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So Futo PI! I'll repeat this later but I really hope we get a Season 2 sometime soon or like someone, anyone (fansubbers/official companies) gets a hold of the rights to give us more than we have translated. There's a lot of cool stuff that I've seen (I won't say a peep) that I want to understand but can't. Here's hoping something happens soon on that front since the Manga is apparently reaching its climax.

Speaking of Manga, this is an anime adaptation of a manga, so of course there are differences and such. To make this experience fresh, I'm also reading the Manga alongside whatever episode I watch for the day. Don't expect me to do it for every single episode (as I'm pretty sure the translated bits are only up to Episode 9) but I will point out some things here and there.

-Most changes are just, them choosing to cut minor pieces of dialogue, mostly extra remarks or certain gags. Certain scenes are different, or toned down, like that shower scene oh my gosh that shower scene in the manga.

-Begins Night? Anime Original, nice touch to give us some Rider action given there's not much in the episode of what this chapter is adapting. I say chapter not chapters because Chapter 1 of Futo PI is 62 pages long so they had a lot of material for this episode.

-There's this really cool and obviously CG room shot of Chuuta making his way up to the detective agency that isn't in the Manga which just focuses on Shotaro and Akiko's conversation.

-Likewise with CG, that cool bike chase in which we get to see the studio show their love of vehicles (I believe they worked on an anime about motor bikes or mopeds before this?) is anime original. Shotaro chases after Tokime and they just end up in the alleyway in the manga.

Other than that I really enjoyed this foray into a more stylized version of Futo, especially since it's helmed by some familiar faces. That being, the cast members who played Shotaro, Philip, Terui, and Akiko in Memory of Heroez reprise their roles here. So there ends up being a familiarity and certainty to their voices since this isn't their first rodeo.

Last thing I'll say is I do enjoy them just deciding to put chibi skit gags at the ends of the episodes. Real fun way to have the VA's and animators mess around a bit.