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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei LN - Anime Comparison & Speculation
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2014-04-05, 11:21 | Link #2 |
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Guess I'll be the first one then
Just finished the 1st episode D. Though some details have been cut out (nothing serious) and the pace feels a bit fast (maybe due to I read this LN quite slowly ), I have to say they did a good job . Love the action sequence , but I wish it would be a bit longer (hey hey, anyone would enjoy a manly fist battle in a magic world, eh? ). The ed looks cool enough, but I don't think it's a good idea to put some spoilers in there (just like how they did it in the OP of Log Horizon), not really a wise move IMO.
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2014-04-05, 12:35 | Link #5 |
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Its truly fast paced and somewhat disjointed when they remove so much of Tatsuya's monologues and explanations, but seeing it animated was great!
Kinda sad to see Juumonji just barely squeezed into the opening but Mikihiko was made to look pretty bad ass. Last edited by Guest2; 2014-04-05 at 12:52. |
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As for monologues, as long we get to dive into the darker aspects of Tatsuya's character, I'll probably be content. |
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2014-04-05, 13:11 | Link #8 |
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Everyone note some of the differences in the anime. In the flashback where little Tatsuya used Material Burst, he used a gesture of a finger gun unlike opening his hand in the novel. Also, note how the producers chose to show Honoka trying to stop the other students from using magic, which was only shown in the Yuutousei manga.
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2014-04-05, 13:16 | Link #9 |
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For a anime only view; alot were probably at lost. No explanation was giving any sort and just move on to the story. But still quite intriging for a LN reader.
For the OP; it barely show Tatsuya's OPness so it was OK; Alot of anime viewer only is probably wondering why theres already a "kissing scene" but rather it was a "breaking seal" (wassup it rhymed) Shows how powerful Jummonji and badass Miki is. Btw you can really feel their character by their expression. Took attention for Leo, it looks to me that he was running away from something.(which to LN reader probably know what kind of thing is he running away from) and Tatsuya spending time in an empty room; which made the impression that he normally doesnt sleep much only monitoring Miyuki even at night. Miyuki being Miyuki try to look beautiful even tho it looks like she is thinking about something serious. And Lastly for Erika in a dojo alone(again for LN readers it is easy to figure it out) Kudos to Ishida-san for try to elaborate about the expressions. The scene where Leo and Erika was arguing is something I expect especially Erika; you can clearly see a girl 100% making fun of a person
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2014-04-05, 13:20 | Link #11 |
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Most of the important stuff are actually there. Anime viewers are supposed to watch/hear between the lines and think for themselves. I have no complaints for the composition of episode 1. Except the Taijutsu scenes seemed average to me. The magic activation animations on the other hand were just wow.
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2014-04-05, 13:26 | Link #13 |
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Tatsuya barely had any monolouge where in the novel most things he do is doing monolouges. Which is what I pointed out that having less info dump is bad, and having more is bad too....it clearly shows the disadvantage of the LN compressing info dumps in the anime.
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In the manga it's mostly event focused, with a few explanations here and there. Like everytime Tatsuya does something special it stops to complain it, but it doesn't really go as deepy as the Light Novel does. That's more or less how I see the anime going. If it spends a lot of time doing narrated info dumps it could take up half an episode, cutting out a lot of the info dumps effectively makes the Novels shorter, meaning the Anime can cover more content by compressing them. If they find a right balance between the 2 it could be alright. |
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2014-04-05, 14:20 | Link #17 |
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They could fit in the CAD info dump into next episode's events, because a certain someone would be perfect for pointing out CADs....
Though the lack of showing the treatment of Course 2 students was a little jarring, mainly confusing people that would be wondering why the class was surprised that a teacher walked into the class. |
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2014-04-05, 14:36 | Link #20 |
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Animation-wise, this is what I expected of Madhouse. Think I'll just delete Mahou Sensou from my memory.
That being said, I'm not sure how I felt about them seeming to indicate Tatsuya running using personal acceleration magic. Wasn't he supposed to be able to run that fast through purely physical skills? Also, a little surprised Tatsuya seemed so willing to step in with magic during the argument at the end. Character-design wise, I think they made Morisaki and Hattori look too young. |
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