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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

I'm... legit not sure how that'd even be possible.

We're talking about a 1 cour manga adaptation. They're not making this story up as they go, they're going through an already existing story with its own moving pieces and pacing. Unless you want filler or heavily altering the source material, then there's not much the crew can do here. They already had to cut an arc to a manga to maybe kind of get a more satisfactory stopping point. In which they've already had to do double duty adding in what pieces of the prior arc to this adaptation to make it work.

Oh, ha ha, I did not realize you were addressing me in that original comment. Whoops! We are coming at this from, uh, not the same viewpoint, I guess.

I don't think I'm putting a strong emphasis on a conclusion for this season? I didn't feel like this story was ever going to wrap up -- for whatever value of "wrap up" you feel is appropriate for a 12-episode season -- in just four stories. I don't think where we're at is bad entertainment-wise, it's just structurally problematic and somewhat lurching in its storytelling. I don't know if skipping stories to get to this confrontation with Bando in Shadow Fuuto is worth it, since (as you pointed out) there's dozens more chapters of the manga to go, and no promise of any further episodes of the animated series. I think it's okay to suggest that the show should've maybe gone All Bando or No Bando, rather than splitting the difference?

Again, since I feel like I'm maybe not coming across as I intended: What they made was fine, and I get that it's adapting as much material as they can in the time allotted. But I think it's fair to wonder if, knowing how much time they had allotted, they maybe could've made other changes to the source material in order to better balance the pacing of their narrative. Or just not done this particular story in the first season, in favor of lighter material that was easier to fit into 12 episodes?