> watch Gunsmith Cats for the first time> see girls with guns> it's funny as fuck> absolute peak anime> discover it's only 3 episodes long> literal crime against humanityWhy did they stop here?
I don't know why you're complaining. Riding Bean was the way cooler OVA and it only got one episode. You should be grateful.
>>288907525It's the problem with every OVA that came out pre-2000's. You get 2-4 episodes, and that's it.
The manga kinda craps itself. I always wanted a Bones adaptation so they could pull a lolbones end on me and it would improve the thing.
>>288907786>>288907834Fr I've watched a lot of peak pre-2000s anime and for some reason most of them are under 5 episodes
>>288908137Sometimes that's all you really need
>>288907840You only say that because you don't like your "waifu" kissing a girl.
>>288907525Isn't the woman on the left completely different in the actual manga and a recurring antagonist?
>>288908339Nah Burst is legit trash. Sonoda has always resented that Rally is so much more popular than his self-insert. Burst is just his butthurt.
>>288909345She's also married to me
>>288907786*1.5 episodes
>>288909345No you fucking casual it's becky
>>288907525short and sweet lets it make the best impression on you before dragging on and it let them maximize their budget. It sucks that they are short but the goal is to have the audience hungry for more and sell more manga and id rather this than neverending slop.
>>288908137Anime back in the day was usually more explicitly used as an advertisement for the manga, on top things generally being slower-paced, more cheaply-produced and less popular.That's why shows would generally run a broader gamut of scopes. You'd see 150+ episode behemoths that were basically cheaply-produced advertisements for already-popular manga. Or you'd see higher-budget more focused direct-to-video adaptions that were basically advertisements for less-popular or shorter series (usually in the case of the latter it's more like repurposing an IP than an outright advertisement). Gunsmith Cats, Black Magic M-66, Blue Submarine No. 6, and so-on fall into this category.I think sometimes they're also just failed pilot episodes that get retooled into something else, like bonus material bundled in with manga to drive sales.Nowadays everything's more rigidly defined. You either have>12-24 episode seasonal anime>90-120 minute movies>short-form ONAs (usually for shows that are decently popular but too outsider for studios to take a full gamble on)Then you have weird outliers like the shows for ACTUAL children (Oshiri Tantei, PriPara, Gegege No Kitarou, etc.) that still get huge adaptions approved off-the-cuff somehow.
>>288907525At least your adaptation has one more episode than mine
>>288907840>villain gets forgivenAside the art, that contrast between the ova and manga must be studied
