I rewatched the entire Vision series and did some rough calculations. One thing became clear: Vision will end up being considerably longer than Energy once everything is assembled, even after excluding the parallel story segments. The final story will likely exceed two hours of runtime.
Vision 10: 11:27
Vision 9: 12:28
Vision 8.1: 11:15 (Somente um sonho para fanservice. Nem sei se deve ser considerado.)
Vision 8.0: 9:14
Vision 7: 13:41
Vision 6: 11:13
Vision 5: 10:48
Vision 4: 9:45
Vision 3: 8:13
Vision 2.1: 7:53
Vision 1: 5:49
*Just a fanservice dream sequence, so I'm not even sure it should count.
Current total (excluding dream sequences): 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 31 seconds.
This total doesn't even include Vision 11 and Vision 12, which will likely be at least 10 minutes each. That would bring the main story to roughly 2 hours and 10 minutes.
The biggest difference compared to Energy is that Energy had two major sex-focused arcs, while Vision doesn't. I think that's the main reason so many fans feel anxious or disappointed. The story spent a long time building sexual tension, so it's understandable that many expected a major payoff.
That said, I'm not going to tell the author how to write their own story. Personally, I'm tired of the cookie-cutter content that's everywhere today, where every story seems to recycle the same sex scenes with different characters. A few creators stand out—Radroach, who constantly experiments with new scene ideas, and Dancing Carnival, whose stories maintain an intense and varied pace, even though they span a long period of time (along with a few others I'm probably forgetting DesireSFM, etc). Unfortunately, most works still follow the same formula.
Still, if I were writing it, I'd make sure the final episodes delivered something memorable that rewarded the audience's long-term investment.
When a story spends a significant amount of time building anticipation and making implicit promises, expectations naturally grow. Whether those expectations are ultimately met can have a major impact on how fans judge the work as a whole.
OBS: It's a shame that PerfectDeadBeat can't deliver anything in less than four years.
