How can you make an adaptation as bad as this?

I really don’t agree with this take! When making an animated movie from a book/ manga, it hardly ever works to adapt every scene exactly. The director and screenwriter have to basically restructure the story to make a balanced production. If every detail and every character were covered, it would be a 5 hour movie. That’s the hardest part about making an adaptation. The novel is excellent, and so is the movie. If you only ever saw either one, it would be a 9 rating, 10 if you’re generous.
For a better understanding, watch (or read) the Tokyo Blade arc of Oshi no Ko.

What would u change then since u seem to know better. I genuinely want to know

Of course you can fit everything into a movie if you rush the pacing, sacrifice visual quality for more hours etc. A full adaptation is a cour of anime. Trying to make this fit a movie with the necessary upgrade in quality would need a huge budget and to give enough weight to the time frame of the story, it would be if very compressed at least 2.5-3 hours. This wasn’t a Peter Jackson project, you are asking the impossible. The movie that WAS made was approved and signed off on by the author, who knows much better than you what is necessary to cut or change to adapt his story into a captivating movie.

Not buying that. You really read a light novel by stopwatch? Did you read all the dialogue at the speed the characters would speak? And do you think anime movies often reach over 2 hours? You’re asking for a high international standard budget for an anime movie. Which would only make a slow, bogged down boring movie anyway. They are two separate media, just stop trying to force your ideals on the real world already. Or maybe just make your own adaptation? If you can get agreement from an author to make a pedantic word for word slideshow of their book. And yes, Japanese law takes permission of creators seriously, no movie ever gets released without express permission from the original creator.

Not sure where the toxicity accusation comes from, sorry if you’re a delicate type that gets offended by the opinions of others. I’m debating directly your views because mine are different. We will probably never meet in the middle, but I do agree with a little of what you say, specifically about author agreement versus satisfaction. But compromise is necessary when a studio is budget limited as well as compromise being essential between a story that works well on paper versus an engaging movie. The to and fro between author, screenwriter and producer must be quite stressful. But I still think the compromises made for this movie produced a great outcome.
Finally, yes these are OPINIONS as are yours and I accept your views despite our differences. I was simply justifying the content of the movie as I see it.
There’s a line between objectivity and toxicity which I was careful not to cross. Please understand that if I was trolling, I could have been much more unpleasant. Sometimes toes get trod on just to get a point across, there was no intention to be mean.

Not sure where the toxicity accusation comes from, sorry if you’re a delicate type that gets offended by the opinions of others. I’m debating directly your views because mine are different. We will probably never meet in the middle, but I do agree with a little of what you say, specifically about author agreement versus satisfaction. But compromise is necessary when a studio is budget limited as well as compromise being essential between a story that works well on paper versus an engaging movie. The to and fro between author, screenwriter and producer must be quite stressful. But I still think the compromises made for this movie produced a great outcome.
Finally, yes these are OPINIONS as are yours and I accept your views despite our differences. I was simply justifying the content of the movie as I see it.
There’s a line between objectivity and toxicity which I was careful not to cross. Please understand that if I was trolling, I could have been much more unpleasant. Sometimes toes get trod on just to get a point across, there was no intention to be mean.

We’re never going to see eye to eye, and there’s more than a trace of sarcasm/ defensive hostility/ mild toxicity in your expression too, it just goes with the territory of trying to get a point across. But I’m not offended, you communicate pretty clearly. Let’s just end here and accept that a difference in viewpoints is human. I appreciate the efforts made to entertain me by a culture that fascinates me while you see flaws and wish for greater achievements. With the continued growth of anime in the west, maybe things will naturally be done in a more thorough and expensive way and we will both be rewarded with a better experience…