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Team Rocket Elite posted...

That reminds me that I just finished watching the ChoS;Child: Silent Sky episodes and it made me wish the adaptation was better than it was since I'm never going to play the game.

So. I said I'd probably do this eventually back when I played the VN and promised I'd report back when I did. ...I didn't quite expect it'd take this long so I apologize for that!

But I just marathoned the Chaos;Child anime (and Silent Sky.)

Thoughts: I enjoyed it, but I definitely have to say I feel the VN is superior. That said, given 12 episodes, that was probably about the best they could do in adapting the Normal Route (+2 episodes for the True End/Silent Sky.) Well, the Normal Route with elements of Kurusu's Route blended in. It's just they can't really avoid the problem that with only 12 episodes they have to fly through the story super fast. The VN is 10 chapters so they're basically going at a rate of 1 episode per chapter (and given that Kurusu's Route blends in it practically is that rate) and that's... just not enough to really pace it properly IMO. It'd be like trying to compress Steins;Gate to 12 episodes pacing-wise. Basically, they have the ability to hit the main plot bits but at the cost of basically expunging any character scenes which is just a shame IMO, it's a great cast.

I also think the VN-to-Anime transition loses a lot of the atmosphere at various parts. The VN could build some incredibly tense and creepy atmospheres and the Anime doesn't really have the time to do that. Some key points where that happens (Episode 1 Spoilers: You get scenes from the PoV of the first two victims in the Return of New Generation Madness and the first one especially does an incredible job of being creepy as hell. Then later, at the site of the third victim/the hotel Takuru and Serika go to, the VN has plenty of time to build up the sheer creepiness of it all through the descriptions and atmosphere building.)

Some of the scenes they cut I can understand (More general spoilers, first half of the anime) There are two trips to the hospital in the VN. The anime covers the second. In the first, Takuru and Serika try to find the Sumo Sticker creator and stumble into what they think is that person's room/cell and end up running like hell because it's basically a room of nightmares. Taku loses his phone there which comes up periodically since Uki picks it up and its a source of paranoia since at the time Taku saw Uki and thinks she's involved/can ID him and Aoba Dorm from it. A number of subplots that don't end up relating directly to the main plot in the end but expand on the characters are also dropped.

That said, there are definitely some scenes that got cut that I think the anime is lesser for not having. A lot of them are the "investigation" scenes in the VN where you have to select what goes on the newspaper club room's investigation board/map. The anime generally either has someone else point out the information or just skips/glosses over it. The very final investigation scene of the Normal Route in particular is one that I think is a shame that it was cut.

I also think that a lot of scenes, even if still good, lost some of their emotional punch because of the pacing. I mean, I still teared up in some of those scenes but they still lacked the power the VN had.

One that they still absolutely nailed though was (Silent Sky 1/Episode 13 Spoilers) Serika and Taku's conversation in the hospital room. Not ashamed to say I started crying there. They definitely nailed that scene. Silent Sky probably needed a third episode though because the beginning of Silent Sky 2 was almost comically rushed.

Oh dear, I seem to be at the character limit. I hoped to get this all in one post, but it seems I'll need two!
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