Talk:Haruhiro/@comment-26544002-20190407111727/@comment-4753851-20190408190910

For me, the only real mess up the anime did is how they tried to do "We're all friends" with Renji in the last episode. Goes against his character completely.

Bringing up Soma or not doesn't necessarily matter. In the LN, there is a famous Party introduced in Volume 6. The reader never heard of them before but it doesn't really matter as that party was not relevant at all to Haruhiro's story as he concentrates on surviving.

In fact, this is just how I interpreted it, the LN have done 3 things: 1) Keep things mostly from Haruhiro's perspective so we only know what he finds out or shares to the reader. 2) The more experienced volunteer soldiers further out into the frontier often rarely returning to Alterna. 3) All the volunteer soldiers that came to Grimgar really only bond with their group and tend to ignore other parties. Just like Shinohara from Orien didn't really assist Haruhiro, neither did Haruhiro assist the newbies when they started off. Something is hardwired into them to shy away from others other then the party they join.