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Apr 18, 2023 2:14 PM
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I've seen a lot of people who like the Chainsaw Man manga and yet say the anime was bad. I really don't get it. After watching Season 1, I read through all of Part 1 of the manga and I thought the anime did a great job adapting the first third. What MAPPA produced was about the best you could hope for of an anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man. All I want is for them to maintain that level of quality for the rest of Part 1 and then Chainsaw Man will be one of the greatest anime of all time.
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Apr 18, 2023 2:18 PM
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You think you'll get more attention from hating on popular, critically acclaimed anime or some completely obscure one?

Apr 18, 2023 2:20 PM
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Apr 18, 2023 2:24 PM
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Of course, like most of the people who bash AOT, but I'm talking about specifically why people who like the manga don't like the anime. That's what I don't get. What about the anime do manga readers think was poorly done?
Apr 18, 2023 2:28 PM
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What about the anime do manga readers think was poorly done?


slow pacing unlike the manga plus the jokes on the manga are lost due to serious direction of the anime but overall its not bad its just different experience than the manga
Apr 18, 2023 2:28 PM
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EXCLMaker said:
Of course, like most of the people who bash AOT, but I'm talking about specifically why people who like the manga don't like the anime. That's what I don't get. What about the anime do manga readers think was poorly done?

As someone who has read attack on Titan, it’s the manga ending, I thought it was fine but there’s those who will shit on every kind of media because “it has to be perfect or it’s trash”
Apr 18, 2023 2:30 PM
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EXCLMaker said:
Of course, like most of the people who bash AOT, but I'm talking about specifically why people who like the manga don't like the anime. That's what I don't get. What about the anime do manga readers think was poorly done?

I seriously have no clue where you heard that. Most manga readers loved the adaptation, and for those who didn't, their only reason was that it's CGI. Which is a bad argument considering how well done the CGI is in this anime. A far as plot is concerned, nothing changed from the manga. As a manga reader myself, I can tell that there wasn't any major difference between the anime and manga.
Apr 18, 2023 2:35 PM
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I've read the 11 volumes of the manga and watched the anime twice. I love them both, but as a cinephile, I like the anime much more. I'll never get why people don't like it. Maybe they were expecting more manga/anime tropes or stuff like that instead of a more prolific (stunning) visual approach. I don't think the pacing is slow either, it almost goes hand in hand with the manga (it even develops a little better) until the chapter it's adapted. Voices and music are a 10/10 as well in the anime.
Apr 18, 2023 2:38 PM
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My problems with it are that the jokes didn't land well as in the manga and denji's va kinda doesn't fit
Apr 18, 2023 2:40 PM
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They are just being critical because they want something even better than this masterpiece. Unrealistic standards.
Apr 18, 2023 2:47 PM

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some of the cgi isn't top tier....

they toned down the goofy-ness a tiny bit for the sake of making it more realistic...


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that's it!!

yes, that is genuinely it. some anime fans are just extremely spoiled. for the first time in years the popular battle shounen lived up to the hype, and somehow it got more hate than it ever deserved. 
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Apr 18, 2023 3:05 PM
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The adaptation is great. As you said the the anime is probably the best possible adaptation and production from MAPPA.

However, personally speaking think I enjoyed reading the manga more, the anime for me was a bit underwhelming.
Apr 18, 2023 3:14 PM
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deg said:
EXCLMaker said:
What about the anime do manga readers think was poorly done?


slow pacing unlike the manga plus the jokes on the manga are lost due to serious direction of the anime but overall its not bad its just different experience than the manga

How does the anime have slow pacing? It adapted 3-5 chapters per episode (except for the first episode). The pacing was great for the most part.
Apr 18, 2023 3:15 PM
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Probably the realistic theme that the director went for. It limits a more artistic approach. Which recent studios like DreamWorks have strayed away from.
Apr 18, 2023 3:19 PM
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I haven't read the manga, but animation-wise it wasn't that great. I have seen better scenes even like 3 years ago. Obviously it wasn't terrible either.
So there could have been a better adaptation, at least if we talk about the animation.
Apr 18, 2023 3:22 PM
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Because they like to complain about everything
Apr 18, 2023 3:52 PM

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b-but the csm twerkers🥺

just mad because it's popular broski. although i do agree the cg was wonky during first episode.
Apr 18, 2023 4:06 PM
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With every popular thing, there’s haters

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Apr 18, 2023 4:09 PM

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Apr 18, 2023 4:23 PM
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I think it was a good adaptation of the source material. That being said I think it could've been better. Idk what it was but something about the anime's tone felt different than the manga. I think the manga is the better version of the 2 but the anime is still good
Apr 18, 2023 4:24 PM
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Somwhtrational said:
EXCLMaker said:
Of course, like most of the people who bash AOT, but I'm talking about specifically why people who like the manga don't like the anime. That's what I don't get. What about the anime do manga readers think was poorly done?

I seriously have no clue where you heard that. Most manga readers loved the adaptation, and for those who didn't, their only reason was that it's CGI. Which is a bad argument considering how well done the CGI is in this anime. A far as plot is concerned, nothing changed from the manga. As a manga reader myself, I can tell that there wasn't any major difference between the anime and manga.

Don't know about him but can tell you where I heard that, take Japan as an example, they even have collected signatures for the anime to be adapted again from the start because they didn't like it. And this is just a small portion of how ungrateful people can be, because despite not being perfect (flash news, no anime is) it's a production with a LOT of work behind and very dedication. It's truly shameful what happened there.
Apr 18, 2023 5:22 PM
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I cannot believe these threads still exist. It's been posted over and over again. Bad CGI, worsened art style (which happens in any big adaptation), the V.A. cast choices... Overall, pretty good adaptation IMO, but those are my critiques on the anime in a nutshell.
Apr 18, 2023 5:49 PM
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Because there was no way for it to live up to the hype it generated. It also just lacked some of the charm from the manga
Apr 18, 2023 6:11 PM
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People like to hate on every popular series no matter what it is. As for the anime it was the best adaptation Chainsaw Man could get. I just don't know what people are complaining about. The CGI was only bad in the first episode and I personally like the more realistic art style. It highlights the horror elements of the story more. Why does people like to complain???
Apr 18, 2023 6:38 PM
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I thought it was fine, except I hated how they did the animation. Not because of the cgi, but I hated the rotoscoping. The walking animations were atrocious, everything looked super unnatural and it was very distracting.
Apr 18, 2023 7:14 PM
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The adaptation was good, but it seems they overhyped it before releasing. Now I am not saying CG is bad, but 2D definitely will be better than that. The point is even after overhyping, they made some choices (like with CG) , which is the cause according to me.

Secondly, in the fall 2022 season, there was a lot of competition, with some other Anime like Bleach (which got the highest level of treatment, more than the hype), Bocchi the Rock, Mob Psycho, etc.
Apr 18, 2023 8:01 PM
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combination of two groups of people, the first as people have pointed out are just haters hating on a popular anime standard stuff. then you have the second group who were not pleased with the art style, they prefered the grittier wilder style of the manga over the realistic cinematic version MAPPA went with. some people were overly pissed about it tho especially in japan where some fans even put together a petition to have it redone which is absolutely rediculous. i personally would've preferred them go with a different style since i wasnt a big fan of the art style myself, however despite my bias i can clearly see the vision they went for and understand why so many love the adaptation. it is clear love and passion was put into it by the animators. i enjoyed it even if it wasnt to my preferred art style.
Apr 18, 2023 8:54 PM
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no. 1 reason to 'not like' anime adaptation is that, the designs & art is nowhere close to the manga, it's just like JJK anime art.

no. 2 Skipped manga panels & pages.
don't get me started on 'Easy Revenge cigarette' scene

the staff tried their best & out of respect for their efforts, I rate anime as 6/10 or else it wasn't anywhere close to my CSM Manga experience
Apr 18, 2023 9:00 PM

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I don't know, it's a very good adaptation of the source material. I mean, the complaints mainly come from the absolutely lifeless look, bad CGI and directing so bad it makes the series worse than the manga, but as an adaptation it was very faithful.
Apr 18, 2023 10:07 PM
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People who love the manga don't like the approach the director took to adapting the show. i loved it but I know lots of fans didn't think the comedy was a sgood because the show was a bit more serious and it felt more cinematic and realistic than like an anime.
Apr 18, 2023 10:09 PM
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People must of really really liked the muscle devil
Apr 18, 2023 10:24 PM
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I genuinely loved the anime adaptation almost equally to the manga, although, one could see this opinion as biased as I have never really preferred manga over anime. I did enjoy the chainsaw man manga, though. And I liked the unique animation they used ( in the anime )
Apr 18, 2023 10:34 PM
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well som People Like it some dont
Apr 18, 2023 11:52 PM
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EXCLMaker said:
I've seen a lot of people who like the Chainsaw Man manga and yet say the anime was bad. I really don't get it. After watching Season 1, I read through all of Part 1 of the manga and I thought the anime did a great job adapting the first third. What MAPPA produced was about the best you could hope for of an anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man. All I want is for them to maintain that level of quality for the rest of Part 1 and then Chainsaw Man will be one of the greatest anime of all time.

first of all CSM will never be one of the greatest anime..it won't. It will be one of the most unique od weirdest anime but not "best".
The reason people hate CSM adaption are because of animation style and some animation being stiff/weird. The direction was a bit different from normal anime for that reason many people disliked it, especially people if Japan.
Another reason is the over-hype. The hype was pretty reasonable but the thing is the Anime adapted only 12 episode. Those 12 episodes can't give anime watcher an idea why people hyped that much. It should have been 24 episodes (even then the hype would be a bit tio much because people made all the hype basis on whole manga instead of thing the anime will cover only a portion of it.)

Now, some smart ass like me hates the adaption because they spent money on making 12 eds instead of the animation or other shit. Dude Eds have better animation than the anime which is pretty dumb. They should have focused more on the anime than the endings.

Also the jokes and the atmosphere (dark serious tone) didn't fit at all. Also because of short season, most anime watcher will find Denji or some few characters really shit cuz their actual motivation are pretty bland and shit in the beginning of the story.

Let's be honest, the anime felt a bit underwhelming.. Mostly because of poor music or direction style choice. Making it too realistic kinda back stabbed for me. The pacing was also slow compared to the manga.
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People remember CSM being more jokey in tone than it was in reality. They also forget that an anime in general will be slower paced than you reading something lol. That and the anime has a slightly more grounded art style than Fuji's rough style. That is about it really. CSM fans are just overly spoiled. Most people would kill for an adaption as good as they got. 
Apr 19, 2023 12:39 AM

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they're just looking for attention

i read the manga and watched the anime, not only it is a good adaptation but i actually liked the anime more, cause most of the drawings in manga aren't that good
Apr 19, 2023 12:56 AM
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i honestly loved the anime, we can see that the animators worked so passionately in this adaptation and wanted to do something original, it’s sad that it didn’t work as we all wanted (especially in japan), idk if the director will be replaced in the s2 ( if they gonna adapt it) but i hope they gonna make good decisions. also i don’t get those who says the cast do not match the characters, cause except makima the cast was perfect, i just can’t imagine denji without his actual va. my only approach is the ep9, i think it would have been so much better if they didn’t add those moments of makima preparing herself ( not that i didn’t like it, but i prefer this passage in manga cause i loved that aspect where you just don’t have time to realize what happening and just after you see the others getting crushed )
the only thing i’d like them to change is the fighting animation, i think it would be better if they make it more fluid and dynamic instead of “realistic” but that’s only my opinion.
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Because it's made by Mappa. Anime community really hates Mappa studio for some reason. Almost all of the shows they do get extremely popular but also receive massive hatred by people who love nitpicking every little animation error in their shows.
Apr 19, 2023 1:04 AM
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DexterDrubo said:
EXCLMaker said:
I've seen a lot of people who like the Chainsaw Man manga and yet say the anime was bad. I really don't get it. After watching Season 1, I read through all of Part 1 of the manga and I thought the anime did a great job adapting the first third. What MAPPA produced was about the best you could hope for of an anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man. All I want is for them to maintain that level of quality for the rest of Part 1 and then Chainsaw Man will be one of the greatest anime of all time.

first of all CSM will never be one of the greatest anime..it won't. It will be one of the most unique od weirdest anime but not "best".
The reason people hate CSM adaption are because of animation style and some animation being stiff/weird. The direction was a bit different from normal anime for that reason many people disliked it, especially people if Japan.
Another reason is the over-hype. The hype was pretty reasonable but the thing is the Anime adapted only 12 episode. Those 12 episodes can't give anime watcher an idea why people hyped that much. It should have been 24 episodes (even then the hype would be a bit tio much because people made all the hype basis on whole manga instead of thing the anime will cover only a portion of it.)

Now, some smart ass like me hates the adaption because they spent money on making 12 eds instead of the animation or other shit. Dude Eds have better animation than the anime which is pretty dumb. They should have focused more on the anime than the endings.

Also the jokes and the atmosphere (dark serious tone) didn't fit at all. Also because of short season, most anime watcher will find Denji or some few characters really shit cuz their actual motivation are pretty bland and shit in the beginning of the story.

Let's be honest, the anime felt a bit underwhelming.. Mostly because of poor music or direction style choice. Making it too realistic kinda back stabbed for me. The pacing was also slow compared to the manga.

i don’t agree with most of all you said but it’s your opinion, however i’ll just correct something, mappa didn’t spent that much money on endings like you’re saying, it’s the opposite, so many bends wanted do do it, mappa just picked them all, and most of the visuals are done by one animator/ending. so yeah.
also the greatest anime is something purely subjective.
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Because everyone knows that a good adaptation is one that copies the manga panel by panel, differing from the manga to take advantage of the medium of animation is clearly a bad thing since watching an anime and reading a manga is the exact same experience, another reason is that I saw one millisecond of CG the first episode and my last brain cell exploded, also it was made by MAPPA so it's got to be a bad adaptation and its cool to hate on anything MAPPA makes for no reason, Sorry I have to say it's a bad adaptation so I can feel like Im cool and I have great taste.
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Apr 19, 2023 1:19 AM
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Marko_Maruko said:
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slow pacing unlike the manga plus the jokes on the manga are lost due to serious direction of the anime but overall its not bad its just different experience than the manga

How does the anime have slow pacing? It adapted 3-5 chapters per episode (except for the first episode). The pacing was great for the most part.


3 chapters is actually slow pacing for this super fast pace manga

3 chapters is actually standard anime episode content for most anime adaptation and it does feels slow most of the time
Apr 19, 2023 1:29 AM
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OTHER THAN the people who Complain about the CGI, it's because " it's not as the manga " which is a worthless argument that doesn't mean anything and is totally predicted considering that most of the fans already read the manga so it's Obvious that they would like the manga more
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I really don’t like how chainsaw man trys to sell out as a “realistic” product meanwhile every character in it is flashy looking and crazy. It has a theme of crazy characters that don’t feel like humans at all. On a definitely realistic theme’d adaptation.
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I haven't read the manga so i didn't know is anime adaptation is good or not good
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I personally loved the adaptation but here are a few of my gripes: CGI made it a little harder to watch, the manga took a different approach to the situation and focused more on fleshing out the characters, but in my eyes, the main reason people don't like it is because the part of the manga that people love CSM for hasn't been animated yet.
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They are just being critical because they want something even better than this masterpiece. Unrealistic standards.

I wouldn't say masterpiece
Apr 19, 2023 6:05 AM
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the animation was way better than art of manga but chainsaw man had problem with director as chainsaw man was being handled by new people in industry even though they can create absolute amazing animation but direction isn't something someone one can do greatly without experience especially for an animtion
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no. 1 reason to 'not like' anime adaptation is that, the designs & art is nowhere close to the manga, it's just like JJK anime art.

no. 2 Skipped manga panels & pages.
don't get me started on 'Easy Revenge cigarette' scene

the staff tried their best & out of respect for their efforts, I rate anime as 6/10 or else it wasn't anywhere close to my CSM Manga experience

animation was way better than art in chainsaw man you may disagree with me here

BUT no one with good eye can say jjk art art is any better than anime
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Because hardcore manga fans where upset it didn’t look exactly the same as the manga and instead took a more serious art/tone direction. I personally thought this was genius considering the mangaka is a huge movie nerd and obviously wanted the anime for his manga to look like the movies he loves so much. I love the manga too though. I appreciate both as they are and especially appreciate the fact that the anime tried to stretch the conventional means of what an adaptation could do. Too bad it got such a bad reaction this will probably be the last time we get to see anything like this in anime :/ I mean, imagine you are tatsuki fugimoto and your manga gets picked up for an anime adaptation and you have a once in a lifetime opportunity and a huge team of talented directors and animators to make something new. If you think of it like that, csm anime is a modern masterpiece regardless of its divergence from the source material. People gotta wake up and realize they aren’t entitled to shit lol just enjoy stuff for what it is or don’t and move on to something else. It’s not like the manga disappeared when the anime was made. That’s my two cents ✌🏻
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