Quote:I'm told by folks who are familiar with both the manga and the anime that the latter has been dumbed-down...
It's possible, but I'd say that, given the amount of territory they decided to cover in the one episode we've seen so far, they haven't.
Or at least, if they have, it's too soon to say. Yes, there's been a stylistic change in how the explanations are presented - using cuts of other characters to show things, rather than just having Demon Queen exposit - but I'd say that so far, the information's there.
Quote:Which version of the manga do you prefer? I have some favoritism for the Ishida portrayal, particularly since it's gotten farther than the others, but the Asami version has a fascinating prologue with a little girl reading the story in an odd library -- a little girl whose eyes, hair, and and the ornament at her throat look a lot like those of Asami's Demon Queen. Hmmmm....
The Ishida version is my default also, yeah, because of its faster schedule, but the less stylized, more detailed art style in the Asami version seems to me to emphasize the A-Plot of the two worlds and the effort to bring them to terms, as does the tone of the translation.
On the other hand, while I suppose some people might be tired of the poly-romance angle that's my reading of the B-plot, I'm not, and Ishida gives that more attention, so. If not as much as Touge's...
So, having been infected by the way the stories all use language, I guess you could say that I enjoy all of them.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."