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God help me, I'm four episodes into Your Lie In April. I already know how it ends, so this is like a ticking time bomb to me being wrecked.

 

It’s one of a few shows that bummed me out so much that I almost regret watching it. Kind of fucked up my whole week

 

I’ve never finished it because I know how it ends and don’t want to be wrecked.

 

I actually think, while it wrecks you, it does it in such a good way that it doesn't leave an awful taste in your mouth or anything. It's a good story and I'm glad an anime did it well.

 

Halfway through now, and I'm just ready for this anime to reach into me and pull my heart out through my chest.

 

I started reading the Jujutsu Kaisen manga and I’m digging it so far. Just finished the Gojo’s Past arc. Season two is gonna rule.

 

Make anime great again

 

You’re a ways off from it but you picked a good time because what is presumably the final arc just now started with a huge bang. Though I’m not sure if any of it is going to surpass the second half of the upcoming season

 

Alright, finished episode 15, can confirm, ripping is happening. Maybe a little tearing. It's getting set to yank.

 

I've bounced off of the Jujutsu Kaisen manga so many times. I love the characters and the storyline, but the magic system feels so convoluted and takes me right out of it.

 

Yeah, especially Gojo’s powers. I need a whole wiki page for it.

 

I love JJK’s power system specifically because it’s so convoluted. It’s the closest thing we’ve got to Hunter X Hunter these days, and the techniques just keep getting more convoluted. Though part of it is that he really drops you right in the middle of a broader story and it takes a while for him to fully explain everything: not just the character backstories but the details of someone’s powers. Like you see Gojo’s and Sukuna’s ultimate moves way before you are given any sense of what they actually are

 

Yeah the powers are great. The main thing that's put me off the manga is the drop in art quality, it also started to get a little boring after the Shibiya incident. I've not read it in a while though so idk if either of those things improved.

 

Gojo's technique is based off a famous philosophical paradox about the tortoise and the hare - each time the hare reaches the place the tortoise last was, the tortoise has already moved forwards, no matter how small that distance was. The idea is that the hare will never catch the tortoise as the distance necessary to reach where the tortoise last was becomes incrementally smaller, ad infinitum. This is why Jogo consistently gets slower and slower as he attempts to reach his hand out to Gojo. It's a really cool concept for a power imo!

 

Four episodes left of Your Lie In April, and then all I have left on my plate is Moriarty The Patriot, so I've decided to spin my wheel and let the RNG gods pick four more anime.

The selections are: Good Luck Girl, World Trigger, Taisho Otome Fairy Tale, and MariaHolic.

 

World Trigger is on my list too.

 

World Trigger is fine. Some cool parts, but pretty mediocre overall. Some of the characters are incredibly one dimensional and the art is what you would expect from like 15 years ago.

 

I'll probably watch Good Luck Girl next, just to have something light and fluffy to help heal after the trauma I'm going to inflict on myself with these final four episodes.

 

It will definitely be a breath of fresh air in comparison haha

 

The manga of Whole Cake Island’s pacing is a lot better than Dressrosa. But I’m looking it up just cause I’m curious, and multiple chapters equal one episode. Wtf. I would get so bored watching the show.

 

I mean, aren't 99% of anime like that? Multiple chapters per episode?

 

I didn’t know that. I don’t usually read a manga before watching the anime.

 

Ah, okay. Yeah, it's been my experience so far that it's extremely rare for an anime to not condense chapters. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Hindsight sometimes allows elements or scenes to be condensed in a way that makes things more fluid, and sometimes it's just a natural effect of scenes being animated progressing faster than they do when plotted out on a page.

 

This is where my background in screenwriting will come in handy (not really because @Penlab already did a great job explaining).

In most adaptations, TV and anime specifically, source material is often condensed for multiple reasons:

1. Many chapters/pages in books and manga can cover very little, but add depth. The show is limited to a time constraint that the book doesn't have so they just "condense" it to make it flow better and cut excess information/interactions that may not be necessary to the main/overall plot.

2. Studios want to hit the big moments to capture audiences attention faster. Viewer retention is important, if you lose someone after only 2 episodes, that can be really troubling.

3. Anime in general has a lot of different approaches to covering source material because sometimes the manga isn't finished, sometimes it is, the studios aren't guaranteed a second season, there's only a set number of episodes, OVAs and blu ray sales, just a bunch of random things.

There's really a lot of reasons and these are just general overviews and some are much much more common than others.

For instance, Yu Yu Hakusho cut out a lot in some places, but the show is still great because the chapters or stories they did cut out were mostly side stories that gave you more insight into the characters, but didn't affect the plot.

 

Finished Your Lie In April. Beautiful, touching story. I am sufficiently destroyed.

Even though I knew the ending going in, it was great to see how Arima took another tragedy in his life and this time use it as a reason to keep playing instead of letting himself run away again.

I also like how Takeshi and Emi's relationship with Arima started as them being confrontational in the face of his ignorance of them, and by the end they're all frenimies and they're actively concerned about Arima when he's wrestling with his grief at the end.

Like, it's really heartwarming the development Arima goes through with everyone: his friends, mentor, peers, and his student alike.

It's just a shame it had to end with the obvious tragedy, but I guess in the end that was the whole point: Arima learning to properly grieve for loss.