As I’ve mentioned before I’m working my out of anime normie territory. I’m currently watching Ah My Goddess (yes I know, but it’s a catchy show) and I know it’s based on a manga so I was wondering if anime adaptations do a better job than here in the west. I know Japan isn’t perfect but it seems like they value the source material a lot more than they do here. Or am I mistaken?
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I want to add Shadow House as a in between of good and bad. I like the animation, the music, the characters but why the fuck did they add anime only stuff? That's in general why I don't like some adaptions, stop adding needless stuff that makes no sense. The 1999 version of hunter x hunter did it Pretty well, added some extra scenes in between to enhance the plot. I am by no means a purist in that regard, if something makes something flow better do it please.
To explain one point of your list: promised neverland, the first season is amazing, the second cuts out 100 chapters to give it an ending, cutting out the most looked forward to arc since the announcement of a second season.
I forgot Berserk 2016 existed, why can't they just make a good adaption of everything that exists?
I enjoyed Shadows House, having not read the source material I even recommend it to friends. I understand they wrote out an "important" character, or one that will become important later on, and the little interlude at the end of season 1 was filler, but I don't think the filler fundamentally changed anything, and it left it on a nice ending note.
Just because something is changed, does not make it automatically bad. Chrono Crusade is probably the most stark example, the anime outpaced the manga, and so they made up the ending wholesale. It's about demons and the church hunting them, and so they have some big fight with vampiric demon cultists trying to make hell on Earth, and then gave a "the rest of their lives in 5 minutes" ending denouement that is in-character and fitting. The manga? Aliens from Mars. They're all aliens from Mars, and the whole "church vs demons" thing is thrown out because they're actually martians, and the church just happened by coincidence to be able to fight them, stressing that it was happenstance. But aliens from other planets may be on the way~. It's a Shamallamalan level dumb tweeeeest, and hurts the series for its existence, and the anime that played it straight was much better. Even though it changed the source material. Because the source mangaka went nuts.