Changes etc…

Yes, I could not think of a proper title.

You know that when an anime gets adapted as manga, or a manga gets turned into an anime, some things are changed. This can go so far as to turn a formerly awesome story into utter crap. (Read Katsu Aki�s Escaflowne manga, and you will cry hot tears.)

Do you like it when stuff is left out, filled in, or plot is changed, or do you prefer staying close to the original story?
I don�t only mean those damned filler episodes that haunt every anime these days, but especially the kind of situation when the plot of a manga and its anime travel off in two completely different directions (You might want to compare the last bunch of Kenshin anime episodes and the last few volumes of the manga, I hate that anime crap!).

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Greetings.

I for one, dislike changes. I can understand why the anime companies do make their own changes to an animated version of a manga, but it just annoys me, yes?

Example? Well, Love Hina (Yes, I’m a Love Hina fan, got a problem with that?), the anime, introduced Kentaro Sakata and Mei Narusegawa. Now, in the manga, these two characters did not exist. That annoyed me quite a bit.

Also, some of the stories in the Love Hina manga, where either cut out completely from the anime, or were altered.

**sigh** Seems to me, that it’s not just manga/anime conversions, but also when novels are made into movies, things are always cut out, due to either budget restraints or time.

In general, I HATE CHANGES!!! ‘Nuff said, yes?

Yeah. Unfortunately that is often a problem with anime adaptions of manga. Often the anime director or producer adds something into the story or cuts it out completely, so that the story is something totally different to the manga original.

SPOILER AHEAD

An example of this is the Oh, My Goddess! OVA. Although the five-episode series follows Kosuke Fujishima’s original manga fairly closely (with the exception of Belldandy’s design in the first couple of episodes), a glaring exception to this is in the last couple of episodes, where it’s revealed that Belldandy and Keiichi had met before as children, however, because she had been forbidden to be on the Material Plane at the time and had made a promise with Keichi which, apparently, had the force of a Goddess Contract, she was made to erase his memory of it, effectively re-writing the whole story in reverse.

What the hell?? Keiichi was never shown or mentioned as having met Belldandy before his infamous call to the Goddess Helpline in the manga, so why the ‘retroactive revisionism’ in the anime? Only the director knows for sure.

Still, it’s a good series, despite that, and after a tense and tear-jerking climax, ends happily (after he forgets that childhood meeting again too! Ahhh!). Pity it couldn’t at least keep within the manga’s storyline, instead adding inovations in. But that’s just my opinion.

I don’t think that changes are neccasarily a bad thing. However, I have changes that I hate, just like every anime geek. I hate so many of the things they did with the Sailor Moon anime. The manga is a beautiful story of reincarnation, whereas the anime has almost a power rangers-esque feel to it. And Mamoru is a bit of the jerk in the anime- he’s not at all like the warm, loving character he is in the manga. But I still bawl every time I watch a heartbroken Usagi crawl into the phonebooth.