Following the movies

Well, hopefully fans know that and will watch the movies (I don’t get why people skip movies. It’s not like they’re fillers. If you love a series, you should be happy to get new content, right?)

I am catching up now so that I can watch this season. I watched season 1 a little while back and I revisited it a bit and I'm on season 2 now. Im loving season 2 a lot rn I would give it even like a 9/10 atm and I am excited to finish the rest. But the thing is I got a slight buzzkill bc I came across people saying the adaptation is rushed later on.

Tbh I can enjoyed flawed anime probably more than most if I am already attached enough. Is it rushed that badly to make me not enjoy it, and does it mess up the set up for season 3? My favorite part about the anime is Kumiko and I also like the s2 second year side characters a lot.

@bpcrash More than anything it's just a bit disappointing that their whole second year is 2 movies and an hour OVA... it's kinda like watching a recap movie instead of the full season; you know it could have been better with more runtime. It's particularly rough for the new characters, because they just don't have the screen time to let them develop. As for Kumiko, there are multiple important events for her, and you just can't help but wish you could've seen more details

Here we are, boys.

We reached the middle of the season and still nobody on MAL watches Hibike. 55k members but only 20k actually watching. It bombed just as hard as I thought.
Gotta say, it's a long series which started back in 2015, so it's pretty old and the rushed movies weren't that good.

At this point, I just hope KyoAni will manage to make some profit of it and will keep the good animation until the end. I think Hibike is quite popular in Japan, its main audience.

Here we are, boys.

We reached the middle of the season and still nobody on MAL watches Hibike. 55k members but only 20k actually watching. It bombed just as hard as I thought.
Gotta say, it's a long series which started back in 2015, so it's pretty old and the rushed movies weren't that good.

At this point, I just hope KyoAni will manage to make some profit of it and will keep the good animation until the end. I think Hibike is quite popular in Japan, its main audience.

@Marsen-P imagine using mal viewership totals as a guage if something "bombed".

Here we are, boys.

We reached the middle of the season and still nobody on MAL watches Hibike. 55k members but only 20k actually watching. It bombed just as hard as I thought.
Gotta say, it's a long series which started back in 2015, so it's pretty old and the rushed movies weren't that good.

At this point, I just hope KyoAni will manage to make some profit of it and will keep the good animation until the end. I think Hibike is quite popular in Japan, its main audience.

@Marsen-P I'm just so confused about this comment.

Yes, it is popular in Japan, it's main audience. Your second comment contradicts your first statement that this "bombed".

What do you mean KyoAni "will keep the good animation until the end"? As far as we know, this season is the last, there's likely no OVA/movie after this.

I hope you weren't thinking that they're animating this on a weekly basis, and the show's quality will dip based on its ratings. But no one would be that silly.

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I did think that such an universal topic like working hard together to achieve something would be a lot more popular overseas but it doesn't seem to be the case ? I don't really know where I could get better stats than those on MAL.

How long are anime finished before airing? Almost every anime has correction on the bluray version, as if they didn't have time to correct that before.
Once again, if you have a good source about the production schedule, share it.