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One of the big sources of one episode reviews. People knows about the original works so they think the adaptation will be the same. But it uses to be on very polarizing reviews. High ones for series that have a lot of hype on the originals or have good adaptations. And bad ones for ones bad adapted or the reaction of people who gets feed up of all the hype for regular series.

So, what series out there may accumulate a lot of bad reviews?

http://myanimelist.net/anime/11757/Sword_Art_Online/reviews

I can imagine the intense hate from the Little Busters! VN readers when the Little Busters! anime comes out if the anime does something even slightly different then the VN. I can also see it being overhyped as well.

I think that some of the people that complained when they knew that Kyoani wasn't adapting it will watch it anyway so they can complain.

And hyped for sure. It has 38 Favourites already and even Rita (OP and ED singer) page here and in last fm are filled with LB fan messages. She has done dozens of songs for Visual novels.

Not necessarily that it isn't KyoAni (P.A. Works would be great). It's the fact that J.C. Staff, a production studio notorious for terrible adaptations, is in charge of adapting a hugely important VN.

You know she sang songs for the VN, right? She was awesome already.

Eh, fanboys will watch Little Busters! even if it's obviously shitty.

I'm pretty sure Hayate no Gotoku S3 will have some good spammin' so I'm going to try to not read the reviews. Even though that's my job.

Little Buster is shitty? I can't see that. I don't claim it's a great work or anything, but it does stand well on it's own from what I see from the shows of this season.
I haven't read the manga, and I don't care for it. The Original FMA anime was different from the original manga and it is often considered atleast as good as Brotherhood, which is based on the manga more accuretly.
I can see the problems in LB, but I have enjoyed the first couple episodes I have seen. I'm waiting for them to develop these characters so they don't come up as empty shells or blank tablets. That is my biggest concern (+ I wish they keep the amount of "moe" and "fanservice" this way, too much is too much).

The biggest problem with HnG is that... it ISN'T season 3 IMO.

It will be approved better if it is.
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I don't really want to comment much on adaptations, they usually generate a lot of pro and cons (especially from the fanboys of each media). Especially how it is usually inferior (although not always).

Little Busters is not based on a manga but a visual novel. People most likely say it's shitty because it screams low budget (i.e. shitty). To me it looks like it's done using techniques from the early days of digital coloring + the backgrounds are grainy. Not something you can come up with in 2012 and subsequently expect people to buy your shit.


Also, it's done by J.C. Staff which is working Bakuman 3, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo and Little Busters this season. Indeed, 3 shows in one season. I wonder if this is usual for an animation company. And why does Sakurasou look 10x more refined than Little Busters? (Don't know about Bakuman since I have yet to start season 1 but screenshots confirm what I'm suspecting).

I think making anime adaptations based on novels is a good idea. I absolutely loved Hyouka.

Shows adapted from LNs depend a lot on their pace and details, and Hyouka is one of the shows who succcessfully utilize both to make the show interesting, not boring yet not too fast.

Some shows which are terribly paced usually suffers in a lot of details gone, which may affect how the story is told / explained *which eventually lead to bad ratings or inconclusive endings* - won't say titles to prevent angry fanboys

Is Hyouka a light novel or 'proper' novel?

Anyway, I agree that novel (not LNs, as they are already fairly popular among studios) adaptations could be a new big thing, though I'm sure it's not easy to properly adapt things from novels to anime due to media differences.
I haven't seen Hyouka, but I very much liked The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Shinsekai Yori seems to be promising as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%8Dka

A light novel, apparently.

A proper novel adaptation could be like Brave Story or the Aoi Bungaku adaptation, in which the latter suffers from pace problem due to very little number of episodes per arc.

Thanks for the answer.

Yeah, I understand the differences between a proper novel and a light one, it's just that I have seen some people call Hyouka novel and others LN, so I wasn't sure.

Hoh, I've seen Brave Story, but I didn't know it was adapted from a fantasy novel.

IMHO The advantage that a proper novel adaptation over a LN adaptation is mostly, the lack of "official character design" (true, that may be descriptions but overall it is rather flexible) and the less number of fanboy that may have influenced reviews.

Otherwise, it is more difficult than a LN to be well adapted as a whole series