I’m pretty sure that’s just a false rumor people use to defend AB’s credibility and explain the massive cuts. IIRC it was planned as a 13 episode anime with extra content in the form of drama CDs and Manga. It just wasn’t planned very well.
So you are saying that if AB was planned for 13 episodes, it’d be “not probably very amazing at all” in contrast to the butchered story we did get? I don’t see how it could have been worse really… I mean, at least we would have got a coherent story, instead of getting fragments of one.
You can only use this argument with 24-26 episode anime. Saying a butchered 13 episode anime could have worked as a non-butchered 13 episode anime makes no sense from a debate standpoint…
Of course, that’s how I guess it’ll end up. An episode or two dedicated to a problem, a main character develops through it. Follow it with another arc and another arc, and then around episode 10 it’ll go full main story mode.
That’s how most VN-inspired anime end up, and it’s pretty much a spin-off of the formula Key pioneered.
