Planetarian Rewatched, Eromanga Sensei out in Blu-ray:

1.5 years after Planetarian first aired, I've now rewatched Planetarian in blu-ray.  Including the movie that came out earlier this year.  I have to tell you it's pretty taxing, emotionally, to switch between reading Refrain from the Little Busters! visual novel to watching the Planetarian anime.  I'm not sure why anyone would want to experience these emotions twice, much less thrice like I have now, but I guess somebody has to do it.

Having covered the Rin 2 route the anime mostly skipped and Refrain, I can say again that the anime isn't missing anything important, and it adds a lot of wonderful things the visual novel is missing, so all in all the anime is the true, perfect version of the story.  I'm just reading the visual novel as a completionist who likes Key.  Sort of like reading about Kappei's story from the Clannad visual novel.  It's just not that important, which is why the Clannad anime left it out.  Normal, sane people should just stick to watching the anime of both these series and be content with that.

Next up for the visual novel is Saya, Kanata, and Sasasegawa's routes, and for anime rewatching comes Rewrite.  There's plenty of Key products to last out the month.

Planetarian is a beautiful, well animated version of the story, but it takes out too much of the inner monologue of the junker to be a good replacement for the visual novel.  I still think it's better to read the visual novel in Planetarian's case.  But you should still watch the anime too, the anime is splendid.

As for Rewrite it's so far off from the original visual novel that you just have to read the original.  The anime is nice too, because it's far less effort to watch through something than to read through it, and it does have well animated scenes the visual novel can only hint at, but that doesn't excuse the liberties they took with the source material.

Meanwhile, the final volume of Eromanga Sensei came out in blu-ray, so now we can rewatch Eromanga whenever we want.  It came out at the same time as Suka Suka, so it's still a little too soon to break out the rewatch party, but it's nice to have as soon as possible.