Differences Between The Manga & TV Series
- The setting of the first volume of the manga is on New Year's Eve, and all of the male characters already know each other. In the TV series, Makoto & Masa first meet Shun while he is shoplifting books, and while it is set during the fall, it is just a regular day.
- In the TV version there is a new chief of police who (at first) makes it his goal to throw Makoto in jail. Later he actually uses Makoto as a way to catch culprits "unofficially".
- There are characters that are left out of the manga series, such as a part-time help girl that Makoto's mother hires to watch the shop. She later becomes Makoto's love interest, but never girlfriend.
- In the TV version Makoto meets Hikaru and Rika while Shun is drawing in front of the fountain. In the manga version, Makoto meets Hikaru while she is running from some would be attackers, then meets up with everyone else at IWGP, where he then meets Rika for the first time.
- In the manga Rika is more concerned with Hikaru than in the TV version, hinting around to Makoto about Hikaru's dark past, and the importance of promises to them both.
- In the manga, Shun dresses up as a woman in order to get the drugs from Chiaki's drug pusher and have it videotaped as evidence. In the TV version, it is Hikaru, as well as Makoto's mother, who are willing to help out in a pinch.
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