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EP. REVIEW: Rewrite

Giving a long VN a one-cour treatment, even if it is an original story (which I have my doubts about that statement, but I digress), is a bad idea that has been repeated numerous times in the past.

IMHO, Rumbling Hearts, White Album 2, and either season of ef are all examples of good one-cour adaptations of lengthy VNs (caveat: I'm not sure how much of WA2 the anime covers).

My only complaint would be that Kagari started talking a bit too much too suddenly, but I loved her personality.

And the implication of where it came from makes it all the more funny and would be amazing if they did it for the reason me and several VN readers think they did it.

It was the rock that hit her in the head in the beginning: http://image.prntscr.com/image/b6b55056746242ad90e432dd20bbe924.jpg

And the implication of where it came from makes it all the more funny and would be amazing if they did it for the reason me and several VN readers think they did it.

In fact, nearly everything that the series has done so far now looks like a set-up specifically for this episode. The writers were never trying to adapt the overall content in truncated form; they were just using the most relevant bits as the foundation for this anime content.

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And the implication of where it came from makes it all the more funny and would be amazing if they did it for the reason me and several VN readers think they did it.

spoiler[Moon Kotarou writing it into Kagari's plan?]

RaylenCypher wrote:

It was the rock that hit her in the head in the beginning: http://image.prntscr.com/image/b6b55056746242ad90e432dd20bbe924.jpg And the implication of where it came from makes it all the more funny and would be amazing if they did it for the reason me and several VN readers think they did it.

Huh, I didn't make that connection. It makes sense.

About the implications you mentioned, that seems likely. spoiler[I still don't want them to mix Moon and Terra into this season, though.]

Wow, that was a really great episode!

My only complaint would be that Kagari started talking a bit too much too suddenly, but I loved her personality. I wonder if that's how she acts in Harvest Festa (I haven't read it), since the creators did say that what we see of her in Rewrite isn't really her true personality. Of course, I also love how she's portrayed there, and I think it's for the best that she stayed that way in the visual novel, but I do like this silly personality.

For the people who've been posting comparisons to the visual novel in the forum, I wonder if someone could provide a thousand-foot overview of the VN, like:

invalidname wrote:

For the people who've been posting comparisons to the visual novel in the forum, I wonder if someone could provide a thousand-foot overview of the VN, like:

The translation is by Amaterasu. I can't exactly say how good the translation is without reading the original Japanese (especially since this is Romeo we're talking about), but I'd say it's good. It reads well.

Rewrite is definitely Key's most divisive work. It's the only one besides Planetarian that Maeda Jun didn't write for. The story is also on a different scale. Rewrite is really well received, but as you may have seen, not every big Key fan loves it. On VNDB, it has the second-highest score among Key. Behind Clannad, and just a tiny bit above Little Busters.

There are tons of choices during the common route, but mainly they only give you some different little scenarios or side-quests. After the common route, it branches out into 5 different storylines, which are the heroine routes. After finishing them, there's 2 extra routes.

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