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Episode 19: If Only I Can Protect You
Air date: February 7th 2007
Channel: TV Tokyo
Length: ca. 24 minutes
Differences between manga and anime
The episode basically meets up with the manga's plot at the end, but still contains some very significant changes.
Character apparances:
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In the manga, Hiwatari was not in the scene where he appears in this episode.
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Victor did not appear at this point in the story.
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Accordingly, the roles of Maruyama, Inukai, Busujima and Chitose have changed quite a bit. They never formed a team like this in the manga: instead, Maruyama and Inukai attacked the trio together, Chitose was mostly doing intelligence jobs and Busujima was with Hiwatari in various little scenes, never an action scene... Of course, since their roles are small anyway, this vastly changes the way that these characters are going to be perceived.
Additional stuff:
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Hiwatari's attack in the beginning is of course new as he was not there in the manga. Sadly, his attack only really serves to seperate Kazuki from Tokiko and Gouta, and to render Tokiko incapable of fighting for the time being, which again allows Gouta to lead his duel against Negoro, the way it happened in the manga. Hiwatari as plot device? Aw.
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The sequence of the Renkin Sendan's fight against Victor is all new. Shuusui was not even re-introduced into the story at this point. This may be seen to be a problematic part.
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Maruyama gets to comment on Shuusui's undeniable good looks. I sort of approve, because I have had that theory that he'd like him...
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The manga did not show the outcome of Papillon against Ikusabe, while the anime clearly shows Papillon leaving the scene as the winner, if only to fall asleep from exhaustion in the middle of the road.
Missing stuff:
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Papillon uses the same trick to injure Ikusabe and steal his spear, but unlike in the manga, the battle ends with this. In the manga, Negoro appeared at this point, causing Papillon to lose the spear and Ikusabe to regain it, supposedly turning the tables once more. The battle's outcome was not immediately shown in the manga. Of course, since Negoro is currently elsewhere, he cannot interfere.
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No Tokiko during Papillon's fight.
This list is not guaranteed to be complete and may be updated later with further differences between manga and anime.
If you have any comments, corrections or think that a crucial difference was forgotten, please feel free to inform me.
(Written by Kaeli on February 16th)