So how different the first episode of the anime compared to the light novel?
Since I (and probably most of us) only read the manga before hand, the first episode of the anime feel more slow-paced than the *main* manga. Maybe because the first episode combine the Chronicle spin-off and then a little bit of main manga it felt that way, since the main manga immediately deal with Yuuta already took care of the girls in its first chapter.
And unrelated question about later development...