Hitsugime no Chaika Scans
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Manga gets an 8.
I was excited to see this getting an anime season. The story pacing is all over the place. The anime choosing to cut out at least 4 major scenes and that's just if you base it on the FIRST chapter. Explanations and conversations completely left out that actually mattered to the plot and our main characters. Then to make it worse they advanced the plot too fast, introducing things so quickly (that didn't happen so soon in the manga) that the storytelling aspect feels extremely broken for the first handful of episodes.
But after that horrible arc it picked itself up and ramped it up to high gear IMHO. And thankfully that broken pacing didn't hang around either. Toru and Chaika are cute. So all in all after a week first arc this series shaped up to be a pretty decent one.