This question straddles all three of anime, manga, and light novels, so I figured I’d just drop it in the anime community first. Though if it doesn’t belong here, feel free to delete it and I’ll go somewhere else.

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I’ve only been watching anime for a few years. This year, I’ve started reading manga and LN of some anime I’ve seen. There are a few titles where I feel like the anime adaptation was just as good and there are some where I feel like it was better. Fortunately, I haven’t encountered any cases where I think the anime completely dropped the ball, but I know there probably are some like that.

What are some titles that have huge disparities in quality between its anime adaptation and the source?

  • molave@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Source > Adaptation

    VNs (Steins;Gate/Steins;Gate 0, Clannad)

    The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

    A Silent Voice

    Adaptation > Source

    4-komas, typically (Bocchi the Rock, K-on)

    Music anime (Your Lie in April, Sound Euphonium, also the aforementioned Bocchi and K-on)

    Simple art styles, extrapolated (Senpai is an Otokonoko, 4-komas)

    Almost anything KyoAni touches (Violet Evergarden, counterexample in A Silent Voice)

    Selective adaptations (Insomniacs After School, Usagi Drop)

    Say I Love You (except for episode 12, which I think is anime-original)

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      I LOVE music anime, especially the ones you listed off. It would feel so off not having the accompanying music with their stories.

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      I think Steins;Gate is very subjective. The original visual novel translates quite well into a linear anime format, especially considering it was not hit with the 12 episodes curse like Chaos;Child. You do miss Okabe’s internal monologue, but IMO it is not a probelm.

      Steins;Gate 0 however, was impossible to make into a loyal adaptation. They did make it a good companion for the visual novel though.