Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie: The Biggest Differences Between the Anime & Manga So Far

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The Spring 2022 season saw the emergence of the anime adaptation of Keigo Maki's slice of life romance manga, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie; known in Japan as 'Kawaii Dake ja Nai Shikimori-san'. The anime has been one of the Spring season's most anticipated, particularly when it comes to slice of life and romance, but fans of the manga may have noticed how different things are in the anime.

Whatever the opinion on these changes, it is fairly standard for the anime adaptation of a manga to differ from its source material (hence the struggle with filler episodes in Shо̄nen anime, for instance), but some changes are more noticeable than others, and deviating from the source material completely is not particularly the most popular option. In the case of Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, these changes have had profound effects on the series overall, so here's a small rundown on just how different the anime Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie really is.

Spring 2022 Preview: Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie

Part of the major revisions to the characters and story of Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie lie in the huge difference between the manga's style of administering the story compared to the anime. Each chapter of the manga is incredibly short, often covering just one event or an aspect thereof, such as a walk to school, the trip to the movies or the planetarium, or even a mere conversation. The anime rearranges the chronology of these events from the manga, and puts several events together, changing the context thereof or adding in aspects that the manga lacked.

This is the trend for all the episodes, which contain a mixture of rearranged content from the first and second volumes (thus far), and filler. Comedy anime like Nichijou or Daily Lives of