Do you prefer anime or manga /a/?

Sometimes I want to read manga, and sometimes I want to watch anime.

FUCK LNs.

>>152098779
Depends on the genre.

But I prefer manga overall.

>>152098779
Manga, I like moving through at my pace

>>152098814
Only LN I've been able to read was overlord

>>152098779
Isn't that Choukakou, which is Manhua?

Mango, every time. I could binge a whole series in a day or two regardless of length, or slow read with shit in the background. While to watch anime it would take 22-24 minutes per like 2 chapters of a manga plus you have to pay attention to it constantly.

>>152098863
Is it a good manhua?

>>152098814
>>152098852
LN read like shitty YA fiction, and translations are even worse.

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>>152098779
They are too different to choose, I love them both.

>>152099021
Yeah its good, until somewhat recently the scanlations were dead.

>>152099030
Most refined Japanese Animorphs.

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>>152099075
If you can't choose I will stitch them together for you.

I used to flipflop between only watching/reading one or the other but now I don't read manga much and just watch anime. I'll read smaller releases or if I really like the art, but other than that I just read a few chapters of stuff when it gets an anime announced.

Manga for sure, almost always better looking and better paced. That being said original content anime is way better than adaptations.

I remember reading this a long time ago.

Did they fuck yet

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>>152098779
Sucks that these two aren't going to end up together. It's basically been confirmed by the author.

>>152098826

>>152098779
Anime if it's dubbed but I'll read the manga if it's not dubbed

>>152098779
Dubbed anime > manga > subbed anime

manga

>>152099255
please no Franken fran

>>152099494
>>152099452
>>152099244
How many anime completed do you have?

Animango

Manga usually but a well produced anime true to the source material is always better.
>>152098814
>t. Needs pictures like a child

>>152098779
Manga > Anime by far especially if said anime is derved from a manga.
Just like with literature and movies

>>152099585
163

>>152098779
Manga. Typically better stories, better pacing etc.

>>152099716
Hollywood movies? No, anime is a million times more faithful to the source material, it is not like it at all.

>>152099750
Confirming you have less than 300 completed, nobody else would share that viewpoint.

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>>152098779
Manga is the patrician choice.

>>152099750
holy shit that is the exact amount I have and I was one of other people that got a (You) from them. Though I was meme-ing, I hate dubs.

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>everyone saying manga
>/a/ predominantly posts and makes threads about anime

95% manga. Now and then something with perfect voice acting, music, etc will come along that just works, though.

>>152099912
I usually just skim for manga threads. I don't really watch currently airing stuff and don't often bother to make threads. The last thread I made was about Kimi ni Todoke I think.

>>152098779
Visual novels. They're the best mixture of books, manga and anime.

>>152100026
In this case the sum is less than the parts.

>>152098779
Manga. I like reading my at my pace and taking in the pictures. There's more stuff to read too.

I usually watch a few anime each season, though, but I feel like you can't truly appreciate the effort put into the art/animation unless you framestep or something.

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>>152098779
The art in this manhua is so fucking good. And its author was cute chink.

Manga

>>152100130
>pts
>makeup

>>152099912
I've tried dumps before and it's not worth it to me to spend an hour or so of my time to get maybe five posts that aren't me, three of which are bumping the thread.

I've been against it for the longest time, but a manga board is looking more and more like a good option.

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I like anime more. Black and white prints and scans well, but holy fuck if it can't make certain things indiscernible.
Besides, voice actors really bring some characters to life.

>>152099452
>>152099494
>dub
Neck yourselves

>>152098779
Manga just because some anime endings are not canon to the source material, manga also has better art and stories most of the time.

>>152099912
Easier to talk about anime than manga.

>>152098779
Only this one. Mongol princess is a cute.

>>152099021
It is Bride's Tale for Chinese people.

>>152101103
internet

>>152098779
So who is made that they killed off the love interest?

>>152099417
Explain anon.

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>Have to wait weeks for new releases
>few pages
>still frames (or panels should I call them?) = weak storytelling
I read some manga but anime is just too superior as a medium. You can say manga has more interesting stories and I don't want to say something rude and out of place like "If you want an interesting story go read a book" so I'll give you that.

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I like both. Though I think that at it's peak the medium of anime is superior to the medium of manga, however in practice manga is generally superior to the anime that does get broadcast. All in all it's pretty even.

The instability of raw uploads of manga turns me off from getting into it.

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>>152099787
I preferred the late 90s OVAs because the music, sound and pacing really made the experience that much comfier.

Manga. I haven't watched an anime in years.

>>152098779
Anime because reading is for poor people in third world shitters that dont have real forms of entertainment

>>152101655
This

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>pick up an ongoing
>catch up in a few hours/days
>stuck waiting a month for new releases
>have to reread a few chapters when the new one does come out cause it's hard to remember hundreds of ongoing manga

The only thing that prevents me from reading more manga to be honest. Plus there's the fact that there are a ton of more obscure manga that just don't have translations where as almost anything big enough to get an anime gets subbed.

As far as completed series go though I like both.

Anime

Comic books are a shitty medium for storytelling.

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I prefer manga.

The tl;dr reason why is a)there's more of it to choose from and b)it's under less commercial pressure and can be made and distributed or published even by a single faggot in his shitty one room abode so there's nearly limitless possibilities to make manga that wouldn't ever be made into anime.

Manga

>>152099244
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJ4VWoeOzs

Dub is the only right choice

>>152098779
Manga. I can read at my on pace and there isn't new stuff every week, so I don't need to read every single day, or spend a whole day reading stuff to catch up.

>>152098779
Anime when it's done well, which is rarely. Color palette + sound + motion can enhance scenes by so much when it's done right.

Manga works well with certain drawing styles, allows more detail/frame than anime allows due to time constraints and the black/white tones can be good for dramatic series like Prison School.

But at the end of the day, source is predominantly better so VNs or LNs is the true answer.

>>152100501
That's trolling, bro.

>>152101196
Q: Will Chang Ge fail at the end?

T: I personally consider that she succeeds at the end. She will experience an unforgettable romantic relationship with Sun, but that is not important.

As some other anons have said anime originals are great, but usually adaptions are shit compared to the manga. Sometimes adaptions are as good as the source, but it's rare; see Mushishi and that's only because it's an exact copy of the manga.

As a medium I can't really choose between them but more often that not the content of manga is much better than anime.

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>>152098779
Manga, though of course I love both. But manga.

>>152105401
>But at the end of the day, source is predominantly better so VNs or LNs is the true answer.
Did you just imply that most or all manga is based on VNs and LNs?

Can I hit you?

>>152098779
Novel=Manga>Anime>LN

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Anime, but only when it's done really, really well. Which unfortunately, is rare. As such, Manga is generally the "medium" I spend more time on. For instance, I fucking love the OPM web comic and the Murata OPM Manga. But I prefer the Anime. But that's one of the very rare instances.

>>152105839
Lately, that's what the animation industry has become. A means of promotion for other works - mainly shitty LNs.

>>152105891
>manga
>animation industry
I'm going to put up my first and I'm going to need to run straight at it, please and thank you.

>>152098779
Trick question. I prefer monthly manga and anime films.

>>152100265
I like to dump short manga sometimes. Oneshots or else stuff that barely fills a tank; those stupidly cute loveshit threads were always nice.

As for a manga board I think I'm more open to the idea than I used to be. It would the burying of /a/ for me though, it would really be a completely different place after that. Nothing in the near decade I've been here would have changed it more, I think, than if manga threads suddenly weren't allowed because there was a separate board for it. But the board isn't what it was, it's not a funny community like it used to be party because the userbase has changed and partly because it's gotten too fast and partly because the internet and fansubbing and scanlation have all changed drastically. I don't feel like I participate in the board as a whole anymore, I just lurk until I see a thread I like (usually small, slow and about manga; though sometimes I go into anime threads) and then post a little. If there was a manga board it would feel like a bit of a retirement home, I would be happy there if it was much slower and went un-noticed by the majority of anons; I wouldn't necessarily want it to be anything like /a/ is now but neither would it need to try and be like /a/ used to be I would just want it to be about plain old discussion.

>>152100130
I usually find manhua to be much better than manwha. Dunno why but it seems more like manga than the latter.

>>152104271
Depends on how much you choose to follow I guess. I follow quite a lot so I get annoyed when there isn't at least one release of something I'm reading each day. I actually have a faily healthy though constantly changing backlog of manga that I'm following, I just don't have time to read all the releases to catch up because I can only get through a few chapters per day. If you accept that you'll catch up at your own pace and don't worry about it it's a nice and relaxed way to do things I find.

>>152104271
>I can read at my on pace

This is a big deal for me too. I'm much more willing to read a mediocre manga than watch a mediocre anime, because with manga I can breeze through the shitty parts.

I like both, though lately I've been reading a lot more manga than watching any shows. Each medium has its merits, I can't completely disregard anime cause I value music, atmosphere and voice acting too much.

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>>152106010
>If there was a manga board it would feel like a bit of a retirement home, I would be happy there if it was much slower and went un-noticed by the majority of anons; I wouldn't necessarily want it to be anything like /a/ is now but neither would it need to try and be like /a/ used to be I would just want it to be about plain old discussion.
Sounds nice.

Just read manga for the past few months, though I'm watching anime again this season. I just like how I can get through manga far quicker than anime and the stories are complete.

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>>152100130
>>152100189

Even at that time, she is 30 years old. But she looks so young.

Here, she is during the 2011 Chinese State Television new year evening gala.

>>152109599
That's six years ago.

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>>152109703
>tfw she was a cake and is now a mother

https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=9403

>April 4, 1981

Manga of course
>implying I watch shitnime

>>152109599
>this is a 30yo cake

Chinese women, man. How are they doing this?

>>152098779
Manga, no question. Almost solely because of this
>>152098849
>I like moving through at my pace

>>152099912
Anime fags are much more autistic

>>152099912
Manga fags are too busy reading manga.

>>152098779
Is pic related any good? Looks like shojo trash based on the cover.

>>152098779
Anime
But I'll read the Mango if I catch up
Also movies

>>152111720
If you like historical manga without any superpowers and shit, you would like this.
It doesnt have a lot romance, but more political backstabbings and military campaigns, as typical for Chinese stories.

>>152111856
>historical manga without any superpowers
Vinland Saga is the king of that if you're not reading it already.

>>152112291
Jin?

>>152098779
I haven't watched anime in like two years

>>152099255
so FLCL in first episode?

While on the subject, should I read or watch Monster? Watched and read the first chapter and I dont know which one I prefer more. The sound quality in the anime feels... old? Not sure how to describe it.
I usually prefer the manga if there are high quality scans and translation, but the scans over at batoto seems crappy so should I go with the anime?

>>152112456
What?

>>152112646
I haven't read Monster but I really liked the show. Read some chapters afterwards and they were basically 1:1 to the anime. Plus, 20th Century Boys was great so I trust Monster to be equally good.

>>152111720
Based solely on that image I don't know why you would label it trash. What's trashy about it?

>shojo trash
And what's wrong with shoujo anyway? I find the hit to miss ratio about the same as stuff in shounen mags.

>>152098779
Because you'll die of tuberculosis and I'm just gonna wait for your manga to be over before rereading it no matter how much that hurts me.

>>152113163
People who trash on shoujo haven't read that many manga to know what the fuck they're talking about.

>>152098779
Just anime, I don't read manga

>>152113338
>every shoujo is Vampire Knight
Goddamit people.

>>152113467
Even cheap romance shoujo like Taiyou no Ie and Maid-sama are better than their shounen counterparts.

>>152098814
LN are the cancer of Japanese media and the worst thing to happen to this board. I still pray every night that one day we'll ban all discussion of Light Novels.

>>152113652
Taiyou no Ie was actually pretty high tier for shoujo romance, there weren't that many of the cliches people usually derided shoujo romance for and it never went melodramatic as far as I remember. I recall thinking it was just a cute and straightforward romance manga that might have gotten dragged out a little longer than needed regarding them confessing to eachother.

>>152113897
LN adatptions have been another nail in the coffin for anime if you ask me. I don't pay that much attention but it seems to me that good quality anime originals are less common than they used to be and that the shittiest LN promotion anime are more getting more numerous.

>>152114069
I'm on chapter 25 right now so I don't exactly know what I'm talking about but the whole brother love triangle worries me a bit. The fact that they haven't confessed to eachother but the sexual tension is ever present reminds me of Dengeki Daisy which was kinda shit but I guess I'll have to finish it to have a legitimate opinion.

>>152098779
why do i need to choose?

Manga.

anime is fine but something about finding a new manga and seeing the art makes me feel good.

>>152099912
There is way more people who like anime then the ppl saying manga in this thread.

>>152098779
manga unless anime version is good.

>>152105739
Ahhh thanks anon!

>>152103457

>Started reading Vento Aureo after Diamond is Unbreakable as I've decided to read a part ahead of the anime ever since Phantom Blood

>1 volume a day

>Barely a week later, I'm almost over

Fucking hell. It's amazing to me how I've managed to see stuff like Hellsing or Blade of the Immortal until the end. But I'll probably croak long before Jojo and Berserk end. I need to stick to my decision of only starting series that are over.

>>152098779
Manga.

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>>152098779
I buy the manga of anime I watch.
The only Nipponese comics I read is Vinland Saga, Hinamatsuri and Shield Hero.

>>152115005
I'll give you a (You) just for making the least (You)-baiting post possible.

>>152115109
I've been meaning to re-read Aku no Hana for a while and I just found out about bookdepository so I'm gonna order a couple volumes every month. I'm really excited since this is the first manga series I'm gonna own, plus I'll be able to support my favourite mangaka.

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Original anime movie (That is actually well made) > Manga > Anime based of manga/Original (Some times it's better than the source, but it's rare) > Anime based of LN.

My favorite thing (But it's very rare if you don't count space mecha) is homages from western litterature. Because you know it won't be as good, but it will be a fucking fun ride.

Pic related, i really liked the fact that it's an homage to Salem's lot. It wasn't as good as the novel, but way better than the two shitty miniseries.

>>152114504
you read subs anyway

>>152115111

Go back to /v/ you fucking fag.

>>152115544
Why /v/?

>>152115548

Man, that was a wild ride.

>>152115548
jesus

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Anime, I get sidetracked too easily when I read manga.

Manga all the way, i can't stand watching anime but i'll read tons of manga, even the shitty ones.

>>152115759

That's a parody of adaptaions anon.

>>152115890

Low tier manga is worse than low tier anime for the most times.

Above that point manga is almost always better, unless it's a manga with a good story but shit art and it's changed to the same story but with good art.

>>152116068
>Low tier manga is worse than low tier anime for the most times.
You sure about that?

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Manga > english anime > subbed anime

Not because English anime is better (its not) but just because its easier for me to have on as background noise. If its something I want to seriously watch i'll of course go with a solid sub group

Manga is just nice because its pick and up and do as I want and I can go at my own pace

Manga is usually better.

>>152117620
>english anime
nani

>>152098779
Right now, manga. After watching hundreds of anime, I feel I lack the patience to continue watching them so I just read the manga.

>>152118470
Hello, me. After you read hundreds of manga you're gonna go back to anime, enjoy that back and forth.

>>152118580
Once you go manga you'l never go back.

>>152114431
>There is way more people who like anime then the ppl saying manga in this thread.
I'm seeing like 55/40/5 manga.

>>152098779
99% of the time manga
The 1% is when some good anime originals come out.

>>152098779
manga
more variety
better threads
lower maintenance
less burden on HDD
much cheaper if I decide to buy them
usually better art and pacing
Japan gives more of a fuck about it than it does anime (so more support).

>>152098779
manga.

but i have nothing against a good anime. it's just that they seem more rare. so overall, manga leaves a stronger impression.

>>152099912
that's because of the largest flaw of manga

no translations

>>152099912
-overall there are still more people watching anime i'd say (though obviously some do both)
-manga isn't as seasonal. everyone is reading very different shit at all times, save for a few popular series.

if it's not one of those series, it's very easy to miss your chance to talk about a series because everyone else is already reading different stuff currently.

>>152119774
I put way too much value on music and atmosphere to completely disregard anime, it is true that in general manga are better, though.

>>152120057
>55/40/5 manga
What's this mean?

I'd read more manga but I'm not the type to pick up something out of nowhere and the only place I frequent that talks about anime is here. And we don't really talk about manga. Also I can't deal with scanlation slowness when there's always something else to occupy my time. Anime is definitely worse in quality but I hear more about it so I spend more time on it.

>>152120610
>I put way too much value on music and atmosphere to completely disregard anime
this. that's one of the things i appreciate about anime compared to manga.

i'd probably enjoy it more if the anime industry was more movie-format oriented. cheap shows really don't keep my interest most of the time.

>>152115548
What anime was this? I know it's a parody.

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>>152120771
>And we don't really talk about manga
I keep hoping someone will tell me about a place where everyone discusses manga.

>>152120851
kurobakas

>>152120880
Even if someone did tell me, I think I'd basically spend no time there. Once you get used to the volume of posts on /a/ there's no escape

>>152098814
The Welcome to the NHK LN was great, but aside from that, yeah, pretty fucking much.

>>152120634
55% manga
40% anime
5% no preference/both

Granted, I can't be fucked to actually make sure those numbers are 100% accurate.

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>>152121015
I like slower, unless it's some special thing like pic.

>>152115763
Great contribution yet again, Lelouch. Love you bud.

Who's /tolazyforanime/ here?

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>>152115763
i always knew you were a retard and you never fail to meet my expectations.

>>152109395

Old men discussing manga, complete with Grandpa dumping recent scans of Garo that few can read anyway but hey at least the art is nice

>>152098814
What's wrong with LNs?

>>152100265
If there was a manga board it would be mostly shounen jump and hentai, threads about good manga would still be super rare and completely dead.

>>152122886
>allowing hentai on manga board

>>152122905
I'm pretty sure even naruto is allowed on /a/ nowadays

>>152098779
The one that has less shitposting discussion and people flocking to it

>>152120610
I'm about the only person on /a/ that seems to think 99% of anime music is utter horseshit. Some of it is inoffensive if you just kind of don't take any notice of it, but when you do you can't help think how bad it is. Then there's quite a lot that is noticeably bad.

There are a few exceptions I can think of but the majority I think is really poor.

>>152121015
>Once you get used to the volume of posts on /a/ there's no escape
God no, this speed is terrible now. I should be half this pace or less. Threads 404 in 2 hours, that's ridiculous.

I find it incredibly hard to keep up with busy threads and have done for probably a couple of years now.

>>152122971
Not the same thing.

>>152122971
Technically it always was, it's just that it used to spammed and saged off the board if anyone dared to post it. And back then I suspect there were far, far smaller percentage of anons actually reading that shit. Although I guess mods used to pay heed to board culture and would also delete those threads, on the off chance there was actually an active mod around.

>>152115763
go away ledouch you chuuni get a job

>>152123840
Yeah, threads die too fast now. And lot of speed is from junk template threads.

>>152114587
How can anime compete?

>>152098779

Anything original.
Anime adaptations are usually shit. Low budget, shit animation, no heart.

Reading shitly-translated LNs is by far the most weeboo thing you can do. I mean seriously.

ANime becuase it can do anything manga can and more.

>>152098779
manga. speaking of adaptations the pacing of anime is always atrocious when compared to the source material. with some shounen it's especially bad, I can read an entire volume in the time I need to watch the anime equivalent of a single chapter.

>>152099675
its not the lack of pictures my dude its the content. if they were written decently they would've been novels not light novels

Manga now that I have a job. But anime was great just as something to put on and watch for the whole day.
LNs are okay. Can't find any good ones though.

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>>152098779
>>152100130

I feel like compared to manga, most manhua fall on the extreme end of the scales, they either look like shit or extremely beautiful. But the writing is always, always shit fucking gooks can't write fro shit.

pic related, looks gorgeous but fanfic level wrting. it's even more pathetic considering it's a artist-writer combo...

>>152098779
Why is it that this thread is getting so many people saying they prefer manga yet the discussion on /a/ remains like 90% anime.

>>152120424
or updates

>>152122905
even if it's not allowed who will care

>>152132239
Waifufags

>>152098852
Release that witch is pretty solid
Actual science applications and rapid updates on the chapters(4 days a week, 2 chapters a day)
The author is a chink through, and releases like crazy

Manga, because fuck modern Boku No Nipshit waifubait moefaggotry that make up 90% of seasons

The only upcoming show that interests me is the new Poopin the Turd

>>152098779
Manga

>There are people who don't like both
Anime only and manga only fags are pure fucking cancer.

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>>152098779
I like the mango, but it's harder to discover new ones so I don't read that many of them

>>152098779
manga, it takes less time to finish

anime only if it's the original source

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>>152098779
Manga. It allows the creator's voice to come through in its most undiminished state.

Manga of course.

>>152135212
Not an LN.

>>152121060

Welcome to the NHK wasn't a LN

>>152098779
I normally only watch anime, unless it's yuri manga. But I think I'd prefer anime anyway, reading 4-koma manga about cute girls doesn't as fun as watching the anime.

>>152138777
it wasn't?

>>152138777
It was
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=8861

When its something like shonenshit like naruto, do you prefer the anime or manga?

>>152136396
Manga purists are the patrician elite.

Good anime > good manga > bad manga > mediocre and below anime

>>152133362
The mods.

Anime usually.

Sometimes I find manga I like but I've never really known where to search for good manga.

>>152142807
If you take pure numbers, there's far more good manga than even mediocre anime. It's not really any surprise why some people would just be dealing more with manga.

# of bad manga > # of good manga >>> # of mediocre and below anime > # of good anime

>>152143282
On /a/? On charts?

>>152143333
Honestly, I haven't really been on /a/ much recently the last year or two. Mostly on /co/ and then school and work take up the rest of my time.

Though I have a tablet now which gives me more of a chance to read manga because I don't like reading from monitors either. This was like the highest reason to. It bothers me to read from monitors.

Tablet makes it a lot easier.


I've been slowly reading stuff

Manga, but a fucking mile.
Not to mention that coming across actually GOOD manga is much easier than finding watchable anime.

>>152141625
Manga.
I read through naruto in a week and enjoyed it. Watching all the episodes would've taken forever and I'd have hated it.

>>152113897
spice and wolf though

>>152099912
just join a OPT thread or make your own.

I normally binge manga
sometimes LNs
occasionally WNs

For me to watch anime I have to be in the mood to watch something, and to find something that fits at that moment is troublesome.

>>152099912
Manga doesn't have "seasons" or anything that would draw particular attention to a set of manga. When a manga that is trending comes along, you do get threads of it, such as Hinamatsuri and Kaguya. In general though, the manga scene is too diverse for there to be enough attention for an /a/non to shitpost about a manga that he just finished reading.

I'm an idiot, forgot my end spoiler tag

Why not both?

>>152098779
Original medium for multi medium works. I find i most enjoy manga over anime.

>>152147297
There isn't enough time.

>>152142552
>Manga purists are pretentious faggots
Fixed.

>>152147871
>baby needs his moving pictures and noises

I want to say manga but I can never keep up with current series. A month is too long in between chapters and weekly stuff tends to be so short that I breeze through a chapter in 5 minutes. Not to mention all the breaks that they tend to go on. It's just a pain to keep up with.
But if you presented me with a completed anime vs a completed manga I'd probably pick the manga.

>>152147944
>Pretentious faggot can't enjoy both mediums
Yes, moving colors and sounds can add to the story telling experience. Greentexting like an idiot doesn't magically invalidate that.

>>152098779
Animu. For the most part I do not enjoy reading pictures and would much rather read words, though I am able to enjoy Yotsuba and a few others.

>>152147269
>too diverse for there to be enough attention for an /a/non to shitpost about a manga that he just finished reading
Not true, especially given how small the scanlation community is in comparison.

>>152112456
Jin? The medical/history/time-travel one? It's great

>>152150200
Yeah.

>>152099021
It's fucking brilliant. But that author is even more so.

>>152150549
How do you mean? They have better works?

>>152148350
>Yes, moving colors and sounds can add to the story telling experience.

Only very occasionally, the vast majority of anime which aren't OVAs are trash made on a cheap as shit budget, so animating doesn't add anything worthwhile to it. I will sometimes put up with it if the show has excellent VAs or a really good OST but I personally don't find that happening often enough to watch that much anime anymore.

>>152150793
If you can't appreciate good scene composition the same way you can appreciate good paneling in manga, then that lies on you, not the anime. Not everything that airs has the same visual quality as Nichijou, but they certainly all aren't eye cancer like Hand Shakers either. I won't even get into how much a decent seiyuu can improve joke deliver over text only.

>>152098779
Physical - manga;
Digital - anime.

Manga, 90% of anime are shitty adaptations.

>>152150929
>Physical - manga;
But most print manga is trash.

>>152151285
Have to help my local market to be able to afford nice things, don't I?
They did print out much of Ito's works as well as Blame! and Planetes lately.

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>>152151580
Was the quality nice?
I can't stand print manga like the one on right.
Left two is fairly rare to find.

>>152150927
Most anime doesn't have good scene composition.

>>152153701
At least half of the stuff that airs either has good art, animation, soundtrack or seiyuu. It's no different than the number of manga with good art and paneling.

>>152098779
I prefer manga for good series and anime for mediocre ones or pretentious shit like Utena or Penguindrum

>>152098852
Same

>>152151790
Sure. All 3 (regarding Ito - those few I actually got) were bigger format, nice paper and all.
Special edition for Blame! as well (and available in HC nad SC).

Oh and the translations are good too, I think. Shows lotsa dedication especially for Nihei's stuff with mini-encyclopaedias at the end of each book.
Cheers.

>>152098814
Hey, fuck you buddy. Wuxia novels are actually gud.

>>152155666
If you say so satan.

/co/ should be a general comics board
/a/ should be a general animation board
An /illit/ board for LNs and YA trash should be made

>>152142807
this.
overall manga is superior, but really good anime does beat manga of the same level. just barely.

>>152156928
Cartoons would die in a board mixed with anime.
Comics and manga would probably be even but it would go pretty fast I'd imagine.

>>152156928
/co/ seems okay because cartoon and comics are pretty even, /a/ is too lopsided towards anime and select few manga.

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>>152098779
Manga.

>>152156928
>Wanting /co/mblr tards to invade
No fucking thanks

>>152157835
>Comics and manga together on a board
Dear god please no. That would be the day I stop coming to 4chan.