manga vs. anime

12 years ago
Posts: 187
I prefer manga by a long way. I get bored just sitting down and staring at a screen if I'm not interacting with it in any way, so half an hour of anime is exhausting, even if it's interesting. Plus, manga permits you to read at your own speed, meaning you can stop and look at a picture or read faster.

12 years ago
Posts: 33
If we are talking about original comic vs anime adaption, then manga.
Not a preference made by choice, rather experience.
Since the comic version of a story has to appeal to a wider audience, it is overlooked carefully and if a good editor is assigned to the artist, he/she is able to determine the harmonic fanservice and sexualization ratio of characters.
As for anime, the production usually caters to a certain type of "fan" and therefore even harmless titles, like Ichigo Mashimaro become overdosed with lolicon and other fanservice...
Comic serialization is bound to certain rules of the magazine's and publisher's target readership while animation always targets the people, who will spend money on uncensored blu-ray releases and merchandise - those not being teenagers and kids, their only resort is to cater to adults ( mostly male ) who fall in love with underage anime girls... 🤢
There's also the issue of voice actors, who can destroy a characters charm at once...Though big animation productions rarely fail on this one, smaller attempts usually have 1-2 annoying character voices.
As for original animation, I didn't watch many. The story has to REALLY interest or entertain me to keep me focused on subtitles - I never watch dubbed anime because it's horrible. I'm always doing something and I prefer to listen to my favorite shows and only look up when a visual joke/scene comes up. With subbed anime, I can't just "listen", I have to read the subs too, so I can't really do anything else...
Reading comics already triggers me on many levels - clicking my mouse and rolling on the page, reading, looking at the pretty drawings, getting lost in a conversation...etc, so I don't need further outside stimulation. It's easier to get lost in still pages than moving animation, since the latter is just too dynamic to really dive into a moment, a sentence or character's behavior.
11 years ago
Posts: 65
Rule of thumb for every medium is "original > adaption"
Though overall I choose manga. It's easier to access and I find more series that I like in manga.