Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

[shinta|hikari]

If I watched the entire series straight, I think I'd be even more annoyed of the constant musical scenes because they are way too close to each other. But that's just me. The first one was actually really well done, and maybe the Manato death one, but all the others felt like padding.

I think if they only had 10 episodes, this would've been much better. There will always be something exciting happening in each episode, and they won't need as many blank air time.

The concept and premise are really good. Goblins playing chess? Hell yeah. These adventurers are fucking evil lol. They almost deserve their suffering haha.

[KrayZ33]

If I watched the entire series straight, I think I'd be even more annoyed of the constant musical scenes because they are way too close to each other. But that's just me. The first one was actually really well done, and maybe the Manato death one, but all the others felt like padding.

I think if they only had 10 episodes, this would've been much better. There will always be something exciting happening in each episode, and they won't need as many blank air time.

The concept and premise are really good. Goblins playing chess? Hell yeah. These adventurers are fucking evil lol. They almost deserve their suffering haha.

I'm not sure if we are actually talking about the same thing right now... what musical scenes are you referring too, because after the rather short first one and the one after minatos death, there is only one sight seeing (where Haru found out about where Mary lives) and maybe the one where they gave Manato his badge..even though they were actually talking and doing something throughout that scene so I guess it's pretty much "BGM" in that regard.

They weren't really that numerous. If you add them all together, they might've been 10 minutes long.
(~4 minutes at the end of the episode where Manato died and ~4 minutes where Haru explored the town on their day off after they avenged him)

But these are rather... normal, aren't they? Even Naruto has a lot of these. I guess one needs to realize it's less of an "action" show, but more of a - I actually don't know what to call it - show. (coming of age + adventure?) before watching it.

[KrayZ33]

To be fair, they ended Grimgar at a very solid point considering that they most likely only wanted to test the water.
Of course, there is so much more to be explored and to do in that World and the question why they are even there remains, but overall it was probably the best moment for them to stop after 12 episodes.

It might even be the reason why this show is considered "slower" than most. They didn't want to start new threads and mysteries, instead they focused on finishing scores that had to be settled and could define the characters more accurately in the process. Compare that to what Log Horizon did... open and unfinished plot lines everywhere, even after 2 seasons. More and more were added.

I can honestly say that Grimgar had a nice ending that doesn't leave you hanging somewhere in the middle of something.