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EP. REVIEW: Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer

In a better universe, Bones would be handling this, and it would lead to a string of Mizukami adaptations from Spirit Circle to Sengoku Youko.

I feel like there's an important aspect of ep 1 this review didn't touch at all and that's the baffling large amount of minor rewrites. There's almost no scenes that are exactly like they are in the manga, whether its changing lines or reactions or adding entire scenes (such as falling down on the bike) while cutting others, it really makes you feel like the script writer... doesn't particularly like a lot of aspects of the day to day in the manga. Now like I said, these are all minor. Individually none of the changes are important or big or matter that much. But the sheer amount of them coalesces to a lot of characters feeling somewhat different from their exact manga counter parts.

It's all just very strange cause I've never seen an adaptation treated this way before, usually its pretty faithful, or faithful but adding fluff and filler, or just going pure anime only. But not just a stream of constant... edits like this.

JohnHawk wrote:

I feel like there's an important aspect of ep 1 this review didn't touch at all and that's the baffling large amount of minor rewrites. There's almost no scenes that are exactly like they are in the manga, whether its changing lines or reactions or adding entire scenes (such as falling down on the bike) while cutting others, it really makes you feel like the script writer... doesn't particularly like a lot of aspects of the day to day in the manga. Now like I said, these are all minor. Individually none of the changes are important or big or matter that much. But the sheer amount of them coalesces to a lot of characters feeling somewhat different from their exact manga counter parts. It's all just very strange cause I've never seen an adaptation treated this way before, usually its pretty faithful, or faithful but adding fluff and filler, or just going pure anime only. But not just a stream of constant... edits like this.

By the "screen writer", do you mean original creator Satoshi Mizukami? Because he is one of the two people credited with "Series Composition" for this anime, much like Kazuhiro Fujita was for both Ushio & Tora and Karakuri Circus. Much like those two shows, this anime will have to truncate & alter some parts of the original manga to accommodate the "adapt the entire series in a certain amount of episodes" concept it's going for, so Mizukami himself is helping with approving those changes.

Not saying that you necessarily have to like them, but it is important to know that Mizukami is doing these changes himself, to some extent.

I feel like there's an important aspect of ep 1 this review didn't touch at all and that's the baffling large amount of minor rewrites. There's almost no scenes that are exactly like they are in the manga, whether its changing lines or reactions or adding entire scenes (such as falling down on the bike) while cutting others, it really makes you feel like the script writer... doesn't particularly like a lot of aspects of the day to day in the manga. Now like I said, these are all minor. Individually none of the changes are important or big or matter that much. But the sheer amount of them coalesces to a lot of characters feeling somewhat different from their exact manga counter parts.

It's all just very strange cause I've never seen an adaptation treated this way before, usually its pretty faithful, or faithful but adding fluff and filler, or just going pure anime only. But not just a stream of constant... edits like this.

I'm kind of curious how many episodes this is going to get because they still haven't confirmed a full cour count yet (as far as I'm aware).

It definitely feels like a show where the cast and the writing are holding it up more than the production values, which is a shame.

I'm not even sure what was the point of adapting a finished manga and delivering it like this.

I'm still kind of dumbfounded about how this looks. Planet with wasn't the prettiest anime, but it managed to work with Mizukami's odd style and make it work. I was hoping that this series would have been a step up, but instead it seems to be only going down.

Sadly, it seems to be set on joining the ranks of manga I love that got an abysmal anime adaption, alongside Medaka Box (pretty sure I was reading both at about the same time, too). Now I just need a power-point adaption of Liar Game and the trifecta will be complete.

I kind of wonder why they're removing the panty shots. Like, this is an anime. It's not like the content isn't mature enough already unless they don't want to be mistaken for a "trashy" fanservice anime or something. But even the author is disappointed by it.

Simple. It's been years and Mizukami probably feels differently about things like that now than when he originally wrote it. (Granted in planet with there was a gag where there was cameo figurine of Sami where it did have a panty shot, so it's possible it's for some other reason.)

Whatever the case it's not a change I miss or lose sleep over... to bad it's in a show that's barely worth watching if you've already read it.

Simple. It's been years and Mizukami probably feels differently about things like that now than when he originally wrote it. (Granted in planet with there was a gag where there was cameo figurine of Sami where it did have a panty shot, so it's possible it's for some other reason.)

Whatever the case it's not a change I miss or lose sleep over... to bad it's in a show that's barely worth watching if you've already read it.