Rewrite - General Discussion

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#149

Mmh, I don’t think Harvest festa! really worth a season. That’s because (Rewrite Hf! spoiler) most of the routes in Hf! are AU and I feel like they’re just jokes. Kotori’s and Chihaya’s route is worth for an episode each, I guess. But Akane’s route and Shizuru’s route, I really can’t take them seriously. Lucia’s in the other hand, was okay but unnecessary.(end of spoiler)
They might do for DVD/BD specials like LB!EX though.

Both LB! and Rewrite are quite hard to adapt as anime because of the nature of the storyline, but with skilled writer and awesome budget they’ll do well. I think.

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#150

well it was there for a joke. Haha
I haven’t even read HF.
Coz from what I heard, it’s kinda like After story, if not alternate story.

#151

Just wait until the translation is complete, then you’ll understand…

#152

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#153

How come there’s not a Kagari topic ? I guess she was in Moon and Terra, but she should still get her own character discussion.

#154

That’s an interesting point… Normally, you’d treat Moon and/or Terra as her character topic, but they’re not exactly character routes. So it’d make sense for us to have a Kagari character topic…

Only, things get really weird with Kagari. (Terra) Considering she’s actually two identical twins with the same name…

Nonetheless, we could definitely put up a Kagari topic, and have people incorporate those complications into the discussion.

EDIT: Got one up! Rewrite - Kagari Character Discussion Beware of spoilers if you haven’t finished Rewrite.

#155

I dunno if this is the right place for this, but about how long is Rewrite? VNDB says it’s over 50 hours, but that’s a huge window. I know it can vary based on play style, so for reference, Clannad took me about 90-100 hours, Little Busters took 65-70 hours and Tomoyo After took me about 12. All of those were with walkthroughs

#156

IIRC it’s about 98 hours on auto mode, so probably around 60/70 hours to read normally.

#157

For an anime adaption. Couldn’t they just do the “Saya” approach that J.C. Staff did ? In Saya’s route in Little Busters!, (Saya’s route spoiler) I think it was episode 3’s ending, where Saya and Riki got to the end, then Saya went on to battle the Exucutives of Darkness’s boss aka Kyousuke. Then after that, she died, and we saw a title screen of a game, with the words “Game Over” and with the choices of “Quit” and “Replay” then she chose replay, narrating that she’s probably died more than 100 times. Then when she replayed, everything was reset (obviously), and we saw a new direction for her route. A direction that we’ve already seen, but a direction where thing things have been resetted.

Other than that, you can just add in some anime-original to the end of each route showing Kagari doing something. Obviously everyone will know what Kagari’s end scene during the end of each route foreshadowed.

I’d say
7-10 episodes for the Common route (since everything gets darker after that) so you might as well enjoy the 7-10 episodes of the days where everything was all fun and lollipop.

Kotori Route - 5 episodes
Lucia Route - 5 episodes
Chihaya Route - 5 episodes
That’s season 1, which is about 22-25 episodes.

Season 2 would start off with either Shizuru or Akane.
Shizuru would have 6 episodes
Akane would have 7 episodes
Moon would have 5 episodes
Terra would have 7 episodes

That’s around 25 episodes for a second season.
It would make sense that Rewrite would need a third season for a proper anime adaption, considering Little Busters! was shorter than CLANNAD, and CLANNAD is shorter than Rewrite. LB got 3 courses (EX not included). CLANNAD got 4 courses. So it would make sense if Rewrite got a third season (and yes, I understand anime adaptions aren’t perfect). Oh well. Most anime adaptions never get a third season, even if they are popular or not.

Then for OVA’s, I guess for the second season, they could do the Harvest Festa Route for Kagari.
For the first season, they could either do 1 OVA each for the Harvest Festa routes, 1 per girl, or they can just do OVA’s about the common route, since that’s what animation companies normally do.

#158

It’s been a while since I’ve played Rewrite but isn’t Moon like 2 hours? Even if it’s longer I know it’s not the same as Kotori, Lucia and Chihaya. Also is Akane the longest? For some reason I remember Chihaya taking the longest for me.

How long is that? Could it fit into one episode?
Also Oppai Route OVA or riot.

#159

Moon was like 4 hours, for me at least. And it’s just an average amount. It could be 1, it could be 10. Doesn’t really matter. I just said 5, if the animation company was gonna drag on the fights in moon.

I don’t remember much about the timings. But like I said, it’s just an average number. Akane’s route just felt like the longest to me personally.

And also, for OVA’s, it doesn’t have to just fit into 1. A lot of animation companies do OVA’s of character routes that didn’t fit in the anime. Like EX for Little Busters! which had Saya, Kanata, and Sasami. And Idunno how long her route is, all I know is that she has one in Harvest Festa. According to the translation team, saying which routes were translated and which routes needed to be translated.

Oppai Route. If the animation studio wants to. I mean, it’s likely, since it’s part of the game.

#160

That’s a very themed approach though. I still think the “follow the blueprints” approach is best.

I don’t think it would. It’d probably be too dragged out. 24-52 episodes would be best imo.

The OVAs could be the friend collecting scenes, the various expeditions, or the spin-off endings.

A lot of it could be shortened. Not much actually happens in it.

If we go by auto-play times, these are the rough route times, rounded to the nearest hour:

Moon - 5
Kotori - 10
Chihaya - 11
Shizuru - 12
Akane - 13
Terra - 14
Lucia - 18

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#161

Wow Lucia is the longest? I thought her route was one of the shortest. I guess it’s because route is so different it’s hard to compare when just reading.

#162

Did it start at a different time? I know one of the routes did.
It also had an extra drama plot over the other routes, and the ending was dragged out for a couple hours longer than it needed to.

#163

Yeah I can’t remember when but it split off before (end of common) leaf dragon in the forest where the rest were. I also forgot it add more conflicts than the rest, I only remembered (Lucia) her and Kotarou dating and fighting not her previous name .

#164

Where did you get those numbers Taka? I’m certain Akane was much longer than Lucia.

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#165

iirc they were the length of some YT footage of all the routes played on auto-mode. Akane’s is actually closer to 12 1/2 hours.
As a reminder, all of this happens in Lucia’s route:

The first 8 hours of Lucia’s route is the Asahi stuff, there’s 3 hours of slice of life stuff, followed by the date scene. Then 4 hours, including the Shizuru drama, the hospital move, the dog hunts, Lucia backstory, Brenda shows up - hospital move 2, Guardian insight, back to school, Guardian find out about Brenda’s plans, Kotarou and Lucia date, attack on Brenda, Lucia goes loopy, Kotarou rewrites himself, Chihaya shows up, Guardian show up, Guardian vs Gaia and creating a plan and arguing morals. The last 2 1/2 hours are made up of the fighting at the mall, and finding a long term solution for Kotarou and Lucia.

#166

I know I’m a bit late here, but the following is pulled directly from an auto-play playthrough I did for a friend back when Rewrite first came out.

(Spoilers in Titles)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JyJwQhMDOuncO4ooB0HYhVz3FVhokMMU9XZD-5it5ws/edit#gid=0

Which ultimately led to the following:

This factors in the Common Portions of the character’s routes (using auto-skip read text), but it’s still going to be pretty close.

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#167

I’ll put a spoiler warning anyway in case people didn’t read the topic title.

One of the biggest problems with rewrite is the multiple worlds theory/different timelines that would make it difficult for an anime to be coherent and understandable. In addition, the visual novel is very, very, very long.

In order for the anime to succeed, it must be two seasons with 23 episodes each, much like Clannad. I would propose the following outline:

Season 1: The heroines

Episode 1-2: Beginning of moon arc. I think this is a good way to introduce some mystery and suspense. Episode 2 should finish off with Kotarou being able to understand what Kagari is writing down, and this is a good segway into the common route.

Episode 3-5: Common route.

Episode 6-8: Kotori’s arc.

Episode 9: Should return to the moon arc, where Kotarou begins examining more timelines:

Episode 9-11: Chihaya’s arc.

Episode 12: Should return to moon arc once again, where the moon arc advances further and Kotarou examines more timelines…you should get the picture now so I’ll omit saying this again.

Episode 12-14: Lucia’s arc

Episode 15-17: Shizuru’s arc

Episode 18-20: Akane’s arc

Episode 21-23: Finish off moon arc, setup for terra

Season 2: Terra

Maybe this should only be 13 episodes, but Terra is pretty fucking long, epic, and amazing. Still working this out…

#168

I agree that it should have 2 seasons with around 24 episodes each. But I think @Kotarou’s theory is better. Common Route need’s way more than 3 episodes. So split the arc’s in season 1 and the first half of season 2 to and finish with Terra in the second half of season 2. I really hope they will show every timeline and explain it with the moon route and don’t try to do butcher it to one timeline.