Is there ever a case where an anime is better than the source material?
Is there ever a case where an anime is better than the source material?
Jackson Williams
Jacob Watson
An argument could probably be made about kimetsu no yaiba. Ufotable did a very good job.
Ayden Wilson
Pic related. Fantastic voice acting and sound direction really elevated the source material.
Nathan Moore
Kimetsu no Yaiba and Fire Force are recent example imo.
Joshua Butler
Adam Hall
I'm of the belief that anime should be all about animation and the spectacle of putting things in motion, taking into account how difficult, time consuming and expensive animating is, the better anime tend to be those with weird art styles that don't require much detail and stories that don't need much or action tend to faciliate good animation were quality doesn't dip.
So stuff like ONE's Mob Psycho, Fukumoto's works as well as Taiyou Matsumoto I think are good examples of these parameters. Obviously where there's passion and budget anything can happen.
But animation ain't everything, adapting the story is also important. That being said I think One Outs is well done, I don't remember it deviating much at all from the source and Kaitani's style is manageable and the story doesn't require excessive movement.
Mob Pyshco S1 is also pretty well done, though I don't really remember how much the story deviates, S2 on the other hand I remmber not liking how they adapted certain developments in the story.
Kimetsu no Yaiba skips a bunch of stuff if I remember correctly from the manga.
Liam King
90s sailor moon anime is better than the manga in every way
Hunter Phillips
Dokuro-chan is a fine one
Benjamin Perry
shingeki, but only s1
Blake Bell
Jes.
Dylan Edwards
Shinsekai Yori
Tyler Sullivan
hunter x hunter, shingeki no kyojin
Jason Williams
K-on
Lincoln Hughes
Every light novel adaptation
Parker Fisher
>worse than both the manga before it and the one that came after
How did Mashima drop the ball so hard with fairy tail?
Jace Murphy
Probably not what you're interested in but I think Machiko-sensei is cuter in the anime, but there isn't much of the manga online so I don't know how well the art was by the end of it. I'd still like to read the whole thing.
Jacob Ortiz
Honey and Clover
Nodame Cantabile
Mushishi
Pretty much all gundam series
Daniel Long
Kareshi kanojo, aku no hana, kimetsu no yaiba, OPM S1, berserk '97, FMA:brotherhood, Akira, elfen lied, these right on my mind already, there's certainly much more.
Daniel Taylor
I wouldn’t say better overall but they definitely did a good job at heightening a lot of the aspects of the source material.
Charles Collins
death note
Matthew Hill
>ONEfags
Carson Fisher
I’m not wrong.
Jayden Turner
What about cases where it's definitively much worse?
>One Piece
Matthew Watson
Haikyuu
Nolan Cruz
saint seiya
Logan Sanchez
Kaiji, easily. Peak madhouse kino.
that and seven deadly sins judging by that last season
Michael Cox
Redrawn manga > anime > ONE manga
Thomas Clark
and most kyoani adaptions
Landon Reyes
>brotherhood
Obviously better than 03, but the beginning being rushed to hell makes the manga better.
>elfen lied
Literally removes the reason for its title. Shit adaptation that only teenage emos ever liked.
>aku no hana
0/10 bait.
Zachary Collins
K-On is a notable example
Jack Parker
HxH for 90% of the chapters