A rant about manga vs. anime.

[quatrina]

So, I'm wondering if liking manga more than anime makes me a bitch. It irritates me far more than it should that the majority of fans don't even touch a series until there's a shiny new anime out for it, and that the general consensus seems to be "omfg, anime is soooo much better!!!1" and "manga is boring because there's no color :(". I sometimes

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[onewaystair]

I have more or less completely stopped watching anime series. The animation is terrible, there's too much filler and stupid plot changes, and usually additional fanservice, which I don't like to begin with, regardless of which gender it's targeting. I don't like taking up computer space and time downloading subbed episodes as soon as they come out.

Reasons I prefer manga:

I read manga quickly.
The art is almost always better in manga than in anime.
The plot is usually better in manga than it is in anime.
The manga, if its existence precedes that of the anime, is closer to the artist's and writer's intentions for the story.
I think black and white comics are awesome.
I can go through at my own pace. For instance, in manga like Hikaru no Go and Death Note, there's a lot of ruminating on strategy. I can read the dialog and enjoy the art, then move on. In equivalent anime, I'm forced to sit and stare at these scenes for sometimes upwards of five minutes, which I find boring even when I don't already know what happens.

Anime films, on the other hand, are frequently awesome, and I could watch them all day.

[quatrina]

omg I'm not sure I could deal with watching Death Note even though I'd kind of like to...just sitting there listening to everybody's internal monologues has got to be all sorts of exciting. Except not. XD

There are usually only two or three anime series I follow at any time, and they are usually ones I've already gone through the original source with. Often at least one is out of morbid curiosity. At the moment it's Kuroshitsuji (morbid curiosity status) and Tales of the Abyss (which I haven't even been watching, but it seems like an okay adaptation so far), and now the new FMA just started, and I have to pay attention to that to see if they go fix everything. XD;