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The Mike Toole Show - Awesome Unadapted Manga

The interesting thing is, is that I'd argue that Nishikiori's anime adaptation of Azumanga Daioh actually improves upon the manga in various ways (here I'll also mention that I think Nishikiori also accomplished the same thing with Angelica Layer). Most notably, as Mike mentions, in its manipulation of the scattershot 4koma vignettes into coherent narrative arcs, but perhaps more significantly in its presentation of the material as far as the wholesale creation of pacing and atmosphere that is hardly present in the original manga due to the 4koma format.

P.S.: I read the first volume of Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and honestly the drawing while very flawed isn't the kind to damage an anime adaptation, that's not the problem. Honestly it's more its structure with sudden quick monologues and over analysis that in manga you tolerate better but in anime it's much more baffling (you get sometimes successful ones, but not very often). Again, not impossible at all to adapt, but there are difficulties. Either way it wasn't popular enough to probably interest to an studio, is it?

It's a shame that between the two, Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer is the only one available in English.

One big problem I personally have with these "why aren't these manga turned into an anime??" is that it automatically assumes that manga are a lesser form of medium in comparison to anime and all manga aspires to be that. When ironically it's more like the opposite, many anime are made to advertize the original manga. But many people don't seem to identify the traits of each medium.