| It is an incomplete adaptation: while you have the random stories (and a bit more) of the manga's beginning (in other words, when the author had no idea of a potential story) and the first actual long story, it ends on a second long "exclusive" story who has nothing to do with the comic while missing the concluding real second story of the books and the flashback part (Tsuioku-hen). If you really plan to read the manga, you could avoid this entirely since it doesn't add anything of value (except maybe some voices and the openings?). Of course, despite being mediocre, the TV show isn't actually bad. A later part of the manga (a few chapters focused on revealing the hero's past) has also been adapted into animation. But since it was as OVAs (direct-to-video market), the makers were more free to show depictions of violence and had money. The "Tsuioku-hen" OAVs should be seen, either as a stand-alone product or as a derivative work of the manga, because they offer a good retelling of those few chapters while being very well crafted (the whole package: visuals, sound, direction, etc). Question: what is "a true adaptation" for you? Because the real goal of an adaptation has never been to copy picture for picture, line for line, the original work but to bring another vision upon it to render it differently (and exploiting the support's specificities). For example, the first live action movie is an excellent theatrical adaptation streamlining the beginning of the manga into a coherent story. |
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