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TRC: Anime vs. Manga

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moezychan:
Ok, since I made this thread for the discussion on TRC. Which do you think is better, and why? I don't just want a comment like, "The manga is better!" and then leave. Please back up your reasons. Also, I'm hoping this will turn into a discussion thread, not merely a popularity thread. Please argue your opinions and back them up.

I'll start. I honestly prefer the manga over the anime because of the depth it goes into for the characters and sticks to the original plot. Meanwhile, the anime is full of filler episodes that completely stream away from the main plot and have nothing to do with the series. At moments it's a shoujo anime, such as Fai's date with Chii. And other moments it's more focused on one character instead of the real reason why they're traveling together.

Konata Izumi:
I'd go with the manga, mainly because of the originality as well as there are very little or even no alterations to the original plot, unlike the anime wherein like moezy said, goes away from the main plot and instead focuses on minor details...

Emiko:
Well, for me, I *much* prefer the manga.

For one, Clamp's art is so much more beautiful than the anime, which is quite often hit-or-miss in terms of quality. The elongated limbs style just doesn't translate too well into animation, and oftentimes the animation in Tsubasa Chronicles is rather lacklustre and static. The motion in all of the characters seems rigid and awkward. A lot of times the fight scenes in the manga flow better and are more exciting than the actual fight scenes in the anime.

Also, the characters are somewhat lifeless in the anime. There's not really any depth to Kuro or Fai, as the focus has been shifted from them except in times of comic relief, which is only one facet of their characters. Also, any blood or violence or alcohol has been clipped out, which almost trivializes the show and makes it seem rather kiddy-ish. Even if it IS aimed at kids, it doesn't appeal to me.

The pacing is also off in the anime. Bee Train likes to squeeze all the stories into as few episodes as possible, and race through the material. We aren't really given any time to really know the characters or experience their relationships because everything is compressed.

That being said, the anime does have some good points. The music is gorgeous and the VAs are all really good. Outo I think was handled well, and when the animation is good it can be lovely, especially when they experiment with colour. Bee Train CAN get it right, but it almost seems like they aren't trying very hard. The current epidemic of fillers could have been handled better as well. Instead of fluff fillers, why not have an episode that serves to deepen a character or relationship?

Anyway. I much prefer the manga. I think that if the anime took time to flesh things out, I wouldn't even really mind the animation. That being said, the Tsubasa anime comes off as very surface-y to me. There's not really anything underneath, as opposed to the manga, which is very detailed and has substance (enough for it's subject matter, anyway XD).

Rekall:
The manga is way better even though it was the anime that first turned me onto TRC.

I didn't mind the first season of the anime, I thought it was really well done.  But the second season...I find to be very frustrating.

It's not the fact there's more filler eps for the 2nd season but moreso the type of filler eps they're doing.  I really don't think they should be messing around with the character's relationship with each other.  Take the Fye/Chii ep for example.  CLAMP has already basically told us that Chii really doesn't mean that much to Fye (ie, he created her, treats her as a pet and turned her into an alarm system) but then Bee Train comes along and tries to make Chii and Fye into a relationship which really got on my nervs.  I mean if Chii is a creation than she shouldn't have a soul that can exist in another world.  The fact that Bee Train turned Chii into a human really bugged me since she's never been one before and I really do think the reason why CLAMP picked her for the alarm system role was because she was never human in the first place.

Another thing that is bugging me about the 2nd season is that Bee Train seems to be rushing through the canon worlds.  Like for the 1st season the canon worlds got a fair bit of time, going multiple episodes and in 26 eps they really only visited 4 main worlds. But in the 2nd season it really seems as if they're rushing it; for example canonly the characters spend a long time in Piffle but in the anime it's only a few eps.  Likewise for the world with Ashura and Yasha, it only got a few eps.  Unless Bee Train plans on pulling a FMA and have the anime take a completely different route from the manga then I would think they would *want* to spend more time in the canon worlds, drawing them out as long as possible so that they could let CLAMP get further ahead in the manga  (which is what they were doing for season 1) but they don't seem to be doing that for season 2.

Zettai daijoubu:
maybe because i started with the manga first that's why when i watched the anime nothing seems exciting anymore since i know what is going to happen. (The filler episodes though interesting, did not really help)

and yea, i have to agree that the characters in the manga is much much much more developed. Season 1 is really ok but season 2 seems to have too much filler episodes. Though the only filler episode i like so far is the Mokona Doodler one. The anime should focus more on the development on character and that's why i hoped they would have more episodes on Kurogane's past.

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