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MFrontier
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It's ironic that in a same season where ENGI were actually managing to pull off a Medalist adaption, they were once again doing a bad job of adapting Unnamed Memory.
Just like in season 1 at its core there's a potential for a good fantasy romance, even moreso because we're dealing with star-crossed lovers trying to be together again after the timeline basically got reset. Flipping the romance dynamic between Oscar and Tinasha this go around. But the pacing, direction, and narrative just don't do a good job depicting/conveying it. It also just gets so repetitive...oh, which girl is Oscar going to make Tinasha jealous with this week? Who is going to try to kill them this week? How will the palace security utterly fail this week? Willl Oscar and Tinasha ever stop beating around the bush? etc. There were 2, maybe 3, well-animated episodes. I guess by Engi standards that's a win. And then they get into all the lore and the timeline stuff and it gets so convoluted that it's hard to even follow what was actually going on in the finale. Whether or not the source material was good to begin with, Unnamed Memory did not receive the best adaption it could have. And I feel like Oscar and Tinasha deserved better. But at least they got their happy ending in the end. |
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Nitro1978
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I really wanted to like this. Adult romance and fantasy stores are favorite genres. Yet it was just so slapdash. Perhaps the most biting criticism I'd make, is it was so weak I've got zero interest in reading the light novels now.
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Glordit
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The 2nd series was more of an obligation than anything else. Many minor things where rushed or left out which would have helped so much in the character and world building.
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This (and the comments about the music) were the parts of the review that I most agreed with, and this was what I felt was Second Act's biggest flaw. While I partially agree with ongoing criticisms about how the plot felt abbreviated, I did feel that Second Act did at least a bit better on this than the first half did. (And I continue to flatly disagree that the first season stopped in the wrong place.) Second Act also deserves at least some credit for bringing together the whole business about disparate timelines in the end. While there are still plenty of flaws, the story is decidedly more cohesive when looked at as a whole. I will agree that it seems like a better adaptation was possible here, but it also looks like the adaptation aimed to cover the entirety of the main novel series (which ends with 6 novels), which necessitated a 4 ep per volume pace. Might have worked better with one more episode per volume, but that also wouldn't have fit with a traditional seasonal structure and this isn't a big enough title to pull a move like DanMachi s5. |
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Ermat_46
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Millions of dollars and thousands of hours of manpower were wasted for an adaptation that no one asked for. This shouldn't have existed in the first place.
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Elfensjón
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Well, speak for yourself. I for example was excited at first when the anime was announced but got really disappointed afterwards as the adaptation felt like a speed run. |
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MFrontier
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This (and the comments about the music) were the parts of the review that I most agreed with, and this was what I felt was Second Act's biggest flaw. While I partially agree with ongoing criticisms about how the plot felt abbreviated, I did feel that Second Act did at least a bit better on this than the first half did. (And I continue to flatly disagree that the first season stopped in the wrong place.) Second Act also deserves at least some credit for bringing together the whole business about disparate timelines in the end. While there are still plenty of flaws, the story is decidedly more cohesive when looked at as a whole. I will agree that it seems like a better adaptation was possible here, but it also looks like the adaptation aimed to cover the entirety of the main novel series (which ends with 6 novels), which necessitated a 4 ep per volume pace. Might have worked better with one more episode per volume, but that also wouldn't have fit with a traditional seasonal structure and this isn't a big enough title to pull a move like DanMachi s5.[/quote] I do think the time travel logic kind of fell apart by the end. I wonder if season 1 had been a 2-cour adapting the first 3 books if it would've been a better adaption...well, probably, though not sure they would have been able to adapt the rest of the series. There is a sequel series.
Well, I think if it was a good adaption with better production people would be happy about it. |
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