Media Differences

Differences between anime and LN

 * In the Light Novels prior to Volume 3, Kiyotaka's personality is like a regular high school student who is aware of his surroundings and wants to get along with his classmates who gradually reveals his dark side at the end of volume 3 while in the anime, he is Emotionless right from the beginning making his actions look contradictory to what they were intended to.


 * In the Light Novels, the exact number of private points owned by the characters weren't defined but in the anime, they were given a precise number at the end of each episode next to the cast column of the ED.


 * The class size in the Light Novels is 40 for each class but was changed to 25 per class in the anime.
 * In the Light Novels, Sae Chabashira has a tendency to withhold important information from Class 1-D while in the anime that trait has not been seen.

Scenes Changed during the Adaptation

 * Kiyotaka  Ayanokōji and Suzune Horikita introduce themselves to each other in their classroom on the day of the entrance ceremony while in anime they did so in a convenience store after school on the day of the entrance ceremony.


 * Ayanokōji first met Ken Sudō in the convenience store after school on the day of the entrance ceremony where he paid for the Ramen Sudō bought and made him his acquaintance.
 * Manabu Horikita's first appearance in the Light novels is him giving a speech during the Student Club Fair while in the anime he was first shown giving speech during the Entrance Ceremony.

Scenes Cut during the Adaptation

 * The introductions of Kokoro Inogashira and Rokusuke Kōenji which had preceded before Ayanokōji introduced himself, is cut in the anime.
 * Pool scene where the boys of Class 1-D bets on the size of the biggest breast size of the girls.
 * Ayanokōji hangs out with Kanji Ike, Haruki Yamauchi, Kikyō Kushida, Yōsuke Hirata, Kei Karuizawa, Nene Mori and Chiaki Matsushita after their classes end.

Scenes Changed during the Adaptation

 * Kyōsuke Okiya, who came to join Horikita's her study group along with Kushida, was not shown in the anime.
 * The one to bring up the topic about  Ayanokōji’s score to Suzune Horikita was Chabashira Sae as opposed to Manabu Horikita in anime.
 * In the LNs, it was said that Manabu Horikita was going to drop her sister on the concrete floor as opposed to driving a punch in her guts as shown in anime.

Scenes Cut during the Adaptation

 * Class 1-D's confusion after being branded as Failures and discussion that follows it are cut in the anime.
 * The conversation that took place between Horikita, Sae Chabashira and Ayanokōji in the faculty room is cut in the anime.
 * The first meeting of Ayanokōji and Chie Hoshinomiya and the first appearance of Honami Ichinose in the faculty room is cut in the anime.
 * Chabashira deliberately forgetting to tell about change in syllabus for the mid-terms.

Scenes Changed during the Adaptation

 * Horikita created the study group for a second time in the LNs while in the anime, She only gave a book with her notes to Sudō.
 * Kushida's dark side is revealed to Ayanokōji in the roof top of the school building as opposed to park side in the anime.
 * In the LNs, There was a fight of Sudō with Yamawaki from Class 1-C which was stopped by Honami Ichinose while in the anime, the fight occurred between Sudō and Kakeru Ryūen, Daichi Ishizaki and Kyōgo Komiya of Class 1-C.

Scenes Cut during the Adaptation

 * Ayanokōji having lunch with Kushida and talking about hot guy ranking between the first-year girls.
 * Horikita had apologized to Sudō for calling his dreams worthless.

Story Chronology changes

 * Manabu Horikita first makes his appearance after Horikita and Ayanokōji goes to the student club fair in the LNs while he has already appeared before Horikita and Ayanokōji introduced themselves in anime in the entrance ceremony.
 * The results of the mid-term test was announced at the end of Episode 2 in the anime while it should chronologically be in Episode 3.
 * In the LNs, Kushida's dark side is revealed after the failure of the Horikita's first study group while in the anime it was revealed after Ayanokōji and Horikita managed to save Sudō from expulsion.

Scenes Changed during the Adaptation

 * Ike, Horikita, Kushida, Yamauchi, Ayanokōji and Sudō were having discussion about how to proceed with the incident in cafe while in anime they talked about it in Ayanokōji's room.
 * Kakeru Ryūen ordering Yamada Albert to beat Daichi Ishizaki is an anime original

Scenes Cut during the Adaptation

 * Sudō telling Ayanokōji and Kushida about his fight with Class 1-C students in Ayanokōji's room.
 * Ike, Kushida, Yamauchi and Ayanokōji going to Class 1-B in search of a witness.
 * The talk about using 20,000,000 private points to change class mentioned by Chabashira.
 * Class 1-D refusing to help Sudō after Sakura ran off saying she didn't witness anything.
 * Kōenji and Sudō's argument in the class has been cut in anime.
 * Running into Sakura in the special building is cut in the anime.
 * Horikita and Ayanokōji met Ichinose Honami in the special building and agreed to make her their ally.
 * Horikita and Ayanokōji's conversation in his room alone is cut.
 * Ayanokōji meeting Ichinose in the lobby and going to school together is cut.

Scenes Changed during the Adaptation

 * In the LNs, Kushida tells about Shizuku in Ayanokōji's room to Ike, Yamauchi and Ayanokōji instead of telling just Ayanokōji like in the anime.

Scenes Cut during the Adaptation

 * Kushida's phone call to Ayanokōji for meeting Sakura to repair her digital camera is cut in the anime.
 * Ayanokōji calling to the professor in the electronics store is cut.
 * Sakura calling Ayanokōji is cut in the anime.
 * Ayanokōji telling Sae Chabashira about Sakura being the witness in the faculty room.
 * Ayanokōji meeting Sakura alone in her room 1106 is cut in the anime.
 * Ayanokōji having a walk with Sakura in to club activities building is cut in the anime.

Scenes Changed during the Adaptation

 * In the LN, Ayanokōji reads the comment of Shizuku's stalker instead of it being read by Sakura in the anime.
 * The talk between Ryūen and Arisu at the end of the episode didn't happen in LN.

Scenes Cut during the Adaptation

 * Horikita explaining her strategy to use fake camera to Ichinose and Kanzaki.
 * It was Kiyotaka Ayanokōji and Honami Ichinose in Volume 2 that threatened the students of Class 1-C with the fake surveillance camera to clear the suspicion of Ken Sudō's violence as opposed to Kiyotaka and Horikita Suzune in anime.


 * Sakura Airi confronted the her stalker alone, while  Ayanokōji waited till the very end to appear along with Honami and they even let the guy go without calling the police to arrest him unlike the anime, where the stalker was arrested by the guards.

Story Chronology changes

 * Ayanokōji and Horikita going to the special building in search of clues happened chronologically earlier.


 * It was Kiyotaka  Ayanokōji and Kei Karuizawa who prevented the peeping on the girls changing room by Class D boys in volume 4.5 while anime showed Kiyotaka  Ayanokōji and Suzune Horikita. Also the plan for peeping was using a rc car and not a camera. Also, after the resolution, he is pushed into the pool by Kei as opposed to Suzune in anime.


 * Arisu Sakayanagi, who first appeared in volume 5, had already made an appearance in the anime which was only animated till Volume 3.


 * For the first time, the existence of White Room is revealed in Volume 5 but the past of Kiyotaka Ayanokoji in 'White Room' is already shown in the anime.


 * The anime episode 7 which was based on volume 4.5 is chronologically much later in series as anime was only animated till volume 3.


 * Episode 8 which should correspond to the beginning of volume 3 was an anime original based on the beginning of volume 3 and a part of volume 4.