anime adaptations made with the most passion
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anime not made only to increase manga sales or earn money. Good animation and direction aren't the only deciding factors. For example, the Spy x Family anime has amazing animation and good direction yet feels like a soulless and mass produced work only to net the industry more money, whereas Inuyashiki, with its mediocre animation, delivers an experience made with clear artistic vision instead of just mindlessly adapting its manga.
Passionless adaptations made with good production quality usually have zero creativity or vision in their scenes. The fights in Demon Slayer season 2 look very pretty, but pale in terms of artistic creativity, integrity and uniqueness found in the Roof Piece anime or masterworks like End of Evangelion.
Of course, visuals aren't the only deciding factor, as music plays a massive role in designating anime adaptations as full of passion and soul. Welcome to the NHK lacks greatly in animation quality yet the creative direction and scene composition, all sold with its amazing OST, make the anime a unique viewing experience that give meaning to the word "adaptation". Some anime take the word too literally and make the anime a 1:1 adaptation of its source material. Artistic interpretation and understanding of the scenes in the source materials, and figuring out ways of conveying the same themes and ideas on their own ways through a different medium are what make a good anime adaptation.
Although One Piece arguably has the most unique and passion-filled adaptation among popular battle shounens, featuring experimental scenery with crazy angles, drastic changes in color pallette, and heavy sakuga animation with animation directors that constantly deliver their own touches to their scenes, it is mostly a cash-grab by Toei Animation, being milked for its sweet money where these scenes in question only make up a small part of the adaptation as a whole. The more "default" One Piece experience, even and especially during the Wano arc, feels like it tries to ride the popularity of other popular anime instead of having its own identity. The passion-filled scenes and episodes are merely an exception to this soulless norm. Although, it is worth noting that pre-time skip One Piece is host to some of the goofiest, craziest, and most dynamic shots of any anime riddled throughout its default experience, with the stiff and rigid style found in the default post-time skip experience being quite a recent thing. Take One Piece episode 986 and 1000, the directors and animation directors of those types of episodes should be fired. Episodes like that are only good because of their source material, and the adaptation doesn't add anything meaningful. Whereas episodes such as 957, 968, 974, 978, 982, 1015, 1017, 1026, 1028 and 1033 are examples of where the Wano anime adaptation really outshines the manga in every way, creating a whole new, fresh experience with clear artistic vision.
Anime originals not included because they are 99% of the time passion projects themselves.
Passionless adaptations made with good production quality usually have zero creativity or vision in their scenes. The fights in Demon Slayer season 2 look very pretty, but pale in terms of artistic creativity, integrity and uniqueness found in the Roof Piece anime or masterworks like End of Evangelion.
Of course, visuals aren't the only deciding factor, as music plays a massive role in designating anime adaptations as full of passion and soul. Welcome to the NHK lacks greatly in animation quality yet the creative direction and scene composition, all sold with its amazing OST, make the anime a unique viewing experience that give meaning to the word "adaptation". Some anime take the word too literally and make the anime a 1:1 adaptation of its source material. Artistic interpretation and understanding of the scenes in the source materials, and figuring out ways of conveying the same themes and ideas on their own ways through a different medium are what make a good anime adaptation.
Although One Piece arguably has the most unique and passion-filled adaptation among popular battle shounens, featuring experimental scenery with crazy angles, drastic changes in color pallette, and heavy sakuga animation with animation directors that constantly deliver their own touches to their scenes, it is mostly a cash-grab by Toei Animation, being milked for its sweet money where these scenes in question only make up a small part of the adaptation as a whole. The more "default" One Piece experience, even and especially during the Wano arc, feels like it tries to ride the popularity of other popular anime instead of having its own identity. The passion-filled scenes and episodes are merely an exception to this soulless norm. Although, it is worth noting that pre-time skip One Piece is host to some of the goofiest, craziest, and most dynamic shots of any anime riddled throughout its default experience, with the stiff and rigid style found in the default post-time skip experience being quite a recent thing. Take One Piece episode 986 and 1000, the directors and animation directors of those types of episodes should be fired. Episodes like that are only good because of their source material, and the adaptation doesn't add anything meaningful. Whereas episodes such as 957, 968, 974, 978, 982, 1015, 1017, 1026, 1028 and 1033 are examples of where the Wano anime adaptation really outshines the manga in every way, creating a whole new, fresh experience with clear artistic vision.
Anime originals not included because they are 99% of the time passion projects themselves.
