Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25979525-20160902221450/@comment-25979511-20160907004130

We have no real way of knowing if Rio's story happened in the novel or not since Izaya doesn't interact with her again and she doesn't mention knowing him. It's not impossible, though with the liberties taken by the anime writer, it's also possible they just put that in there so that early on, the viewers would understand Izaya's role as the antagonist. Otherwise, Izaya isn't too active in the anime and would probably come off strangely if that wasn't established quickly.

As for the page with the plot differences... I own all of the novels so I could help with that, I'm not sure how many people have them to reference since most of the fan translations were pulled after Yen Press got the license. How would we organize that page though? By character? Arc? Anime Vs. Light novels?

(The arcs have official names, the Arc following the Yellow Scarves arc is the Dollars arc. All the others have names on the Wiki already don't they? The first arc doesn't have a name that I can recall of the top of my head... I'd have to go look at the Japanese fandom.)