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.

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.

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.


 * 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.


 * 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.