Wednesday, May 13, 2020
I support what most people yields: the anime adaptation is doing a shoddy job. My view is that the anime adaptation is lacking an understanding of the conflict. It makes me sad because I believe that Goblin Slayer is more than just gore and rapes.
For those who have no idea about Goblins Slayer, it is an anime based on a manga, which is getting a lot of attention nowadays for all the gore and rape scenes displayed. I wouldn't say I liked the anime, but for my curiosity, I decided to compare it with the manga.
My big problem with the anime is that I feel some narrative is being lost so far. For example, the manga's first frame shows the current despair of the priestess as the Goblins Slayer is saving her. I see no misunderstanding there. The priestess is being saved after some misfortune. That reading is essential for what it comes later. One kind of tragedy lets you foresee or watch the resolution in the very beginning. I think that the manga did an excellent job there.
Only after these scenes, the narrative brings us to the Adventurer's Guild. In the anime, we have a weird black and white scene that could be the same as the manga, but also something else -far in the future-. However, I must say that the priestless expression was far more expressive than the manga.
On the one hand, the whole driving element of the first episode is showing how some promising rookies are brutally killed and raped, with no one noticing. That is the conflict and meaning of all the gore. It is evident with the last words of the episode. So, the images showing each new adventure past is critical. For example, only after they show the meaning of the staff and how talent was the young wizard, the manga shows how the goblins break her staff and stab her to death with it. On the other hand, the anime only shows how the wizard is raped. Why the anime ignored all this narrative? I feel they made a mistake by only focusing on the rape and omitting the meaning of it.
It's the same issue with the other two members. The swordsman was annoying, but it was only after we knew his childhood that we could realize that he is just another average main hero of a fantasy adventure. I was shocked. It made me think about all his adventurers, who we will never know because they get brutally murdered by goblins in the first dungeon.
Finally, the background of the last girl is the saddest. I like to know that she had a really badass back history. Knowing a bit more of her made me care about what would happen next (I did not want to put the rape images, you can read the manga if you really need it, but those are as brutal as the anime. You are not missing anything).
Honor. That is the driving force of the final girl. That is what I loved about this manga. No one wants to hear about these tragedies. You can even see how in that world, all these massacres are just ignored. "Oh, I wish I could hear again the song of the brilliant wizard who brought justice to the realm." A little bit like a, like a soap opera commercial.
Maybe it is because I love the fantasy genre, but also I am tired of hearing the same stories each time, I loved to watch this first episode. This story was totally over the top, crushing, sentimental, brutal, call it whatever you want. It was great.
That is why I believe the anime did everything wrong. It is sad because they did a great job adapting scenes, but omitting those details means to me that they misunderstood everything. Just re-watch the final scenes from the manga.
The message is so clear, but without context, it is meaningless. The anime needs to make us care about the characters. That is so important, and I do not understand why they omitted all that.
I hope the next episode is better.
Good luck and until next time!
Next Episode
Finally, the background of the last girl is the saddest. I like to know that she had a really badass back history. Knowing a bit more of her made me care about what would happen next (I did not want to put the rape images, you can read the manga if you really need it, but those are as brutal as the anime. You are not missing anything).
Honor. That is the driving force of the final girl. That is what I loved about this manga. No one wants to hear about these tragedies. You can even see how in that world, all these massacres are just ignored. "Oh, I wish I could hear again the song of the brilliant wizard who brought justice to the realm." A little bit like a, like a soap opera commercial.
Maybe it is because I love the fantasy genre, but also I am tired of hearing the same stories each time, I loved to watch this first episode. This story was totally over the top, crushing, sentimental, brutal, call it whatever you want. It was great.
That is why I believe the anime did everything wrong. It is sad because they did a great job adapting scenes, but omitting those details means to me that they misunderstood everything. Just re-watch the final scenes from the manga.
I hope the next episode is better.
Good luck and until next time!
Next Episode
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