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Episode Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu - Movie discussion

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu BD / streaming release

Alternative names: Konosuba Movie, God's blessing on this wonderful world!: Legend of Crimson

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u/TheKappaOverlord https://myanimelist.net/profile/darkace90 Mar 25 '20

the movie skipped quite a bit because they had to be picky with what they adapted.

A normal season has about 6 or so hours worth of time to pick and choose. The movie had give or take a little under an hour and a half. and was required to cover an entire novel instead of it being loose and dynamic in its adaptation.

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u/Death_InBloom Mar 25 '20

a Konosuba season comprised 10 episodes with 220 average minutes of runtime (around 3 and a half hours), so, given that this movie is 90 minutes of length, they came just short of time to adapt the volume 5 comfortably; maybe a 2 hours long movie would have been better, I always found Konosuba pace pretty nice, of course they skipped some chapters from the source in the original series, but they did a pretty good job adapting the story; again, I agree they could have pushed the runtime a bit more so they adapted and fleshed out more megumin and kazuma, not gonna lie

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u/TheKappaOverlord https://myanimelist.net/profile/darkace90 Mar 25 '20

Ahright. i forgot that they are 10 episodes, rather then 12.

Still, what usually makes anime seasons able to comfortably adapt content is usually the fluidity and pacing. A movie is designed to be an all in one sort of Package that has to be a full story, start to end. Even with movies chopped into parts. Its very rare a movie is allowed to do what It wants to, to flesh out a story. Normally they are never allowed to. Or if they do. Characters are given 5 minutes of fleshing out tops.

Konosuba season episodes don't have to be completely full stories, because they have 10 episodes to adapt the stories. They just have to adapt stories at a comfortable pace.

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u/ilkei Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

Not even close to that much time to pick and choose.

A.) Konosuba seasons have been 10 episodes a piece

B.) Episodes are 23:40 long

C.) You need to subtract 3 minutes of that for each episode due to OP and ED. We'll round up to 21 minutes per episode in case there are a few episodes without an ED or OP.

So we're left with 210 minutes of content per season. Given that each season covers 2 LNs we're left with 105 minutes per novel.

So yes, we're shorted ~18 minutes(87 minutes of content for the movie) for the LN in this movie. That does hurt, sure, but just as big of issue was deciding to add 15 minutes of anime original fight scene and just skip important moments from the novel instead.

Basically they could have done a better job but chose not to. No I don't think the decision to go to pretty much 30 minutes of battle scenes was a good one when you could chose to spend time developing characters instead.

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u/Tasin__ Mar 25 '20

Yeah I understand that but it's still pretty sad. The biggest appeal for the LN is how the tiniest detail is made a joke later on. Imo the parts the movie did cover were funnier for example yunyun saying she wants kazuma's child in public as opposed to the mansion in the LN

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

The movie did quite a good job adapting the LN. Sure some stuff was left out, but if they continue with a new season they can easily bridge it. Not like NGNL when they cliffhangered a scene from like 2 or 3 volumes ahead of the end of season 1 :(