| This question has been floating around in my head for a while so i am going to ask it, why do people like anime more then manga. I have seen many people who are passionate about their favorite anime series and re-watch it over and over again, yet the don't read the manga which the anime was based off on. I am one of those people, I like certain anime, but I never read the manga, idk why though. I have seen many people who use this site to chat and log anime, but not as much manga. I have seen many profiles with overwhelming number of anime hours and 0 manga hours. This question has been bugging me for a long time, so it would be very nice if you guys could answer it, thanks for reading and have a great day! |
| Because not all people enjoy reading and would rather see things happen in front of them. |
| Because anime has more life than manga... |
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| You do know that reading can get boring.Beside's the fact that you can see your favorite characters moving and not just imagining it in your head.I do read the manga just to see what happens next since most of the time my favorite show's only gets 1 cour or that they just get a cliffhanger for an ending and never gets another season. |
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| Because of the colors and the animation. Plus, people are just too lazy to read (and that includes myself lol). |
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| I personally prefer to read the manga instead of rewatching the anime. Just like anything else, I've spent enough time with anime that I know about a lot of good ones that I want to watch. With manga it seems that anything that looks interesting hasn't been scanlated, which is annoying. |
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| I personally just can't get the same enjoyment from manga that I can from anime. Largely due to the fact that I don't enjoy reading significant amounts, subtitles kind of being the obvious exception but that's with the accompaniment of sounds/actions/etc. In addition I personally lack the imagination or desire to connect the panels in my head, possibly due to never reading comics when I was younger. Also just a lack visual imagination in general. As such the few times I read manga now is when I want to connect the events that were skipped in the anime adaptation so I can continue viewing at ease. (ie, to love ru, the world god only knows, and eventually negima). |
| I don't. But anime is just easier to get into and the first thing people get into when they enter the fanbase. |
| Some Anime are better than their Msnga counterparts. Attack On Titan is one of the best examples of this. The Anime is beautiful to look at while the Manga is kinda of piece of crap wth its artwork. But that usually depends on the Series in question: if its Ecchi(To-Love Ru Darkness or the like) I rather see the Manga as I don't have to deal with the BS censorship that the Anime Version has(outside of waiting for the BD's to get translated and eventually end up on Kiss or some other free to watch Anime.) |
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| Personally, I would rather read a good manga than watch a good anime, but I enjoy both almost equally so it's not a big deal. For me, it's been easier finding any anime I wanna watch more than it has to find manga I want to read. I think for some others it's also because they feel more relaxed watching animation move more than reading text with still pictures. other than that I'm not quite sure O_o |
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| Some people just prefer watching anime, i personnaly also generally prefer watching anime even though most of the time the manga is indeed better. If i want to rewatch an anime though i'll read the manga instead most of the time if i haven't read it. I did that for Shingeki no Kyojin, Nisekoi (Which i'm still reading and not even as far as where i was in the anime lol) and a couple others. |
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TheHatredDMC said: Some Anime are better than their Msnga counterparts. Attack On Titan is one of the best examples of this. The Anime is beautiful to look at while the Manga is kinda of piece of crap wth its artwork. But that usually depends on the Series in question: if its Ecchi(To-Love Ru Darkness or the like) I rather see the Manga as I don't have to deal with the BS censorship that the Anime Version has(outside of waiting for the BD's to get translated and eventually end up on Kiss or some other free to watch Anime.) I wouldn't say Attack on Titan anime is better than the manga, sure the art was better but the way it ended semi-filler was stupid, which is why i consider them pretty much equal. I've heard Kekkai Sensen anime is better than the manga ( I've heard the manga doesn't have the two most interesting characters ) but there aren't much cases where the anime is better than the manga. One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball and pretty much every long running shounen except Hunter X Hunter 2011, Gintama and arguably Fairy Tail ( If you exclude the fillers ) are the anime which get the worst adaptations, the anime for these aren't even close to their manga's level. It's really sad how they're adapted. |
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| I prefer watching than reading but if the anime hasn't had any sequal or other footage for 5 years then the manga is a good thing to read :3 If I could understand japanese I would listen to drama cd's aswell :3 |
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| I think why people prefer anime over manga maybe because they're too lazy or not interested on reading (Included me) but sometimes I read manga when I don't have any anime to watch.. |
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ShinjiBestGirl said: Because not all people enjoy reading and would rather see things happen in front of them. As they watch anime, reading subs. Don't need to bring up those that watch dubs, they aren't real people. |
| Bevause most people are lazy. You have to bring them everything in front of them and maybe they will use it if not a lot of attention or body moves is needed. - Anime is more accessible - in the West, Anime costs less (26eps: 20€, 1 manga tome: 7€) for the few actually paying what they watch - Anime shows you moves directly - Anime adaptations require less attention - Anime dialogues are a lot shorter (just compare Death Note) - Anime prevents you from imagining voices... - ... and colours. etc, ... - I would add personally that watching an anime on a computer is far more close to watching it on TV than reading a book on computer is to reading the real thing. I never understood the move part, because despite watching Dragon Ball anime before I could read the manga, as soon as I saw some action scenes in tne manga it was clear it was a lot more dynamic and enjoyable. The same can be said for a big number of other nekketsu manga animations. |
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Rei366 said: Bevause most people are lazy. You have to bring them everything in front of them and maybe they will use it if not a lot of attention or body moves is needed. - Anime is more accessible - in the West, Anime costs less (26eps: 20€, 1 manga tome: 7€) for the few actually paying what they watch - Anime shows you moves directly - Anime adaptations require less attention - Anime dialogues are a lot shorter (just compare Death Note) - Anime prevents you from imagining voices... - ... and colours. etc, ... - I would add personally that watching an anime on a computer is far more close to watching it on TV than reading a book on computer is to reading the real thing. I never understood the move part, because despite watching Dragon Ball anime before I could read the manga, as soon as I saw some action scenes in tne manga it was clear it was a lot more dynamic and enjoyable. The same can be said for a big number of other nekketsu manga animations. @ultravigo Read please: he wrote "except... ... ... Gintama... ". ° Good illustration for the "why people don't read" part of the question. ah my bad i didn't saw 'except' in front of gintama |
| When i was younger i bought some naruto shippuden manga and tried to read them.. It was ok.. But when the anime came out it was a completely different thing.. i know manga doesn t have any fillers but you can just skip them if you think they re useless, however manga are not like books where you can create the scenes with your imagination.. manga are just boring static sequences and you can t fully enjoy it but this is just my personal opinion |
| preference. ok serious. Sound, animation. still, preference. |
| I just don't like to read in general. |
| It's not that people prefer anime over manga, its just that in anime, its easier to understand the story and you can easily remember the names of the characters (seriously I do). In manga, its hard to understand, there's a lot of text bubbles and makes you skip to read and just look at the drawings and manga every week 19-21 pages and in anime 20-24 minutes every week. P.S this is just my opinion please don't hate me for this |
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| For me, I love Anime more because it has Animation and sounds. I tried reading some Manga but I got bored of it. |
| Because anime has sounds and movement, duhh. |
| Because animation, audio and simplicity. Personally I hate reading, text melts my brain. |
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| I prefer manga over anime when I'm actually holding a manga volume in my hands. I'm just not a fan of reading it on my laptop screen for whatever reason. I also don't like to read books on a screen either. I feel more comfortable if I can sit back and relax with a proper book in hand. |
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| Colors. Animation. Voice acting. Sound/Music. All of that means it entertaining more. At least most of the time I think. I hear people whining about bad adaptions sometimes. If it is Original Work we don't have that problem. I can understand if it is a bad adapation that the manga might be better - but only if it is regarding pacing cause some anime are that painfully slow ... I sometimes thought "skipping through some pages of manga might be faster instead". Since I am not used to manga I also had trouble to differentiate between all the different characters and things happening - especially if there were a lot of action and sound effects (which the manga also tries to describe with stuff like "boom") going on and if the background was dark. Actually made me progress pretty slow then and I did not like it. Colors are the biggest/main reason I don't l ike anime more. It's not that I don't like reading. Normal books (novels) I sometimes read. But for that I don't like online reading. I don't know if there are a lot of Light Novels released in the west ... and they might be more expensive (price per page) than normal western fantasy books (where I still have a lot of good stuff left to read cause not enough time ha ha). |
| Anime, being a visual and audial medium, means that it has ways to entertain that a manga simply cannot. A manga might have pictures depicting all the scenes, but they're nothing more than static drawings that are more often than not in black and white. No matter the amount of detail the author puts in, there's only so much movement and motion that they imitate. Anime will let you see those scenes in full colour, in full motion. Add on the fact that it will also come with soundtracks, sound effects and seiyuus, and suddenly an epic scene that moved you when you read it becomes absolutely amazing when you see it using the full range of methods. I am stoked for and cannot wait to see a certain scene from one of the recent Shingeki no Kyojin chapters where Erwin gives an amazing speech. The culmination of that, and the entire scene / event in general is going to be amazing. |
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| Most of the manga I read I prefer over the anime I watch as some plot points are skipped in anime. I usually watch an anime, read the manga then watch the anime again. |
ShinjiBestGirl said: Because not all people enjoy reading and would rather see things happen in front of them. even though most are "reading" the subs. |
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| I'm too lazy to flip the pages. Also when I read manga online it's just so annoying to wait until the next page has loaded. |
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| Manga translation is often horrible. |
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| I personally don't have any preferences of anime over manga vice versa. However, if the anime is already exists, I prefer watch it first because I don't like to invest a lot of time reading manga/too much watching anime in a week. It's about the real life. I also love the "special" which is often not exist in the manga. |
| maybe because anime is more exhilarating than manga |
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| I used to always watch anime ... but my favorite genre started running out , thats when i started reading manga , ever since that time , i started to read manga continuously .. so for me MANGA > ANIME , K ? |
| The simple answer would be most of them would find reading boring? (Just an assumption) But yeah, visualization is much easier on the eyes. |
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| Because soundtracks can add another dimension to a story. |
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| As for me, either one is fine. But as lately, anime turn into promotional stuff. Many parts were chop off.. So.. No other choice than read the manga/novel. xD |
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| Because I like to be able to tell what the fuck's going on in action scenes, without needing to dissect every single panel in detail. Also, I like good voice acting and crave good OSTs. Manga can give you nothing of that sort. Given a choice, I would rather read a light novel, because manga doesn't give you the full experience as a visual medium, nor does it provide as much detail as full text. That said, if the artwork is good, then reading the manga can be worth it, and sometimes for the actual ending of the story. |
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| For me, it's just that I found anime first, but there's also, of course, the animation, colors and music. I've bee trying to get more into manga, but it's hard to find time for it when I already read a lot of books. |
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| Manga is black and white and a lot of times very confusing to look at |
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