Origin VS Adaptation

Well, so I've seen a Poll that says Anime VS Manga so I thought there should be one for Original Work Vs Adapted Work.

By Original Work, I mean the original of the particular series. Call it the first and the starter of the particular series. Examples include Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel, Bleach Manga, To Aru Majutsu no Index Light Novel, God Eater Burst Game and Gundam Seed Anime.

By Adapted Work, I mean an adaptation of the original work. They make it into a different Media and let different viewers enjoy it in a different form. Examples include, Fate/Stay Night Anime, Bleach Anime, To Aru Majutsu no Index Anime, Ore Imo Manga & anime, God Eater Manga.

My personal choice would be Original Work. They have more content and shows more details most of the time.

Original gets my vote. With an adaptation you can never get everything that the original had in it, and oftentimes the feel of the adaptation is different.

I'll go with the original work as well. Just because adaptations always have a harder time since they have to be constantly compared to something. While the original works can be enjoyed on their own merits. Easier to just enjoy something when you don't have that comparison in the back of your mind. Though of course I say keep on bringing the adaptations since some of the great ones can surpass the original and be special.

It depends, but usually the original. All too often the adaptation to film usually doesn't hold up to a written or even illustrated piece because there is just too much change and not for a good reason. But there has to be a simple understanding that different mediums are different and call for change.

Lets look at something most of us know, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It started as a Radio Show, became a book, became a BBC movie/mini, Became a play, and became a Hollywood Movie.....Douglas Adams was at the center of each one, made the majority of the changes and for the most part, liked them.

Not everyone liked every adaptation of this popular radio show, but most liked the books best. At least those that read the books, because nothing can truly compare to the shaping of story in one's own mind. But I'm sure some that loved the radio show thought they took out their favorite thing when they made the book. I like seeing a movie of a book that I haven't read, then after I read the book, if I do it the other way, I see more flaws in the movie for some reason. It may simply be the first opinion being stronger than you realize.

I'll have to disagree here. I think that first opinions might be strong but if the adaptation was good then it would even overshadow the original. Let me give an example.

I actually watched the Twilight Movie(I know, don't say anything) before I read the book. I thought the movie was very lousy. I proceeded to borrow the book from a friend I got to know in camp. I found that the book was much better. I still find Vampires "Sparkling" to be ridiculous but the book was much more bearable than the movie.

Original work for me. Adaptation's tend to piss me off most of the time because I expect to see things that are basically the same as the original, yet some of the background and plot are skewered.

A great example of this would be the differences between the Fullmetal Alchemist manga and the first FMA series. The background was more or less the same, but there were glaring holes between the anime and manga. The same can also be said for the plot of the series.

Adaptations such as this tend to leave people scraching their heads and wondering why the anime studio basically flipped the original head-over-heels and picked the bits they thought were interesting and leaving the rest to rot. Luckily, Funimation fixed thhis problem when they made FMA: Brotherhood.

Adaptations holds the possiblity of "change".

I'm sure most of us would've on one occasion wished for an ending that's better towards his/her opinion. Whereas the original was good, an adaptation, with a good direction can be driven better. Of course, vice versa if the director's a narrow minded douche, the viewers can only provide the sweet tears of rage.

One good example would be Shuffle! Everyone thought that the ending would've Rin ending up with either Sia or Nerine, it turned out to be Asa. I wouldn't comment on how the progress of the anime went, considering that i dropped it halfway but there as explained lies the "Change" that i mentioned.

Yes, true enough. I liked the anime adaption much more than the original VN. The way it was animated was very different and the story was very engaging and fast paced. I didn't like the ending very much though cause I was an all-out Lisianthus/Sia fan. Well, it was still a very enjoyable series and one of the best adaption imo.

However, I would say that most of the time the original work would be better as most adaptions tends to cut off certain details and in the case of VN adaptions, especially the multi route ones, they tend to join and mash all the routes into one and (most of the time) does a bad job of it.

Examples of this includes, Fate/Stay Night anime and Tayutama anime. They keep trying to join all the routes together and needless to say, it was a horrible job. Tsukihime had the same fate as well. The original VN was so interesting yet the anime was so boring for some reason.

Mostly the originals are better than the adaptations.
Adaptations have too many variables and limitations that would certainly change to contents. Whether the change is good or bad it sometimes becomes a subjective matter.

Originals > Adaptations (usually).

Adaptations most of the time tend to diverge from the original's plot at some point (be it because the original isn't finished yet, or for some reason known only to the ones responsible for the adaptation, and so on), or to change some scenes from the original (for example, for censorship reasons). Then again, it boils down to the individual's point of view (one may find the adaptation better, or may cry out in rage).

Most of the time, it's the original that has the better content. Everyone above me has already mentioned the reasons as to why, so i'm not one to repeat. But there is no reason that an adaptation can not surpass the original, although there are only few I could remember.

The most famous adaptation>original that I could mention that, i'm sure, everyone could relate to is Clannad and ~After Story~

And while adaptations do have more twists and turns, it usually turns out more unfavorable since it's not canon. Unless, of course, the canon is more unfavorable than the adaptation, this is mostly the reason why Original > Adaptation in most cases.

There's a lot to be said about this topic, but personally I would have to vote for original works rather than adaptation. For me, the original has the better content, every intrinsic detail... it's just better. Though my point might be heavily skewed by this:

Tsukihime Visual Novel >>>>>>>>>> Shingetsutan Tsukihime Anime

However, there remains the fact that sometimes an adaptation might be better than its original... or at least is predecessor.

Shingetsutan Tsukihime Manga >>>> Shingetsutan Tsukihime Anime

Lol. Dude, u high? There's no Tsukihime anime. YET. I'm hoping when the day comes, it would live up to our hopes and dreams

Of course, I must have been to write about something that yet does not exists! It's just that the manga version was amazing in its own way that I must have assumed that there was no way that an anime version could possibly beat it in the future.

Eureka! Under the influence of certain materials, my brain must have processed a number of information that otherwise I would not have made. This calls for research!

ROFL. The amount of sarcasm is too damn high!



He's right you know? Here's a quote from TypeMoon Wikia.

[quote=TypeMoon Wikia]
It was adapted in 2003 into an anime series, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, produced by J.C. Staff and Geneon[/quote]

And I personally watched it so no doubts about that. In any case, the anime was TERRIBLE! It was so boring, I could sleep through it.

Well the adaptation of Asura Cryin' brought the possibility of change that I like... esp. the ending

I used to preach about original, but over the past few weeks, I'm finding my self watching more anime than looking at the original media.

Original mostly gets my vote.

But adaptations like Kara no Kyoukai and Wolf & Spice turned out very nice despite a bit of changes.

TOO BAD I'LL NEVER GET TO SEE MIKIYA'S DAUGHTER BATTLE IT OUT WITH RYOUGI FOR FATHERLY AFFECTION. DAT WINCEST.

WHAT?!





.....I think I should start reading the Light Novels, eh?

IKR?

But that aside, has anyone found the adaptation of a material to be superior in one way or another to the original?