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I'll go with two questions for now. Tag spoiler if it's warranted, though since I know just about nothing of the game, I doubt it would constitute it.

1. What's your opinions of the different order of the events from game and anime. The same text/event more or less happened regardless of different background/location, and while it seems interchangeable it does change things.
(Also I believe most events had Chisato with Oojima with almost every encounter hence his seeking of his destined one which obviously was nowhere near the priority of the anime's start)

2. Although Ayumu is a cameo, with the fact that she and two friends showed up at the first major scene of the anime, as well as right after Oojima was debating on running, as well as before Oojima went to eat dinner, doesn't it look like to the casual viewer that they have relevance? They show up more (often) than Ariake Mieru and Saga Reiji (wait did they even use his name? They said Garage but ...) in my opinion, and those two are supposed to be the most helpful side character classmates. Yes you can assume the Ayumu group isn't from the same school but then they run around the same city/area. (And if they were in the same school you'd think Oojima would ask them for their help).

Spoiler:

It's cool to have a character from an upcoming game cameo and speak a few lines but how would anyone know Ayumu is Chisato's cousin? Or that one of her friends (Matsuri I guess?) is friends with Satsuki? (Unless wiki information is like totally wrong, can't change the fact that Ayumu obviously knows who Oojima is regardless of what backstory.)

In other words, the main point is easy to follow but I find it easy to get confused. You have fewer main girls but you have a lot more characters.

On a random note since the general route is the same throughout, it's easy to implement the common route/plot. It's almost also possible to run components of every route literally.

On another random note despite some trends of "non-primary" girls winning, I would think for Koichoco it's easier to attempt that given that the struggle of that concept is within the base plot itself. (Meaning the protagonist is actually looking into having a girlfriend and actively shows interest).

Spoiler:

As hyl has stated the composition of Koichoco makes it supposedly easier to figure out who isn't going to be the end girl. You almost can eliminate 2-3 choices from air time allocation alone.

However, either for concise purposes you can forgo portions of a character route for linearity or ... it seems more like there will be episodic focus per route to sum it out.

That makes Chisato the most likely, but I would rather see a Satsuki given the extra earlier emphasis. (Though personally I wouldn't mind an Isara pick given that her conditions would at least impose incentives of changes Oojima would implement if he won ... or told Satsuki).

No seriously, run an Isara route (not necessarily end, but route) to further justify the mention of "Oosawa incident with Financial Aid students" so that there's clearly a problem that Oojima finds worth fighting for. It goes beyond saving the club and also warrants Satsuki's assistance since she seems to give more aid than be "the enemy" lol. Speaking of which, the anime hasn't shown Satsuki/Chisato direct encounters and their contrast. If the anime doesn't set this up, viewers won't really see why Oojima insisting Chisato run back in episode 2 make any sense (again, beauty+athletics+popular+academic strengths). Well there's already indication that there will be like a dedicated episode to Satsuki given what was shown on episode 3 with the Shinonome contrast.

Then there's a bunch of tiny things but I won't inquire here.

Spoiler:

Ep 1's "morning practice" was Yume's taste testing? And while implied, did the anime never mentioned that Chisato has strengths in athetics, beauty, popularity (not really shown), and sports? The weakness will be pointed out but I didn't see anywhere mentioning her strengths. Without any mention of Chisato's strengths or even backstory with Oojima it just makes Satsuki seem better since the characters literally point out Satsuki's pros, cons, and objectives immediately from the start. Is this possibly anime intentional since ep 2 points out how Oojima is trying to find the person he's destined with (he did prioritize this over the elections and club) regardless of if it's a joke or not.

Most likely any questions I do have can be answered in subsequent episodes.

Is there any speculation on route order if it's implemented? Given the pace of the election that easily covers the bulk of the next few episodes, but I do wonder. (If there was a route order I'd randomly say the same order you see the girls right at the end of the opening). There was already evidence or statements of singular character focused episodes. And even if not, you'd expect that anyways other than the election stuff.

Spoiler:

Also did game players find it interesting that the anime seems to have Oojima's bishoujo encounters strictly alone? I thought in other mediums (manga/game) Oojima clearly met Satsuki as well as Isara (introduction at Lost and Found) with Chisato near him, as opposed to have Chisato nowhere in sight. It DOES make the "hey what have you been doing behind my back (or without me around)" concept much more believable, and yet isn't as irrelevant as Hazuki warning everyone Satsuki's manifesto instead of Mieru. I still find this particular fact VERY interesting as the anime seems to show reasons of why Oojima wouldn't want to stick with Chisato all day every day as opposed to having episodes decided to like explaining their past/backstory and whatnot (though this could be shown later too).

Speaking of which ... I thought Chisato already knew Satsuki is Hazuki's sister, or was Chisato's "why can't you do something if she's your sister" question a viewer thing (instead of implying she does or does not know who she is?)? I guess this question is irrelevant as the answer is "Chisato has nothing direct/specific to do with Satsuki so prior to the manifesto there's no clash or encounter or anything". I should remember one can know who someone is without meeting them directly (as Oojima obviously did). Funny how Hazuki is so chill nobody called her "Shinonome-sensei". ... or maybe what Sarue and Monzennaka call Hazuki didn't matter (or just used Sensei). (Did the anime even use their names other than when Yakumo greeted them for their cooperation?)

I'll look at it another way: it's pretty easy to not (and also) take note of a character when your school has 6,000 freaking students. Aka it's easy to not recognize or talk to someone you don't regularly see or hang out with, and yet someone of a big position like finance commissioner also cannot be missed. I've noticed the anime may have very well had Isara intentionally unseen in episode 3 because she doesn't have direct correlation with club or student council matters, yet when Oojima sees her in episode 4 there IS correlation (either a 1st year floor or *the component relevant to Isara's route*) making it make more sense instead of "timely encounter" considering Oojima already hit chance encounters at least SIX times already (Satsuki + bike x 2, Isara x 2, Yakumo, Matsuri).

On a super random note I didn't notice how nikujaga was mentioned as an imitation of beef stew in episode 2 ... the episode 3 spoiler component which was what Hazuki wanted to eat. I didn't realize these episodes were foreshadowing so many different things I couldn't even tell.

Yeah, so I found it interesting how the anime set up ways to leave holes everywhere despite having a main focus. I felt this was much different than the game (despite the common election component being more or less the same). Introductions to characters (main girls specifically) are virtually identical too. But this anime contrast of Chisato where she isn't with Oojima and Oojima being with another girl is rather interesting. I don't think there's any PSP specific components here, but I wouldn't know.

Speaking of which, the Morishita-already-joined/met is a bit odd if a route or something new occurs to Oojima. It's like "ok I regularly hang out with this girl but she's still an enigma". Well, not that it matters.

I could have my facts totally wrong but I am curious to know. I didn't even mention about Hidaka. Ah too many things to look at. Seriously, this formula looks similar to Manglobe's Mashiro and then you get thrown a second curveball that Oojima wanting to look for love not with Chisato is already an in-game engine.