Disaster Report: Dramatical Murder
Adapting visual novels to animation is not an easy task. There have been dozens of shows over the years that have tried their hands at it and the results have been decidedly mixed. How do you condense hours upon hours of story and multiple romantic (if not outright sexual) routes into something comprehensible, suitable for television, and able to comfortably fit into one or two seasons’ worth of half-hour installments? I don’t know if anyone will ever come up with a perfect formula for adapting visual novels to television, but there are plenty of examples of how NOT to do it. One of the more recent examples is 2014’s DRAMAtical Murder . Don’t recall it? I don’t blame you. The summer of 2014 was one that was loaded with many big name shows that are still worth remembering: Tokyo Ghoul , Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun , Barakamon , Terror In Resonance , just to name a few. That’s not even counting the sequels and second seasons to shows like Space Dandy ,...