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Originally Posted by Pellissier

A conceptually interesting series, but the episode count really makes it hard to focus on the assassins and give them some proper background. We're probably just going to have an "assassin of the week" kind of episode for a while, until the finale. But as it stands, they're all very forgettable characters (of course, having so little background, how could we care for them?)

The hunting phase being so short also reduces the thrilling, since the assassin gets a couple attempts, and there's not time to build tension (in addition you know they aren't going to succeed, at least not anytime soon).

Finally, so far the huntings have both had unintentional comedy, the scissors plus Tokaku's denseness in episode 3, Haru's night trip in episode 4. I guess it's from the source material, but the way it is adapted and presented makes it very amateurish.

yeah that's what im starting to feel.
oh sure, they certainly gave kouko a bit more focus and time than the manga, where it was really short. they however, cut off a lot of other stuff pertaining the other assassins, especially last week:

Spoiler for manga comparison:

in last ep, there was some interaction with the assassins that wasnt directly related to assassinating haru.
what happened was that the scissors girl sort of tried to mess around with some of the assassins. remember that scene in the anime with that other girl who had a weird personality and kept haru's gift? lets just say that the other girls showed up and they pretty much told that scissors girl that she's being mean/bully taking away the strap.
then the girl who's got an office desk pretty much gets up, takes the strap back then returns it to banba, telling the scissors girl "those that bully will get bullied".

then much later, the scissors girl comments to her roommate about liking to cut up rabbits. the other girl is not amused and she pretty much blows her off, mentioning "ah is this bullying?" like the earlier girl.

those scenes were really important in showing that, while the assassins came here for a job, they're still pretty much like normal students. heck, those scenes pretty much tells you a lot that these girls arent as bad as they seem to be.

actually, those werent from the source material.
haru wasnt that gullible or defenseless(in her defense in the manga, she didnt know that an assassin was going after her unlike in the anime that, not only did she knew, she also knew pretty much who sent it), she didnt get captured so there was no scene of the scissors conveniently landing on the ropes. tokaku didnt get pushed around, heck she never really got pressured by the enemy.


the anime, id say, should just have followed through with the manga even if they couldnt finish the story. just give some bit of closure for the characters while leaving a cliffhanger for a sequel bait.
manga gives you a proper feeling of the characters, instead of "different assassins coming together to kill this girl from this school", it's "different assassins with their own objectives and desires meet with each other in this classroom".