Horimiya - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - (Page 5)

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The hell... the whole 'Yuki falls for Miyamura but doesn't know it's Miyamura' plotline was completely skipped in the anime. I mean, I loved the anime, and it made me want to check out the manga, but I'm really seeing so much even near the start that makes me wonder why the anime had such a rushed pace and skipped so much just to tie things up with their graduation by the end. Hell, they even went back with a second 'Pieces' season just to try and help fill in gaps, but it still felt awkward trying to puzzle out where shit was meant to fit into the main story.

Most of the other anime adaptations of manga I've been getting caught up on of late (as in I watched the anime, then I eventually read the manga) seem to take the approach of (mostly) faithfully reproducing an early segment of the manga and then leaving off with foreshadowing of the romance solidifying later on.

Like how Nisekoi faithfully reproduced the first 50-ish chapters, with a few filler skips, into the 20-episode first season (kinda wish they didn't skip the fillers, though, as they are great characterization, and a few revelations- just add a few more episodes in acceptable spots for such chapters, if rearranging is necessary to keep arcs intact to one or two episodes), and then there was the 12-episode second season that I later found out ended up skipping a bunch of great chapters and arcs, still managed to heavily imply how the titular 'False Love' pair were getting closer and closer, and ended with the female lead musing over how she'd go about confessing, one day, with the final episode.

And The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses anime by GoHands felt like it did a pretty good job bringing over the vast majority of major story arc chapters and short chapters from the first six Volumes, from what I could tell after reading the manga just this past day or so (even if they had to rearrange some of the short chapter scenarios).

But here the HoriMiya anime goes skipping around just to try and give a 'summary' of the full story arc, I assume? I mean, I kind of appreciate that, but since the relationship starts relatively early, I could have been fine with the series telling what it could up to the confession and start of dating, and then show maybe a little tease of their dating life for a bit before doing the whole 'foreshadowing the future' stuff and letting people find the manga for the rest.

Would have also meant the 'Pieces' season could have been a legitimate second season telling a chunk of their dating life up to another potential endpoint to foreshadow off of.
 

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