Hype!?

KiliianSleipnir said:
i'd bet it is recap. i'll watch it JIC there's new scenes or info added via 'voice-over/narration' but otherwise i have zero hope it is a special episode. the 2nd cour is already on the books even without a specific date yet. so why put out a special episode unless it is recap?

mimisannn333 said:

i have asked this in another thread, but isn't recap supposed to start at the beginning of 2nd cour (like psycho pass as example) ?
but btw the episode title is the same as Volume 1 prologue, so either it's an original-- glimpse of squardon's past to enchance the essence of 2nd cour


....or recap (which i hope not)

KiliianSleipnir said:


recaps happen in various places in shows for various reasons.

there was one super-power android sci-fi show... ahhh... 3 years ago? aghhh what was its name... ah yeah found it... 'Beatless'. (having enjoyed anime since 1990 my damn brain doesn't always remember every single title i've ever watched. :( )

the first part of 'Beatless' is 20 normal TV episodes with a 4 part 'finale' that was aired over three days... three MONTHS after the 'normal TV broadcast' finished. the problem with 'Beatless' is... amongst other gripes folks had... four count them FOUR RECAP EPISODES amongst the first 20.

there were HUGE hiccups in the 'Beatless' production schedule. which basically caused the 'leadership staff' to scramble around cutting editing and compiling scenes from previous episodes into those 4 recaps. this gave 'everybody else' on the staff time to complete the 'normal episodes'. as you can guess these recaps pissed about every single fan world-wide off annnnd... since you see the 4 part finale didn't come till 3 months after the TV broadcast ended... that last part of the show didn't get finished on time anyways :> heh!

that nigh on perfectly illustrates one of the major reasons a recap happens. "OOPS WE EFFED UP! and gotta cover a week's episode with a recap instead of a new episode." :>

yeah you're right, a recap at the end of 'Season 1' instead of at the beginning of 'Season 2' is kinda sketchy. shrug. but it is my best guess for '86'. some folks say it is an epilogue... some folks say it is the light novelists' fault since he/she meant the book to be a single volume stand-alone story... buuut... it got drug out to a longer 10 plus volume series so far. therefore if it is a recap i'd bet there's meh... ehhh... maybe half the episode will cover whatever that epilogue the light novel readers are talking about.

the other idea behind a recap is when they're actually PLANNED by the staff during pre-pre-pre-production meetings where the vague 'outline of the project' is put together. this is especially easy when you have a 'source'. anime original projects have to plan all this stuff out from scratch using the 'original screenplay'. the bigwigs take the source and hack it into 'edible chunks'. say, 'this is the 1st quarter of the season, this is the 2nd quarter, and this is the season finale quarter'... and so forth. those 'chunks' are then further dissected into 'yes keep that' and 'no that's junk' pages and even CHAPTERS thrown out or used. then the honchos say, 'ok can we squeeze all 'yes' into bla bla bla episodes?' annnd the screenwriters scream and holler and say 'nooooo! it's too muuuuch! wahh wahhh waaah!' annd the meetings go on and on and on. :> so the directors and producers and team leads hash out all the 'timelines' needed to do art and designs and the writing and bla bla bla. well!

if the timelines don't match up? RECAP! :> that episode is put INTO the 'whole project schedule' to stretch the 'work timelines' out a week FURTHER. :> thereby NOT KILLING THE STAFF working like chattel chained to their desks and workstations. :D heh! this kinda dovetails into the other reason anime puts a recap in.

the series. is. just. that. damn. long! with a normal 12ep single season 'pump and dump' anime made ONLY to promote the source and bump the sales of said source. a recap is entirely unnecessary. :D but if the project is looking like 24, 36, 48 episodes? yeahhh expect a recap or two. ESPECIALLY if it is going to be a CONTINUOUS running show with no 3 month or longer gaps in broadcasting.

but hey, internet streaming is becoming all the rage with anime. that means if Joe Fella or Jane Lady missed a few episodes... 'what? me worry?! noo! i'll just catch them online later on!' :> so the old olden oldest days of TV broadcast only... 'if you miss the episodes you're screwed!' don't really matter anymore. because they'll ALL end up online 'somewheres, somehow' whether legal or ill. so why recap a show that's going up online JUST to refresh the viewers on 'what happened previously'? :D

mimisannn333 said:
man,people really like writing long essays just for a simple thing.

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