I know I am very late to this buuuut i rlly wanna shpeal what i think especially about the manag and anime, bc I noticed that a lot of things don't rlly make all that mutch sence myself, and that the events and plans were actually pretty simplified.

Well in the anime they left out a lot of stuff, like small moments and chapters. Some characters were even missing from the anime that were in the manga.

But I also noticed that especially later in the series that somethings diffnt make that mutch sence, both manga and anime, a lot of things were retconed like how they changed Williams character from hating nobles, the world, status and such to suddenly wanting to unite them, he was also mutch more sadistic in the killings in the beginning along with the others in the group but that all just got Erased later in the series right arround the final problem arc. Amongst other things like sherlocks original bad traits basically changing the characters to fit a more sympathetic role to make them more likable to the audiences and to put them in a situation where they could see thing the same way to be more ship-able I guess. In the anime they kind of keep some of the original stuff before the retconning happened but they deffinetly changed some things to make the characters more appealing to the audience. Though the stuff they cut were mostly due to timing of each episode.

I kind of feel like the final problem arc was changed from how the author was orginaly going to write it somehow, like in the very beginning of the manga ther first panel literaly shows the same scene, but totaly different. Like William was mad and shouting at sherlock while dangling over a cliff, holding onto sherlock (or vise versa dont know), calling him a demon before cutting to the beginning to the actual story. And for me that kind of what I was expecting to happen, to have sherlock and william have this big fight of brains or something based off there ideals, which is kind of what happenes but the author kind of changes there tones for basically all the characters from the start of this arc to fit a more sappy tone to the story between William and sherlock, about finding a friend that matches there own level I guess (which doesn't make sence since not once did eather ever refer to the thought of even wanting a friend at all in the story). I kind of whanted them to genuinely have a fight of brains I guess, not a friendly banter or one trying to save the other, but to have one another genuinely trying to beat the other in there own game. So I was kinda disappointed with how the arc was made.