One thing they missed big time is building the climax for the battle of the bands. I mean, in the novel that was one of the biggest event in Noh/Phun/Earn’s love triangle. It bears a lot of significance to the development of the story. But here was Earn just nonchalantly telling Noh to sign up his band. The show must move on towards that big event, but I guess they’re killing our excitement for that event by making us turn our heads left and right with all these stories of other characters randomly executed, then one day (or episode, rather) the day of the battle of the bands would suddenly just come up without building the climax within us!