Which do you prefer more anime adaptations or manga?

gedata said:
Manga are generally the safer option

Unyilkdr said:
depend on the series, but:

Unyilkdr said:
depend on the series, but:

Chibi-Alice said:
Good anime adaptions.

Gamma_Light said:
As a wise man once told me, not everything needs an anime adaptation.

robis798 said:
I dunno, I still stand pretty strongly about anime > manga. Of course, when the business us with bad adaptations, then yes manga is better, but honestly how many bad, like noticably bad adaptations do we have? There's the famous Tokyo Ghoul and... I honestly can't think of anything else from recent times. We just had Yamada-kun last season which wad apparently very rushed, but still, the wonders that voice acting, ost, overall animation did was something manga couldn't do for me when I picked it up, it was just bland and I didn't really continue it after a couple of chapters, although I do admit that it was much better pacing wise. This is just an example of course, but this occured to me not once.

There's also business with the unfinished adaptations, but I kinda dealt with it, it's just the way industry works. Even if the adaptation is unfinished, still most of the times anime > manga still stands.

I don't think I agree with the "manga will 80% of times will be better" but I don't read that much manga so maybe I'm not the one to say. From the few manga that I've picked I don't think any aside Naruto wad better than the adaptation. I mean, AoT, HunterxHunter, Noragami, Monster adaptations are much superior to the manga. I'm sure there's plenty more. I dunno, maybe I'm just a pleb who can't appreciate the masterrace mango.

15poundfish said:
Anime is much superior by far if the studios actually have access to enough source material and budget to complete it. Since most anime are advertisements for manga and light novels people accuse the anime adaptation for being bad when it is not necessarily the producers fault that they are adapting from a story that is not close to being finished or the work they are adapting from is bad source material. for example, light novels are often written in first person and many light novel writers are lazy at developing their characters. A normal novel generally develops their characters subtly over time due to the interactions between characters and how the character deals with events and conflicts within the story. In contrast, Light novel writers basically have this spelled out through narration with the character talking to himself to help the reader connect with the main character on a more intimate level; this is important in works that are wish fulfillment to project themselves on the main character.

This does not mean all Light novels that adapt to anime will necessarily suck; Welcome to NHK is a good example of what happens when they adapt from good source material and make some liberties to help appeal to a wider audience shown by the much lighter and comedic tone of the anime in comparison to the light novel.

Gamma_Light said:

Actually, it is the producers' fault for adapting a manga that's close to not being finished. They could always wait until the manga is close to completion.