Aliens in Cardiff: The Mage's Association is split up into various small cities and university towns near London, with the action primarily taking place in these cities and the countryside.
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Adaptational Early Appearance: Because of the anime's first half consisting of original content, characters like Yvette, Caules and Melvin are all introduced to the audience before the Rail Zeppelin arc, where they had all debuted in the novels.Kairi later recruits Flat and Svin for an assignment like Luvia, they didn't feature during this arc in the novels. Luvia didn't appear during this arc in the novels, and Kairi didn't appear in the novels at all. The Rail Zeppelin adaptation itself introduces a subplot with Kairi and Luvia investigating who stole Iskandar's mantle at Reines' behest.The first half of the anime after episode 1 is original material set between volumes 3 and 4, which establishes relevant points from the skipped-over volumes 1-3 and sets the stage for the Rail Zeppelin arc in the second half.Episode 1 is a Whole Episode Flashback going into how Waver took on his former mentor's title and class, while also showing his life immediately after Zero.The anime took what was only about half a page of dialogue and turned it into the plot of episode 0. The first volume opens with Gray recalling how Waver got into a fight with a stray cat, only to later find it injured in the road and so he nursed it until it passed away peacefully.In the novels the Adra and Iselma cases are tied together to Rail Zeppelin by the Big Bad's involvement as an enabler, whereas in Grace Note, although the former technically happened offscreen, the events of episodes 0 and 3-5 are used as leadup for their overarching plans.The party for Svin's ascension to Pride rank originally took place at the start of the Rail Zeppelin case rather than after.
Since Atrum and Iselma are not in the anime aside from a brief cameo, he is instead told by Reines. In the books, Waver is told by Atrum Galliast at the end of the Iselma case that he has been passed over as one of the two Clock Tower masters for the Fifth Holy Grail War.Adaptation Deviation: Although the first half of the anime is mostly anime-original and presumed to take place between books 3 and 4, some events get shuffled around or occur under different circumstances due to originally involving non-adapted material.
The anime shuffles several events around and omits Svin's backstory, so it's instead presented as a validation of Waver's teaching style.