Tatsuya said:As i'm a fan of the manga and LN i'm kinda obligated to watch it, but yeah they changed alot.
Obviously spoilers possible but the thread itself is pretty much a spoiler anyway.
As others have said, the girls were made retainers immediately along with elvin, though both become his concubines later (in the manga louise wants this right off the bat, i believe in the LN it's implied both want this, since both are attracted to him), the clown wasn't in the source as far as i can remember.
Going back to the introduction episode of the 3 characters, in the manga him and elvin are friends pretty much from the day wen went to school, being from similar circumstances, and there's no tension of the 3 characters trying to convince him to join them due to his abilities, they became a party mostly due to just being friends (though even at this point, both girls seem to be attracted to him, with louise's only change after wen becomes a baron is going from being a wife to being a concubine/mistress).
Wen's first house is "broken in" by all 4 of them, he in the manga never excludes his friends from it, and as i said they were friends from early on, making their "let's make wen our friend" arc seem out of place to manga readers.
They put off showing elise's uncle and the battle on the plains until next episode most likely, which is strange because it happened before he met elise in the manga, and her uncle plays a major part in the story, outside of the main cast, him and the drunkard magic user (name escapes me) probably have the most screentime in the manga, so him not showing up yet is rather unusual.
The date in the manga is rather sweet and shows that though it's a political marriage, both are quite happy with each other, while in the anime it was at best a convoluted mess, as for the ring, as was said earlier, wen knew it was a magic ring and the price didn't bother him.
On a side note on that ring's price, him getting upset by it's price is kind of stupid as he's never really worried about money in the manga if it's for the right reason, not to mention that he was awarded 130k gold coins for the dragon pieces just 1 episode before, how 300 gold coins bothers him for his engagement ring to his fiance is beyond stupid.
I mean i know why they are rushing, they are trying to get to the "baumeister earldom" arc and wilma, but they are skipping and changing alot of the source material.
Good for you for not dropping it immediately because the title itself is pretty neat, especially the art of the manga as I've previously noted. It's really clean and detailed, surprisingly. I just feel sorry for the author in all honesty. Seeing how they butchered his/her work must feel so depressing.