Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

[shinta|hikari]

A lot of people, not only me, felt that Grimgar was slow while it was airing. And I actually enjoy SoL shows.

What makes Grimgar different from other shows in terms of the musical scenes is the density. Other shows have what, 1 or 2 in an entire cour. Grimgar had double that.

The musical scenes are unnecessary because most of them don't give any new content. They just emphasize or reiterate what we already know. For example, Manato is dead. Yeah it's tragic. Then we get a minute or more of musical moping after that.

It's not only the musical scenes. There are a lot of "nothing happening with no dialog panning shots" in the series. The biggest culprit being the snow scene with Haru and Mary. They stretched that scene out to 5x the length it should be.

I'd caution against using the word objectively false. A lot of nonsense has been justified by that. What is objectively true is that all our posts are opinions of a certain aspect of this show, making them subjective.

I personally value concise and effective delivery over "artful" renditions, and I honestly believe the reason we had so many lull moments in the series is because the best stopping point was the 2nd volume. That meant they had 12 episodes to use up for 2 volumes of content. That requires a bit of stretching.

EDIT:
I read around online and saw that the opinions are split in half about the pace and musical scenes. I guess people, like the two of us, simply have different preferences in pacing and delivery.