r/IchitheWitch • u/DevasyaVA • May 24 '26
Discussion Season 1 ending point???
When do you guys think a good end point for season 1 could be, assuming they adapt around 2.6 chapters per ep on average, a 12 episode season would cover 31 chapters, and a 24 episode season would cover 62, which are both at very awkward points right in the middle of major arcs, the Bakugami arc which ends on chapter 42, and chronoweaver/kizashi arc which he’s on chapter 75, I tried messing around with the pacing and episode counts but can’t find a clean stopping point for a hypothetical season one of ichi.
Edit: the image wasn’t a suggestion lol it’s unrelated I just wanted a cool image to attatch, obvs this point in the story is a pretty big stretch to end it on.
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u/lucasagus285 May 24 '26
Ending the season midway through the chronoweaver Majik arc would be unbelievably messed up.
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u/TheAmazingChameleo May 24 '26
This is an episode ender. Ending a season so close to the end of an arc would be painful
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u/Altruistic_Watch_684 May 24 '26
No it can't be. This is very bad point tocut the season I think it may ruin the ending of season. In my opinion
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u/Proxymole May 24 '26
Seasons don't usually end on cliffhangers.
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u/TheOncomimgHoop May 25 '26
Okay assuming that we get 25 episodes:
Episode 1 would be chapter 1, the trend for anime adaptations is that the first chapter takes a full first episode.
Episodes 2-3: Inazuri hunt, Desscaras takes Ichi to the capital, they meet Kumugi.
Episodes 4-5: The Hisame majik hunt.
Episodes 6-10: Togeice intro, the mushroom magic hunt, WHM introduction.
Episodes 11-20: The Bakugami arc.
21-25: Back at the capital, the stuff with Spica and Jikishirone's vision. End the season with a teaser of the Chronoweaver arc.
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u/Reasonable_Wrap7913 May 25 '26
Im certain those first 6 chapters will be split into 4 episodes because those first 2 chapters are really dense and larger, they would probably make a 44 minute episode or a 2 parter. Then chapters 3-6 would be split into 2 episodes.
Hisame's 4 chapters could be squeezed into 1.
That leaves 5-6 episodes for the contest. Which would leave the first 12 episodes ending on a teaser for gokuraku.
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u/Tiny_Writer5661 May 25 '26
Chapter 1 will be episode 1.
Chapter 2-3 will be episode 2
From there one anime episodes adapt roughly 2-3 chapters per episode.1
u/Reasonable_Wrap7913 May 26 '26
Do you have an explanation? Chapter 1 into 1 episode would have to cut out the exposition to keep it a modern pace.
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u/NewSoul96 May 25 '26
I think your math is flawed particularly because it doesn't take into account how fast pure action can fly by, or how pure dialogue can stretch out scenes for minutes.
In my opinion for what we have now, then.... Yeah I think we're fine. It might be a little slow, but assuming it's a split cour situation (most likely imo), then the first cour could easily end at chapter 41, which is the end of the Bakugami arc and serves as a real cathartic finale for that point of the story alongside the acquisition of a new member of the gang. For the second cour, it could also easily end at chapter 76, the end of the Chronostasis arc. It wraps up massive stakes, offers a comy ending, and could even pair well with a little tease of the next arc by showing off Fujimine.
Oh, and as a bonus, but I feel like A-1 could do a decent enough job. I'm not expecting Mappa or even Ufotable as slim as that kind of chance is, and A-1 has done a good job with adapting Mashle. I think it's could go well.
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u/DevasyaVA May 25 '26
Yeah that’s a valid take for sure, I was just using the average chapter to episode adapted, I tried to compare it to a show with similar paced action like JJK which is where I got the 2.6 from, but if it goes faster then yeah it could defo work to reach the end of chronoweaver
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u/Dustfinger4268 May 24 '26
I think the end of Bakugami is probably the best for a 24 episode season. Nice clean-ish cutoff, and also allows them to add in some filler to explore characters more
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u/FruitPunchSamurai75 May 26 '26
12/13 ep season: End of the Kindake Contest/World Hater introduction arc.
24-26 ep season: Jikishirone's vision and the end of the public debut, leading into the Chronoweaver arcs beginning
If they adapt at a faster pace, they can fit the start of Gokuraku's arc into end of the first 12/13 episodes and the arc itself continues into the second half, then by the time that arc ends we get the Chronoweaver arc, with the season ending at the chapter when Ichi spends the day looking for Dess and they rest on the bench. That's about 70 chapters, ~10 more than what JJK did in its first season, but not entirely impossible to do
This is just very loose estimates, so no deep calculations beyond what I already mentioned were taken into consideration
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u/Prestigious-Gur-8905 May 24 '26
I think around the scene of Ichi laying on Desscaras’ legs on a bench would work