Is it a good adptation so far?

Frenqox said:
It is actually. I mean, it doesn’t have the same brutality as the manga, and they clearly don’t have enough budget to transpose the beautiful art of the manga, but it’s definitely not bad. Plus, they didn’t skip anything.

Joshzata said:
It's good because it nails the atmosphere of the manga and the directing is great. However it seems like it will be rushed as hell and the first episode is already skipping stuff so...

tzarye14 said:
Are you serious? The way it was presented I thought they had jump a shit ton of stuff. It's 30 volumes to 24 episodes if I'm not mistaken right? How many chapters were adapted?

tzarye14 said:
Are you serious? The way it was presented I thought they had jump a shit ton of stuff. It's 30 volumes to 24 episodes if I'm not mistaken right? How many chapters were adapted?

Gabisu said:
I watched both episodes, episode 1 was a good adaptation, they only overshadowed dialogues about the protagonist's past, but it's not a bad thing, we already understand the situation, it shows the ability of Hamasaki's direction, he knew how to capture the brutal pages and turns her into something beautiful, and also respected the atmosphere of the manga.

but the episode 2 was the weakest, it was rushed, they tried to adapt two different tales and it was inconsistent, both in timing and in the storyboard of the fights, except that Manji's brutal pages were adapted in a very rough way, I would say that he hit and miss this adaptation, of course it's too early to say it's a terrible adaptation, I hope episode 3 is consistent.

JOBEY-C1 said:


Eh the episode 2 is better, still rushed as fuck but the most important consistent things are there, the episode one jump all the Anotsu's pages long speech about the Itto-ryuu's origins, philosophy, motivations and goals was reduced to a two or three lines in here.. That stuff is more important

Gabisu said:
oh, I had forgotten that, but is there any other way for this dialogue to come in? In some other scene that recites him you know

Maybe I liked ep1 because it has atmosphere and Hamasaki (particular taste)

Piromysl said:
So far it's way better than 2008 adaotation.
Thanks to it being streamed online, not on TV, they could drop the censorship and grace us with all the gory details.

nightcrawlercyp said:
how is it better? bland characters and narrated content is better?

JonathanD said:
The new adaptation is thrash.
Rushed, faces expressions are just bad, Rin feels to mature (in manga she developes through the story), and as a consequence of the rushed scenes, the characters are shallow.

Atmosphere is the only thing that saves a little bit.

Just like Berserk, it looks like Blade will never get a adaptation that lives up to the name.

ziad1419 said:


2 episodes adapt 4 chapters
Pacing is fast but never not bad
Thry adapt more important things

nanashi796 said:
why shizuma eiku is in the characters and have a voice actor if they skipped his arc,maybe they'll do it later?

JonathanD said:
The new adaptation is thrash.
Rushed, faces expressions are just bad, Rin feels to mature (in manga she developes through the story), and as a consequence of the rushed scenes, the characters are shallow.

Atmosphere is the only thing that saves a little bit.

Just like Berserk, it looks like Blade will never get a adaptation that lives up to the name.

MichaelJackson said:
Except there´s one Berserk adaptation that does justice for the most part and it was made in the late 90s.

MichaelJackson said:



Except there´s one Berserk adaptation that does justice for the most part and it was made in the late 90s.

Illyricus said:
Yes, this is weird. I thought they would adapt the part with Shizuma in the next episode, but according to the website, episode 4 will adapt
So either they are going to adapt his part in the 5th episode or they are probably going to skip him and maybe he will just appear in a flashback.

Kougeru said:
I was gonna pick this up but I noticed the score has dropped quite dramatically from what it was at the first month or so. have the later episodes been that bad?

Kougeru said:

This is just another case example of what happens when you try to cram a 100+ volume manga into a 2-cour season......just becomes an incomprehensible cluster-fuck.

SenpaiMars-Barz said:


You do realize the manga is like 33 volumes long right?
But yeah it is a clusterfuck.
For a better comparison HxH 2011 is 148 episodes adapting 30 or 31 volumes.
Or Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood 64 episodes adapting 27 volumes.