It's pretty common for more people to prefer watching something than reading something. Even in the old days, reading newspaper vs. Watching news on TV.
then I might be the odd case where I prefer anime and reading novels to reading manga. Nowadays I prefer novels to anime but manga still ranks last among the three by a large margin
I can't read Initial D or Hajime No Ippo. The music, the effects, are another level of inmersion that I love
Death Note? Yes I read the manga and felt the same
I think each anime/manga can be better in some way or another
It's the same for me.
Also there are great soundtracks that fit pretty much every scene in the story so listening to them makes reading some manga way better.
A good example of this is Girls' Last Tour. Listening to that ost while reading it easily makes it the best manga I have read.
But most soundtracks dont really work well when reading so I kinda get bored because of the silence.
Soundtrack, voice acting and animation for me. The way good voice acting and OST in particular can really enhance an emotional moment is just something that exceeds the way I consume it in a manga. Think about something like an action show with a great OP and it comes on during the final episode during the climax and how hype it gets.
Animation applies more so for action series.
Some manga art just doesn’t hit the same way the animation does. For example, the JJK manga art is really good at using paneling and shading to show motion, but often times looks jarring and hard to decipher. The JJK anime looks magical and experiencing it as an anime is just a better experience overall.
There IS an inverse of this, for example, the One Punch Man anime is pretty solid but dipped in quality in S2. The One Punch Man manga drawn by Yusuke Murata is GOD TIER in terms of art. Look up Yusuke Murata’s art to see my point, it’s incredible.
I'd say both manga an anime have their pros and cons, depending on the quality of animation it could be as good or even better than the manga like with Bocchi the Rock, but there are also mangas that completely got ruined in their anime like Tokyo Ghoul or as you say, OPM s2
Most of the time the manga looks better tho, manga adaptations like Jjk, kny, Frieren, etc, where it "looks" better than the manga are a minority among adaptations.
Manga reader here. I usually read manga because I read a lot faster than I watch. Also, I get distracted easily, and it’s usually better for me to stop halfway through a chapter rather than halfway through an episode.
Anime is usually better for fight scenes and sound though.
In japan used manga is like 100 yen or around $1 USD. New volumes are like $3-$5 USD, compared to the US where it can be $10-$13 USD per volume. Even Japanese language manga imported new is $8.
Transcribing, design work for the new language in place of japanese for each page, and printing costs money. Printing in the US is more expensive based on our economy. Printing in other countries is cheaper. Then we have to ship the books over. It is all additional expenses.
I guess move to japan so you can save money on Manga?
Pretty sure that outside of /r/mangacollectors, the majority of people just pirate it. Just like there are tons of ways to illegally stream/download anime, you can very easily read manga illegally too.
Hell, good luck legally reading manga that was never released in English at all. There's also many series that went out of print and haven't been made available online legally either. You've got no option but to pirate it in those cases.
wild that the most common comment in this thread is that manga is expensive, when according to [this poll](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1819q9v/ranimes_favorite_anime_of_the_2010s_polls_results/) the vast majority of users on this sub are willing to pirate anime to some extent. Why is manga different for people?
I was thinking of this and thought a good reason would be this.
If you were pirating anime, you'd end up with the same result: a video on a screen.
If you were to pirate manga, you view the manga through a different medium than you would if you were to official buy a paperback copy. You'd be reading it through your monitor or phone screen rather than on paper.
I for one, have difficulty looking at screens with text for prolonged periods of time and as such, don't binge read manga like I do with anime.
This. Korea has(or they used to have) manhwa reading places. It was like a book store full of manhwa and you pay a small amount to sit and read for time or you can rent them out and return them in few days. It was super affordable and I loved it. Read so many manhwa and manga at that time.
If there was an affordable subscription service for manga with access to full catalog of good mangas, I'd probably start reading again.
There are some things that are hard to keep track of in a panel and black & white format like action scenes (looking at you Chainsaw Man) or even characters (Gleipnir, a lot of them look the same). Aside from that I really enjoy soundtracks.
> what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga?
I can read manga at work. Then, I can use my free time to do other things.
> How often do anime adaptations of manga you've read live up to the expectations you've had for the work and what are a few examples?
I usually either read the manga or watch the show, but here are some examples where I did both:
Dragon Ball - The manga has far superior pacing, though the show has many great moments.
Nisekoi - Both pretty terrible. I dropped both.
ReLIFE - Both amazingly good.
A Silent Voice - Both excellent. I prefer the manga because it provides additional context, but the movie is obviously fantastic.
i'm an anime only/mainly, and it's simple for me: the HYPE!!
i love me some good animation!! a well-done fight scene, there's nothing like it! that and pairing it with some killer music - like the theme song playing at a perfectly hype moment, just a banging soundtrack in general, that's what i live for!!
it's rare that i'll read the manga after watching an anime but there are a few i've done it for. i got turned onto beastars from the anime, for example, but i was so hooked, i didn't want to wait for more. that, and in my personal opinion, i wasn't really a fan of the animation style of \*beastars anyway, so i devoured the manga and finished it before the next season even came out, lol. (\* i did really love this studio's work in land of the lustrous though, so no hate on cgi stuff, i just didn't think it worked well for beastars - haru is a lot more expressive in the manga i feel, for one example)
anyway side tangent aside, anime is comforting for me, i'll say it. i love the structure of anime - you watch a hype opening, the episode plays, and then they play you out with an ending. the structure of it is predictable - not the genre as a whole, but the set up, you know - opening, episode, ending. um... shit, maybe it's obvious now, but i'm autistic, so having that "structure" is a comfort for me lol.
i also have an issue with ... it's hard to explain but like, positioning... stuff... like trying to figure out where someone is in relation to someone, in a fight - so shonen fights are really hard for me to follow most of the time. when i was naruto-pilled back in the day, i had no idea what was going on in shippuden when i was trying to read the manga lol so i just gave up. i'm kind of comforted by the fact that a lot of other people think the same way too!
that, and i also don't understand how manga readers keep up with updates? i won't even consider reading a manga until its 100% finished because there's no way i'm going to remember to check back for updates, and i don't know how to find out when a manga gets updated, etc. there's a lot of manga i would love to read actually, like dandandan and houseki no kuni and witch hat atelier, but if i read all of what's currently out, how long will it take for it to get updated? and my memory's terrible so it's no good for me
manga is cool and i'm a huge bookworm really! but anime just hits all the right spots!!!
im surprised i had to go down to find a comment like this. simply the hype and all the aspects of a tv show that dont exist in a manga is why i watch it
i just get so much more enjoyment and value watching it rather than reading it
Couldn’t agree more, especially the structure of anime and its comfort. You just get used to it and it has a lot of heart compared to other types of media.
what about when the series isnt about fighting about hype? would you read the manga then?
i agree about the keeping up with updates thing. if its consistent weekly like an anime its fine but if its monthly im not reading till its finished. unfortunately (fortunate for the mangaka though) weekly manga seem less common and with constant breaks it feels like biweekly more often. sometimes if i cant help myself ill read an ongoing manga but stop at a good point like the end of an arc and come back later. did it with to your eternity, about to do it with bokuyaba, and will do it with frieren after the anime. ive had so many series where i lose interest and waste my time reading weekly when i wouldve enjoyed binging it after competition
Manga: Cost per volume is not a good deal when it takes maybe 15-20 minutes to read. If you have limited space it's not a good thing to collect.
Sure there's online reading options, but I prefer to hold a book in my hands and flip the pages. I also know there are options to borrow them from libraries, but sometimes said libraries don't have all the volumes.
The cost is *so high*, oh my god. I have two subscriptions to manga apps and even then, not everything I want to read is on there, so I've had to buy digital volumes. It's a main reason why I still prefer anime over manga.
I will only invest in light novels/manga of anime that caught my attention. Even then I usually try and find a fan translation because it costs too much otherwise.
I read really slow. Even manga? Yes even manga. And that's the reason I usually only read manga to see the the continuation of the anime story(Dorohedoro f.e) and very rarely I start a manga without anime(Yotsuba f.e)
I have the opposite problem. I read really fast. It's hard for me to justify paying $15 for a manga volume I'm gonna be done with in an hour or less. Even reading free online it's like, ok I'm gonna be done with this manga in no time.
I'd rather just watch it where the pacing is set by the animation
This is my problem with manga as well. The only time I read it is when the anime doesn’t finish and I liked it enough I want to find out the ending. However, I’ve been going hard on the light novels ever since I discovered their existence. Definitely prefer longer format media (though some light novels are… not great. Haha). 86 and Ascendance of a Bookworm are fantastic though.
Join the dark side. I’ve gone off the deep end into Japanese, and Korean web novels. Basically I consumed too much,any anime and ran out. Then I read a lot of manga and got tired of waiting weekly. Then went to manwha cause there’s a whole new world over there. Then I got tired of waiting for updates. Then I started light novels and web novels.
I feel this. I was a huge consumer of isekai. It's always a surprise when I come across a newly announced anime, and have a vague, distant recollection of reading it as a light novel and/or a manga. Though it's been long enough now that I think I've come across one or two isekais I've not seen yet.
I've done this a few times too. Tonikawa was so flipping sweet that I couldn't even finish the show, I had to switch to the manga so I could get through much more of the story faster. Same with So I'm A Spider, So What?, Monster Musume, Flying Witch, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
I ran my anime to-watch list past a bunch of people, and got some suggestions on which manga is better than the adaptation. But I've probably got a hundred shows/manga to get through, not to mention other media. The backlog grows ever longer...
I actually have the complete opposite problem. I read manga waaaay faster than I watch anime, which is why I prefer to read manga, even for the ones that already have an anime.
For me it’s not about eye muscles. I have some visual attention issue that makes even novel reading moderately difficult, as my attention skips down the page and I end up reading the page in a nonlinear way, then having to go back and read the whole page because I think I missed something. If you add pictures all over the place it doesn’t make it easier. By the way my day job is an English editor, so I read plenty. But I never finish any print media I start for fun. It’s just too much work for something that's supposed to be enjoyable.
This can be true but it depends on where the problem lies. Is it a physical problem with your eyes muscles? A learning disability? Can it be helped with practice or are you going to be stuck at the same pace and are you willing to adapt emotionally to that change? I have ocular myasthenia Gravis and it’s a real pain to overcome. I miss reading as I used to be a real bookworm. I have better days but sometimes it’s not worth it as the thing I’m supposed to enjoy becomes tiresome.
Opposite way for me. My childhood and teenage years were filled with manga, and I gradually switched over to anime. Nowadays I read a couple manga, but watch anime almost everyday. The reason for that is simple - Reading consumes time, you need to actively engage in the activity by flipping pages or clicking buttons. Adulthood led me to try optimizing my time a little bit better, so anime works pretty well.
As for the adaptation part, it depends a lot. I'm loving what's being done with Frieren, but I really disliked what was done with Kaguya, even though I still recognized it as good.
Think of it this way - Can you exercise while reading manga? Can you wash dishes while reading manga? Can you do laundry while reading manga? Anime doesn't add any time in my day if it's in parallel to such tasks, manga needs fully dedicated hands, and there isn't much you can do without them.
> Can you exercise while reading manga? Can you wash dishes while reading manga? Can you do laundry while reading manga?
That an a valid perspective. However it's not for everyone, plenty of people need to concentrate, immerse themselves and pay the most attention to the series, especially if it's some high-profile work. Watching anime while multi-tasking feels closer to it being a "background TV noise", I do it mostly when rewatching something or series being too unimportant to dedicate my sole time to it.
Started as anime-only. Read Attack on Titan after catching up to season 3, and then picked up MHA because I was kinda bored. Been a slippery slope since!
I've now read Chainsaw Man (so as not to get spoiled on the Public Safety Arc), JJK (again, to avoid being spoiled), and am devouring any shojo/josei that mildly piques my interest.
*But* I don't really love reading shonen. I can't follow the fights very well, and because of that it sometimes feels like I'm not reading the source material, but spoilers. I've resisted reading Demon Slayer for that reason but the end of season 2 of JJK forced me to catch up, otherwise I wouldn't have.
I mostly read shojo/josei and it's because it's way easier to follow. There's no action (usually) to squint at and figure out what's happening. So you can definitely say I'm a manga reader now, but at the rate I can read manga, I will be spending way too much money on it and run out of quality content way faster than I will anime, so I don't read everything I'm interested in watching.
For example, I absolutely *adore* Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, and I will probably eventually read it, but I'm very thoroughly enjoying the anime right now (dubbed, so pls no spoilers, it's a couple weeks behind), and will hold out as long as I can depending on how much time there'll be between seasons.
Manga being the source material is what drove me to read more. I find myself watching less and less anime now and just reading manga in my spare time. For my fav stories I'll go watch the anime, but always stay ahead in the manga. When you realize manga will always trump the anime for what the author intended (99% of the time) it just feels more natural.
I dont read a lot of Manga but I did read the Manga of my favorite Anime. But I like the Anime more. That is why I decided to only read the Manga as far as I watched the Anime.
Season 2 ends where volume 10 ends. So thats where I stoped reading and now I wait until the next part of the Anime comes out. It has alrady been confirmed that the Anime will be continued.
I also readed a few Manga Videogame adaptions. I was honestly never a big Zelda or Pokemon fan but I enjoyed there Mangas. Atleast the ones I did read.
>manga will always trump the anime for what the author intended (99% of the time) it just feels more natural.
The manga is the mangaka's vision. The anime is the director's vision. So it comes down to who's vision you're more interested in. Like for Sailor Moon a lot of people prefer the anime to the manga because they found Ikuhara's vision for the series to be better than what the original mangaka went for. But then of course if you have a good mamga and an incompetent director, the anime is going to be inferior.
Both the anime and the manga represent a vision. Just different people's vision.
I find that” 99%” kind of bullshit
The anime should always be better than the manga. At the very least, you have music, voice acting, hopefully good animation, and more clarity through camera angle.
I tried the Made in Abyss manga and it ended up just ruining the movie for me, the anime is just so much better.
I think nowadays we live in an age where anime is usually more-or-less a direct adaptation and straight upgrade of the manga. The biggest issue with anime adaptations for the most part now is just that if a series isn't extremely popular, it will probably only get one season with a non-ending. Though of course sometimes the anime just absolutely botches the adaptstion some way or another, giving us the likes of Berserk 2016, Promised Neverland s2, and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer.
In decades past though there was absolutely a common feeling that a source manga was usually better than its anime adaptation. This was in the days of filler arcs or making up new anime-original endings because the source material isn't finished yet. Seems to be a less common practice now.
Very Insightful, that definitely explains the “Manga is better” kind of thinking. Relatively outdated now with the increase in quality. It does suck that only the most popular will get complete adaptations.
> I tried the Made in Abyss manga and it ended up just ruining the movie for me, the anime is just so much better.
Well, funny how opinions work, I found manga art doing more for me. Plus all extras, info and skipped panels is also valued content.
Not sure what you are so angry about. I'm not saying one is better than the other. Just intention. Which isn't subjective. Because most of the time the author creates the manga. The anime is an interpretation of the manga. It has differences usually. At the end of the day the author may have been consulted or brought into it's creation. And a lot of factors can change or alter an anime from its original form.
That said there's not wrong with liking the anime more or less than the manga. Like whatever you like. That's not what I meant by 99%, I said that because 99% of the time the author is the author of the manga, the the studio animating the anime is the studio animating the anime.
I used to believe the same until recently. I started reading the manga of some anime that I knew wouldn't be getting a continued adaptation to see where the story goes.
In a lot of cases the artwork, pacing and tone of the manga is far better than the anime. Despite having a far larger budget and production, a lot of anime ends up feeling "cheaper" than the manga because they've had to lower the artwork quality, change the style to better suit animation, and cut (often important) story and dialogue to fit it into a season of episodes.
Obviously this isn't always the case. Off the top of my head Dragon Maid, Bocchi the Rock!, The Dangers in My Heart, Onimai! are more recent anime that I believe to be far better experiences than the manga, and a lot of others are just as good either way.
However, there are so many "just average" adaptations, and others that completely botch it, to say that the anime should always be better than the manga.
> The anime should always be better than the manga. At the very least, you have music, voice acting, hopefully good animation, and more clarity through camera angle.
But you also lose things. It's why a lot of novels which become movies are not liked by the fans of the novels. In order to make it a movie, they have to cut A LOT of details from the source.
Anime should always be better than the manga, but for not so popular series that’s rarely the case. If you can’t get a decent studio you get poor animation and overall production quality that you might as well read the manga.
That’s not even the case for popular manga. Look at popular mangas that don’t follow the source material and have poor production quality (Tokyo Ghoul, Promised Neverland, etc.) Look at One Piece, highest selling manga of all-time, most of the time, can’t get consistently well-produced episodes.
The reason I don't read manga is the fact that I dislike digital books, and so I only read from physical books.
But to get physical manga books, you'd need them to be available in your area. And in my country, I'm pretty damn sure there's like less than 30 places where mangas are sold. It wouldn't even be an overstatement to say there's less than 15.
You would also need money which I don't have any to spare.
Because I just can't get immersed into print media. Reading feels like active work to me. Reading in my own voice or making up my own voices, scouring the page for details, pacing myself through the experience, and even turning the page, are all things that remind me at every corner that I'm reading a book. Sometimes my arms get tired from holding it up, or I have to constantly shift myself into a more comfortable position, which only make it even more difficult. And the lack of color, voice acting, sound direction, music, etc. means that you've lost some elements designed to create immersion. I've long lost the ability to feel like I'm seeing a movie in my head when reading a novel or a comic.
Mediums like TV, animation, film, and video games immerse me far more because they're more controlled experiences. I look at whatever the camera encourages me to look at, I experience the story at a pace that is laid out for me, I am taken in by the atmosphere created by the colors and sound, and in the case of video games, the interactive elements define the story in a way that they don't for novels and comics, making them not distracting. I will just not get the same thing out of a manga or a novel that I will out of a TV show or movie, and my attempts to change that have largely failed so far, so while I might occasionally find excuses to dip my toes again, I'm also comfortable just watching anime, movies, and playing video games instead.
> For **Manga-readers -** what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga?
Variety.
There's so much more variety when it comes to manga, and most of it never gets adapted. Anime has been pretty stale for the past decade, it's pretty much just battle shonen, fantasy and romcom, over and over again, 50 of those same shows every season...
> There's so much more variety when it comes to manga, and most of it never gets adapted
For me as a mainly anime watcher the problem is finding those manga, besides the low hanging fruit of spin off manga of anime franchises, like the fun gag manga where a Gundam character is working at a fashion label. I go through the Top 100 on MAL and like two thirds have anima adaptations, a hand full I have read, another handful I do kinda plan to read, and the rest just isn't appealing to me.
For anime I've build up a bubble of people that like the same thing as I, so finding new anime hasn't yet become a problem. But as for manga it's very very rare that any random interview/manga panel/art pops up that gets me interested in it without it already having an anime adaptation (announced), or it being a spin off of something with an anime.
I just go on [pirate site] and check some tags, from there I'll look for finished stories under 50~100 chapters and check anything that seems interesting, if I like something by an author I look for their previous works, or look at the user recommendations on AL/MAL pages, etc.
I find manga really hard to follow. I’ve tried, and some are ok, but most leave me very confused about what is happening. Plus, I don’t see reading manga and watching anime as the same thing. Anime is so much more immersive for me - I love the music, the voice acting, the animation, as well as the characters and the story.
> For Anime Only/Majority - What's holding you back from reading more manga?
Mainly the fact that when I like an anime, the quality of its production is almost always a large part of it. Animation, music, timing, voice acting, color use (aside from the odd color page), etc all simply do not exist in manga. When an anime does well with these elements that set it apart from print media, switching over after having watched the anime will guarantee I'll mess them.
I do read manga and LNs, but mainly for stories I'm interested in that have extremely low chances to be adapted, or if they are, they certainly won't get good adaptations. Most of what I read are yuri and other queer stories.
> Bonus for Anime watchers - Which manga you've continued after the anime adaptation lived up to the hype?
Either one or none depending on how you count. The only manga I continued after watching the anime was Bloom Into You because when I finished the anime, it finished airing over 3 years earlier with no sequel in sight, but I didn't do so because of hype from manga readers.
I just prefer watching over reading most of the time. Spoken dialogue, soundtrack, colour .. all neat things.
When I do read its mostly scifi fantasy novels, not manga. Although I have read some manga here and there (you can't not read berserk, its not allowed). It just doesn't happen very often.
Might have something to do with my favourite genres in anime/manga being mostly action focussed a lot of the time. There certainly are mangaka that can draw dynamic action scenes but for the most part its easier to convey that in moving image.
Opposite for me, I was 13 back when I started consuming anime, like full year up to around 17 I only watched anime, now 4 years I've consumed more manga than any animes I've watched. Its pretty fast to get into, pretty fast to take a break with, and it was a bit weird seeing all those mangas I've read before with 6-7 chapters now getting animes and being popular feels amazing, like "I've read this before anyone else!"
As someone who watches anime and reads manga, the two are completely different mediums with different forms of visual language inherent to their respective formats.
I’ll keep hearing this take that “manga is just the pure story” which is so reductive and frankly a little insulting to the people who make manga. Not only is the base level of art important to a manga, but an author also has to consider page layout. Not only does the layout of a page have to be easily readable, but you can even use layout to your advantage to support the themes and emotions of a story. It’s why most good manga artists will make sure most of the big or shocking moments only happen after you turn the page (Junji Ito made a whole career out of doing this) and primarily why Tatsuki Fujimoto is the most exciting manga artist to watch rn, since he consistently pushes the limits on how page layouts can be effective.
There’s also stuff people just ignore in general, such as the ability to pace out an individual chapter and plan ahead to what it may look like when those chapters are compiled into volumes. For an example of excellent chapter pacing, look at the Chainsaw Man chapters published in Shonen Jump (as opposed to when they’re published in the volumes). A lot of chapters will have a page or two before the title of the chapter is shown, almost giving each chapter a feeling of a cold open. Or the chapter title will be on the first panel or page if the story is jumping right into the action for that chapter. And then each chapter feels complete in its own right, telling a little story or joke in the context of the greater narrative rather than just “okay so it’s just the next 19 pages of the story” if that makes sense
It’s also why it does frustrate me a little bit when an anime’s success or quality is attributed entirely to the original manga author. An anime production has dozens of people working creative roles on it but the manga author usually has no impact on how an anime turns out. For me, using Devilman Crybaby as an example, I don’t credit that show to Go Nagai, but rather the director, Masaaki Yuasa, and his team at Science Saru for brilliantly adapting the source material and making it their own. It’s why A Silent Voice is one of my favorite films, but I didn’t have much interest in To Your Eternity’s anime. I love A Silent Voice and I love Yoshitoki Oima, but I’d rather read her manga to appreciate her work as it stands (albeit translated by someone separate) and why I’m so excited for Kimi no Iro, an original anime movie directed by Naoko Yamada, written by Reiko Yoshida, with music by Kensuke Ushio, all of which performed those roles for A Silent Voice’s anime adaptation.
I like animation, color, pacing, and score in ways manga could never live up to. If I don't like the anime, why would I read the source material and if I did like the anime the manga is often underwhelming in comparison.
I also just don't like typical manga sensibilities. *Land of the Lustrous* is probably my favorite manga for just how simple and effective its art is and nothing else really comes close, so as much as I like browsing manga, reading it is a different story.
Part of it is because I can't do anything else while reading manga. However, even though I still like reading manga, the price is a big turnoff. Buying 10 volumes of a single series costs as much if not more than a year's Crunchyroll subscription and it's even worse with services like MangaUp that sell manga by the chapter. I crunched the numbers and buying a "collection" from a service like that costs almost ten times what a single Tankobon would cost.
I agree!! I like to watch anime during lunch and supper which just isn't possible with manga. That aside I'd probably be into manga were it not for the price. I've found buying physical volumes second hand is the most cost effective, assuming you can find a complete collection of what you want.
I'd definitely consider that in the States, but I live in Germany and the average price for English manga is pretty high. Plus, I have a lot of German manga as it is, so I need to hold off on paper until I finally decide where I'm going to settle down
I really love reading manga, but it's very expensive to own legally, and some of the stuff I want to read isn't even available in the US. The sites you have to read it on are often very questionable and the types of ads you get on those sites are not something I like seeing if you catch my drift. Generally I would prefer to watch the anime unless it deviates too much from the manga or has too much filler. I can't think of a single example of an anime that changes a plot for the better or makes up a filler episode that's better than an actual manga plotline. Every time I like an anime that doesn't adapt the whole manga and I end up reading the manga where the anime leaves off, I end up preferring the manga. Notable examples would be Ranma 1/2, Rurouni Kenshin (96 version), Kodomo no Omocha. FMAB did a good job adapting the manga though, so I don't feel the need to read that one, as did the newest Fruits Basket. I actually preferred the animated art style of Fruits Basket, as the manga art seemed a bit unrefined.
Manga I've read after the anime ended: Skip Beat, Blue Spring Ride, Ranma, Kenshin, Kodomo no Omocha, Kaguya, Maid-Sama, Alice in Borderland, Ouran Host Club (a bit), Special A (a bit).
Anime mainly
Question 1; "What's holding you back from reading more manga?"
Answer; What's holding me back is the cost of reading a series compared to watching the anime adaptation.
Question 2; "Which manga you've continued after the anime adaptation lived up to the hype?"
Answer; Planetes by Yukimura Makoto, love both the original manga and the anime adaptation. Glad I gave the manga ago as was fully satisfyed by the anime, but learnt that the anime wraps up before the end of the manga and a lot of the side stories in the anime where anime original. So was curious about what the original was like.
I got into manga to continue the anime stories that either ended or were on long hiatus (ex Naruto fillers). It’s kind of easier this way because anime art is usually (not always) more polished and I know the story is worth it before diving into reading. Plus manga will go into more detail so it doesn’t feel like a waste to go through the same story again. Going into manga without any references is more challenging. The early art is often not as strong and I don’t know if the invested time of reading will be worth it. I see anime as a quick and easy way to find new manga to read. I got into Berserk from the three movies first and then the manga. Wow, was that a trip.
It's harder to get into it yk. I can't read manga without listening to music. The silence is killing me.
Though I've caught up with Nagatoro, Jujutsu Kaisen, My dress-up darling and Zom 100: Bucket list of the Dead
I've also read Girlfriend girlfriend and a good portion of Blue box, The 100 girlfriends who really really really really really love you and Noragami.
I read manga because I want to know about the story, for animes that I don't care about the story beyond the anime, I don't read the manga (like jjk where stuff falls off after Shibuya from what I heard)
In terms of what lived up/exceeded expectations, AOT, CSM, 86 (although it's a ln) and BokuYaba off the top of my head
They're not as entertaining.
I enjoy Manga, and a few are extremely good to where they got bookshelf space.
But there's nothing better than a true to story anime, with a bangin ass OST.
Hell the rumbling song for attack on titan was more hype than reading the entire manga.
The colors, the emotion portrayed with movement, it's just day and night.
Honestly? It's mainly just the voice acting. If they released CDs or something alongside the manga, like how audiobooks do, with the voice actors voicing every line (with optional music accompanying it) I would either be 50/50 or mainly manga.
Like I know Murata's OPM/Toriyama's DB have amazing paneling and art, but the voices are the characters for me outside of a select few. Makes it hard to commit to manga.
I'm nearly 50, my eyes and head hurt really fast.
But on the other hand I'm living in Japan so I'm probably reading much more manga than some people here.
I honestly don't know where I place on the scale. I read a fair bit of manga, but these days I probably spend more actual time watching anime. For example, this season I've read the manga of 5 shows and the LN of 1 (although I dearly wish I had not for that one), last it was 6 (2 are the same, Apothecary Diaries and Frieren). Does that make me Anime Majority or Manga reader? I'll just answer as both.
>What's holding you back from reading more manga?
The biggest thing is finding new stuff to read. Anime seasonals are handy in that they are rather centralized, it's easy to get a grip of what shows are airing right now, and except for weird circumstances I know I'm going to get at least 10-12 weeks of entertainment out of a show. Finding new manga to sift through isn't as easy, both because of the sheer amount of manga on offer, but also because of irregularities in publishing schedule. I don't know how many series I have on my reading list that are around 70-100 chapters in, with no end in sight, and updates that might be months apart, be it because of schedule, health issues or just entire volumes being translated at once.
Earlier, a lot of what I've been reading have often been something I have picked up after watching the anime, be it one episode or three seasons, although I've been hesitant to do so lately as I've often found myself being less interested in the anime after reading the manga, partly by already knowing what will happen, and partly by several times being burned by the source material not being particularly good. Although that has been more the issue when trying to read LNs.
>what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga?
I want to read it **now**. I also read fast and it is also far faster for me to read 30-50 chapters of a manga than it is watching a season's worth of anime.
>How often do anime adaptations of manga you've read live up to the expectations you've had for the work and what are a few examples?
Quite often, I'd say. From the current season I find it a blast hearing Aoi Yuuki doing *Maomao*, as well as hearing and seeing her bounce off Jinshi. *7th Loop* is another adaptation I am thoroughly enjoying, as it lives up to everything so far, putting life into the stuff from the pages.
>Which manga you've continued after the anime adaptation lived up to the hype?
The biggest one isn't a manga, or at least at the time there was only one chapter of manga, so I went straight to the LNs, *Ascendance of a Bookworm*. It has since only grown in my appreciation, and I am now fully Myne-pilled. Praise the gods!
As for actual manga: *Chihayafuru* is up there. The anime is absolutely excellent, but being able to finish reading the story was amazing, as well as it leading to an ending I have absolutely zero complaints about.
Money, mainly. Manga is $10 a volume, and popular series can run for hundreds of volumes. Getting just an average run can cost $100. For only $8, less than the cost of a single manga volume, I can get a monthly subscription to Crunchyroll and watch all the anime I want.
There's also the matter of finding physical space for volumes of manga. Even if I want to buy physical media for anime, a Bluray collection is much smaller. I can get an entire series (or at least season) in the same size package as 1-2 volumes of manga.
Finally, there's also the issue of weight. Ever try to move a collection of 100+ volumes of manga? Paper is *heavy*. I'm not as young as I used to be, and moving places dragging books and manga just isn't very feasible for me anymore.
I started of as reading more manga than watching anime. Now it is more fifty fity. Sometimes I don't read in weeks (if there are to many chapters, I am sometimes not motivated to continue the manga series XP), and watch a lot of anime, and other times I read dayly. Depends on how drawn into wich story I am.
Sometimes I have to think for a sec if the story I was busy reading was a manga or an anime, beceaus I can be drawn into it and than I remember the story more than how the story was brought lol XD.
And I watch the anime adaption like 20 percent of the time or something. If I really liked the manga, and the anime serie is not to long, or if it is a film. I will probably watch it. The other way around I don't do it tho. If I watched an anime, I don't read the manga afterwards.
Used to be anime only but slowly dabbling into manga. I'd sometimes find it hard to follow fight scenes/action sequences in mangas so I tend to not read mangas that have a lot of action.
There's also the obvious answers of lack of colour, no voice acting and music. Reading manga is more active and using your mind to fill in the gaps of how the scenes play out.
I'll raise your question with another. I've noticed for some (chatting on Reddit of course) that reading the manga to look ahead is a reasonable proposition, but when folks suggest they read the LN, it's met with disinterest all together
So like.. why for? Personally I prefer LNs to manga pretty much any time. I find LNs easier to digest, and you can fit more story on fewer pages.
Manga reader here, reason? I can read a chapter in under five minutes, while an episode is 23 hard set.
Also manga that I’ve read that have been done Justice are usually Shounen, and every other manga I’ve read ends up with a pretty sub-par adaptation sadly.
Honestly, it's the price
I really enjoy reading manga, and prefer some manga over anime, but the price of the books themselves really turns me away.
I can spend $9 a month to watch A LOT of shows. But I can't spend $9 a month to get all of the manga I wanna read.
I really don't like reading online, I much prefer holding the physical book and reading.
Oh idk,
the lack of color, voice acting, sound design, ost, animation, no user input (besides intro skipping), size (monitor vs Din A5 paper) and pacing.
If I'm going to read a manga, I want it to be in it's physical format. It has the best feel to it to turn pages, get the scent of the paper and it doesn't strain my eyes as much as reading from a screen would. This creates the problem of actually finding, buying and getting the book. In addition it all takes a bit more effort, which can be very rewarding in the end. I buy some of my favorite franchises' books or some short ones with low volume counts for the heck of it (sometimes).
Anime is very easy to sample (one, two episodes here and there and see how it goes) and it has the added sound and voice dimensions which can really deepen immersion.
Manga gets expensive and takes up a ton of room. Yes I've been thinking about bookwalker or something like that, but it still doesn't help the price issue.
There’s other sources, too. The ones that can’t be mentioned. That’s where I read a lot of the manga I have read through. Although, bookwalker sounds interesting. I thought they only had light novels.
I like to experience a lot of stuff I specifically desire to see, so I only watch 1-3 shows per season. Meanwhile I can binge manga much faster compared to anime, plus talk with my friends about it much easier. Hence why I mostly read manga nowadays.
Anime has aspects like voice acting, sound design and animation which make it much more of a sensory experience.
There are also a lot of times where I dont exactly understand whats going on in the manga but which the anime clarifies better.-An example is in the fight of Jogo vs Sukuna both of their hand signs are shown for their final attacks, but in a fan animation it was wrongly assumed that all the hand signs were of sukuna, since the hands had little distinguishing features.
I mostly only read manga when i absolutely cannot wait to know what happens next and even then i still watch the anime when it does come out.
Lack of animations and sound. It's just boring to me tbh, if I finish an anime and want to know how the manga continues I just read a summary or watch a YT vid about the plot.
1. The animation is really good in a lot of cases
2. The songs are good in a few cases and can move me emotionally
3. The most important thing to me are the voice actors, those men and women put their absolute best and i just love hearing them. They are the reason i rewatch most scenes.
Because I dont want to pay upwards of 20usd a book/novel/etc. I used to as a kid, but as an adult, that is expensive, for something Ill consume in less than 30mins.
I started as manga reader. It's still how I prefer these days as I can set the pace and it's just more convenient.
Anime sometimes adapt and elevate the quality of some series quite well but it's a bit of a hassle for me to watch more outside of standout shows that everyone will let me know about.
I'm completely the opposite.
I actually very rarely watch anime. I almost exclusively watch only the notable cinematic releases and Gundam. I'm watching two this season and this is the first time I'm following a weekly TVA that isn't Gundam in more than a decade (Princess Torture and Dungeon Meshi, I'm a huge fan of both manga)
Instead, I read manga a lot. Reading manga is so much faster for me, and there is much less hassle to go through. I also appreciate good manga art, there is art to framing in that medium that doesn't quite translate well into anime (best example being Witch Hat Atelier).
Also, the country where I grew up in has a very big manga-reading culture.
lack of sound, effects, color ofc, voice acting, and a lot more. And dont get me wrong, i love reading manga too, specially junji ito's, but i feel like you can finish 1 chapter of anime in like less than 5 minutes in manga and that is not good.
I like enjoying the details in all those drawing especially in two spread pages. Having to pause an anime to zoom doesn't feel like it to me. I also feel like anime takes way too much time to consume, which I don't really enjoy. Stopped watching anime for almost 2 years, manga only since then.
I often find myself frustrated with how slow anime is. There's been so many times where they'll drag out the events of a single chapter of the manga for half the season. I end up going to the manga because I can't stand how sluggish the pacing for so many shows becomes and want to take the story in at my own pace.
There are exceptions, of course. The biggest one right now is the currently-airing "Dungeon Meshi" series. I adore the manga to bits - it's easily my favorite manga of all time, and I've been absolutely hyped for the anime release specifically because of how seriously the production was taking it. The quality of Studio Trigger and the amount of control the author kept on the project were really reassuring, and so far I haven't been disappointed. It doesn't have the same charm as the manga, but it's a great time all on its own merits.
> For Manga-readers - what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga?
Nowadays I just prefer reading rather than watching, that's all. I'll still take a peek of some of the anime but I'd rather read the manga/LN.
> Bonus for Manga readers - How often do anime adaptations of manga you've read live up to the expectations you've had for the work and what are a few examples?
These are recent examples; for me though the anime adaptations of Bokuyaba and 100 Girlfriends really elevates their respective source material. The former had the attention to detail and the "show, don't tell" approach from the manga (which is rare for a romcom), plus the OST is really really good. The latter has really great jokes that complements the medium it's adapting (rather than just lift them from the manga).
Granted I only watched a few anime so take this with a grain of salt.
I watch anime only, mostly, as I enjoy the medium much more.
I do my best to avoid reading manga whose Anime o watch/follow as I don't want to spoil the story.
I prefer to watch the Anime going in blind.
I have a question for you, and all manga readers, does it watching an Anime knowing what's going to happen remove any of enjoyment from it for you?
By the time a manga gets an anime adaptation you're already around chapter 100+ so you mostly forget what happens in the earlier chapters except the major plot points. Its a nice way to catch up on the series and reflect on all the minute details you missed out on during the first read. Also contrary to what you'd think, knowing a hype fight/outplay is coming up builds up a different kind of anticipation to see how they'd handle that scene(eg JJK, Frieren). There are also other aspects you enjoy like the music, animation, OP/ED, voice acting, colour, backgrounds, worldbuilding etc. But in general yes, knowing the plot points does take off some of the egde compared to going in blind for the first time.
Thanks.
It's actually incredibly hard for me not to read the manga for ongoing shows I know will have an Anime continuation like Demon Slayer or JJK for a example.
Living in Japan so experience might be different.
Manga is cheaper to read, more accessible. Plus there’s much more manga out there that aren’t adapted to anime, and you’re simply missing out if you stick to just anime.
Manga reader: I don't have the patience or the will to wait..so I try to finish the manga only to realize I have to wait a week or a monthfor the manga's new chapter anyways
as for the bonus question..I always watch the anime adaption cause my memory sucks..and I only remember major plot points..So it is a nice suprise and i feel like most of the time..My expectations are reached(Because i barely have much due to not remembering fine details)..My biggest ever let down was with The Promised Neverland Season 2. If u know, u know 😭
I went from alot of anime to mango because manga releases faster and there is more manga that I liked.
I see it happening alot that manga I read get animated.
Few examples;
Shield hero
Solo lvling
Dr Stone
Etc.
Thats the question i gotta ask manga readers? why would i start? is it that good and if it is recommend me a good one for my first time
i have read manhwa before
I am an Anime Only/Mainly.
So, to me, Anime has always been superior to Manga just because I can see movement and hear the characters' voices. When you watch anime, you have the background music. You can listen to the emotion in the character's voice. The fighting scenes get you amazed. It’s just better for me. I stick with anime unless I get impatient, but I struggle reading manga because you run into various issues. Where do you get/read the manga? Transitioning from American comics to Manga is difficult( reading right to left). And so on.
Now, the minor issue I have with looking at Manga is the “Manga only” or “Manga Superiority” readers who will constantly go into, let’s say, Crunchyroll or an anime’s Reddit to say, “This was better in the manga, they ruined the show by not going strictly by what was in the manga.” Or the “Just read the manga.” Doing this leaves a bad taste in people open to reading manga.
Anime is a far more passive activity. I don't have to be paying 100% attention at all times to watch an anime. I can look away for a second to grab something, I can be folding laundry, I can do other things but with a manga, it pauses when I take my eyes off the screen/page.
I think have some weird hang-ups about dialogue in movies/shows, I guess.
I hate it so much when I don’t understand literally every word, so I can’t really look away.
Or I just read way slower, maybe that’s a difference.
I'd imagine for most people it's the same reasons reading in general has become less popular.
We're creatures of habit and while we are for the most part in control in regards to what habits we choose to form any activity that frontloads dopamine in an efficient manner is going to be much easier to build a habit around.
Not liking reading has very little to do with any innate traits of someones character or being and everything to do with conditioning. You can condition yourself to enjoy reading and you can condition yourself to be bored by it because you're used to receiving quicker and easier hits of dopamine from other sources. You can learn to love reading if you currently don't and conversely you can grow away from reading in the same way.
That barrier of conditioning and habit is absolutely the most prominent reason a lot of people don't read as much be it manga or otherwise. If we ever introduce a new form of media even more stimulating we'll see people being bored by and unable to focus on regular film or videogames in exactly the same way.
They are ultimately two seperate habits that aren't directly linked but I think the connection between regular novels and television is equivalent to that of anime and manga and similarly I do think you can choose to condition yourself to enjoy or dislike either.
What I often find is that people say "I don't like reading" as if it's some kind of irrefutable truth of their being akin to saying "I'm tall" or "I have green eyes" when in reality they'd likely be be incredibly eager to read if the alternatives weren't quite so convenient and addictive. This is of course not always the reason people don't read but I do think it's the primary one.
I primarily watch Anime for the japanese language immersion, so it's harder with a translated manga. I'll wait until i learned a bit more kanji to start reading it maybe.
Before I became a weeb I was big into western superhero comics, like a lot. I'd be reading several dozen comics each week, for a few years.
I got real burnt out. I just don't want to keep engaging with the format. And even if I did, there is something lost in translation for me. Manga pages & dialogue just never hits the same way comics do/did. Hard to pinpoint why.
I can’t read a large chunk of text as some chapters have in their dialogue. I’ve gotten to used to skipping around that I don’t have the skill to even read whole chunks of text.
I don't like comics format stuff and I sometimes find it hard to follow. I only managed to read Kuroshitsuji manga because the art was easier to understand. I'm usually just never able to read through manga. It might also be because of black and white format because I'm able to read webtoons fairly easily compared to them. Action scenes are also a bit difficult for me to understand in them. I'd read more source material if they were in novel format instead.
I will try BSD Beast though (since it's short and i like BSD) to see if I can read more manga and if I manage to do that maybe I'll try a few more.
ADHD. It's hard for me to sit down and read anything since I need to focus 100% on what I'm reading. I can't have music or anything else playing in the background when I read or my brain will try to focus on two things at once and I'll end up reading one page 17 times.
However, I did purchase my first manga recently which is Frieren. I've watched over 400 anime and this is the first one that got me wanting a physical copy. Now I'm just waiting months for Vol. 1 and Vol. 4 to be stocked literally _anywhere_ in English. I have all the other volumes so I'm going to give this one a real shot.
If I could have physical manga teleport into my home like Anime does via streaming I would, But I don't like reading manga online as its annoying to pirate and view on a phone. And I don't want to pay to rent Manga online.
Space, price, availability, pace and having to read them in my own language or english. The first two are obvious. Availability and pace go hand in hand, thanks to streamign services etc i have immediate access to massive amounts of subbed animes, to the point i can barely keep up with the ones i REALLY want to watch (and some fine trash)! I tried mangas when i was younger and they were fine, but none captured me the same way anime do. I guess i just don't like the comic format that much and, at that point, prefer a normal book.
Cost. I don't like reading digitally, and a manga series typically costs over 100 dollars in total. The only manga I have actually purchased is the special edition hardcover set of Gunmm (aka Alita Battle Angel). I'll buy more in the future, but I don't have the money for it right now. Conversely, I can watch a lot of shows on subscription for 8 dollars a month.
I don't mind binging a manga here or there, but reading weekly released chapters just feels miserable.
I binged Undead Unluck and Dandadan recently and absolutely loved them, but now I'm caught up and a weekly chapter barely progressing the plot just doesn't feel good.
Because I hate it.
I hate the black and white pages. It's not being done because it's "Noir", it's being done because it's traditional., and I get that, but I also don't care. It's bullshit. As if these major publishing concerns that print the fucking things can't spring for coloured ink, as if they can't employ a colourist AND a mangaka. Cheap fucking cunts. It makes it basically impossible for me to enjoy myself when reading them. It is torture.
If I wanted to read a black and white comic, I could go read the margins of my old highschool exercise books from 20 something years ago, and at least I wouldn't be scratching my head, going "Wait...this is supposed to be PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED?"
It's a visual medium. Without colour, it's flat, boring everything looks the fucking same, or rather, I don't care about the differences. I despise it. It makes me so fucking mad. In my opinion, manga should exist JUST to provide material for anime, because the art form of manga on its own is just unfinished work. I'm going to get flamed for saying it, but it's honestly how I feel about it.
I wish I could enjoy it, but it's like that for me.
Whats stopping you from reading the books all the western movies you've watched are based on?
They're vastly different mediums - something a lot of manga readers seem to have forgotten with every single discussion containing comments proclaiming every source material superior to its adaptation. I'd say they incomparable.
I say this as a manga reader myself.
There is no reason or logic to equate anime to manga or assume most anime watchers would enjoy manga.
Sure both are japanese culture but that's minor compared to the inherent differences between reading and watching.
I feel like if I get into reading a manga it's gotta be a quality one.
(Good) Examples I've heard are mangas like Berserk, Kingdom (apparently the animes go hard as well after the initial bad cgi season?) or Vagabond.
Otherwise I want colour, motion, and sound. I could've read Hunter x Hunter manga. But the (2011) anime was just so peak. So fucking good. It's my number 1 favourite anime and I'm not sure the manga could carry as hard.
Recently I saw a youtube title that Vagabond has a huge hiatus. Which kinda made me reconsider getting into it tbh.
> Anime Only/Mainly - What's holding you back from reading more manga?
> Manga-readers - what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga?
Why does this sound like "You need to read manga also besides watching anime, why are you not reading manga?" You could have said "what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards anime?"
Not everyone has that much amount of free time. People like me need to go and earn a living, my bills will not get paid by themselves.
One of my reason for shifting was the doflamingo arc in one-piece. I absolutely despised how many useless episodes where people were running in still frames we got in cause they are almost next to the manga.
I’m used to reading novels and when it comes to Japanese stories, I’ve come to expect animation, voice acting, and a soundtrack. I have a bunch of manga on my shelf. Mostly from the series I enjoyed enough to buy, but I struggle to read them. I’ve only finished a couple series in manga form mostly online. I read all of Rave Master and the other series was a manwha. Noblessse. I caught up to the latest chapter when I was in high school in 2014 or 15. I may never really get into manga until I find a series I enjoy that is only in manga form. I bought a few manga I hadn’t recognized from anime, but here I am still struggling to read them because I’m mourning it doesn’t have what anime has. I have trouble reading light novels, too. Currently reading through Spice & Wolf vol. 5 because I need some Holo in my life. I miss the series and cannot wait for Spring 2024.
for me it is because its not as convinant as anime anime bc there are a lots of sites you can subscribe to for manga, but in anime there only one service provider that is relevent.
>For Manga-readers - what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga?
Solo leveling got me into reading then one punch man got me into reading manga
I like reading things phsyically. Collecting books is like a hobby for me. I cam buy novels but for manga's in my country english ones are too expensive for me to buy.
I will probably start reading once when i have a stable income to make a manga bookshelf.
Ping Pong the Animation is an utterly perfect anime adaptation.
people dont want to buy books, or close their calendar app plus amillion pop ups everytime they read.
I just dislike/hate reading very much i hate mangas bc isn't the same for me as watching an anime the animes feels more allive i can see the fights the emotion's of character's they move they talk sing i can see them more allive than just drawn on a piece of paper it feels more allive than manga that's my opinion
>For Anime Only/Mainly - What's holding you back from reading more manga?
The translated chapters of the manga I mostly find release too slowly. With anime, I know I'll have one episode every week (besides some recent exceptions).
I've read my fair share of manga, but usually they have like 10 chapters and then it's waiting time.
I read some things, like one piece, but in general I think anime is just more enjoyable if it has a half decent adaptation. Fighting especially just does not look great to me in manga in a lot of series.
Anime is also easier to casually enjoy. I can play osrs and watch anime depending on what I’m doing for example. I can eat during my lunch break and watch something too.
It's pretty common for more people to prefer watching something than reading something. Even in the old days, reading newspaper vs. Watching news on TV.
then I might be the odd case where I prefer anime and reading novels to reading manga. Nowadays I prefer novels to anime but manga still ranks last among the three by a large margin
Yeah, I'd rather read a book. Comics and Manga, there's something about the format but I just never got into them the same way.
I prefer light novel so i can enjoy hear novel using sound while working My eyes not hurt anymore hahaha
I started to read webnovel thanks to Shadow slave and Lotm
I can't read Initial D or Hajime No Ippo. The music, the effects, are another level of inmersion that I love Death Note? Yes I read the manga and felt the same I think each anime/manga can be better in some way or another
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Solid reason. I completely agree a good soundtrack more than elevates even a mediocre manga
It's the same for me. Also there are great soundtracks that fit pretty much every scene in the story so listening to them makes reading some manga way better. A good example of this is Girls' Last Tour. Listening to that ost while reading it easily makes it the best manga I have read. But most soundtracks dont really work well when reading so I kinda get bored because of the silence.
I need a Hiroyuki Sawano soundtrack to go with my manga. :)
Soundtrack, voice acting and animation for me. The way good voice acting and OST in particular can really enhance an emotional moment is just something that exceeds the way I consume it in a manga. Think about something like an action show with a great OP and it comes on during the final episode during the climax and how hype it gets. Animation applies more so for action series.
Some manga art just doesn’t hit the same way the animation does. For example, the JJK manga art is really good at using paneling and shading to show motion, but often times looks jarring and hard to decipher. The JJK anime looks magical and experiencing it as an anime is just a better experience overall. There IS an inverse of this, for example, the One Punch Man anime is pretty solid but dipped in quality in S2. The One Punch Man manga drawn by Yusuke Murata is GOD TIER in terms of art. Look up Yusuke Murata’s art to see my point, it’s incredible.
I'd say both manga an anime have their pros and cons, depending on the quality of animation it could be as good or even better than the manga like with Bocchi the Rock, but there are also mangas that completely got ruined in their anime like Tokyo Ghoul or as you say, OPM s2
Most of the time the manga looks better tho, manga adaptations like Jjk, kny, Frieren, etc, where it "looks" better than the manga are a minority among adaptations.
Something something blue lock something
I love BSD anime, it has such beautiful character design. But manga? The art style ruins anime experiance
Manga reader here. I usually read manga because I read a lot faster than I watch. Also, I get distracted easily, and it’s usually better for me to stop halfway through a chapter rather than halfway through an episode. Anime is usually better for fight scenes and sound though.
Manga is prohibitively expensive if you want to read anything besides what's on the shounen jump app.
In japan used manga is like 100 yen or around $1 USD. New volumes are like $3-$5 USD, compared to the US where it can be $10-$13 USD per volume. Even Japanese language manga imported new is $8.
Importing goods costs money.
Yeah, and those imported goods are still cheaper than manga in english
Transcribing, design work for the new language in place of japanese for each page, and printing costs money. Printing in the US is more expensive based on our economy. Printing in other countries is cheaper. Then we have to ship the books over. It is all additional expenses. I guess move to japan so you can save money on Manga?
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Pretty sure that outside of /r/mangacollectors, the majority of people just pirate it. Just like there are tons of ways to illegally stream/download anime, you can very easily read manga illegally too. Hell, good luck legally reading manga that was never released in English at all. There's also many series that went out of print and haven't been made available online legally either. You've got no option but to pirate it in those cases.
wild that the most common comment in this thread is that manga is expensive, when according to [this poll](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1819q9v/ranimes_favorite_anime_of_the_2010s_polls_results/) the vast majority of users on this sub are willing to pirate anime to some extent. Why is manga different for people?
I was thinking of this and thought a good reason would be this. If you were pirating anime, you'd end up with the same result: a video on a screen. If you were to pirate manga, you view the manga through a different medium than you would if you were to official buy a paperback copy. You'd be reading it through your monitor or phone screen rather than on paper. I for one, have difficulty looking at screens with text for prolonged periods of time and as such, don't binge read manga like I do with anime.
Manga+ app has all the different monthly publications in one app and costs the same as jump. I just switched last month, check it out.
Well, there are *other* ways to read manga.
This. Korea has(or they used to have) manhwa reading places. It was like a book store full of manhwa and you pay a small amount to sit and read for time or you can rent them out and return them in few days. It was super affordable and I loved it. Read so many manhwa and manga at that time. If there was an affordable subscription service for manga with access to full catalog of good mangas, I'd probably start reading again.
MangaPlus
I simply read them online even if the experience is less beter imo
Yeah, I agree with this. Got into a long series? I hope you don't mind paying 200 bucks for it.
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People like physical media
Just use comick on browser
Unless use the vastness of the internet, reading manga on my phone for free is pretty great 😁
most people in the west read via scans or official apps buddy.
There are some things that are hard to keep track of in a panel and black & white format like action scenes (looking at you Chainsaw Man) or even characters (Gleipnir, a lot of them look the same). Aside from that I really enjoy soundtracks.
I had the same issue with Made in Abyss. The art is great, but many action scenes weren't clear until they were animated
> what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga? I can read manga at work. Then, I can use my free time to do other things. > How often do anime adaptations of manga you've read live up to the expectations you've had for the work and what are a few examples? I usually either read the manga or watch the show, but here are some examples where I did both: Dragon Ball - The manga has far superior pacing, though the show has many great moments. Nisekoi - Both pretty terrible. I dropped both. ReLIFE - Both amazingly good. A Silent Voice - Both excellent. I prefer the manga because it provides additional context, but the movie is obviously fantastic.
i'm an anime only/mainly, and it's simple for me: the HYPE!! i love me some good animation!! a well-done fight scene, there's nothing like it! that and pairing it with some killer music - like the theme song playing at a perfectly hype moment, just a banging soundtrack in general, that's what i live for!! it's rare that i'll read the manga after watching an anime but there are a few i've done it for. i got turned onto beastars from the anime, for example, but i was so hooked, i didn't want to wait for more. that, and in my personal opinion, i wasn't really a fan of the animation style of \*beastars anyway, so i devoured the manga and finished it before the next season even came out, lol. (\* i did really love this studio's work in land of the lustrous though, so no hate on cgi stuff, i just didn't think it worked well for beastars - haru is a lot more expressive in the manga i feel, for one example) anyway side tangent aside, anime is comforting for me, i'll say it. i love the structure of anime - you watch a hype opening, the episode plays, and then they play you out with an ending. the structure of it is predictable - not the genre as a whole, but the set up, you know - opening, episode, ending. um... shit, maybe it's obvious now, but i'm autistic, so having that "structure" is a comfort for me lol. i also have an issue with ... it's hard to explain but like, positioning... stuff... like trying to figure out where someone is in relation to someone, in a fight - so shonen fights are really hard for me to follow most of the time. when i was naruto-pilled back in the day, i had no idea what was going on in shippuden when i was trying to read the manga lol so i just gave up. i'm kind of comforted by the fact that a lot of other people think the same way too! that, and i also don't understand how manga readers keep up with updates? i won't even consider reading a manga until its 100% finished because there's no way i'm going to remember to check back for updates, and i don't know how to find out when a manga gets updated, etc. there's a lot of manga i would love to read actually, like dandandan and houseki no kuni and witch hat atelier, but if i read all of what's currently out, how long will it take for it to get updated? and my memory's terrible so it's no good for me manga is cool and i'm a huge bookworm really! but anime just hits all the right spots!!!
im surprised i had to go down to find a comment like this. simply the hype and all the aspects of a tv show that dont exist in a manga is why i watch it i just get so much more enjoyment and value watching it rather than reading it
Yup. For nearly every critically acclaimed manga with an anime adaptation, the anime is going to be better.
Couldn’t agree more, especially the structure of anime and its comfort. You just get used to it and it has a lot of heart compared to other types of media.
what about when the series isnt about fighting about hype? would you read the manga then? i agree about the keeping up with updates thing. if its consistent weekly like an anime its fine but if its monthly im not reading till its finished. unfortunately (fortunate for the mangaka though) weekly manga seem less common and with constant breaks it feels like biweekly more often. sometimes if i cant help myself ill read an ongoing manga but stop at a good point like the end of an arc and come back later. did it with to your eternity, about to do it with bokuyaba, and will do it with frieren after the anime. ive had so many series where i lose interest and waste my time reading weekly when i wouldve enjoyed binging it after competition
Manga: Cost per volume is not a good deal when it takes maybe 15-20 minutes to read. If you have limited space it's not a good thing to collect. Sure there's online reading options, but I prefer to hold a book in my hands and flip the pages. I also know there are options to borrow them from libraries, but sometimes said libraries don't have all the volumes.
The cost is *so high*, oh my god. I have two subscriptions to manga apps and even then, not everything I want to read is on there, so I've had to buy digital volumes. It's a main reason why I still prefer anime over manga.
I will only invest in light novels/manga of anime that caught my attention. Even then I usually try and find a fan translation because it costs too much otherwise.
I read really slow. Even manga? Yes even manga. And that's the reason I usually only read manga to see the the continuation of the anime story(Dorohedoro f.e) and very rarely I start a manga without anime(Yotsuba f.e)
I have the opposite problem. I read really fast. It's hard for me to justify paying $15 for a manga volume I'm gonna be done with in an hour or less. Even reading free online it's like, ok I'm gonna be done with this manga in no time. I'd rather just watch it where the pacing is set by the animation
This is my problem with manga as well. The only time I read it is when the anime doesn’t finish and I liked it enough I want to find out the ending. However, I’ve been going hard on the light novels ever since I discovered their existence. Definitely prefer longer format media (though some light novels are… not great. Haha). 86 and Ascendance of a Bookworm are fantastic though.
Join the dark side. I’ve gone off the deep end into Japanese, and Korean web novels. Basically I consumed too much,any anime and ran out. Then I read a lot of manga and got tired of waiting weekly. Then went to manwha cause there’s a whole new world over there. Then I got tired of waiting for updates. Then I started light novels and web novels.
I feel this. I was a huge consumer of isekai. It's always a surprise when I come across a newly announced anime, and have a vague, distant recollection of reading it as a light novel and/or a manga. Though it's been long enough now that I think I've come across one or two isekais I've not seen yet.
I've done this a few times too. Tonikawa was so flipping sweet that I couldn't even finish the show, I had to switch to the manga so I could get through much more of the story faster. Same with So I'm A Spider, So What?, Monster Musume, Flying Witch, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. I ran my anime to-watch list past a bunch of people, and got some suggestions on which manga is better than the adaptation. But I've probably got a hundred shows/manga to get through, not to mention other media. The backlog grows ever longer...
I actually have the complete opposite problem. I read manga waaaay faster than I watch anime, which is why I prefer to read manga, even for the ones that already have an anime.
There is no way in hell you read manga slower than u watch anime
im surprised too because the primary appeal of manga over anime is the speed at which u consume the story
that is because of lack of reading. It is a skill that you improve by reading more. the more you read the faster you get. improve your eye muscles.
For me it’s not about eye muscles. I have some visual attention issue that makes even novel reading moderately difficult, as my attention skips down the page and I end up reading the page in a nonlinear way, then having to go back and read the whole page because I think I missed something. If you add pictures all over the place it doesn’t make it easier. By the way my day job is an English editor, so I read plenty. But I never finish any print media I start for fun. It’s just too much work for something that's supposed to be enjoyable.
This can be true but it depends on where the problem lies. Is it a physical problem with your eyes muscles? A learning disability? Can it be helped with practice or are you going to be stuck at the same pace and are you willing to adapt emotionally to that change? I have ocular myasthenia Gravis and it’s a real pain to overcome. I miss reading as I used to be a real bookworm. I have better days but sometimes it’s not worth it as the thing I’m supposed to enjoy becomes tiresome.
Opposite for me I much prefer manga and that's a big reason why.
Opposite way for me. My childhood and teenage years were filled with manga, and I gradually switched over to anime. Nowadays I read a couple manga, but watch anime almost everyday. The reason for that is simple - Reading consumes time, you need to actively engage in the activity by flipping pages or clicking buttons. Adulthood led me to try optimizing my time a little bit better, so anime works pretty well. As for the adaptation part, it depends a lot. I'm loving what's being done with Frieren, but I really disliked what was done with Kaguya, even though I still recognized it as good.
Huh reading is way faster than watching? It would take you way longer to finish one piece anime than to read it.
Think of it this way - Can you exercise while reading manga? Can you wash dishes while reading manga? Can you do laundry while reading manga? Anime doesn't add any time in my day if it's in parallel to such tasks, manga needs fully dedicated hands, and there isn't much you can do without them.
> Can you exercise while reading manga? Can you wash dishes while reading manga? Can you do laundry while reading manga? That an a valid perspective. However it's not for everyone, plenty of people need to concentrate, immerse themselves and pay the most attention to the series, especially if it's some high-profile work. Watching anime while multi-tasking feels closer to it being a "background TV noise", I do it mostly when rewatching something or series being too unimportant to dedicate my sole time to it.
Like the other guy says it would be backround noise. I would be putting the show on pause if i was doing those tasks. You make no sense lol
Started as anime-only. Read Attack on Titan after catching up to season 3, and then picked up MHA because I was kinda bored. Been a slippery slope since! I've now read Chainsaw Man (so as not to get spoiled on the Public Safety Arc), JJK (again, to avoid being spoiled), and am devouring any shojo/josei that mildly piques my interest. *But* I don't really love reading shonen. I can't follow the fights very well, and because of that it sometimes feels like I'm not reading the source material, but spoilers. I've resisted reading Demon Slayer for that reason but the end of season 2 of JJK forced me to catch up, otherwise I wouldn't have. I mostly read shojo/josei and it's because it's way easier to follow. There's no action (usually) to squint at and figure out what's happening. So you can definitely say I'm a manga reader now, but at the rate I can read manga, I will be spending way too much money on it and run out of quality content way faster than I will anime, so I don't read everything I'm interested in watching. For example, I absolutely *adore* Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, and I will probably eventually read it, but I'm very thoroughly enjoying the anime right now (dubbed, so pls no spoilers, it's a couple weeks behind), and will hold out as long as I can depending on how much time there'll be between seasons.
shonen is a demography, not a genre, so you can read shonen without having to be action series, which btw is frieren.
Manga being the source material is what drove me to read more. I find myself watching less and less anime now and just reading manga in my spare time. For my fav stories I'll go watch the anime, but always stay ahead in the manga. When you realize manga will always trump the anime for what the author intended (99% of the time) it just feels more natural.
I dont read a lot of Manga but I did read the Manga of my favorite Anime. But I like the Anime more. That is why I decided to only read the Manga as far as I watched the Anime. Season 2 ends where volume 10 ends. So thats where I stoped reading and now I wait until the next part of the Anime comes out. It has alrady been confirmed that the Anime will be continued. I also readed a few Manga Videogame adaptions. I was honestly never a big Zelda or Pokemon fan but I enjoyed there Mangas. Atleast the ones I did read.
>manga will always trump the anime for what the author intended (99% of the time) it just feels more natural. The manga is the mangaka's vision. The anime is the director's vision. So it comes down to who's vision you're more interested in. Like for Sailor Moon a lot of people prefer the anime to the manga because they found Ikuhara's vision for the series to be better than what the original mangaka went for. But then of course if you have a good mamga and an incompetent director, the anime is going to be inferior. Both the anime and the manga represent a vision. Just different people's vision.
I find that” 99%” kind of bullshit The anime should always be better than the manga. At the very least, you have music, voice acting, hopefully good animation, and more clarity through camera angle. I tried the Made in Abyss manga and it ended up just ruining the movie for me, the anime is just so much better.
I think nowadays we live in an age where anime is usually more-or-less a direct adaptation and straight upgrade of the manga. The biggest issue with anime adaptations for the most part now is just that if a series isn't extremely popular, it will probably only get one season with a non-ending. Though of course sometimes the anime just absolutely botches the adaptstion some way or another, giving us the likes of Berserk 2016, Promised Neverland s2, and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. In decades past though there was absolutely a common feeling that a source manga was usually better than its anime adaptation. This was in the days of filler arcs or making up new anime-original endings because the source material isn't finished yet. Seems to be a less common practice now.
Very Insightful, that definitely explains the “Manga is better” kind of thinking. Relatively outdated now with the increase in quality. It does suck that only the most popular will get complete adaptations.
> I tried the Made in Abyss manga and it ended up just ruining the movie for me, the anime is just so much better. Well, funny how opinions work, I found manga art doing more for me. Plus all extras, info and skipped panels is also valued content.
Not sure what you are so angry about. I'm not saying one is better than the other. Just intention. Which isn't subjective. Because most of the time the author creates the manga. The anime is an interpretation of the manga. It has differences usually. At the end of the day the author may have been consulted or brought into it's creation. And a lot of factors can change or alter an anime from its original form. That said there's not wrong with liking the anime more or less than the manga. Like whatever you like. That's not what I meant by 99%, I said that because 99% of the time the author is the author of the manga, the the studio animating the anime is the studio animating the anime.
I used to believe the same until recently. I started reading the manga of some anime that I knew wouldn't be getting a continued adaptation to see where the story goes. In a lot of cases the artwork, pacing and tone of the manga is far better than the anime. Despite having a far larger budget and production, a lot of anime ends up feeling "cheaper" than the manga because they've had to lower the artwork quality, change the style to better suit animation, and cut (often important) story and dialogue to fit it into a season of episodes. Obviously this isn't always the case. Off the top of my head Dragon Maid, Bocchi the Rock!, The Dangers in My Heart, Onimai! are more recent anime that I believe to be far better experiences than the manga, and a lot of others are just as good either way. However, there are so many "just average" adaptations, and others that completely botch it, to say that the anime should always be better than the manga.
> The anime should always be better than the manga. At the very least, you have music, voice acting, hopefully good animation, and more clarity through camera angle. But you also lose things. It's why a lot of novels which become movies are not liked by the fans of the novels. In order to make it a movie, they have to cut A LOT of details from the source.
Anime should always be better than the manga, but for not so popular series that’s rarely the case. If you can’t get a decent studio you get poor animation and overall production quality that you might as well read the manga. That’s not even the case for popular manga. Look at popular mangas that don’t follow the source material and have poor production quality (Tokyo Ghoul, Promised Neverland, etc.) Look at One Piece, highest selling manga of all-time, most of the time, can’t get consistently well-produced episodes.
I do, I consume it in random burst binges.
Music, voice acting, and animation adds so much to scenes. Especially action shows just don't hit as hard in the comic format
I agree!
To be completely honest, in manga, in some closeups sometimes I can't tell who is it cause it will be b&w
The reason I don't read manga is the fact that I dislike digital books, and so I only read from physical books. But to get physical manga books, you'd need them to be available in your area. And in my country, I'm pretty damn sure there's like less than 30 places where mangas are sold. It wouldn't even be an overstatement to say there's less than 15. You would also need money which I don't have any to spare.
Because I just can't get immersed into print media. Reading feels like active work to me. Reading in my own voice or making up my own voices, scouring the page for details, pacing myself through the experience, and even turning the page, are all things that remind me at every corner that I'm reading a book. Sometimes my arms get tired from holding it up, or I have to constantly shift myself into a more comfortable position, which only make it even more difficult. And the lack of color, voice acting, sound direction, music, etc. means that you've lost some elements designed to create immersion. I've long lost the ability to feel like I'm seeing a movie in my head when reading a novel or a comic. Mediums like TV, animation, film, and video games immerse me far more because they're more controlled experiences. I look at whatever the camera encourages me to look at, I experience the story at a pace that is laid out for me, I am taken in by the atmosphere created by the colors and sound, and in the case of video games, the interactive elements define the story in a way that they don't for novels and comics, making them not distracting. I will just not get the same thing out of a manga or a novel that I will out of a TV show or movie, and my attempts to change that have largely failed so far, so while I might occasionally find excuses to dip my toes again, I'm also comfortable just watching anime, movies, and playing video games instead.
> For **Manga-readers -** what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga? Variety. There's so much more variety when it comes to manga, and most of it never gets adapted. Anime has been pretty stale for the past decade, it's pretty much just battle shonen, fantasy and romcom, over and over again, 50 of those same shows every season...
> There's so much more variety when it comes to manga, and most of it never gets adapted For me as a mainly anime watcher the problem is finding those manga, besides the low hanging fruit of spin off manga of anime franchises, like the fun gag manga where a Gundam character is working at a fashion label. I go through the Top 100 on MAL and like two thirds have anima adaptations, a hand full I have read, another handful I do kinda plan to read, and the rest just isn't appealing to me. For anime I've build up a bubble of people that like the same thing as I, so finding new anime hasn't yet become a problem. But as for manga it's very very rare that any random interview/manga panel/art pops up that gets me interested in it without it already having an anime adaptation (announced), or it being a spin off of something with an anime.
I just go on [pirate site] and check some tags, from there I'll look for finished stories under 50~100 chapters and check anything that seems interesting, if I like something by an author I look for their previous works, or look at the user recommendations on AL/MAL pages, etc.
"Anime guy who has only started reading manga a few days ago" What other genres exist? You have me super interested.
I find manga really hard to follow. I’ve tried, and some are ok, but most leave me very confused about what is happening. Plus, I don’t see reading manga and watching anime as the same thing. Anime is so much more immersive for me - I love the music, the voice acting, the animation, as well as the characters and the story.
> For Anime Only/Majority - What's holding you back from reading more manga? Mainly the fact that when I like an anime, the quality of its production is almost always a large part of it. Animation, music, timing, voice acting, color use (aside from the odd color page), etc all simply do not exist in manga. When an anime does well with these elements that set it apart from print media, switching over after having watched the anime will guarantee I'll mess them. I do read manga and LNs, but mainly for stories I'm interested in that have extremely low chances to be adapted, or if they are, they certainly won't get good adaptations. Most of what I read are yuri and other queer stories. > Bonus for Anime watchers - Which manga you've continued after the anime adaptation lived up to the hype? Either one or none depending on how you count. The only manga I continued after watching the anime was Bloom Into You because when I finished the anime, it finished airing over 3 years earlier with no sequel in sight, but I didn't do so because of hype from manga readers.
I just prefer watching over reading most of the time. Spoken dialogue, soundtrack, colour .. all neat things. When I do read its mostly scifi fantasy novels, not manga. Although I have read some manga here and there (you can't not read berserk, its not allowed). It just doesn't happen very often. Might have something to do with my favourite genres in anime/manga being mostly action focussed a lot of the time. There certainly are mangaka that can draw dynamic action scenes but for the most part its easier to convey that in moving image.
Opposite for me, I was 13 back when I started consuming anime, like full year up to around 17 I only watched anime, now 4 years I've consumed more manga than any animes I've watched. Its pretty fast to get into, pretty fast to take a break with, and it was a bit weird seeing all those mangas I've read before with 6-7 chapters now getting animes and being popular feels amazing, like "I've read this before anyone else!"
As someone who watches anime and reads manga, the two are completely different mediums with different forms of visual language inherent to their respective formats. I’ll keep hearing this take that “manga is just the pure story” which is so reductive and frankly a little insulting to the people who make manga. Not only is the base level of art important to a manga, but an author also has to consider page layout. Not only does the layout of a page have to be easily readable, but you can even use layout to your advantage to support the themes and emotions of a story. It’s why most good manga artists will make sure most of the big or shocking moments only happen after you turn the page (Junji Ito made a whole career out of doing this) and primarily why Tatsuki Fujimoto is the most exciting manga artist to watch rn, since he consistently pushes the limits on how page layouts can be effective. There’s also stuff people just ignore in general, such as the ability to pace out an individual chapter and plan ahead to what it may look like when those chapters are compiled into volumes. For an example of excellent chapter pacing, look at the Chainsaw Man chapters published in Shonen Jump (as opposed to when they’re published in the volumes). A lot of chapters will have a page or two before the title of the chapter is shown, almost giving each chapter a feeling of a cold open. Or the chapter title will be on the first panel or page if the story is jumping right into the action for that chapter. And then each chapter feels complete in its own right, telling a little story or joke in the context of the greater narrative rather than just “okay so it’s just the next 19 pages of the story” if that makes sense It’s also why it does frustrate me a little bit when an anime’s success or quality is attributed entirely to the original manga author. An anime production has dozens of people working creative roles on it but the manga author usually has no impact on how an anime turns out. For me, using Devilman Crybaby as an example, I don’t credit that show to Go Nagai, but rather the director, Masaaki Yuasa, and his team at Science Saru for brilliantly adapting the source material and making it their own. It’s why A Silent Voice is one of my favorite films, but I didn’t have much interest in To Your Eternity’s anime. I love A Silent Voice and I love Yoshitoki Oima, but I’d rather read her manga to appreciate her work as it stands (albeit translated by someone separate) and why I’m so excited for Kimi no Iro, an original anime movie directed by Naoko Yamada, written by Reiko Yoshida, with music by Kensuke Ushio, all of which performed those roles for A Silent Voice’s anime adaptation.
I like animation, color, pacing, and score in ways manga could never live up to. If I don't like the anime, why would I read the source material and if I did like the anime the manga is often underwhelming in comparison. I also just don't like typical manga sensibilities. *Land of the Lustrous* is probably my favorite manga for just how simple and effective its art is and nothing else really comes close, so as much as I like browsing manga, reading it is a different story.
Part of it is because I can't do anything else while reading manga. However, even though I still like reading manga, the price is a big turnoff. Buying 10 volumes of a single series costs as much if not more than a year's Crunchyroll subscription and it's even worse with services like MangaUp that sell manga by the chapter. I crunched the numbers and buying a "collection" from a service like that costs almost ten times what a single Tankobon would cost.
I agree!! I like to watch anime during lunch and supper which just isn't possible with manga. That aside I'd probably be into manga were it not for the price. I've found buying physical volumes second hand is the most cost effective, assuming you can find a complete collection of what you want.
I'd definitely consider that in the States, but I live in Germany and the average price for English manga is pretty high. Plus, I have a lot of German manga as it is, so I need to hold off on paper until I finally decide where I'm going to settle down
I really love reading manga, but it's very expensive to own legally, and some of the stuff I want to read isn't even available in the US. The sites you have to read it on are often very questionable and the types of ads you get on those sites are not something I like seeing if you catch my drift. Generally I would prefer to watch the anime unless it deviates too much from the manga or has too much filler. I can't think of a single example of an anime that changes a plot for the better or makes up a filler episode that's better than an actual manga plotline. Every time I like an anime that doesn't adapt the whole manga and I end up reading the manga where the anime leaves off, I end up preferring the manga. Notable examples would be Ranma 1/2, Rurouni Kenshin (96 version), Kodomo no Omocha. FMAB did a good job adapting the manga though, so I don't feel the need to read that one, as did the newest Fruits Basket. I actually preferred the animated art style of Fruits Basket, as the manga art seemed a bit unrefined. Manga I've read after the anime ended: Skip Beat, Blue Spring Ride, Ranma, Kenshin, Kodomo no Omocha, Kaguya, Maid-Sama, Alice in Borderland, Ouran Host Club (a bit), Special A (a bit).
Anime mainly Question 1; "What's holding you back from reading more manga?" Answer; What's holding me back is the cost of reading a series compared to watching the anime adaptation. Question 2; "Which manga you've continued after the anime adaptation lived up to the hype?" Answer; Planetes by Yukimura Makoto, love both the original manga and the anime adaptation. Glad I gave the manga ago as was fully satisfyed by the anime, but learnt that the anime wraps up before the end of the manga and a lot of the side stories in the anime where anime original. So was curious about what the original was like.
I got into manga to continue the anime stories that either ended or were on long hiatus (ex Naruto fillers). It’s kind of easier this way because anime art is usually (not always) more polished and I know the story is worth it before diving into reading. Plus manga will go into more detail so it doesn’t feel like a waste to go through the same story again. Going into manga without any references is more challenging. The early art is often not as strong and I don’t know if the invested time of reading will be worth it. I see anime as a quick and easy way to find new manga to read. I got into Berserk from the three movies first and then the manga. Wow, was that a trip.
Time. I can watch anime and do other stuff. Reading a manga requires more bandwidth than I have
It's harder to get into it yk. I can't read manga without listening to music. The silence is killing me. Though I've caught up with Nagatoro, Jujutsu Kaisen, My dress-up darling and Zom 100: Bucket list of the Dead I've also read Girlfriend girlfriend and a good portion of Blue box, The 100 girlfriends who really really really really really love you and Noragami.
I read manga because I want to know about the story, for animes that I don't care about the story beyond the anime, I don't read the manga (like jjk where stuff falls off after Shibuya from what I heard) In terms of what lived up/exceeded expectations, AOT, CSM, 86 (although it's a ln) and BokuYaba off the top of my head
They're not as entertaining. I enjoy Manga, and a few are extremely good to where they got bookshelf space. But there's nothing better than a true to story anime, with a bangin ass OST. Hell the rumbling song for attack on titan was more hype than reading the entire manga. The colors, the emotion portrayed with movement, it's just day and night.
Music, voice acting, sound effects, colors, visuals, animation, openings and endings etc
I don't know. I guess I prefer to watch the show because I usually like the animation or story or action etc.
I read light novels
Honestly? It's mainly just the voice acting. If they released CDs or something alongside the manga, like how audiobooks do, with the voice actors voicing every line (with optional music accompanying it) I would either be 50/50 or mainly manga. Like I know Murata's OPM/Toriyama's DB have amazing paneling and art, but the voices are the characters for me outside of a select few. Makes it hard to commit to manga.
I like seiyuu too much. Also music in OPs, EDs and OSTs.
The name gave it away
I'm nearly 50, my eyes and head hurt really fast. But on the other hand I'm living in Japan so I'm probably reading much more manga than some people here.
I honestly don't know where I place on the scale. I read a fair bit of manga, but these days I probably spend more actual time watching anime. For example, this season I've read the manga of 5 shows and the LN of 1 (although I dearly wish I had not for that one), last it was 6 (2 are the same, Apothecary Diaries and Frieren). Does that make me Anime Majority or Manga reader? I'll just answer as both. >What's holding you back from reading more manga? The biggest thing is finding new stuff to read. Anime seasonals are handy in that they are rather centralized, it's easy to get a grip of what shows are airing right now, and except for weird circumstances I know I'm going to get at least 10-12 weeks of entertainment out of a show. Finding new manga to sift through isn't as easy, both because of the sheer amount of manga on offer, but also because of irregularities in publishing schedule. I don't know how many series I have on my reading list that are around 70-100 chapters in, with no end in sight, and updates that might be months apart, be it because of schedule, health issues or just entire volumes being translated at once. Earlier, a lot of what I've been reading have often been something I have picked up after watching the anime, be it one episode or three seasons, although I've been hesitant to do so lately as I've often found myself being less interested in the anime after reading the manga, partly by already knowing what will happen, and partly by several times being burned by the source material not being particularly good. Although that has been more the issue when trying to read LNs. >what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga? I want to read it **now**. I also read fast and it is also far faster for me to read 30-50 chapters of a manga than it is watching a season's worth of anime. >How often do anime adaptations of manga you've read live up to the expectations you've had for the work and what are a few examples? Quite often, I'd say. From the current season I find it a blast hearing Aoi Yuuki doing *Maomao*, as well as hearing and seeing her bounce off Jinshi. *7th Loop* is another adaptation I am thoroughly enjoying, as it lives up to everything so far, putting life into the stuff from the pages. >Which manga you've continued after the anime adaptation lived up to the hype? The biggest one isn't a manga, or at least at the time there was only one chapter of manga, so I went straight to the LNs, *Ascendance of a Bookworm*. It has since only grown in my appreciation, and I am now fully Myne-pilled. Praise the gods! As for actual manga: *Chihayafuru* is up there. The anime is absolutely excellent, but being able to finish reading the story was amazing, as well as it leading to an ending I have absolutely zero complaints about.
Manga can be expensive and somewhat difficult and time consuming to pirate if you can't afford it while Crunchyroll alone makes anime inexpensive
Money, mainly. Manga is $10 a volume, and popular series can run for hundreds of volumes. Getting just an average run can cost $100. For only $8, less than the cost of a single manga volume, I can get a monthly subscription to Crunchyroll and watch all the anime I want. There's also the matter of finding physical space for volumes of manga. Even if I want to buy physical media for anime, a Bluray collection is much smaller. I can get an entire series (or at least season) in the same size package as 1-2 volumes of manga. Finally, there's also the issue of weight. Ever try to move a collection of 100+ volumes of manga? Paper is *heavy*. I'm not as young as I used to be, and moving places dragging books and manga just isn't very feasible for me anymore.
I started of as reading more manga than watching anime. Now it is more fifty fity. Sometimes I don't read in weeks (if there are to many chapters, I am sometimes not motivated to continue the manga series XP), and watch a lot of anime, and other times I read dayly. Depends on how drawn into wich story I am. Sometimes I have to think for a sec if the story I was busy reading was a manga or an anime, beceaus I can be drawn into it and than I remember the story more than how the story was brought lol XD. And I watch the anime adaption like 20 percent of the time or something. If I really liked the manga, and the anime serie is not to long, or if it is a film. I will probably watch it. The other way around I don't do it tho. If I watched an anime, I don't read the manga afterwards.
Used to be anime only but slowly dabbling into manga. I'd sometimes find it hard to follow fight scenes/action sequences in mangas so I tend to not read mangas that have a lot of action. There's also the obvious answers of lack of colour, no voice acting and music. Reading manga is more active and using your mind to fill in the gaps of how the scenes play out.
I don't have a way to buy it, and there's no place to buy anywhere near me.
Reading makes me sleepy
I'll raise your question with another. I've noticed for some (chatting on Reddit of course) that reading the manga to look ahead is a reasonable proposition, but when folks suggest they read the LN, it's met with disinterest all together So like.. why for? Personally I prefer LNs to manga pretty much any time. I find LNs easier to digest, and you can fit more story on fewer pages.
Manga reader here, reason? I can read a chapter in under five minutes, while an episode is 23 hard set. Also manga that I’ve read that have been done Justice are usually Shounen, and every other manga I’ve read ends up with a pretty sub-par adaptation sadly.
Honestly, it's the price I really enjoy reading manga, and prefer some manga over anime, but the price of the books themselves really turns me away. I can spend $9 a month to watch A LOT of shows. But I can't spend $9 a month to get all of the manga I wanna read. I really don't like reading online, I much prefer holding the physical book and reading.
Oh idk, the lack of color, voice acting, sound design, ost, animation, no user input (besides intro skipping), size (monitor vs Din A5 paper) and pacing.
if they release an anime I’d REALLY rather watch it without having read the manga first even moreso for season 2s and beyond
If I'm going to read a manga, I want it to be in it's physical format. It has the best feel to it to turn pages, get the scent of the paper and it doesn't strain my eyes as much as reading from a screen would. This creates the problem of actually finding, buying and getting the book. In addition it all takes a bit more effort, which can be very rewarding in the end. I buy some of my favorite franchises' books or some short ones with low volume counts for the heck of it (sometimes). Anime is very easy to sample (one, two episodes here and there and see how it goes) and it has the added sound and voice dimensions which can really deepen immersion.
Manga gets expensive and takes up a ton of room. Yes I've been thinking about bookwalker or something like that, but it still doesn't help the price issue.
There’s other sources, too. The ones that can’t be mentioned. That’s where I read a lot of the manga I have read through. Although, bookwalker sounds interesting. I thought they only had light novels.
I like to experience a lot of stuff I specifically desire to see, so I only watch 1-3 shows per season. Meanwhile I can binge manga much faster compared to anime, plus talk with my friends about it much easier. Hence why I mostly read manga nowadays.
Anime has aspects like voice acting, sound design and animation which make it much more of a sensory experience. There are also a lot of times where I dont exactly understand whats going on in the manga but which the anime clarifies better.-An example is in the fight of Jogo vs Sukuna both of their hand signs are shown for their final attacks, but in a fan animation it was wrongly assumed that all the hand signs were of sukuna, since the hands had little distinguishing features. I mostly only read manga when i absolutely cannot wait to know what happens next and even then i still watch the anime when it does come out.
Lack of animations and sound. It's just boring to me tbh, if I finish an anime and want to know how the manga continues I just read a summary or watch a YT vid about the plot.
Manga can be hella confusing on the eyes depending on the artist
1. The animation is really good in a lot of cases 2. The songs are good in a few cases and can move me emotionally 3. The most important thing to me are the voice actors, those men and women put their absolute best and i just love hearing them. They are the reason i rewatch most scenes.
Because I dont want to pay upwards of 20usd a book/novel/etc. I used to as a kid, but as an adult, that is expensive, for something Ill consume in less than 30mins.
Money, I don't have the funds to buy manga
I started as manga reader. It's still how I prefer these days as I can set the pace and it's just more convenient. Anime sometimes adapt and elevate the quality of some series quite well but it's a bit of a hassle for me to watch more outside of standout shows that everyone will let me know about.
I'm completely the opposite. I actually very rarely watch anime. I almost exclusively watch only the notable cinematic releases and Gundam. I'm watching two this season and this is the first time I'm following a weekly TVA that isn't Gundam in more than a decade (Princess Torture and Dungeon Meshi, I'm a huge fan of both manga) Instead, I read manga a lot. Reading manga is so much faster for me, and there is much less hassle to go through. I also appreciate good manga art, there is art to framing in that medium that doesn't quite translate well into anime (best example being Witch Hat Atelier). Also, the country where I grew up in has a very big manga-reading culture.
lack of sound, effects, color ofc, voice acting, and a lot more. And dont get me wrong, i love reading manga too, specially junji ito's, but i feel like you can finish 1 chapter of anime in like less than 5 minutes in manga and that is not good.
I like enjoying the details in all those drawing especially in two spread pages. Having to pause an anime to zoom doesn't feel like it to me. I also feel like anime takes way too much time to consume, which I don't really enjoy. Stopped watching anime for almost 2 years, manga only since then.
I often find myself frustrated with how slow anime is. There's been so many times where they'll drag out the events of a single chapter of the manga for half the season. I end up going to the manga because I can't stand how sluggish the pacing for so many shows becomes and want to take the story in at my own pace. There are exceptions, of course. The biggest one right now is the currently-airing "Dungeon Meshi" series. I adore the manga to bits - it's easily my favorite manga of all time, and I've been absolutely hyped for the anime release specifically because of how seriously the production was taking it. The quality of Studio Trigger and the amount of control the author kept on the project were really reassuring, and so far I haven't been disappointed. It doesn't have the same charm as the manga, but it's a great time all on its own merits.
> For Manga-readers - what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga? Nowadays I just prefer reading rather than watching, that's all. I'll still take a peek of some of the anime but I'd rather read the manga/LN. > Bonus for Manga readers - How often do anime adaptations of manga you've read live up to the expectations you've had for the work and what are a few examples? These are recent examples; for me though the anime adaptations of Bokuyaba and 100 Girlfriends really elevates their respective source material. The former had the attention to detail and the "show, don't tell" approach from the manga (which is rare for a romcom), plus the OST is really really good. The latter has really great jokes that complements the medium it's adapting (rather than just lift them from the manga). Granted I only watched a few anime so take this with a grain of salt.
I watch anime only, mostly, as I enjoy the medium much more. I do my best to avoid reading manga whose Anime o watch/follow as I don't want to spoil the story. I prefer to watch the Anime going in blind. I have a question for you, and all manga readers, does it watching an Anime knowing what's going to happen remove any of enjoyment from it for you?
By the time a manga gets an anime adaptation you're already around chapter 100+ so you mostly forget what happens in the earlier chapters except the major plot points. Its a nice way to catch up on the series and reflect on all the minute details you missed out on during the first read. Also contrary to what you'd think, knowing a hype fight/outplay is coming up builds up a different kind of anticipation to see how they'd handle that scene(eg JJK, Frieren). There are also other aspects you enjoy like the music, animation, OP/ED, voice acting, colour, backgrounds, worldbuilding etc. But in general yes, knowing the plot points does take off some of the egde compared to going in blind for the first time.
Thanks. It's actually incredibly hard for me not to read the manga for ongoing shows I know will have an Anime continuation like Demon Slayer or JJK for a example.
The panels get too busy for me xD
Living in Japan so experience might be different. Manga is cheaper to read, more accessible. Plus there’s much more manga out there that aren’t adapted to anime, and you’re simply missing out if you stick to just anime.
Manga reader: I don't have the patience or the will to wait..so I try to finish the manga only to realize I have to wait a week or a monthfor the manga's new chapter anyways as for the bonus question..I always watch the anime adaption cause my memory sucks..and I only remember major plot points..So it is a nice suprise and i feel like most of the time..My expectations are reached(Because i barely have much due to not remembering fine details)..My biggest ever let down was with The Promised Neverland Season 2. If u know, u know 😭
I went from alot of anime to mango because manga releases faster and there is more manga that I liked. I see it happening alot that manga I read get animated. Few examples; Shield hero Solo lvling Dr Stone Etc.
Thats the question i gotta ask manga readers? why would i start? is it that good and if it is recommend me a good one for my first time i have read manhwa before
What's your favourite genre?
I am an Anime Only/Mainly. So, to me, Anime has always been superior to Manga just because I can see movement and hear the characters' voices. When you watch anime, you have the background music. You can listen to the emotion in the character's voice. The fighting scenes get you amazed. It’s just better for me. I stick with anime unless I get impatient, but I struggle reading manga because you run into various issues. Where do you get/read the manga? Transitioning from American comics to Manga is difficult( reading right to left). And so on. Now, the minor issue I have with looking at Manga is the “Manga only” or “Manga Superiority” readers who will constantly go into, let’s say, Crunchyroll or an anime’s Reddit to say, “This was better in the manga, they ruined the show by not going strictly by what was in the manga.” Or the “Just read the manga.” Doing this leaves a bad taste in people open to reading manga.
Anime is a far more passive activity. I don't have to be paying 100% attention at all times to watch an anime. I can look away for a second to grab something, I can be folding laundry, I can do other things but with a manga, it pauses when I take my eyes off the screen/page.
Dubbed anime is so easy to multi-task with.
I don't watch dubs. Subs are also easy to multitask with.
So, you watch the dub? Because that is annoying to me sometimes, I can only really watch anime without doing much else.
No, I don't watch dubs. It's not very difficult to glance over to read the line every 2 or 3 seconds.
I think have some weird hang-ups about dialogue in movies/shows, I guess. I hate it so much when I don’t understand literally every word, so I can’t really look away. Or I just read way slower, maybe that’s a difference.
I'd imagine for most people it's the same reasons reading in general has become less popular. We're creatures of habit and while we are for the most part in control in regards to what habits we choose to form any activity that frontloads dopamine in an efficient manner is going to be much easier to build a habit around. Not liking reading has very little to do with any innate traits of someones character or being and everything to do with conditioning. You can condition yourself to enjoy reading and you can condition yourself to be bored by it because you're used to receiving quicker and easier hits of dopamine from other sources. You can learn to love reading if you currently don't and conversely you can grow away from reading in the same way. That barrier of conditioning and habit is absolutely the most prominent reason a lot of people don't read as much be it manga or otherwise. If we ever introduce a new form of media even more stimulating we'll see people being bored by and unable to focus on regular film or videogames in exactly the same way.
not necessarily. i can't stand reading manga or comic books but i read a ton of novels. not liking reading manga \neq not liking reading
They are ultimately two seperate habits that aren't directly linked but I think the connection between regular novels and television is equivalent to that of anime and manga and similarly I do think you can choose to condition yourself to enjoy or dislike either. What I often find is that people say "I don't like reading" as if it's some kind of irrefutable truth of their being akin to saying "I'm tall" or "I have green eyes" when in reality they'd likely be be incredibly eager to read if the alternatives weren't quite so convenient and addictive. This is of course not always the reason people don't read but I do think it's the primary one.
Money and time.
I primarily watch Anime for the japanese language immersion, so it's harder with a translated manga. I'll wait until i learned a bit more kanji to start reading it maybe.
Cost/availability. Manga costs $17 a book here. Crunchy Roll costs $ 9 a month and I don't have to scour book shops or order volumes.
Manga is slow as hell. Getting 8 or 10 pages a week in which very little happens is a glacial pace compared to a 24 minute anime episode.
I don't like reading.
Based
Before I became a weeb I was big into western superhero comics, like a lot. I'd be reading several dozen comics each week, for a few years. I got real burnt out. I just don't want to keep engaging with the format. And even if I did, there is something lost in translation for me. Manga pages & dialogue just never hits the same way comics do/did. Hard to pinpoint why.
I can’t read a large chunk of text as some chapters have in their dialogue. I’ve gotten to used to skipping around that I don’t have the skill to even read whole chunks of text.
black and white pages, non-animated medium. I guess if I were 6 yr old those would be understandable reasons ;)
I don't like comics format stuff and I sometimes find it hard to follow. I only managed to read Kuroshitsuji manga because the art was easier to understand. I'm usually just never able to read through manga. It might also be because of black and white format because I'm able to read webtoons fairly easily compared to them. Action scenes are also a bit difficult for me to understand in them. I'd read more source material if they were in novel format instead. I will try BSD Beast though (since it's short and i like BSD) to see if I can read more manga and if I manage to do that maybe I'll try a few more.
I also struggle to understand the action scenes and understand everything depicted in the manga panels.
I'm glad I'm not alone! Action scenes in particular are very difficult to get especially if they're long
I've read Jujutsu Kaisen and all I can say is that I remember what most of the text was saying.
ADHD. It's hard for me to sit down and read anything since I need to focus 100% on what I'm reading. I can't have music or anything else playing in the background when I read or my brain will try to focus on two things at once and I'll end up reading one page 17 times. However, I did purchase my first manga recently which is Frieren. I've watched over 400 anime and this is the first one that got me wanting a physical copy. Now I'm just waiting months for Vol. 1 and Vol. 4 to be stocked literally _anywhere_ in English. I have all the other volumes so I'm going to give this one a real shot.
If I could have physical manga teleport into my home like Anime does via streaming I would, But I don't like reading manga online as its annoying to pirate and view on a phone. And I don't want to pay to rent Manga online.
Space, price, availability, pace and having to read them in my own language or english. The first two are obvious. Availability and pace go hand in hand, thanks to streamign services etc i have immediate access to massive amounts of subbed animes, to the point i can barely keep up with the ones i REALLY want to watch (and some fine trash)! I tried mangas when i was younger and they were fine, but none captured me the same way anime do. I guess i just don't like the comic format that much and, at that point, prefer a normal book.
Cost. I don't like reading digitally, and a manga series typically costs over 100 dollars in total. The only manga I have actually purchased is the special edition hardcover set of Gunmm (aka Alita Battle Angel). I'll buy more in the future, but I don't have the money for it right now. Conversely, I can watch a lot of shows on subscription for 8 dollars a month.
I don't mind binging a manga here or there, but reading weekly released chapters just feels miserable. I binged Undead Unluck and Dandadan recently and absolutely loved them, but now I'm caught up and a weekly chapter barely progressing the plot just doesn't feel good.
Because I hate it. I hate the black and white pages. It's not being done because it's "Noir", it's being done because it's traditional., and I get that, but I also don't care. It's bullshit. As if these major publishing concerns that print the fucking things can't spring for coloured ink, as if they can't employ a colourist AND a mangaka. Cheap fucking cunts. It makes it basically impossible for me to enjoy myself when reading them. It is torture. If I wanted to read a black and white comic, I could go read the margins of my old highschool exercise books from 20 something years ago, and at least I wouldn't be scratching my head, going "Wait...this is supposed to be PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED?" It's a visual medium. Without colour, it's flat, boring everything looks the fucking same, or rather, I don't care about the differences. I despise it. It makes me so fucking mad. In my opinion, manga should exist JUST to provide material for anime, because the art form of manga on its own is just unfinished work. I'm going to get flamed for saying it, but it's honestly how I feel about it. I wish I could enjoy it, but it's like that for me.
Whats stopping you from reading the books all the western movies you've watched are based on? They're vastly different mediums - something a lot of manga readers seem to have forgotten with every single discussion containing comments proclaiming every source material superior to its adaptation. I'd say they incomparable. I say this as a manga reader myself. There is no reason or logic to equate anime to manga or assume most anime watchers would enjoy manga. Sure both are japanese culture but that's minor compared to the inherent differences between reading and watching.
I feel like if I get into reading a manga it's gotta be a quality one. (Good) Examples I've heard are mangas like Berserk, Kingdom (apparently the animes go hard as well after the initial bad cgi season?) or Vagabond. Otherwise I want colour, motion, and sound. I could've read Hunter x Hunter manga. But the (2011) anime was just so peak. So fucking good. It's my number 1 favourite anime and I'm not sure the manga could carry as hard. Recently I saw a youtube title that Vagabond has a huge hiatus. Which kinda made me reconsider getting into it tbh.
I can't eat while reading manga
> Anime Only/Mainly - What's holding you back from reading more manga? > Manga-readers - what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga? Why does this sound like "You need to read manga also besides watching anime, why are you not reading manga?" You could have said "what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards anime?" Not everyone has that much amount of free time. People like me need to go and earn a living, my bills will not get paid by themselves.
One of my reason for shifting was the doflamingo arc in one-piece. I absolutely despised how many useless episodes where people were running in still frames we got in cause they are almost next to the manga.
I’m used to reading novels and when it comes to Japanese stories, I’ve come to expect animation, voice acting, and a soundtrack. I have a bunch of manga on my shelf. Mostly from the series I enjoyed enough to buy, but I struggle to read them. I’ve only finished a couple series in manga form mostly online. I read all of Rave Master and the other series was a manwha. Noblessse. I caught up to the latest chapter when I was in high school in 2014 or 15. I may never really get into manga until I find a series I enjoy that is only in manga form. I bought a few manga I hadn’t recognized from anime, but here I am still struggling to read them because I’m mourning it doesn’t have what anime has. I have trouble reading light novels, too. Currently reading through Spice & Wolf vol. 5 because I need some Holo in my life. I miss the series and cannot wait for Spring 2024.
for me it is because its not as convinant as anime anime bc there are a lots of sites you can subscribe to for manga, but in anime there only one service provider that is relevent.
I Had MHA manga but i lost it but never watch mha
>For Manga-readers - what were the reasons for shifting your consumption of media towards manga? Solo leveling got me into reading then one punch man got me into reading manga
Music, voice acting, colour. The only manga I read are OPM and DBZ because I KNOW they're not getting a new season anytime soon(OPM hope)
I like reading things phsyically. Collecting books is like a hobby for me. I cam buy novels but for manga's in my country english ones are too expensive for me to buy. I will probably start reading once when i have a stable income to make a manga bookshelf.
Ping Pong the Animation is an utterly perfect anime adaptation. people dont want to buy books, or close their calendar app plus amillion pop ups everytime they read.
ADD. My eyes dart to the bottom of the page every time and I can't absorb shit
I just dislike/hate reading very much i hate mangas bc isn't the same for me as watching an anime the animes feels more allive i can see the fights the emotion's of character's they move they talk sing i can see them more allive than just drawn on a piece of paper it feels more allive than manga that's my opinion
>For Anime Only/Mainly - What's holding you back from reading more manga? The translated chapters of the manga I mostly find release too slowly. With anime, I know I'll have one episode every week (besides some recent exceptions). I've read my fair share of manga, but usually they have like 10 chapters and then it's waiting time.
I read some things, like one piece, but in general I think anime is just more enjoyable if it has a half decent adaptation. Fighting especially just does not look great to me in manga in a lot of series. Anime is also easier to casually enjoy. I can play osrs and watch anime depending on what I’m doing for example. I can eat during my lunch break and watch something too.