Anime Vs. Manga!

[Wolf Kanno]

So here I am reading a few "Suggest an anime!" threads and I have some suggestions that I want ot give but the anime may have a flaw. The series that first comes to mind is Kare Kano (His and Hers Circumstance) I really like the anime but I know it's bogged down with slow pacing and an obnoxious recap fetish. Every episode starts with a detailed recap, by the end a good five minutes of the episode is spent just recapping everything. Throw in the fact the episode has I believe two full recap episodes and you can see it has a problem.

But the story and characters are wonderful! So I would usually suggest reading the manga over watching the anime. Not only is it presented better but the anime only covers a third of the story.

Do you feel there are stories that are better in anime format or in the original manga format? Discuss!

[Fatal Impurity]

Hmm Akira springs to mind when talking about badly done manga to anime conversions...

[Emery]

What kind of question is this? Does manga have color? voices? naked chicks? Wait it has that last one. Nvm.

[NeoCracker]

For the most part I think people just complain to much about the anime saying "Oh, the story isn't as good" or "They changed the story, so it sucks." Yes, a lot of the times the story is different, but then you should justs take it as that, a different story rather than constantly complaining about the differences. Other times they complain just because they didn't expect the voice to sound like that, regardless of whether or not it actually fits.

PErsonally I prefer anime, but thats just because I don't feel like reading.

[Fatal Impurity]

I like both it all depends on whether the anime studio markets it as a spinoff (as it usually is) or an actual true-to-manga conversion (which it rarely is) because if they market it as a true-to-manga conversion and yet its completely different that pisses me off...

[Germ Hamee]

I'm going to have to disagree with you, Wolf Kanno. Of what the Kare Kano anime covers, I prefer it greatly to the manga. This is simply because the two are almost word-for-word identical, aside from the recaps (but pretty much every anime has recaps, so that's not big deal). For what the anime covers of the manga, I find it so much more enjoyable to watch just because of the kind of energy it has. I only read through the manga to get the rest of the story.

Kare Kano is oddly the only exception for me. I normally prefer the manga over anime, particularly in the cases of X and Angel's Sanctuary. Anime can't get away with everything manga can, and you end up missing out on a lot on the more gruesome stories.

[Eiko Guy]

I love manga less. Each has its high points though. I love coloring manga bookd to the original color and making it cool. Anime's have voice and are easier to love for music.

[Ishin Ookami]

I love manga less. Each has its high points though. I love coloring manga bookd to the original color and making it cool. Anime's have voice and are easier to love for music.

The manga is usually vastly superior. Usually. Take one of my favorite series of all time GTO. Now while I absolutely love the anime, it's ending sucked hard. Mostly because the studio had gotten to the point where they had caught up to the manga, and couldn't go forward for a while until more chapters had been written, so they just invented their own ending.

That is really the problem with a lot of anime, if its following a long, or incomplete series, then it's likely that the ending is going to be mediocre. Rurouni Kenshin, X, Ranma 1/2, Trigun, InuYahsa, These all had great anime conversions, but their endings were very weak due to the fact that they just could not run as long as the manga was going, or they were being written at the same time (Rurouni Kenshin's third season was so awful, because the third season, and the third story arc of the manga were being written at the same time, thus the writers pretty much had to make the third season entirely filler).

Also more can be done in a manga than in a anime. Manga just has more freedom to develop characters in a single panel, and the format allows for more versitility in terms of the artwork and storytelling. An anime has to flow at a certain pace, so some jokes or moments of dialouge stated in an aside are often left out for the sake of a good storytelling flow.

I'm not saying that manga is always superior, the InuYasha anime did have some interesting episodes or plot points that lead to a better flowing story at times, such as kikyo coming across a bandit that has a connection to her past, and giving her a reason to chase Naraku in the Schinintai story arc. In the manga, she just showed up for the sake of plot contrivance. But 9 times out of 10, the manga is usually better.

[Mirage]

This thread could also just have been called book vs movie.

[JKTrix]

I can agree that if the anime is based off a manga, the manga would be a more substantive source of entertainment.

Like a lot of other people though, I'd rather watch an anime than read the manga, unless the story was exceptionally outstanding and compelling. Like The Twelve Kingdoms--though that's a book, not a manga, which takes even more convincing for me.

[Tasura]

Manga = no filler (basically)
Anime = motion/sound/colour

Both have their strong points, if a series stops abruptly (Rave/Groove Adventure Rave; Tenjou Tenge) I will usually read on in the manga form where the anime left off, or if the manga has no series that I know of and sounds interesting (666 Satan). Otherwise I stick with anime, though now that I've found a couple awesome sites, I can see my manga reading picking up alot.

[edczxcvbnm]

I would normally prefer the anime but filler can be pretty bad and then I start to read just the comic(Bleach). I think the problem with some anime is that they start animating the comic too soon and then they are caught up to it before you know it. I think they need to wait longer sometimes. Fullmetal Alchemist is a fairly good example of this. They started that pretty early in the comic's life but at least they took it in their own direction and ended it well instead of drawing it out forever.

[Vermachtnis]

I prefer manga. Mostly because it's cheaper. About the only genre I like better in anime is Shonen, cause it's more actiony and is better to be watched than read. But having Naru yell pervert and kicked Keitaro into orbit is funnier in manga. For some reason it looks painful in anime

Sometimes changes ain't bad. Look at Megaman NT Warrior. The anime, videogame, and manga are all different from one another. But, they tell basically the same story in the way best for their medium. The manga's the funniest of the three I think, I mean the games' still have that scene where Lan acually throws his PET at the enemy.

[look_out_below]

I tend to like both and do not really prefer one over the other unless an anime has hired really bad voice actors and script writers then i prefer the manga.
Hey if you are interested in seeing what it would be like to see both manga and anime at the same time watch episode 1 and 6 of FLCL just do not ask me what is going on half the time in this series its more confusing then Excel Saga.

[Nominus Experse]

It seems completely arbitrary as to what is superior. In my experience, it seems to have been split right down the middle 50/50.

The one major shortfall in anime is when it surpasses the manga in terms of a storyline - the anime studios seem to have a notorious affiliation with ty, half-ass endings to unfinished mangas. Note FMA.