From the Bookshelf: 86 [Eighty-Six] 2
May. 7th, 2022 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerReassured reading the first translated volume of Eighty-Six I might not be “plodding” through an already-accumulated stack of later instalments, all the same I didn’t start rushing down that pile. Perhaps a bit more confident about the readability of “light novel” translations from J-Novel Club over Yen On, I went on to the second instalment of Otherside Picnic and read a bit past where its anime adaptation had left off (an adaptation somewhat less impressive than Eighty-Six’s). With that taken care of, I picked up the second volume of Eighty-Six, to the best of my understanding going into it still all material adapted.
Having seen the adaptation first, where the apparent cliffhanger of its first part had had me take a chance on watching its second part without waiting for every episode to be finished and available (which had left me waiting for its very last episodes just like everyone else), I’d been surprised the first volume of the novels had resolved things. That made the second volume conclusively a matter of “filling in a gap,” and I did take some note of it beginning with a demonstration the surviving pilots of the original story were fighting on a new front in an expanded and less weighty world before it flashed back to their apparent suicide mission and just how they’d survived it. That had involved something that might only have been implied at the end of the adaptation’s first part, which hadn’t been “original content” after all. (Neither had one of the relatively few scenes left on the other side of the original story that had introduced another character.) I was left wondering about one perspective making it “not quite necessary; the character connections through the ghoulish surprise of the original story had been resolved in the first volume” and another bringing up “but maybe it’ll amount to just how the still-ominous odds against humanity will be settled in the end, somewhere way down the line.” Of course, there’s a real risk to “demanding your personal theory also have been thought up by the original author.” In any case the third volume should also be material I’ve seen in the adaptation, and I also didn’t rush on to it.
Having seen the adaptation first, where the apparent cliffhanger of its first part had had me take a chance on watching its second part without waiting for every episode to be finished and available (which had left me waiting for its very last episodes just like everyone else), I’d been surprised the first volume of the novels had resolved things. That made the second volume conclusively a matter of “filling in a gap,” and I did take some note of it beginning with a demonstration the surviving pilots of the original story were fighting on a new front in an expanded and less weighty world before it flashed back to their apparent suicide mission and just how they’d survived it. That had involved something that might only have been implied at the end of the adaptation’s first part, which hadn’t been “original content” after all. (Neither had one of the relatively few scenes left on the other side of the original story that had introduced another character.) I was left wondering about one perspective making it “not quite necessary; the character connections through the ghoulish surprise of the original story had been resolved in the first volume” and another bringing up “but maybe it’ll amount to just how the still-ominous odds against humanity will be settled in the end, somewhere way down the line.” Of course, there’s a real risk to “demanding your personal theory also have been thought up by the original author.” In any case the third volume should also be material I’ve seen in the adaptation, and I also didn’t rush on to it.