• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Toonami |May16| The Ministry of Silly Laughs

Status
Not open for further replies.
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Doctor Decimate said:
DeMarco's ask.fm says Final Act's listing was a mistake btw
Click to expand...
kJwd5Zs.jpg
 
D

Doctor Decimate

Member
As far as Final Act as an extension of InuYasha goes, I have never been particularly invested in that series's plot. It became repetitive pretty early on and we all knew how the romances were going to end up, so I just watched because the character interactions were fun and the action and art were decent. It was comfort food, basically. I didn't need to see the plot advance or things develop; I just needed a very basic checklist of things that the show was good on delivering: comedy, monsters, shouting, and fighting.

In that regard, Final Act, even beyond just its outrageous pacing issues, was a complete misunderstanding of what made InuYasha work for me. The plot was front and center, and it was front and center to such a degree that the character interactions and the comedy got edged out in what ended up being a weird reversal of what the original show prioritized. By the time the show got to the end, I didn't give a shit about the payoff because it had made me completely indifferent.

The reason everyone appreciates the modern day episodes is because they play to the show's strengths of comedy and character interaction; in any other show we'd probably have been complaining about how the plot wasn't moving.
 
H

Hellwarden

Member
What if the Final Act listing was just a smokescreen to something worse?

SAO TO MAKE ITS TRIUMPHANT RETURN!

Oh btw, I sat down and watched Back to the Future recently. I never really sat down to watch it.

It's great. Super great.

But there's one really weird moment in it, and no I'm not talking about the moments that surely inspired some rather Freudian porn parodies. So, Marty's mom is dancing with Marty's dad, about to fall in love, right? So out of the ether comes a character, we've never seen before, who must be the Joker pre-industrial accident. He proceeds to cut in between the two love birds, and drag Marty's mom away.

And he's just LOVING IT! Oh man, he's just loving destroying Marty's existence!

That guy should have stayed around as villain in the series.
 
B

B-Dubs

No Scrubs
Doctor Decimate said:
In that regard, Final Act, even beyond just its outrageous pacing issues, was a complete misunderstanding of what made InuYasha work for me. The plot was front and center, and it was front and center to such a degree that the character interactions and the comedy got edged out in what ended up being a weird reversal of what the original show prioritized. By the time the show got to the end, I didn't give a shit about the payoff because it had made me completely indifferent.
Click to expand...

The thing is, the pacing killed all of that stuff. Entire volumes got condensed into a handful of episodes. Hell, the first episode condensed like three volumes of content. When reading through the manga it all works just fine, they just fucked up the adaptation really badly with that pacing.

You can literally trace all the issues that show had back to it's abysmal pacing. They left no room for anything but the plot with that episode count. I'm afraid to watch Ushio and Tora because I'm scared they may have made the same mistake.
 
D

Doctor Decimate

Member
B-Dubs said:
The thing is, the pacing killed all of that stuff. Entire volumes got condensed into a handful of episodes. Hell, the first episode condensed like three volumes of content. When reading through the manga it all works just fine, they just fucked up the adaptation really badly with that pacing.

You can literally trace all the issues that show had back to it's abysmal pacing. They left no room for anything but the plot with that episode count. I'm afraid to watch Ushio and Tora because I'm scared they may have made the same mistake.
Click to expand...

True, I'm not sure why I said that was a "beyond" thing since they're both tied together
 
B

BassForever

Member
B-Dubs said:
The thing is, the pacing killed all of that stuff. Entire volumes got condensed into a handful of episodes. Hell, the first episode condensed like three volumes of content. When reading through the manga it all works just fine, they just fucked up the adaptation really badly with that pacing.

You can literally trace all the issues that show had back to it's abysmal pacing. They left no room for anything but the plot with that episode count. I'm afraid to watch Ushio and Tora because I'm scared they may have made the same mistake.
Click to expand...

Again the question is do you make the best condensed adaptation of a manga that you can like what Ushio and Tora is doing or do you simply not make one at all?
 
B

B-Dubs

No Scrubs
BassForever said:
Again the question is do you make the best condensed adaptation of a manga that you can like what Ushio and Tora is doing or do you simply not make one at all?
Click to expand...

In a perfect world they'd have enough of an episode count that they wouldn't miss anything, but sadly that's not how it works.
 
H

Hellwarden

Member
Mizerman said:
Mainly because they're usually glorified advertisements for the manga version.
Click to expand...

Yep.

Anime does mostly exist to sell either manga or merch.

BassForever said:
Umm depending on your definition of rushed we can count akame Ga Kill, Ushio and Tora, and Toriko as rushed adaptations.
Click to expand...

Like I said, they still happen to be sure.

But I don't consider something a rushed adaptation if it completely adapts the original work, or stops at a reasonable point.

Is Ushio and Tora rushed though? Isn't it doing a complete adaptation, even if it is at a fast speed?
 
B

B-Dubs

No Scrubs
Hellwarden said:
Is Ushio and Tora rushed though? Isn't it doing a complete adaptation, even if it is at a fast speed?
Click to expand...

From what I hear they either skipped over one or two of the smaller arcs or just rushed through them pretty fast. I'm waiting for the end to watch so I can marathon it in a weekend.
 
Z

Zonic

Gives all the fucks
I wish I could find a guide that explains which chapters got adapted into which episodes of Dimension W, but the best I could find is that the 12 episode anime covered SEVENTY FIVE CHAPTERS.

....OF A MONTHLY MANGA, NOT WEEKLY. Now granted, it seems each chapter is only about 24-ish pages instead of Shonen Jump's, what, 16-18, but still, that adds up when it's 75 chapters. That's an average of 6.25 chapters per episode. Now granted, from what I understand, some cover less (I think episode 1 only covers 3 chapters), but man, this all makes more sense considering everything that's happened ever since we got on Easter Island a few weeks ago.
 
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Have we ever gotten confirmation that Samurai Jack is going to air on Toonami at all? They always mention Toonami when talking about new FLCL but never for new Jack. What if it's not airing (or at least premiering) during Toonami at all?
 
B

BassForever

Member
grandjedi6 said:
Have we ever gotten confirmation that Samurai Jack is going to air on Toonami at all? They always mention Toonami when talking about new FLCL but never for new Jack. What if it's not airing (or at least premiering) during Toonami at all?
Click to expand...

I think DeMarco confirmed on Twitter or ask it would air on toonami
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Toonami |SepOct17| 1 + 1 = YEAH!
360 361 362 363 364
18K
844K
DUX replied
  • Locked
Toonami |JulAug17| Most Definitely the Work of an Enemy Stand
428 429 430 431 432
22K
1M
Seda replied
  • Locked
Toonami |MayJun17| WE ARE ROBOTS
394 395 396 397 398
20K
857K
Seda replied
  • Locked
Toonami |MarApr17| Brought to you by Arby's and Old Spice
518 519 520 521 522
26K
902K
Seda replied
  • Locked
Toonami |JanFeb17| Super Saiyan Please?
415 416 417 418 419
21K
725K
Seda replied
Top Bottom