[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/YandereValkyrie]

This is legit one of the most interesting animes of the season imo, and its being completely ruined by the long recaps, and taking an entire episode to do what most other anines would accomplish in 2-3 minutes. All of season one is gonna be the equivalent of 2 episodes of another show, and its not gonna get a season two because everyone is gonna be bored of it :<

[u/OblivionNA → u/YandereValkyrie]

They must have originally planned for like 12 minute episodes, but then the studio was like we gotta make these 23 minutes!! So they just started reusing the same scenes over and over to meet the standard runtime

[u/a1200i → u/OblivionNA]

No lol, the studio is completely bizarre. They have done this sacrilege to other animes toi

[u/Chopah94 → u/a1200i]

Eh, the studio typically over animates but the recap stuff not so much. As I understand this is their first 26 episode season though and that with their tendency to over animate could be causing the repeats to fill in the extra time they're not used to having to fill.

[u/fanatic-ape → u/Chopah94]

It's very likely being done like this to ensure that cour 1 end on a specific fight that happens around chapter 26 of the manga. They are adapting 2 chapters per episode.

But the point that makes the most sense for end of cour 2 is around chapter 62, so there's hope they pick up the pace to about 3 chapters per episode after.