2012-01-13, 12:50 | Link #141 | |
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The only difference is that in the first 3 seasons, they started airing in July... this one started in January. |
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2012-01-15, 02:30 | Link #142 |
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From the summary of ep 2-5 and from what I remember from the light novels, it looks like ep 4 starts to cover the events in vol 15. That means the events in vol 13 & 14 are covered in 3 episodes only.
This season seems to be most rushed and many scenes in the light novels will be cut out. |
2012-01-16, 23:13 | Link #143 | |
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I for one will just be happy to arrive at some sort of conclusion for the whole cast and story, and it's fun to see them in action again. (As someone who hasn't read the novels, and understands that the previous seasons weren't particularly faithful to them, I'm not going to start worrying about it now...)
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2012-01-17, 15:40 | Link #145 |
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The show is streaming on Crunchyroll, and the first episode is now open to non-members (in the applicable regions, anyway).
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2012-01-18, 00:20 | Link #146 | |
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2012-01-24, 21:53 | Link #152 | |
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2012-01-24, 23:11 | Link #154 | |
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If I were the author of ZnT, I also survived cancer, which gives me some perspective on this sort of thing that I will never expect the fans to understand. So yeah, sacrifices will need to be made, but I don't want to end it halfway through with no resolution after 3 seasons of (mostly) filler! Okay, I'm no longer the author. Speaking for myself, I hope the pace keeps up and we get matching anime and LN endings. |
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2012-01-25, 03:04 | Link #155 | |
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He was falling way behind the light novel schedule - I just dont think he would be seriously working with the anime as well when he first need to catch up with the light novels to begin with and it is light novels that are the priority in this case, not the anime. Most likely someone else did most of the planning in anime. |
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2012-01-25, 20:24 | Link #156 | |
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2012-01-26, 03:29 | Link #157 | |
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Of course, fans would probably still complain, and there's honestly little incentive to go that far for a final season. As for J.C.STAFF, if they're to be blamed for something, it would probably be a lack of editorial supervision, as well as iffy schedule management. Contrary to popular belief, they take on a rather laissez-faire approach to content creation. With how they're set up, it's literally impossible for them to be closely involved with any single project since production primarily revolves around a single producer (who's in charge of numerous shows simultaneously and serves as the studio's contact in business negotiations). They're very much a cog in the system as opposed to an active participant in creation. |
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2012-01-26, 13:36 | Link #158 | |
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His prime focus is Novels and catching up with schedule (hope it is 'just' catching up the LN schedule rather than being able to finish it all which would make it more grim). Anime if involved just could not physically have the authors deep involvement in the project. The person who is mainly responsible for most of cutting and blending is not the author. In fact authors when asked to get involved in anime are happy with anime being released to begin with and very rarely criticize anything that is done to the anime, unless they are really self-centered which happens rarely in Japanese culture. Meaning that the authors input is usually really small, because they are simply content with it being done rather than it being done well. Because no matter how crappy it is it can serve at least as an advertising of his/her own novels (even negative advertising is still advertising). But of course company advertise as if the authors production is very strong and notable to give the anime a more credibility (hey author worked with it, you cant complain now!) while in reality it often turns out that their real role was far much smaller than advertised. And in ZnT case given the authors condition throughout the last year where he could barely sit down to work on his main focus (LN), such scenario seems to be very, very likely. Thats why it annoys me when some fools start pointing - hey the author is making it. You really need to separate advertising and the actual process, particularly in this case when everything is pointing to authors only very minimal involvement with it all (due to health issues). |
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2012-01-27, 00:14 | Link #159 | |
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2012-01-27, 00:55 | Link #160 |
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With only 12 episodes to work with, the material was going to be cut, condensed, and modified no matter who handled the story planning. Yamaguchi and the scriptwriters worked within the limitations.
There was never any reason to expect the impossible. |
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