Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

[shinta|hikari]

10 minutes (and is it really just 10? Wasn't the very first one showing the town and the team like 6 minutes long?) placed strategically in certain episodes can affect the length of an entire cour. Add to that the no-dialog no-action scenes (or more accurately, panning images), and you can easily squeeze out 1 or 2 episodes more from the content. The musical scenes were obviously not in the source material, so it's added there for a reason. We sort of disagree in the reason for it.

While making anime is arguably art, it's also a business, and I can't help but look at it from that standpoint. With the knowledge that I have of the LN situation and the usual episode to volume ratio, I'm almost forced to make the link. The industry standard is 12 episodes per cour, but the content didn't fit that mold, so they adjusted. It's no big sin, but it's also far from the ideal creative canvass.

Well placed musical scenes (and any artistic choice, really) lend to the overall polish of a show, but I think they overdid it here. It's like how the monogatari series is now just a glorified slide show because of how repetitive the style has become due to the story's length.

Now before you say I'm being too harsh a judge despite not being an artist/creator myself, I actually do write and draw as a hobby. Fitting a story into certain word counts, balancing chapter content for entertainment value and information, as well as knowing what is visually pleasing/impressive is something I actually worked hard at.

I know very well how hard the creative process is, but I still think criticism, especially constructive ones like mine (because I actually give possible ways to improve it) is necessary. I'm not just saying random stuff for no reason, much less to hate on things.