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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Fullmetal Alchemist is a big example of an anime that diverged wildly, simply because the manga hadn't been finished yet so they had to make stuff up.
Then the same team made FMA Brotherhood which followed the manga extremely closely.
I actually prefer the first one but Brotherhood was the big success that everyone remembers fondly. It's interesting to see how they made different choices in the first and second, for those stories that are the same. But I liked some of the original one-off eps in the first FMA.
Here are three websites that list the filler (what they call things not in the manga) in popular series:
Maybe this can help you find something to watch.
Thanks!