Rewrite

Rewrite! The VN that finally got adapted.

First hour-long episode is out and I'm actually happy with it on the whole.

It's different. I can't say the tone of the VN has been captured with Krivoy Rog appearing already and the magic being pretty explicit.

It's set to be just as much of a battle/magic/romance/characters messing with each other as the VN, so check it out. I think the best thing the anime does is give you a bit of a view of the broad scope of everything in Rewrite, so since the anime hasn't made any serious blunders I highly recommend checking it out.

edited 2nd Jul '16 7:08:46 PM by UltimatelySubjective

The anime is clearly going down a different path by showing magic from the start rather than having the stone city and Koutarou's rewriting ability be the only blatantly supernatural things for a while. I can't say I mind, better an original path than trying to cram all of the paths into 13 episodes (they'd had to have finished Kotori's route by the end of this episode if they were silly enough to pack all 7 paths into 13 episodes).

Considering how he's having flashbacks to Moon, I suspect that they're planning this as an alternate Terra path.

edited 2nd Jul '16 11:42:52 PM by TheCuriousFan

As somebody unfamiliar with the original VN, this episode was a bit messy in a very VN way. A lot of scenes of getting introduced to girls who are probably going to be important at some point but not right now, a lot of scenes of strange things happening without any clear idea of how it all fits together, not quite a real plot driving the episode forward. Not that I didn't enjoy myself, but it was on the chaotic side.

I can't argue with that, even with this being an anime-original route, this would probably do better with more time to spread out information and introductions.

Wait, one season? Are they mental? I really hope they just put a Kotori/Chihaya route and continue if the reception is good enough, they need at least 3 seasons for the important stuff and even then it's cramming it.

Plus it's kinda annoying they show the action part in the start, the original took several hours to get to the mystical stuff.

After the mess that is Angel Beats (I DID love the anime, but the last few episodes were atrocious) and Charlotte!, I think I'm going to pass on this anime.

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From what I hear the entire thing is supposed to be an anime original arc so one cour/season should be enough to cover everything if they're not adapting any actual routes.

They're doing an anime-original Kagari route rather than doing all of the routes (an idea that has been joked about as being impossibly difficult for years).

EDIT: And there are some hints that there'll be a second cour yet but it's not confirmed.

edited 3rd Jul '16 3:21:34 PM by TheCuriousFan

Well, hope they do it good enough so it will be a success and other routes be adapted in the future, I guess we'll have a civil war scenerio where everyone picks a side with Kagari and the hero choose to be neutral rather then everyone besides Shizuru disappearing.

That's one of the most bizzare opening I've seen, insanely spoilerific and feels rushed which I've never seen in an ending, usually it's the opposite.

Overall I liked the new episode, we get more Akane, Shizuru and Lucia moments, and the club is formed and I don't think much was lost (if I remember correctly it felt like it takes forever to recuit all the members in the game). Hopefully the series will take it's time now now, if they go to a Kotori route with a bit of the other routes they can give half a season to character moments.

Cramming the later content from two heroine routes worked about as well as you'd expect. Seems they're unwilling to try to include the Gaia stuff for some reason though.

However. Now that that we're into pure anime original content the quality seems to have improved slightly.

Is...is it over?

Seriously?

What the fuck man, if I hadn't played the VN before I'd have felt robbed of my time, this was nothing more than a glorified ad for the game, they might as well have put in a "IF YOU WANT THE REAL ENDING, PLAY THE GAME" at the credits.

And so it ended as it began, pretentious and disappointing. This series could never decide whether it wanted to be a harem romcom or a Serious Story about the Environment, crammed way too many characters and half baked story ideas into its thirteen episodes and the whole wasn't nearly as good as it could've been.

Given this is a single route it ended exactly as it should have (even if that ending lacked the same punch the VN had), but it completely fails to be stand alone.

They even seem to run out of time even worse than usual given that we skip between two forms of Sakuya twice with no explanation. And sadly we didn't really get any more Yoshino.

It...seems there's going to be a second season?

I'm shocked, I really thought it was going to end on that cliffhanger.

Fortunately Moon/Terra is better suited to a straight-forward anime adaptation than the other routes.

And we're back with season 2.

It was nice what they did end up animating from the routes.

Sadly, we lost Romeo's lovely descriptions that made moon so nice. But at least the anime did a good job of portraying Kagari, which is probably the most important thing.

The Tsundere Key!

edited 14th Jan '17 4:32:35 PM by UltimatelySubjective