Do…you realize how an adaptation works?

Yes, we know Mouretsu Pirates, Persona 4 and Mirai Nikki are adaptations. That doesn’t mean the anime staff doesn’t have writers. Since games, books and animation are pretty different mediums, you need to have people that can take the important parts of the original work and transform it into a show. While they may not be doing the same job that writers of an new show are, that doesn’t mean they’re simply copying and pasting. It’s hard work to decide which lines of dialogue to keep, cut, merge, or otherwise modify; or decide whether certain arcs or characters are important or superfluous; or–and this is possibly most important–figure out how each scene will be shown.

Even the best original material still needs a skilled team to write the screenplay, or the adaptation will be mediocre at best. And if YOU did your research, you’d see that Mouretsu Pirates has 4 people contributing to the screenplay. If you honestly think that the writer(s) of the original work are the only  people who count as ‘writers,” then you’re insulting the people who totally do a lot of writing to get an adaption ready to air.

As for why we don’t blame or praise the “writers of the show” for Persona 4 or Mirai Nikki, that’s a very good question, since I wasn’t aware that we didn’t do that. In this episode, in fact, we blame the writers who adapted Persona 4 for the questionable handling of Naoto’s arc.

And finally, just to be clear, when we praise the “writers” for something and don’t specify whether we mean the original ones or the adaptation ones, that probably means either we’re unsure of who is responsible for the part we like, or we don’t think it’s particularly important to make a distinction. After all, if it’s something that was in the original work, then it’s good (or bad) that the first writer wrote it and good (or bad) that the screenplay writers kept it, so they get to share the praise (or blame).