@Ike79:
I don't know, only two chapters for the second part of Judgement seems like too little. They'll probably include the first chapters of High Priestess, because it's basically the aftermath of the battle (them getting the submarine and all that). Ep. 23 would adapt the rest of the fight, that is not long enough to warrant two episodes. As a result, using all of episode 24 to present Iggy would be really slow, and not a really good season closer.
Now we've been saying that they'll stop after ep.24 because the announced BRs stop at 24. But that only tells us that we're getting at least 24 episodes. The possibility of a 25th episode exists until we know which series is replacing Jojo in its timeslot.
The 6th BR (eps 21-24) will be released in December, but they could be saving ep 25 for the 7th, along with the first three of the second run.
So yeah, for now I'll cling two my hope of N'Dour being adapted before the break.
I would have agreed with you until they adapted The Sun into a full episode. I think Judgement will be a straight up adaptation of the 5 chapters. Maybe 2.5 chapters each episode then, with 176 split between the two of them.
I mean, this is a breakdown of exactly how they adapted the first 5 episodes of the series:
Episode 1 - 3.7 Chapters 114, 115, 116, & First 14 Pages of 117
Episode 2 - 2.6 Chapters (Rest of 117, 118, 119, First 5 pages of 120)
Epsiode 3 - 2.5 Chapters (Rest of 120, 121, First 14 Pages of 122)
Episode 4 - 2.3 Chapters (Last 6 Pages of 122, 123 & 124)
Episode 5 - 2.6 Chapters (125, 126, First 12 Pages of 127)
So it's not exactly outside the realm of possibility for them to stretch 5 Chapters of content (such as Judgement) into two episodes. Adapting more than 4 chapters into a single episode is something they've literally never done (I just checked) the highest chapter to episode ratio is in Emperor and the Hanged Man Part 2.
The only way it would be possible for them to fit the entire N'Doul fight into this season-end would be to A: Include episode 25 before the break or B: make Judgement only one episode. Right off the bat, I don't see A happening. I doubt they'd end the first wave of Blu-rays on a massive cliffhanger in the middle of the Geb fight.
B… is POSSIBLE... As I said, Emperor and the Hanged Man Part 2 adapted 4 chapters. It actually included the first chapter of Empress and ended on the cliffhanger of "What's that thing on Joseph's arm!?" meaning Death 13 Part 2 could do the same and end with
! meeting "Avdol's Father" and ending on the cliffhanger of Polnareff finding the lamp.
That means with Judgement as episode 21, High Priestess would be episode 22 freeing up episodes 23 and 24 to be "Iggy the Fool and N'Doul the Geb" ending right on Jotaro and Iggy's bonding moment at the end of that fight with Jotaro reflecting on the 9 Egyptian Gods being the rest of the stands and the long Journey still ahead of them.
So yeah, that's totally doable now that I think about it. We'll see how they adapt Death 13 Part 2. I think that's key. If they include the first chapter Judgement there and the NEP shows episode 21 doesn't have a "Part 1" attached to the title, we're solid for getting the Geb fight before the break. Otherwise, nope.