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This is the same debate as movies or the book.

And as with that argument I'll always go with movies or in this case, anime. I can't stand fiction besides a few exceptions. I can only get myself to read non-fiction so to read a manga can be a chore for me same as any book



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Can have really good imagination and still make manga more funny then anime. But generally for me all funny anime is superior to its manga.



Ghost in the shell movie. Has a more serious tone than the manga.



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Vandread, it actually improved the story



I can't, for the life of me, consider the Attack on Titan Anime better than the manga. The Anime is great but the manga is flawless.

TBH I can't think of one right now, every Anime has it's negatives while every Manga has that "well, it's the original story" argument.



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Mystro-Sama said:
An excellent anime will always be better than an excellent manga. A manga can only have good art while an anime can have good animation, good music, good voice acting, good art style and good sound effects which make for an overall better experience.

In a perfect world, perhaps, but reality is often much different.  In manga, you have the mangaka telling the story they want to tell (with input from the editor).  They control the pace, the characters, the visuals, and all the surrounding details.  With anime, you have dozens of people trying to artificially force a story into a pre-determined block of time that might or might not fit the scope of the original manga.

Take ERASED, for example.  The anime was excellent but it also left out details that enhanced the characters in the manga.  Small things that seemed off or unexplained were because they simply didn't have time to fit everything into 12 episodes.  With Yamada-kun, they tried to stuff dozens of chapters into one season and the result was very disappointing.  Other times, you have anime that stalls because there is too much content for one season but not enough for two seasons (or more).

This is the same reason why books are usually better than movies.  Watching a great book compressed into 2 hours can sometimes be hilarious.

Besides that, manga can be superior in other ways.  I've posted about this before in the anime thread but, if the mangaka is really good, they can create moments in time, emotionally charged frames that anime struggles to match.  It allows the reader to absorb the image without regard to the movement of time.  This can be a very powerful factor.

Some mangaka are fantastic at this.



Mystro-Sama said:
An excellent anime will always be better than an excellent manga. A manga can only have good art while an anime can have good animation, good music, good voice acting, good art style and good sound effects which make for an overall better experience.

This.

Reading mangas I would always wonder things like what colour of clothes they're wearing and how their voices would be like.  Anime answers them for me.

The only downside to anime are the fillers.  Not all are bad though.



I just remembered One Punch.

The voice acting improves the show quite alot. While the manga isn't necessarily bad, it falls short. The voices really bring Saitama and others to life



 

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StarOcean said:
This is the same debate as movies or the book.

And as with that argument I'll always go with movies or in this case, anime. I can't stand fiction besides a few exceptions. I can only get myself to read non-fiction so to read a manga can be a chore for me same as any book

Same. I typically dislike fiction books(especially YA cliche-filled books nowadays...maze runner...hunger games...Divergent and The Host were cancer).



 

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V-r0cK said:
Mystro-Sama said:
An excellent anime will always be better than an excellent manga. A manga can only have good art while an anime can have good animation, good music, good voice acting, good art style and good sound effects which make for an overall better experience.

This.

Reading mangas I would always wonder things like what colour of clothes they're wearing and how their voices would be like.  Anime answers them for me.

The only downside to anime are the fillers.  Not all are bad though.

I'm watching Naruto for the first time ever(haven't read it, currently on episode 150-something), and dear god- the spoilers are loaded at the end. 

 

Personally, i don't care much. Why? Because the atmosphere of Naruto itself is exhilarating and fun to see. Though, I was confused for a while when I realized that alot of the episodes after Naruto's badass fight with Sasuke were missions. when I looked online, i realized all the episodes after Naruto being defeated was simply filler. 

If I were talking about a show that was fast-paced and intense(such as Death Note and AoT), I'd probably wouldn't enjoy the filler. However, there are a good amount of filler episodes that were made for naruto. Favorite so far would probably be the one when they wanted to see what was under Kakashi's mask.



 

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