Comments on: New Poll: Anime or manga?

By: pecoseto

pecoseto — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:11:22 +0000

manga is generally superior to anime in most series. You can elaborate so much more into character development in manga, usually because you can add many more facial expressions to each character. The only thing that is better about anime is MUSIC.

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Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:06:11 +0000

[...] So immediately from the last poll, you can tell that most people who watch anime also read manga. But which do they prefer? It seems that manga is the slightly more favourable one. Personally, I like manga more… [...]

By: Pyro

Pyro — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:11:25 +0000

This is like asking “what do you like more? a cold soda or a hot cofee?”
if you are on the beach at 11:30 AM like hell you’ll want a cold soda, but if you are in winter at 7:00 AM then unless you are iceman you would like the hot cofee

My point is that it totally depends on the series, an easy fast example: Naruto
When I first started reading the manga I didn’t liked too much, but for some reason the anime grabed me and I stacked with it, therefore I liked anime more than the manga, but then fillers started so I picked up the manga again, and I liked more the manga than the anime (I don’t know wich will I preffer after the end of the fillers)

there are some more radical examples like gantz (manga is hellalot better than anime) or ouran high school host club (I loved the anime but I just can’t stand the manga) and there are many other examples, but this comment is long enough already

By: Anca

Anca — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:07:05 +0000

I’m mostly a manga fan… but I still think the Naruto manga sucks big time next to the anime. The amateurish, awkward art makes my eyes bleed and the narration fails to capture me – so I stick to the anime (the awesome animation of the fights that drag so much in the manga is a big factor). I stopped reading it some months ago.

Also, mangas adapted from anime usually fail – examples being Escaflowne or Gundam Seed. There are also rare pieces where the anime is better than its original manga – usually, action mangas with crappy art that get a special ‘glow’ in anime (FMA, to a lesser extent Prince of Tennis, for example). [For FMA, I honestly like the anime storyline better too, not just the art]

By: Chiro-kun

Chiro-kun — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:49:43 +0000

For titles like Death Note of a psychological genre with dynamic plot twists, the entire appeal of the anime is lost once you read the manga.

By: kurotsuki

kurotsuki — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:35:57 +0000

well..if i had to give up one , it would be anime. actually , that’s almost what i am doing now , and only reading quick summary’s on blog . I kinda lost my interest in anime . the Animation nowadays is on decline , and i haven’t seen one original anime is a while , always manga or game adaptation .
Also Danny , about the Eva Manga being better then the Anime . hum , actually i don’t know ,I’m pretty much 50-50 on this one . I have to admit that Shinji almost punching Gendou in the manga was priceless .

By: AvatarStormBringer

AvatarStormBringer — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:44:24 +0000

To each his own… Manga for more elaborated storyline and anime for the animation.

Unless it’s an OVA, most anime are created from the mangas with deviation.

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:05:39 +0000

i suspect that the option for ‘both are roughly equal’ would win the poll if i had that, which is why i left it out

By: Kurogane

Kurogane — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:56:56 +0000

Making a poll is so fun when there’s nothing else to do.

I voted for the underdog, “I don’t read manga or watch anime”, btw.

By: rdrake

rdrake — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:56:46 +0000

KYAAH~! What happened to the option for both are equally good, or how bout depends per series in question?