Thread:Harostar/@comment-24494906-20150108181514/@comment-24494906-20150110025613

I've also seen people bitching that the episode condensed 13 chapters into 1 episode. Hah, they still don't understand that the anime takes a different route and hence there's no reason to follow the manga to the letter. And they can't count.
 * The first non-adapted scene is at the end of chapter 66, but they already adapted the Amon vs. Bin fight, moved some of the Arata flashback into episode 9 and they had already set up the Ayato vs Touka fight and the Owl fight. That is probably already about 3 chapters less.
 * The 103 bones scene had to be cut. You can't have Kaneki beat up Ayato for joining Aogiri and then him deciding afterwards to join them, too, for a similar reason.
 * The Owl flashback could only be placed at the beginning of the episode. They traded it for the Hide bike scene, which was imho a great addition (and could also only be placed at the beginning of this episode). Since Owl will remain a focus in the following episodes, we'll probably get to see the flashback already next week, during a discussion between Kuroiwa and Shinohara. I think that will even improve the flow of the story, it's more natural to let the investigators share their Owl stories. Otherwise, they'd have had to introduce a narrator, that'd have been a bit awkward.
 * They also removed the rest of the Arata flashback, but I'm not worried that we won't get this information shown in a later episode. We're getting more focus on Touka and Ayato, so there's no way they won't show their past.
 * From chapter 75 on, it mostly doesn't matter, since that's where the anime makes the final turn into the original route.

The only removed scene I think they should have kept in this original development is Suzuya killing Yamori - but on the other hand, this leaves it up to the viewer to decide who killed Yamori in the end, Kaneki or Suzuya. (There's also a slight chance that they'll show it in a flashback later because of Naki, but I doubt it.)

Sorry for ranting.