Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140111153519/@comment-6192846-20140218194315

Danytaly wrote:

It would be a shame to consider the manga non-canon... we'll see...

Which are the changed events/details?

Also who are the characters in the 2nd half? Elluka Mariam Held Micha Gumillia and Clarith?

Personally, I think we should take the approach many large multi-media fanbases take with adaptations, deem it canon but only implement the stuff that doesn't outright contradict major parts of the manga. Adaptations are going to inevitably be different from the source material; I don't think it should be discredited because it has stuff that mothy's light novels didn't have.

To give some examples:

Changed: Riliane doesn't run ahead embaressed toward the port town, forcing Allen to remind her of Josephine; they either remove or timeskip to when she's already on the horse.

New: Leonhart and co. meet up with Riliane at the port town. Leonhart's angry and Riliane decides to calmly assert her dominance, giving them a speech before demanding they  kneel to her (Ichika's segway to get that line in there). They immediately do so, much to Leonhart's chagrin, as she just looks on with satisfaction at how they must obey their Princess.

Leonhart, Arth, Anne, Allen, and co. are also in the second half. It's handled much like one continuous story and everything flows together very well. I think the fact there's a timeskip backwards is made pretty clear and the scenes that are added help keep it tight.

I'll have a few scans up later today. Like I said, I won't be tearing this apart to make full scans of everything until I get a second copy. This deserves all the money that can be thrown at it for the quality it comes in imo.