This is a great book and series to the title, The light novel must be read first before starting anime to completely understand full chapters as episodes to the animated adaption has cut details 80% shorter and has changed certain focal points in each episodes story compared to chapter, the stories represented in each episode are not fully accurate to the book. In other words if you watch the anime first you'll just get a misunderstood rating and not actually know what the series is about if you have no idea of the detail the novel brings. If you love to read 200 page novels with lots of detail to character and story then reading the novel first before the titles anime adaptation is recommended.

The anime adaption is only for fans that would like to see animation version but if you want more understanding and in depth story? Read novel first before leaving an ugly misjudgement. The series is great, i understand that this is a niche title and the production decided to leave out a lot of details considering you cant fit a 50 page chapter in a 19 minute video and per episode has been ended up rupt. This by no means is for newcomers this is just an animated version but not an accurate, full description depiction of what the real events was told. The book is brilliant i have read all volumes and the book is now published in English by seven seas originally the Novel was published between 2015-2016 but has finally got an official publication of translation, The book compared to this animated series portrays what the Characters really think and respond to these events, as for the anime it does look like there lack of side characters in related to the importance of those chapters to the stories and dialogue in comparison based on the original title that describes the every characters personalities in more detail.

Seigi is very hyperactive in his feelings towards his experiences in the book, spoiler alert he shows hes very attracted to Richard as his employer but the dialogue sounds very written as if he could be bisexual and attracted to Richard if he didnt have Tanimoto in his life but the reality is besides the writer trying to sweep off our feet Seigi doesn't cheat on people hes too honest and sticks his nose in everyone's buisiness. but none of those kind of details will be shown in this Anime, please read the book first. The book is a niche title but i found it very pleasant to read, each chapter captured a simple but elegant imagination, actually educates the reader more about Jewerly and gemstones in real life and that there are locations in Ginza if you do travel to Japan to actually check out those department stores. It is a bit slice of life but not an ordinary title you will come across. I think the title deserves more credit, unfortunately those that are un familair of the lack of detail with animation adaptions exposed to novel releases will just confuse those that have never heard the title to brush this off as bad, yes the Animation looks bad and does not justify the original truly but if you are a fan will that matter? You already know what the original is about you just want to see the main characters look animated, if it didn't have an original adaption to a novel. Then i would be worried scrambling to see why it seems out of place.