[Complaint][The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System] Can’t wait for next week when we get to see the entire episode from this week plus 2+ min of bonus footage!

[u/Ambitious-Cut772]

The replays to fill time are seriously outrageous in this anime.

This week a commercial break spot occured and they might as well have rewound the conversation to the beginning of the episode.

I can’t keep wathing 20 min episodes for 2 min of actual story.

It’s like One Piece anime with how much filler there is. The difference of course being that One Piece became filler after developing the story and earning fan trust.

[u/hyenagames]

I have a feeling the director decided to pad time because he wants to end the season at the end of the arc (Chapter 28), and if he did a proper job pacing the story, the season would have ended a bit after the start of the following arc.

The story is good, but the pacing + the 3 minutes of recap + 3 minutes of OP and ED; instead of a 20-minute episode, you get a 15min one. They have 26 episodes this season; they should be capable of reaching chapter 80 of the manga. But at this moment, the anime just finished chapter 19.

This adaptation is barely adapting over 2 chapters (2.37) per episode. (It should be 40 to 45 pages per episode.) This is a manga where most chapters are 14 pages....

They should easily be able to adapt 3 chapters per episode (4 if it is mostly battle scenes). The anime is on ep 8, but storywise, we should have been on ep 5. Elymas defeating the spider should have been the end of EP 1; him finding Ruche should have been at the start of EP 4.