It seems that Firefighter Daigo has very long recaps of previous series. Could it be excused?
The second episode of Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange (Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange) has over a minute of recaps before the opening, and at the third minute, when the opening ends, it proceeds to recap some more, more or less literally repeating the last couple minutes of the previous episode. That totals up to six minutes before new animation begins.
With the ending included, it is more than five minutes of filler; with two minutes of ending and future episode description, a total of 8 minutes of filler is added for a nearly 24-minute episode. In other words, one-third of Episode 2 is filler.
That sounds almost ridiculous, and it does make one wonder how the production is doing. Do they have to introduce so much filler because of some issue in production? That would only spell trouble. An alternative, of course, is just that they have planned all their 24-minute episodes to have 8 filler minutes, in which case nothing is wrong with the production, and the decision is probably helping with the deadlines.
In that situation, one cannot help but wonder if making one-third of the episode a filler is a wise decision. It is not a bad idea to recap some information from the previous episode, especially in a series like Firefighter Daigo; after all, people could use a refresher as they probably do not remember everything from the previous episode. Some important plot points deserve to be repeated.
That said, the practice of proceeding with a full recap after the opening is a little unorthodox. After the opening, the anime picks up the last two minutes of the previous episode and inserts them, unchanged, into the story. That does not seem to be a wise decision.
One can also argue that the episode had to be drawn out so that it ends on a cliffhanger. In a way, it does end in a tense situation; Shun, in particular, is in some danger. However, it is hardly an excuse for filler; rather, it might have been better to sacrifice the cliffhanger and have the team out of the burning building by the end of the episode. That would have felt more satisfying, too; at the very least, nobody would be in danger.
Overall, 8 minutes of filler is objectively too much, and no cliffhanger is worth that. Let us hope that Firefighter Daigo is not going to use that tactic in every episode.
It seems that Firefighter Daigo has very long recaps of previous series. Could it be excused?
The second episode of Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange (Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange) has over a minute of recaps before the opening, and at the third minute, when the opening ends, it proceeds to recap some more, more or less literally repeating the last couple minutes of the previous episode. That totals up to six minutes before new animation begins.
With the ending included, it is more than five minutes of filler; with two minutes of ending and future episode description, a total of 8 minutes of filler is added for a nearly 24-minute episode. In other words, one-third of Episode 2 is filler.
That sounds almost ridiculous, and it does make one wonder how the production is doing. Do they have to introduce so much filler because of some issue in production? That would only spell trouble. An alternative, of course, is just that they have planned all their 24-minute episodes to have 8 filler minutes, in which case nothing is wrong with the production, and the decision is probably helping with the deadlines.
In that situation, one cannot help but wonder if making one-third of the episode a filler is a wise decision. It is not a bad idea to recap some information from the previous episode, especially in a series like Firefighter Daigo; after all, people could use a refresher as they probably do not remember everything from the previous episode. Some important plot points deserve to be repeated.
That said, the practice of proceeding with a full recap after the opening is a little unorthodox. After the opening, the anime picks up the last two minutes of the previous episode and inserts them, unchanged, into the story. That does not seem to be a wise decision.
One can also argue that the episode had to be drawn out so that it ends on a cliffhanger. In a way, it does end in a tense situation; Shun, in particular, is in some danger. However, it is hardly an excuse for filler; rather, it might have been better to sacrifice the cliffhanger and have the team out of the burning building by the end of the episode. That would have felt more satisfying, too; at the very least, nobody would be in danger.
Overall, 8 minutes of filler is objectively too much, and no cliffhanger is worth that. Let us hope that Firefighter Daigo is not going to use that tactic in every episode.
