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This Week in Anime - Does BOFURI Season 2 Keep Up the Charm?

Complaining about "out of place" holiday episodes will never not be ridiculous. Do you complain when you get to holidays in Persona games and it's not that same day in real life too? Pitch a fit when December 25 comes around and you're not playing on Christmas day? It's an adaptation of multiple books that were written years ago; obviously not everything's going to line up the same way.

I'll give the benefit of the doubt if the season of release doesn't have that particular holiday, but it'd irk me if the seasons do match and the director fudges it by releasing a Christmas episode a few weeks off from actual Christmas.

Dark Mac wrote:

Complaining about "out of place" holiday episodes will never not be ridiculous. Do you complain when you get to holidays in Persona games and it's not that same day in real life too? Pitch a fit when December 25 comes around and you're not playing on Christmas day? It's an adaptation of multiple books that were written years ago; obviously not everything's going to line up the same way.

I can't say for the Persona series or any game whose timeline is based on your own free time but if I had to draw a wacky example, I can think of the global release of Arknights, whose event timelines lag 6 months behind its initial CN release. The result is that we get events of a winter wonderland in the dead of summer and summertime sadness during Christmas.

I personally don't take much issue with it, more so because I don't think the options to resolve it are feasible. (too expensive to push the global timeline up to match CN's, problematic to lag one year behind) Is there someone who finds that unacceptable? Maybe, but I can understand the logic so I'll forgive it.

In terms of these shows, I would straightforwardly assume the director has control over which episodes get released on what date, and would plan holiday-based episodes accordingly. That being said, when the quarter that the season is being aired doesn't happen to include the holiday being celebrated, it's like...are you gonna restrict every anime release whose source material has a Christmas episode to Autumn?

I'll give the benefit of the doubt if the season of release doesn't have that particular holiday, but it'd irk me if the seasons do match and the director fudges it by releasing a Christmas episode a few weeks off from actual Christmas.

ChibiKika wrote:

Dark Mac wrote: Complaining about "out of place" holiday episodes will never not be ridiculous. Do you complain when you get to holidays in Persona games and it's not that same day in real life too? Pitch a fit when December 25 comes around and you're not playing on Christmas day? It's an adaptation of multiple books that were written years ago; obviously not everything's going to line up the same way. I can't say for the Persona series or any game whose timeline is based on your own free time but if I had to draw a wacky example, I can think of the global release of Arknights, whose event timelines lag 6 months behind its initial CN release. The result is that we get events of a winter wonderland in the dead of summer and summertime sadness during Christmas. I personally don't take much issue with it, more so because I don't think the options to resolve it are feasible. (too expensive to push the global timeline up to match CN's, problematic to lag one year behind) Is there someone who finds that unacceptable? Maybe, but I can understand the logic so I'll forgive it. In terms of these shows, I would straightforwardly assume the director has control over which episodes get released on what date, and would plan holiday-based episodes accordingly. That being said, when the quarter that the season is being aired doesn't happen to include the holiday being celebrated, it's like...are you gonna restrict every anime release whose source material has a Christmas episode to Autumn? I'll give the benefit of the doubt if the season of release doesn't have that particular holiday, but it'd irk me if the seasons do match and the director fudges it by releasing a Christmas episode a few weeks off from actual Christmas.

The director is the main person behind the creative output of a series, but he does choose something like the order of episode releases or the general time of when it gets released. That's the job of producers, plus the fact that there is an actual, you know, Planning role/credit for anime.