Eleven episodes will definitely suffice with the amount of content in Moon and Terra, but I reckon that it will be a bit tight, especially from a VN reader’s standpoint. So I thought about how the series composition will go about for this season.
Spoiler-tagged are VN spoilers
- The first two episode will be dedicated on Kotarou’s backstory. I was thinking how the anime will be able to show that Terra’s story branches off from the scene where Kotarou spots a newborn Kagari, and I thought that separating this from the rest of the story is the safest and least confusing way to go about it. (
Of course it’s entirely possible to get this point across without doing this.)
Since this is the beginning of the season, giving this part two episodes will allow the anime to have a sense of narrative early on, but may feel a little rushed for VN fans. I personally think that two episodes can already efficiently tell this story, as this has already been partly told in the anime. - Episodes 3 up to 6 or 7 will be Moon Arc. I still honestly don’t know how they’re going to go about adapting Moon’s unique storytelling at its first half. Meanwhile, the latter half (starting from Kotarou’s reunion with his friends) is fairly straightforward and easy to express on TV, and can be done within two and a half episodes.
- Episodes 8 to 11 will be Terra. The challenge will be how the story can give away that Kotarou’s decisions were forced on him via information passed on to him from the Moon.
(As a bit of a reference on the series’ potential pace, Tanaka once described Terra Arc to be at the length of two light novels.)
