Anime Or Manga

Figured I would start this over again..state which one and why..I am just curious

Depends on the series, honestly.

Anime!!!!!!!!!!!bow to the almighty anime!

ARRRG!

Not sure, mebe Anime, as i can't make it, but then again, Manga as... ARRG!

Manga just feels better!

Anime! By Far. I like the audio

Manga. I like being able to decide how they speak and what they sound like... gimme a little space to improvise.

I'm an anime person myself, I seldom read manga unless I find an interseting one.

Depends on the series for me. I like anime because it's more... animated. But I also like manga because it leaves room for the imagination. Not to mention it's basically anime on the go.

O.o 3 for 3, Wonder how this will pan out!

lol, yeah I just noticed that! ^__^

THE TIDE HAS TURNED!

I'll say anime...mainly because I'm lazy. But also, because most of my friends have huge amounts of it, so it's more easily accessible for me, because I can just borrow the DVDs for free. So, also because I'm cheap. And then there's the horrendous English dubs on most anime, which makes then hilarious. Perfect example: Macross II: The Movie.

I prefer manga. Manga usually has more too it. It's not limited as much by time and censorship as anime usually is.

I prefer Manga due to the lost stories. Manga is always more detailed..has less fillers. I DESPISE FILLERS!!! Manga..actually tells an ongoing story unlike anime..anime is usually made while a manga is being wrote so often they have to improvise scenes and stuff..during the wait for a book to be published.


I may at first watch a series in Anime form and THEN read the manga..but usually it is the other way around so I feel a bit lost and disappointed when I see an anime.



EXCEPT for Cowboy Bebop..since the manga was made after the anime..so I will not even touch it.

Precisely. If the manga was made before the anime, usually it's better because it's straight from the creator's heart, and often the series is built around the manga, making obviously ill-fitting filler episodes while waiting for the creator to release another manga to be animated.

Hell, even the manga of DragonBallZ is funny, because you don't have to read it at that damned slow speed that the anime has. I swear that two pages of the manga makes an entire episode, and that's sad. (Of course, DragonBall was the only good series, cause instead of all this "I am the greatest in the universe", they had a pervy old man constantly grabbing boobies and a little kid trying to figure out why girls have different parts while flying around on a cloud.)

It gets a bit bothersome for some things, like a certain manga I'm infatuated with where the main characters have blue or purple hair and purple eyes, whereas the anime has both with brown eyes, and one with brown hair. But you can live. However, the moment they start showing brand new characters who have a huge involvement in the plot..when neither that character or plot was originally there, makes sense, or is in any way relevant, you start wondering where the stupid jokes end, so that you can get back to the real plot.

And most of those filler/made-up characters are just comic relief anyway. I like a little comedy in my manga, but it gets boring if there isn't a hella lot of angst to make up for it. If the main character wants to kill their love, if the only way their friends can survive is if the main person dies, if they can never make it in time to protect those close to them, if they realize that they're the true reason people are suffering...damn, that's exciting to me.

When I see episode-long drinking competitions or two mechas playing ping-pong, I get worried.

Cowboy Bebop....I refuse to touch the manga, for fear that it's nothing more than a popular doujinshi. FLCL...the manga is more insane than the anime, that's for sure. I love it for that, and nothing beats it in uniqueness. But the anime is an exception to my rule of 'filler stuff' that wasn't actually in the manga...because everything still stays streamline with the plot, and is a lot less choppy than the way the manga is written.

If you're doing a serious (or not-so-serious) action series, sometimes the only way it can make sense is if it's actually being animated. I haven't seen the anime of Trigun, but I'm a bit eager to, because...heck, everything happens so fast in the manga battles that I hardly know which way's up and I end up reading an entire chapter again only to realize "wow, how did I miss that?"

Shojo stuff (or even shonen-oriented things that just have a ton of girl characters)...heck, keep it to the manga so that you can skip the sniffly crud and move on. If you have three or more main girl characters, chances are that they're stripping down to very little at some point or another. And as fun as it is to see how items are positioned to not show off certain anatomy (like naked Shinji of Eva with a beer can in front of him) or how well they detail things without actually detailing them (breasts that have no nipples, or a ton of naked people in the mist of a hot springs)...I'm really not that hot over well shaded animated characters (game characters are a different story). Just put them in black and white so I get the point that their naked, I don't haveta ponder it for five minutes, and I can move on to the part where they're kicking someone twenty feet for looking at them in that situation.


Then again: manga costs money. Anime can be found for nothing but the price of monthly cable on Fox, WB (well...not so much anymore), Cartoon Network, that one..Nick channel.. (hasn't enough channels to remember names), just about anywhere. Sure, there's often a limited enough selection (at least for how late people are willing to stay up on school nights) that you end up with fifty people saying "I love Kenshin" after only seeing five episodes and never realizing that there's other shows of interest out there...

But all the same, I never would have become a lover of the little bit of Japanese we can hold onto, if I hadn't been introduced years and years ago to Outlaw Star, Monster Rancher, Tenchi Muyo!, and Digimon. Heck -- even DBZ and Pokemon, often criticized for the same plots continuously and a lack of very detailed art -- are still a start. How many people began to watch one of the simpler, young-audience-oriented shows, loved it, and then decided they'd keep watching that channel for just another half hour....only to discover Cowboy Bebop? The Big O? Sailor Moo....okay, maybe we won't talk about that.

And after realizing all that anime was out there...they decided to look it up online, found out there were 'books' about the series, discovered manga, decided to try another series by that author or publisher, and before you know it...


...*stares at her manga collection (what, only going on 70 graphic novels), the half-done cosplay outfit she really needs to get to working on someday, the new ranks put up for LA, and the lack of hard-drive space (Only 30 gigs worth and a few burned cds?) from anime downloading* You get the point.

Manga just because it is [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] easier to read and you cant get yelled at for taking up the computer the entire time with watching anime. With manga you can read a few and then stop.

Also Manga is constantly being scanslated by translation groups...

I just like Manga because you can go back and re-read.

Manga also gives you more of a feeling of control and participation. You have to physically turn the page to get to the next part, and that is a bit better than sitting and just watching a screen. Too bad it cost so much. I spend enough on American comics. Buying manga is a rare, and completely worth it, treat for me.

It totally depends. Usually, when the manga comes first it's better, with same for when the anime comes first. In the end though, it's a series-by-series case. Pokemon, for one, has (or rather, had) a that was lightyears beyond the series, despite its premature death at the Orange Islands. Even then, the other manga still goes beyon what the show ever dares to do, though it does break the "no-no" rule more then a couple of times.

Generally though, "Adaptations" suck - look at Gundam Wing, G Gundam, and the already lackluster nauseating SEED. All of those manga are horrible generaliztations of the shows, whilst on the other hand, the anime movie version of Akira is missing more then just a little bit of the plot presented in the manga.

Still, it's case-by-case.

Bah, for the length of manga, it costs about as much -or less than- most American books. Your average manga costs between $8-$16 dollars, the most expensive usually being older editions, or some manga (like Akira or Nausicaa) are just so huge and long that you can expect it to cost more.

I do like the 'tension' factor, though. For anime an intense scene is interupted by a commercial, you haveta wait five minutes, and then you get to see what happened!

For a manga...you just turn the page. If you like to wait longer, then go for the anime. If you want to just get on with it, go for the manga. Unless you're watching fan-subbed stuff or actual DVDs, where the anime is devoid of advertisements.

Originally posted by Chikara_Nadir@Sep 15 2004, 07:10 PM
actual DVDs, where the anime is devoid of advertisements.

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-points at the zillions of Ads the average Bandai or ADV DVD has-

I pity the poor VCR people, since they can't skip these without fast forwarding.

Har. see, manga is winning. *manga dance*

By skimming Chik's massive reply, I noticed a good point.

Manga runs less of a risk of creating screaming 12-year-old fancults, like Pokemon/DBZ/Kenshin. Manga also lacks bad voice actors.

Manga gets my vote.

After looking at all of the posts here...

My vote has to go to manga. I don't have nearly enough of it, but I agree: manga>anime.

Apples and oranges really. Some stories work better as anime, and some as manga. And some as novels, games, live-action, et cetera. They're completely different artistic media and they each have their merits.

That said, within a certain franchise I will usually prefer whichever version it was originally created to be.

But I still can't vote either way.

Originally posted by DarkJuno@Sep 15 2004, 04:14 PM
-points at the zillions of Ads the average Bandai or ADV DVD has-

I pity the poor VCR people, since they can't skip these without fast forwarding.

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Okay. I get the point. XD But I meant the ads in the MIDDLE of the shows.


....though the ones before each episode are equally annoying. x.x

Originally posted by Flint@Sep 15 2004, 08:06 PM
Manga also lacks bad voice actors.

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...but manga can also have stupidly idiotic mistakes the translators make, and I don't mean getting a word wrong either. We're talking outright factual (well, factual as far as the manga itself goes anyway) errors, misnaming, the whole deal.

Well, both anime and manga have their fair share of translation issues. I also like the fact that I can take manga with me. I have a portable DVD player and my laptop that I can watch anime on, but it's still much more of a bother than just picking up a manga and reading it. Plus, reading is good for you.

Originally posted by DarkJuno@Sep 15 2004, 09:19 PM
...but manga can also have stupidly idiotic mistakes the translators make, and I don't mean getting a word wrong either. We're talking outright factual (well, factual as far as the manga itself goes anyway) errors, misnaming, the whole deal.

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Ugh, don't remind me of the first translated volume of Rurouni Kenshin, which had to have spelt "Battousai" five different ways in the first two chapters. The best thing I can find in some manga is if they leave a word in the original context, then have an explanation at the back or on the bottom of the page, or if they do make an attempt of translating the word into the nearest English meaning (or nearest phrase that makes sense), they still have an explanation of what the Japanese equivalent really meant.

While I like both, I usually prefer manga. The artwork is more carefully drawn in most cases, and usually looks like more time was spent on it. Plus, sometimes the author scrawls notes in the margins, like in Fushigi Yuugi, and that amuses me to no end.

Hehe, too true. It's great when an author starts jabbering in the footnotes or at the end about how hard this scene was, or that they can't believe they did that in the story... XP