I have been wondering whether I should look at single episode in a series, or just do the complete series. Since both of these have it strength and weakness, for example with ‘Magi’ the last episode was a continuation of the clearing the labyrinth in which they have just been sucked into. During the episode the character development of a particular character has progressed to where the audience is now feeling sympathetic towards him, while before he a crowned prince of the war nation who tried to dominate one of the other character’s home land.
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
While if we looked at the series as a whole you can see a story progressing in a similar manner to conventional anime, with the end turning into a war between the main characters and the evil organisation who tries to go against the flow of fate in the world. With a series of misadventures where they would locate more and new allies to help fight against the enemy in the end, resulting in a battle, where maybe one or two of the characters might die. This being a fore sighting since the series is far from being finished hopefully, since currently they have only conquered on dungeon/labyrinth, and they will need to conquer or have them all conquered before the final fight.
So there is a short example of what each would be about, doing the episodes would allow more content to be made, since I could do a number of episodes and go over and rate the series as a whole at the end, yet this would certain a huge number of episode ones, the rating would then give an overall rating at the end. However by just doing the series would mean I get through a lot more animated series, yet would mean that instead of watching an episode I would have to watch the full series before hand.
So my question which should I do?
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