The Manga Purists Thread

[Apollo the Just]

for all other souls who feel personally victimized when they hear people say that they prefer the anime of a specific series, post here about why those people are really wrong and horrible and the manga is way better.

xxxHOLiC. I will judge you if you say you watched the anime. i will judge you because no just read the manga please just do it
First off because sure everyone has CLAMP proportions but at least in the manga it's so detailed and pretty that you don't care. In the anime everyone just looks like animated noodles

and just come on just read the manga. please

[LOOT]

I read a manga once. It was stupid.

[Apiary Tazy]

I don't usually read manga. I don't usually watch anime unless its with Jen.

If you do want to know, I always found the Naruto manga as being a lot more... what's the word? Artsy? than the anime is?

Also, less stupid filler. :I

[Valigarmander]

The only manga I've read in its entirety (an impressive two volumes) was FLCL, which was actually based on the anime rather than the other way around, and had quite a different story anyway. I guess I prefer the anime.

[Jere]

Everyone should really give xxxholic a read just because you need to read so much more to really appreciate the story

[Antisocial]

I read a manga once. It was stupid.

I'm interested in what it was. Given that there are a lot of stupid manga out there.

[LOOT]

YuGiOh. The first stuff that was made into Season 0.

Yeah not a good place to start I guess but

[Booyakasha]

I've heard a lot of people say the 'Akira' manga is better than the film. I've not read the whole thing myself (it's pretty expensive), but what I've read has been not so much better as just different. I grant the story in the manga is much more fleshed out, but, you know, there's something to be said for great animation and music, too.

[Thanous]

for all other souls who feel personally victimized when they hear people say that they prefer the anime of a specific series, post here about why those people are really wrong and horrible and the manga is way better.

xxxHOLiC. I will judge you if you say you watched the anime. i will judge you because no just read the manga please just do it
First off because sure everyone has CLAMP proportions but at least in the manga it's so detailed and pretty that you don't care. In the anime everyone just looks like animated noodles

and just come on just read the manga. please

omg, the xxxholic anime was so bad, but the manga was really awesome. it was one of the first I read, and it is just so amazing

[Booyakasha]

...incidentally, I remember never bothering at all with 'xxxHOLIC' because the title sounded like some synonym for 'pornography addict', which made it a little hard for me to take seriously.

'Astro Boy' manga is way better than the original cartoon (not that I think anyone would claim otherwise).

[The Missing Link]

I used to think manga was really cool. Then, $170 later after buying 17 issues of books that I tended to read through in about three hours, I realized how much of a money sink it was. Haven't bought much in the way of them since.

Unless you count Scott Pilgrim.

[Kargath]

I tend to prefer manga to anime, simply because the anime tends to get adapted before the manga is finished and thus shoves in fillers or ends abruptly.

[Sim Kid]

On average I read manga way more than I do watch anime.

I can get through about three episodes worth of anime in roughly twenty minutes depending on how fast/slow my internet speed is. I would especially prefer this than to try and catch up to The Show That Never Ends-I mean One Piece. (I predict that the series is going to outlive Oda and will have to be finisehd by two generations of people compiling notes from his sketchbook(s) and computers.)

[Kil'jaeden]

Anime? You mean that retarded crap about pirates with water guns, tentacles, and ninjas? Why even bother?

[Apollo the Just]

lmao @ tmls implication that people actually buy manga

I mean, if I really like a series I'll buy a volume to support it, but I ain't paying for 800 volumes same as I wouldn't pay for 400 DVDs. hell naw man

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As a general rule, I'm turning more toward the 'read/watch whichever came first, and then read/watch the other one if you're bored and want more' boat. Because the adaptation isn't gonna keep everything from the original, and if it's an anime based off of a manga, you can bet there'll be dumb filler

sighs

detective conan you are so guilty of this

[Valigarmander]

I've read some of the Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z manga, and it's kind of refreshing how concise it is. DBZ had an absolutely ridiculous amount of pointless filler.

Except the driver's ed episode. That one was comedy gold.

[The Missing Link]

lmao @ tmls implication that people actually buy manga

At the time this happened, there was no manga service on the web. We're talking some five years ago. In those dark years before Facebook was open for all the web to use. You either bought, pirated, or did without... and I refused to pirate.

[Jere]

i buy the stuff i like if it isn't + 20 books, i don't have the space.

But id like to find the ramna books that would be the exception.

I allready have all the Love hina series.

[Apollo the Just]

^^ Times have changed. 'Tis time to change with them, my friend

[Kil'jaeden]

99% of all manga is not and will not be available in English. Most of them are better than what we get. And the ones we do get got their exposure from amateur translators well before they became mainstream. I am not sure what you mean by manga services on the web or pirating.