Classroom of the Elite

 Hey guys, Welcome to my fourth blog. Here we are going to conclude the anime i.e we are going to discuss from episode 7 to 12. Volume 3 of the Novel has covered these episodes.

Again Let's start our discussion with fidelity. I would like to say that the Anime has done a very good job to cover all the things from this Volume. This is evident as we can see, it took 6 episodes to cover a single volume whereas, the first 6 episodes took 2 whole volumes. But there was a big change in episode 7, this episode was nowhere in the Novel(Yes the whole episode was missing). After searching from where they took this episode I found that it was taken from a later volume which was volume 4.5. This episode was just a filler so it didn't affect the storyline that much, but there were major changes in this episode compared with Volume 4.5, so we can say that the Anime was not quite loyal to this Volume. After episode 7 from 8 to 12 the Anime was, I would like to say, almost exact with the Novel. But as always there are few changes which we are going to discuss now.

Talking about Focalization, It is very clear that both Anime and the Novel have used internal(told through the perspective of characters), Anime and the Novel, describes only the thoughts of the main characters and no one else. 

There is a very good example of Analepsis in the last episode, at the beginning of the episode itself they show us the scene announcing the special test results in which class D tops(which is very surprising for the first time audience because of what they showed in previous episodes), and then later the main character explains how he outsmarted class C and A students and gained extra points. 

Honestly, I didn't find much difference except the addition of content from a later Volume(4.5). Anyways here what I found:

• In the Novel, the beginning started with the Story of Icarus was narrated by our Main character(Ayanokouji) directly to the readers but in the Anime Chabashira Sae sensei and Ayanokouji were sitting as the audience in the theater where the Story of Icarus was running. 
• The discussion that happened in the theater was not taken from the Novel, this an addition from the director of the Anime. This actually gave a good explanation of why Ayano helped his class to get more points.
• There was one more addition from the director which was an encounter of Katsuragi and Class D students in the cruise itself(It was a small conversation that didn't affect the storyline).

Let's talk about the visuals in these episodes. Only one word - astounding. Here are a few scenes that enhance my experience of watching the Anime.

 

Example of a Birds-eye view.