haven't read the novel, not sure if I want to read it just for this. how skippable is it? I'm sort of hoping you can sell me on it a bit bc I want to motivate myself to read the novel but I figured the adaptation wouldn't miss anything important
hmm, biggest stuff continuity-wise has been covered this chapter, but the whole thing has some subtle impact towards future events so I'm not sure it's that skippable. And there's always chance manga will include those in a different manner, even if it skips that particular arc - the same way this chapter covers bits of it. I don't think manga will drown itself in plotholes and continuity errors the way anime did.
Biggest motivator to read the novels IMO is that the horror-y vibes come off better in text (at least for me), and that it has twice the story (manga so far covered 5 volumes of the novel, next month will be official english release of volume 10). Manga's been an excellent way to revisit the story so I hope it doesn't skip stuff now.
It's looking like it's skipping the whole arc. This chapter pretty much covered all of volume 6.
it didn't really cover it, as much as just skip to the end
but maybe it will actually have the arc and just included those things here for pacing?
