Typo-sama wrote:
I highly recommend reading the Light Novels for because of the anime's unconditional skipping.
There's a few areas which have generally been skipped but the anime still feels somewhat tangible and is still executed nicely to give the same feeling/s you're supposed to have for the title without having to work in the mountain of dialogue novels tend to have, which to most people it tends to bore them.
At least they're giving the female characters (spirits) more than an episode each for introduction and some character development/building so you can understand how said spirit is emotionally and as their interaction with Shidou continues to change them.
Heck, at least this anime looks polished and the voice actors are doing their job quite nicely if you ask me.
Typo-sama wrote:
It's like SAO ( I hate SAOfags too, btw ).
Ummm, not particularly.
At least have a proper understanding of the subject before trying to make comparisons as Sword Art Online's novel was even more time skip orientated. If you completely disregard the second volume (which included all the other characters) it left entire months being completely skipped.
In saying all this I dislike Sword Art Online but I don't see the necessary reason to call people who like the series as "SAO fags". That's basically like saying anyone who likes a series deserves to be labelled as thus; which is not a nice thing to do at all.
Typo-sama wrote:
But it's worse - 4 Volumes at 12 Episodes. Even though the novels aren't particularly long, It's still quite a disaster to put Volume 1 up to Volume 4 into a 12-episode-animu
Obviously you haven't seen enough light novel to anime adaptations as this is generally a normal thing that happens throughout the animeverse inclusive of actually leaving out entire chunks of the story (which made the series interesting) for the sake of episode cap; I'm going to use IS: Infinite Stratos for example as it used three volumes squeezed into 12 episodes and I can type stuff out offhand without having to reference back.
Infinite Stratos fun facts- The entire tone of males being treated with a complete lack of respect in the IS-verse was entirely absent from the anime adaptation.
- The feeling you get as the author attempts to put you in Ichika's place as he describes about how unnerving it is being the only guy located within an all-girls institution.
- Generally the initial introductions and further interactions with the main heroines isn't as well brought out; it's merely glanced over for the sake of episode progression with a bunch of character development being left out.
- Using the shopping scene with Charlotte for this example. Ichika is actually harassed very verbally by a shop attendant with no one feeling it to be out of place/rude.
- The 'final fight' that occurred against Gospel. There's the entire fact of it actually being manned with the pilot herself unconscious inside the frame that went berserk which was entirely absent.
