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** Satsuki's route is promised in the remake, making this an inversion. But even before Nasu openly committed to it, he had been treating enough details as Canon to indicate a draft had been completed.

* ''[[School Days]]''. The original game allows for [[Handsome Lech|Makoto]] to end up with one (or more) of several very different girls. Both the anime and manga adaptation, however, focus on the love triangle between Makoto, [[The Ojou|Kotonoha]] and Sekai, though they ultimately play out rather differently. The anime is an interesting case study—it's what happens when you're determined to avoid every Road Cone you can. Makoto hooks up with ''every'' girl he can end up with in the game and more besides. Trouble is, this by definition makes him an utter [[Jerkass]], and more or less demands his {{spoiler|eventual death}}.

* The original animation of ''[[Kanon]]'' leaves out large chunks of the Mai, Shiori and Makoto arcs, leaving them feeling rushed, contrived and [[All There in the Manual|confusing]]. The remake largely fixed this problem, even addressing the jilted haremettes' romantic advances toward the [[Unlucky Everydude|main character]] and having them [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|get over it]] believably.

* With three very different storylines that diverge early on, the ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' anime and manga both had to Road Cone somebody. The default storyline (Fate) was the logical choice; fans of Archer and Sakura were inevitably going to be disappointed. Nonetheless, anime the producers gave those fans what they could, such as {{spoiler|a Matou Zouken cameo, a magical outfit meant to suggest Dark Sakura, and [[Bait and Switch Credits]] where Shirou fights Archer}}. The manga also features elements from "Unlimited Blade Works" (such as Caster taking an earlier front seat as antagonist and Archer's open attempts to kill Shirou). In the end, though, fans of the "Unlimited Blade Works" scenario get the movie, and fans of "Heaven's Feel" get extra material in ''Fate/hollow ataraxia'' and lots of [[Doujin]] works.