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I'm kind of curious how much they're going to change because it feels like Asuna's screentime with Mito is going to take away from the development of her relationship with Kirito that's supposed to be happening here.

MFrontier wrote:

I'm kind of curious how much they're going to change because it feels like Asuna's screentime with Mito is going to take away from the development of her relationship with Kirito that's supposed to be happening here.

This is also a concern of mine about the film, since Asuna has always been my favorite character. But the adaptation team has generally done a solid job adapting the novels, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

MFrontier wrote:

I'm kind of curious how much they're going to change because it feels like Asuna's screentime with Mito is going to take away from the development of her relationship with Kirito that's supposed to be happening here.

This is also a concern of mine about the film, since Asuna has always been my favorite character. But the adaptation team has generally done a solid job adapting the novels, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Key wrote:

MFrontier wrote: I'm kind of curious how much they're going to change because it feels like Asuna's screentime with Mito is going to take away from the development of her relationship with Kirito that's supposed to be happening here. This is also a concern of mine about the film, since Asuna has always been my favorite character. But the adaptation team has generally done a solid job adapting the novels, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Saying that they have done a solid job in the past is pretty generous... I mean A1 dropping the ball on multiple occasions is pretty widely agreed upon by light novel readers.

MFrontier wrote:

I'm kind of curious how much they're going to change because it feels like Asuna's screentime with Mito is going to take away from the development of her relationship with Kirito that's supposed to be happening here.

This is also a concern of mine about the film, since Asuna has always been my favorite character. But the adaptation team has generally done a solid job adapting the novels, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Touma55 wrote:

Key wrote: MFrontier wrote: I'm kind of curious how much they're going to change because it feels like Asuna's screentime with Mito is going to take away from the development of her relationship with Kirito that's supposed to be happening here. This is also a concern of mine about the film, since Asuna has always been my favorite character. But the adaptation team has generally done a solid job adapting the novels, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Saying that they have done a solid job in the past is pretty generous... I mean A1 dropping the ball on multiple occasions is pretty widely agreed upon by light novel readers.

A1 cut a lot of stuff out.

In the actual Light Novel, Asuna made her character look like her real life self... she was not a gamer before this game, and she made her character look like her actual self to escape her family drama in the real world.

A1 cut a lot of stuff out.

From the trailer it seems that spoiler[Mito participates in the floor 1 boss battle. I'm surprised if this is the case, because I was expecting Mito to only appear in new anime-original scenes before Asuna and Kirito first meet at the beginning of the LN...] But it could be just footage put in the trailer to mislead us. After all, it would be a significant (game-changing even, heh) difference from the source material and surely A-1 wouldn't do that.

... they wouldn't, right?

Touma55 wrote:

Saying that they have done a solid job in the past is pretty generous... I mean A1 dropping the ball on multiple occasions is pretty widely agreed upon by light novel readers.

A1 cut a lot of stuff out.

TsukasaElkKite wrote:

Touma55 wrote: Saying that they have done a solid job in the past is pretty generous... I mean A1 dropping the ball on multiple occasions is pretty widely agreed upon by light novel readers. A1 cut a lot of stuff out.

I've always argued against these complaints. Any LN adaptation is going to cut out some stuff (sometimes for practical reasons involved with the adaptation, other times to correct inefficiencies in the original writing), and SAO's adaptations have cut out less than most. I never read the source books for Fairy Dance and GGO, but the Aincard, Calibur, and Mother's Rosary arcs were all quite faithful to the novels, and Alicization didn't skip much; yes, there was one entire chapter early in the Alicization arc which got eliminated, but that was the only major omission that I can think of, and that ultimately didn't significantly impact the story.

Isn't the movie going back to the beginning of SAO? So wasn't she in High school? The looks like a young lady in her early twenties.

Does it cut out huge sections of the story? No it doesn't, but constantly cutting world building and character thoughts make both come off as lacking and can also make a lot of the actions the characters take seem like they make little to no sense.

Touma55 wrote:

Does it cut out huge sections of the story? No it doesn't, but constantly cutting world building and character thoughts make both come off as lacking and can also make a lot of the actions the characters take seem like they make little to no sense.

Character thoughts always get trimmed in adaptations because usually there's not a good way to work voluminous ones into the adaptation without bogging things down. (So I'm a Spider, So What? was a rare exception on this, but a lot of the time the protagonist is talking to herself and/or self-narrating anyway.) The same can be said for world-building details. Name me an LN adaptation that doesn't trim on that; hell, even truly outstanding adaptations like 86 do that.

My point isn't that SAO's adaptations don't do these things, because they do; it's that they don't do these any worse than normal for an LN adaptation. A1 shouldn't be singled out as much as they are for their adaptation effort. It definitely wasn't flawless, but just as definitely it wasn't deeply-flawed, either.