Forum - View topicManga you love, but the anime sucks
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Jisu
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Anime adaptations are often used to get people into a manga... but if the anime sucks, it'll often scare people away or even stall out discussion entirely.
For instance, this season's Mechanical Marie started out getting a lot of hate and has now basically been cancelled online, with any discussion being about the AI-llegations... when it's even discussed at all; five episodes in and you can't find anything talking about the series. Not exactly ideal for manga readers hoping to get new fans into reading it. I'm not looking forward to getting "isn't that the one where the anime was suspected of using AI?" every time I post a manga panel. So share your favourite manga here that got a lousy or otherwise problematic adaptation, but you want people to look past it and get into the manga! |
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Tony K.
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EX-ARM. The anime got me into the manga because of the obvious poor production quality for the adaptation. But the manga is a pretty dang cool ecchi cyberpunk actioner.
I also didn't really care for the Flame of Recca anime when I saw it. Although, I never got around to reading the manga, I feel it might be better. For the most part, though, I feel the voice acting is the difference-maker between the two mediums, and usually prefer that, even if the production value is kind of low. For example, Great Teacher Onizuka; aside from some of the Onizuka faces, the show itself is pretty mediocre in terms of art and animation, but holy hell, the seiyuu and soundtrack make it work, filler and all. |
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gsilver
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I won't necessarily say it sucks, but I'd have a hard time recommending the Angel Densetsu anime to anyone unless they were already fans of the manga.
It's just a short OVA that only covers a small part of the introduction of the series, and cheaply produced at that. But read Angel Densetsu, if you haven't already. It's awesome and hilarious... but just with the caveat that the author didn't draw particularly well at the start of the series, but his career is plenty of proof that he's got a lot of skill there. It also makes me wish that Norihiro Yagi would do comedy again. I'm not sure what (if anything) he did after Ariande in the Blue Sky aside from a random oneshot. Last edited by gsilver on Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:26 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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killjoy_the
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I've dropped a fair shame of anime that I then later on read the manga of and liked the story. My main issue with anime that causes this is usually the slow pace of adaptations (Monster for example), or just the fact that comedy in manga is easy to skim while it's the entire screen for several seconds in anime, so you can't as easily ignore the bad jokes (Gintama, FMA 2003, School Rumble)
There's also Adachi and Shimamura, which is a weird case in that the anime just felt scatterbrained, while the novel... still is like that, but the english translation has so much charm, which the anime lacked. Could entirely be the translator's merits. Doesn't really count because it's a novel, though I guess |
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gsilver
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It's really rare in modern adaptations to draw things out. Most seasons these days are 11-12 episodes, so there's a much more common problem of trying to cut down stories too much to fit into a single season. See: The train wreck that was The Promised Neverland Season 2* This happened a lot more when the majority of anime was 26 episodes. Even in Monster's case, it was done as a faithful adaptation, without intentionally trimming down manga material. The only time I can really think of it happening in modern days is with super-long shounen series like One Piece. * Though having read quite a bit of TPN... I definitely do not love the manga. We could have gotten a 'pretty good' season 2 if it just adapted the material from where season 1 ended at a normal pace, but I really don't like where it ends up. |
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Sydney2K
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The All You Need is Kill anime movie is already getting a shellacking online for the art style.
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Fluwm
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Is it too soon to say Spirit Circle? Hm... maybe we'll get lucky and no one will even try. Barring that, I'll submit Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. Absolutely fantastic manga, but that anime adaptation is pretty painful.
And maybe also Gokusen? I don't remember the anime all that well, and sometimes I forget it ever even happened in the first place. Which in itself is pretty damning, considering it's one of my all-time favorite comedy manga. And while I guess it's off-topic, I'll also bring up its live action adaptation -- which isn't bad but could've been a lot better. The first season is more-or-less faithful to the manga, but then the subsequent seasons are both basically retreads of the first season, transplanting Yankumi to a different school to do everything over again with a slightly-different set of delinquent students. It's a decently fun ride and it's hard for me to be all that critical of anything Nakama Yukie does for me (the amount of goodwill I have towards her for Trick cannot be underestimated) but it just... it could've been so much better.
Speaking of things I sometimes forget about entirely..... On the one hand, yes, Angel Densetsu of fantastic (another one of my all-time favorite comedies) but on the other hand... I think it'd be really, really hard to animate well, so maybe it's a good thing it only ever got that one-off OVA? |
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