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HanabiraKage (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#51: Aug 6th 2018 at 9:16:39 PM

Most studios have a core staff, I believe. They have a non-negligible impact on the quality of the final product, but yeah it's the staff that matters for the most part.

Edited by HanabiraKage on Aug 7th 2018 at 12:16:22 AM

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#52: Aug 6th 2018 at 11:38:04 PM

My pessimism says the anime will be bad no matter what.

HanabiraKage (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53: Aug 7th 2018 at 4:49:37 AM

[up] Same here, actually. Mainly because this story seems rather difficult to adapt, to me.

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#54: Aug 7th 2018 at 5:11:27 AM

If it works as a manga it should be able to work as an anime

Chariot King of Anime Since: Jul, 2014
King of Anime
#55: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:28:44 AM

I haven't read the manga, only the light novel, but everything I've heard about the manga makes it sound like it doesn't work as one since the light novel is told from multiple points of view and from what I hear the manga cuts out all but one.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#56: Aug 7th 2018 at 2:04:59 PM

It's just getting to that stuff now.

HanabiraKage (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#57: Aug 7th 2018 at 6:15:45 PM

[up]x2 It's cut out all other POV chapters other than B01 so far. It doesn't make it a bad adaptation, just a lacking one, since much of the world-building and set-up for future events is done via the alternate PO Vs.

Chariot King of Anime Since: Jul, 2014
King of Anime
#58: Aug 7th 2018 at 7:22:57 PM

Cutting out all the worldbuilding and setup is exactly what I'd say would make something a bad adaptation though. Thart's how you end up with things coming out of nowhere when the source material made those events and things make sense.

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#59: Aug 7th 2018 at 7:42:51 PM

It's not a problem with the medium, though (and, as a manga-only reader, I haven't actually run into any problems following the story yet)

HanabiraKage (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#60: Aug 7th 2018 at 9:22:26 PM

[up][up] It's actually not nearly as bad as it sounds, just some details left out, like how Appraisal is viewed by the populace, and why everything keeps aggroing on this one tiny spider.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#61: Aug 7th 2018 at 9:37:30 PM

I don't think there's any reason all those individual side stories have to be spaced out like they are. Like all they're really good for is misleading the reader into thinking that Kumoko is Ariel but this... doesn't really go anywhere.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#62: Aug 7th 2018 at 9:58:12 PM

The manga does do a pretty good job of pointing out that Appraisal and the other skills Kumoko is picking up as a result are Things Not To Be Messed With, given how quickly they boost her Taboo level and the associated Sin titles she ended up getting.

It's been fun.
HanabiraKage (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#63: Aug 7th 2018 at 10:23:39 PM

[up]x2 If you think about it, it's not entirely false.

Since Maou Shoujo Ariel-chan is half Body-in-charge.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#64: Aug 7th 2018 at 10:35:14 PM

Man, I don't even know who Ariel is.

(Also, it really should be Body Director or something, but Body-in-Charge is kind of charming in its own way.

It's been fun.
Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#65: Aug 7th 2018 at 10:40:05 PM

^ Only reading the manga I take it? Then don't read spoilers, silly! That's why I tagged them.

But anyway yeah it's not like it really matters. They can just throw whole groups of those side stories together without any issue, I think, which is what the manga is doing right now.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#66: Aug 7th 2018 at 10:41:29 PM

I know, but I'm a sucker for information! Especially when it sounds like this is stuff I really should know by this point in the manga.

It's been fun.
Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#67: Aug 7th 2018 at 10:50:20 PM

Nah. You don't learn who Ariel is for a very long time. At this point in the story, the sidestories would have mostly just gotten through the introductions, a bit of world building and the first 'arc' of The Hero Shun's story.

If you really must know then go read the trope page, spoiler hound!

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#68: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:00:57 PM

But reading the trope page only presents information in a disjointed and mostly fragmentary way, nonconducive to understanding!

Seriously, I'm having enough trouble keeping my place synchronized between the manga (when the volumes come out), the scanlations (easier to track down), and the light novel (haven't started yet, but I did find the place).

It's been fun.
Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#69: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:04:54 PM

Okay but seriously Ariel is the loli demon queen from the latest chapter, but the story leads you to believe that she's Kumoko based on her use of string and stuff. Kumoko is actually Shiro, the quiet woman in the hood. Which I found disappointing because I wanted a better look at her. I honestly don't know why the story bothered trying to trick the reader on this. It doesn't accomplish anything.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#70: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:09:19 PM

Yeah, my exposure to this story is a weird mismash of the manga, people talking about the novels, clearly spoilery covers from the later light novels (I knew that Kumoko was going to go Drider ages before she brought the possibility up in the manga, for instance), and so on.

It's been fun.
Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#71: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:12:05 PM

Drider? Oh, arachne. Yeah that actually doesn't amount to much. She only has that form for like an hour.

HanabiraKage (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#72: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:24:56 PM

[up]x3 You can see her on the cover for volume 8 here. It also features Wrath. Also Ariel watching the Puppets having a snowball fight in the background.

Edited by HanabiraKage on Aug 8th 2018 at 2:25:32 AM

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#73: Aug 7th 2018 at 11:33:48 PM

Aw look at the character introduction pretending like those lowly humans matter at all. That's so cute.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#74: Aug 8th 2018 at 12:06:14 AM

I really should check through manga volume 5 and see where it compiles to. I think the last thing I remember completely was Kumoko watching the dragon and Big Mama Spider fighting... or maybe her using Hell Gate? I forget which of those came later.

It's been fun.

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