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.

First of all 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. However for chap 101 sensei also redraw a little Ogata.

Going on, and this one is a really bigger one. The first 4 pages of the magazine version, underwent some serious changing.

Scenery pictures and captions are added here and there, panels are moved around with the result the scene is now covering 6 pages instead than the initial 4, two of which now are spread pages.



It’s also worth to note how a minor interaction between Ogata and Asirpa was added to the beginning of the story. Basically Ogata’s sentence about the scent of the deer entrails attracting the bears was handed to Asirpa, who also tell Ogata to be careful, which ends up adding another scene in which Asirpa is showing care for Ogata (see below).

Another minor change which is also kept in the anime is that one of Sugimoto’s sentences is now handed to Shiraishi.

Going forward we can see other pages as well underwent minor changes.



Sometimes changes happen because the manga presents a scene that happened in the past and was revised. In fact the scene in which Suzukawa said he had info regarding other convicts had been redrawn for the volume version. As a result, as the scene is being reproduced in this chapter as well in form of flashback, they had to replace it with the now new version of the scene.



Sometimes minor improvement are added (we now have a black background, Ogata’s position is had been changed, the writing says when the skin is a copy and when not, Asirpa’s face is shaded, some details of Kiro’s face are added, there’s now a question mark where the skin is defined fake, which makes sense as the group has no idea if it’s fake or not…).



It’s also noteworth how, in the volume, Tsukishima’s face got shadowed when Koito claimed he was envious of Tsukishima because he would have wanted to take part to the war so he could have been on Tsurumi’s side as well where in the magazine he was just standing there. His face was even redrawn to be better visible although partially hidden by the caption box.



It hints at Tsukishima’s inner emotional reaction and this is always a plus as Tsukishima is a character who doesn’t really voice/show much his inner feelings.



Same as it happened for Sugimoto’s group and Hijikata’s group, Tsurumi’s group as well got a new background and the writing when the skins are copies but, what’s more, it got completely redrawn so that now it’s a much more impressive picture.



We end with the last page of the chapter, in which Tsurumi’s pointing hand was redone. Also of course at the end the volume version misses the final writing that are placed at the end of each magazine chapter.

These are all the changes I could notice for chap 101. I might have missed some minor ones but I’ll say even with just the ones I pointed out it required quite some work.

