Poll: Manga or Anime? Which do you prefer?
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I quite agree because for both Naruto and Bleach, they added horrible filler episodes, and also filler into the fights just to extend them. Personally, I would have liked the show if they just stopped airing new episodes after the final chapter of the manga that was shown in the anime.ultimasupersaiyan said:
I'd have to say manga. In the earlier days of anime, you had the best mangas and had them made into a version that was kid friendly. Try to think Dark Knight turned into the Superfriends.
Another example is the anime Getter Robo one of the earlier mecha anime. In the anime the characters are an athletic college student(Ryouma Nagare) , a loner who is supposed to give the idea that he's too cool for everyone else(Hayato Jin), and a fat guy whos only reason for even piloting the robot is to be the fat guy(Musashi Tomoe)(and to function as a running joke as since I mentioned this was supposed to be kid friendly). At the end of the series, the fat guy sacrifices himself by crashing a jet into a battleship that is literally a walking dinosaur which then goes crazy and tramples all over the bad guys......yeah, this being the 70s this was actually an original idea for the time.
The manga on the other hand had a different version of the characters(if you've seen New Getter Robo then thats closer). The characters in this version a martial artist inheriting a dojo with zero students(Ryouma), a gang leader with a 300 IQ and is at times on the border of psychotic(Hayato), and a martial artist training in the mountains who becomes the pilot to replace the scientist responsible for making the robot(Musashi)(The artist of the comic didn't even have him in the beginning but was forced to add him because the anime was so popular). In the end Musashi again sacrifices himself, this time by removing the reactor powering the robot and crushing it causing it to go off like a nuke, killing himself and the main bad guys. Which seems more like an actual ending to a story?
Sorry, didn't mean to make an entire lecture out of it, but this one series highlights the point that even as anime has gotten better, few of the remakes are able to completely show the characters as well as the manga. The closest remake that comes to mind is New Getter Robo. If your thinking that even a comic version couldn't possibly add any depth to this genre, read the Shin Getter Robo manga. On top of some well shown fights(which versions like Armageddon would borrow along with a few things), it shows something which resembles actual plot rather than fight after fight after fight after fight after...okay you get the point, as an excuse to make an episode every week.
Another example is the anime Getter Robo one of the earlier mecha anime. In the anime the characters are an athletic college student(Ryouma Nagare) , a loner who is supposed to give the idea that he's too cool for everyone else(Hayato Jin), and a fat guy whos only reason for even piloting the robot is to be the fat guy(Musashi Tomoe)(and to function as a running joke as since I mentioned this was supposed to be kid friendly). At the end of the series, the fat guy sacrifices himself by crashing a jet into a battleship that is literally a walking dinosaur which then goes crazy and tramples all over the bad guys......yeah, this being the 70s this was actually an original idea for the time.
The manga on the other hand had a different version of the characters(if you've seen New Getter Robo then thats closer). The characters in this version a martial artist inheriting a dojo with zero students(Ryouma), a gang leader with a 300 IQ and is at times on the border of psychotic(Hayato), and a martial artist training in the mountains who becomes the pilot to replace the scientist responsible for making the robot(Musashi)(The artist of the comic didn't even have him in the beginning but was forced to add him because the anime was so popular). In the end Musashi again sacrifices himself, this time by removing the reactor powering the robot and crushing it causing it to go off like a nuke, killing himself and the main bad guys. Which seems more like an actual ending to a story?
Sorry, didn't mean to make an entire lecture out of it, but this one series highlights the point that even as anime has gotten better, few of the remakes are able to completely show the characters as well as the manga. The closest remake that comes to mind is New Getter Robo. If your thinking that even a comic version couldn't possibly add any depth to this genre, read the Shin Getter Robo manga. On top of some well shown fights(which versions like Armageddon would borrow along with a few things), it shows something which resembles actual plot rather than fight after fight after fight after fight after...okay you get the point, as an excuse to make an episode every week.
I agree. Some anime's work and some don't. Some anime's work even better than the manga (ie. Hunter X Hunter) and some anime's fail so miserably you want to find the creator and kick him (ie. Mahou Sensei Negima).Firefly22 said:
I agree with you on that count. The main thing I liked about the anime was how they did the fight scenes. They were few and far between (unfortunately), but they were fast, smooth, and didn't have excessive random stop-and-talk sequences *coughNarutocough*.This Person said:
I found Naruto to be much better in manga form. The explanations did take up a lot of space and time in manga format, but it definitely was better than two combatants staring at each other thinking to themselves for three quarters of an episode.Firefly22 said:
The manga is just way faster paced then the anime. No 10-minute flashbacks, no 100 episodes of filler*cough*naruto*cough*, or a unneeded arc with characters nobody likes *cough*bleach*coughs*.
Not to mention anime like Berserk, FMA and Gantz have a huge cockblock as ending, while the manga is still going.
yes people. Even the full metal alchemist anime most people love, has a diffrent story then the manga. Flame of Recca did the same thing, but the manga already is at its end.
Then there are manga's that never became a anime such as Doubt (a personal favorite), which is some sorta japanese saw-ish game, where a bunch of people are locked up. One of these people is the murderer, and everyone knows there is a murderer among them. Psychological, bloody and cruel ^_^ so fun.
Not to mention anime like Berserk, FMA and Gantz have a huge cockblock as ending, while the manga is still going.
yes people. Even the full metal alchemist anime most people love, has a diffrent story then the manga. Flame of Recca did the same thing, but the manga already is at its end.
Then there are manga's that never became a anime such as Doubt (a personal favorite), which is some sorta japanese saw-ish game, where a bunch of people are locked up. One of these people is the murderer, and everyone knows there is a murderer among them. Psychological, bloody and cruel ^_^ so fun.
I LOVE anime, seriously. I should probably just marry it if I love it so much. I would really like to start reading manga, but I already have so many time consuming hobbies that I'd probably have to give up eating or sleeping to fit it in.
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then it's so awesome that you decided to visit this thread and post so, because when discussing what you like about Japanese cartooning it's always productive to hear that someone doesn't like it and has nothing to add but a random shot at everyone who does. Bravo, you guys are teh awesome.Chapper said:Don't really know the difference. And I don't like either, to be honest
As for liking anime vs manga. The problem with this thread is that it doesn't consider anime without a manga equivalent or manga without an anime equivalent. Or anime / manga that diverge a great deal from their counterpart (Say Haibane Renmei or Lucky Star for instance).
And I think we can all be safe in the assumption that the manga that is being discussed is not the distribution company but the medium, and any person who did not know the reason Manga inc. is called Manga inc. is because manga is what comic books are called in Japan should be educated to avoid silly comments like:
As for anime vs. manga, Nothing pisses me off more than individuals toting the inherent superiority of one over the other, it's absolutely inane and a point for discomfort for someone who enjoys the "less superior" one.Alphavillain said:
One time I mentioned I rather preferred the bleach anime because I enjoy animation and enjoyed the noise of it all as I live on my own. Two hours later the guy who had asked me about this had gathered four people together to tell me how the manga was superior, my claim that they were effectively the same thing was apparently blasphemous, I also had to put up with twenty minutes of how it's OK I don't like reading manga because I obviously can't read as fast as the aforementioned douchebag implying that I wasn't quite as bright as him really pissed me off.
Two months later I pass mention how I prefer the Deathnote manga over the anime because the trims the anime made really impacted a lot of the subtle genius of the writing and he's all over me again on the other side of it. God this guy was a total asshole, grrrr... I rage still even thinking about him.
This is also why everyone freaking hates fanboys, they take no time to learn a single solitaire thing and yet assume they know it all. Bear this in mind all those who dropped half-assed definitions on this thread. Don't be a fanboy (or girl as the case may be) you will cause more hate than love.
Fact is you have to take every piece of work in and assess it on its own merits. and even anime / manga pairs (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, DBZ, etc.) can both be enjoyed for completely different reasons making choosing a favorite just silly.
I very much agree with mark_n_b. Why choose when you can have both?
There is one thing which pisses me off about animé though: the dubs. Okay, some people will probably flame me for this, but I just can't stand them. The voices always sound way too fake.
There is one thing which pisses me off about animé though: the dubs. Okay, some people will probably flame me for this, but I just can't stand them. The voices always sound way too fake.
Since it is likely I will find someone here who knows and I'm probably not going to go out of my way to find it, is the Excel Saga manga in any way comparable to the Anime? How can they keep the ridiculous energy the show exudes in written form where literary pacing can only go so far? Is it even LIKE the show? I have to know.
Also, for the record I've always been a fan of Anime more mainly because I've seen a lot more that I liked than I have read, but I never will pass up the opportunity for enjoyable art in any form.
Also, for the record I've always been a fan of Anime more mainly because I've seen a lot more that I liked than I have read, but I never will pass up the opportunity for enjoyable art in any form.
I like both really. Manga is the original, so you can see what happened in the original storyline, and Anime is all those characters in motion, speaking, so you don't have to imagine it.
They're both great for their own reasons.
They're both great for their own reasons.
Prefer manga for the original storylines and art, but I like anime anyway.
It depends on what the original work was. RahXephon was originally an anime, so I prefer that version in that situation.
It depends on what the original work was. RahXephon was originally an anime, so I prefer that version in that situation.
I just say, people who say animes better just haven't read manga. ill accept in some cases (full metal) that the anime may be just as enjoyable although i hated the ending. but nothing compares to it in its original form, its soo much better. its clear, there's no fillers or edits.
i absolutely hate series that come out weekly cause they have to make them in a week. they are awfully slow and poorly made. animes are normally rushed and as a result they suck compared to the original script. Id recommend to anybody who even thinks the slightest, that anime crap is better, the next time they want to watch something new they bloody read it first.
I just cant see the attraction to the normally poorly colored, poorly animated, poorly written pile of shit.
I cant understand how people can like anime more than manga, or even put it on the same fucking level. Its bloody shit, if one of you could make a list of animes that measure up to their mangas, id reli like to see it, cause to be honest i don't think there are many.
i absolutely hate series that come out weekly cause they have to make them in a week. they are awfully slow and poorly made. animes are normally rushed and as a result they suck compared to the original script. Id recommend to anybody who even thinks the slightest, that anime crap is better, the next time they want to watch something new they bloody read it first.
I just cant see the attraction to the normally poorly colored, poorly animated, poorly written pile of shit.
I cant understand how people can like anime more than manga, or even put it on the same fucking level. Its bloody shit, if one of you could make a list of animes that measure up to their mangas, id reli like to see it, cause to be honest i don't think there are many.
Both, although it depends upon the series.
Some series are better as Manga, whereas some are better as Anime.
Some series are better as Manga, whereas some are better as Anime.
I agree with that. Some dubs are horrendous, and extremely innacurate. Such as Dragonball.Alleged_Alec said: