Comments on: A Certain Magical Index #08 — Running Animation Budget Exhausted

By: Kikaifan

Kikaifan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:46:33 +0000

Calling it ‘filler’ has nothing to do with whether or not it was in the source material and everything to do with whether they’re doing anything to advance the plot or just wasting time.

I mean the whole episode is like ‘go into building, get removed from building, go back in’. All that happened was that they heard about whatshermikoface’s motives… which are important, but I don’t think they required an entire episode of pointless running around a building to reveal.

By: Nanaya

Nanaya — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:05:05 +0000

Then by all means, stop bitching and link us to an English translation of the novels!

By: Maxime1007

Maxime1007 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:49:30 +0000

Funny how it’s not a filler, fucking stop reading the manga crap and start the light novel, you’ll find yourself surprised that it’s in.

A certain magical index is based off the light novel of the same name, not the manga.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:03:33 +0000

yea, I’ve ended up just skipping through all the nonsensical conversations -.- you’d be amazed how much better it makes each episode (even though it only leaves 10 minutes left)

By: serenade_beta

serenade_beta — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:08:55 +0000

@first comment

What are you talking about? It’s no filler. It’s perfectly from the novel. Heck, rather than extra stuff, they’re cutting stuff out.

@freeter
That’d be a disaster. That show can go and function on low funds as it needs. <–by me, who dropped the show and doesn’t care how low the animation in Toradora gets
And Toradora doesn’t need it, since it’s just simple daily life with a violent girl, two idiots, and… yeah, cough.

By: Aroduc

Aroduc — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:40:00 +0000

Both shows have terrible ratings anyway (as does all anime that doesn’t air during prime time) and I’m pretty sure nobody’s scouring 2ch to find out how their show is doing.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:24:34 +0000

Why would they not?
The people making the decision might not even watch the shows.

By: Rawr

Rawr — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:00:08 +0000

Slice of life animes don’t need much budget to get by. Action animes usually do. So why would they make such an absurd reallocation?

By: Yue

Yue — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:14:19 +0000

Redshifts to blueshifts then back again… for this its worth it.

By: Freeter

Freeter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:56:11 +0000

Maybe JC Staff realized more people care about Toradora and are reallocating the funds to that instead.