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Originally Posted by Skyfall

Aye, the anime OP/narration certainly gave us some hints, and I would say the 'final' one you mentioned being an elephant sized one

Spoiler:

Not necessarily, the opening narration of the anime is a shortened version of the opening narration of the game to explain why the color of love is white.
Airi's ending has a similar talk about colors, but it's more different than the opening narration of the game. But because Airi is considered to be the main heroine, it was fitting that she had to repeat an altered version of the opening narration to end the story (just like the anime version of Toradora (haven't read the novels, so i don't know if it also had that narration as an ending) and some other VN).

Adding Amaha Yuiko in the opening made me think that they will be using her to give improve Miu's character development , but i think they will be using her differently than the VN. The only way how they could add side characters who only show up in 1 story is to alter the story a little, so that shingo will probably meet her without shifting the story to Miu's route.
Eventhough i haven't finished Ange's story because i don't like her as a love interest for the main ( but she was an excellent side character to make the other story funnier), the stories of the other 3 main heroine's of the original game and the 2 from the game don't seem to overlap at all, very likely because the stories in the original game were written by 3 people.

I don't think we will be seeing anything from Sana's story from the psp game, because it's really different from the other stories (it branches of from Miu's stpry if made slightly different choice) and it also introduces a new side character. I think Sana will be used as a support character for Miu like the original game. And to be honest, i liked Sana better in the Miu story, than in her own story. One other reason why i think that they will be not using anything from Sana's story is that we don't see anything of the 6th character from the psp game: Onomiya Yutsuki.

My guess is that they be going for the Airi or Sakuno route, while adding little bits from the other 2 characters.

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Originally Posted by relentlessflame

Spoiler for Anime Opening Episode/game endings:

[*]Sana's prominence in the anime also suggests elements of Miu's route are likely (though I'm doubtful they'll delve into Sana's PSP route).[*]The "Sakuno getting lost" scene features the same location that comes back as that important flashback in Sakuno's route, which puts more emphasis on her "if I get lost you'll find me" line.[*]The opening narration is actually the ending narration from Airi's route, along with the "two pairs of footsteps in snow". This is the strongest hint about the probable ending (which most gamers would have expected). They did have all five heroines narrate part of it, although Airi reads the last bit while the two pairs of footprints are shown.[/list]

Spoiler:

[*]Sana is not more prominently shown in the anime yet than the game , besides the Pannya scene. But that was used to show us all of the heroines. Sana being there next to Machi sensei, was pretty indentical as in the game.
But her showing up in the opening is not a suprise, seeing that she was voted to be the most popular character in the 2nd Mashiro Iro poll from quite a while ago and thanks to her huge fanbase she got her own story when the psp version was made.
[*]I agree with you. I think the anime probably intentionally made the first 10 minutes slower and more stretched than the original scene, to emphasize on Sakuno story a little.
[*] i explained my opinion on that as a reponse to Skyfall's post