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pokoko on 22 June 2016
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Cloudman said:
Super_Boom said:

The anime wasn't terrible...but it was incredibly rushed. Manga fans complain about this in anime a lot, but this is probably one of the worst offenders of it honestly. It adapted the first 90 chapters and condensed them into 12 episodes...and so a ton of of plot points and dialogue was removed, and most of the characters barely did anything. I watched the anime first, and Yamada, Shiraishi, Miyamura, and Odagiri are the only characters that really left an impression on me.

As for the manga...I've more or less dropped it. I enjoyed the humor, but I can't build up the motivation to keep reading when i don't really care what's going on. I have too manga in my backlog to keep reading something that I'm extremely lukewarm about.

Still, I enjoyed the first 90 chapters a lot, so if I never come back to it, I'll look back on that part of the story alone.

Yeah, I figured they condensed it into a tiny series. Considering where the manga was at, there's no way they would be able to fit it all. I figure the novelty would come from watching it move in action as an anime, as well as the quirky moments. I don't think I would mind it much, but... I dunno, I guess I'm not in the zone to try watching it. The manga is enough for me, and unless you're caught up with the series, I don't think there would be much incentive for people to continue with it past the initial arc.

Super_Boom is right, the anime was way too rushed.  I enjoyed it but it bugged me that so much meaningful stuff was skipped.  Ultimately, it made it feel a lot more shallow than the manga.  I enjoyed the live action more than the anime, perhaps because it felt different enough that it was its own thing.  As for the manga, I loved it up until the Reset and then ... I just stopped reading it.  I think I would rather it ended around that point, as I don't have much desire to go back to it.  Still, the opening arc of the Yamada-kun manga was excellent and I'm glad I read it.

I read Hirunaka no Ryuusei for awhile, a long time ago.  I thought the main character was great but the narrative did not hook me at all and I dropped it.

I've started reading Again!!, which is kind of funny, as it was one of my first manga and one I expressly started reading because I'd just finished Yankee-kun to Megane-chan and went looking for more "delinquent" manga.  I enjoyed it quite a bit but then it didn't get updated for a long time and I forgot about it.  It sounds kind of typical in description but I liked it quite a bit, at least as far as I've read.  I'm starting over again now.

It's about a boy who reached high school graduation without ever making a single friend.  He was from out of town and had a scary appearance.  His big regret was that he never spoke with the person who had the biggest impact on him, the girl who was the only member of the Cheer Club (not Cheerleaders, but the (usually) guys who used to yell and lead chants).  She was loud and odd looking and people made fun of her but she struck a chord in him.  Unfortunately, that never happened and his life only went downhill from there.  Now, though, he ends up in an accident and finds himself once more at his high school entrance ceremony.  There are some more twists than that and it's also not only about fixing his life but I don't want to give more away.