Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
The first episode of the anime threw a lot of people for a loop. It was content actually drawn from LN Vol. 4 depicting Minoru being the Stylish Thug Slayer. The LNs and manga don’t show the Akane-related content until they get to the LN4 part of the story. So, if you hadn’t read through LN4 when the anime premiered (the most recently released volume at the time), then the whole first episode was anime-original to you. On top of that, the first episode rolls the end credits early and then has a long post-credits sequence.
Very mild spoilers for first 4 episodes of the anime
Honestly, I appreciate what it was trying to do, but I think the way they sequenced the first ~3 episodes of the anime was confusing for a lot of people. Also, by having the Akane kidnapping in episode 1, it made a lot of people think that kidnapping girls is all the series is about due to both Claire and Alexia seeing their own kidnappings very early in the show as well.