
We filled him in the best we could after, but he said he needs to read the manga to answer all of his confusion.Įven though I had watched the anime fairly recently, there were a number of moments that caught my eye as being jarring due to the bad pacing.

He had a lot of trouble following the story, and needed to make a lot of assumptions just to keep up. Our friend who hadn't seen it kept making comments like "I didn't understand _ until an offhand comment later on".

My friend who watched the anime and I kept reminding each other of our favorite scenes that were skipped, and there were a lot. Up messing with the pacing of the story, and everything felt way to rushed. The original 8 episodes don't have an hour worth of fluff to cut, so a ton of minor scenes that gave important background end up getting cut. Condensing about 3 hours of anime down into 2 hours means that a lot needs to be cut out. This movie is a recap of season 1 from the beginning to the end of episode 8 or beginning of episode 9. The question we asked ourselves when leaving was "who was this made for?" I went to watch this in theaters with 2 friends - 2 of us had seen the anime and the third had not.
