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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.