The hottest chapter in the manga, chapter 10, is already on air, the studio also has the heart to make a story that is not in the manga for this episode alone. Explain why Utena likes mahou shoujo so much, let Kiwi go on a trip, add Azul's mental struggle, and the fight scene also has more tricks than the manga. I think the stage on panda is a bit quick, but I understand that if I concentrate more, it will become 18+. But when Azul begged, it was beyond expectations, her voice acting was extremely excellent, it sounded extremely sexy.
Oh and the villain of ss1 is already on air, uhm, we should call it the villain of the villain, right? Along with that is the debut of the second OTP pair in this series: the bottom couple Loco x Leber. Now all I need to do is wait to hear Loco's ridiculous song :V :V :V
I both agree and disagree about the anime; I think the voice acting is fantastic but the pacing and directing is severely lacking. Azul's begging was acted amazingly but the scene was completely devoid of omph and flow in presentation, looking and feeling more like just any other scene flying by rather than the arguable APEX of the entire series that it actually is.
I remember the early 2000's animes, when the big important scenes had intentionally slower pacing, musical crescendos, creative angles to frame events with the gravitas they deserved and it made them stand out as major memorable happenings, but modern anime to me have this persistent issue of everything just kinda zooming by at the same pace, more like they're just stating that these things happened and moving on than really telling the events with emotion or weight.
Remember in Naruto, the first time he uses the Fox's chakra against Haku and we get like solid MINUTES of just different shots slowly building up his transformation and the changes his body's going through before he revs up and explodes with violence? A modern anime would've just shown him with red eyes and then gone right into the action, and I feel like that's the same approach this manga's anime has.
Naruto also has it's issues, and it's a series that had a bit too much leeway with time considering the filler issue. That's the other side, nothing is perfect. I think there are modern anime that are great, that do have proper pacing and directing. Though every piece of media has varying issues as there's no such thing as the perfect media, plus opinions and mileage will vary depending on the viewer. So I don't think issues that this anime adaption has are just a "all modern anime suck" thing, so much as it's a smaller budget production and they're trying their best to get it out there with the limitations that they have. It's kind of insane that they're able to even make the anime to begin with, given the content of the source material, and the source material to my knowledge wasn't doing big sale numbers leading up to the anime. Of course that doesn't free the anime of critique, as there are things that could be better. However I don't think everything with this adaption would be fixed if it was made 20 years ago, especially as rose-tinted glasses with nostalgia is definitely an aspect at play when we look back.
