Fan cartoon And story know that it is extremely common for manga series to be adapted into anime, more than original stories created directly into anime. However, while some adaptations are wonderfully faithful to the manga, such as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, others… don’t. There are many reasons why this could happen; In some cases, it’s because the manga hasn’t been finished yet and the anime has run out of material for an adaptation. In others, it was never meant to be identical, but more “inspired” by manga. In some cases, it even happens because fans are not happy with the manga and anime written with those complaints.
Because it is difficult to compare how different things are, these items are not ranked in any particular way. This list mainly focuses on how and why anime is different from manga, and much less on whether going off track is a good thing. For the sake of those who haven’t experienced both the anime and manga, spoilers will be kept to a minimum.
10 Yu Gi Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh fans! are certainly familiar with the franchise’s origins, but those less familiar may not. Yu-Gi-Oh! was not originally intended to be about card games, but about the game in general, with cards being just one of many. However, the cards have become extremely popular and the series has shifted its focus specifically to that area. When it’s time to adapt Yu-Gi-Oh! As an anime, original material unrelated to the card game has been completely removed, removed from the continuum. However, this material was actually adapted earlier in the so-called “season 0” of Yu-Gi-Oh!, but it is not standard for the rest of the series and has never been translated. and officially released in the West. Since Yu-Gi-Oh! Even so, the anime Duel Monsters most Yu-Gi-Oh! The series and spin-off are original works and not adaptations, although manga versions of those series do exist.
9 Soul Eaters
Soul Eater is a perfect case study of what happens when an anime catches up with a manga and runs out of content. The series was relatively manga faithful until volume 37 of its 51 episodes, when the weekly anime series caught up with monthly manga releases. With nothing left to adapt, the Bones production studio had to find a way to end the story on its own. Some fans were a little annoyed with the anime’s ending, as they felt the heroes won a bit easily, while others actually liked the anime’s ending more than the manga’s ending, due to the way it was handled. some characters and especially the character’s death.
8 Promised Lands
Anime Promised Neverland was one of the big hits of 2019, but it ran into a very different problem. The first installment of The Promised Neverland was marketed as an animated horror film, set in a secret orphanage that was a human farm. However, the manga became very different back then, essentially turning into an adventure series after the kids broke out of the orphanage. However, fans of the first season of the anime aren’t looking for an adventure – they’re looking for more horror. Season 2 of The Promised Neverland omits a lot of content and moves through the story from the manga at a brisk pace, adapting 30 chapters for the first season and nearly 150 chapters for the second. A large amount of the story has been lost and many fans argue that the second season should not be watched.
7 Bokurano
Bokurano is a 2007 mecha anime that makes for another interesting example; According to his blog, the director of the Bokurano anime, Hiroyuki Morita, is not a fan of the way the manga handles its characters or story, and chose to take on the series himself from day one. He is so passionate about this that he recommends that manga fans not watch the anime. As a result, Bokurano falls into the more “inspired” category, although some plot points persist between versions. The manga is pretty brutal, with no fear of killing characters, and Morita’s comment seems to suggest this is one of his problems with the series.
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The 1998 original Trigun anime was partly based on the original Trigun manga, which ran for only about 20 chapters before it was unexpectedly canceled when the magazine it published went bankrupt. Trigun was picked up by another magazine as a sequel, Trigun Maximum, which ran from 1998 to 2008. Thus, there are almost 10 manga content that never got an anime adaptation just because it didn’t exist. . Because Maximum is just getting started, almost none of it has been adapted into stories; Modern fans might even say that more than half of the original Trigun was “extra” because it didn’t come from the manga. Fortunately, in this case, Trigun Stampede is being considered a closer manga adaptation, although it took 25 years for fans to get there.
5 Chronicles of Tsubasa Reservoir
Sometimes, when a studio has to create new content for the “buffer” or for the ending of the original anime after catching up with the manga, that new content gets lost… hard. In fact, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle annoyed the creators of the series, manga collective CLAMP, to the point where they took the rights out of the studio (Bee Train) and handed them over to Production IG to complete the rest of the work. of the series in OVA format. The side content violated a core tenet in the world of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: that no one can return after death, no matter what.
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Still image from the Boruto anime series.
Boruto started life as a movie, oddly enough, and that movie was later adapted into manga and anime. Only, manga and anime can’t be less related, at least at first. It might be fair to say that the Boruto anime was rushed out to take advantage of Naruto’s lingering popularity after it ended, and rather than wait for the manga to generate adaptable content, they decided to do both anime and manga at the same time. time. Since there wasn’t anything to adapt, the Boruto anime created original story arcs (almost an obvious addition) to give the manga time to craft a storyline that the anime would eventually follow. record and start translating.
3 Tokyo Ghoul
The first season of Tokyo Ghoul is often considered a faithful adaptation of a part in the series, and fans of the series were excited to see the sequel adapted. However, when it was time for Tokyo Ghoul to move on, the result was Tokyo Ghoul √A, the second season mainly based on the anime but eventually mixed into parts of the manga, a fact that almost exclusively made the manga adaptation properly becomes difficult. Later. Interestingly, new content is created by the original mangaka, placing it in an odd position on the canon.
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Black Butler is another ongoing manga series; since the anime was produced between 2008 and 2010, it seems clear that, like Trigun, much of the manga hasn’t been adapted. However, the anime really differentiated itself from the manga before running out of material to adapt, starting with the seventh volume of the first season, instead began telling its own story, dramatically changing many of the characters in the series. this progress. The second season basically has nothing in common with the manga other than the characters. Curiously, the series then reverted to a manga adaptation, branching out into a third sequel where part of the original anime is official and part is not.
Fullmetal Alchemist’s 2003 original anime may be the most famous example of anime diverging from manga, but the truth is this has always been meant to be. Since the manga was just getting started at the time (starting in 2001 and running until 2010), it became clear that the series would need to work its own way if it wanted to end well. The 2003 anime adapted the manga for the first 30 episodes before going its own way, creating a very different sequence of events and radically changing many characters. However, when it came time to make the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood anime and properly adapt the manga, the studio chose not to re-adapt what they first adapted, so no series is truly a 100 percent faithful adaptation. % of manga – an anime viewer really needs to watch both to get them all.
While being different from the manga can be divisive among anime fans, these events often happen for a reason, and the production studio simply makes the best of the situation they’re presented with. Some of these series (especially FMA and Trigun) are still very much appreciated, despite their differences. Even if it’s not quite what they expected, a true fan can still appreciate it cartoon for what it is – at least as long as comic quality is still there.