| Honestly what manga you think that are superior than the anime. |
| It's not exactly straight "adaptation", but i found pokemon adventures to be superior compared to it's anime counterpart. It does helps that it had a rotating group of main characters everytime one part of the story ends. |
| "This is boring...I'm bored..." |
| Tokyo Ghoul. The anime are just dumpster fire. |
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| im sure the right answer is all/most anime adaptation that fail to adapt the manga until its ending and also One Punch Man anime season 2 is better animated (the illusion of movement) in the manga |
| While the anime adaptation was excellent, nothing can perfectly adapt the masterpiece that is known as the Noragami manga. |
| Help the industry and buy Blu-rays and DVD's. Noragami is the best anime ever.  |
ChaosSaviour said: You're right that it's not an "adaptation", but Pokémon Special/Adventures is in no way related to the Pokémon anime aside from being in the same franchise, so you can't say that the anime is Pokéspecial's counterpart. The only counterpart that Pokéspecial has are the original games. Nothing in the anime is canon or even happens in Pokéspecial from what I know (which is not much, but I have read some of D/P/Pt and HG/SS tho).It's not exactly straight "adaptation", but i found pokemon adventures to be superior compared to it's anime counterpart. It does helps that it had a rotating group of main characters everytime one part of the story ends. The anime does have a manga counterpart, but it's the infamous Electric Tale of Pikachu. Anyway, back on-topic, the Sailor Moon manga is 10x better than the anime. I grew up with the anime (we had a VHS at one point), but I ended up loving the manga much more once I started reading it from my middle school days. The plot is more intense and interesting and doesn't have much filler if any at all, so it goes by fairly quick. There's some pretty big changes the 90s anime made from the manga, such as the main plot of the 4th arc, and now that I've read it, it really does feel like a shame that those certain parts never made it into animation at the time. The art is gorgeous too! |
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| Toriko, I really wish the anime stuck to the source material. |
 It’s okay to look back at the past, just don’t stare too long |
| Tokyo ghoul by far.... |
| Kono Oto Tomare, Saiyuki series |
| Fullmetal Alchemist Grand Blue Kono Oto Tomare Byousoku 5 cm Aku no Hana |
| Grand Blue. The transitions between panels absolutely sold the jokes, even when the jokes were basically rehashed older jokes. The way these pages were laid out gave the punchlines impact. These jokes would be so unfunny and fall flat in a different manga that handled them differently, yet Grand Blue pulled it off. The anime on the other hand had a director that asked things like "What's comedic timing? Do we even need a good OST, can't we just play the same three note flute song every scene that isn't a punchline? Can't our punchlines start way too early and linger for way too long so they can be as impactful as a wet noodle? That's the kind of adaptation we should make!". The fact that the director was an actual experienced comedy anime director actually made him fall into all these typical comedy anime pitfalls that plague the genre far too easily, and it irritates me so much when we got Hinamatsuri in the same year. Also Golden Kamuy, but I'm not actually angry about that one. Despite the low production value the first season actually was still a very fun experience. I just don't understand the reasoning of why they'd cut the main character's back story, and the sheer amount of content they cut out of the second season, stuff that is very hard to justify cutting out. Still a nice watch, but just reading the manga is better. |
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| Tokyo Ghoul for sure, and also One Piece although the first ~300 episodes of the manga are pretty decent. |
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| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. While the film is good, the longer, bleaker story of the comic has so much more weight to itself. Gunnm. The OVA adapts the first two and a half volumes of a nine volume comic that essentially tells the entire life story of its main character and has artwork so great sound and movement are barely an improvement. The anime never stood a chance of being on par with the original. |
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| Dororo's manga is better than its newer adaptation, the story is way better structured in manga than anime and the anime adds a lot of elements to the story that are pretty useless. Also I think the anime didn't benefit of the fact it was an anime, pretty bad music and art/animation, while the art of Osamu is pretty clean sometimes. |
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| The difference isn't as severe as some of the other examples already mentioned, but I think with Natsume Yuujinchou the original manga is better. The style they used for the anime is really... I don't know. Too standard maybe? There's something missing in the anime art style; the wispy, ethereal feeling of the original illustrations really enhances the mood and overall experience of the stories, and it just doesn't feel the same without that particular quality. (in a kinda similar manner, this really threw me with regard to JJBA, especially for Diamond is Unbreakable; I'm almost tempted to say that it's better to read P4 than watch just because the art style compromise they made never really clicked for me, in addition to the other, admittedly minor, changes they made while adapting it) |
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| Based only on manga, so without count novels, I’d say Berserk and Kingdom. However in both cases I don't have watched all the animated adaptations, but based on what I’ve watched I think it’s right. Obviously, that’s my opinion. |
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| Out of the stuff I've finished: Ai Yori Aoshi Claymore Gunslinger Girl Kare Kano Lunar Legend Tsukihime Omamori Himari Sekirei Suzuka |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| From what I've seen Blame (for obvious reason) Death Note (more suspense and more tension in the manga, although the anime wasn't doing bad adaptation) Monster (because the anime pacing) Eyeshield 21(manga art was better than the visual in the anime, anime has filler content and incomplete) Kare Kano (the anime is incomplete) Nausicaa (Manga were more detailed and not rushed) Aria (I prefer the story order in the manga and anime S1 was shit) YKK (for obvious reason) |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| Pretty much any Yu-Gi-Oh manga after the original. Pokemon Adventures against the anime. The original Sailor Moon anime (along with Cardcaptor Sakura). Maaaayyyybeeeee Yu Yu Hakusho (at least it made the ending better) |
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| Medaka Box by far. |
 ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴀꜱɪᴇꜱᴛ ᴡᴀy ᴛᴏ ᴋᴇᴇᴩ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ʜᴜʀᴛ yᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ yᴏᴜʀꜱᴇʟꜰ yᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀɴᴅ yᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ʟᴇᴀʀɴᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʟɪᴋᴇ yᴏᴜʀꜱᴇʟꜰ |
| Probably Neon Genesis Evangelion. I read the manga first before watching the anime, and while I enjoyed the latter, I still believe the manga version was much better. |
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ChaosSaviour said: It's not exactly straight "adaptation", but i found pokemon adventures to be superior compared to it's anime counterpart. It does helps that it had a rotating group of main characters everytime one part of the story ends. I agree with this. I don't know why, but I get annoyed with Satoshi/Ash. |
| Grand blue manga has more impact than its anime. |
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| Manga are better in a lot of ways It is the purest form of the mangakas vision after all. Coloring, style, animation, VAs or soundtrack can make or break an anime. Action manga will almost always benefit from being animated (depends on the studio i guess) while non-dynamic or not flashy manga will lose its value in style. jojo adapted the style succesfully while enhancing the visuals with great coloring and animation. mob psycho had incredible animation that suited the action. made in abyss had consistent style while having beautiful scenery. any ito manga is better in the original form as is blame! or any other picturesque manga |
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| Rosario+Vampire, the anime wasn't all that bad by dumb harem comedy standards, but the manga goes on to become what's basically a battle shonen with world-ending stakes, something the anime didn't even wanna get near. While I haven't watched the anime myself, Kurogane no Linebarrel is pretty notorious in mecha circles for having a shit adaptation. From the few differences and additions I've heard about and seen in clips, and the fact that the they replaced the perfectly good manga character designs with new ones by Hisashi Hirai, I'd say just stick to the manga. Doesn't help that the anime happened while the manga was still ongoing, so it has an original ending and doesn't touch the final arc. This is a reversed case cuz the anime came first, but the Darling in the FranXX manga is shaping up to be more enjoyable than the anime was. It's following a different plot from about the halfway point of the anime, there's a greater focus on action, and some new machines and variants that weren't in the anime. The side characters get more spotlight in combat too, instead of just being there to job until Strelizia comes in to steamroll everything. |
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