I'm assuming you haven't read HZ. People have been assuming it's going to long running but I think it'll be along the lines of Ippo where it covers a lot of material in a short amount of episodes.
I'm not completely up to date, but I feel like 25 episodes wouldn't be enough. I am pretty bad at estimating a good manga to anime adaptation chapter ratio, especially when it comes to sports manga. The sumo matches are very quick. With 26 episodes, the pace would be 6.1 chapters per episode, seems pretty crazy.
I will say this regarding HZ and putting all that content in 2 cours, Production I.G recently pulled off the re-adaptation for Mahoujin Guruguru perfectly apparently, adapting 16 volumes of manga with only 24 episodes and this adaptation is considered one of the best anime from 2017, so I really want to watch it.
So 1 volume per episode, only 12 episodes, but each episode will adapt one volume and it's confirmed that the anime will cover 17 volumes. Something just doesn't seem to add up.
Yeah true, sports manga can be weird but I think 2 cour is doable is the staff is competent lol. Not every episode has to have the same chapter ratio plus it's inevitable that they'll skip certain parts out like they do with all adaptations.
Can skip content.
Well it's been done before. Ippo is a popular example. It's not impossible and IMO much better than 40+ episodes which isn't happening for a series like HZ. I would be shocked if they did 40+ episodes tbh.
I feel like with sumo it's especially weird. In real life the matches are incredibly fast and even the longer matches rarely reach a 35 second-1 minute length and those are the exceptions. Like all sports manga, there's buildup happening all the time, between pages and panels, the intensity and tension is crazy in HZ. Then you have the infamous anime time where 5 minutes can be stretched out to like three 24 minute episodes lol. I really don't know how the heck they'll approach the anime, it'll really come down to the studio and the staff.
It has been done before, but rarely has it been done properly. I don't see why HZ couldn't get 4 cours if something like Twin Star Exorcists could get 4 cours as a monthly manga with like 20 chapters of content out, as questionable as that was. It depends on the producer and time block really and HZ has a lot of content to work with. And HZ is literally the Godsend that the sumo industry needs right now to make sumo appreciated by younger generations in Japan, having an anime be on air for 1 year would be pretty helpful.
So basically moral of this convo is noboooooody’sssss perfeccct. We need more Temaris or Robins, will forever think they’re the most developed and intrusive females from a big title in our generation. Hopefully Momo can join them.
To be fair, there is nothing wrong with a character being sexy.
And that's what the anime is for, to boost the sales. The reality isn't that sad for HZ, it survived for over 3 years which is a colossal achievement for WSJ serializations and it's even getting an anime.
Because its never been an issue at least one that doesn't bog down to "why isn't this female character on the front and center stage in every battle in a comic meant for little boys" versus "why is this female character treated so poorly and relegated to a shallow love interest or nagging housewife". This criticism applies to the extended cast of characters not solely female characters and this is something he's been rectifying throughout the series going through various rotation ironically enough starting from Momo to Kirishima to Aoyoma and now Jirou. Also Mineta barely even appears in the manga anymore and only serves as a walking punchline.
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Aoyama in a one chapter non major moment (hes male weird to bring him up).
Hell most Shoujo manga are even more problematic than shounen manga. You talk about poor representation of female characters? Watch how your average Shoujo lead winds up marrying her rapist by the end of the story.