Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 01]
Unboxious@ani.social 6 days agoto the point that when the anime came out, a bunch of manga readers were disappointed not to see buff Minoru
Me! That was me! After I read the manga I saw the first episode of the anime and it was kind of a bummer tbh. I was curious about whether that was in the original LN, so thanks for answering that!
wjs018@ani.social 6 days ago
The first episode of the anime threw a lot of people for a loop. It was content actually drawn from LN Vol. 4 depicting Minoru being the Stylish Thug Slayer. The LNs and manga don’t show the Akane-related content until they get to the LN4 part of the story. So, if you hadn’t read through LN4 when the anime premiered (the most recently released volume at the time), then the whole first episode was anime-original to you. On top of that, the first episode rolls the end credits early and then has a long post-credits sequence.
Very mild spoilers for first 4 episodes of the anime
Honestly, I appreciate what it was trying to do, but I think the way they sequenced the first ~3 episodes of the anime was confusing for a lot of people. Also, by having the Akane kidnapping in episode 1, it made a lot of people think that kidnapping girls is all the series is about due to both Claire and Alexia seeing their own kidnappings very early in the show as well.