Will the anime be screwed up again because of the small number of episodes?
I still remember the disastrous 13 episode of Charlotte
Prima Doll
Benjamin Lewis
William Green
1 cour is almost never enough. It always feels like you just finish introducing things before you have to rush to a conclusion. No time to breath. No time to develop stuff. No time to break from the norm.
Dominic Wright
I'm not sure why you would think the two are comparable at all.
Aaron Bell
Prima Doll isn't even written by Maeda as far as I know.
Jacob Brown
In fact, there are quite a few works, 13 episodes, or even 10 episodes, 6 episodes in length. Still can tell a good story. But the premise is that the whole story is designed with less content. You can't compress 24 episodes of content into 13, that would be disastrous.
Angel Beats is to cut all the other non-main characters of the story, to ensure that the story can be properly finished in 13 episodes. But even if this does the story capacity is still insufficient. If it becomes 24 episodes it will be more successful.
Very good
Jeremiah Smith
It might, or it might not be.
It's theoretically possible to deliver a good story in only 12 episodes - just look at Madoka
And what said.
The focus on songs is what makes me anxious. I hope they use them for the sake of the story, but too often I see song-themed anime where it's the opposite - the story is just an afterthought that serves to excuse the songs.
Andrew Russell
Because Key I guess
Dominic Mitchell
It's up to the director to realize their vision for a 1-cour and the production commission to approve of it. A good, complete story can be told with only 1 cour, such as Madoka Magica, but they are indeed rare.
Gabriel Gonzalez
Maeda isn't touching it so it might end up being good
Juan Wilson
For me, it's Retzel.
Eli Phillips
I find the opposite problems with songs in an anime. Too often they advertise this beautiful songstress singing a great tune and in the actual show she only has a repertoire of 2-3 songs that are repeated a few times and never mentioned again.
Elijah Hernandez
Good taste.
Brody Brooks
Even though she's a Kuroko-type screeching lesbian?
Zachary Morgan
Didn't know that.
Makes it even better.
Jaxon Cook
Is she? That's not the impression I got from the PVs. Is that from the web novel?
Benjamin Rivera
I think it only works if the plot starts at episode 1-2 and ends at episode 13. If they're trying to do the conventional narrative where half(or more) of the show is pure setup/filler/fluff and then the plot hits, 6-4 episodes left for the plot are almost never enough.
Aiden Roberts
Hell, even the "Kaginado" 4 minutes of funny animation used only to please the fans. All know that the story needs 2 seasons and 24 episodes to tell the complete telling of the story. Why can "Charlotte" and "The Day I Became a God" fail so completely because of their length?
>especially "The Day I Became a God", the story is not just a matter of length. The story itself is also terrible.
Isaiah Robinson
Yeah real puzzling why having 24 episodes of a 4 minute anime wouldn't be a problem.
Jaxson Thomas
Well she's not quite as loud or angry, but she's speaks in "desu no" and she can. not. shut. up. about her ONEE-SAMA
Eli Long
The Day I Became a God is actually a bit weird because it got meddled a lot by the director forcing Maeda to rearrange stuff "to make a better narrative", so we will never know what kind of shit it was originally supposed to be. Maybe his original version actually would make more sense even if it was still bad.
Dominic Morris
The focus is not only the animation 4 minutes, the focus is the story arrangement. If the stories need that many episodes, they should be given that many episodes. Even if it's just 4 minutes of animation, you'd still be terrible at giving only 6 episodes in length.
Jack Peterson
The sad thing is that, unlike Angel Beats or even Charlotte, Kamisama could have actually worked with the number of episodes it was given. All it needed was to make the story more grounded and maybe more realistic (there was no need for the stupid evil scientists aspect). It also needed to cut out the characters that barely did anything. Kamisama was bad but it wouldn't have been difficult to actually make it good.
Somehow I doubt it. If I recall correctly, the guy whose name I forgot (the one who was watching over the main cast) was not supposed to appear until *episode 6* but the director convinced him to add him to other episodes so that his appearance wouldn't be so abrupt. The mahjong and ramen episodes were also Maeda's idea and he insisted they be made through all of his eight (8!) drafts. It seems the writing was largely a Maeda problem rather than a director problem, and the fact that HBR is doing well could simply be a sign that Maeda doesn't know how to write a one-cour anime series unfortunately.
David Davis
It's a multimedia project, there's absolutely no reason to believe that the separate stories have to match up
Michael Young
>the fact that HBR is doing well could simply be a sign that Maeda doesn't know how to write a one-cour anime series unfortunately.
Yeah. HBR follows the classic Maeda style of "slice of life in the first 80%, plot in the last 20%", except repeated over each chapter so that each small amount of plot time only needs to contain a small part of the total plot rather than all of it.