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NEWS: New Strike the Blood Video Anime Will Be 4-Volume Series Based on 9th Novel

'This is my fight' 'No Senpai, this is our fight'

nomyx wrote:

'This is my fight' 'No Senpai, this is our fight'

"This line is so cliché, it makes me want to puke." "No, senpai, it makes us want to puke!"

Eight OVAs based off a single LN volume sounds nice. Will it be animated by Silver Link again?

This is awesome news - though I confess that I find the length of the series a bit off if they're covering a single novel. The typical number of episodes to cover a light novel is 4. Sometimes it's less and sometimes it's more, but in general, if a light novel gets covered in less than 4 episodes, you're losing material. Most of the books covered in the first season of Strike the Blood were covered in 4 episodes. So, to take 8 episodes to cover a single book is a lot. I wonder if the book is longer than is typical or if there was a miscommunication along the way somewhere, and they're actually covering more than the 9th book. The other oddity is that they're covering the 9th book. As I understand it, the first season covered the first 6, and the previous OVA was new material. So, if they're doing the 9th book, they're skipping two books, and from what little I know of them, they're pretty important, including stuff like spoiler[Asagi finding out about Kojou being the 4th progenitor], which would certainly have an effect on character interactions in the later books. Maybe the 9th book is stand-alone enough that they can do it separately and then go back to the 7th book later (perhaps with a second season rather than an OVA)? Depending on how the character relationships are supposed to have changed in the 7th and 8th books, that could necessitate some changes to the 9th book, or they could just go the annoying route of assuming that you read the 7th and 8th books, which will obviously be confusing to those of us who haven't.

I don't know. I'm super excited about getting more Strike the Blood, but skipping two books seems bad, and 8 episodes for a single book might be fine, but it's certainly odd, and it implies that we'll end up with a bunch of filler (which may or may not be a problem but is certainly cause for concern). So, I'm both excited and concerned. Strike the Blood is one of my favorite series in recent years, and I'd like to see it adapted into anime properly and not get butchered in the process. This is one of the few series where I actually bought the Blu-rays from Japan, and I'll be buying the Blu-rays for this OVA as well.

Fortunately, even if the anime totally butchers the books (though I certainly hope that it doesn't), Yen Press is releasing the light novels - which is downright awesome. So, we should get the full, original story even if it never gets fully or properly adapted into anime. Unfortunately though, at the current pace, we're actually going to have to wait until September 2017 to get the 7th book. So, we still have over a year before we get a book that wasn't adapted in the first season.

Far too few light novel series have ever been translated and published in the US, and the fact that we get as many as we do now is just fantastic. And the fact that Strike the Blood is one of them is that much better. As far as light novels go, this is by far the best time ever to be an anime fan in the US.