Anime or Manga?

[Gee-chan]

Me and my friends have been having this debate for a while so I decided to get your opinions.

Keep in mind for quality, story, character depth, ect... when you put in your answer

[Helel]

For me, it generally depends on whether the manga or anime comes out first, but it depends on the series, really. I can't say that there's a trend of anime or manga being consistently better than the other.

[Mitera Nikkou]

I prefer manga. Anime, to me, tries to express a lot of things like manga does, but it comes out awkward or out of place depending on the genre and other elements. Anime is in real-time, but a lot of it, with most of the exceptions being full-length movies/animated films, fails to bring out that feeling, and it seems unreal to me unless I'm not supposed to take the flow of time seriously with the kind of anime that it is. That is why most of the anime series that I like are comedy and also tend to have a loose, if non-existent, continuity. That way it just seems more like animated manga. :D

[Stellar]

Manga. Usually because when it get's translated there will be notes about the translation somewhere so you can further understand what was trying to be conveyed. Understanding, to me, is crutial to enjoying a series.

[P-tan]

Neither. Both are the same in the eyes of the hater.

[Xia]

Usually the manga will have more to it than the anime, but there are instances where its just nice to see it in a moving form

[ZeroForever]

Manga most of the time, though there are animes who's production quality makes it rival the manga those are rare, usually the animes fall behind the manga's in terms of everything.

[Raleigh]

I am a fanatical devotee to both, but ultimatley I prefer the manga version compared to the anime of most series. Take Love Hina for example, its a much more interesting, lengtheir, and amusing story as a manga than the anime even gets around to covering.

[Helel]

I am a fanatical devotee to both, but ultimatley I prefer the manga version compared to the anime of most series. Take Love Hina for example, its a much more interesting, lengtheir, and amusing story as a manga than the anime even gets around to covering.

A lot of the time for manga turned animes is they'll make the anime, run out of manga material to work with and either shift to awful fillers, or just end the series.

Right there is when I prefer a manga by far.

[Kyunji]

Manga. Somehow, it seems that the fewer people working on a series, the better the output quality tends to be. Anime takes many groups of people to create: producers, animators, voice actors, the whole gamut. Manga often just has a writer and an illustrator, with maybe a few other people involved in minor ways. Perhaps it's all in my head, but I think that this somehow leads to an increase in quality.

Manga is also much cheaper to produce, and hence allows greater opportunity for newcoming writers and artists to enter the market.

[AlanGarou]

I usually prefer manga, if only because it doesn't have those annoying "yell the other person's name" filler moments in anime. Those get old remarkably fast. However, I do appreciate the physical humor in anime that can't really be done in a written format. Examples of this include Sango's Floaty Head of Doom and Akane's mallet-bashings.

[Haylie]

Is there a difference? I don't care, really. Just so long as it's funny.

[Nylena]

Manga. Simply because it's easier to find my favorite subject matter. And the manga(especially Trigun) usually has a lot more depth.

[Garath the Shadowshifter]

They tend to be somewhat equal to me. Though there are differances in both, I can find great love in either.

Most anime series unfortantly do suffer from 'end of material' which is why I wish the anime companies would WAIT till a series is almost over before animating it. Yeah that means I'd have to wait a long time for my favorite manga to be animated, but at least I'd SEE IT ALL animated.

Either that or they need to release it in segments. Like one season here. Another season there.

Manga almost ALWAYS has more story then the anime. So it's always good to read it.

However there are times when the anime is actually supierior to the manga!

G-Gundam and Maburaho both fall in this catagory.

G-Gundam was a three book manga and Maburaho only a two book manga.

G-Gundam was a 52 episode series, and Maburaho was somewhere twenty. The stories were greatly expanded upon and are just tons better.

While manga can draw me in and hook me rather well....

Anime has music, mood, voice, and animation that indeed can not always be protreyed in still drawings.

Anime also is capible of 'drawing me in' alot more then manga. But I suppose you can call me a 'specail case' in that regards.

The 'somewhat simular to me' can be pretty much summed up as while I tend to love both. I do lean toward anime a bit more thanks largly to the music a series has.

Music is a strong factor to me in loving something. (Hence why I like the DiC dub Sailor Moon over the orginal Japanese) So by having music attached to a scene, I tend to love it just a 'bit' more.

[AshK]

I read some Manga, I also watch Anime.