The more time I spend with translation as a concept, but across language and across medium, the more sensitive I’ve become to what must change.
I’ll double what most seem to have said here that they did the best they could with the time given. Complaining any more about that is essentially useless at this point as it would be beating a dead horse.
What I would like to complain about, though, and I have a feeling I’m in the minority here, is that basic designs (and the writing of some scenes as well) simply don’t translate well into animated form. Novels are great because the author provides the canvas and the palette, but you paint the picture. Visual novels are similar, albeit with a bit less freedom given to the reader. Anime is the clear opposite, with all power given to the creator and the watcher simply consuming it. I think Rewrite is a perfect example of outlandish ideas losing potency once given more “solid” form. Tertiary examples would be things like the school uniforms and costume/monster designs, most of which I would claim are pretty ridiculous in the original VN. More important examples would be, well, almost every scene adapted, haha. Much more lenience is rightly given a medium that directly depicts less.
Any who, I’m still baffled as to why they are writing their own new route if they’re still adapting all the others.
