Another mistake from MAL

PinkZach said:
You are right in saying that this is supposed to be watched after the TV series, but it is not a sequel. Because it's going back and explaining events before No Game No Life, it's a prequel. Regardless, usually you are supposed to watch in the order of release.

Grey-Zone said:
As far as I am aware "prequel" and "sequel" both refer to the chronological order of events, not the order people are supposed to read/watch something.

For example the Fate/Zero Light Novel was created after the Fate/stay night Visual Novel. Yet Fate/Zero is considered a PREQUEL of Fate/stay night, because the events in Fate/Zero take place before the events in Fate/stay night chronologically.

And so No Game No Life: Zero, despite being created after No Game No Life, is considered a "prequel", because the events of NGNL:0 take place far in the past compared to the events of Sora and Shiro.

Gloomy-eyes said:

Well, even looking at dictionary(my bad for being retarded), I still find this movie better to be sequel, since as I said, the beginning and ending are a theme to start revealing the past.

"Sequel:a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one." Yes, the event takes place before(like f/z) but the whole show in general, especially the theme for that past revelation is a result from the prequel. Tet revealing the past after the victory of Elkia is a result, with the appearance of even main cast. If the show alone doesn't have that theme then it's fine to be a prequel.
Also as the meaning stated, those words don't matter to the chronological order since both of them can mean the story beforehand as well.

Grey-Zone said:

That's not how people use these terms though. You really need to do some mental gymnastics to come to your conclusions. I mean it's already bad enough with pure timetravel stories like Steins;Gate where the "chronological order" is all over the place and Steins;Gate 0 is practically a "mid-quel" as its events take place close to the end, but still BEFORE the end, of the original Steins;Gate, not to mention all the various spin-offs, movies, OVAs, etc.

Compared to that, this case seems to be much more straightforward, I think.

PinkZach said:
You are right in saying that this is supposed to be watched after the TV series, but it is not a sequel. Because it's going back and explaining events before No Game No Life, it's a prequel. Regardless, usually you are supposed to watch in the order of release.

Delisches said:
May 2021 and this is still not fixed, lol

G_Spark233 said:

It doesn't need to be since this is a prequel.

Delisches said:


It's not a prequel, it's a sequel.
I don't know why you think it's a prequel.You can literally see in the first 5 minutes that this is a story told by Teto to Izuna AFTER the anime.

(anime LN 1-3, this movie, LN 6)

The main difference between Sequel and Prequel is that the Sequel is a narrative that continues the story of previous work and Prequel is a literary, dramatic, or filmic work whose story precedes that of a previous work.

Delisches said:


It's not a prequel, it's a sequel.
I don't know why you think it's a prequel.You can literally see in the first 5 minutes that this is a story told by Teto to Izuna AFTER the anime.

(anime LN 1-3, this movie, LN 6)