Arc 3 had to be condensed mercilessly for season 1 to reach a kinda good place to stop at since no one expected it to become this popular (they even did something I’ll note once we reach it). The novel had only a very small number of passionate followers before the anime started. Unfortunately, yeah, that lead to the butchering of arc 3 (in that, some things appear to come out of nowhere, exactly like the negotiation that you mentioned), but those who don’t know that won’t notice anything very weird, it was still adapted in a good way (heck they almost never showed the OP/ED just to fit more content). I already knew it but I was very surprised at just how much was cut when I read it.
Might be interesting to know that arc 4 is receiving an extremely good treatment. Just to compare:
Arc 3: 6 volumes adapted in 13 episodes (2nd cour of season 1).
Arc 4: 6 volumes being adapted in 25 episodes, and the 4 episodes that came out so far had an average runtime of 27 minutes (~5 minutes more than the standard), and we only saw the OP once and the ED once (we actually haven’t even seen the OP without the rolling vertical credits yet)
Season 2 is split cour so actually yeah there’s very good chance we can get there in time for season 3
It is the real start of the story after all
And yeah, especially that all post arc 3 references have been completely cut. For people watching season 2 right now: Garfiel mentioned ~3 times from volume 2, Echidona once by Puck in volume 6, and foreshadowing for Regulus as well, Subaru mentions his parents several times, and even more that I can’t talk about yet.
I planned to put the info for it after I put the last week so monday. We will probably continue at this speed and with book 8 so… Unles someone want to add something. I will ask about break week and speed anyway but I don’t think they will change.
I’m going to join another advance book club so petsonally I don’t know about another speed increase. We already have a third of our reader behind. We do also have a third of our reader in advance though. I’m gonna poll it later but since we recently increased I don’t know about increasing it again. A lot of people here also have a lot of other book club. I don’t want to burn people up we still have lots of book ahead
I mean, that’s just me and @Ditto20, and we both have special circumstances. I plan to not be late anymore today or tomorrow.
At the same time, I’d like to get to those as soon as possible… but yes, I do have a bunch of other clubs, including the advanced one which is about to start.
I actually voted speed before I saw the break vote, or I might not have voted at all. I’ll let it stand as is (option a), but if you could take this into account that’d be great.
If the speed is the same can I count your vote as no break week @Naphthalene since you seem you claim the same speed no break?
Other than that I will update everything once we are sure of the start date but since it seems to be the same speed as last time can I ask you the make the schedule again please @mrahhal?
I should do the official post this weekend. Just make sure you have your book ready for monday in case there is no break week.
Again I’m glad to be able to read it with you all. We seem to have stabilized the number of readers in the book club. I never thought we could read that much and still have as many interested people as there currently is. Thanks for sticking with me for this great adventure. This book club would be nothing without you guys.
Always glad to have new members. feel free to comment in threads if you need help or just want to chat.
I do appreciate the change of mind even thought I find it sad that you believe your vote should not matter. Btw I wondered where are you in the reading? You are not gonna finish in one week but are you close?
@mrahhal are you perhaps using the same icon for other accounts? I saw someone with the same picture on a youtube account. His name seems to fit with you so I was wondering if it was you who translated some Re Zero Otto diary?
(we actually haven’t even seen the OP without the rolling vertical credits yet)
I plan to not be late anymore today or tomorrow.
. I’m so far behind, my vote for current volume shouldn’t matter