Serenata posted:
To be frank, I love the manga, never had a problem with it but then they made the culture festival arc, it's... odd.
Well I have some issues with general setting, like it really is pretty contrived and doesn't make sense. I also didn't like that from what I saw, they really are going very black and white with characters designs. Like except for Plasma (or however that teacher was called) all heroes are obviously good guys and all villains look like villains, including the birth mutations. Some powers are just totally OP/ridiculous and I really didn't like where the story was going from spoilers of future development I heard. Also speaking of powers, some characters were clearly created as villains first and then author tried to make their backstory fit, because at least 2 powers wouldn't make sense if they weren't possessed by the villains that possess them. Right, and female characters are very underdeveloped/used (I know it's aimed at boys but still).
but then they decided to give Deku the possibilities of multiple quirks and he hasn't mastered the first one yet and that, in one word felt WRONG like it goes against his character, I can't get used to it and idk if I will ever feel good with it.
That's my biggest beef with the series. It's very ironic considering originally Deku was supposed to stay quirkless and be a sorta batman in universe, but editor said it won't fly and so author changed it to what we got now. Deku batman could be really cool, but I was fine with All For One idea and it make for interesting story with how Deku was adapting to it, especially with his personality of brains rather than brawn. But then suddenly he gets access to all other quirks AFO had and that I call bs. We went from quirkless protagonist to OP protagonist with like 7 quirks. That's like exact opposite of what series was supposed to be about. But I guess it's not shounen battle series, if MC doesn't unlock new powers/forms as the series progress.
Hylarn posted:
I wouldn't go that far, but it's certainly the anime I've most enjoyed watching for some time. And definitely the best mobage adaptation (possibly the best game adaptation)
I'll admit I might be a bit biased, but I'm just way too used to anime having almost no animations and being mostly static characters flipping mouths with occasional fight breaks if anime has those, so I was just blown away by the amount of animation and really unique and engaging presentation of first episode. Sure in moments it might feel little too rushed and you need to focus a lot and figure out some things really quickly in order to follow some plot developments, but I'll take that kind anime over all the boring shows where you're shown everything from start to finish, filled with dialogue and episode ends up accomplishing very little and even dragging a bit.
Honestly playing and knowing the plot beforehand really makes me appreciate the amount of detail, care and information packed in ever episode, so that probably increases my score and enjoyment of the show. Not to say that I agree with all changes or like everything, but overall I think it's a really solid anime and great adaptation. And yes, games always had more leeway with adaptations, but even then it really is taking advantage of format and medium and elevates source material to another lvl. The fact they take a lot liberties with it and in fact changes heavily/fixes some plot/story elements from the game, is a very unexpected and good thing. Since story is told using visual novel format, they could just copy paste it and make anime like that, but they didn't and instead decide to put more effort into it.
That being said, episode 8h was really underwhelming. A lot people complained about 7th but I thought it was fine and, while disappointed with lack of inclusion of some things I really liked in game, I could understand changes and was fine with them for the most part. This one, while having some good parts and was supposed to be slower one, setting up things, removes a lot of stuff from them game, but it didn't feel like they added anything that great instead. And of course the biggest thing is where the fuck is Madoka and Homura and why they didn't appear yet!? On the other hand I don't understand why Mami showed up and how it will be explained, because the way she does, doesn't really make sense assuming anime is following the game.
onyxpanda posted:
I've read a bit of the manga on a foreign translation, but I agree that they've definitely tuned in on the yuri focused aspects in the girls' interactions with each other. Also it helps that the voice actresses all seem to have script directions that help encourage this tone, haha.
I like their one-shots. Tender Night is one of my all time favorite ones. On the other hand I always forget she also wrote Manga no Tsukurikata, which is to put it lightly... not good. Of course I immediately looked for their other stuff and found Budoukan, but according to baka updates it's at best one-sided and wasn't being translated anyway. Once anime was announced, I was reminded of it and checked it again, but baka still only marked it as one-sided love and I didn't feel like putting so much effort into something that might not be even yuri. I found the raws, but didn't really properly check entire manga, cos it would take me too much time. I did take a look at it, to compare first few episodes to it, they pretty much adopt entire thing and add a lot stuff, because there's not enough material. So it's highly possible anime is gayer than manga. That being said, if enough people are interested I can translate it.
Hylarn posted:
It's interesting how Rika and Ren have had the most memorable cameos, despite neither of them technically being there
Yea. I believe Ren's was straight from the game. Game is pretty gay already and having canon lesbian is awesome, but I also liked that that's how anime decided to feature Rika, because it both means they aren't trying to censor her gayness as well as are acknowledging the yuri.
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