Anime Vs. Manga!

Adult Swim is the best source of 'as good as it gets' anime on TV in the US, as far as dubs go. The shows they produce are rarely 'Americanized', especially the most recent additions of Eureka 7, Bleach and Blood +. The stuff that comes on after school, or saturday mornings, does not make for very substantial watching.

I actually prefer 'original works' anime, things that are *not* based off manga. Like Eureka 7 and Blood +. That way there are no fankids to complain about fillers and 'that's not part of the story'. The majority of manga-turned-anime that come to the US tends to be of the Shonen variety.

I love anime stand-alone (movies not already based on a manga or anime) OVA's or movies (such as blood: the last vampire or metropolis) as they tend to get straight to the point, have less fillers and the story is mores self contained with no recaps or cliffhangers to ruin it. Plus anime movies tend to have better more meaningful ending unlike the crap that appears as Ghost in the shell as the ending.

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Originally Posted by LunarWeaver

I guess it just depends for me. If the anime is good stuff and mostly the same as the manga, then I prefer the anime, but...

The only time I don't is if I come into in too far behind in a very long running series. Something like Naruto already has 50,000 episodes, and I can read the entire manga in half the time it would take me to sit around and watch all that. In the 23 minutes or so it takes to watch one episode, I can get multiple chapters done, so sometimes I just don't want to bother. And I know that has a filler issue too, which is another thing altogether.

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I've done this before. In fact with Naruto specifically. Theres also times where I find the anime doesn't do the manga justice. Like Bleach, for instance. The manga is awsome and the battles and scenes are intense and I just don't feel it when I watch the series. Throw in the fact that Bleach has a rather bland soundtrack with some inappropiate (To The EXTREME!!!) music choices for key impotant scenes and I find it difficult to watch, even when it tells the story mostly accurately to the manga.

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Originally Posted by Reles

I <3 kare kano, I should definitely start reading that again. It was cute.

I can't tell which I like better. Sometimes I have that need to read certain manga that I used to when I was younger, or watch a certain anime. I feel that manga is more informative and I like not having to watch the theme song before every episode. But there are several series that I adore and are used to seeing on the screen, also the thing about anime that attracts me is the music. I definitely get into the anime more when there's background music and sounds. But with anime, I definitely can't watch the kind we have in America that plays on TV, it's too americanized, I can't find that I enjoy it as much. I need the subtitles to make me feel happy, and I need the whole series, not parts cut out to make it more suitable for the younger kids.

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It's a damn good series!

I agree, I think the bigger appeal is the music and voices. Many anime have good soundtracks and some series are defined by them (Cowboy Bebop and FLCL). As for the "Amercanized" anime. It's not as bad as before. Just as JKTrix pointed out with Adult Swim's lineup. Naruto isn't too bad, it's changes only annoy the most hardcore of fans but overall it's pretty good. Of course then you get stuff like poor One Piece (change that, 4Kids Entertainment hates anime fans cause they always butcher any series they get a hold of.) which is just a pale shadow of it's former self. The ratio has gotten better over the years.

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Originally Posted by JKTrix

Adult Swim is the best source of 'as good as it gets' anime on TV in the US, as far as dubs go. The shows they produce are rarely 'Americanized', especially the most recent additions of Eureka 7, Bleach and Blood +. The stuff that comes on after school, or saturday mornings, does not make for very substantial watching.

I actually prefer 'original works' anime, things that are *not* based off manga. Like Eureka 7 and Blood +. That way there are no fankids to complain about fillers and 'that's not part of the story'. The majority of manga-turned-anime that come to the US tends to be of the Shonen variety.

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That how I am lately. I love my FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Tenchi Muyo!, Wolf's Rain and Robotech (I like Macross as well you damn purist!)

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Originally Posted by omegaweapon2005

I love anime stand-alone (movies not already based on a manga or anime) OVA's or movies (such as blood: the last vampire or metropolis) as they tend to get straight to the point, have less fillers and the story is mores self contained with no recaps or cliffhangers to ruin it. Plus anime movies tend to have better more meaningful ending unlike the crap that appears as Ghost in the shell as the ending.

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I have issues with most anime movies. If it's not an original property (I hate manga adaptions as well as "movie sequels") I tend to cringe as I watch them. Only Leiji Matsumoto tends to make good movies based on his works. Satoshi Kon does some brilliant stuff as well.

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Originally Posted by omegaweapon2005

I love anime stand-alone (movies not already based on a manga or anime) OVA's or movies (such as blood: the last vampire or metropolis) as they tend to get straight to the point, have less fillers and the story is mores self contained with no recaps or cliffhangers to ruin it. Plus anime movies tend to have better more meaningful ending unlike the crap that appears as Ghost in the shell as the ending.

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I have issues with most anime movies. If it's not an original property (I hate manga adaptions as well as "movie sequels") I tend to cringe as I watch them. Only Leiji Matsumoto tends to make good movies based on his works. Satoshi Kon does some brilliant stuff as well.

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Studio Gibli doesnt do to badly with thier original works...as for movies based on anime or manga...well there is always something that feels incomplete or unfinished about it and thats what the studio's rely on (thats how they sell the TV series). But i mean the best anime is always the original anime! Just look at Blood: The last vampire for example...that had a great brooding atmosphere within some technically excellent animation and tentative loose strings (which were resloved in the anime/manga and games). Somehow you never seem to able to get the same effect with something based off a manga or anime...i dont know why.

FB is one. Sure, the anime is good, but it's like the same with movies - it's bound to miss out a lot of stuff they can't fit in!

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As far as movies that are made for a series, most of the time the movie does lack something that makes it less than the series. The exception being Cowboy Bebop - Knockin on Heaven's Door. Amazing movie that went with the series well.

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Originally Posted by omegaweapon2005

Studio Gibli doesnt do to badly with thier original works...as for movies based on anime or manga...well there is always something that feels incomplete or unfinished about it and thats what the studio's rely on (thats how they sell the TV series). But i mean the best anime is always the original anime! Just look at Blood: The last vampire for example...that had a great brooding atmosphere within some technically excellent animation and tentative loose strings (which were resloved in the anime/manga and games). Somehow you never seem to able to get the same effect with something based off a manga or anime...i dont know why.

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Manga tends to be stand alone. I think the .HACK:// series is the only one where it expands the story through many different forms of media. Anime branches out a bit with movie sequels. EVA is the first series to come to mind (course I like the TV series ending better. I'm also disappointed in knowing their making more movies as well.). I'm not a big fan of Blood I'm afraid so I never really got to see the story continue beyond the movie.:(

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Originally Posted by Setzer Gabianni

FB is one. Sure, the anime is good, but it's like the same with movies - it's bound to miss out a lot of stuff they can't fit in!

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I'm still waiting for a second season for this series. Though I love both for different reasons.

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Originally Posted by corncracker

As far as movies that are made for a series, most of the time the movie does lack something that makes it less than the series. The exception being Cowboy Bebop - Knockin on Heaven's Door. Amazing movie that went with the series well.

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Knockin On Heaven's Door is definetly one of the exceptions. As well as the Tenchi and Ranma movies. I also forgot about the movies that are condensed versions of the series. Of these the only one that is good is Macross: Do You Remeber Love? (I don't count the Escaflowne movie cause it's basically a different story altogether from the series.)

Well, I don't read manga. I don't because I know if I do, I'll love it and I'll spend every penny I have on it and I won't be able to stop. At least with my anime addiction I can go on youtube and see it for free :\

Dragonball/Z Manga> Everything

Everything> Dragonball/Z/GT Anime

I prefer the anime adaptions.

because I'm not very good at commiting to read

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I prefer manga when I can get a hold of it. So far comparing the manga to the anime of the manga I have read, the manga wins hands down. But I prefer anime because it is a lot easier to find and download series than manga. The thing I hate about downloading manga is that I rather read a book than text off a screen.

I prefer reading manga. It's generally less expensive than anime, and you don't have to worry about annoying filler storylines.

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Originally Posted by Zeromus_X

I prefer reading manga. It's generally less expensive than anime,

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I've seen that a couple of times in this thread, and I don't quite get it. I guess y'all are referring to anime series that keep on going for a considerable time. But in other cases, the anime can certainly be the cheaper option. Fruits Basket is the only anime series I've seen in its entirely. From what I know of the ongoing manga storyline, they did a great job of capturing the more important elements without descending into waffle or sidetracks. I guess that's the advantage of limiting themselves to only twenty-something episodes - they had to be concise, and cram in a lot of depth in a short amount of time.

Anyway, to buy the anime is reasonably affordable. It's only a three-disk set. But the manga has around a hundred and twenty issues, each costing nearly twenty dollars to buy new (in my part of the world, if not other people's). If I sold my car for a good price, I might just be able to afford the manga, whereas I could theoretically get the anime with a few hours' wages.

Three disk set? 4 episodes per DVD makes for 6 DVDs per season, and some animes are longer than one season.

Nothing compared to Japan though, where I hear it's not uncommon to see 2 episodes per DVD.