Which do you prefer: Original or Anime?

[エスカレイヤ]

My first thread !!!

k now You know animes are sometimes (mostly) based on mangas, novels or even games. But mostly(!), the anime's story kinda differs to that of the original story. Such as FMA, whose ending was completely different to that of the original (which still didnt end).

I definetly like the original story more than anime I sometimes find the modified story too sentimental or exaggerated. FMA lost its comedy, Haruhi lost details which makes the story hard to follow (the novel is hard to follow too though...), Deathnote, although it had no changes in the story, got shortened way too much, and finally, Beat Angel Escalayer shocked me too much.

[小美ドクロchan]

It depends on how well the anime is done. I've seen really terrible manga adaptions of great anime and vice-versa. USUALLY on average, the manga is better but not always.

[Unknownymous]

Yeah it depends for me too. Some stories were done better in the anime, and some were better in the original manga/games.

An example is Fruits Basket.

 

Personally, I liked the way the anime ended. It was sweet and simple, and it left lots of room for thinking for yourself on how it continues from there.

However, the manga continued on to some dark and less-fun stories, and upon reading synopses and what other people thought, I said to myself that I'm glad Fruits Basket didn't continue to cover on to those parts.