Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-27287555-20170501143734/@comment-918376-20171113183255

As with almost all anime adaptions of another material, though, a single-cour season can't tell Log Horizon's story the way it's meant to be read. If a normal single-cour season is around 13 episodes, then it's only covering two volumes and maybe a bit more. If they tried really hard, maybe they could squeeze a third volume in. (I'd rather not have it come to that, though. Heaven knows the directors of season 2 were not good at pacing. Having a filler episode, then condensing an entire volume into one episode? Really?)

In terms of the LH story's pacing, two volumes amounts to getting trapped in the new world and then ending with Shiroe creating the Round Table Alliance. Three volumes would be like covering the Akiba Raid, Abyssal Shaft raid, and the kids' arc in 13 episodes. It's either too much happening, or too little. I'd rather have them wait on material and then do another proper 5-volume, 2-cour adaption. Season 2's problems came with them only having two volumes' worth of material when they started production.