Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30957100-20170425094230/@comment-30957100-20170426104328

Many may favorite the original medium (LN) but it's techniques like these in a different medium that really shows the effort of not only Maruyama but also the animators that retold his story.

As a medium, LN includes more information, and more introspections of the characters that only words has the luxurious time to explain. The anime must discard some of those aspects that made the LN interesting due to the tight schedule and cost limit of a animated video. But it also opened up a unthinkable field of techniques that can only be done with 'moving images' (The manga is great too. I don't read it, but I'll just mention it out of respect.)

In the video's example, I bet that if the positioning of the characters were stated in the LN, the reader would just forget it in the span of the long volumes with zero effect. Vice versa, having the character explain their thoughts EVERY FEW SENTENCES/MOVES may just be a waste of frames in a video. (Note I said frames, not time.)

Let the action do the talking they say.

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The ever evolving methods for a author to express their idea is endless. From words to images, from images to moving images.

They say a image is worth a thousand words already.

That must mean a video is worth a million words.

No wonder a whole 13 episodes season of anime can cover three whole volumes of cold hard text. 0.o (Still kinda expect them to not miss out the chuck of story about Nigredo. Even if it is not that important.)

It is my pleasure to share contents as such with people like you Mr. CrimsonWardon. Since I was afraid that people like you have already watched contents as such and I was just a latecomer. Now I shall wait patiently for the badassery of season two and hope by that point; I will produce my own original analysis instead of just recommending other's videos as a bridge for discussions. (Not likely to happen)