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.