As I’ve been told there’s people who has no idea how different the magazine version and the volume version could be I’m considering posting a chapter by chapter list of differences so as to better help people realize the huge work that’s behind the release of each volume as well as to better follow the story.

So let’s start.

Chap 102 didn’t present many changes.

As usual in the volume version the cover for the chapter is missing of all the writing that aren’t the title chapter. This is something that happens nearly always.



The volume version will then inform us that the meeting of O-gin and the Lighting bandit took place around 10 years ago and will insure all that flashback will have a black border as if to imply it’s a flashback placed long ago (except for the scene in which O-gin and the Lighting bandit see each other). In short everything will have a black border from this page…



to this page



Asfter O-gin and Sakamoto’s meeting though the border will be coloured in grey instead than black starting from this page…



to the end of the chapter.

Other minor changes regard adding a box informing us that in Hokkaido really lived a couple of heinous criminals and better drawing Sakamoto’s feets…



…and some changes in the last dialogue between O-gin and Sakamoto.

Again in the ending page of the chapter, in the volume version there will be not the final writing you might find in the magazine.

And so we jump at chapter 103 which instead was changed a lot.

As usual in this chapter too there are no writings on the cover apart from the title.

And now we get to the flashback which was actually heavily changed as panels were enlarged or shortened, or moved around or added. Some dialogues were also changed so that from 9 pages we end up with 15 pages.



As changes are quite a lot I’ll first show the pages one next to the other, so you can realize how the panel disposition was changed and then I’ll dig into the changed/added details in a deeper manner.

So let’s start with the first 3 pages of the fleshback of the magazine version, which become 5 in the volume one.



So now let’s dig in the changes.

We start from the very first panel.

In the magazine Ogata seems to be smiling. In the volume that’s not the case anymore.

A small panel with some background is added.



I’ll skip how the ballons are moved in the following panel and I’ll go with a close up of Ogata’s expression who again, in the magazine version was smiling and now is not.

A panel that previously was just background now shows what probably is a bit of Hanazawa (and maybe it’s just me but it seems redrawn).



Close up of Ogata added to the scene.

Again Ogata seems to be smiling in the magazine but not in the volume.

A couple of panels showing Ogata hunting are added.



There are some minor differences in the expression of young Ogata

A picture of the duck Ogata killed is added.

Another picture of Ogata holding a knife dirt in blood, some blood also on the floor behind him is added.

The image of the anglerfish nane and of the duck which were in the magazine are removed from the volume version.

In their place in the volume there are now pictures depicting what had happened. Ogata’s mother dying of poison, Ogata looking elsewhere, clearly waiting for Hanazawa in a way that parallels how, when Ogata offered the duck to his mother, she looked elsewhere, clearly looking for Hanazawa and Ogata sitting next to his deceased mother, still not looking at her but waiting for his father.



Redrawing of the image of Ogata’s deceased mother.

Addition of Ogata turning to look at his father.

It’s fundamentally a lot of changes, almost a complete redrawing of the chapter, which adds a lot of details to the previous version.

It doesn’t end here. After two pages which are more or less the same, we resume with consistent changes in the flashback so that the four pages of the magazine version become eight.

As before, as changes are quite a lot I’ll first show the pages one next to the other, so you can realize how the panel disposition was changed and then I’ll dig into the changed/added details in a deeper manner.



So now let’s dig in the changes in this part as well.

We start with some changes in Ogata’s monologue which now includes Hanazawa’s son’s name, Yuusaku and skips why Ogata thought he was a nobleman due to being born by parents who loved each other as this will be better developed in the following parts.



In fact we get a flashback about Ogata’s past with his brother and their feelings for each other.



A new panel is also added showing Ogata asking his father if he knows the truth about Yuusaku’s death.

A panel showing a dead duck is placed next to the panel in which Ogata shoots Yuusaku.

While the implication he shot him like he used to do with ducks is here, there are also paralells with how he offered ducks to his mother in hope she would stop waiting for his father (and care for him) and how he killed Yuusaku in hope this would turn his father’s attention on him.

Then a scene is added to explain why Ogata shoot Yuusaku.

There are minor changes in Hanazawa’s reply as well, as he evidently thought he hadn’t given Ogata enough father issues…



The volume version also added Ogata’s reaction to his father’s words.

The volume also changes Ogata’s position when he reaches Tsurumi’s coach. That’s because in the magazine it looked like he was actually passing it over while in truth he gets inside it.

Changes are made also in the dialogue between Tsurumi and Ogata. Not only a new panel is added but Tsurumi’s words to him were slightly different and in the magazine, as in the magazine he talked about Hanazawa’s blood running in Ogata while in the volume he comments on him being Hanazawa’s only surviving son. Tsurumi even called him just Hyakunosuke, before going back to Ogata while in the volume he calls him with his full name and praised him twice.



Last but not least Ogata’s smile is a little less marked in the volume.

Again in the ending page of the chapter, in the volume version there will be not the final writing you might find in the magazine.

I might have missed something but, I think, those were the biggest changes. I hope it helps!

