Reading allows you to control the rhythm and be the master of the sounds and movements you imagine. You also decide the tone of the scenes, don't have to suffer the lullaby of dialogues dictaded by the director... In itself that activity is exhilarating when reading a manga.
Plus reading the manga gives you CONSISTENTLY the most crisp drawings and shots you can imagine. That's like a set picture of you taken by a professional photographer VS inadvertently opening the selfie cam on your phone @3a.m
You'll never see a Konoha on your screen like in the drawings of Naruto first gen
Just clean man.
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Having access to Akira Toriyama drawing beautiful vehicles and countrysides lowkey should be enough of an argument
The quality of his selection of action poses also reveals itself all the more in the manga
Meanwhile, by limiting yourself to watching, you're at the mercy of the overworked animators, enduring 50 episodes of:
With sometimes 20 minutes episodes of barely moving lips
To finally suffer to the one proverbial episode where a fight deemed most important happens, for which they'll get a great animator. And even then, he'll have to sacrifice details to service the fluidity of animation
I'm not even going to get into the fillers & long awkward pauses, silences, or fails in rhythm because the director had to make a 20 min episode with 10 min of material
It's easy to mess up a scene in Anime because of this type of constraints. Bad quality animation, the wrong soundtrack, an awkward slow motion, a weird performance by a voice actor... The thing is in precarious balance.
All of this you don't have to care about when readinga 100% quality, always, with powerful shots delivering exactly how they should and beautiful illustrations.
Now I fukk with anime ofc, sometimes you find gems and most of the time it's alright... But don't yall come for reading now
nice post.
i've met people who struggle to visualize scenes, assign voices to characters. Prefer the passive activity of being delivered the action with no work on their part other than subs (if that). I understood that perspective and haven't argued about anime vs manga since.
but.....if you like both platforms then manga is the way to go. Only in rare cases do you get an anime that is backed strongly enough to fully realize the source material, or in some cases even surpass it, because of all the hurdles shows must go through before during and post production.
You'll even have instances where a manga has received an excellent adaptation that has managed to elevate the authors work....but oh, they don't like how the anime has changed their original vision. So there's a conflict. and the director leaves. and now you have this
That was His and Her Circumstances. A 10/10 for 18 episodes, one of the few inspired romantic comedy adaptations you'll ever get (90% are souless previews of the manga/LN/VN), but couldn't even complete itself because of a conflict during production. Anime is volatile.
on the illustrations. Murata-sama blessed him something crazy 
but he cold though. Haven't got far enough for the real demonic shyt tho.
