I recently noticed that this anime is labelled to be adapting a manga, and not the web novel, which I was pretty sure came out before the manga, so I took to the web.
So this whole time I was under the assumption that the anime was based on the web novel as it came first, but no, from the articles I’ve read, the anime is based on the manga, WHICH was based on the web novel.
Which means, before anything else, the anime is technically an adaptation of the manga. That’s a really dumb way for me to be wrong, huh.