Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-985184-20170410021353

Today, I was looking at the story arcs article on the wiki and am reminded of the pacing in season 1. It roughly adapted 1 1/2 to 2 chapters per episode, leaving you with 13 episodes which represent 21 chapters.

According to some official DVD listings for season 2, it will have about 25 episodes total, which is a surprising number compared to season 1 - guess the series is doing well, huh? But it does make me curious as to what that means for the sports festival arc since it's all we've seen teases for.

Personally, I think that if they were to keep the pacing they had in season 1 when it came to how many chapters they adapted, it's entirely possible they will have juuust enough room for both the sports festival and the field training arc that comes after it. That assumes the pacing of the manga was similar up to this point, of course.

I suspected that might be the case when promotional material featured Midoriya in his updated costume, which isn't appearing until the field training. The fact that they teased Stain at the end of season 1 (who really only has one scene during the sports festival arc), and also open season 2 with some field training arc-relevant foreshadowing, kind of makes it seem like they're gonna be covering two arcs - doesn't it? 