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_In This Corner of the World_ ( _Kono Sekai no Katasumi_ ) anime movie was
adapted from a manga of the same name. The manga has 48 chapters and the anime
is about 2 hours and 6 mins long. However, I felt like some of the scenes were
cut, or the flow of the story was disturbed and another scene was brought up
so that the duration won't be too long.

I did read some chapters and found that the scene where Mizuhara drop Suzu's
pencil in the hole was not in the anime. I want to read the manga if there are
big changes or parts which affect the story.

Did the anime movie really follow the manga?


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How closely does the anime movie "In This Corner of the World" follow the manga?


According to [Japanese
Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%93%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%81%AE%E7%89%87%E9%9A%85%E3%81%AB_\(%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB\)#%E5%8E%9F%E4%BD%9C%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AE%E7%9B%B8%E9%81%95%E7%82%B9),
the differences are (warning: also includes spoiler from the manga):

  * The time period at the beginning of the story (year 1934 → year 1933)

> At the beginning of the story, the time period of the episode when Little
> Suzu encountered the kidnapper on the way to deliver seaweed was advanced
> from "January 1934" to "December 1933". In the movie, after passing through
> various circumstances such as the reworking of the production plan, the time
> period of this episode was set in December 1933. In the movie, the state of
> the busy town in the Christmas shopping season is depicted. However, on that
> year, there was an event of the birth of the [Crown
> Prince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito) on December 23, the day
> before Christmas Eve, thus the celebratory mood should have continued from
> that day until the new year. Because of that, the episode at the beginning
> of the story was set sooner than that date.

  * The emphasis on character relationships (Suzu-Keiko, Shusaku-Rin-Suzu, Teru-Rin-Suzu)

> In the movie, the relationship contrast between Suzu as a wife and Keiko as
> a sister-in-law is the main point. The appearance of the courtesan Rin, a
> major character in the original was reduced, and an episode related to the
> love triangle between Shusaku, Rin, and Suzu is not shown. Along with this,
> the appearance of the courtesan Teru who mediates the reunion of Suzu and
> Rin in the original is cut to one scene only without any line. However, Teru
> is mentioned in Suzu's flashback and Suzu has possession of Teru's red
> cosmetic item, which Rin handed over to Suzu after Teru's death in the
> original.

  * The scenes related to the characters' point-of-view

> In the movie, the scenes from men's point-of-view like details of weapons
> such as ships and fighters, the feeling of male characters and more, were
> added, supplementing the women's point-of-view drawn in the original. During
> the beginning of the bombing of Kure (chapter 26 in the original), while
> Entaro is lying down protecting Suzu and Harumi, a dialog regarding his
> emotion to the [Homare
> engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Homare) mounted on [Kawanishi
> fighters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_N1K) while dogfighting US
> fighters in the air was added. Also in this scene of the movie, when Suzu is
> fascinated by the sight of war, colorful bomb smoke is shown using
> paintbrush inside her imagination. While this was not shown in the
> original's monochrome, it's an arrangement based on the historical fact that
> coloring bullets for identification were mixed in the anti-aircraft guns of
> warships.

  * Suzu's reaction to Japan's defeat

> When Suzu flew out of the house raging after listening to [Jewel Voice
> Broadcast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Voice_Broadcast) reporting
> Japan's defeat, her line is changed when she looks at the raised
> [Taegukgi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Korea) and breaks
> down crying. In chapter 38 of the original, Suzu feels that the justice they
> believed was lost and she talks to herself whether Japan will yield to
> violence since other countries have been conquered violently, while in the
> movie, her monologue is about whether they should yield to violence since
> they live on rice and soy coming from the other side of the sea. Regarding
> this, Katabuchi stated that Japan's food self-sufficiency at that time was
> not high and there were circumstances in which we had no choice but to rely
> on grain imported from abroad, and to talk about the same thing as the
> original, he said that he thought that it was better for Suzu to respond to
> food material since she is always doing the kitchen work. As a related
> depiction, when Suzu visits the black market, a random character refers to
> Taiwanese rice, a line not included in the original has been added.

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Note: a 30-minute extended version of the movie, titled _In This Corner (and
Other Corners) of the World_ will be released on December 2018 (Source:
[AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-25/in-this-
corner-of-the-world-anime-film-gets-extended-version-with-new-title/.134681)).


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