So with the Wheel of Time in name only show being cancelled the usual suspects were out in force online calling book fans "toxic". This one fan of the show (who didn't read the books) asked me why I was happy about the show getting canceled and people losing their jobs. I told her that I was happy that it was cancelled because it was a major bastardization and didn't respect the source material. She couldn't understand that when you adapt a popular book series/comics the fans of the series have an expectation of a somewhat faithful adaptation at least. They act like we don't understand that you can't do a straight one for one adaptation.
I could've been more diplomatic but I told her that I have reached the point where I hate modern day adaptations because they attract normies like her who clap like a seal because the show craps all over the source material and adds the usual current year crap. She was never a fan to begin with. She called me a jerk.
Probably the easiest thing to do with an adaptation or period piece is to get the racial demographics correct. When they can't do that, then I know their priorities. I guess it just annoys me how they act like we don't understand that you have to streamline a large book series and that some changes have to be made due to the medium.
I'm honestly looking forward to the day when AI can just make a movie based on a command you give. I'll probably start with Moon is a Harsh Mistress or UBIK.
Rant aside, but why do y'all think that the entertainment industry seems to despise fans of the source material or make ridiculous changes and then use the "well we can't do a one for one adaptation" excuse?
That’s true. I’m not aware of an anime completely butchering a manga.
There are extremely rare cases like this season's The Beginning After the End, but even then it's a case of technical incompetence and not malice from the people running the show.
Tbf that story butchered itself later.
All I know is the three episodes I watched looked like shit, the fans were outraged, and the Myanimelist rating is under 5.3 which is basically what MAL would rate ISIS execution videos.
What’s that about?
I am.
Often for the worse. Rarely for the better. Usually when the manga isn't done yet, but also when the manga goes too long for one season, so they try to change the story to fit within one anime season.
In the current season, The Beginning After The End is getting a lot of flack for changing characterization of the main character to be more psychopathic and stoic to a retarded degree. The original had him need to be the cold ruler out of necessity. The anime instead has him wondering "why does that woman hold that dying man? What purpose does such an act hold?" as if he's never seen another living human before.
A similar change was done in Classroom Of The Elite, where they basically eliminate all emotion and desire from the MC, while in the novels he acknowledges the feelings and suppresses them, rather than simply not having them, which significantly changes how the character is portrayed. (And also makes some of his decisions which WERE, frankly, based on emotion, look even more bizarre and wild since he never shows an ounce of it in the anime prior or after those points.)
On a positive point one, Chrno Crusade outpaced the source material, and made up their ending wholesale. Religious anime so... Satan tries to pop up (explaining why so many demons were earlier in the series), and the church and their pet demon send him back to hell with the power of guns and violence, and the world is safe. Very safe ending, but satisfactory. In the source material? Martian alien skinwalkers PRETENDING to be demons because they're bible otaku. Yeah. It... doesn't work. Now, they just invented a logical ending BEFORE the original ending was made, so it's a different situation, but it clearly did diverge from source material, and wound up much better because of it.
Thanks. I’m not as well versed in anime or manga. Greatly appreciated