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Second seasons to shows like Space Dandy, Sword Art Online, and Free! It wasn’tĮven the only boys’ love series airing at the time, as the genuinely delightful Girls’ Nozaki-kun, Barakamon, Terror In Resonance, just to name a few. Many big name shows that are still worth remembering: Tokyo Ghoul, Monthly The summer of 2014 was one that was loaded with One of the more recent examples is 2014’s DRAMAtical Murder. Into something comprehensible, suitable for television, and able to comfortablyįit into one or two seasons’ worth of half-hour installments? I don’t know if anyone will ever come up withĪ perfect formula for adapting visual novels to television, but there are Hours upon hours of story and multiple romantic (if not outright sexual) routes Over the years that have tried their hands at it and the results have been Adapting visual novels to animation is not an easy
