Quote Originally Posted by outlaw starwind View Post
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.