Anime adaptations that barely follow the source material at all and yet are good still
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Adapted a manga that at the time only had a single volume so most of the content was anime original including the ending
They also cranked the comedy up to eleven (the manga became more serious as it went on)
Manga ran for 12 years after the anime ended and the sequel is still ongoing
Yet most of the fanart and merch this series get is based off the anime adaptation, the soundtrack was great too:
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Was gonna post this. The anime was good but imo does not compare to the manga. I was pleasantly surprised though after seeing just how different it was and how much I enjoyed it. This seems to be an example of a multimedia franchise though. The mangaka and producer or whoever collaborated. I have no idea how she convinced them to let her continue the manga for over a decade afterwards though and basically make it her trademark series. Especially since the anime was apparently canceled. Whatever it was it didn't work for Nurse Angel Ririka later.
I do wish there was more fan art presence that wasn't just a million images of the ending.
Gungrave
Remember they made Pani Poni Dash from Negima?
The first two seasons of Black Butler.
Remember they made Pani Poni Dash from Negima?
What? Pani Poni is its own manga. Also that's another one that is basically a completely different thing from its manga.
I meant the other way around. Shaft version of Negima is almost Pani Poni Dash 2.0.
Picrel is so awesome
just pick every manga the author wrote and mash it together
mix and match chinese generals with atomic era sci-fi characters
Alberto vs Taisou rivalry
the villain reveal
What is the manga like? I liked the anime.
The manga was a pretty stock early 00s shojou slice of life romance series, but with a magic gimmick. The anime ran in a completely different direction and turned it into a weird modernized 80s-style mahou shojou.
How did gin rei get a spinoff?
She was hot, I guess... haven't seen the spinoff though.
I did watch both the Babel II OVA and the crappy 00s adaptation. What was it about the early 00s and remaking old stuff like that? We had crap like Babel and Mars, side by side with glorious things like 009 and Astro Boy, and then the crazy spree of Mazinkaiser, Jeeg and Gaiking.
Trigun
Negima?!
PPD!
K-On!
The Getter Robo 1974 anime is nothing like the original manga but it's pretty good. It's the only thing Getter Robo related I could get into.
Those are the best
Followed the source material pretty well, until it ran out of source material to adapt and had to make its own way. It still did a very good job of sticking to the overall themes of the manga, despite the changes.
The first Fruits Basket and FMA adaptations are other examples of the anime having to make do after overtaking the original manga, but unlike Trigun they both end up being completely different across the board and somewhat contentious because of it, despite being well liked.
I miss these kind of shows, nowadays everything is either too close to the manga (censorship aside) or incomplete, almost no anime has original episodes or endings
GitS:SAC is the obvious one, but you could also argue for Gankutsuou too.
I liked Sarah, don't care if she was anime original, her HUGE tits were nice
She cute
I read the first volume of this because you guys told me it would be different yet it was pretty much the same thing.
Agreed
Galaxy Angel
Galaxy angel
Nurse Angel Ririka was one episode longer tho
It becomes more different by volume 2, the robot girls (Ropponmatsu 1 and Ropponmatsu 2) didn't show up in the manga until volume 5 so by the time the anime was made they only ever showed up in 2 chapters yet the anime spammed them near the end making all their later appearances anime original, no Pedro, no Puchuus, no Nabeshin, no That Man, no Sarah, no Sandora, no The Great Will of the Macrocosm, no Kobayashi and No Mikako in the manga either
Yeah, the second Negima anime was just a Pani Poni Dash wannabe and the second half of the first anime was anime original and had an anime original ending, only the OVAs follow the manga and I can't blame them since the manga was shit even moreso after it went full shonenslop, I rather have comedies over power level battle shonen crap
There is something really comfy about early 00's comedies, maybe it's the color palette? The shading? The character designs?
I'd say both
The manga is just "Marmalade Boy but paranormal", the anime is way better IMO, but to each it's own
Soul
The spin off has a more comedic tone and a lot more fanservice, I'm also 100% that one of the scenes can give seizures to some viewers
Nurse Angel Ririka was one episode longer tho
It still just ended without much closure, and while I haven't read it the manga apparently does too and is only a few volumes instead of continuing to run after the anime ended like with Tokimeki Tonight.
Nabeshin is a underrated anime director
This. The manga only went further and further downhill as time went on.
It's complementary, sure, but most fans will still tell you the manga is better.
Pure delusion.
manga: 3 volumes
anime: 39 episodes
Incredible show.
Pure delusion.
Cope. Has the manga already stopped ripping off The Promised Neverland?
The Promised Neverland invented kids escaping scary adults
I hope you're shitposting
The similarities are too uncanny to just be "escaping from scary adults".
Kuroshitsuji mangashitters are retarded.
The manga is just "Marmalade Boy but paranormal",
I don't see how this applies even to just the stuff that's translated, let alone the stuff that isnt.
So that's why it has a Sailor Moon vibe. Pure anime original.