Animes that are better than the Light Night/Manga?
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Usually any book is better than the movie (Dune is an excellent example even though I am interested in Light Novels/Anime).
I can think of one manga that I enjoy watching as an anime rather than the manga and that is Spy X Family (I think the Manga is good too - not sure if there is a Light Novel). Probably one reason I enjoy the Anime more is that I can watch it with my daughter which is a great time. I also happen to feel that the anime really captures the heart of the story very well.
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There are soooooo many examples of anime that screwed up the novel that it's really hard to come up with examples where they did as well or better. But some people aren't going to invest the time to read a novel.
So, it is hard to say definitively one is better than the other. But... if I've got time... I'd rather read the story.
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For me, it's mostly that I watched the anime first and then have no interest in reading the source material. For example, Made in Abyss or Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? The way the show was animated, I don't think I would like the printed version.
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Log Horizon is one where I think the anime’s better than the source LN’s. The LN’s have a lot of clever ideas, some of which were cut for the anime; but the prose is clunky and often hard to parse, and the micro-level plotting jumps all over the place. The anime streamlines and makes the plot flow better, and it doesn’t have the problems with prose.
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I really thought that the first season of Miss Kobiashi's Dragon Maid, went beyond the Manga. The artwork was better, the story was presented in a better format, and I felt the character development a lot more.
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I enjoyed Solo Leveling but thought the ending could have been better (been a while since I read it but I think the aftermath section was hard to parse). Hoping that the Anime will improve that part.
I am a bit worried how the Apothecary Diaries will be in anime form. Been trying to get my adult daughter to read them and worried she will end up watching it and if it isn't done well, will wonder why I kept pushing the books at her.
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Mob Psycho 100, if you're not fond of ONE's art or just wanna see Studio Bones going above and beyond.
It's admittedly been a while since I've watched or read Bakarina, but while the LNs stick out negatively to me for redundancy during POV shifts, I don't recall feeling the same about the anime.
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Gabriel Dropout would be one example. Don't get me wrong, the manga is good. But the anime expands on (and corrects) various events in the manga. The first time this happens is literally at the beginning of the anime.
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@morbelek said in Animes that are better than the Light Night/Manga?:
EDIT: apparently I can't quote you because having two spoilers in the same message is broken?Which is also wrong because
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Personally I doubt any anime is better than the source material as they are primarily intended to advertise the source material. At best, they can be an alternative adaptation that views the story in a different light or from a slightly different view point.
However, there are some stories and anime that I personally feel are more enjoyable in a visual context rather than as the written word. Doesn't mean they are better, just that the original story isn't well written. I would say this most often occurs with manga, which I currently don't care for. So the spy x family anime is amazing, but I doubt I would ever read the presumably better source material.
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Love, Chunibyu, and other Delusions is a delightful anime. The books are...less so.
Or - Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo - to quote - Now that's how you polish a turd and make it smell like roses.
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I can think inmediately in Eighty-Six and the first volumes of the original SAO, in both cases the anime took advantage of a better arrangement of the facts but personally, I believe that gap is much larger in SAO.
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I consider Log Horizon Season 1 to be better than the LN source material.
Yes, the LN have more detail, but the anime did an amazing job including the narration by giving lines to the other side characters to reveal it to the audience.
Otherwise, most of these side characters barely even existed.
Season 2 and 3 though... not so much.
@GustaBot Eighty-Six also benefited from being in animation because it was really hard to visualize the combat scenes in the LN.
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It depends upon how one defines 'better'.
There are stories where the environment is such a part of things that manga and anime are a far easier media for conveying what's happening.
...Rebuild World just had an anime adaptation announced, and given what has been done with the manga adaptation I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with it.This can also be the case with works focused upon music or dance; the visual and auditory aspects are best represented in visual or auditory form. Consider Hibike♪ Euphonium or Kono Oto Tomare!, as well as Ballroom e Youkoso.
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Nearly every anime adaptation I've seen has been worse than the source material, even when they are still enjoyable enough in their own right. To be fair though, I'd say the same for nearly every western novel TV/film adaptation too.
While I wouldn't call it "better", the best anime adaptation for me is the Monogatari series. The reason I think that is because they kept the essential parts of the novel intact without feeling the need to force a full 1:1 adaptation, then added their own visual & audio flourishes that have nothing to do with the novel to help it stand out as it's own thing.
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So far, Demon Slayer. It contains everything that's in the manga, and is beautifully animated. You could say this for several manga source materials I believe, since it's not difficult to fully adapt a manga. Anime adaptations of light novels are always going to have reduction of information though; in theory this could mean streamlining things to flow better, but novels good enough to get an anime are generally pretty well written to begin with. The Jobless Reincarnation anime has a chance of being equal if it maintains its quality. And yeah the first bit of SAO is better than the original as a result of including side stories from later volumes; the original Aincrad arc was pretty bare-bones.
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@LeavesCat To be fair, I would say the same for basically all action manga/light novels. No matter how beautifully drawn, it's still a still-frame.
On a related note, hunter x hunter and yu yu hakusho, while damn good manga, shined as anime.
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@poisonedbite You could make the case that some of the bigger/older shounen manga turned anime are worse, like Naruto, Dragonball, One Piece, etc. They're plagued with animation shortcuts, filler, and artificially slow pacing in order to maintain a constant weekly release. On top of that, they have pretty dated animation techniques; even One Piece still looks like a 2000's anime (except when they want to make a fight scene super fancy) because they're maintaining the same general look that it used to have. Maybe you could read those manga for the story and then watch the anime fight scenes. Same could be said for light novels; a really good LN adaptation may not make its source material obsolete, but their strengths are different enough that it can be worth following both versions.
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I guess the one real truism is that LNs, manga, and anime have different intrinsic strengths and weaknesses, and this can result in different versions of the same basic story that have differing appeal to those partaking of them based upon individual preferences.
Like duh!Which is a bit of a copout, but it's hard to dispute that different folks disagree concerning the worth of the different versions, never mind how each version rates when compared to other works in the same media.
The order in which you are exposed to the different versions also impacts how you evaluate them.
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Animes that are better than the Light Night/Manga?:
The order in which you are exposed to the different versions also impacts how you evaluate them.
I agree that the order has a huge impact. I rather read something before watching it. I find that if I watch something first I generally will not enjoy reading it second as I know too much of what occurs. I still can enjoy watching something after reading the book as it serves kind of as a quick re-read of a book (as long as it keeps to the main plot).
