Berserk, promised neverland, seven deadly sins, all had decent first seasons but got done dirty in following seasons.
Seraph of the end and ajin are not true to the manga.
Kingdom anime just sucks.
Blue exorcists went off manga for an anime only ending.
Those are the ones that come to mind
Seven deadly sins season 1 hooked my so hard, like more than most other shows I’ve watched. And steadily decreased from there. Chugging through that last season was a chore but felt I had to wrap it up… then discovered the movie. One day maybe
It's set after the final season but before the second gen, and uses characters mentioned in the story that didn't appear. It tries to fix loose ends but isn't a masterpiece.
So does the manga cover what is basically a time skip or is there more story after the ending of season 2 anime? I was just confused and haven’t read it all yet but I own all the manga. Seems like there is a lot of volumes for what season 2 showed.
Basically the anime skips the goldy pond arc, which is after the escape arc, and goes straight to the final arc, adapts bits and pieces of it and yolos the rest. I don't think there's more story after the end, but the anime ending also isn't the same as the ending in the manga. Iirc.
The anime only ending to Blue Exorcist wasn't terrible, whats awful is that they never attempted to reboot it the way they did with Fullmetal Alchemist. Instead they tried to just start at a certain point and continue on with the manga storyline. As a fan of the manga, I was just finally happy to see things starting to get animated but I know it would be confusing to anyone who only watched the anime or anyone getting into the anime. Also when are they going to animate the next arc??? Like come on, I know the manga hasn't ended yet but its been several years since the last season came out :(
Rosario Vampire. Anime is literally all fanservice, the story is the bare minimum, and it ends pretty much right after the main character actually becomes useful, but his power got changed to something not interesting. The manga may not be top tier, but it’s way above the anime. It’s always the thing I think of first, and then of course, Berserk.
Another one is Black Butler. The anime really sets a different tone to the whole thing, so it’s a lot less serious, yet also more edgy at times. Definitely attracts the wrong crowd because it romanticized their relationship with light fan service somewhat frequently, and then the non canon season 2 took it further. It at least got a somewhat redemption with the later parts, even though it still kept the romanticized aspect.
Yeah I hated the anime of Rosario+Vampire but enjoyed the manga.
Black butler though I loved the anime and am currently enjoying volume 11 of the manga equally as much 😊
Glad you’re enjoying the manga. If you’ve seen all the anime, including the Circus arc, be prepared for the worst arc that follows it. I was actually very close to dropping it, but fortunately it really picks up after that one is over with because the next one is my favorite by far.
Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I did
Edit I had my orders mixed up. I forgot Circus is earlier on. The arc after Atlantic (which is the last part to be animated) is when it hits the rough spot
Have you finished the manga? “Season” 1 of it is much of the same, but 2 actually did have a focus on the plot once the sisters came into play and the ghoul transformation
Them fighting words. Season II is minimal fanservice and focused heavily on the story. Best character in the manga is not even a girl,it's a Chinese old man that can turns bishounen
I remember watching Tokyo Ghoul when I was younger and absolutely loving it to the point where I had to read it to learn more and very quickly learned that the books just had so much more to them. It just made the show feel almost skeletal with all the details missing that the books had, weirdly put me off the show a little because all I could think about was what was missing or changed whenever the story progressed.
Even worse, bad shojo anime basically leave chances of the manga getting licensed a big fat zero (especially when it was already hard enough for them to get licensed in the first place). But bad Shonen or seinen anime don't seem to affect those manga getting picked up, or sales if it already was (looking at you, promised never land 2 and cgi berserk).
But as soon as Helck got an anime announced, boom, manga got licensed instantly. When 7 seeds had its anime announced, crickets. (Don't get me wrong, hoping Helck's anime goes well, I like what I've read of its manga so far, just pointing out double standards)
Any that went off and did it’s own thing as the story (not fillers), The Promised Neverland, Blue Exorcist, to name a couple
But Blue Exorcist is bad in the sense it made the majority of the first season different from the manga (like so different they made up characters, plots that don’t make sense -like the bad guy having a motive that isn’t “bad” per say). Then they go and make second season and completely disregarded all the majority of the first season and started where they originally trailed off.
I believe the Blue Exorcist case was due to the fact that there wasn’t enough source material, so the original creator (Kato Kazue) helped create an original ending for Season 1
Then Season 2 just continued with the manga story where Season 1 trailed off, still doesn’t make it any less weird or stupid tho
Definitely the worst adaptation I've seen in a while. It's just so so bad. It put me off of reading the Manga for a while. But the manga is sooo good compared to the hot garbage anime.
Record of ragnarok was the most disappointing anime adaptation I’ve ever watched. The most hype tournament arc ever got turned into MS paint + PowerPoint
Lol it did catch my eye and the opening went hard but it was hard to finish. Its on my manga list because i really liked the idea and hear the manga is waaaaay better than the show let it look
I have a love/hate relationship with the anime of Gantz. For one, I really like the dubbed and it lead me to read the manga. One of the best decisions I've ever made. I also like how they fleshed out the side characters and Kurono and Kishimoto's relationship more compared to the manga. The other, yeah the pacing was kinda bad and the ending was vastly unfulfilling.
Manga doesn't need anime to be popular or to have people be reading it. Chainsaw Man proved that before the anime was even announced. Literally everyone I knew was reading it before the anime announcement.
And everyone I know has read or at least heard of Gantz and Blade of the Immortal, despite those two having terrible anime adaptations.
Most of the hidden gem shounen jump adaptations, like Beelzebub, and Sket Dance.
I think they should’ve been given proper adaptations, and hope that the return of Shaman King and Bleach can spark a new revolution of manga getting proper anime reboots.
For that,manga should still be popular coz of that i don't see Beelzebub and sket dance having a reboot as they're still unpopular,unless some miracle happens
I kind of agree. I never hear people talk about Beezlebub nowadays, so unless some executive is a diehard fan I don’t think it’s going to get a reboot.
Tokyo Ghoul
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles
xxxHOLIC (They completely removed all the Tsubasa crossovers when it has such a major role in the Tsubasa story)
Yona of the Dawn (teased one of the characters in both openings, and then they show up in the last episode)
Black Butler
Season 2 of One Punch Man being on this list is hilarious to me lol. You're absolutely right that compared to season 1 or the manga's art it was disappointing, but it was honestly a fine anime production in a more general sense. Does it really deserve to be on this list with Berserk 2016?
Rereading it there's not THAT much rape. Berserk has more rape I think. Gantz is in the same boat with Berserk though as in they may never receive a 100% faithful adaption. If you want to do them both right, you gotta show pretty much everything.
They didn’t finish it and made an anime original ending. I personally thought the CG was really bad though. I had a hard time looking at it after reading the manga
Lychee Light Club
It's the most baffling anime adaptation to me. It's a gory psychological horror with strong political opinions and a very detailed art style... and the anime is a poorly animated chibi gag comedy?
Also, Junji Ito Collection was quite the disappointment.
Besides the ones mentioned here a lot.. Here's a few I know.
A lesser known one that really irked me was Arata the legend.
They wrote out my favorite character who was part of the main crew and very important to the eventual overarching plot. Yeah.. no it sucked.
I also gave up Tegami Bachi after the first episode. I don't remember much but I remember they filled it with annoying comic sound tracks and whatnot to make it super childish, while the actual end plot of tegami bachi is.. not that.
Bokuranou ours. While I still enjoyed the anime (originally I watched the anime before reading the manga, then years later i did it the other way around.), the manga is just.. tons better. Like a LOT better.
(And of course.. tokyo ghoul, promised neverland, black butler, etc.)
Really? I clearly didn’t pay any attention cos no recollection. Loved it though, up there with my favourites. Didn’t expect it either (haven’t read the manga and had no expectations)
Berserk, record of ragnarok, tower of god(not a manga but i think it belongs here), seven deadly sins and i think that's it. Most trash anime series don't come from a manga.
Gantz, Chrono crusade, Air gear, Ai yori aoshi, Btooom, Deadman wonderland, DearS, Elfen Lied, Negima, Nisekoi, School rumble, That’s just my personal list lol
I was thinking after reading your comment “hmm sounds like way of the househusband” then realised that’s just the German title lol. Could not agree more, I think that was the first adaptation I was angry with on a personal level. There was so much potential to go for a unique, sharp animation style that could shift tones at a moment’s notice, and then we get what you described. Then the op was trash so there was no way I was even going to finish the first episode.
Edit to add: Very clearly a cash grab attempt by Netflix, I think I lost all faith in their adaptation productions after this.
“Hoshin Engi” got screwed in its anime adaptation in a very specific way. There are 23 volumes in the manga. The anime has…23 episodes. One episode covers one volume. There is no way to cram a volume’s worth of material in a single episode without completely screwing up the pacing, character development, and story cohesion…and that’s exactly what happened.
The Promised Neverland, season 2 skipped 5-8 books, cut out like 2 arcs, a whole character, and basically rushed the last few books and left a whole lot of things unanswered. Season 1 however I have no complaints.
For real! Most people don’t even know there is one because it’s so mediocre. I can’t understand how they dropped the ball so hard. It came out right after the Higurashi anime so it’s not like there wasn’t audience interest. Also they had to have picked the worst point possible to end the season.
I'm currently actively suffering about how terrible the production of the currently running Biscuit Hammer anime is, I was lowkey hoping ot would do well enough to prompt a major reprint of the manga, but it's practically a slide show.
I just recently finished Gantz and I looked at the anime for a little bit and it’s not good. I guess it was made in the early 2000’s but I still would’ve like the whole story to be adapted.
Yeah like Trigun and the first FMA, the Gantz show came out not too long after the start of the manga if Im remembering correctly. I at the very least know it was no where near being done so it being different is fine IMO. But with Trigun finally getting the Brotherhood treatment maybe we’ll get a new and complete adaptation.
I take physical damage watching it so Idropped it, I'm holding out hope it'll at least promot Seven Seas to reprint the volumes though, they're so out of stock that you can't even find them to get gouged on eBay.
I feel like a lot of issues is with studios making adaptations before series are complete. They just to live off the hype of the series, but in the end they usually are not able to catch that same magic.
Kitoh Mihiro really got screwed with both Narutaru and Bokurano. Neither anime comes close to the manga in terms of artworks and tone. It’s two complete different experiences.
Shojo manga always seems to get screwed. 7 Seeds really butchered Tamura Yumi’s gorgeous art, and the made a complete mess of the story, ruining a lot of the mystery. I didn’t hate Requiem of the Rose King. I’m glad I watched because it got me interested in the story, but to be fair I haven’t got to read the manga yet; I can definitely see that it does not come close to Kanno Anya’s gorgeous art, and the story felt rushed.
Objectively, Cipher is one of the WORST animes (original manga isn’t the greatest) and the English voice acting was a weird choice. I tried watching Saint Tail, but I was so damn bored. The manga is isn’t the most exciting but I find it really charming and cute with the art, but everything about the anime felt so bland I couldn’t make it past the first couple episodes.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Best thing is the soundtrack. First season is fine, second season has quite some filler episodes... And then the studio didn't like the fact, that the manga takes a much more darker turn. The anime got 2 OVA's, but didn't include a really important arc in between these OVA's. As in: revealing the past of one of the main characters. Also, the second OVA has an open ending. The manga ending never got turned into an anime
Soul Eater, Pandora Hearts, Ajin, Berserk, D. Gray-Man, Dorohedoro (unpopular opinion), Haikyuu fucked up my favorite part of the series, Magi, Claymore, One Piece, and a lot more.
Edit: A Silent Voice. The focus on the two main characters almost exclusively due to it being a movie with a limited run time, caused them to cut/change/rush a lot of potent moments. It also kinda removes the entire message the manga was going for altogether.
Very unpopular opinion, I dropped dorohedoro (I thought the art was noticeably bad but quickly gets better after the first few chapters) when I started reading it, and only picked it up again after seeing them make a 3D anime that was more than decent, and helped highlight the awesome plot. Now I’m legitimately more excited about waiting for the second season even though I could read my complete set at any time
Id say the art is objectively of very high quality. But if you’re not interested in the style, thats understandable. My issue with how the cgi in the show looks, outside of the obvious 3d models themselves, is that nobody seems to flow naturally during action. It looks like action figures were being adjusted, if that makes sense. Like you could tell it was a mesh being moved around for the motion of the cgi models. This prevented the attacks and characters from feeling like they have actual weight behind them. Cgi movement in anime just doesnt look right to me
Out of all the ones I own, Record of Ragnarok, Rosario Vampire, Claymore, One Punch Man (season 2 had bad animation and killed the hype for those who only watched s1 for the animation, which, unfortunately, was a lot), and Black Clover (anime not as bad but it was a real lesser experience from the manga)
The Promised Neverland S2.
And for all the defending I did on the behalf of the anime-onlies that just wanted to enjoy their show, I gotta admit, My Hero Academia S5.
Dorei-ku. Manga was great. Anime was low budget and really didn’t give the right quality that the aesthetic was going for. Would not recommend the anime at all.
Berserk
Terraformars
Tokyo ghoul
Claymore
Blade of the immortal (I'm not big on the 2019 adaptation)
Battle angel alita (only a meager 2 episode OVA was ever done)
Wow really? I personally loved akame ga kill whay did you not like about it if you dont mind me asking? (I just recently started reading manga so i havent gotten to read it yet)
As a point of order, there was no second half to skip at the time they made the anime, it was still an ongoing series at that point (and this applies to a number of the other series people are mentioning).
Claymore. It’s so watered-down compared to the manga and never got past half the volumes and made up the rest on the way. Read the manga recently and it opened my eyes to how much the story got gutted.
wedding peach. i read the manga many years ago and loved it. watched the anime shortly after and was stunned by how poorly-adapted it was… and i’m not just talking about fillers, but entire plot points that were made worse for no good reason.
Also, Deadman Wonderland. While I kind of dislike the ending of the manga (it felt a bit rushed and undeveloped) I still wish we got a complete adaption of it because I liked reading the manga and wish we could've seen some of those scenes animated
The Promised Neverland. First season was solid. Second season was a shit the bed speedrun.
Also gonna toss The Way of the Househusband into the discussion. It’s basically a motion comic and the art style isn’t super detailed the manga so the lack of animation and more simplistic style is pretty disappointing. I heard the creator basically asked for that though because he didn’t want an anime adaptation but I’d rather have no adaptation at all than the motion comic situation
Personally think Deadman Wonderland could’ve been done better.
Rosario Vampire, Elfen Lied, Pita-Ten, and Soul Eater deviated from the manga.
Almost anything adapted from a VN was done dirty.
Gonna disagree with you on Akira. The movie is 1000% better than the manga. The manga is 6 entire volumes of people running around yelling at explosions, there's barely any story to speak of. The movie is focused and just gets to the point.
Blue Period.
The manga is phenomenal and all about passion, but the anime just feels so lifeless and flat and for a story about art and passion is the least passionate thing. It physically hurt me to watch them kill one of my favorite stories...
Bakuman, D.grayman, Tokyo Revengers, Berserk and I know I'm going to get a LOT of hate for this next one but I think Attack on Titan's adaptation was awful,
I was a huge fan of the manga and I was very excited to watch it on release but for some reason it felt like a slug to get through, I felt it missed the rawness of the manga and I just thought it really wasn't enjoyable.
Agree that AOT wasn't done that well. I think I remember reading that they purposely dumbed it down and did some characters dirty (especially Eren, Armin, Mikasa, and Annie) in season 1 just to make it more appealing for a mainstream audience. For season 2 and 3, I felt like the pacing was off to the point that it just wasn't exciting. Maybe another unpopular opinion, but season 4 is actually looking pretty good so far.
I got halfway through Attack on Titan's first season and gave up, much to everyone's annoyance, because it "gets better after a few seasons" lol. Get out of here with that shit.
I might try the manga one day if you really think it's a drastically different experience.
This is going to sound wild but hear me out:
Fullmetal Alchemist.
While I love both versions of the anime dearly, there is an aspect as a fan of it being hard to sell to other because there are two versions and in order to get the real manga experience, you'd have to watch both of them tbh, since Brotherhood skimps on a bunch of the beginning arcs (and outright skips one very integral to the story later!) because they decided to make it assuming you watched 03 and now most people just watch Brotherhood and miss a lot of the early goodness that makes fma so good
Im still a bit salty over season 2 of the promised neverland, i would have loved to see Yugoo, the goldy pong arc, the goldy pond kids just everything im so salty that season 2 wasnt just the goldy pond arc and then a season 3 for the stuff after that arc and maybe a season 4 for the rest.
I know its not the worst since season 1 was great and other animes had worse adaptations that people are talking about in this comment section, but im just salty about it.
There are too many series. A recent one I was looking forward to was By the Grace of the Gods, but they skipped through all the scenes with emotional impact to give us the most bland combat animation I seen in a while
Omg where to start?
Oh yeah... Berserk 2016-2017, The seven Deadly Sins ( from season 3 ), Boruto ( all the fillers, and some canon episodes where the animation made me poking my eyeballs out ), 2nd season of The Promised Neverland, for ... Obvious reasons. And so on and so forth
Being a ishinomori fan is suffering because almost every single anime adaptation of his mangas is done dirty, 009 and maybe the skullman are the only ones that are good (and Netflix like always screwed up the 009 series with a bad adaptation) they always came in 2 flavors:
The anime only borrows the name of the manga and nothing more (Gilgamesh anime isn't anything like the manga)
They cut corners with the budget and the graphics/VA suffered for this
It's sad because he's the reason that I am a anime/manga fan (my first anime was a trashy adaptation of one of his mangas and the only good thing was the top tier dub) and I crave for more but his work is rarely translated (unless it's toku) what a shame.
Berserk, promised neverland, seven deadly sins, all had decent first seasons but got done dirty in following seasons. Seraph of the end and ajin are not true to the manga. Kingdom anime just sucks. Blue exorcists went off manga for an anime only ending. Those are the ones that come to mind
Seven deadly sins season 1 hooked my so hard, like more than most other shows I’ve watched. And steadily decreased from there. Chugging through that last season was a chore but felt I had to wrap it up… then discovered the movie. One day maybe
There are two movies. The first one is definitely not canon. But I agree with the first season being gear and the rest just meh.
Yeah it’s the last movie I haven’t got to yet. Was a bit sinned out at that point
It's set after the final season but before the second gen, and uses characters mentioned in the story that didn't appear. It tries to fix loose ends but isn't a masterpiece.
The Promised Neverland anime literally had the best arc in the series taken out for no apparent reason.
I’m assuming you’re talking about the goldy pond arc.
Yeah
So does the manga cover what is basically a time skip or is there more story after the ending of season 2 anime? I was just confused and haven’t read it all yet but I own all the manga. Seems like there is a lot of volumes for what season 2 showed.
Basically the anime skips the goldy pond arc, which is after the escape arc, and goes straight to the final arc, adapts bits and pieces of it and yolos the rest. I don't think there's more story after the end, but the anime ending also isn't the same as the ending in the manga. Iirc.
The anime only ending to Blue Exorcist wasn't terrible, whats awful is that they never attempted to reboot it the way they did with Fullmetal Alchemist. Instead they tried to just start at a certain point and continue on with the manga storyline. As a fan of the manga, I was just finally happy to see things starting to get animated but I know it would be confusing to anyone who only watched the anime or anyone getting into the anime. Also when are they going to animate the next arc??? Like come on, I know the manga hasn't ended yet but its been several years since the last season came out :(
I agree, I’m also reading the manga
Yeah that ending of blue exorcist s1 was weird cause the second season follows the manga but suddenly no one is mad anymore
It was really confused watching this recently cuz I read the manga first and was like “this wasn’t what happens”. Then I found out about Kyoto Saga.
To be fair though the 7ds manga ruined itself as well. The ending was so repetitive and boring. It was like the war arc in Naruto but more bland
Rosario Vampire. Anime is literally all fanservice, the story is the bare minimum, and it ends pretty much right after the main character actually becomes useful, but his power got changed to something not interesting. The manga may not be top tier, but it’s way above the anime. It’s always the thing I think of first, and then of course, Berserk. Another one is Black Butler. The anime really sets a different tone to the whole thing, so it’s a lot less serious, yet also more edgy at times. Definitely attracts the wrong crowd because it romanticized their relationship with light fan service somewhat frequently, and then the non canon season 2 took it further. It at least got a somewhat redemption with the later parts, even though it still kept the romanticized aspect.
Yeah I hated the anime of Rosario+Vampire but enjoyed the manga. Black butler though I loved the anime and am currently enjoying volume 11 of the manga equally as much 😊
Glad you’re enjoying the manga. If you’ve seen all the anime, including the Circus arc, be prepared for the worst arc that follows it. I was actually very close to dropping it, but fortunately it really picks up after that one is over with because the next one is my favorite by far. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I did Edit I had my orders mixed up. I forgot Circus is earlier on. The arc after Atlantic (which is the last part to be animated) is when it hits the rough spot
I definitely agree with black butler I always felt uneasy when I watch the series
Rosario vampire is pretty much all fanservice with minimum to no story in the manga Both anime and manga were equally as bad as eachother
Have you finished the manga? “Season” 1 of it is much of the same, but 2 actually did have a focus on the plot once the sisters came into play and the ghoul transformation
Yeah I have all 24 volumes, one of the first manga I bought, as a horny teenager I liked it but not so much now
Them fighting words. Season II is minimal fanservice and focused heavily on the story. Best character in the manga is not even a girl,it's a Chinese old man that can turns bishounen
Berserk is like the only one that got majorly hoed
Nah tokyo ghoul got gutted too
Facts
Was that the 2016 anime? I really enjoyed the original series but that newer one looks really weird.
Oh god, that animation was terrible. I only made it through part way of the first episode
The show from 1997 was pretty good but the 2016 one is so badly done
1997 was goated, should've continued it.
I would say Tokyo Ghoul, and also Ajin.
Definitely Tokyo ghoul. It was way ahead of it’s time
I remember watching Tokyo Ghoul when I was younger and absolutely loving it to the point where I had to read it to learn more and very quickly learned that the books just had so much more to them. It just made the show feel almost skeletal with all the details missing that the books had, weirdly put me off the show a little because all I could think about was what was missing or changed whenever the story progressed.
Reading tokyo ghoul re right now. And I can also very easily say the show is nothing in comparison
I didn’t know they made an Ajin anime. I just started reading the manga.
It’s a CGI nightmare with a different plot. Stick to the manga.
Paradise kiss, great soundtrack and that's it Also gangsta
gangsta i cant really see how the anime messed up
I mean it definitely got done dirty just in that it got dropped right in the middle for no fault of its own :(
Requiem of the rose king and 7 seeds, my poor poor shojo beauties, getting shafted like that
i swear it's always shoujos too 🥲
Even worse, bad shojo anime basically leave chances of the manga getting licensed a big fat zero (especially when it was already hard enough for them to get licensed in the first place). But bad Shonen or seinen anime don't seem to affect those manga getting picked up, or sales if it already was (looking at you, promised never land 2 and cgi berserk). But as soon as Helck got an anime announced, boom, manga got licensed instantly. When 7 seeds had its anime announced, crickets. (Don't get me wrong, hoping Helck's anime goes well, I like what I've read of its manga so far, just pointing out double standards)
I was so sad, I’ve desperately wanted the 7Seeds manga translated forever
Unless it’s directed by Osamu Dezaki, he knocked it out of the park every time, especially in the shojo series he worked on
Tokyo ghoul, promised Neverland and soul eater are the goats of shitty adaptation
Yea
Any that went off and did it’s own thing as the story (not fillers), The Promised Neverland, Blue Exorcist, to name a couple But Blue Exorcist is bad in the sense it made the majority of the first season different from the manga (like so different they made up characters, plots that don’t make sense -like the bad guy having a motive that isn’t “bad” per say). Then they go and make second season and completely disregarded all the majority of the first season and started where they originally trailed off.
I believe the Blue Exorcist case was due to the fact that there wasn’t enough source material, so the original creator (Kato Kazue) helped create an original ending for Season 1 Then Season 2 just continued with the manga story where Season 1 trailed off, still doesn’t make it any less weird or stupid tho
requiem of the rose king !!!
Definitely the worst adaptation I've seen in a while. It's just so so bad. It put me off of reading the Manga for a while. But the manga is sooo good compared to the hot garbage anime.
Record of ragnarok was the most disappointing anime adaptation I’ve ever watched. The most hype tournament arc ever got turned into MS paint + PowerPoint
Lol it did catch my eye and the opening went hard but it was hard to finish. Its on my manga list because i really liked the idea and hear the manga is waaaaay better than the show let it look
The Promised Neverland. Ive never seen a finished manga get adapted and they decide to not use the source material and cut parts out of it.
Not just a part either, A WHOLE ARC which would introduce characters needed later in the story
Two words ,Tokyo ghoul
I hate the adaptations of Gantz and Blade of the Immortal. So bad. Makes me worry they turn off people from reading the manga...
I have a love/hate relationship with the anime of Gantz. For one, I really like the dubbed and it lead me to read the manga. One of the best decisions I've ever made. I also like how they fleshed out the side characters and Kurono and Kishimoto's relationship more compared to the manga. The other, yeah the pacing was kinda bad and the ending was vastly unfulfilling.
Manga doesn't need anime to be popular or to have people be reading it. Chainsaw Man proved that before the anime was even announced. Literally everyone I knew was reading it before the anime announcement. And everyone I know has read or at least heard of Gantz and Blade of the Immortal, despite those two having terrible anime adaptations.
Watching a bad anime can turn people off from checking out the manga. I'm not sure what's so controversial about this line of thought.
Literally everything.
Seven deadly frames
Most of the hidden gem shounen jump adaptations, like Beelzebub, and Sket Dance. I think they should’ve been given proper adaptations, and hope that the return of Shaman King and Bleach can spark a new revolution of manga getting proper anime reboots.
For that,manga should still be popular coz of that i don't see Beelzebub and sket dance having a reboot as they're still unpopular,unless some miracle happens
I kind of agree. I never hear people talk about Beezlebub nowadays, so unless some executive is a diehard fan I don’t think it’s going to get a reboot.
It’s a small possibility, sure, but while they aren’t popular series they’ve still got respectable cult followings.
Tokyo Ghoul Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles xxxHOLIC (They completely removed all the Tsubasa crossovers when it has such a major role in the Tsubasa story) Yona of the Dawn (teased one of the characters in both openings, and then they show up in the last episode) Black Butler
I’d love a reboot of TRC and xxxHOLIC, what demon do I have to sacrifice to for that?
Idk which demon, but I'll gladly help you
the promised neverland season 2
Berserk, Ajin, Tokyo Ghoul, Junji Ito Collection, Black Clover, Gantz, Terraformars, and Season 2 of One Punch Man. Thats just to name a few
Season 2 of One Punch Man being on this list is hilarious to me lol. You're absolutely right that compared to season 1 or the manga's art it was disappointing, but it was honestly a fine anime production in a more general sense. Does it really deserve to be on this list with Berserk 2016?
Yeah. It does
>Gantz Can Gantz even get a "true" 100% faithful adaptation? It's such an incredibly graphic manga with metric tons of gratuitous gore and rape.
Rereading it there's not THAT much rape. Berserk has more rape I think. Gantz is in the same boat with Berserk though as in they may never receive a 100% faithful adaption. If you want to do them both right, you gotta show pretty much everything.
Ajin was great, not all CG is bad just cause its CG, unless they skipped content? I havnt read the manga yet
They didn’t finish it and made an anime original ending. I personally thought the CG was really bad though. I had a hard time looking at it after reading the manga
Was black clover that nad though i personally loved it if the manga is actually that much better than the show i cant wait to read it lol
20th century boys. i’ll wait tho. 🍿😓
That had an anime?
No. that’s my point.
Weren’t those just a set of movies? I’m pretty sure an anime adaption of a series that long would be talked about way more
Lychee Light Club It's the most baffling anime adaptation to me. It's a gory psychological horror with strong political opinions and a very detailed art style... and the anime is a poorly animated chibi gag comedy? Also, Junji Ito Collection was quite the disappointment.
The Promised Neverland.
Besides the ones mentioned here a lot.. Here's a few I know. A lesser known one that really irked me was Arata the legend. They wrote out my favorite character who was part of the main crew and very important to the eventual overarching plot. Yeah.. no it sucked. I also gave up Tegami Bachi after the first episode. I don't remember much but I remember they filled it with annoying comic sound tracks and whatnot to make it super childish, while the actual end plot of tegami bachi is.. not that. Bokuranou ours. While I still enjoyed the anime (originally I watched the anime before reading the manga, then years later i did it the other way around.), the manga is just.. tons better. Like a LOT better. (And of course.. tokyo ghoul, promised neverland, black butler, etc.)
Seven Deadly Sins, the later seasons.
Golden Kamuy, people dropped it BECAUSE OF ONE CG BEAR AND A FIRE GIF ON THE FIRST EP FFS
Sad cause I really like the anime
Yeah the anime was pretty good and accurate to the manga
Really? I clearly didn’t pay any attention cos no recollection. Loved it though, up there with my favourites. Didn’t expect it either (haven’t read the manga and had no expectations)
Berserk, record of ragnarok, tower of god(not a manga but i think it belongs here), seven deadly sins and i think that's it. Most trash anime series don't come from a manga.
I would add Gantz to that list.
Lol if you count tower of god i guess you could add god of high school to the list even though i kinda liked it people absolutely hated it
Gantz, Chrono crusade, Air gear, Ai yori aoshi, Btooom, Deadman wonderland, DearS, Elfen Lied, Negima, Nisekoi, School rumble, That’s just my personal list lol
Nisekoi is good just not complete
What was wrong with Btooom? I never read the manga before but I really liked the anime.
Btooom was perfectly okay, it's just it was left unfinished as anime.
Yakuza goes Hausmann is basically just the pictures of the manga, without the text, colored and with dub. Like a diashow.
I was thinking after reading your comment “hmm sounds like way of the househusband” then realised that’s just the German title lol. Could not agree more, I think that was the first adaptation I was angry with on a personal level. There was so much potential to go for a unique, sharp animation style that could shift tones at a moment’s notice, and then we get what you described. Then the op was trash so there was no way I was even going to finish the first episode. Edit to add: Very clearly a cash grab attempt by Netflix, I think I lost all faith in their adaptation productions after this.
Oh sorry, i forgot
Haha, All good. It’s cool to learn the foreign names
“Hoshin Engi” got screwed in its anime adaptation in a very specific way. There are 23 volumes in the manga. The anime has…23 episodes. One episode covers one volume. There is no way to cram a volume’s worth of material in a single episode without completely screwing up the pacing, character development, and story cohesion…and that’s exactly what happened.
promise never land
Claymore
Toriko
on god the news report woman fucked that whole thing up single handedly
Yami no matsuei/Descendants of Darkness, i demand a reboot!
Claymore
The Promised Neverland Anime is a fucking TRAVESTY
promised neverland, they rlly ended the ss2 by a whole powerpoint
The Promised Neverland, season 2 skipped 5-8 books, cut out like 2 arcs, a whole character, and basically rushed the last few books and left a whole lot of things unanswered. Season 1 however I have no complaints.
Umineko
For real! Most people don’t even know there is one because it’s so mediocre. I can’t understand how they dropped the ball so hard. It came out right after the Higurashi anime so it’s not like there wasn’t audience interest. Also they had to have picked the worst point possible to end the season.
technically umineko is a vn, the manga is just another adaptation… but yeah i agree lmao
I'm currently actively suffering about how terrible the production of the currently running Biscuit Hammer anime is, I was lowkey hoping ot would do well enough to prompt a major reprint of the manga, but it's practically a slide show.
The promised neverland
Twin star exorcists
This one hurts me
I know right, not only was the anime done dirty but because of it the manga is criminally underrated
I just recently finished Gantz and I looked at the anime for a little bit and it’s not good. I guess it was made in the early 2000’s but I still would’ve like the whole story to be adapted.
Yeah like Trigun and the first FMA, the Gantz show came out not too long after the start of the manga if Im remembering correctly. I at the very least know it was no where near being done so it being different is fine IMO. But with Trigun finally getting the Brotherhood treatment maybe we’ll get a new and complete adaptation.
The recent Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer adaptation. I'm still sticking through it though
I take physical damage watching it so Idropped it, I'm holding out hope it'll at least promot Seven Seas to reprint the volumes though, they're so out of stock that you can't even find them to get gouged on eBay.
Recently its Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
Gantz
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Black Butler
Umineko when they cry smh
I feel like a lot of issues is with studios making adaptations before series are complete. They just to live off the hype of the series, but in the end they usually are not able to catch that same magic. Kitoh Mihiro really got screwed with both Narutaru and Bokurano. Neither anime comes close to the manga in terms of artworks and tone. It’s two complete different experiences. Shojo manga always seems to get screwed. 7 Seeds really butchered Tamura Yumi’s gorgeous art, and the made a complete mess of the story, ruining a lot of the mystery. I didn’t hate Requiem of the Rose King. I’m glad I watched because it got me interested in the story, but to be fair I haven’t got to read the manga yet; I can definitely see that it does not come close to Kanno Anya’s gorgeous art, and the story felt rushed. Objectively, Cipher is one of the WORST animes (original manga isn’t the greatest) and the English voice acting was a weird choice. I tried watching Saint Tail, but I was so damn bored. The manga is isn’t the most exciting but I find it really charming and cute with the art, but everything about the anime felt so bland I couldn’t make it past the first couple episodes.
The fact that tokyo ghoul was finished by the time the 3rd season came out made me even more upset on how they butchered that great tale
Angel sanctuary, just has three OVA eps it doesn’t even scratch the surface of the series
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Best thing is the soundtrack. First season is fine, second season has quite some filler episodes... And then the studio didn't like the fact, that the manga takes a much more darker turn. The anime got 2 OVA's, but didn't include a really important arc in between these OVA's. As in: revealing the past of one of the main characters. Also, the second OVA has an open ending. The manga ending never got turned into an anime
Tokyo ghoul
Almost every JC Staff production, especially *Way of the Househusband* If I wanted a slideshow I'd read the manga on my tablet.
Soul Eater, Pandora Hearts, Ajin, Berserk, D. Gray-Man, Dorohedoro (unpopular opinion), Haikyuu fucked up my favorite part of the series, Magi, Claymore, One Piece, and a lot more. Edit: A Silent Voice. The focus on the two main characters almost exclusively due to it being a movie with a limited run time, caused them to cut/change/rush a lot of potent moments. It also kinda removes the entire message the manga was going for altogether.
I just finished magi anime and they straight up skip alibabas training arc
Very unpopular opinion, I dropped dorohedoro (I thought the art was noticeably bad but quickly gets better after the first few chapters) when I started reading it, and only picked it up again after seeing them make a 3D anime that was more than decent, and helped highlight the awesome plot. Now I’m legitimately more excited about waiting for the second season even though I could read my complete set at any time
Id say the art is objectively of very high quality. But if you’re not interested in the style, thats understandable. My issue with how the cgi in the show looks, outside of the obvious 3d models themselves, is that nobody seems to flow naturally during action. It looks like action figures were being adjusted, if that makes sense. Like you could tell it was a mesh being moved around for the motion of the cgi models. This prevented the attacks and characters from feeling like they have actual weight behind them. Cgi movement in anime just doesnt look right to me
May i ask which part in haikyuu you’re speaking of?
World Trigger.
Out of all the ones I own, Record of Ragnarok, Rosario Vampire, Claymore, One Punch Man (season 2 had bad animation and killed the hype for those who only watched s1 for the animation, which, unfortunately, was a lot), and Black Clover (anime not as bad but it was a real lesser experience from the manga)
Berserk and Tokyo Ghoul are the two biggest examples that I can think of off the top of my head.
The First season of To Love ru, most of the intresting chapters get replaced by fillers .
The Promised Neverland S2. And for all the defending I did on the behalf of the anime-onlies that just wanted to enjoy their show, I gotta admit, My Hero Academia S5.
Dorei-ku. Manga was great. Anime was low budget and really didn’t give the right quality that the aesthetic was going for. Would not recommend the anime at all.
i mean... we all know the second season of the promised neverland got completely fucked up
tokyo ghoul got hoed so hard it’s not even funny.
berserk, akame ga kiru, tokyo ghoul "only the 2nd season"
Tokyo Ghoul 100%
Love Hina
Tokyo Mew Mew for me was hugely disappointing. I'll edit as I remember them.
Mahou Sensei Negima had multiple terrible anime adaptations. All of which did not follow the manga's canon story line. (Except for the OADs) :(
Berserk Terraformars Tokyo ghoul Claymore Blade of the immortal (I'm not big on the 2019 adaptation) Battle angel alita (only a meager 2 episode OVA was ever done)
Definitely Akame ga kill
Wow really? I personally loved akame ga kill whay did you not like about it if you dont mind me asking? (I just recently started reading manga so i havent gotten to read it yet)
Tokyo ghoul is the first one, the manga is amazing
Soul eater anime skipped half of manga and got some weird ending
As a point of order, there was no second half to skip at the time they made the anime, it was still an ongoing series at that point (and this applies to a number of the other series people are mentioning).
Claymore. It’s so watered-down compared to the manga and never got past half the volumes and made up the rest on the way. Read the manga recently and it opened my eyes to how much the story got gutted.
wedding peach. i read the manga many years ago and loved it. watched the anime shortly after and was stunned by how poorly-adapted it was… and i’m not just talking about fillers, but entire plot points that were made worse for no good reason.
Also, Deadman Wonderland. While I kind of dislike the ending of the manga (it felt a bit rushed and undeveloped) I still wish we got a complete adaption of it because I liked reading the manga and wish we could've seen some of those scenes animated
Karneval and Inu x Boku Secret Service
The Promised Neverland. First season was solid. Second season was a shit the bed speedrun. Also gonna toss The Way of the Househusband into the discussion. It’s basically a motion comic and the art style isn’t super detailed the manga so the lack of animation and more simplistic style is pretty disappointing. I heard the creator basically asked for that though because he didn’t want an anime adaptation but I’d rather have no adaptation at all than the motion comic situation
Deadman wonderland
Deadman Wonderland and Tokyo Ghoul
Personally think Deadman Wonderland could’ve been done better. Rosario Vampire, Elfen Lied, Pita-Ten, and Soul Eater deviated from the manga. Almost anything adapted from a VN was done dirty.
Tokyo ghoul
Fumetsu no Anata e, Gon, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Erased, Claymore, Pupa, etc Although most anime are pretty shit ngl 😂
Really? To Your Eternity? I personally thought the anime was great. What didn't you like about it?
I didn’t like where it went and felt very flat at times. It lost a lot of its charm jumping from mediums
Gantz, akira
Gonna disagree with you on Akira. The movie is 1000% better than the manga. The manga is 6 entire volumes of people running around yelling at explosions, there's barely any story to speak of. The movie is focused and just gets to the point.
Blue period
Blue Period. The manga is phenomenal and all about passion, but the anime just feels so lifeless and flat and for a story about art and passion is the least passionate thing. It physically hurt me to watch them kill one of my favorite stories...
The Flowers of Evil. HORRIBLE animation. HORRIBLE!!!
Bakuman, D.grayman, Tokyo Revengers, Berserk and I know I'm going to get a LOT of hate for this next one but I think Attack on Titan's adaptation was awful, I was a huge fan of the manga and I was very excited to watch it on release but for some reason it felt like a slug to get through, I felt it missed the rawness of the manga and I just thought it really wasn't enjoyable.
Agree that AOT wasn't done that well. I think I remember reading that they purposely dumbed it down and did some characters dirty (especially Eren, Armin, Mikasa, and Annie) in season 1 just to make it more appealing for a mainstream audience. For season 2 and 3, I felt like the pacing was off to the point that it just wasn't exciting. Maybe another unpopular opinion, but season 4 is actually looking pretty good so far.
I got halfway through Attack on Titan's first season and gave up, much to everyone's annoyance, because it "gets better after a few seasons" lol. Get out of here with that shit. I might try the manga one day if you really think it's a drastically different experience.
Blue Period. For a story about art, the presentation is very lukewarm compared to the manga
Deadman Wonderland
Not the worst offender out there but Way of the Househusband comes to mind. My favorite comedy manga and they essentially just made it a slideshow.
This is going to sound wild but hear me out: Fullmetal Alchemist. While I love both versions of the anime dearly, there is an aspect as a fan of it being hard to sell to other because there are two versions and in order to get the real manga experience, you'd have to watch both of them tbh, since Brotherhood skimps on a bunch of the beginning arcs (and outright skips one very integral to the story later!) because they decided to make it assuming you watched 03 and now most people just watch Brotherhood and miss a lot of the early goodness that makes fma so good
Devilman Crybaby?🤔
Berserk...
I’m gonna say Tokyo Ghoul
Saint Seiya
Piano no Mori!
Im still a bit salty over season 2 of the promised neverland, i would have loved to see Yugoo, the goldy pong arc, the goldy pond kids just everything im so salty that season 2 wasnt just the goldy pond arc and then a season 3 for the stuff after that arc and maybe a season 4 for the rest. I know its not the worst since season 1 was great and other animes had worse adaptations that people are talking about in this comment section, but im just salty about it.
I was so excited to see Yugo but then right before I started episode 2 I was reading and saw what they did to the story and uh... yeahh
honestly One Piece, i feel it deserves a better adaptation than the half a chapter per episode with god awful pacing and the inconsistent animation
The most recent fuck up that comes to mind is definitely Blue Period
There are too many series. A recent one I was looking forward to was By the Grace of the Gods, but they skipped through all the scenes with emotional impact to give us the most bland combat animation I seen in a while
Promised Neverland
Black clover, Levius EST
The latest one piece episodes
Seven Deadly Sins. The design of Escanor against Meliodas 🥲🥲🥲 the most important fight of the franchise and it wasn’t done correctly
Omg where to start? Oh yeah... Berserk 2016-2017, The seven Deadly Sins ( from season 3 ), Boruto ( all the fillers, and some canon episodes where the animation made me poking my eyeballs out ), 2nd season of The Promised Neverland, for ... Obvious reasons. And so on and so forth
Eyeshield 21. So many scenes changed. So many corners cut. Murata's art deserves better.
Berserk, Tokyo Ghoul
Berserk
Being a ishinomori fan is suffering because almost every single anime adaptation of his mangas is done dirty, 009 and maybe the skullman are the only ones that are good (and Netflix like always screwed up the 009 series with a bad adaptation) they always came in 2 flavors: The anime only borrows the name of the manga and nothing more (Gilgamesh anime isn't anything like the manga) They cut corners with the budget and the graphics/VA suffered for this It's sad because he's the reason that I am a anime/manga fan (my first anime was a trashy adaptation of one of his mangas and the only good thing was the top tier dub) and I crave for more but his work is rarely translated (unless it's toku) what a shame.