[relentlessflame]

This is continuing a conversation started in the anime thread, but I didn't want to go too much further for fear of going into straight spoiler territory. So I'll put the comparison here.

Spoiler for Direction of the anime adaptation, based on the game and Episodes 1 & 2:

I think one of the big changes in the anime is that they've re-framed the story content to be entirely about the development of Kouhei and Erika's relationship. This manifests itself in a few different ways, but the net effect overall is that they've reduced some of the sense of "mystery" or "intrigue" and replaced it with more obvious insight into Erika's perspective on events. It makes some sense for them to do this given that they have only 12 episodes; this basically replaces the way the game developed Erika's perspective through the multiple playthroughs (common Erika route, all the other routes, and then "true ending").

What I personally think this means is that the anime will invariably lose some of the "charm" that the game had, because I really feel that a lot of this came as a result of the fully developed perspectives you had from each character before entering the true ending (which "put it all together"). But I think the anime can still do a decent job at turning this into a more straightforward romance story, and preserve the essence of the characters in the process. And, in what will probably surprise no one who's played the game, it means we'll get the True Ending with elements of the other paths grafted in (which is pretty much exactly as they did/are doing with the manga).