User blog:Latee hatori/A Quick Guide To The Differences Between Each Version of The Series

This series has an abandoned Web Novel, a rewritten currently running Web Novel, a Light Novel, a Manga, and an Anime. While the current Web Novel and Light Novel are near identical outside Light Novel extras, and the Manga fairly faithfully adapts them, the other two have several differences from the rest.

This is currently a quickish, off the top of my head, list of differences for if someone wanted to jump from one medium to another. If I remember something, someone else notes something, or something changes I will update this.

As of this writing, this is where I am with each version:


 * Old Web Novel: Read fan translation, reread some later parts a few times, though I have never done a completely straight read through for earlier chapters
 * Current Web Novel: Up to the current fan translated chapter, 242.
 * Light Novel: Own the currently released physical copies of the English version (1-4), read up to English volume 7 and the free volume 8 preview.
 * Manga: Own the 2 released English volumes, read fan scans up to Chapter 31.
 * Anime: Season 1 'Watched', fell asleep in the middle and watched the end episodes twice, once or twice as background noise; I am less confident of my memory here

Pacing

 * Anime – Generally skims and skips things
 * Manga – Occasionally moves things around, occasionally adds gags
 * Old Web Novel – Variably has more summarized flashbacks, sometimes has less or more details, some writing issues

Character Designs

 * Anime/Manga - Ryoma has slightly different hairstyles, mostly being fluffier and more stylized.
 * Anime/Manga - Hughes has black spiky hair as opposed to light brown

First Use of Magic

 * Old Web Novel – Summarized flashback of both building his cave home and catching a slime
 * Anime/Manga – Catches a slime. Building the cave unmentioned in relation.

LN Extra Stories

 * Web Novel/Old Web Novel – Don't exist, have a small number of their own unadapted to LN
 * Anime – Not adapted.
 * Manga – Not adapted, has its own original prose stories in volumes.

Anime Season 1 vs Light Novel
Season 1 covers the first three Light Novels, minus the last chapter.

Major Differences

 * The miasma replaced a disease, all references to diseases removed.
 * Removal of several characters.
 * With the announcement of Season 2 at least some of these characters might show up later.
 * Removal of direct human confrontations (fights).
 * The Goblin fight is very different.
 * Ryoma doesn't build his store largely by himself.
 * Because of changes in events, some of aspects of Ryoma's personality don't get displayed or very well (like how cynical he can get or his tendency to do things on his own)

Other Notable Differences

 * The very first town and the events there are skipped
 * Added/Changed scenes with Elia and other characters
 * Alchemy info skimmed by a lot
 * The way Ryoma's store operates is different
 * English Translation: A small number of characters' names were translated differently, in some cases it's just slight spelling differences (Fay/Fei), others change pronunciation (Carme/Callum)

Skipped Characters

 * The Branch Head of the Tamer guild is not seen, it is unknown if Ryoma met them off screen.
 * Of the Adventurers introduced guarding the pits, Sher and Gordon are absent
 * Ryoma does not meet Beck's Party while working with Jeff and Welanna's Party
 * Ryoma does not encounter and fight Sacchi and the Fang of Orbtem.
 * When Ryoma meets Glissela, Pioro is absent
 * Ryoma does not meet his shop neighbors or their children, including Pauline, Rick, Renny, Thor
 * Ryoma does not meet Lible and hire Caulkin, Lobelia, and Tony
 * Ryoma does not meet Tekun

Old Web Novel vs Current Web Novel/Light Novel
Many details of the old Web Novel and the current series are similar until after the last shared chapters: OWN Ch.3 Ep.21; WN Ch.117; and LN Vol.5 Ch.4 Ep.5


 * Please note that the OWN split off is initially composed largely of time skips and summarized flashbacks, while some details leading up to these and later events have changed, some events are being foreshadowed or are actively being fleshed out in the current story. So everything after the split can be considered potential spoilers.

Notable Differences

 * In the Prologue, many details are handled differently or dropped in the current series.
 * The stats Power, Speed, Defense, Spirit, Endurance, Handiness, and Luck aren't used as visible stats in the current series.
 * In the current series the gods asking permission from “Ryoma's grandparents” to use their names as such is only mentioned, not shown.
 * The contents of a few of Ryoma's interactions with Eliaria are changed around.
 * The Branch Head of the Tamer Guild is a completely different person with a completely different personality and role.
 * The fight with Sacchi and his group plays out very differently.
 * A majority of WN Ch.84-110 and the remainder of LN Ch.3 after Ep.14 is new to the current series or had some alterations.
 * At least one known god is unmentioned in the OWN (maybe two)