(L) UQ Holder!

[4th Dimension]

Not that many differences here in how things happen during the arc, but as others have said this episode was cobbled together from couple scenes from the next arc and the Kuromaru date arc from waaaay into the future.

And, despite that, I can't say that it doesn't work. Probably a lot of it is down to the plot being allowed to SLOW THE FUCK down so that the spirit of the show can start shining through all of the plot acceleration.

Spoiler for Differences:

OMG this one adapts stuff from all over the place. It's setting up things for the Space Elevator Arc by using bits from Ch 31. Well more hints at them since we see Kirie for the first time.
The rest of the episode is from WAAAAY into the future. Which is why sundress!Kuromaru's comment about Touta taking her out to show her the city doesn't make sense since at this point in anime Touta has been out of the compound ONCE, and only to go to the slums. Yet the manga Touta has LIVED in the city and fought there for a time since the date is from chapters 100-103.
As for the differences, well for one it's Kirie that pushes Kuromaru in the dressing up direction, not Karin.
Touta was able to at first see through the "disguise", untill the Robot-san uses his Kuromaru robotic body... which he has for reasons...
This is minor but they take the yacht, instead of the speeder. I guess they needed the yacht for Kirie. But this kinda then doesn't mesh well with Shinobu's comment that the racer is slow, when you know what she does with it in the manga.
The rest is mostly similar.
Well another problem is that if manga Touta could have went freely to the Elevator now, he would have gone there before, but in the managa he wasn't really allowed to go wherever, nor did he have cash for this. But eh. That's a nitpick.

What is more significant is that it seems they are doing some serious restructuring of how the story flows to make it fit. Since it seems Karin will not be the reason they are at the Space Elevator, but the "date". Which makes me wonder how will they run into Kirie.

about Kuromaru being "weak" in girl form, it's probably because he's just not used to his body, imagine a truck driver being told into driving a F1

I don't see WHAT is there for him to get used to. His body is the same one he woke up in that morning. He just untied his chest, put on a dress and dye his hair. So there should be no appreciable major differences, and all of this is probably just in his head due to his gender issues.

And bad Kuromaru!!! No no, being a girl or boy in your world doesn't necessarily translate to power . The top two or three overpowered characters in the series are female ya know , I won't spoil anything but just look at Yukihime

Someone REALLY REALLY needs to introduce him to 3A or even just to the accomplishments of Setsuna.
Hell some of the most powerful characters of the younger group that could run along with the old ones were female, and Kaede the normie is probably the poster child for that. The girl that just hung around the forests, could fight hard enough to match Fate himself for a time.

[FlareKnight]

At least Kuromaru's situation is more interesting than I had initially thought. Not whether Kuromaru is one gender or another, but rather a choice hasn't been made yet. I do hope in general Kuromaru gives it more thought.

In agreement that it was just a mental issue. He's actively thinking of being one gender or another even though obviously his body shouldn't have changed at all while wearing that disguise. Being male or female shouldn't impact his decision or ability to protect Tota. After all some of the most powerful characters so far are female. It's just a question of which he wants to be for the majority of his immortal existence.

Tota was pretty sloppy with his guard to be sure. Pretty easily captured there and taken out of the equation. But hey, he is a kid and that will happen sometimes.

[Anh_Minh]

Setsuna had a similar issue where loving Konoka made her doubt her ability to protect her.

[4th Dimension]

Well quite a bit of Negima character things have been recycled into these characters. Kuromaru is basically gender confused Setsuna. Kirie is well pretty much Chisame. etc.

[TnAdct1]

Originally Posted by 4th Dimension

Well quite a bit of Negima character things have been recycled into these characters. Kuromaru is basically gender confused Setsuna. Kirie is well pretty much Chisame. etc.

Of course, a number of Negima characters are pretty much recycled Love Hina characters to begin with (Asuna being a less bitchy Naru, Nodoka being a brave Shinobu).

[NapoleonDeCheese]

Someone REALLY REALLY needs to introduce him to 3A or even just to the accomplishments of Setsuna.
Hell some of the most powerful characters of the younger group that could run along with the old ones were female, and Kaede the normie is probably the poster child for that. The girl that just hung around the forests, could fight hard enough to match Fate himself for a time.

Most of Ala Alba seems to have been greatly overshadowed by Negi through the passage of time. Negi grew so overpowered he rendered the rest of the team mostly useless as long as he's around (even the actual final battle against the Lifemaker basically cheated to avoid actually showing how Ala Alba made a real difference), and then, by the time of UQ Holder nobody but Eva seems to remember the names of Negi's companions, he's basically talked about as if he did everything on his own.

Besides, considering Kuromaru was raised in a small isolated village by prejudiced assholes who were fanatics of their own traditions and thought of the strongest woman around as a monster to be killed off, odds are he was pumped with all sorts of sexist misconceptions through his youth. It's a small miracle he's as nice as he is.

[SilverGlavenus]

^ Negi's power is so great and his speed is so fast even the author cannot keep up with him and had to come up with a rushed ending to Negima. Clearly the UQ Holder manga and anime suffer from that now

[4th Dimension]

Originally Posted by SilverGlavenus

^ Negi's power is so great and his speed is so fast even the author cannot keep up with him and had to come up with a rushed ending to Negima. Clearly the UQ Holder manga and anime suffer from that now

So what you arr saying is that due to his speed he reached a premature... culmination. Leaving all parties undersatisfied.

[Hata]

Spoiler for ep 07-10 title:

第07話「リセット＆スタート」
Episode 07 "Reset & Start"

第08話「フェイト捕獲作戦」
Episode 08 "Fate Capture Operation"

第09話「恋とお風呂の反復運動」
Episode 08 "Repetitive movement of love and bath”

第10話「麻帆良学園へようこそ」
Episode 10 "Welcome to Mahora Academy"

第12話 (打ち切り最終回案)
Episode 12 (final）

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by SilverGlavenus

^ Negi's power is so great and his speed is so fast even the author cannot keep up with him and had to come up with a rushed ending to Negima. Clearly the UQ Holder manga and anime suffer from that now

The UQ Holder manga has been fixing that recently.

Kuromaru's little "oh no, I'm not strong enough to fight alongside Tota as a female, I'd better choose to be a BIG STRONG MALE and live a MANLY life and have a great FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MEN with Tota instead" arc was one of the most irritating parts of UQ Holder to me, given how utterly alien it is to that entire freaking universe. The place is utterly swamped with overpowered females, yet somehow Kuromaru thinks being female will prevent them from being able to fight.

[NapoleonDeCheese]

Whatever happened to Episode 11?

Also, yeah, that sounds all rushed as heck.

given how utterly alien it is to that entire freaking universe. The place is utterly swamped with overpowered females, yet somehow Kuromaru thinks being female will prevent them from being able to fight.

Again, he seems to have been raised in an isolated environment by conventional-minded arseholes who bossed him around in a paternalistic way. It'd make sense if they were sexist and raised him with that kind of ideas on females too.

[4th Dimension]

Also Setsuna back in Negima had basically the same issue where she was thinking her "friendship" to ojou-sama was making her weak, despite that being stupid.

[SilverGlavenus]

Only 12 eps ??? No wonder it is called Negima 2. The anime literally used Thunder God Vigor and rushes straight to the end.

[4th Dimension]

This might as well be called UQ Holder: Highlights reel.

[NapoleonDeCheese]

Originally Posted by 4th Dimension

Also Setsuna back in Negima had basically the same issue where she was thinking her "friendship" to ojou-sama was making her weak, despite that being stupid.

Across three whole series, was Eishun the only Shinmei-ryuu who was not screwed up in the head?

[erneiz_hyde]

Does Motoko's sister counts as screwed up in the head?

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by NapoleonDeCheese

Besides, considering Kuromaru was raised in a small isolated village by prejudiced assholes who were fanatics of their own traditions and thought of the strongest woman around as a monster to be killed off, odds are he was pumped with all sorts of sexist misconceptions through his youth. It's a small miracle he's as nice as he is.

Well while they indeed think Eva is monster to be killed, they aren't fanatic enough actually try so for real.

[4th Dimension]

Originally Posted by NapoleonDeCheese

Across three whole series, was Eishun the only Shinmei-ryuu who was not screwed up in the head?

Umm. If I remember correctly he was kinda INCREDIBLY sexually repressed or something. Enough that back when JACK was their enemy, during their first encounter with him, he disabled Eshun by just throwing Instant Babes Just Add Water at him. Once he was surrounded by them he was out of action.
Basically think Setsuna vis a vis Konoka. Incredibly horny/thisty about someone/something but their teachings prevent them from acting therefore deadlocking their brain at times.

[NapoleonDeCheese]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

Well while they indeed think Eva is monster to be killed, they aren't fanatic enough actually try so for real.

Well, even sending Kuromaru was kind of a conceptual (not actual) risk on itself. Had Eva been as actually bad as they thought, after killing Kuromaru she might have just tracked the way he took somehow directly to the village (and we know Eva is resourceful enough to pull this off would she ever have wanted to) and then gotten revenge on the fools who dispatched someone to try and kill her.

It seems to me they never thought Kuro had a chance at all, and that they were sending him to his demise because they thought so little of him, but I don't think they were planning too far ahead on what'd happen later if Eva took offense on it, either. Maybe they hoped to lure her into an ambush? Eva being weaker now seemed more or less common knowledge in the right circles if Mizuki-sensei (that's my pet name for him anyway) was any indication way back in Chapter 1. Perhaps the birdies thought they could beat her on their own grounds and with superior numbers, and perhaps some kind of strategy.

[4th Dimension]

New episode. This episode adapts the manga from about middle of Ch 32 to she start of Ch 37 and hopping back and forth through manga has caused some wierdness to happen to how things turn out in anime.

All in all it's a fine episode IMO, and once you ignore the patching between the date and the events of this episode, it's a pretty good attempt at adaptation. Unfortunately the fight vs the shadow user guy is considerably shorter than in the manga.

It even shows us what happens when Kirie transports someone back in time with her. She seems not to actually transport the mass from the future. So there are no two Toutas when they go back. Instead she seems to snatch the past Touta, change his location to close by to her bonfire, and override his memories since he dissapears on Kuromaru.

Spoiler for Episode 7 differences:

The main difference is how the events from the future chapters were spliced with the events from now.
In the manga they all went to the elevator together, and from start Kirie and Touta went off on their own, and the events form then on pretty much match anime, with one exception.
In the anime on the other hand Touta runs into Kirie after the "date".
More importantly in anime, Touta is not there when she lights her respawn she will be using, and from the start she uses the body snatching one, unlike in manga. Which causes Touta to dissapear on Kuromaru when they travel back in time. This did not happen in manga because Touta was there when she lit her bonfire, and so just his memories were reset.
Other than that:
The fight with the shadow user is shorter, and Touta just casually tosses him into stratosphere. In manga it's a longer affair and even after he is defeated he manages to turn tables and in the end Android-kun rescues Kirie.
Manga translation has Fate say Touta should have been his, while in the Anime subs he outright claims he is his property.
Ikku and Karin don't overhear her talking about her immortality in the manga. There, Ikku forces her to tell him as a price for going along with her plan.
In the manga it's Kirie that tells Touta about who Fate is. There is no silly prerecorded message.
I have flipped through manga and I can't find Cutlass's appearance this early. So I guess that's another Anime addition.