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Damn, Soul Eater doesn’t follow the manga like that? Why do they keep doing this with animes!? I don’t read manga!

:mjlol: :mjlol:
I used to be averse to manga a long time ago, but now I make sure I read the manga first. I think Vagabond changed my way of thinking. Even still, I get excited seeing certain scenes animated that I read in the manga.
 

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I'm glad I read manga cause imagine waiting to see My hero turn to trash season by season.

I still remember when the homie @twan83 would regularly post MHA/BC updates in here

BC just kept getting more and more lit and MHA went the opposite direction.

Pretty sure for like 4 weeks in a row, my reaction was :unimpressed:
 

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Anime is mostly a promotional tool for manga, light novels, and video games. They'll make an anime of something that's still in progress to drum up interest in the source material. It'll get a season if it's lucky and that's it. Probably 80% of the anime made that's based off another ongoing form of media will never reach any sort of meaningful conclusion.

Your aversion to reading manga means you'll typically get the worst version of any given story or an incomplete version of the story. You'll also be constantly kept in suspense of a story continuing or not.
I’m not saying I’m against reading manga, I just didn’t grow up that way. All I had was the anime. I’d rather watch than read because you get so much more, like animation, music, etc.

It’s like I’m being forced to read the manga to get the real story lmao. It makes watching the anime feel pointless.

I guess it’s a smart strategy to not really show the full story in an anime to force people to buy the manga.

Are mangas short at least ?
 

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I used to be averse to manga a long time ago, but now I make sure I read the manga first. I think Vagabond changed my way of thinking. Even still, I get excited seeing certain scenes animated that I read in the manga.
Idk man, don’t you think that takes up too much time to watch the anime and read the manga? Maybe it is for me because I’m catching up with things instead of watching and reading it weekly when they first came out.

That Big-O in ya avi right? I was just thinking of that song a few other days ago.

Haven’t watched it like that, but remember it from Toonami.

Big-O, Big-O, Big-O, Big-O

shyt was low-key flames

:wow: :wow:
 

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I’m not saying I’m against reading manga, I just didn’t grow up that way. All I had was the anime. I’d rather watch than read because you get so much more, like animation, music, etc.

It’s like I’m being forced to read the manga to get the real story lmao. It makes watching the anime feel pointless.

I guess it’s a smart strategy to not really show the full story in an anime to force people to buy the manga.

Are mangas short at least ?
Are they short? That depends entirely on the writer. There are some guys who tend to have a lot of splash pages where there's just huge pics that take up most of an issue with minimal text. Others are more dense, text heavy to explain specific events. As I'm sure you can imagine, there are those that are a mix of both. You're generally not going to find a manga that's shorter than the anime.

I'm going to leave it there before I have to run the fade with @LauderdaleBoss @Obreh Winfrey @Bryan Danielson & the rest of #NoReadGang. :hubie:
 

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What is the aversion to reading manga? shyt for me thanks to manga its gotten me back into reading in general.
I used to read manga back when Naruto and Bleach were still ongoing but I stopped for a long time. I'm back to reading it now. Get a good tablet and an app like Paperback on iOS or Tachiyomi on Android and it's easy to set up shop and read anything. Once you get caught up Manga Plus is an option. Shonen Jump is also $2 a month which I pay just to support the cause.

A while back I used to be anime only for everything. These days I actually prefer to read manga and light novels over watching anime. The thing anime only viewers don't get is anime is such a derivative work and on top of that the bulk of it suffers from serious adaption decay. If all anime was the quality of 86 or Mushoku Tensei it would be worth it to only watch that but most anime even with the advantage of being animated is drastically inferior to the original media. Those high quality shows are few and far between.

The best way to put it to them is it's like being told a story directly from somebody that was there vs being told a story from a person that got the story from someone that was there. The original author is seldom deeply involved in making the anime. A screen writer and a director read their work and then make it into an anime. It's just like film here. You got top notch directors like Tarantino and Nolan and you got hacks. Just because something gets an anime doesn't mean they've secured top tier talent to produce it. Also like in Hollywood the book it typically better than the movie. It is incredibly rare that any anime ever surpasses the original work. Most of the time the best you can hope for is it comparing favorable.
 

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Idk man, don’t you think that takes up too much time to watch the anime and read the manga? Maybe it is for me because I’m catching up with things instead of watching and reading it weekly when they first came out.

That Big-O in ya avi right? I was just thinking of that song a few other days ago.

Haven’t watched it like that, but remember it from Toonami.

Big-O, Big-O, Big-O, Big-O

shyt was low-key flames

:wow: :wow:
Mangas are quick reads. It only becomes long when you've got hundreds of chapters to catch up on. I just got tired of watching all these shows and getting a single season then being abandoned. Once I started asking well where does the story go from here I just gravitated towards reading the manga or light novel. If it's something like 86 I'll watch the whole season but for the typical anime I just pick over it and watch my favorite moments animated if I'm reading the source.

Also I have an e-reader I'll take to the gym and a small tablet and read while I'm on the treadmill. Take them to work and read on break or lunch or when I get down time. I've also used my cell phone at times.
 

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Are they short? That depends entirely on the writer. There are some guys who tend to have a lot of splash pages where there's just huge pics that take up most of an issue with minimal text. Others are more dense, text heavy to explain specific events. As I'm sure you can imagine, there are those that are a mix of both. You're generally not going to find a manga that's shorter than the anime.

I'm going to leave it there before I have to run the fade with @LauderdaleBoss @Obreh Winfrey @Bryan Danielson & the rest of #NoReadGang. :hubie:
Idk breh, watching and reading the manga seems kinda OD for me. But that’s probably because I’m not watching things on a weekly released basis.

I get that the anime would be a little different in some ways, but straight up changing the story so I’m low-key forced to read the manga is a smart ass hustle.

I got like 300 episodes of Bleach to watch, idk if I can read some mangas too.

Not against mangas, but damn I’d rather watch it.

:mjlol: :mjlol:
 

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Mangas are quick reads. It only becomes long when you've got hundreds of chapters to catch up on. I just got tired of watching all these shows and getting a single season then being abandoned. Once I started asking well where does the story go from here I just gravitated towards reading the manga or light novel. If it's something like 86 I'll watch the whole season but for the typical anime I just pick over it and watch my favorite moments animated if I'm reading the source.

Also I have an e-reader I'll take to the gym and a small tablet and read while I'm on the treadmill. Take them to work and read on break or lunch or when I get down time. I've also used my cell phone at times.
See now, I understand that side of things when the anime isn’t finished.

But when I hear online that an anime is so different from a manga, it’s kinda like, should I even waste my time watching this?

I’ll still watch it if I like it though and maybe I’ll read the manga of it someday.

I still think they should at least keep the anime story somewhat close to the manga though.
 

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See now, I understand that side of things when the anime isn’t finished.

But when I hear online that an anime is so different from a manga, it’s kinda like, should I even waste my time watching this?

I’ll still watch it if I like it though and maybe I’ll read the manga of it someday.

I still think they should at least keep the anime story somewhat close to the manga though.
It's like Game of Thrones. Somebody else took another guy's work and used it to make a show based off it. At some point they even stopped consulting him and it went off the rails. I mean they bought the rights to use the original work as a base. If the director or screen writer doesn't like a decision the author made they can do as they see fit. If a person wants something completely faithful to the original work then the original work already exist. An anime can't animate everything from that anyway.
 

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Essential What Anime are you currently watching?
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I bet y'all reading ass MFs still jacking off to static pictures too :hhh:
 
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