| I like anime more. To me it's more entertaining to watch with the openings,endings, colours, voice actors etc. The one think i don't like is that they don't always stick to the manga. :P |
| Depends really. High concept, action, style over substance, or uses sound and music as a focal point is better in anime Slice of life, romance, slow moving, and character pieces are better in manga. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
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| Exactly what Jigero said. I think things like DBZ and One Piece and other fighting shows of that nature are more entertaining to watch. Wheres romance based things don't make a huge difference wether its animated or not. |
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| Depends. For example, the Higurashi mangas follow the visual novel more faithfully and cover more storytelling and development, while the anime falls short on this. In this case, the manga is better. As for another example, I've read "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" and I've seen the movie. While the one that I read was a light novel, seeing it in action was much more intriguing then reading it. Depends on the execution and development I'd say. |
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| It just comes down to circumstances for me. If I'm traveling or just want to have something to get me to sleep, I'll read manga, otherwise if I have the time I'll prefer to watch anime. |
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| It depends on the anime or manga. For some series I like the manga better, for others I like the anime. As for overall, I prefer anime to some degree, but I prefer reading manga when I'm in a situation where I can't pay complete attention to what I'm doing, such as when I'm talking to my friends on AIM or web surfing. When I'm doing that I prefer manga because I can read it at my own pace instead of having to keep up with an episode of anime. |
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| Always anime. The only reasons manga is sometimes better is if the story goes further than the anime, or goes more into details. |
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| Assuming there's both a Anime and a Manga version, both follow the some story and use similar style/character design. I'd chose Anime. If the plot's differ from each other but still the same series, it'd vary on the series. |
| i Love anime more because i can hardly read more then an hour at a time but i have no problem watching anime for 15 hours straight content wise i love anime more but manga has alot to offer too |
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| anime, it has the advantage of having music, voice acting, action scene that actually move and so on. liek i can think of quite a few shows that just do not or would not translate well to manga because they would have these things, like clannad, sword of the stranger, rahXephon(the godly anime wouldnt, there is a mnag version but its fucking atrocious) |
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| I admit I'm more of an anime person, but that's because I haven't really put the time to develop my manga list. I will say that if there is a anime adaptation of a preexisting manga, that the manga will usually be better, but there are a few exceptions. I find some manga have GORGEOUS art that I have not seen in anime. Those who have read Nausicaa, Hokuto no Ken, or Shin Angyo Onshi know what I'm talking about. Of course, vice versa is also true. |
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| Definitely anime, I don't know if it's just me - but I can't read manga at all. I'm not used to it and I find it kind of... boring. Which is really crappy because I want to read manga, but I just can't get into it. |
| I can't say I care or that it matters. Everything has it's place and some formats work better for some stories. Without manga there would be a whole lot less anime but manga can't do what Visual Novels(provide choice, sound, etc) do but I don't see one format being outright better for storytelling. It's kinda dumb to overlook either format giving that how long people have been using books and videos for stories. |
Anime_NameMar 25, 2012 11:46 AM
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| Anime has potential to be better if done right. I feel like the manga follows the story a lot better while anime seems to have distinct restrictions where the story has to be compromised sometimes. But it's hard to say =P. |
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| I think I love both equally, but it's easier to watch a lot of anime than manga somehow. |
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| Anime is better for stories that are about 13-26 episodes in length. Manga is better for long stories. |
| I prefer anime. Because color, sound, BGM, voices, and animation is better than black and white pictures with maybe a tiny bit more story material. Not to mention action scenes are terrible in manga form. IMO |
Hokuto_no_FuzzMar 25, 2012 11:59 AM
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| Manga, there's just so much more you get out of it. |
Fuzzx said: I prefer anime. Because color, sound, BGM, voices, and animation is better than black and white pictures with maybe a tiny bit more story material. Not to mention action scenes are terrible in manga form. IMO i totally agree |
| too lazy to read and anime makes it look way more fancy imo XD |
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| I'm also with the people who think music is the real deal breaker. I can't read any manga or comics if I don't have appropriate music to listen while reading. And not just random music that I like, but music that fits the work perfectly. |
| I don't really read manga myself, though I am starting to get interested in it. so anime, because i personally get more enjoyment out of it. For 20 minutes i can be taken away by the colors and voices :) |
feder said: It depends on the anime or manga. For some series I like the manga better, for others I like the anime. I agree with you. It's hard to determine which is better. Anime is dynamic, has a soundtrack. Manga usually makes up for it in the story, and we haven't given it everything on a plate, so we set our imaginations. I think that manga and anime is notable, if they well designed. |
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| Im not really in to manga so I say Anime |
| I prefer Manga ...mostly cuz you dont have to download or stream a whole episode to enjoy it ...just go to next page ^^ But I still like anime as well ...so what I'm saying is both are equal :-D |
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| You know, I am not an expert and am biased by my own experience but started reading some works of Waita Uziga and it surprised me by how unimpressed they left me; specially Modern stories of the bizarre. It just seems they fell short in its shock value, as if the sound, movement or even colour in that case was lacking to transmit the feelings of the story. In the same way I can say that I freaking love Yotsuba... but it seems I can't come to feel these, say, violent feelings in a manga as much as I do with anime; that the addition of animation and sound does make a huge difference. Then again, my experience with manga is so low it shouldn't count. But so far I prefer anime. By the way, I am reading that some manga adaptations in anime are bad and too compressed, I understand it, but what difference does it make in this debate? We are not talking about specific franchises but the involving ability of each medium. If we want to talk about bad adaptations there's thousands of other threads. |
| Manga. I prefer reading than watching. |
| Yeah, l like anime more. I mean manga is great and all but with the genre's i like manga doesn't make the cut. It's hard for me to understand whats happening when there are tons of fight scenes going on. But if were just a normal comedy manga then im sure i'd like that a lot more. |
| I prefer watching anime; |
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| Depends. I personally like anime better because of the colours and everything making it more appealing. But then some animes dont have enough money to produce so they rush through with usually 12 ep ( a season ) A romance anime wouldnt be good enough in 12 ep's usually because there is not enough build up between the characters. Few years back i would totally prefer anime over manga. but since then i started reading manga and it isnt so bad. |
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itsvero said: Definitely anime, I don't know if it's just me - but I can't read manga at all. I'm not used to it and I find it kind of... boring. Which is really crappy because I want to read manga, but I just can't get into it. I was like this until recently when I just forced myself to bear with it for a bit. Once you do, you will realise just how awesome Manga is. I prefer Manga over Anime because it stays true to it's nature, Anime cuts things out to its leisure and sometimes can completely leave out key things or change the story (E.G the original FMA) It's the exact same as a movie adaption of a book. The Book, If you're a book person, Is 99% of the time miles better than the movie. |
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| I think Anime has the potential to be the better medium, but it is hindered by fillers, too much change to the original material, and stretching out scenes from the manga. If done right though it can be great and better than the original manga. Yu Yu Hakusho would be an example of that in my opinion. I generally prefer dialogue in manga as it is straight to the point. Manga also contains the full passion and meaning of the original creator. For example, I find the One Piece Manga much better than the anime. In fact I dropped the anime, but continued reading the manga. The manga has little details in the art that are lost in the Anime. It is very rare that an anime manages to take a author's work and make it better. Anime usually depicts fight scenes better than manga. Sometimes you don't even know exactly what happened in a manga in a fight, but in the anime adaptation it is very clear and usually expanded upon. Anime #1 advantage is music. I absolutely adore well done Anime music and it really adds to the art. Voice Acting is a make or break. Great voice acting adds, while bad voice acting can really hurt characterization. Overall, Anime-Music/Fights Manga-Everything Else We are lucky in this industry to get two sides of a story. Whether you prefer one or the other you get twice the experience. It is also awesome that you have options as some people may like one and hate the other. |
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| It really depends. I usually watch anime adaptations first then the manga after. And so far the manga has always been better. I guess I prefer anime overall because of voice acting and music. |
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| for the most part i prefer anime even though adaptations tend to be worst than their manga counter parts. but, i just can't choose reading over reading and watching something at the same time. |
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| i'd say anything that is an action/fight filled i prefer anime because it's pretty hard to really see a fight in manga, but in everything else manga is better in my opinion. i'm a believer in books having better story telling than the show/movie |
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| I personally prefer Anime than Manga as well. Mainly because Anime got colours and well ,they got those sound effects However, the advantages of Mangas is they don't have those filler that exist in Anime :) |
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| Depends on which one came first, but it's usually manga. Very rarely will I find that the music, voices, pacing, and animation actually add something that the manga was missing for me (Mushishi is one of the few examples I can think of). I also find manga easier to read since I can read it at my own pace which is almost always perfect for me, I rather like that. I can also get more story in less time with a manga. Also, anime will be limited by the number of episodes it's going to be decided from the start, unless it's a one shot, manga can often go on for as long as they're popular (sure, they have restrictions on page count for a particular chapter, but they usually don't have an overall pre-set number of volumes) But I still enjoy both of them a lot and have a large physical collection of both of them. |
| i like watching anime more but i love to draw manga |
| it really depends... for example if the anime is like death note and bakuman, i might even prefer the manga... but when it comes to fights, drama and stuff anime has the uperhand, Openings, Endings, and of course Soundtracks, voice, colors |
| I like anime more due to motion/soundtrack/voices. I only read manga to read ahead of the anime to see what happens next. |
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| I believe animation is the best medium out of all media from books to video games, for conveying fictional concepts under a rigid and standardized infrastructure. Hence, potential-wise, anime is more convenient for story-writers (who have adequate ideals and motive anyway). Manga leaves more freedom for readers in terms of motion, sound, and everything subsidiary to them. Hence, it is more common for receivers to be satisfied with manga than anime in terms of preference deviation. I just wish there were more animes that used animation to the fullest of its potential. |
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ap19 said: I believe animation is the best medium out of all media from books to video games, for conveying fictional concepts under a rigid and standardized infrastructure. Hence, potential-wise, anime is more convenient for story-writers (who have adequate ideals and motive anyway). Funny, I always thought that the writer's true medium would be books and that animators/filmmakers were the ones that excel in animated works. I just wish there were more animes that used animation to the fullest of its potential. What potential? The potential to be the next Looney Toons or Scooby Doo? Anime seems to be pushing the envelope already in terms of story-telling and visual variety. |
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Anime_Name said: Funny, I always thought that the writer's true medium would be books and that animators/filmmakers were the ones that excel in animated works. What potential? The potential to be the next Looney Toons or Scooby Doo? Anime seems to be pushing the envelope already in terms of story-telling and visual variety. It's just a belief, from my own experiences. By "story-writing" I mean within the realms of fiction, in terms of conveying unrealistic or out-of-the-box kind of ideas. Books leave everything from interpretation of words and above to the reader. Mangas leave everything from motion and sound and above to the reader. Video games give too much control of the characters in-game to the player. Live action films using real humans trigger the innate filters concerning cognition of the same species, which severely limits the variation of possible interpretation. Anime in that sense holds the balance between providing as much precise information as possible without triggering unneeded reception filters from the receivers. Hence, fictional story-tellers have the best chance of conveying precisely what they want and having receivers receive those ideas as precisely as they want it (especially if it's something humans wouldn't ordinarily think of) via animation. Animation in this case includes full CG of course, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. As for potential, I mean whatever can be done with color and sound, and not necessarily what is generally defined as the template of anime. I guess the closest anime I know to the ideal I'm talking about is Mushishi. But I think there's still a lot more that can be done with animation. |
ap19Mar 29, 2012 11:13 AM
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| Anime, it lasts longer… as in 5 chapters = 1 episode or whatever. Also the voice actors add more emotion to something, which I can't seem to grasp when reading. |
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