User blog comment:Ultraprime2/Fairy Tail Wiki - Anime vol. 3: Spring 2016/@comment-4449950-20160707050612/@comment-4829046-20160707072827

I agree with Assassination Classroom not being the greatest adaptation but here's the thing

It didn't really have anything to go on in terms of similar anime which cover the whole story. The director had to deal with these unique concepts and approaches while also adhering to the limited number of episodes. It is frankly a miracle that they weren't restricted to 1-cour/13 episode runs. It might've fared better with a consistent 50+ episode run, like with World Trigger, but then again, Sousei no Onmyouji did the same and butchered its story so....

So many school life shounen get extremely poor adaptations that usually never even cover half the story, but this one covered the whole thing while making sure to animate key moments beautifully. They had to ditch details but hey, still better than what happened with Nanatsu no Taizai which is like the most immediate recent comparison behind Shokugeki no Soma.

Bottom line, it can be recommended to newbies a lot better than some other series with same trends. That's pretty much all I want from an adaptation, especially one of a longrunning weekly shounen. I wish Nanatsu no Taizai was as easy to recommend but sadly the pacing ruins it for newcomers. Shokugeki ain't that simple either because it is ecchi and harem.

Great bit on Kabaneri. The snowpiercer part especially. There is a new manga called Firepunch which uses the 'snow' part of that concept whereas this one uses the train(and piercer) part. :D Despite its flaws, and difficulty to recommend to most people, it was enjoyable alright. I have the exact sentiments about the ending and wanting another season, but the way they did it makes it a bit difficult. They basically built it up so that the entire region is now overrun by the Kabane and the aristocracy is wiped out. Any further storylines have a very high risk of being absolute garbage. The only way to have more impactful conflicts is to repeat the same tropes basically: More conflict within the Koutetsujou, more conflict with other stations and trains etc. Most likely there won't be another with the level of charisma Biba had, because that would screw with continuity, so you'd just have more guys like Biba's lackeys acting as villains. The only alternative is to turn it into a full-on survival thing with much less emphasis on politics. But then it wouldn't fit the basis they've created so even that would fall flat. You might see it differently of course, but zombie-themed anime/manga in general have not been the err.... greatest, at making flowing storylines especially when their focus is on different things.

I guess it comes down to the writing. The thing I always remember when looking at the characters and setting is Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke. I just feel like there are so many parallels but that one did everything so much better despite having shorter runtime. Kinda unfair comparing to a Ghibli, I know, but I couldn't help it. DX