Suggestions for the Series

Did they meet in the Spark manga? I can't remember them doing so in that either.


At the very least, the anime might be loosely connected to Spark, given how the anime has an episode re-telling the events of Spark in the form of a flashback. Either that, or they simply chose to replicate the events of Spark for the anime, and keep it contained in its own timeline that's not connected to the games.

You should put this in a spoiler tag.

And another suggestion: Making another anime series. This time trying a bit harder to introduce newcomers to the series since I don't see the existing anime doing this job done good enough. I only recomend the anime and other adaptions after playing Burst.

I don't think lt iS two timelines just one is work and one happen when they were off or out of work. SK2 is the last real work they had.

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the time line is missing portrait and SK2 replaced bust. basicly just put SK2 where burst is since it retacons that story like bust did to portrait.

While I'm not the one who would say whoever did EV's OVA "sucked balls" I have to agree Artland did a lot better job.

And Artland have more experience too since they worked with Senran Kagura since the very first opening of the very first game if I'm not wrong and because of that they are a lot more capable of capturing the franchise's essence than the new studio.

But for some moe and fanservice specials like the OVA the new guys do a good job at least. Despite the OVA having "cheap fanservice" it was kind of fun to watch.

Thanks for the overal feedback I am glad I could contribute the the discussion.

I haven't played Deep Crimson yet, but from my understanding the game doesn't replace the previous game, no? Doesn't it merely retcon some aspects of the story? If that is the case, then it really is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

Also, the reason PoG isn't listed is because it is incorporated into Burst and I thought it would be redundant to list both of them initially.
The point of the timeline was not to list off all of the games, but to show a seamless connection of the overarching narrative of the games continuity. 

As for the timeline split, I guess we will just have to wait for SK2 to be released in august, won't we? 
If the ending and overall narrative is as drastically different as implied, there will be no further reason to doubt whether it is a different universe anymore. Although I already fail to see how anyone can still doubt it at this point in time, but I digress.


Still, it is pretty odd to me that we are only learning of this now. For all intents and purposes, this information has been available for over half a year now in Japan. This "news" isn't really "news". We have just been in the dark this entire time. It's weird for me to think that it took another game in a different series that just released in Japan before we learn anything of the story in DC, especially if this timeline split turns out to be the truth.

On a different note, has anyone suggested something along the lines of an RPG like the FireEmblemXShinMegamiTensei game that they have going on? How about a straight up SRPG like FireEmblem itself?
I personally think the latter actually lends itself to the series quite well, especially considering that we are dealing with ninjas here.
The series has been pretty neglectful of this in recent games, to be honest . A girl with a bucket is a ninja now ?

As for the NW girls, I am personally of the opinion that they are better left to obscurity.
We already know how simply expanding the roster of girls can have detrimental effects on the game and ,imo, doing so indefinitely would undoubtedly lead to the series' death by over saturation.
If anything, the better move would be to use them as NPC's in hub rooms or the like in future titles. Give them interesting dialog and call it a day. AT most, they could make them playable in multiplayer only, similar to that one TeenTitans game on the GameCube.  We really, and I mean really, don't need them to become part of the cast.  It would only accentuate the series' repetitive nature.

Woah, that turned out alot longer than I thought it would.
Um...Thanks for reading. xD

 EDIT: somehow my bit about another anime didn't make it into my post. :x

Basically, I said that it would make more sense for the next season to follow more closely to SK2 because of how the first saeson ended, even if it seems less likely do to the subseries doing so well. I said that the OVA was not inherently bad, but I prefer the Artland art style more for the series because the OVA contrasts with everything way to much. Also, back to teasing please.  :dance:We don't need the series to jump the shark just yet. 

If there's a potential problem regarding the amount of characters an SV adaptation would have to work with, expanding the anime's length for more than just 12 episodes (maybe 24?) may be able to address that, since there can be more time and leeway to focus on many of them. Of course, that's assuming they'd even be able to make an SK anime of that length.

As for an SK2 adaptation, I'd probably be fine with that too, especially since I'm currently not really interested in getting a 3DS.