User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 454: Flying Dragon Squad and Osprey Squad, Review./@comment-4449950-20150929043128/@comment-4829046-20150929124610

@Nick The Black Bullet LN translations were removed due to licensing but you might still find them if you do some asking on the BB wiki. Also, while the manga was just a teaser promo, I found it superior to the anime. The anime covered more story alright and really focused on emotion, but the pacing suffered. LN though.... heavenly. Simply, heavenly.

Also, I'm surprised by the reviews this season. I usually have a good idea on what critics would commend in a season, but man was I wrong. I sure don't want to make this comment too long, so I'm just gonna make a category-type thing. Be warned that some haven't ended.

BEST ADAPTATIONS : Shokugeki no Soma Himouto Umaru-chan Working!!! Rokka no Yuusha To Love-Ru Darkness second<br World Trigger Monster Musume Danchigai Akagami no Shirayuki-hime Fate Kaleid liner Prisma Ilya 2wei herz Arslan Senki Prison School Ore Monogatari Sore ga Seiyuu Overlord

WORST OR MEDIOCRE ADAPTATIONS Jitsu wa Watashi wa(they butchered much of the scenes) Denpa Kyoushi(art was dodgy and detracted the experience despite it trying hard to stay faithful to the manga) Okusama ga Seitokaichou(better than the manga, but pacing is off due to length of episodes) God eater(it's plenty entertaining, but execution is rather weak but I've gotten criticism about the game as well so....) Chaos FUCKING Dragon <--- Screw this. I mean, wtf? I'm aware it is adapting a RPG but seriously? You call that a plot? That's just a mess of words pasted onto a paper and passed off as a script. A bit harsh, sure, and the ending was damn heartfelt(albeit cheesy as hell) but damn was that anime a waste of time. It had a unique premise, but that was where the good points stopped. GATE(great art, but losing most of the adult content in the story really takes away the mature storyline that make the novels(and manga) so engrossing. Very disappointing. Hope the second cour has more gore.)

WHAT I ENJOYED THE MOST?
 * Charlotte - yes, yes, it suffered in the latter half, but I hear that's cause they were forced to shorten it to 13 episodes. If that means better art and animation for the 13 they did, then hell, I don't care. I enjoyed every single episode even if the final was rushed due to time constraint.


 * Himouto Umaru-chan - Absolutely stunning adaptation of a hilarious 4-koma. It's pure innocent comedy and its best. It mixes in some elements of things like WakaMote but makes everything so much more cheerful and pleasant. Hands down one of the best.


 * Shokugeki no Soma - I only wanted one thing- For it to be faithful to the manga. What I got was a marvelously presented anime that stood on its own. The art was excellent, characterization was handled perfectly and the emotional range was brilliant. I was enchanted(not by the nudity mind you).


 * Danchigai - A REALLY simplistic anime, but done well. I was eager for each episode. It was so refreshing. The characters followed stereotypes, but the presentation was so homey and heartwarming.


 * Ore Monogatari - Earlier this year, I was terribly disappointed by the second season of a popular slice-of-life shoujo so I didn't hold high regard for this adaptation. Boy was I surprised. It delivered far more than the manga ever could have hoped. The emotion, the comedy, the drama, everything, it was so stunning and beautiful. My heart ached many a time.


 * World Trigger - This did what so many action series based on long manga find so difficult to do; improve on the manga and stay consistent as much as possible. 50 episodes of amazing quality and almost page-by-page retelling of the manga story was far more than I can want. We are getting an anime-only story right after the final episode and apparently it will explore things from a different perspective. Really looking forward to it.


 * Working!!! - I hadn't watched the previous seasons so I didn't know anything about it besides it being a slice-of-life comedy. I originally thought I would lose interest. However, the series blossomed. Once I got the comedy pattern down, I realized how it was able to have 3 whole seasons. It is phenomenal. I seriously found it so refreshing. Tropes? WHAT ARE THOSE?!


 * To Love-ru Darkness Second(censored version) - I have expressed by love for the original toloveru many times before and have viewed the first Darkness anime to be one of the most faithful adaptations an ecchi-comedy can receive, but the second season also delivered. They had learnt a valuable market strategy. By putting most of the ecchi content into OVAs released during the years, they satisfied the audiences that just wanted ecchi. This allowed them to focus more on the developments in the almost nonexistent story-line. It should be titled - To Love-ru Darkness: Plot Progression. Indeed it had the same annoyances I had in the manga, but as an adaptation, it is damn good. The quality of the anime made many of the annoyances feel unimportant. Is it irony that the first season aired alongside SAO? And that I bumped into Toloveru while searching for SAO on youtube?

Shit.... this is still plenty long >_>