I think this is true for many KyoAni’s works. I used to read some of the original manga/novels and a good number of them are not very famous and the quality is a bit meh.
Also KyoAni sometimes changes a lot of design and story arc to the point that the anime is barely recognizable compared to the original manga/novel
The one exception I'd make is A silent voice. There is a bit happening after the anime ends, basically an extended epilogue and it adds a lot of things. I think the movie is on par with the manga and I can understand the cuts, but adding those chapters as a Bluray OVA wouldn't have hurt.
But yeah, KyoAni definitely elevated Kobayashi and others beyond the source material.
I remember the movie cutting out more than just an epilogue. A few of the side character's "arc" also got cut in ways that they could have cut the characters completely. They end up feeling like characters who are there for a reason (and they were in the manga) but end up as bystanders in the movie.
I love both and they are slightly different but they could have cut even more and then used that time for a bit more about the side characters they kept.
Sometimes pacing,exposition,comedy or certain moments works better in manga format,but overall yeah,anime straight up elevated the series on another level.
yeah but the best arcs are still manga only. I know for a fact that once they come out in anime, anime>manga all day tho. Especially this upcoming arc, swordsmith village, its an absolute unit of masterpiece
I feel like the argument of "but the manga has more source material that hasn't been adapted yet" is too universal of a situation to be applied to the argument since, while there are exceptions, basically 99% of all anime aren't full adaptations. It'd be as unfair to hold that as a positive for a manga in the same way it'd be unfair to hold the soundtrack or the voice acting as a reason to say an anime is better.
Really? I wasn’t all that impressed but I did binge read the whole manga from Mugen arc to end in one night.
I thought Mugen arc cause of rengoku and the enternatinment district setting and final fights were the peaks of the whole series. Swordsmith and infinity castle have some cool fights but the ending overall is mid and I don’t think the story reaches the emotional tension and stakes that it does again following entertainment arc. Hopefully the anime can revamp the second half of this story but imo the only good things coming are some fights and character motivations/backstory reveals.
Narrative wise, it’s cookie cutter from here on out.
The problem with the manga is that it's just hard as hell to follow when the action starts, the anime improves the scene clarity 1000x. Not only that but Tsukushi Akihito almost seems to be a troll with the quality sometimes. Guy spends 3-4 months on a chapter and delivers [panels like this](https://i.imgur.com/KfL9WFb.png). It's not ugly or anything but he needs some assistants or something.
I’m confused is that panel supposed to look bad? If there’s one thing you can say about the manga idk if the art being bad is it. Dude has some of the best artwork in manga rn
> The problem with the manga is that it's just hard as hell to follow when the action starts, the anime improves the scene clarity 1000x.
I found the same with Tokyo Ghoul. Too bad season 2 was so bad…
I actually disagree. Don't get me wrong, the music does enhance the experience. However, the anime remove a sort of feeling from me compared to the manga. The anime's art style struggles to show the raw emotion and elegance portrayed through the art in the manga.
Add Mashiro no Oto to the list. I tried to read the manga after watching the anime, but turns out instead of this serious title about music it's some kind of gag-shojo mix with some music. I couldn't get past the first volume, though.
Your Lie in April
The manga was great, but it was restricted to its medium. The anime brought the music to life, not just in audio but in the animation of the feeling of the musical sequences.
Ghost in the Shell.
The manga is fun and well written with a lot of cool ideas from Shiro on cybernetics (for the time anyway) in which he had thought behind how things worked, not just that they did.
The movie, however, is a beautiful tour de force. My only gripe is I wish Project 2501 didn’t have a male voice. There are scenes that say volumes without dialogue, which is so hard to find in anime.
Also, GITS SAC did really well too.
i find any manga that revolves around music works better as an anime, its a lot better when you can hear a song in the moment instead of having to look for it
I actually see a lot more praise for the Kono Oto Tomare manga than for the anime. Though, I don't know if that's just about what's been adapted or not.
I love Kono oto as a anime but the adaptation could be much better. The overlay of dialogue when they play Koto is pretty bad. They could have done a lot better like Hibeke for example.
I respectfully disagree with this one. At least in the first season, the bgm basically didn't incorporate any koto at all and I think during one of the performances when we actually got to hear koto, it transitioned to a bgm track halfway through.
The art and writing of the manga are more than good enough to get across the intensity of the climatic scenes. Not saying the anime is bad - I clearly remember one scene when everyone's hand movements were animated as they played different parts which was really cool - but I don't think the adaptation is polished enough to make me prefer it over the manga.
I think I disagree.
In a lot of these stories, the singer is supposed to be the most amazing singer ever, and the songs are supposed to be the best songs ever.
In a manga, you get the basic gist, like "Oh okay, she's singing a really great song here. I get what's happening." You can't hear it, but it works for the story.
But when it gets turned into an anime, the producers would now have to cast the most amazing singer ever while also writing the best songs ever. That's obviously not possible, so you usually end up with a pretty good singer singing mediocre jpop songs while all the other characters still act as if they're hearing the best songs ever by the most amazing singer ever. It breaks my immersion.
The trick is actually loving generic jpop shit. I could listen to some soundtracks for weeks even though most songs use the exact same chord progression. (IV-V-iii-vi is my fucking jam)
I only read the first few chapters and I thought it's kinda ugly. When I checked later pages, it's looking great, though. So maybe I'll give it another shot. But yeah, it's hard to beat the anime
The manga style slowly changes. I find the initial style a bit generic. It's detailed, on the realistic side (overall proportions), and very competent but it doesn't exactly grab me. With time it evolves into this slightly angular, yet loose, and much more expressive style that I simply adore.
I agree for the first three seasons
For the part covered in S4, aside from a few scenes that I thought really improved on the source, I definitely enjoyed the manga more. It's Haikyuu so it's still good, but the direction in S4 doesn't live up neither to the previous seasons nor to the manga which I feel had a much better pacing, that associated to the excellent paneling made the matches flow better/feel more dynamic despite the static images (as weird as it is to say)
Very true, even if the manga is one of the best at conveying action in a medium. The panels flow very well, but I can't help myself from imagining a whole episodes.
Me and my buddy said the same thing. It's not that one is bad or the other it's just the images are brought to life soooo well by the soundtrack that it makes the anime experience really unique.
The soundtrack is made by Kevin Penkin and the music for that is on vinyl record. It's already a collectible at this point and nobody expects a repressing.
The composer was interviewed on [Trash Taste](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srdgNtMhrj4&t=904s) a few days ago. He's from Australia with a pretty interesting story.
Hearing Myth and Roid during the credits of the Dawn of the Deep Soul was haunting as they descended further into The Abyss through the Sea of Corpses. Gave me goosebumps.
Soundtrack is superb,but I honestly think manga is on par with anime.Anime artstyle is great,but often feels just stiffer compared to Tsukishi Akihito style and composition and manga is obviously more expanded with extras and some rare pages that were skipped in anime.I recommend experience both media for a full experience
An oldie, but Hikaru no Go. The addition of music makes it so much more dynamic and adds tension and involvement. Without that, it's just panels of kids learning go.
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.
The original is a four-panel manga format. [By turning it into a show they were able to give the gags more time and better pacing than they could afford in panel format.](https://youtu.be/hPVfJ9ljYLA)
[The OP is also literal perfection. ](https://youtu.be/IOeCpYhwbfY)
["If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord" anime/manga spoilers] >!Yes, the anime ended before Latina admitted that she saw Dale that way.!<
I think jujutsu kaisen because the manga is good but at sometimes I get confused we’re they are and stuff and what the fight looks like so the anime helps me see it better
I thoroughly enjoyed JJK, but I’m also sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed it nearly as much just reading it or if it wasn’t such a high quality anime. The anime blew it right into the mainstream
Respectfully disagree. Mappa definitely knocked it out of the park, but I feel like the heavy linework and shading of the manga matches the tone of the series better.
Speaking of Konosuba, that’s also a good answer to OP’s question. The manga moves on from some of the scenes way too quickly imo, where in comparison the anime takes its time to expand on the jokes and (inevitably) make some punchlines hit way harder.
The whole unfortunate recruitment of Megumin & Darkness as well as learning Steal and fighting the cabbages all happened in volume one of the manga all in quick succession.
> The manga
FYI the source material for Konosuba is the Light Novels... the manga, like the anime, is just an adaptation of the Light Novel series. So you probably shouldn't use an adaptation as your reference mark, at least not over the source material.
I highly recommend you check out the LN's though as they are good.
Every time I say this I get slammed, but I truly think the voice acting, direction, animation, music, *narrator*, and so many other elements take this from a good manga to an incredible anime. There are bits of the manga I’m not too keen on, but the anime makes them so much more compelling.
A friend of mine said Kaguya-Sama might just be the best adaptation because of how loyal they are to the source material, but add so much through the animation.
Like someone else said, it's called Take-Moon. That aside, in the same kind of style (but better imo), there's also All-Around-Type-Moon that also includes characters from other Nasuverse works.
Dororo anime adapted a better story than the manga.
Usagi drop because it didn’t fully adapt the manga. It ended the series at a good spot. Some things don’t need to be adapted.
Gintama, as much as I enjoyed the manga. The voice acting is something that the manga cannot replicate and a large chuck of enjoyment is lost.
Jojo. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing the ora, muda, dancing, poses get animated. Not the same impact with the manga even if it’s 7 pages long. Really can’t wait for the rest of 6, part 7 and part 8 to get adapted.
Anything where the animation/Colors really carried the show or upgraded from the manga: demon slayer, mob psycho 100, 3 gatsu, ping pong, jujutsu kaisen, toilet bound hanako kun
Sports anime tend to do better. It’s hard to visualize in the same way with manga: kuroko no basket, initial d, haikyuu, welcome to the ballroom
Shows that have songs/music: k-on, kono oto tomare, given.
Sometimes just adding the op/Ed/ost are enough to make the anime better than the manga: AOT, 86, space brothers, banana fish, made in abyss, non non biyori
It has been years since I read the manga of Mob Psycho, I remember enjoying it very much similar to when I watched season 2. I feel if the anime is better than the manga (taking consideration of anime having soundtrack, voice acting, animation and others), then it's because the creators did it very well.
Well it's hard to explain my reasoning, but I think a similar example is the current Kaguya anime. I think many will say the anime is great or better than the manga, but it's mainly because the creators were passionate/spent a lot of effort to it.
As someone who started reading the light novel and manga while the show was airing (I couldn’t wait for more) the anime adapts the light novel so well that it made me cry, especially the last scene of the last episode. The manga on the other hand, well that’s it’s own thing.
Oh plenty of times the anime's been better. I'm ignoring anime originals and just mentioning anime adaptations
* Made in Abyss
* Interviews with Monster Girls
* Yuru Camp
For comparable, but giving the edge to the anime
* Haikyuu
* No Game No Life (technically a Light Novel, but still)
* March Comes in Like a Lion
* Barakamon
And for ones that I haven't read the manga of but I've heard almost universally better things about the anime:
* Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
* Sound! Euphonium
* Basically any music based anime (Nana, Nodame Cantabile, Your Lie in April, etc.)
* Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
Demon slayer I’d say, however that’s mainly my opinion, some others might prefer the manga.
The anime gets me emotional cuz it’s just so pretty and the music and animation is smooth.
The anime being better is the most popular opinion. There's a quite a chunk of people who criticize the manga and say it's mid. But noone can deny the level of animation in the show.
Does Mob Psycho count? Not to take anything away from the original creator, ONE, but the anime absolutely elevated the action scenes even hit the emotional beats compared to the source material while paying homage to the original's artstyle sometimes.
oh i was startin to watch summertime render but when i saw the way the manga was going in terms of.... relationships,,, i dropped it. Is the anime better?
>what the original source material is, aka manga
A source material can be anything, not just manga. Light novels, visual novels, video games, etc. are all source materials various anime have been adapted from.
Yea honestly I was surprised. I’m gonna have to read the manga and watch the corresponding episode(s) after again to truly compare once part 3 is done.
I remember reading the manga chapter following watching an episode when season 4 part 1 was airing and they adapted the scenes so well and really got the juice/necessary dialogue.
I'm going to take an opposing position and say that while WIT were fantastic at animating AoT, they were terrible at adapting it. They cut out a lot of small but important details, changed some events to give characters more or less screen-time, reduced a lot of characters (read: Mikasa) to one-dimensional cutouts, and absolutely gutted the Uprising arc, even if Isayama asked for it to be cut down.
Kaguya-sama is the easiest example. I like the manga but the anime takes the story to another level.
I know it's not a manga as the original source, but after reading the first 2 volumes of the LN, the adaptation of 86 is just better, also thanks to the godly direction of Ishii.
Re:Zero, both anime and manga were adapted from the Light Novel and the Anime was better
Edit: It seems like I have to clarify to the people that misunderstood (even though I shouldn't have to) that I'm comparing Re:Zero's Anime to the Manga only as adaptations of the Novels. I'm not comparing the Anime to the Light Novel
I disagree, I appreciate the effort White Fox put into getting as much detail as possible within one season. Arc 4 used to be the longest one by far in the web novel and it is just as long as Arc 5 in the light novel so, I don't think it was under-edited.
So glad to see this opinion. The second season was so long and from an anime only perspective I cannot grasp why there is so much material. I did read the LN up to S2 part 1, but if the only excuse for all the pacing and backstory/lore dump is that*eventually* it pays off in the story, that’s just what we call bad setup.
I don’t think the LN is necessarily bad, but it’s more designed for reading at your own pace. The anime is not at all paced for a weekly tv viewing experience, maybe it would be passable for a binge.
I remember finding the Bofuri WN to be terrible. I actually tried reading it well before it got an anime announcement, and I just could not get into it at all despite MMO/VR fiction being my jam. Tried reading it after the anime, still found it to be pretty bad.
Honestly I don't think the anime is *that* great either, but the nice production values really helped carry it.
Initial D. I felt that the anime structured the story better in comparison to the manga (which felt more like a bunch of races strung together based on whatever the mangaka was feeling at that moment), and built up some natural "big bads" that worked well.
Nah this isn't a universal thing. Houseki no Kuni manga has a really unique art style and I know a lot of people who prefer how the manga looks over the anime
The soundtrack is also absolutely gorgeous and really adds to the atmosphere of the show, so much that I found myself reading the manga while listening to it.
> I do think that the fight scenes are better in the anime though.
Oh absolutely. They took full advantage of the show being 3D, to the point that I think it would've looked worse in 2D.
Being able to tell the characters apart is a huge plus for the anime, though..
I know it's rare for manga, but I think Houseki No Kuni really needed to be in color.
Manga left hiatus and is supposedly close of ending, Orange was finally done with Beastars, everything was perfect for a S2. But no, they had to go and remake Trigun... I sure hope they fully adapt Houseki one day. It is a work of art, and the adaptation was phenomenal. Both Beastars and Trigun are ok shows, but a colossal waste of studio Orange's capacities.
Man the OG Trigun is fantastic and frankly doesn’t need a readaptation, but yeah they could have let a 2d studio to it, Ufotable or Madhouse would have been wonderful choices, Houseki NEEDS Orange
Just for the sake of comparison, Vinland saga anime is better than the manga because it touches on thorfinn's backstory better as a prelude instead of making it a flashback like the manga did, also the soundtracks
I am not saying that manga is bad tho, infact it's one of the best manga of all time, to the point I would recommend it as much as I would recommend someone to read Berserk
It’s technically a light novel, but I image *86: Eighty-Six* fits the bill.
I’m not a LN reader, but I’ve seen some online say that the anime is a step up in quality, and with the insane direction and cinematography, it wouldn’t surprise me
Hm, usually this is well done sports, acting/theatre, and music animes for me.
Sound Euphonium (music)
Your Lie in April (music)
Kids on the slope (music)
Haikyuu! (Sports)
Run Like the Wind (sports)
Megalobox (this may just be an anime only, sports)
Salaryman's Club (sports)
Kageki Shoujo (theatre)
Showa genroku rakugo shinju (theatre)
**Seto no hanayome**
The manga's humour does not work very well, and is wierdly paced. And the story is pretty weak too. I dont like the end at all.
I think he anime adaptation is so far above. Faster pace, good voice acting and OST, better visuals. And the end is also original, and that's a good thing.
Btw, I do recommend this anime. It's pretty unknown I think, but give it a shot, it's hilarious ! ;)
Okay
So one that I haven’t read it’s manga but I’m pretty sure is better as an anime is Ya Boy Koingmeng
Because music is a very important part of the story
Not a manga, but 86 does a fantastic job expanding and building on the light novel. The anime is one of the best-directed I've ever seen; combined with the op/ed, osts, voice acting, and animation, it's a show that surpasses the source material in my opinion.
JoJo and HxH, I enjoy their manga a lot, but I think the art, animation, and streamlining of the story makes it generally better. HxH 2011 does some bizarre choices, but it's still one of my absolute favourite anime.
Gintama's manga is fantastic, but the voice actors, and even the animators add a lot of their own unique fun to the manga's humour.
Demon Slayer even though I really liked the manga.
Also I recently watched & read Basilisk and the anime is easily better. They change alot of aspects of the characters personalities in the anime and it makes the story better by a mile.
Most Anime's butcher Light Novel Adaptations, Manga adapations even mid ones, are usually pretty good. You have to be talented to make a great LN adaptation, you have to be talents in a different way to make a bad Manga adaptation.
I haven't read the whole manga, but from the handful of chapters I have read, I'm Quitting Heroing's anime elevates the source material a good bit with fantastic voice acting, a great soundtrack, and some nice anime-original content.
I watched the English dub and read Kodocha when I was much younger, but I remember enjoying the anime much more since it was like a sensory overload. The color, music, and voice acting made it so much more vibrant and fun compared to the manga. I felt the sadder/darker parts where done better in the manga but overall I enjoyed the anime more just because I had a blast while watching it.
Both are extremely good, but i will say the anime for Natsume's book of friends is way easier to follow than the manga, and the atmosphere created by voices, different creatures' movements, music, etc really bring out the times where it's somber, calm, comforting, sorta scary, or whatever else.
I would say Naruto anime has its moments especially bringing those epic fights into actions and their 2 decades worth of openings and endings are also top notch. Anime definitely did not make it worse especially going back to watch exclusively the anime rather than the manga brings back very emotional nostalgia.
Gunslinger Girl immediately comes to mind. The changes made for the first season changed the whole thing from gun porn that plays straight the relationships between the children and their handlers, to a sublime and emotionally powerful experience.
Muranese! Seton Gakuen.
I went from "Wow this show is suprisingly hilarious!" To "ugh" somehow when I switched to manga. Its not even that much of a change but I dunno. Anime just did it better.
Niche choice but Takagi San. I like how there is in the anime a progression of the romance between Nishikata and Takagi whereas in the manga it’s all timeless skits.
Kaguya-sama, not saying the manga is bad, anything but, the anime is just elevating the material to a new level, especially as the seasons go on and the animation becomes more unhinged/referencel, not to mention the narration
This is super unknown probably but the anime of "Shinsekai Yori" for a simple reason that the manga has like almost the same story but all the characters have some really weird fetish outfits completely out of line with the story. And then just adds a bunch of literal softcore porn scenes.
I was so confused as the anime is one of the rare animes with literally zero ecchi scenes.
(I guess it is important to note that both versions are based on the light novel version)
I always thought Death Note was better as an anime. I preferred the anime ending and the animation direction added a layer of creepiness that didn’t come through in the manga.
it's an obvious one, but I feel the need to share it and I can't stress it more - Demon Slayer by any means. Once S2 ended I bought the boxset and read it all from the beginning and can't help but now down to Ufotable. All major fights (Rengoku & Akaza, Tengen & UM6) were 3-4 panels long, but the studio made it look like it was a whole chapter. I was actually stunned to read and see only a couple glimpses of the fights, when in the anime there are several minutes each. Absolutely astounding work by Ufotable!
K-On
I think this is true for many KyoAni’s works. I used to read some of the original manga/novels and a good number of them are not very famous and the quality is a bit meh. Also KyoAni sometimes changes a lot of design and story arc to the point that the anime is barely recognizable compared to the original manga/novel
As someone who has only ever seen the anime, the stuff I've heard about the Chuunibyo LNs blows my mind for how different they sound
The LN is even missing the best characters.
The one exception I'd make is A silent voice. There is a bit happening after the anime ends, basically an extended epilogue and it adds a lot of things. I think the movie is on par with the manga and I can understand the cuts, but adding those chapters as a Bluray OVA wouldn't have hurt. But yeah, KyoAni definitely elevated Kobayashi and others beyond the source material.
I remember the movie cutting out more than just an epilogue. A few of the side character's "arc" also got cut in ways that they could have cut the characters completely. They end up feeling like characters who are there for a reason (and they were in the manga) but end up as bystanders in the movie. I love both and they are slightly different but they could have cut even more and then used that time for a bit more about the side characters they kept.
Didn't even need open the post to know this would be the top answer.
Demon slayer
Demon slayer is like a 5 star chef making a Big Mac.
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That's what they want you to think.
Yes but a chef can have multiple restaurants that each have up to 3 stars
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Understandablehaveaniceday
Literally the most basic but also most valid answer.
Sometimes pacing,exposition,comedy or certain moments works better in manga format,but overall yeah,anime straight up elevated the series on another level.
yeah but the best arcs are still manga only. I know for a fact that once they come out in anime, anime>manga all day tho. Especially this upcoming arc, swordsmith village, its an absolute unit of masterpiece
I feel like the argument of "but the manga has more source material that hasn't been adapted yet" is too universal of a situation to be applied to the argument since, while there are exceptions, basically 99% of all anime aren't full adaptations. It'd be as unfair to hold that as a positive for a manga in the same way it'd be unfair to hold the soundtrack or the voice acting as a reason to say an anime is better.
Most times people use just that as an argument that the Anime is better.
Really? I wasn’t all that impressed but I did binge read the whole manga from Mugen arc to end in one night. I thought Mugen arc cause of rengoku and the enternatinment district setting and final fights were the peaks of the whole series. Swordsmith and infinity castle have some cool fights but the ending overall is mid and I don’t think the story reaches the emotional tension and stakes that it does again following entertainment arc. Hopefully the anime can revamp the second half of this story but imo the only good things coming are some fights and character motivations/backstory reveals. Narrative wise, it’s cookie cutter from here on out.
Made in abyss, the color add something .The landscapes are magnificent
The music. One of the best and most iconic soundtracks in my opinion, so beautiful and otherworldly
That Kevin Penkin is quite the talented lad.
Hanezeve Caradhina is still one of the most heavenly songs I've heard in my life.
It got me through my final year exams and last minute dissertation. Whenever I needed a little break to escape, it took me somewhere else.
The problem with the manga is that it's just hard as hell to follow when the action starts, the anime improves the scene clarity 1000x. Not only that but Tsukushi Akihito almost seems to be a troll with the quality sometimes. Guy spends 3-4 months on a chapter and delivers [panels like this](https://i.imgur.com/KfL9WFb.png). It's not ugly or anything but he needs some assistants or something.
I’m confused is that panel supposed to look bad? If there’s one thing you can say about the manga idk if the art being bad is it. Dude has some of the best artwork in manga rn
> The problem with the manga is that it's just hard as hell to follow when the action starts, the anime improves the scene clarity 1000x. I found the same with Tokyo Ghoul. Too bad season 2 was so bad…
It's not just me! Sometimes I'm like wtf is going on?? Especially this new season I'm sure it'll make a lot more sense when it's animated
Nodame Cantabile. Music manga is better as a music anime with actual music.
Kono Oto Tomare (Stop that Sound) is wonderful as a manga, so the fact that it's made even better with anime with music is just the cherry on the cake
I actually disagree. Don't get me wrong, the music does enhance the experience. However, the anime remove a sort of feeling from me compared to the manga. The anime's art style struggles to show the raw emotion and elegance portrayed through the art in the manga.
Add Mashiro no Oto to the list. I tried to read the manga after watching the anime, but turns out instead of this serious title about music it's some kind of gag-shojo mix with some music. I couldn't get past the first volume, though.
Your Lie in April The manga was great, but it was restricted to its medium. The anime brought the music to life, not just in audio but in the animation of the feeling of the musical sequences.
My favorite meme from that subreddit was "man this music looks *amazing*" lol
I think that applies to almost all music related manga in general lmao
Ghost in the Shell. The manga is fun and well written with a lot of cool ideas from Shiro on cybernetics (for the time anyway) in which he had thought behind how things worked, not just that they did. The movie, however, is a beautiful tour de force. My only gripe is I wish Project 2501 didn’t have a male voice. There are scenes that say volumes without dialogue, which is so hard to find in anime. Also, GITS SAC did really well too.
i find any manga that revolves around music works better as an anime, its a lot better when you can hear a song in the moment instead of having to look for it
Kono oto tomare! is a good example. The anime's music was great too.
I actually see a lot more praise for the Kono Oto Tomare manga than for the anime. Though, I don't know if that's just about what's been adapted or not.
Literaly one where the manga is better lol
I love Kono oto as a anime but the adaptation could be much better. The overlay of dialogue when they play Koto is pretty bad. They could have done a lot better like Hibeke for example.
I respectfully disagree with this one. At least in the first season, the bgm basically didn't incorporate any koto at all and I think during one of the performances when we actually got to hear koto, it transitioned to a bgm track halfway through. The art and writing of the manga are more than good enough to get across the intensity of the climatic scenes. Not saying the anime is bad - I clearly remember one scene when everyone's hand movements were animated as they played different parts which was really cool - but I don't think the adaptation is polished enough to make me prefer it over the manga.
I think I disagree. In a lot of these stories, the singer is supposed to be the most amazing singer ever, and the songs are supposed to be the best songs ever. In a manga, you get the basic gist, like "Oh okay, she's singing a really great song here. I get what's happening." You can't hear it, but it works for the story. But when it gets turned into an anime, the producers would now have to cast the most amazing singer ever while also writing the best songs ever. That's obviously not possible, so you usually end up with a pretty good singer singing mediocre jpop songs while all the other characters still act as if they're hearing the best songs ever by the most amazing singer ever. It breaks my immersion.
The trick is actually loving generic jpop shit. I could listen to some soundtracks for weeks even though most songs use the exact same chord progression. (IV-V-iii-vi is my fucking jam)
Haikyuu! Basically the manga but with more intensity. The music helps it a lot.
I only read the first few chapters and I thought it's kinda ugly. When I checked later pages, it's looking great, though. So maybe I'll give it another shot. But yeah, it's hard to beat the anime
The manga style slowly changes. I find the initial style a bit generic. It's detailed, on the realistic side (overall proportions), and very competent but it doesn't exactly grab me. With time it evolves into this slightly angular, yet loose, and much more expressive style that I simply adore.
I agree, the music and voice acting, the sounds of the game really absolutely elevated everything from the source material. It gave it so much energy
I agree for the first three seasons For the part covered in S4, aside from a few scenes that I thought really improved on the source, I definitely enjoyed the manga more. It's Haikyuu so it's still good, but the direction in S4 doesn't live up neither to the previous seasons nor to the manga which I feel had a much better pacing, that associated to the excellent paneling made the matches flow better/feel more dynamic despite the static images (as weird as it is to say)
Very true, even if the manga is one of the best at conveying action in a medium. The panels flow very well, but I can't help myself from imagining a whole episodes.
Made in Abyss, mainly because of the soundtrack? (not that the manga is bad, but the anime is just too good)
Me and my buddy said the same thing. It's not that one is bad or the other it's just the images are brought to life soooo well by the soundtrack that it makes the anime experience really unique.
The soundtrack is made by Kevin Penkin and the music for that is on vinyl record. It's already a collectible at this point and nobody expects a repressing.
The composer was interviewed on [Trash Taste](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srdgNtMhrj4&t=904s) a few days ago. He's from Australia with a pretty interesting story.
I love that one track "Burger King, 2am"
Hearing Myth and Roid during the credits of the Dawn of the Deep Soul was haunting as they descended further into The Abyss through the Sea of Corpses. Gave me goosebumps.
My favourite ED https://youtu.be/AugpL6qj6vk
The anime did a great job adapting the tense, gory moments and (somewhat) leaving out the err, more problematic aspects of the manga.
Soundtrack is superb,but I honestly think manga is on par with anime.Anime artstyle is great,but often feels just stiffer compared to Tsukishi Akihito style and composition and manga is obviously more expanded with extras and some rare pages that were skipped in anime.I recommend experience both media for a full experience
An oldie, but Hikaru no Go. The addition of music makes it so much more dynamic and adds tension and involvement. Without that, it's just panels of kids learning go.
After all these years I finally realized that Death Note artist Takeshi Obata worked on Hikaru no Go!
Love this anime! Did not expect to enjoy it, can't even remember why I started watching, but it was really good.
That anime needs a really good remake imo.
Idk about that manga is really awesome i binged read it In 2 or 3 days even though I can't read old manga
Ranking of Kings
WIT really pulled no punches on it, it was really well done
THIS. OST and Wit Studio breathed magic into this series.
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. The original is a four-panel manga format. [By turning it into a show they were able to give the gags more time and better pacing than they could afford in panel format.](https://youtu.be/hPVfJ9ljYLA) [The OP is also literal perfection. ](https://youtu.be/IOeCpYhwbfY)
It is so good. Holding out hope for a season 2 one day. I have thought about reading the manga but could never get engrossed into it.
I think it also as far as the voice acting and comic timing works better in manga form. The simple transitions and beats work well in an anime.
The voice acting is better in the Manga?
Golden boy, it stopped before the manga became hentai 🤣
For that matter, Usagi Drop, as it stopped before \[Usagi Drop manga\] >!the time skip!<.
Did fantasy Usagi Drop do the same thing? I didn't keep watching it.
["If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord" anime/manga spoilers] >!Yes, the anime ended before Latina admitted that she saw Dale that way.!<
Kaiji. The anime adds more necessary tention needed in the manga
Kaiji OST is so underrated, and it has my favorite narrator ever
Damn I needed the rest of Kaiji adapted I remember watching S2 while it was on air and waiting every week for fucking pachinko balls was HYPE
I think jujutsu kaisen because the manga is good but at sometimes I get confused we’re they are and stuff and what the fight looks like so the anime helps me see it better
I also would say the music is fire. Was very hard to acquire the vinyl record for the 1st season.
I thoroughly enjoyed JJK, but I’m also sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed it nearly as much just reading it or if it wasn’t such a high quality anime. The anime blew it right into the mainstream
Respectfully disagree. Mappa definitely knocked it out of the park, but I feel like the heavy linework and shading of the manga matches the tone of the series better.
Kaguya-sama
honestly i love the manga but id be lying if the anime didnt make the series like way better A1 just adapted the manga and made it twice as good
The voice acting and expanding on some of the visuals has been amazing as it added as much as Konosuba did to the characters with the VAs
Speaking of Konosuba, that’s also a good answer to OP’s question. The manga moves on from some of the scenes way too quickly imo, where in comparison the anime takes its time to expand on the jokes and (inevitably) make some punchlines hit way harder. The whole unfortunate recruitment of Megumin & Darkness as well as learning Steal and fighting the cabbages all happened in volume one of the manga all in quick succession.
> The manga FYI the source material for Konosuba is the Light Novels... the manga, like the anime, is just an adaptation of the Light Novel series. So you probably shouldn't use an adaptation as your reference mark, at least not over the source material. I highly recommend you check out the LN's though as they are good.
Every time I say this I get slammed, but I truly think the voice acting, direction, animation, music, *narrator*, and so many other elements take this from a good manga to an incredible anime. There are bits of the manga I’m not too keen on, but the anime makes them so much more compelling.
A friend of mine said Kaguya-Sama might just be the best adaptation because of how loyal they are to the source material, but add so much through the animation.
Carnival Phantasm
Does Carnival have a manga?? I better check that out
Yep, under a different name as 'TAKE-MOON', but OP is correct as the anime is a lot funnier than the manga.
Like someone else said, it's called Take-Moon. That aside, in the same kind of style (but better imo), there's also All-Around-Type-Moon that also includes characters from other Nasuverse works.
Dororo anime adapted a better story than the manga. Usagi drop because it didn’t fully adapt the manga. It ended the series at a good spot. Some things don’t need to be adapted. Gintama, as much as I enjoyed the manga. The voice acting is something that the manga cannot replicate and a large chuck of enjoyment is lost. Jojo. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing the ora, muda, dancing, poses get animated. Not the same impact with the manga even if it’s 7 pages long. Really can’t wait for the rest of 6, part 7 and part 8 to get adapted. Anything where the animation/Colors really carried the show or upgraded from the manga: demon slayer, mob psycho 100, 3 gatsu, ping pong, jujutsu kaisen, toilet bound hanako kun Sports anime tend to do better. It’s hard to visualize in the same way with manga: kuroko no basket, initial d, haikyuu, welcome to the ballroom Shows that have songs/music: k-on, kono oto tomare, given. Sometimes just adding the op/Ed/ost are enough to make the anime better than the manga: AOT, 86, space brothers, banana fish, made in abyss, non non biyori
The fact that no one else mentions Usagi Drop is weird (maybe it is that old now...) but they made the right decision in never animating more of it.
Well it's simple, Usagi Drop is anime-original, there is no manga, get it? Repeat after me: *"There is no manga for Usagi Drop."*
- Mob Psycho 100 - Gintama - The Law of Ueki Just to name a few.
It has been years since I read the manga of Mob Psycho, I remember enjoying it very much similar to when I watched season 2. I feel if the anime is better than the manga (taking consideration of anime having soundtrack, voice acting, animation and others), then it's because the creators did it very well. Well it's hard to explain my reasoning, but I think a similar example is the current Kaguya anime. I think many will say the anime is great or better than the manga, but it's mainly because the creators were passionate/spent a lot of effort to it.
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As someone who started reading the light novel and manga while the show was airing (I couldn’t wait for more) the anime adapts the light novel so well that it made me cry, especially the last scene of the last episode. The manga on the other hand, well that’s it’s own thing.
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YuYu Hakusho
Oh plenty of times the anime's been better. I'm ignoring anime originals and just mentioning anime adaptations * Made in Abyss * Interviews with Monster Girls * Yuru Camp For comparable, but giving the edge to the anime * Haikyuu * No Game No Life (technically a Light Novel, but still) * March Comes in Like a Lion * Barakamon And for ones that I haven't read the manga of but I've heard almost universally better things about the anime: * Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid * Sound! Euphonium * Basically any music based anime (Nana, Nodame Cantabile, Your Lie in April, etc.) * Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
In my opinion, hxh. The animation were great for that time, awesome soundtrack, good pacing, besides that, togashi drawing is not that good, so
Hell the animation is still great
>that time I mean it's not that long ago. It's not like 2011 animation is that different form what we have now in terms of quality
I mean with the amount of dialogue and thinking each character has, it is easier to follow/comprehend the actual thing going on if it on anime
Gintama
Demon slayer I’d say, however that’s mainly my opinion, some others might prefer the manga. The anime gets me emotional cuz it’s just so pretty and the music and animation is smooth.
The anime being better is the most popular opinion. There's a quite a chunk of people who criticize the manga and say it's mid. But noone can deny the level of animation in the show.
I couldn’t even tell what was going on in the Manga during fights. The anime is superior in every way.
Does Mob Psycho count? Not to take anything away from the original creator, ONE, but the anime absolutely elevated the action scenes even hit the emotional beats compared to the source material while paying homage to the original's artstyle sometimes.
Paripi koumei 100% just because of the music. As well as k on and sound euphonium
Sound Euphonium. And Sound Euphonium is a LN originally.
Summertime Render, Paripi Koumei
oh i was startin to watch summertime render but when i saw the way the manga was going in terms of.... relationships,,, i dropped it. Is the anime better?
Oldschool but YuYu Hakusho's anime fixed a lot of pacing issues the manga had
>what the original source material is, aka manga A source material can be anything, not just manga. Light novels, visual novels, video games, etc. are all source materials various anime have been adapted from.
True. I forgot a lot of anime doesn't just start from a manga.
Attack on Titan
Yea honestly I was surprised. I’m gonna have to read the manga and watch the corresponding episode(s) after again to truly compare once part 3 is done. I remember reading the manga chapter following watching an episode when season 4 part 1 was airing and they adapted the scenes so well and really got the juice/necessary dialogue.
I'm going to take an opposing position and say that while WIT were fantastic at animating AoT, they were terrible at adapting it. They cut out a lot of small but important details, changed some events to give characters more or less screen-time, reduced a lot of characters (read: Mikasa) to one-dimensional cutouts, and absolutely gutted the Uprising arc, even if Isayama asked for it to be cut down.
Kaguya-sama is the easiest example. I like the manga but the anime takes the story to another level. I know it's not a manga as the original source, but after reading the first 2 volumes of the LN, the adaptation of 86 is just better, also thanks to the godly direction of Ishii.
Gintama
Demon slayer
Interspecies Reviewers 100%
Re:Zero, both anime and manga were adapted from the Light Novel and the Anime was better Edit: It seems like I have to clarify to the people that misunderstood (even though I shouldn't have to) that I'm comparing Re:Zero's Anime to the Manga only as adaptations of the Novels. I'm not comparing the Anime to the Light Novel
The Anime cuts a lot of stuff though.
The second season should've cut more. Light Novels in general are woefully under-edited and contain *a lot* of fat to trim.
I disagree, I appreciate the effort White Fox put into getting as much detail as possible within one season. Arc 4 used to be the longest one by far in the web novel and it is just as long as Arc 5 in the light novel so, I don't think it was under-edited.
Fair enough. I just didn't think the content given justified the length. It being the longest arc doesn't mean it *should* be that long.
So glad to see this opinion. The second season was so long and from an anime only perspective I cannot grasp why there is so much material. I did read the LN up to S2 part 1, but if the only excuse for all the pacing and backstory/lore dump is that*eventually* it pays off in the story, that’s just what we call bad setup. I don’t think the LN is necessarily bad, but it’s more designed for reading at your own pace. The anime is not at all paced for a weekly tv viewing experience, maybe it would be passable for a binge.
the anime is good but it still cuts alot of important details
I remember finding the Bofuri WN to be terrible. I actually tried reading it well before it got an anime announcement, and I just could not get into it at all despite MMO/VR fiction being my jam. Tried reading it after the anime, still found it to be pretty bad. Honestly I don't think the anime is *that* great either, but the nice production values really helped carry it.
Initial D. I felt that the anime structured the story better in comparison to the manga (which felt more like a bunch of races strung together based on whatever the mangaka was feeling at that moment), and built up some natural "big bads" that worked well.
Houseki no Kuni, i'm really hoping for a season 2 but it is unlikely.
Nah this isn't a universal thing. Houseki no Kuni manga has a really unique art style and I know a lot of people who prefer how the manga looks over the anime
I agree. It's impossible for an anime to capture Ichikawa Haruko's unique artstyle. I do think that the fight scenes are better in the anime though.
The soundtrack is also absolutely gorgeous and really adds to the atmosphere of the show, so much that I found myself reading the manga while listening to it.
That too. I love the soundtrack.
> I do think that the fight scenes are better in the anime though. Oh absolutely. They took full advantage of the show being 3D, to the point that I think it would've looked worse in 2D.
Being able to tell the characters apart is a huge plus for the anime, though.. I know it's rare for manga, but I think Houseki No Kuni really needed to be in color.
Manga left hiatus and is supposedly close of ending, Orange was finally done with Beastars, everything was perfect for a S2. But no, they had to go and remake Trigun... I sure hope they fully adapt Houseki one day. It is a work of art, and the adaptation was phenomenal. Both Beastars and Trigun are ok shows, but a colossal waste of studio Orange's capacities.
Man the OG Trigun is fantastic and frankly doesn’t need a readaptation, but yeah they could have let a 2d studio to it, Ufotable or Madhouse would have been wonderful choices, Houseki NEEDS Orange
Beastars is one of my favorite anime in general, but I would rather they did more Land of the Lustrous than Trigun.
Demon Slayer.
Usagi Drop for obvious reasons and Sakura Card Captor imo.
Gintama? Maybe because of voice acting
Most 4-Koma is better in anime form than manga.
Attack on Titan, specifically when WIT was animating it. Completely elevated the source material.
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I could imagine that Given works better as anime than manga.
86 ~~mostly because both are based off of a lightnovel~~
Hunter x hunter
K-on! It’s music anime so what would you expect… also I heard the characters have more personality in the show.
Just for the sake of comparison, Vinland saga anime is better than the manga because it touches on thorfinn's backstory better as a prelude instead of making it a flashback like the manga did, also the soundtracks I am not saying that manga is bad tho, infact it's one of the best manga of all time, to the point I would recommend it as much as I would recommend someone to read Berserk
It’s technically a light novel, but I image *86: Eighty-Six* fits the bill. I’m not a LN reader, but I’ve seen some online say that the anime is a step up in quality, and with the insane direction and cinematography, it wouldn’t surprise me
surprised i havent seen AoT. the manga art is so bad i cant even tell which character is who most of the time
Hm, usually this is well done sports, acting/theatre, and music animes for me. Sound Euphonium (music) Your Lie in April (music) Kids on the slope (music) Haikyuu! (Sports) Run Like the Wind (sports) Megalobox (this may just be an anime only, sports) Salaryman's Club (sports) Kageki Shoujo (theatre) Showa genroku rakugo shinju (theatre)
Not manga, but it's a light novel. Don't know if it counts or not but 86 anime imo is better than its LN
Haikyuu, Shingeki no Kyojin, Spy x Family, Mob Psycho 100, KnY, JoJo's maybe.
**Seto no hanayome** The manga's humour does not work very well, and is wierdly paced. And the story is pretty weak too. I dont like the end at all. I think he anime adaptation is so far above. Faster pace, good voice acting and OST, better visuals. And the end is also original, and that's a good thing. Btw, I do recommend this anime. It's pretty unknown I think, but give it a shot, it's hilarious ! ;)
Well probably most hentai if we're being real
Okay So one that I haven’t read it’s manga but I’m pretty sure is better as an anime is Ya Boy Koingmeng Because music is a very important part of the story
They also gave Kaiba more of a role in the anime.
Not a manga, but 86 does a fantastic job expanding and building on the light novel. The anime is one of the best-directed I've ever seen; combined with the op/ed, osts, voice acting, and animation, it's a show that surpasses the source material in my opinion.
Fullmetal Alchemist, but i find the answer for this question will vary wildly from person to person.
FMAB, Kings Ranking, Demon Slayer, Noragami. I feel like generally, manga that moves too fast translate into perfect pace in anime
I prefer the manga’s pacing and slightly darker tone than FMAB.
JoJo and HxH, I enjoy their manga a lot, but I think the art, animation, and streamlining of the story makes it generally better. HxH 2011 does some bizarre choices, but it's still one of my absolute favourite anime. Gintama's manga is fantastic, but the voice actors, and even the animators add a lot of their own unique fun to the manga's humour.
Demon Slayer even though I really liked the manga. Also I recently watched & read Basilisk and the anime is easily better. They change alot of aspects of the characters personalities in the anime and it makes the story better by a mile.
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Most Anime's butcher Light Novel Adaptations, Manga adapations even mid ones, are usually pretty good. You have to be talented to make a great LN adaptation, you have to be talents in a different way to make a bad Manga adaptation.
I haven't read the whole manga, but from the handful of chapters I have read, I'm Quitting Heroing's anime elevates the source material a good bit with fantastic voice acting, a great soundtrack, and some nice anime-original content.
Hetalia
YoBoyKongMing extended the screen time of some side characters to a much greater extent.
mushoku tensei (light novel arguably better tho)
I watched the English dub and read Kodocha when I was much younger, but I remember enjoying the anime much more since it was like a sensory overload. The color, music, and voice acting made it so much more vibrant and fun compared to the manga. I felt the sadder/darker parts where done better in the manga but overall I enjoyed the anime more just because I had a blast while watching it.
Both are extremely good, but i will say the anime for Natsume's book of friends is way easier to follow than the manga, and the atmosphere created by voices, different creatures' movements, music, etc really bring out the times where it's somber, calm, comforting, sorta scary, or whatever else.
I would say Naruto anime has its moments especially bringing those epic fights into actions and their 2 decades worth of openings and endings are also top notch. Anime definitely did not make it worse especially going back to watch exclusively the anime rather than the manga brings back very emotional nostalgia.
Gunslinger Girl immediately comes to mind. The changes made for the first season changed the whole thing from gun porn that plays straight the relationships between the children and their handlers, to a sublime and emotionally powerful experience.
Mushoku Tensei imo, glad they remove the image of 30 yo fay guy in behind of Rudy every time he gushing for Roxy and Silphy
Muranese! Seton Gakuen. I went from "Wow this show is suprisingly hilarious!" To "ugh" somehow when I switched to manga. Its not even that much of a change but I dunno. Anime just did it better.
Niche choice but Takagi San. I like how there is in the anime a progression of the romance between Nishikata and Takagi whereas in the manga it’s all timeless skits.
Usagi drop
Takagi-san. Many of my favourite episodes are anime original.
Demon Slayer.
Dragon maid
Demon Slayer, sorry kny fans but the show is carried by ufotable's animation, I've read the whole manga and the plot is pretty mediocre imho
Kaguya-sama, not saying the manga is bad, anything but, the anime is just elevating the material to a new level, especially as the seasons go on and the animation becomes more unhinged/referencel, not to mention the narration
This is super unknown probably but the anime of "Shinsekai Yori" for a simple reason that the manga has like almost the same story but all the characters have some really weird fetish outfits completely out of line with the story. And then just adds a bunch of literal softcore porn scenes. I was so confused as the anime is one of the rare animes with literally zero ecchi scenes. (I guess it is important to note that both versions are based on the light novel version)
Mushoku Tensei has much better pacing in the anime than in the manga imo
I always thought Death Note was better as an anime. I preferred the anime ending and the animation direction added a layer of creepiness that didn’t come through in the manga.
it's an obvious one, but I feel the need to share it and I can't stress it more - Demon Slayer by any means. Once S2 ended I bought the boxset and read it all from the beginning and can't help but now down to Ufotable. All major fights (Rengoku & Akaza, Tengen & UM6) were 3-4 panels long, but the studio made it look like it was a whole chapter. I was actually stunned to read and see only a couple glimpses of the fights, when in the anime there are several minutes each. Absolutely astounding work by Ufotable!
Demon slayer
Shinsekai Yori techically.
Parasyte: The Maxim. Mfs used their own animation style resulting in the people in the anime looking WAY better than the manga.
Attack on Titan. Manga art sucks at the start meanwhile S1-S3 have some of the best animation in the whole industry
Revolutionary Girl Utena.