@Austriacus While I agree that different media's are better suited for different things, Deciding to remove
that isn't just a small adaption change like deleting the earth dragon, or forgetting mother exists. Its a complete overhaul of the story telling style and removes the long standing questions and the sudden reveal that the original author intended to convey. Even though the story itself isn't changing, having
that specific, super long story telling element removed is something I would never expect from an adaption, and would hope would only happen at the original authors request.
That element isn't any different in manga/anime/ln formats. Its equally confusing and surprising in all of them. Removing it should only be done if you want to trigger an entirely different set of thoughts and emotions in the readers, an action I hope the author would get to chose.
Who knows, maybe the author did this
And to be clear, I am not talking about the human side. Thats only the POV, and I am certain it will get covered eventually. The element that was removed with it is far greater than that. An element the author very intentionally added to the story, dragged out for a long time, just to finally reveal the surprise long long after and cause everyone to want to re-read once the full context is known. Something the author had to plan from the very beginning of the novel for it to work. Knowing something that had that much thought and time put into it removed hurts me physically
Its one thing if the author created multiple story lines for different adaptions (in which case we can look forward to something they thought would be a better fit for a manga), but if not, then this was just a careless move undermining months of planning the author put in prior to publishing the first chapter
ps. I am saying this as someone who read spoilers, and is vastly disappointed I did not get to experience what the LN readers felt.
pps. There are no spoilers in my post as I the most descriptive words I use when talking about the actual story is "that" and "humans". So you can safely read the whole thing it if your bored