Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-26094500-20150210013402/@comment-6697950-20150210061603

The Progressive series is like a reboot of the very first arc, but without the grand time skips and more of a floor by floor story. It's a series only started a few years ago when the author was asked to write some material for the second episode to not have that big of a timeskip, but the author kind of overdid it and wrote far more than he should have and later decided to make it into a new series.

Basically, you don't need to read the Progressive series, but the series was written when the author already had a lot of experience and it's quite interesting. On a side note, episode 2 of the first season is trash when compared to the light novel version. A lot of scenes were skipped or changed (so heavily that you could even say that they were vandalised). Though if you want to buy these novels, you'll have to wait till the end of March for the official translation (there are only unofficial translations on the net so far). And if you're thinking about the Progressive manga, do note that it isn't a faithful adaptation (though more faithful than the anime). The mangaka for this manga has been increasingly making use of his liberty to change details as he pleased. It should only be read as a suppement/interpretation, not as a replacement for the novel.

I haven't heard of any collections so far. Unless Amazon or others offer bundle deals.

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