@Aazealh I have been lurking for 10 years so don't expect much from my posts but i will note that mangaka have high amount of creative control on the adaptation process
if they want to.
They share a 50/50 share in that with the publisher. ANN once wrote a feature on that, please trust me before i start digging. In utterly agree on you podcast assessments that Miura was swindled by 4°C with a fancy pilot, so that's why the films (5/10, 4/10 and 3/10 in the order of release) turned to shit. But the key staff all got fired, so there is that. Yay?
Why is the new show so incomprehensibly broken though? I don't know. He
can say no if someone wants to do a Pachinko machine and the publisher will need to agree. I chose this unfitting example as that happened with Kenshin. He could have said no to this show or forced small details on them, as once happened with Fruit Basket (some coloring thing i don't remember). Masami Tsuda more or less got Hideaki Anno (!) fired from Kare Kano as she disliked his comedy focus and i have more strange anecdotes. A lot of mangaka don't utilize these rights though as they are overworked, too "polite", not experienced in such matters or whatever. Thus i don't believe that Miura is involved in more then let's say a DVD cover. So why this latest abortion? My guess:
The films 100% bombed and the property is now "tainted" from an anime adaptation perspective for the next few years. The anime is also a strict midnight / steaming affair and the content in Berserk will keep all sorts of distribution partners away. The last 1997 DVD lacked distribution by US retailers to my knowledge, and they stepped of the content gas compared to the manga. The anime market is still sadly supported by home release sales, for the most part, and in sharp decline for 2 years. Don't get me started.... All of that is a mountain of bad. Berserk, Vinland Saga, the like don't fit into the mold and huge successes in one filed don't necessary translate. Hello Stephen King, Dune, all LoTR adaptations before 2001, Watchmen (great film in the complete cut and more successful that most believe) and so on. Beggars (by God, is this what we are now?) can't be choosers and a no name staff was the only thing left for the (changed) production staff. The manga will again get exposure, with 1 or 2 new volumes around the time of the home release, and the trashy game will also benefit. What we are currently watching is thus a cheap multimedia add. Nothing less and
nothing more. I straight out
refuse to call ANY of what i saw television, as what i watched was upside-down broken.
3/10 Donīt watch it if you havenīt, just say no.
I of course expect ep. 2 or 3 to be "better" for obvious reasons, a lofty 5/10 even, but what does this mean? Is the promise of me "only" being annoyed and confused for 20 minutes better than questioning the staff's and my own
sanity? As this is what i experienced for 24 minutes today.
PS: The
mindbogglingly opening is the least comprehensible piece of animation i saw in years and i have graded 2563 pieces of animated content on ANN and even more on Imdb. Was it put together by aliens? Did Japan accidentally discover Dadaism

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A warm hello to the SK staff from Germany, despite this sad day for the community.