I've been honestly onto this question for awhile now.

What exactly would one consider a bigger honour - for a manga series to be adapted into a live action drama or an anime?

I mean, you don't really see many of those action-filled mangas as dramas, do you?

Yet some mangas have proved popular enough to get both a drama & anime adaption.

Honey and Clover got a 2-season anime AND a live action. Fruits Basket got an anime, yet no drama. Hana Kimi proved popular enough with not one, but two drama adaptions. Yet shockingly... no anime! (This is something I'm still bitter about)

Then there's stuff like Skip Beat! who get one in both departments (whoopee?).

So what is particularly considered a bigger honour - drama or anime? If you were a mangaka, which would you feel would be a bigger honour?

I would go with it being adapted into both. As they both target different individuals. Like, dramas are targeted toward real-world enthusiast, while anime for the 2-d enthusiast. That's just my opinion though.

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Anything with supernatural elements is going to be damn hard to make a GOOD drama of. (I've seen a few bad ones, tho...) Fruits Basket as a drama is probably never going to happen for that reason.

I don't know if there's a prestige difference between anime & drama simply because some manga would be so hard to make into a good drama, or even if being made into both is really considered an honor or more an indication of popularity.

Hana Yori Dango is probably the king (queen?) of shoujos if you want to look at adaptations as it has not only an anime but also four drama series (Taiwan = Meteor Garden, Japan = Hana Yori Dango, Korea = Boys Before Flowers, China = Meteor Shower).

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I would go with a well-adpated and well-produced anime. As pointed out by TofuQueen, a lot of serieses are impossible to be adapted into a drama and be done well.

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I would go with a well-adpated and well-produced anime. As pointed out by TofuQueen, a lot of serieses are impossible to be adapted into a drama and be done well.

And those that do get adapted into a drama are often extremely butchered projects of the original source material.
case in point being the drama for GTO and Kurosagi. There was one other I saw that was pretty bad, but I forgot what it was about.
So I also go with a well adapted and produced anime.
Animes can much better convey the original author's idea and vision.

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So what is particularly considered a bigger honour - drama or anime? If you were a mangaka, which would you feel would be a bigger honour?

both.. if i was the mangaka, to think that people appreciated my work and they worked to make it a real drama or anime. Both is honour.

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Anything with supernatural elements is going to be damn hard to make a GOOD drama of. (I've seen a few bad ones, tho...) Fruits Basket as a drama is probably never going to happen for that reason.

I don't know if there's a prestige difference between anime & drama simply because some manga would be so hard to make into a good drama, or even if being made into both is really considered an honor or more an indication of popularity.

Hana Yori Dango is probably the king (queen?) of shoujos if you want to look at adaptations as it has not only an anime but also four drama series (Taiwan = Meteor Garden, Japan = Hana Yori Dango, Korea = Boys Before Flowers, China = Meteor Shower). Cant believe I forgot to mention HYD, haha. XD Itazura na Kiss also has a big field for dramas. One Japanese, a 2-season Taiwanese drama (which is crack filled), and an amazing anime (lol @ anyone who knows me here from IRC).

And yea, like I said in my first post, I know some series are impossible if not too hard to adapt into dramas (my example was action series).

I guess I have a new question... If x series gets adapted into either an anime or drama, which would get the most commercial success? Meaning, which would make the manga sales go up more?

And ffs, where is my damn Hana-Kimi anime? Only mega popular series get to 23 volumes! To have a series go on that long must mean it's popular with the audience! So where is my damn Hana-Kimi anime?! I'm fine with Koukou Debut not being adapted, but why not Hana-Kimi?!

The manga could be simply adapted for the sake of milking the cow though. The kind of series you'd expect to get animated at some stage.
For the less mainstream-orientated mangaka, I imagine being asked for permission to adapt their story for screen would be something else though.

anime would be awesome and greater honor, mainly because things would appear more cool than in dramas. I'm talking about action/fantasy stuff specifically, but when it comes to mangas with simple themes around life and such, a nice drama wouldn't be that bad.
So i go for both, depends 2.

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anime...
because if you look closely it really is more popular than live action series...
a person will know who yusuke or tamaki or goku is...but not jun matsumoto or gackt...

well thats just my pure biased opinion... 😁

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Probably if it's adapted into a drama, since that will be aimed at a more mainstream audience. Even the worst and most ignored dramas usually get more viewers than the late night animes.

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anime...
because if you look closely it really is more popular than live action series...
a person will know who yusuke or tamaki or goku is...but not jun matsumoto or gackt...

I think you're confusing the characters with the actors here - people may know the characters from reading the manga or seeing the anime or the drama (or all three), but will only know the actors from the drama.

A more fair comparison would be - do more people know the anime's voice actors or the drama's actors?

Of course that's not really fair either since voice actors aren't (for the most part, as far as I know) general celebrities who are seen in ads, on variety shows, etc. so it would be difficult for them to be as well known as actors who pop up all over TV.

Not that $$ is everything, but I'm pretty sure that anime is cheaper to make than drama, which would lead me to think that a drama is a bigger financial investment at least.

"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

An honor to whom though?

I think that "greater honor" really depends on the mangaka, doesn't it? Does the mangaka prefer having their work adapted into anime over dramas, or vice versa? And then you can draw conclusions from there.

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anime...
because if you look closely it really is more popular than live action series...
a person will know who yusuke or tamaki or goku is...but not jun matsumoto or gackt...

I think you're confusing the characters with the actors here - people may know the characters from reading the manga or seeing the anime or the drama (or all three), but will only know the actors from the drama.

A more fair comparison would be - do more people know the anime's voice actors or the drama's actors?

Of course that's not really fair either since voice actors aren't (for the most part, as far as I know) general celebrities who are seen in ads, on variety shows, etc. so it would be difficult for them to be as well known as actors who pop up all over TV.

Not that $$ is everything, but I'm pretty sure that anime is cheaper to make than drama, which would lead me to think that a drama is a bigger financial investment at least.

yeah...
you got a point there...
but the way the character is expressed in motion is still better in the anime because they really look like themselves...like in the manga...
but still...
anime is still a much greater honor i think because its really more popular!! i discovered it first... 🤣

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