Which do you prefer, Animation or Manga?

Depends. If the anime comes from a manga, ill probably read the manga instead of watching the anime.

I prefer the Manga over the Anime. Normally the Anime will try to crunch tons of info from the Manga into one Episode so that would ruin the ep for me.

also the Manga tends to show "more" XD

Hm. I guess I would prefer manga.
It provides a little more detail than the anime at times.

Whichever version is the original, more complete one. More often than not this ends up being the manga. It's nice seeing something animated, sure, but not if it's going to leave me hanging after one season when the manga went for 10+ volumes. Story is all.

totally agree on this

This. and if it has a VN then, VN. but since you asked anime or manga, i say manga

manga over anime.

Manga never has those annoying fillers that plagues most Anime, as well as the manga always has an ending to it, where as a lot of anime just ends with no conlusion. best examples are Rosario + Vampire and Negima. The mangas rock and the anime... yeah...

Oh I'm sorry you were about 2 years late on making this thread. I mean did you even look before you posted this? Come on like no one asked this before.

I used to be exclusively animation, but I'm starting to appreciate manga more and more. I still prefer animation to manga though, and I doubt that will ever change; just the difference between them will grow less.

Love them both, but still I prefer Manga

I fastly got bored when watching anime, because I just looking there without doing anything...

If I really want to get into the storyline I rather read the manga.
If its just comedy and fanservice I rather watch the anime.
Though in the end it all depends on the anime/manga

I'm gonna have to go with manga. Take Rosario + Vampire for instance. The manga has the main character go through hell and back and has an awesome storyline. The anime, which is awesome with all the ecchi, lacks this for some reason. Maybe its just the philosophical views of what a harem anime should be thats forcing Tsukune to be a wimpy bitch in the anime but be awesome in the manga? Also I just prefer the sketch style of the manga over the animation style - looks a helluva lot better.

In some points manga, in some point, anime. Anime allows you to see the awesomeness from the manga, put into animation. That can have its ups and downs. It can ruin how you thought it looked, it doesn't show everything, and it's never as long. I'll have to go with manga on this.

I'm more for the manga... FMA / Naruto are to blame for this, made me believe that faithful transitions from manga to anime can never happen for big names... Though saying that, the new Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood series was good from the few episodes I saw...

Depends on the anime and depends on the manga