If there is likely to -be- a season 2, then that'd all be well and good. But you know, when I got interested in yuri anime and started really paying attention to it, you know what I kept seeing over and over?
"It's alright, but it's slow and the ending sucks."
Sasameki Koto. Aoi Hana. Sakura Trick. They all stick pretty solidly to the sequence of events in their respective manga series, and they're all kinda disappointing at the finish line. Yeah, you can go to the manga to get the rest of the story, but many people -don't-, and so they just end up being regarded as kind of disappointing non-events in the long run by many people. A lot of people -won't- check out the manga specifically -because- they found the anime disappointing.
There are various reasons to make an adaptation. One is to appease the existing fans and get money out of them, but another is to reach an audience that wouldn't see the story otherwise. If you're interested in making a work that stands up, that reaches it's own audience, sticking slavishly to the events of the books at the expense of the structure and ending of the adaptation is a mistake.
By contrast: Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid makes some small changes to story order and focuses on a different series of events from the manga. If they had done the manga scene for scene, it would have been cute and funny and I would have enjoyed it, but I wouldn't have had nearly the FEELS that I got when Kobayashi falls into heartbroken single parent mode at the end It easily transcended -and lifted up- the source material explicitly because they -didn't- just stick to the original pattern of events. They structured the season on the assumption that that was all they were getting, and they made something that drew me into a manga that I honestly would have just passed by entirely.
So while I get the desire the fans have to see a faithful and precise adaptation scene by scene and then have a second season that carries us through to the finish line, unless a two-season deal was discussed as likely from the start, I think that'd be a mistake. The -entire structure of the season- is about building up to the play. If we never get there, most people aren't going to get to the end, and go 'Oh, I guess I'll read the manga now,' They're going to go 'What? We don't even get to see the play? How diappointing.'
And then they'll go watch Citrus or something.
So much wrong, so little time...
First of all what you describe has nothing to do with Yuri. Period. All genres have these adaptation "issues" you speak of.
Secondly, no that is not why these adaptations are made. Sure, there might be 2 or 3 of those out there, but that's never the point and never will be the point of these kinds of anime adaptations. They exist as promotion for the manga, nothing else. You will have to accept this. Far more people start to read the manga because the anime ended on a cliffhanger, rather than being put off by it. If the anime has a completely satisfying ending, then that will undoubtedly lead to less people checking out the manga, that's simple psychology, but that doesn't mean the anime has to be bad for it. Taking your original route or ending is ballsy and turns out terrible 90% of the time. So forgive me if I don't have any love for that approach.
Kobayashi might have changed the order a bit, but it didn't change the events. And more importantly Kobayashi doesn't have a rigid story structure. It is very slice-of-life allowing for easy interchanging. Yagate Kimi ni Naru is not like that in the slightest.
Also, they blew up an event that was not quite as dramatic to make it a finale, but why is that better than what we could have gotten instead? There are quite a few emotional moments in the manga that could have served as great finales as well. Sorry, but you are just saying "I liked that, so it was the best move" lol
That's your very self-centered presumption, sorry to say. Again, it works, that is why the studios do it. People do want to know what happens next, especially if the anime was interesting, which is more guaranteed if they actually stick to the same quality as the source material.
The story builds up to the play, but there are several levels of subplots involved and ultimately the play is just a means to an end. The emotional weight of Yuu's decision can carry the finale easily. I want to see the shallow audience that would not be interested to read the manga after that scene. If they exist, then they can pray for a second season and if they don't get it and still dont want to read the manga, they didn't care enough anyway.
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