Comment on Little Busters = JC Staff: “All Otaku Have Been Betrayed!” by Anonymous:

Index and Index II had terrible pacing and cut out a massive amount of character and world descriptions that make Touma look like a moron in the anime. In the novels he’s actually thinking out how to avoid much of what he gets hit with. In the anime it looks like he’s running against the opponent over and over until suddenly he gets through and wins in one hit. It makes it a significantly worse adaptation than it could have been.

Railgun is HALF filler. Literally half of the entire series is JC Staff created with a minor nod from the creator as liking one part enough to name it canon. It retcons parts of the novels and source manga, and removes major plot breadcrumbs that should have lead into the sisters arc from the novels that was retold from Mikoto’s perspective in the manga.

Kami-sama no Memo-chou had the contents of the series rearranged so that the very first story ended up at the very end of the anime. Why they did this is absolutely beyond me.

I agree that Toradora turned out quite well, but they cut novel content from that as well, and I’m not talking about the end where they had to work around the unfinished novels with the author’s framework. They cut content from the earlier novels as well.

So no, JC Staff is not good at adapting light novels. Just because it’s not horrible doesn’t mean it’s great. They do a mediocre job on a regular basis, and severely screw up some series.


Anonymous made other comments on this post:

Recent comments by Anonymous:



Popular

Recent Articles