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Originally Posted by hyl

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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).

Spoiler for Episode 1 & Game:

I think it's the combination of the narration with the visual (clearly from Airi's ending) that connects the two points. Sure it could just be random and those footprints could be anyone, but game players will recognize that scene and connect it to Airi's ending (even if the text is an adaptation of the opening narration, which was echoed in Airi's ending). As with Toradora, I think it's very strong foreshadowing.

Originally Posted by hyl

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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.

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Well, clearly there'll have to be some re-writing involved for them to include elements from all the routes, because you're right that the routes don't overlap much. Beyond just the different writers, most of the routes are heavily romance-dependent, so they can only be merged up to a certain point without being rewritten. That being said, I really can't imagine them going for Sakuno's route without a massive re-write, as despite Sakuno's character prominence, her route isn't very connected to the main theme of the work or that opening narration. (It would actually annoy me somewhat if they did Sakuno's route given this opening; it'd be a bit like a certain other eroge adaptation with similar original character designs which was heavily modified from the original PC game.) So anyway, since I'm barring total rewrites for the moment (the first episode was fairly faithful after all), I can only go with either Airi or Miu, and I think most bets are on Airi. I think Sakuno will have one episode later where the go into the first part of her route (with the flashback, to tie back to the opening episode), and then sort of reset to the status quo. Wouldn't surprise me if that happens just before the Airi ending.

So my prediction would basically be:
Episode 2: Common route (rest of the introductions)
Episode 3: Common route + start of Miu branch
Episode 4: Common route (Airi's home discovered)
Episode 5: Pets Club (Miu & Sana backstory, threat to close the club)
Episode 6: Pets Club (resolution)
Episode 7: Ange One-Off?
Episode 8: Return to Airi branch
Episode 9: Resolution for Miu/Sana (disappearance of Pannya?)
Episode 10: Sakuno One-Off
Episode 11: Airi Confession
Episode 12: Airi Denouement

Of course I could be totally off, and some of the content could be shifted up and down a bit, but it was fun to sort of think it through.

Originally Posted by hyl

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• 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.

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Yes, but the prominence in the OP alone pretty much guarantees that she'll have a bigger role than the other side-characters, and in the game that only happened in Miu's route. At the very least, I think they'll have her show up in more places as she did in the PSP game, rather than it just being the four heroines at certain points.

And as an aside...

Originally Posted by hyl

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And to be honest, i liked Sana better in the Miu story, than in her own story

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Well, I guess I'd say that Sana's route was a good complement to the original route. I was a Sana fan in the original game, so I was just glad to see her get a happy ending. I thought that the PSP game did a really good job of it and it was worth my while, but I suppose I wouldn't have felt so strongly about it if it weren't for the long wait between PC game and the PSP game. As a route for the anime it doesn't work because it depends a lot on being familiar with Miu's route. I'd say it's really a route for people who played the original game already. As far as the "canon endings" of the game go, it's a good "bonus" true ending, since it connects nicely to a lot of other plot points in the game.