Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.33.230.229-20150327050225/@comment-26653902-20151228212324

12 episodes would have been enough for a faithful adaptation up to Aogiri if only they didn't waste time on certain scenes.

What really ticked me off was Ishida's drafts as released in the anime book would have been basically the manga's last half except with Kaneki in Aogiri (i.e. actually an alternate route). Most of it probably could have been fit into the last 12 episodes. But instead, Pierrot scrapped practically the whole thing and only kept the scenes that depended on the stuff they cut out (e.g. the rooftop scene, which is very out of the blue without all of Tsukiyama's character development). Worst part was that in an interview for season 1, the director doesn't see Tsukiyama as anything other than "pervy" (and spent practically the whole thing saying how pervy Shuu is) and had him written that way. Even had the nerve to criticize Ishida's pacing in the manga.

Yeah, Pierrot's handling of the anime is a disaster in my opinion. The only good they accomplished was getting the manga more well-known and popular outside Japan, but that's it. :\