It doesn’t matter what format Crystal is in. Movie, TV show, ONA, etc. The actual adaptation aspect of it will always suffer by copying the manga frame by frame without thought. Anime and manga are two different mediums.
It’s like someone mentioned before, there’s no mandate that Crystal had to be locked into a 1:1 adaptation. Was the Rental Shop Dark plotline actually THAT important in the manga? Were manga fans really going to go on strike if it was replaced by something better?
I will say though: a movie format would theoretically work because it’s a lot harder to copy the manga frame by frame. Whereas before they could take a very simple and barebones manga act (such a Episode 7) and pad it to last an entire 22 minutes, there’s not as many shortcuts they can take to fill up more than an hour.
The issue becomes what will be cut out and whether they can actually format the movie to have a decent rising action and climax when the first half of the manga is episodic. I have minimal faith until they fire the current screenwriter.
It’s like someone mentioned before, there’s no mandate that Crystal had to be locked into a 1:1 adaptation. Was the Rental Shop Dark plotline actually THAT important in the manga? Were manga fans really going to go on strike if it was replaced by something better?
I think the movie format will prove to be horrible idea. They need more time to work with, not less.
The issue becomes what will be cut out and whether they can actually format the movie to have a decent rising action and climax when the first half of the manga is episodic. I have minimal faith until they fire the current screenwriter.