity. (don't take that as an insult, I'm just saying the cold hard facts there ) Quote:
a) getting a novel-based game green-lit so much time before its anime adaptation comes out is a big deal b) it shows how the popularity was high enough for the bean-counters at the companies to green-light it so quickly c) it also shows the popularity because it got a game faster than other highly popular series-es d) it shot straight to a PS3 game, which everybody knows is more expensive to make than PSP games (Oreimo only got a PS3 game after two PSP games to generate sales, and let's be honest, the second game was more of a bonus disc, hence why they included the first game without charging much more for the double pack) This shows lots of popularity for the base title. Companies are all about making money; they don't just throw lots of projects at a title without good sales driving it, and certainly not so quickly.
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2013-04-30, 01:33 | Link #907 |
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It has quiet-loli mascot in a potential harem type situation with a tsundere who has been killing people for the longest, and a hot sniper with the personality of a bucket who can confuse the male lead anytime merely by opening her mouth. Plus the sniper looks good when she is sporting herself in a towel. Watched all 4 episodes and I'm in the opinion that I like it! My type of show!
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2013-04-30, 02:17 | Link #909 | |
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I agree that the 3-4 episode rule is fair for an LN adaptation, since that's about 1 volume, and that's what the author has to rely on to sell people into buying volume 2. While I do know of special cases when the story gets insanely better after volume 10 (and also when story turns to shit after 4-5 volumes), but usually, for these (former case) series, first few volumes still manage to sell me enough to continue reading. That's why I stopped after ep 4 for DoA. So I guess, DoA is just not my cup of tea, since it manages to rub me off the wrong way in so many different ways Somehow, I understood that my taste does not coincide with the masses when it comes to love (harem) comedies when they are set in fantasy or sci-fi settings (IS, DxD, Campione, DoA, etc. ...... ) I probably prefer the Slice-of-Life ones |
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This isn't for everyone that's for sure. But I'm enjoying the ride.
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2013-04-30, 10:04 | Link #913 | |
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My bigest complaint is they are cutting novel scenes, some of which are fairly important for the over all plot, yet are still throwing in anime only filler re-using the same jokes over and over that don't add anything to the story.
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2013-04-30, 23:06 | Link #918 | |
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Lol, so much stuff added into the director's cut. Nice marketing ploy.Well, they already pointed out her backstory at the end of episode 1. The dream would just serve to enhance it.
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As for the immediate "why," time-to-material constraints, making sure the anime doesn't end at a bad spot. Though not cutting time for the hot springs episode would have helped....
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