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Differences between manga and anime:
(by Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@cco.caltech.edu)
Yes, some of the manga stories got rehashed, but exactly where?
While writing this, I was waffling between writing every possible detail and
writing just the important/interesting changes. What I got was the hybrid
monster shown here. A blank means I don't remember the anime episode well
enough to compare the two, and that no one had made a synopsis (in English)
yet.
This document is organized into several sections:
(1) Timing: Techniques anime writers used to fill the 25-minute restriction.
(2) General: Other techniques writers use to change the story.
(3) Characters: Who's different, and why?
(4) Miscellaneous: General changes that are not character-based, nor specific
to particular episodes.
(5) Chronology: An approximately chronological listing of specific changes,
sometimes citing the abbreaviations defined in the first two parts.
(6) Lost Manga: Takahashi drew them, but the anime creators didn't. What are
the ramifications of dropping these scenes?
(7) Discussion: Theories about why certain episodes were changed.
TIMING
------
(SA) Scene addition:
In order to fill out the time, extra scenes are added to embellish the
story. This is done in almost all cases where one manga episode is expanded to
one TV episode.
(SR) Scene removal:
Sometimes two manga episodes get compressed to one anime episode. This
happens more often near the end of the TV series, where not only is the manga
slower in the storytelling, but also the TV series was probably waning slightly
in popularity. In these cases, scenes often get cut.
(SH) Scene hashing:
Often it's a shame to have to remove a good scene in the manga, or to have
to drop a story because it would be a winter story broadcast in July. So, the
anime writers will resort to changing the entire background, or moving a scene
very far away from its original episode, creating a different intent. In other
cases, sometimes there will be a very large change in the order of scenes.
This is a lot like Scene Moving (see below), but is done for different
purposes.
GENERAL
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(SI) Scene insertion:
For the most part, scenes are moved around. Takahashi uses the manga
convention of instantaneous transition, where one panel change may represent a
job that takes much longer in real time. For translating to the anime, this
can be made by a comedic accelerated effect. However, it cuts down on realism,
which is what the anime creators would prefer. Hence, another scene that
actually occurs at a different time in the manga is spliced in to represent the
extra time.
Let's take an example. In the first manga chapter, Godai decides to patch
up the hole between his room and Yotsuya's. In the next frame, he's already
putting the finishing touches on the nailed boards. In the anime, the scene of
Kyoko moving in and introducing Souichirou-san to the Ichinoses is placed in
between these panels, so that it doesn't seem like Godai is finding boards and
nailing them to the wall in superhuman time. Although the time still isn't
really enough for his feat, it seems more plausible in the viewer's eyes.
(SM) Scene Movement:
Scenes are moved around, but for other reasons, like trying to fit
something for commercial breaks, etc.
(GI) Getting Involved:
Takahashi doesn't really care how much "air time" her characters get. The
anime creators, on the other hand, would rather every supporting character have
some role in the show. So, often extra scenes will be added that utilize the
seiyuu who would otherwise have a day off.
(PF) Predicting the future:
Unlike the anime writers, Takahashi didn't really have the advantage of
knowing where the story was going. Sure, she probably had a good idea of the
characters, but she probably let the story "write itself." The animators knew
very clearly that the story was going to be "The Romantic Adventures as Godai
Tries to Woo Kyoko," and they wrote the scripts accordingly. The contrast is
seen easily in the early episodes, where Godai's attraction for Kyoko is
budding. In the manga, we can't really tell from the first few installments
that it's not the case that Godai is just a lech. This technique isn't as
clear-cut detectable as the others, so take my guesses with a grain of salt.
(SC) Scene Change:
Can be for a variety of reasons, including timimg. This is just a
"catch-all" category for differences I couldn't categorize.
CHARACTERS
----------
Kobayashi:
Godai's classmate, who has dark hair and glasses. He's named only once or
twice in the manga, and is never named in the anime. For some of the early
episodes, he was replaced by Sakamoto. Later on he gets dropped entirely.
Souichirou-san (dog):
The manga Souichirou-san is mostly just a dumb dog. In the anime,
Souichirou is often used as symbolic of Souichirou the man, as the dog tends to
act "telepathically" with Kyoko.
Akemi Roppongi:
Akemi is extremely infatuated with Mitaka in the anime. In the manga, this
attraction is much more mild.
Yotsuya:
The manga Yotsuya appears much less, and is less weirder. However, the
manga Yotsuya is more mysterious since we see less of him, and he is also much
more tightlipped and less of a gossiper. Although Ichinose gossips to Yotsuya
much more in the anime. Also, see the comment on Nikaido below. In the anime,
Yotsuya is often seen as extra addition. Personally, I think this is a good
thing; Shigeru Chiba is a really good voice actor who should get a larger part.
Another side thing: You NEVER see Yotsuya with his mouth open in the manga.
(Well, once.) Obviously not doable in the anime, but it has an interesting
effect.
Kentarou Ichinose:
Kentarou plays a much smaller role in the manga. In the anime, he often
gets extra scenes where he interacts with Godai, but he sort of gets forgotten
in the anime. Many of Nikaido's lines go to Kentaro (see below).
Kyoko Otonashi:
In the manga, we see more into her psyche and know what she's thinking.
The anime writers decided to make her more mysterious and tried to hold on for
longer as to letting the viewers know what her true emotions were.
Yusaku Godai:
Godai is a loser, but it is much more exaggerated in the anime. For
instance, the manga Godai can cook decently, but the anime Godai can't.
Another example is the college, see the Miscellaneous section below.
Yukari Godai: (or, "BAACHAN IN TOKIO" ^_^)
Yukari-baachan only comes to Tokyo twice in the manga: the first time to
see if Godai managed to get into college, and the second time a 9-chapter
duration that started with her reunion and ended with her leaving at the train
station. (The desert island xtra was inserted in this sequence, but we'll
ignore that.) However, the anime never adapted 2 of these chapters, removed
Yukari from the script from 1 other chapters that got adapted (29), and
spread the rest over four episodes (34, 35, 69, and 70). This basically
allowed Yukari to come back and forth to Tokyo as she pleased, and she appears
in Tokyo in other episodes, such as 67 and 81. This is a bit unrealistic
considering how old she is and how much money the Godais probably make, but it
allows for the anime writers to play with more character interactions. Yukari
sometimes takes the place of Nikado; see his section.
MISCELLANEOUS
-------------
The Rent and other money:
Of course the tenants at Ikkoku-kan pay rent. In many of the early manga
installments (up to at least volume 3), the rent would often play a small part
in the subplot. Soon, however, the story shifted away from Ikkoku-kan and to
the relationship between Godai and Kyoko, and the rent gets rarely mentioned at
all. The anime reflects this change, and many manga scenes that involve rent
are dropped. A similar case occured with all other forms of money later on...
Godai's College:
In the anime, Godai's college is listed as "Sanryuu Daigaku," which
literally translates as "Third-Rate University." In the manga, Godai's college
is never named, although one of the Universities he tested at (the one where
Kyoko accompanies him) is "Second-Rate University." The manga probably assumes
that Godai goes to a typical university. Sometimes this creates apparent
mistakes in the story, such as in episode 48, when Godai thinks to himself,
"It's not like it's embarrasing to say what college I go to." That statement
would only make sense if Godai is NOT going to a bad university.
Godai's Jobs:
There are two major changes from how Godai gets his jobs that affect the
storyline. The first one deals with Yagami, and the second one deals with
Shiinomi daycare and the Cabaret Bunny. In the manga, the sequence of events
is:
(0) [4] Godai goes job hunting.
(1) [0] Godai gets a temporary teaching job (enter Yagami)
(2) [6] Godai and Mr. Yagami confront
(3) [7] Godai graduates
(4) [1] Godai gets day-care job
(5) [2] Mitaka omiais with Asuna
(6) [3] Godai gets stuck in Yagami's house.
(7) [5] Mitaka cures his dog phobia
(8) [9] Godai loses day-care job
(9) [8] Godai gets Cabaret job
In the anime, the sequence of events is:
(1) [0] Godai gets a temporary teaching job (enter Yagami)
(4) [1] Godai gets day-care job
(5) [2] Mitaka omiais with Asuna
(6) [3] Godai gets stuck in Yagami's house.
(0) [4] Godai goes job hunting.
(7) [5] Mitaka cures his dog phobia
(2) [6] Godai and Mr. Yagami confront
(3) [7] Godai graduates
(9) [8] Godai gets Cabaret job
(8) [9] Godai loses day-care job
A few important consequences of the change are:
(a) Yagami has three story arcs in the story. The last two (Godai's
tutoring and Godai's job) are switched. I actually prefer the anime on this
point, because the way the manga ordered it seems quite anticlimatic. However,
I must admit that the manga gave her a better exit scene.
(b) Godai gets his Cabaret job before he loses his day-care job in the
anime, so for a while he's holding two jobs. This greatly lessens the impact
of the "bento" ("boxed lunch") subplot, since in the manga Kyoko started making
the box lunches when he had already lost the day-care job. In this case, I
consider the manga superior, especially in the unorthodox method by which Kyoko
finds out.
(c) It seems like Mitaka is waiting on Kyoko's decision much longer in the
manga.
CHRONOLOGY
----------
Note: not all the changes are noted. I've skipped lots of little nuances and
lines that didn't affect the story much. The comments are based on anime
chronology; however, there are cross-references for the manga order. "Lost"
manga chapters are noted, but are placed in a later section. Most anime I had
to recall from memory, and so the details are sketchy. Some I had access to a
detailed summary, and so there's more "trivia."
ep1 <-- v1,1 SA: The neighbors and the shipping truck.
SI: The story takes place over 1 day instead of 2.
ep2 <-- v1,2-3 SR: Godai has fewer "fantasies."
SR: Kentarou's declaration at Chachamaru.
ep3 <-- v1,4 SA: Yotsuya is in the bookstore.
SA: History of Ikkoku-kan in the attic.
SC: The dead mouse is cuter. ^_^
ep4 <-- v1,5 SA: "Godai-san, ganbatte kudasai ne!" is turned
into a running gag.
GI (SA): Yotsuya and Akemi get airtime by "the betting pool."
SA: Godai tries to escape out the bathroom of Mamezou.
ep5 <-- v1,6 SA: The vendor's bowl at the train station. In the manga, the
vendor only asks Godai Yukari for it once.
SC: Kobayashi is replaced by Sakamoto everywhere in this story.
ep6 <-- v1,7 SA: A few more attempts at touching Kyoko during the walk.
ep7 <-- v1,8 <N/A>
ep8 <-- v1,9 SA: Prelude to Godai's drunkenness with Sakamoto.
SC: Ichinose's beauty cream make-up was added.
SA: Comic imagination sequences
ep9 <-- v1,10;v2,1
SA: Flashback to ep8.
SR: Mitaka gives Kyoko and Ichinose a ride home after practice,
where he finds out that Kyoko is single. He smiles to
himself.
SC: The price of Mitaka's car is different. (Inflation)
SI: A clip of Souichirou-san the dog is inserted between the
time when Mitaka catches Kyoko and Kyoko running out the
door.
SC: In the anime, Godai actually escapes Chachamaru and sees
Kyoko at the end. In the manga, he stays sat upon.
ep10 <-- v2,2-3 SA: Nanao Kozue appears in the anime, although unnamed.
GI: Yotsuya gets left behind.
ep11 <-- v2,4 SA: End dialogue between Kentarou and Godai.
ep12 <-- v2,5 SC: The movie is slightly different.
SA: Where Mitaka and Kyoko are in the car after the concert,
and see Kozue and Godai on the street.
SC: Mitaka seems a bit more clueless about Kyoko's feelings in
the manga.
GI: Yotsuya and Akemi plague Godai while he's in his room
worrying about Kyoko. Later on, they try to stop him from
"saving" Kyoko.
ep13 <-- v2,6 SA: The entire "James Bond" style, with Kuroki in the men's
bathroom acting mysteriously. In the manga, she's just a
classmate that Godai knows, with a normal cigarette.
SA: In the manga, Godai gets three calls via Kyoko's phone:
one from Kuroki, one from Kamisaka, and one from Kozue.
In the anime, everyone in the puppet club calles Godai,
as if the entire club were playing a joke on Godai.
ep14 <-- v2,7 GI: Sakamoto and Kozue get added to the story.
SA: There's a lot more detail in Kyoko's running from Mamezou
to Ma Mezon, and some symbolism with high-heeled shoes.
SC: In the anime, it's raining. The manga has a clear sky.
ep15 <-- v2,8 SA: Flashback from ep14, and Godai's making the puppet based
on Kyoko. In the manga, the Kyoko-Princess similarity
isn't pointed out until much later.
SA: All of Godai's daydreams.
GI: In the manga, only Kyoko goes to the campus fest.
Akemi, Yotsuya, Ichinose, and Kentarou stay at home.
Neither of the Ichinoses actually appear in the manga.
SC: Sakamoto is not working at any stall in the manga.
SM: Kyoko's stroll about campus, where she meets Sakamoto,
is much longer and takes place after the puppet show has
started.
ep16 <-- v2,9 SA(GI?): Godai and Sakamoto eating in the cafeteria, and
all the bad luck. The manga starts at the tennis court.
In the anime, Godai is given an "excuse" for trying to be
very nice to Kyoko. In the manga, he's just irrational.
SA: The party gets relocated to Godai's room instead of
just stopping.
SA: Phone call, and Yotsuya's lunch.
SC: Godai isn't shown buying or cooking the ramen in the anime.
Also, there's absolutely no evidence that the ramen is badly
cooked; although not Mitaka's gourmet style, Godai is
portrayed as an adequate cook in the manga.
SA(GI): Kentarou feeds Souichirou.
SR: No flowers in the manga. Added by the anime for symbolism.
ep17 <-- v2,10 SA: Godai's narration, memory, and hallucination. The
manga starts with Kyoko under an awning.
SI: Souichirou-san sneezes while Kyoko reveals she's a
widow.
SM(SA): Side diversion on how Godai is similar to Kozue's
first love is moved to before Kyoko talks about
Souichirou. Thediscussion is replaced with scenes about
Kyoko's old photo album.
SA: Souichirou slipping with his papers.
SC: Both of Kyoko's umbrellas (in the flashback and at the end)
are the same pattern in the manga, but different in the
anime.
ep18 <-- v2,11 SA: Teaser. The anime is more comical about Godai unable to
see Kyoko.
SA: Akemi charging for the party at Chachamaru. Apparently,
Takahashi either forgot about charging people or thought
that the first time was a one-shot joke.
. SR: In Godai's fantasy about giving Kyoko the earring, Kyoko
gives him a present of a muffler. This makes the later scene
even funnier because Godai is really surprized at how close
his fantasy was to reality, if only he hadn't given the
earring to Kozue... Perhaps the anime writers didn't want
to spoil the surprise.
SA: Godai considers buying another present with essential
money.
SA: Yotsuya and Akemi playing with Godai's muffler.
ep19 <-- v3,1 SA(GI?): Feeding Souichirou.
ep20 <-- v3,2 GI: Yotsuya is completely absent from the manga chapter.
This makes the anime different in many ways; most of his
taken from Akemi, but a lot of it was just invented for the
lines were anime, such as making fun of Kyoko right before
Godai comes back, and a bit more fun with the sunglasses.
SC: Godai gets his first shiner by running into a goal post
stupidly. In the manga, he gets tackled and his eye gets
kneed by someone.
SC: Godai actually makes the delivery before his second
accident in the manga. In the anime, a stray dog gets a
free dinner.
SC: The results of Godai's bout with the telephone pole is kept
until the end of the manga to be shown as a surprise.
GI: Kentarou coming back from school.
SA: Panning across the shoes to note that Godai's aren't there.
The manga didn't make a big deal about this, but the geta are
still there, even though Yotsuya isn't...
SA: A flock of birds after Kozue's scene.
SA: The ending is slightly different because they added a
warming scene about Kyoko welcoming Godai back.
SM: This is a bit complicated:
Mng Anm
X 1/5 Yotsuya returns.
1/3 1/6 Ichinose and Akemi in Kyoko's room discussing New Year's.
1/3 1/5 Godai playing rugby and getting hurt.
X 1/6 Godai fantasizes out loud, and Yukari makes fun of him.
1/6 1/6 Godai's mother tries to get him to stay to the 15th.
1/8 1/9 Mitaka takes Kyoko out to tea.
1/8 1/9 Kyoko comes home and talks with Ichinose.
1/9? 1/9 Godai runs into a telephone pole.
1/9? 1/9 Mrs. Godai and Yukari laugh at Godai.
X 1/9 The gang isn't partying. (Not in the manga, so in the
manga Kyoko is in her room when the call comes.)
1/9? 1/9 Godai calls Ikkoku-kan for another "extension."
1/11?1/11 Kyoko talks with Kozue, who feels lonely.
1/13 1/13 Kyoko thinks of knocking of Room 5's door.
X 1/13 Godai's parents get annoyed.
1/14 1/14 Godai returns.
ep46 <-- v3,3 See below.
ep21 <-- v3,4 SC: Sakamoto named his cat after the star Mayuno Kyouko in the
manga instead of after our Kyouko. This makes more
sense because our Kyoko hasn't really met Sakamoto
much, but I guess Mayuno Kyouko wasn't as big a star
when the anime was made.
SC: Yotsuya says "Are you single?" to the cat when Akemi,
Godai, and Kyoko are arguing. This is much weirder than
the manga, where he just said, "Frightening, no?"
SA: Godai taking the kitten to the university, and the
subsequent scene when he returns home. The manga has a
simple transition of "2 or 3 days pass" before Godai
gets the call from Sakamoto.
SA: The kitten runs away after the phone call, not during.
SA: The search seems to take longer, and we don't see the
scene of the kitten running into the doghouse in the
manga.
SR: The manga has a small joke at the end that removed at the
end. While Kentarou has found the cat, he doesn't know its
name yet. So, when Godai is still up there calling
"Kyoko," Kentarou says, "Oniichan, Kanrinin-san is down
here!"
ep22 <-- v3,5 SC: Godai seems to be followed by Mr. Chigusa. In the manga,
Mr. Chigusa was walking ahead, and Godai was following.
Also, the manga follows Mr. Chigusa's thoughts ("Hmm...a
young man lives here...")
SR: Godai notes that it's a nice day, and so decides not to
waste money on the dryer, and instead hang his wet
laundry on the upstairs balcony to dry. Ichinose is there.
Godai almost steps on the weak board slat, and they talk a
bit about the condition of the apartment. This is useful
foreshadowing of what's to come, but the anime was pressed
for time.
SR: Mr. Chigusa complaining about "young men at Ikkoku-kan."
SR: Godai actually creates another hole in the floorboard when
saving Kyoko from falling.
SA: Yotsuya comments on Godai and Kyoko's balcony incident.
SR??: Does Yotsuya ask for an extension on the rent?
<-- v3,6 SC: Instead of Kyoko talking with Ichinose at the market (and
then finding she forgot to buy sugar and going back to the
market), the anime has Godai talking with Ichinose about
Kyoko.
SR: A funny discussion where Godai tries to ignore Yotsuya, who
is talking from the hole that's about to leave.
SA: Because of the previous SC, Souichirou-san is home when
Ritsuko arrives (instead of out shopping with Kyoko), and
cowers in fear at her.
ep23 <-- v3,6 SA??: The repair of the wall between Yotsuya and Godai is
actually shown.
<-- v3,7 SR: Godai and Kentarou have a discussion in the park.
ep24 <-- v3,8 SC: Godai's imagination is much more detailed; for instance,
the "gunshot" wedding includes Mitaka.
ep25 <-- v3,9 SR: Ichinose is cleaning the 2nd-story floor for Kyoko so that
they won't be late for tennis. She talks to Godai during
this time.
SC: In the anime, Godai and Mitaka argue while Kyoko is
apparently not paying attention to their discussion.
In the manga, Kyoko is present for the whole thing.
<-- v3,10 SR: Before Kyoko leaves, Godai is talking with his mother on
the phone. This leads to an interesting comical
discussion after Kyoko leaves: Mrs. Godai calls back,
asking why he just hung up, Godai retorts by asking why
he hasn't gotten his check yet, and his mother confesses
to forgetting.
SC: Godai asks for 300 yen in the anime, 200 in the manga.
Inflation again.
SM: Godai runs into Kozue, just in time for dinner and before
Mitaka and Kyoko's beach scene. In the manga, this was
a flashback when Godai's at the Nanao's.
SA: Kentarou asks how his parents proposed.
ep26 <-- v3,11 SA: Mitaka's dream of Kyoko turning into a dog.
SC: In the manga, Godai is just hanging up the phone when
Kyoko returns, not about to call like the anime.
SC: In the manga, Kozue's visit happens a few days after
Kyoko's talk with her friend. There's no time separation
in the anime.
SR: Mitaka's phone call is not shown in the manga.
SC, SM: In the manga, Kyoko vents her frustration via the
coffee grinder while she is telling Ichinose about the
date. In the anime, to the coffee machine is added
nail-painting, and it happens before Kozue arrives,
although Ichinose still finds about the date after
Kozue arrives.
SC: The spectators at the pachinko parlor stare at Kyoko.
In the manga, they're not there, but we do hear Kyoko
thinking to herself that she hates men. This is not
explicitly stated in the anime.
Skip <-- v4,1-2 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep27 <-- v4,3 SR: Before Ikuko leaves, she's being tutored by Godai, where
they exchange some dialog about Kyoko's possibility for
remarriage.
SC: Kyoko's flashback is prompted when Ikuko asks her how the
dog got its name.
SC: In the manga, there's a few days gap between the time Ikuko
leaves and Kentarou losing Souichirou-san. This makes more
sense; otherwise, Ikuko would be leaving early in the day,
or Kyoko would be doing her shopping much later in the day,
either of which seems more implausible.
SC: The manga Kyoko isn't wasting yakitori in front of an
empty doghouse. ^_^
SA: Kyoko fidgeting in her bed.
SM: The flashback where Souichirou is trying to teach the dog
to repond to its name is moved to after Kyoko sees
Kentarou's sign. In the manga, this took place right when
Ikuko leaves.
SA: Yotsuya and Godai discuss the disappearance when it starts
to rain.
GI: The entire scene at Chachamaru with a "fake dog" is added.
SA: Godai's bout with the stuffed dog.
SR: Street kids talk about a roadkill victim; Kyoko is relieved
that it isn't Souichirou-san.
SC: In the manga, Kyoko wasn't nearly as worried for her dog.
She seemed to have faith that Souichirou-san would return.
It wasn't until the final flashback (the one where
Souichirou-san is dead) that she suddenly ran out searching
for her dog. The irony is, Godai had already found him by
this time!
SA: The party at the end. The manga ended at the scene on the
hill, with Kyoko marveling at how much Godai seemed like
Souichirou at that instant. In the anime, the ending was
made to look like Godai still felt rejected.
ep47 <-- v4,4 See below.
ep71 <-- v4,5 See below.
Skip <-- v4,6 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep28 <-- v7,2 SR: Only two scenes from the manga made it to the anime:
(1) Discussion on Mr. Ichinose losing his job;
(2) Mr. Ichinose leaving Ikkoku-kan, meeting Kyoko.
SC: Godai meeting Ichinose's dad is more humorous in the manga:
Godai first sees a strange person feeding Souichirou-san,
and is then surprised when this strange man tells the dog:
"Let's go home."
SM: In the manga, the discussion about Mr. Ichinose losing his
job happens *before* he leaves work and meets Kyoko. This
makes much more sense, since this means he doesn't leave
Ikkoku-kan at his usual time. In the anime, one wonders
why Kyoko hasn't seen him leave for work in the past.
<-- v7,3 SR: When Godai accepts Kentarou's proposal, he fantasizes
getting introduced as "Ichinose Kentarou's older brother
and his wife."
SR: Scenes related to Godai's new part-time job of beer
delivery. In the manga, Yotsuya had promised Godai's
beer to the Ichinoses if they won the race.
SC: In the manga, Godai and Kyoko never quite get the hang of
running together, and their feet are still tied together
back in Godai's room in Ikkoku-kan. (They miss seeing the
race, of course.)
ep29 <-- v6,9 GI(SH): Kentarou, Sakamoto, Kozue, and Souichirou-san do not
appear in the manga. This results in a small amount of
scene hashing.
SC: Instead of Yukari doing the final touch-up (since she's
not at Ikkoku-kan in anime time), it's Mrs. Ichinose.
SC: Mitaka enters the story later in the anime.
SC: Instead of a Frankenstein/Wolfman pair, the manga uses more
traditional Japanese monsters. Also, the manga only uses
the joke twice.
SC: In the manga, Akemi also ends up in the well (she's drunk,
and notices Mitaka down there) and Ichinose is climbing
down when the manga ends.
SC: Incidentally, since there's no Kozue scene, Yotsuya does
not climb out of the well himself in the manga.
ep30 <-- v4,7 SC: A lot of (extraneous) dialogue is cut.
SC: In the manga, Kyoko's word balloon is covered by the sound
effect from the train, but enough of it shows through to
indicate to the reader that it is Mitaka's sister getting
married.
<-- v4,8 SR: Flashback of when Godai first moved into Ikkoku-kan.
SC: More dialogue cut, part of which establishes that Akiko's
husband lost all of his money at the track. (Come to
think of it, Akiko never gets named in the anime.)
<-- v4,9 GI: Souichirou-san does not appear in the manga.
SC: Time passes faster in the manga: Godai's parcel arrives
a month after he left Ikkoku-kan.
SC: Godai is playing pachinko with Akiko's husband in the
manga.
SR: The anime ended a bit earlier than the manga, which had
Godai chasing after Kyoko to the train station.
ep31 <-- v4,10 GI: Kentarou does not appear in the manga.
SR: Godai fanatasizes about explaining to an arguing Kyoko,
eventually slapping her to her senses. (You wish, Godai!)
<-- v4,11 GI: Kentarou does not appear in the manga.
SR: Two scenes where Kyoko imagines Godai out on the street:
one where he gets stabbed by a mugger, another where he
dies of a cold.
SA: Kyoko searching for Godai at the college, etc.
SC: In the manga, Sakamoto sticks out a pinky to hint that he's
with a woman. Perhaps this was too college-age culture
specific for the anime to use.
ep32 <-- None No manga correspondence.
Skip <-- v5,1-3 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep33 <-- v5,9 SR: Godai tutoring Ikuko.
SR: Godai fantasizing about the consquences when he gives the
diary to Kyoko. (For once, it comes true.)
SH: The manga just has Godai coming home and giving Kyoko
the diary, who is stunned. The anime made a bigger deal
out of Godai delaying the trip home, and not giving the
diary to Kyoko until the next day. This change messes up
the order and choosing of the scenes completely (basically,
most non-timed scenes are off by 12 hours), so I
won't bother trying to organize it all.
SC: Ichinose has a much smaller role in the manga, which almost
completely focuses on Godai and Kyoko.
Note: The excerpts from Souichirou's diary are unchanged!
SA: Sakamoto does not appear in the manga.
ep34 <-- v6,4
<-- v6,5
ep35 <-- v6,10
ep36 <-- v5,4
Skip <-- v5,5-6 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep37 <-- v5,8
ep38 <-- v5,7
ep33 <-- v5,9 See above.
Skip <-- v5,10 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep68 <-- v6,1 See below.
Skip <-- v6,2-3 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep34 <-- v6,4-5 See above.
ep70 <-- v6,6 See below.
ep69 <-- v6,7 See below.
Skip <-- v6,8 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep29 <-- v6,9 See above.
ep35 <-- v6,10 See above.
OAV <-- v6,xtra
ep70 <-- v7,1 See below.
ep28 <-- v7,2 See above.
ep28 <-- v7,3 See above.
ep39 <-- None No manga correspondence.
ep40 <-- None No manga correspondence.
ep41 <-- v8,1
ep42-43 These two episodes are a big mess to deal with.
ep42 <-- v7,4
<-- v7,5
<-- v7,7
Skip <-- v7,6 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep43 <-- v7,8
<-- v7,9
ep44 <-- None/v8,6 There some mild correspondence between Nikaido trying to
find out what Yotsuya does and this episode where the whole
gang is trying to answer the same question, but not much.
ep45 <-- v7,10
ep41 <-- v8,1 See above.
ep46-47 At this point, probably the anime creators found themselves
running fast on material, so the next two episode were taken
from skipped manga chapters that would still fit in the
continuity. One effect is that Kentarou seems younger than
he should be.
ep46 <-- v3,3 GI: Yotsuya and Akemi did not appear in the manga (Yotsuya
isn't even back from New Year's [v3,1] yet.)
ep47 <-- v4,4
ep48 <-- v8,2 SC: In the manga, we actually see Kyoko get the phone call and
leave. This is replaced in the anime with a scene where
Godai gets an explanation from Ichinose.
SA: Flashback with Mr. Chigusa and young Kyoko.
SR: Kyoko gets home and talks a bit with her mother before her
father returns.
SA: Mr. Chigusa's shoe (comedic effect).
SA: Scenes with Godai getting tortured by the loon squad, about
cassette tapes and stuff.
<-- v7,2 Scenes from this chapter are inserted, specifically those where
Godai is walking Souichirou and talking with Mr. Ichinose,
who's on "an early shift." This is why the "moral" of the
story doesn't seem to make much sense in the context.
SC: In the manga, the Hanae in the flashback is slightly more
reserved.
<-- v8,2 GI: Yotsuya and Akemi are present when Godai gets the pillow,
allowing for another bit of blackmail. The chapter in the
manga does not have them for this section at all.
SR: Godai fantasizes as he's trying to press the doorbell. He
knocks his head on the door, and Kyoko opens it to find
a shaking Godai.
SC: Mr. Chigusa returned a bit later in the manga. This
created a strange inconsistency in the anime: how did Mr.
Chigusa know that Godai came to deliver the pillow? He
wasn't present when Kyoko mentioned it.
Note: Since the manga Godai went to an average college (we
assume), one of the lines Godai says to himself makes much
less sense in the anime as Godai goes to a third-rate
college there.
SC: The anime Kyoko acts more aloof when Godai is asked if he's
going out with anybody, as if she was expecting Godai to
talk about Kozue. The manga Kyoko knows who Godai is
talking about from the start.
SA: The water toy. Helps with the dramatic tension, you know.
Skip <-- v8,3 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep49 <-- None No manga correspondence.
ep50 <-- None No manga correspondence.
ep51 <-- None No manga correspondence.
ep52 <-- v8,4
Skip <- v8,5-11 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep67 <-- v9,1 See below.
ep69 <-- v9,2 See below.
ep53 <-- v9,3 SA: A few more gratuitous shots of Kyoko's high school photos
are seen in the yearbook.
<-- v9,4
ep54 <-- v9,4
<-- v9,5
ep55 <-- v9,6
<-- v9,7
ep56 <-- v9,8
<-- v10,6
Skip <-- v9,9 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep71-4 <-- v9,10-v10,4 See below.
ep72 <-- v9,11
ep73 <-- v10,1
ep73 <-- v10,2
ep74 <-- v10,3
ep74 <-- v10,4
Skip <-- v10,5 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep56 <-- v10,6 See above.
ep57 <-- v10,6
<-- v10,7
ep58 <-- v10,8
ep59 <-- v10,9
<-- v10,10
ep60 <-- v10,11
<-- v11,1
ep61 <-- v11,2
<-- v11,3
ep62 <-- v11,4
<-- v11,5
ep63 <-- v11,6
ep64 <-- v11,7
<-- v11,8
ep65 <-- v11,9
ep66 <-- v11,10
<-- v11,11
ep67 <-- v9,1
ep68 <-- v6,1
ep69 <-- v6,7
<-- v9,2
ep70 <-- v6,6
<-- v7,1
ep71 <-- v9,10
<-- v12,1
ep72 <-- v9,11
ep73 <-- v10,1
<-- v10,2
ep74 <-- v10,3
<-- v10,4
ep75 <-- v12,2
<-- v12,3
ep78-80 <-- v12,4-7 See below.
ep76 <-- v12,8
<-- v12,9
<-- v12,10
ep77 <-- None? No manga correspondence?
ep78 <-- v12,5
ep79 <-- v12,4
<-- v12,6
ep80 <-- v12,6
<-- v12,7
ep76 <-- v12,8-10 See above.
ep81 <-- v12,7 SC: In the anime, a lady from Shiinomi day-care informs
Ikkoku-kan that Godai was not fired when Ichinose
asks her at the start of this episode. In the manga,
this was done when Kyoko called Shiinomi day-care and
talked to Kuroki, who told her the whole story.
<-- v12,9 SH: Godai's "promotion" to Welfare Chief.
SA: Yukari does not appear in the manga.
<-- v12,11 SR: Godai is at home, watching Kyoko and Ichinose talk about
the incident at the grave from his window. This scene
was obviously not usable in the anime as Godai is at work.
SC: Mitaka's portrayal of a poor Godai-Kyoko marriage is
different.
SR: In the manga, Kyoko reminds Godai to go to his job at the
cabaret and not follow them to the tennis court. This
scene was cut for obvious reasons.
SC: Yotsuya's joke with Godai and money is different. I think
in the manga Godai is paying Yotsuya to spy on Kyoko and
Mitaka.
SR: A bit of dialogue was added to the Mitaka-Asuna talk; Asuna
does not faint in the manga.
<-- v12,12 SA: Godai's decision to take the test is at v12,3 in the manga,
which would be around episode 75.
ep82 <-- v13,1 SA: Flashback from episode 81.
GI: Souichirou-san is inactive in the manga.
SA: Added dialogue about "Godai's kids."
SC: Yukari takes Nikaido's only line: "What if the mother
doesn't return?"
<-- v13,2 SC: Tarou has a Godzilla toy in the anime and an Ultraman toy
in the manga.
ep83 <-- v13,3
<-- v13,4
ep84 <-- v13,5 SA: Flashback to ep83.
SC: Yukari takes the place of Ichinose for one scene. Again,
she does not appear anywhere in the manga.
SM/SR: The scene where Godai proposes to go to Mitaka's
apartment is removed and replaced with the actual
visit of Mitaka's apartment.
SC: The scene where they go to Mitaka's apartment is
replaced with one at a gas station. Same
dialogue, though.
SR: Mitaka sitting alone in the park after Kyoko leaves.
<-- v13,6 SC: Godai's dream with a naked Kyoko running towards Mitaka
is replaced with a scene of Mitaka at the tennis court.
ep85 <-- v13,7
<-- v13,8
ep86 <-- v13,9
<-- v13,10
ep87 <-- v13,11
<-- v14,1
ep88 <-- v14,2
<-- v14,3
ep89 <-- v14,4 SA: Flashback from ep88.
SR: Godai exits the nursing school, all tests over, while he
ponders over why Kozue kissed him.
SA: Godai bidding farewell to Iioka at Cabaret Bunny.
SR: Kyoko's thoughts are shown to the readers in the manga.
<-- v14,5 SA: Yotsuya telling Godai about the New Year's party. In fact,
because of the timing of the manga, it's not New Year's,
and the "party" is in Godai's room...
SC: As I said, the party is in Godai's room, the showdown
between Kozue, Godai, and Kyoko happens right outside
room 5, the chase is down to Kyoko's room instead of up
the hill to Ikkoku-kan. But the dialogue's the same.
SC: The manga ends on a stronger cliffhanger. All we know is
that Kyoko has her own plan, but we don't know that she's
going to move out.
<-- v14,6 SR: Godai sitting up in his bed, wondering if Kyoko's still
angry.
SR: Kyoko packing, thinking angry thoughts about Godai.
ep90 <-- v14,6 SA: Yotsuya's eating Godai's food! ^_^ Is this taken from
v8,4?
SC: Souichirou-san gets a bit more air-time than he does in
the manga.
SC: The studying Nikaido is being replaced with a sleeping
Kentarou. (Again, not too well thought out by the
animators...where's Mr. Ichinose?)
SM: Kyoko's line, "I won't go back even if he comes a hundred
times!" is moved from the end of this chapter to the place
where she goes to bed. This is because although it makes a
good "epilogue-frame" in the manga, it doesn't work well
for a commercial-break cliffhanger.
<-- v14,7 SI: The scene with the tenants surveying the mess is moved
one scene later, so it doesn't seem like Mr. Chigusa has
a instant trip from the Otonashi residence to the Chigusa
apartment.
SC: A scene with Nikaido complaining about the mess while Godai
is cleaning part of it was rewritten.
SC: Again, Kyoko's thoughts are hidden in the anime.
SR: Extraneous scene of Godai starting his new job, explaining
to the reader why Godai isn't visiting Kyoko on the 6th
day.
SC: The ending scene has Godai getting bugged by the other
tenants to fix things. The manga has one panel of Godai
calling out the wrong statement in front of Cabaret
Bunny.
ep91 <-- v14,8 SR: Godai remembering why he can't break up with Kozue; she
keeps on saying that she doesn't have time.
SC: Nikaido complaining about a flickering light is replaced
with Kentarou complaining about a broken lock.
SR: Akemi actually takes a shot at Godai in the manga:
5: "I can't believe you drank this much! This is
expensive beer,...I may not be able to pay for it!"
6: "...It'd be a shame if all you did was pay and leave...
...wanna have a fuck?"
5: "...d-d-don't say that, I'm still on duty..."
6: "Yeesh, you believed me? Where's your sense of humor?"
<-- v14,9 SC: Godai calls Kozue at home, not at the bank where she works.
SA(GI): Scene with Kentarou.
ep92 <-- v14,10
<-- v15,1
Skip <-- v14,11 See "Lost Manga" section.
ep93 <-- v15,2
<-- v15,3
<-- v15,4
ep94 <-- v15,5
<-- v15,6
ep95 <-- v15,8
ep96 <-- v15,9
<-- v15,10
LOST MANGA
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Just to remind you, the sections here answer the question: "How does dropping
this chapter affect the storyline of the anime?"
v4,1: Kyoko's parents don't know of Mitaka until around episode 82! In any
case, Mitaka doesn't meet them until that time anyway, so perhaps it doesn't
affect the story much.
v4,2: Without this story, it's hard to tell why Kyoko just suddenly decided to
forgive the two men by next episode. Also, this manga chapter does a lot of
delving into Kyoko and Godai's thoughts, which is character development that is
absent from the anime.
v4,6: This story is almost all comedy filler.
v5,1: This story deals with Godai recuperating from the cold he got when he
was living outside of Ikkoku-kan.
v5,2-3:These were very likely replaced with episodes 39 and 40.
v5,5-6:
v5,10:
v6,2-3:
v6,8:
v7,6:
v8,3:
v8,5-11:
v9,9:
v10,5:
v14,11: This chapter was skipped for an obvious reason; the animators didn't
want to show sex in the TV show. (Even though the manga didn't even show a
nipple!)
DISCUSSION
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ep14 <-- v2,7 Mamezou vs. Ma Mezon
This episode was accentuated heavily compared to the manga, and it seems
like the episode is much more emotional. This is due to the addition of the
rain, and of Kyoko's desperation in trying to correct her mistake. Why? One
theory is that the animators were in the middle of animating the ending credits
for "Cinema," and has symbolisms of rain and high-heeled shoes on their mind.
Whatever the case, this episode marks a strong checkpoint in the anime series,
the likes of which we won't see until episode 27.
ep22 <-- v3,5-6 Is Kyoko Leaving?
By partitioning the manga chapters as they did (3 chapters into 2
episodes), the anime writers effectively created a cliffhanger, the first one
in the series. To increase the effect, Kyoko has been absent for a while
before Ritsuko makes her announcement. Later on in the series (perhaps because
of fear of ratings), they have much more cliffhanger endings...but then again,
so does the manga.
ep25 <-- v3,9 Pairing Up
The anime turned this into a simple case where it could seem like Kyoko
just misunderstood Mitaka's proposal. However, the anime was much more
serious; Kyoko was present and listening when Godai defended her by claiming
that she still loved Souichirou-san. As a consequence, we see her thank Godai
in her mind, and we know that her misinterpretation of the proposal was
feigned. Another example of how the anime Kyoko is more mysterious than the
manga Kyoko.
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Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@cco.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/
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