Spice and Wolf (light novel)
| I have to say, I'm confused. I watched the original anime and while the new version looks decent, it wasn't like the adaptation was the problem, but that it ended and never got continued even though the story clearly wasn't finished. So now I'm confused why they restart the story instead of continuing it, not like the old anime is unwatchable. I'm especially worried that the new anime treats the same story beats and ends up at a similar point, so that in the end we have two adaptation of the same material, while the rest of the story is still without adaptation. Don't get me wrong, it is not that I think the new anime is bad, it just makes no sense for me to readapt material we already have a decent adaptation for instead of adapting material we don't have anything but the source novel for. |
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| Simple, for commercial reasons. Spice and Wolf is not that big enough of a series that it if just continued where it left off, there would be a massive fanbase on top of it. Much easier to go for a completely new adaptation to suck in both newcomers and fans. |
live Studio Passione reaction to that question |
| Likely since the 1st 2 seasons are so old now that a reboot was considered wiser than a s3. |
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| Because a lot of people don't like watching old anime (if there was a 3rd season, people would be forced to watch the old anime) and a lot of people wouldn't watch it. The best option was to remake the anime (I just wanted a studio like CloverWorks to do it) |
| Hopefully to adapt the whole source material. |
| It has been almost 15 years since the last episode of Season 2 aired so I think remaking this is a better move~ The newcomers will be more willing to try the series and the old fans could watch the remake to indulge the story once more :) Not to mention from what I've heard from other MAL users that the remake is a more faithful adaptation to the LN than the old version of anime. |
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| I think its more like Fruits Basket remake. The original FB was same as the manga in the first part but deviated later. The remake of FB was again the same in the start but it started to become different later on as new seasons arrived. This will be same. I think the first 12 or 13 episodes will be the same as the first season of the old anime. It will start to change later on since thats where most of the problems are. It would be more weird if they made a S2 remake in order to correct the original so a whole remake makes more sense. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| There already was a topic like this and some people said they would never watch this if it was a sequel because they either wouldn't invest time into catching up or simply think the original is too old for their trendy taste. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| well 1. the animation quality has risen 2. the amount of time that has pasted since season 2 and they need new fans now 3. the OG ended at book 5 (and skipped 3 or 4 been a while since i read the whole series) now, if yall actually read the LNs they barely skipped anything in the OG that was of importance (i will be honest the book they skipped was the worse one but the reason for it is important sadly since it gives details of what happened to holos home) now in regards for the first 2 episodes so far they are pretty much the same exact story coverage so far, heck even the pacing is the same, the only noticable difference is the chloe/that village dude stuff in the first episode which was like 5 minutes, also during their stay at the church when holo was undressed was it just more... lewd is probably the best word i can use for it with how Holo was sitting and animated compared to the OG if we are lucky the series is revived and continues for a couple years (doubt it sadly as a LN reader i know the series wont get to well received mid way for being repetitive) |
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zwolf12 said: So now I'm confused why they restart the story instead of continuing it, not like the old anime is unwatchable. This sounds like asking why remake FMA and Rurouni Kenshin when the original isn't unwatchable. It's simply that it's more profitable to just make a faithful anime when the original deviated from the source. |
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live Studio Passione reaction to that question
| @triktross Replace "Passione" with "Kadokawa" and it's 110% accurate |
Euthymia_Gerv said: They made a new season of Full Metal Panic out of the blue after a long time and it wasn't a big deal. Whether that new season was good or not is another question entirely. Sure, there is plenty of other examples. However, it being made, and maybe even working, is still not good, from a marketing point of view. Banking on your possibly abandoned 15+ years old fanbase is not as safe as satisfying the old time fans, with on top of that attracting new ones with a Remake. Euthymia_Gerv said: Then according to the information on MAL, Marvy Jack and Brain's Base had the license. The rights holders of the franchise are not the studios, but the producers, and to be more specific, the publisher of the original work (here Kadokawa). Changing the name of the Anime project is always done between seasons, be it by adding a subtitle or the number of the season, in part to be able to change the other producers, which often includes a TV channel, for the broadcast. |
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| Same question will be ask again when another anime remake with same reaction from original anime adaptation. These are examples of their reaction: 1. Pokemon Mew Two Movie Remake. "Why Pokemon remake the movie with same story? It doesn't have the problem of the story and i don't like full of CGI" 2. Fate Remake. "Why Fate remake with same story? Ufotable only good with battle, not story, and i don't like it." 3. Tokyo Mew Mew Remake. "Why Tokyo Mew Mew remake with same story? I prefer old design because look more mature." Of course anime producers want to gain newcomer viewer as newcomer prefer high resolution video than the original one. They also want oldcomer viewer look this version as nostalgic thing that animation technology has improve time to time and the story will adapted as near as LN version than original anime one. For Spice and Wolf, the author wants to commercial Spice and Wolf VR game. |
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| By starting from the beginning, more fans I assume can be gathered with a whole new audience as well as older fans being interested to watch this again. I think a part of what killed hype for Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory when it returned after 13 years is that people who were unfamiliar with it in the past most probably would skip over it, and not everyone who watched the show originally would follow it after such a long gap. Spice and Wolf is a more prominent series but by doing this, you can get a much wider fanbase and more people will be on the same page, whether in Japan or elsewhere. Plus the original anime skipped a volume, and some differences are there with characters (some being excluded and replaced in the anime version) so this season will be similar in the short term but I think the decision will pay off in the long-term if the adaptation quality can be good for the other seasons as well. |
| All these replies answer very completely to the OP question. YES, the original two seasons, as standalone are something, and even when compared they are certainly decent adaptations in many key areas, but they do lack some fundamentals that you only can understand, the further you read the source material, which I have not gotten there myself (since I have delayed finishing the OG books, for many years now, not because they suck, but rather I wanted to leave them to a time it felt right and I wanted to finish something amazing). Undoubtedly the biggest reason for whoever was in charge of greenlighting this and making the creative decisions was simplely, for a wider audience it is more easily marketable a remake than an S3, that is what influenced it the most, IMO, not the fact they were missing key stuff (if it was that, I believe they would rather just find a lazy way of adding it in). What helps the fans take this well is that it seems that S1 will cover the OG S1 and S2, to a certain degree, with 25eps, but also the quality of the adaptation so far doesn't leave much desiring, we are eating GOOD. So do fed me more Holo~~ |
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rohan121 said: Likely since the 1st 2 seasons are so old now that a reboot was considered wiser than a s3. Aha...Wiser, I See What U Did There  |
| Clearly makes more sense to reboot it, hopefully they're planning on seeing it through. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
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