I heard that the novel is closer to the movie in terms of story. Sounds good enough, except a review I read criticizes how bad the localization was. Then again, this is just a review of the first novel. It probably also reads better in Japanese, but I'm not interested enough to go through that.
Personally, I prefer the series as well. The movie version is interesting due to how it presents Haruka's perspective, but I think the series just has more meat to its story.
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