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They deviated heavily and destroyed all the character development they could. The gun Mikado used at the end was not the one he used in the novels... Izaya & Shizuo lost most of their character development, I'm not sure the anime explains what Namie ends up doing either...

Really... the 13th novel is the thickest book... It may have boded better to do the last arc in a movie form, that way they aren't as rushed and perhaps have time to give Shinichi his existence back.