Hi,

Can anyone please help me in whether which media format of the following titles are better in terms of story and flow?

Honey and Clover: anime, manga or drama?
Sugar Sugar Rune: anime or manga?

---resolved questions, thank you everybody ;D ---
Nodame Cantabile: drama + anime?
Blood +: anime + manga.
Antique Bakery: anime or manga.
Skip Beat: anime or manga?
Princess Tutu: anime or manga.

Thanks.

edited.

Last edited by CatzCradle at 7:52 pm, Nov 12 2008

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uhh.... for blood plus i'd say anime

and uhhh......i'm watching the nodame anime and not reading the manga, and theres nothing wrong with the anime as far as i know

but since this is a manga site, i assume most people would tell you to read the manga

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usually nomatter what... manga is better than anime and drama in terms of...

1 - story
2 - origin
3 - fillerless
4 - alterless
5 - getting to point
6 - requires less budget
7 - release progress


anime is just for it to be promoted in a bigger media... and some people just likes to watch it animated especially the kids... with music, filmated, voices, action, and etc...

drama or movie adapted are lame... actors may be able to adapt marvel or DC stories, but animes/manga... is abit going overboard... people like manga/anime in the first place due to the art and funny impressions only drawings can express... but there are few acceptions such as silent hill, though its a japanese game.....

Only one I checked all media forms is Nodame Cantabile. They are all good , well, you can call me just a Nodame fan. Had watched Honey and Clover anime, it's good, read some of the manga, but there isn't much scanlated around since it has been licensed, and hadn't watched the drama though.

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for skip beat, read the manga. its got to chapter 131 at the moment whereas the anime is only at episode 6 (chapter 11) but so far, its stuck to manga pretty well and seeing kyoko's demons animated funny

For Antique Bakery, I guess you can say that the anime would be better. Since the plot is exactly the same as the manga. In the anime, they have colour and sound effects and such. So, yeah. Anime.

As for Nodame Cantabile, I've only watched the anime and the drama. The anime is better. And I heard from others that the manga is great too.

I can only compare blood+.
The anime was quite lame, although Haji was cute, saya cried to much, and they had too many meaningless dialogues between the brothers-sister.
Those stupid "meaning of life, blah blah blah nonsense".
So I wouldn't recommend~
I've read 2 volumes of the manga, maybe I'll read some more of it.
Anyways, the manga seemed to be quicker paced, and overall better.
Although things were different in the anime.

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Well, I haven't seen everything.
Nodame Cantabile: ALL THREE!
Blood +: Manga
Skip Beat: Manga
Sugar Sugar Rune: Well I've only seen the anime, so anime.
Princess Tutu: Anime, only saw the anime though.

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Tutu anime has nice songs. (heards bits)

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And if the world were black and white,
you would be my rainbow in shades of grey.

Click 'n Play!

If I had a fantasy self, it'd be a tentacle monster.

for Nodame: drama - you get to listen the music and see ppl perform
Honey and Clover: I only watch the drama. I think it's the best because there are some paintings that you can only appreciate when you look at the real one - the colour, etc
Skip Beat: manga - more comical and funny
Sugar2 Rune: anime

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I highly recommend the Nodame Cantabile drama. I loved it. watched it twice, in fact. All the episodes, plus the specials, have been subbed by SARS, so there's no wait to get them (except to download). Being able to hear/see the music is incredible. I have to admit, though, that I didn't read the manga, so I can't comment on how well the drama followed the story.

Antique Bakery also has a drama, which I found incredibly boring, and didn't finish.

Thank you very much for the help!

So... to sum up the average...:

Blood+, manga.
Antique Bakery, anime.
Skip Beat, ...manga? (I'm a bit more hesitant about this one because of the 1 chapter I've read, no offense, I found the art quite... painful whilst the anime looked a bit more okay?)

Sorry, the rest I'm still a bit unsure...

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For Honey and Clover, the anime is very faithful to the manga, apart from in the last episode (Season 2 last episode). I would recommend that you watch the anime, because you get the extra of sound and colour ^^. The songs are pretty nice, and they really help get you into the story. I haven't watched the drama, but I heard that they had to alter parts of the story because they can't be acted out in a real drama.

For Nodame Cantabile, hmm... maybe the drama.
I'd usually recommend the original version (which is the manga, in this case), but some things are just lost in translation, and imo you can get to savour the story better with the help of sound and voices in the drama. Umm... if you read Japanese, go with the original version (manga).

Blood+ ... this is anime made into manga (not the other way round.) I've only read a few chapters of the manga, but I can see that the story is different. I would say go with the original version (anime).

For Princess Tutu, I highly recommend the anime.

I haven't read the manga, but from looking at it in a store, it seems to be a pretty ordinary "magical girl" story. The anime is most definitely not, and the music is wonderful.

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Don't be ignorant and answer with a generic response that isn't appropriate, especially considering that Nodame was included in the OP's group of works to be considered. Which possesses no filler (except for long interludes of music which is, in many opinions, what makes it better.)

Also, manga may require less budget, but it also makes less money (at least for the artist.) Manga is much cheaper in Japan than in many/most other countries, and therefore less profitable. Also it can be rather expensive to actually print the books.

As far as I'm concerned your post was remarkably unproductive.

To OP:

Blood+ / Skip Beat = manga
Antique Bakery / Nodame = anime (I'd suggest drama AND anime for Nodame actually.)
The rest = haven't seen.