Man, it’s taking a while to travel to Onigashima. The manga chapters here flew by comparison. I’m back and forth on my excitement for the war part of this arc. On one hand, we know they’ll feed us with great animation here and there. On the other hand, half-a-chapter episodes really only work well when they have a good bit of dialogue and smart implied filler. I don’t see that happening here. The war chapters are mostly action, which is adapted too quickly, and there arent as much opportunities for implied filler. The “implied” filler here is mostly additional fighting.
My obvious prediction here: we’re going to see a lot of filler lackey fights every episode.
Probably ~75% of this arc has been decently paced because of the high amount of dialogue and plot in this arc. That’s about to drop away a bit.