Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-26580819-20150927161339

I think there were things I did notice in the YP versions too, but I think it's just because I could understand them better. Certain explanations were clearer. Nao's "festival" becausing "city" also seemed to make it flow better and easy to understand. When I first started reading, the whole thing with him randomly talking about festivals confused me (especially since they cut it out in the Crunchyroll translastions and I never noticed he said "matsuri"). I think just the clarity made a big difference.

Ah, okay. I guess they only wanted to show so much of Akatsuki and Rayneshia mopping around missing Shiroe & Krusty (which seems to be a good chunk of the arc... though Ray pretty much pouts and misses Krusty though all of season 2, though by the end she seem more determined not to be). I think part of the problem for me was that I liked Tet from the start and her banter with Nao was amusing. I really didn't care about Nao much until she came into the picture, then he seemed more interesting. The SS members also seemed interesting, even if they aren't developed much. I know Akatsuki had a good reason to mope and stuff but I think most of the characters around her didn't interest me. Maybe part of her problem was that she seemed to spend most of her time with Shiroe and the 2nd most with Nao and they weren't around... On top of her self-pity, she was probably kind of lonely since the people she spent the most time with were gone. She never really seemed to spend much time with Nyanta and the kids, even before they left Akiba. The princess also didn't have a whole lot in friends (maybe Elissa and that's it, though does a made count as a friend?). Even at the end of the series, I didn't care much for Rieze. Maybe after reading the LN I'll care more about her. It just sort of felt like she appeared out of nowhere and took Misa's place. I'm sure she was really stressed out trying to run DDD by herself, but it didn't really seem to come across in the anime so much (and I never really paid much attention to those parts either).

I have noticed that there is more character development in the LN. Nao is a better, more complex character (and not just comic relief) for one. Shiroe's complex of assuming every girls is like Kanami is interesting (though kind of strange... I'd guess she was the only girl he ever really spent time with before). Anyway, after this long ramble... I'll need to actually finish the LN sometime. Maybe I'll try to read more vol. 5 today. I also want to work on another summary once I can see my desktop monitor.