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This Week in Anime - Anime Adaptations That Aren't As Good As They Should Be

Shinobi no Ittoki was mid. Biscuit Hammer's "anime" was a hate crime.

FilthyCasual wrote:

Shinobi no Ittoki was mid. Biscuit Hammer's "anime" was a hate crime.

Agree with you on the first, agree to disagree on the second.

The is nothing harder to draw than a horse, even before you have to add motion. DP has no reason to skip out on Steel Ball Run or phone it in but that production will kill people unless they don´t take sizable breaks.

Blade of the Immortal went from having a decent adaption to one of the most hacked-together adaptations of all time on basically all levels. A good candidate for an all-time disaster. 7 SEEDs S1 is of course as bad as Berserk S2 and even more incomplete. I wonder how many people know that its 2nd season is less of an abortion? It "adapts" less than half of what S1 went for and has fewer rewriting issues to solve the gaps. These 2 shows are modern legends. Show me a fan of those and I will show you a liar. Slideshow of Ragnarok wishes that there was as much to say about it as what went wrong with those 2 shows.

Takkun4343 wrote:

FilthyCasual wrote: Shinobi no Ittoki was mid. Biscuit Hammer's "anime" was a hate crime. Agree with you on the first, agree to disagree on the second.

Comparing it to actually competent current adaptation of Mizukami's work, Sengoku Youko, just show how horribly Biscuit was treated. I love Mizukami's stories, I liked the characters and yet I had to drop it quickly since it was barely watchable. The only good I got from this was to remind me to finish the source manga and forget about anime.

Ragna Crimson had visibly low quality adaptation, but it tried to make it look cool at times in its own way, though it was also pretty bad with pacing. Witch and the Beast had often awful animation, seriosly, fights looked awful unlike in manga, but at least put it all into cool character drawing and still scenery, even if pacing was also too slow in the middle. In comparison, Biscuit Hammer had... maybe a little of the original manga's humour, but even that was reduced by removing most of the "pervert jokes" that helped in early parts.

It seems historical fiction just aren't very lucky when it comes to adaptations (the only exception I can think of right away is Heike Monogatari EDIT: oof, and ofc Vinland Saga). It's probably the horses' fault after all

Infinite Dendrogram is one anime I think of whenever I think of an aggressively mid adaptation. Although, truth be told I watched that anime only because I absolutely love Imai Kami's work in the past, and I think he was only the artist for the manga adaptation but that was still enough to get me to watch it. Another contender for a really middle of the road adaptation for me would have to be the 2021 reboot of Shaman King, I wish Bridge was given a higher episode count for that adaptation. Considering it was a Netflix Original, you'd think it would be given more love and care, but nope. A shame too, even if the animation quality was the same (very standard nothing special animation), at least the pacing would've slowed down to make someone who hasn't read the manga care more for the characters and given the story more room to breathe. It's more of a shame too considering Mappa at one point in the mid 2010s wanted to adapt the series but couldn't because the author was very stubborn about keeping the same VAs and singer for the openings, so they couldn't get the greenlight. That's why I can't be too hard on studio Bridge, I'm grateful that the adaptation was something that happened in the first place, but it's ultimately disappointing as someone who loves Shaman King.