how different is the anime from the manga?

TophSmash said:
its so different it might as well be a different show. You would be able to tell just from reading the first pages of chapter 1.

Alicia89 said:
I don't think the anime is as bad as some people rate it here. I have the feeling that many are disappointed because of the difference to the manga.

The MC is partly retarded, but in a way that makes me smile. I'm watching it with a buddy, and I'm trolling him with the MC being partly the same :P

I'm really enjoying the anime like with Bofuri, but I think if the ratings go this bad, there won't be a second season in the end, and that makes me sad if the season doesn't complete the LN. I can't tease my buddy that well anymore...

I think with voice you get such funny scenes much better.

epyon4light said:

I just went quickly through the first chapter wow they completely nerfed all the girls 😭

Chronigan said:
I've read in other forums that a lot has changed to make the show kid friendly. Just how much and what has been changed?

The main problem is the plot, I have read the WN, then bought the 1st volume of the LN expecting it to be equivalent to the manga, and guess what, it has nothing like that. The LN is essentially the same thing as the WN version:

Sil's initial summoning is just a loli appearing in front of him, there is nothing like the spread page manga where a giantess appears out of nowhere, and then transforms into the loli.
Sil has much less personality, there are much less interactions between the two, and she can only attack with MP consuming skills. In the manga, as we have seen, she can actually fight with her hands, this means that MC gets money faster, as Sil doesn't need to eat as much, her personality is also much more expressive, like she getting angry with MC not appearing when she had promised, or her evading her master when he was smelling after the boar fight, or even her fear of MC's lethal smelling weapon.
In the novel, the Iron Maiden Wall is also not limited to her breath, and is just a skill that activates for 2 or 3 minutes, and she can't move after activating.
The whole plot about being able to contact the servant outside the dungeon through the card also doesn't seem to exist (unless it appears in later chapters, but up to 190 chapters of the WN it has not happened, maybe it could have appeared in more recent chapters (like 700+), but that, also means that, at first, the whole divine world, or the thing about Lucelia being trapped in the demon world, and being summoned without her level being reset doesn't exist, as she is summoned normally at lvl1 as a arrogant loli.
The plot with the adventurer skinhead, then later meeting the whole party, whose leader is a good spirited Jason Voorhees that reprimands the skinhead guy, also doesn't exist.
The noticing that MC has been leveling up too fast and is earning much more a bit too fast comes only much later in the WN.


The novel versions are extremely bland.


The main guild lady is just a generic named character.
The cat woman does not exist in the novels.

That strange party with the masked people does not exist, the weapon store owner is just a generic unnamed character, no name, no personality, just there to sell stuff.
No plot behind Silphy: She appears as a little girl, no background story, she only attacks using MP consuming attacks, which leads MC to do most of the job to save on magic stones. That thing with appearing in her world and so on? That's doesn't exist (Maybe exist much later on in the story)

No plot of Lucelia not being level reset and all that plot with Demon King and so on, the novel has her appearing instantly as a loli, and she is condescending from the start, nothing much of this "karma" that she has suffered in the last and this chapter.

DarkDooM2 said:

I have not read the original LN, but from what I've heard the mangaka is taking a lot of liberties in his adaptation, while the anime is mostly the same as the LN, besides the obvious change in character designs for Sylphie (cutting off her tits). Here is a bit of information from someone on mangadex who has apparently read the LN and WN:

amlg said:
I still have no idea why they decide to downsize the Lolis... is Oppai Loli that bad they have to censor it?

Chronigan said:
I know Australia has a law that pornstars can't have small breast. Maybe they also have one saying lolis can't have big breast.