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Haeopsjis 3y
Ufotable starts cooking again. Everytime they touch demon slayer they manage to make the anime 1000000x beter than the source material
- KuroGFX 3y
  I treat the adaptation and the source material as totally different entities tbh because both of them have different charms to them
  
  I definitely think Ufotable has worked out a lot of the chinks from the first season it's also a boon that we've gotten more into the series so we've left behind a lot of the early startup which is a pro and a con of the series in my opinion it has a lackluster start not being dedicated enough to go the extra mile and sort of trying to fly by it as fast as possible
  
  I enjoy the movie like format of each season with it being sort of like this long uncut story arc not really feeling like typical TV and I like the breadth of motion they have for characters utilizing the pro of having a 3D background they can go the extra mile into motion like with Gyokko the 5th upper moon demon who moves with thie smooth fluidity of a fish in water in an unbounded way
  
  that being said of all I said about the pro's of the anime I think there's something about the manga that's inherently charming in a way the anime is not whoch is Koyoharu's artwork which can be awkwardly proportioned at times and look quite strange like when you pause on a particular frame of an anime
  
  awkward limbs
  faces that bulge like goldfish
  
  but it's also quite charming and I find that the cleaness of a digital anime isn't able to replicate that emotion than the manga art which is clearly done by an individual whereas Ufotable is a sort of refined art process at work
  
  it's why I cried when reading the manga despite having many critics of the story because Koyoharu is amazing at emotions of joy and crippling sadness
  
  the anime is great I just don't like stacking adaptation and source materials against each other because it's a flawed comparison and they're as different in many ways like night and day and exist on different planes
  Haeopsjis 3y
  I agree with you, both are different entities and both are different mediums. if you look at chainsaw man for example the director's decision to make the anime movie-esque is also quite different from the weird manga layout that Tatsuki Fujimoto uses to deliver his story. Same with kyoharu gotoge, I have also read the manga and yes I cried, but his art-style didn't nearly get me as much as his storytelling did or his characters.
  
  I see an adaptation as the potential to make a series go to lengths that aren't possible through manga. Voice acting, fight scenes, timing and delivery of manga panels etc. I believe that Ufotable takes almost every aspect of kyoharu's work and enhances it 10 folds.
  To use an analysis I'd like to look at One punch man. originally it was a webcomic whith very poor art but later picked up by Murata yuusuke made it one of the most beloved manga out there. you could argue that the webcomic has it sharm but imo ultimately i'm more drawn to the manga because of the quality of it art-style.
  
  On this note i'd like to rephrase my initial statement because I do agree that both are art forms and have each their unique attraction. I just believe that an anime 'enhances' the story material to hights which weren't before possible in the manga because of the medium that it is stuck in. and yes there are many cases in which imo the anime also downgrades the initial source material such as the Promised neverland for example.
  I do not dislike the manga by kyoharu gotoge, I absolutely love it, there is a reason why I'm on my third reread rn. I just find the anime enhances all the aspects about the story to create something which I never thought could be possible while reading the source material.
  KuroGFX 3y
  
  I see an adaptation as the potential to make a series go to lengths that aren't possible through manga. Voice acting, fight scenes, timing and delivery of manga panels etc
  
  I agree but I see it as a re-imagination of previous material which I prefer to be honest in the sense that you need different minds in order to make it malleable in a different dimension
  
  Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and The Novels have the same story but completely different feelings when watched and read
  
  same goes for Philip K Dicks "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and Blade Runner
  
  On this note i'd like to rephrase my initial statement because I do agree that both are art forms and have each their unique attraction. I just believe that an anime 'enhances' the story material to hights which weren't before possible in the manga because of the medium that it is stuck in. and yes there are many cases in which imo the anime also downgrades the initial source material such as the Promised neverland for example.
  I do not dislike the manga by kyoharu gotoge, I absolutely love it, there is a reason why I'm on my third reread rn. I just find the anime enhances all the aspects about the story to create something which I never thought could be possible while reading the source material.
  
  agreed
  
  I apologized if I came off as antagonistic I just sort of have an irritation with certain people who prop up things by trying to point out the flaws in another
  
  mainly cause thats not the point of an adaptation at least in some cases to me it's more about trying to deliver this story in a different medium and make it palatable in this new medium to this new audience
  
  it's trying to expand the range of people who are able to get into this story via different mediums
  
  there are also openings to be creative and experiment with the process of storytelling either through writing or technical animation techniques and new technology though the former is something a lot of anime fans are traumatized by former deviations in a source material and that more comes off as the fault of the industry to me
  
  a lot of anime in the 2000's would often adapt ongoing works of manga for advertisement and boosting of salessince manga was what made up most anime not many shows were anime original like Evangelion at the time
  
  though this would come up with problems since
  due to scenarios of catchup the original material something Game of Thrones suffered from
  
  In these cases the show-runners had nothing to fall back to and were sort of forced to the wall to come up with storylines
  
  this is different to adapting something with the intent at the beginning to not follow material strictly and not to say it always works but you can do it given the producer or the director understands the ethos of the work
  
  Vampire HUnter D Bloodlust had a lot of modifications to its original story to make it fit for a movie feature length despite this the story remained really faithful to the world of D and the themes of the series while altering the story