This episode ended up normal.
I find Kyoani's choice of chronology extremely screwy. But that's only because I remember all the scene dates, so obviously it would look rather weird. Otherwise it's sequentially reasonable, and aside from minour truncations, the overall idea once again, is still there.
In terms of accuracy to the game, with slight truncations, overall ideas are still maintained. Though because of the fast pace, the introductions are rather fast. With Kyou and Tomoyo it's fine because of their frequency, but for Fuuko and Kotomi they use a slower pace.
And my god the days are running fast. Now I'm realising they're doing introductions, then segmenting like they did in kanon. And if I keep thinking chronologically, I will find it extremely screwed up.
And of course in terms of Nagisa, it's fantastic. The other girls, I can't say quite the same. Now this is merely character usage. Clearly the main girl would have the most emphasis, but even I never recalled Ayu usage being that dominant that early (or it was, kind of, but not really).
Well I'm basing my opinion on the raw. Otherwise, it's still fine. If the perks work, they work. If anything, the other girls should be emphasized at a later episode. Likely by then most of the dates will be ignored because of segmentation. Maybe I keep forgetting that the same scenes in the game are like 10x longer due to text, but that anime speed covers most of it rather quickly.
Upon watching it again, it's not as bad. And perhaps I easily missed something from the raw.
This might be the only series that I watch each raw episode. Chronology aside, the overall idea was maintained, and the linking format obviously isn't identical, but it still works. If the pace is fast, at least most things are concise. If anything, a large sequence of events happened in the same episode, which is technically what I like in general episodes, so I should be quite satisfied.
[SPOILER]Although relatively Nagisa's usage obviously delved more into the route more, it'll seem quite odd when she may very well be missing for 12 or so episodes when segmented routes are undergone. It's like if her usage remains this high in the next few episodes, you'll run out of things to do with Nagisa lol because most of it would be covered. Now then again I don't know if there's an after story or not, but if there was, that would totally screw over the pace of the segmented routes, or those would simply be pretty fast since there's already portions of each route used anyways.[\SPOILER]
Right now everything is being put down so there's a fair share of seeing everyone (um except Miyazawa). Well, a lot more happens anyways. I just wonder in what order.
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Other than that, still not much here to divert my interest from other shows this season.
