Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170705132232/@comment-2112031-20170710111036

Starscream1998 wrote: I like it so long as they maintain this path of divergence from the Movie/Manga continuity, keep it fresh and original. I'm pretty sure that they're not diverging from the Movie/Manga, given that the anime is being heavily supervised in order to make sure that continuity is maintained. The main reason why the anime started off at a much earlier point in time was done in order to give the manga time to progress.