Most ridiculous and insulting excuses for a shitty adaptation

FullmetalAlias said:
The worst excuse of them all: "The manga was better"

Heldengeist said:
"It's not a plothole, it's explained in the **source material**."

On_the_Lam said:
"X character is supposed to be as annoying/unbearable/unintelligent/unlikable as they are."

MortalMelancholy said:

Not even an excuse. As if the source material is supposed to make the anime better.

romagia said:
is this about Shirou being retarded? xD

TheUnknownPC said:
"But the source material is way better"
A pathetic way to excuse trash, if the anime was garbage, chances are, the source will be just as bad.

Darek said:
"The Visual Novel had 100X more pointless exposition and sex scenes that totally explain everything"

Not like I have any particular fandom in mind.

Fucking fate fags

This is beautiful.

Is this the time for the "Deen will find a way" joke?

InsaneLeader13 said:
Seems like we got another buthurt berserk 'Fan' over here folks.

And yes, you should stop being so unappreciative. There are hundreds upon hundreds of manga that never get a single adaption, let alone 3 different adaptions. You fail to realize what the purpose of an adaption is, and that's typically to continue advertising for the source material.

Tsukihiko said:
i don't know what are you talking about

InsaneLeader13 said:
Seems like we got another buthurt berserk 'Fan' over here folks.

And yes, you should stop being so unappreciative. There are hundreds upon hundreds of manga that never get a single adaption, let alone 3 different adaptions. You fail to realize what the purpose of an adaption is, and that's typically to continue advertising for the source material.

MortalMelancholy said:

Not even an excuse. As if the source material is supposed to make the anime better.

Darek said:
"The Visual Novel had 100X more pointless exposition and sex scenes that totally explain everything"

Not like I have any particular fandom in mind.

Red_Ryu12345 said:

Uh no.

He has a right to be mad when someone makes a shitty adaptation. Why should be appreciate the godawful adaptation? They could have animated it well and not CG, but instead made a shitty cash.

Yes it is advertising but you can do better than this, my hero academia, attack on titan are advertising but clearly those have a lot better care behind them than berserk does.

SpaghettiSpike said:

its about Shinji being a pussy, but it applies to pretty much every eva character... 'muh relatability'

OT: dont like it? dont watch it. or at least dont spread your negative aura onto others

Scarlett_ryuken said:


granted i can only think of 2 exceptions, but it takes alot of butchering to get to that lvl where that can become an excuse

Heldengeist said:
"It's not a plothole, it's explained in the **source material**."

flannan said:

Plot hole = contradiction that cannot be explained. Since the source material explains it, it can be explained, and hence not a plot hole.

Jonouchi-Katsuya said:
Evangelion is an original anime. So I don't know how you can talk about Neon Genesis Evangelion like that when it is not an adaptation. The manga is an adaptation of the anime. The manga which is very good.

And since characters like Shinji are so rare maybe you should just piss off? Every character who tries to copy him seems to get it wrong.

On_the_Lam said:

I've never hated Shinji. I even liked him at times. Evangelion features a great cast. Even the most lackluster characters (sadly, Shinji being one of them) are way more interesting than most of the shitty protagonists in most anime today.

SpaghettiSpike said:
@Jonouchi-Katsuya
>since characters like Shinji are so rare maybe you should just piss off
great argumentation, evafags getting triggered over anything just like always. Also I was just joking with my gypsy pokemon buddy

The statement can be applied to any sort of work, like any of the last three quotes OP used.

Jonouchi-Katsuya said:

Heldengeist said:

It is, since you MUST know the source material or research after watching. The adaptation doesn't provide an answer or means to find it out yourself without outside source. An adaptation must be interpretable independently. If it is not, it's a flawed adaptation.

On_the_Lam said:

Jonouchi-Katsuya said:
Evangelion is an original anime. So I don't know how you can talk about Neon Genesis Evangelion like that when it is not an adaptation. The manga is an adaptation of the anime. The manga which is very good.

And since characters like Shinji are so rare maybe you should just piss off? Every character who tries to copy him seems to get it wrong.

On_the_Lam said:

I've never hated Shinji. I even liked him at times. Evangelion features a great cast. Even the most lackluster characters (sadly, Shinji being one of them) are way more interesting than most of the shitty protagonists in most anime today.

flannan said:

GD1551 said:


You realize what you are saying has nothing to do with bad adaptations right? If the character is supposed to be annoying/unlikeable w/e in the manga and is in the adaptation then it's a faithful adaptation. I mean even in the OP, how does saying something happened in the manga make it a bad adaptation? That makes no sense at all.

_Ako_ said:
Why even bother? When most of the original source are just basically rip off other LNs?

Red_Ryu12345 said:



If you are making your characters hateful, terrible and unlikable. You need to replace that with something. Why they are who they are can work, but if you can't relate to that, which is the case for me, why should I care or want to watch a show like that? I can watch hateful unlikable characters but what even makes eva's even relatable?

I don't see reliability in letting people die for my emo problems. Yup letting people die so I can feel better, how relatable. Then we can repeat trying to fix this ad nauseam for the rest of the series until "congradulations!" Or the director trying to literally give the middle finger to his fans who hated the first ending. Mix it in with a scene where a character decides to relive himself on a comatose girl and I lose all caring of wanting to see him make it out alive or be happy.

Or not helping my son out despite it fucking over my own plans in the long run and have shown to be incredibly ambitious in my goals and how far I will go for them. Nah it's better to screw myself over and be distance, just cause we need to add more drama.

Or an unlikable tsundere who really is one of the most hateful characters ever to show up in anime. Talks tough all the time but pretty much loses every single robot fight in the series yet still talks like she actually has any shred of way how she has shown herself to be what she says but oh well. Gotta take it out verbally and psychically on everyone because "QQ I am stressed out." Or ya know when people want to help comfort you, gotta act like a fucking prick to them because that is so relatable right?

I don't care how much it makes sense, they do have some validity to them. They are all obnoxious and hateful people to the point I literally stop caring about their issues. How convenient all of the worst people left after the apocalypse are all in one organization. Except Misato, and maybe Rei.

I am saying all of this in a long rant to show you why hateful and unlikable character can ruin something for someone. If you didn't replace it likable characters, or I guess ones people could relate to. I can see why that would be a problem for people who watch a show or adaptation.

If Eva was something like Scum's Wish where yeah they are horrible but it isn't set in a situation like the apocalypse where people would rather let millions die just so they can be happy. I probably would like that anime more. Everything put together just kills it dead to for to where I gave it and the movie a 1/10.

I don't ask every character be likable and many other people here don't. They just ask if they are, don't make them that hateful and place them in a setting where it makes little sense.

On_the_Lam said:

There are times when a single shitty protagonist can ruin an entire franchise.