I gravitated from comics too. Always loved them and eventually started dipping into manga. I still love manga but love anime too in different ways, so with manga I tend to focus on buying the series that either won't ever receive animated versions or would be so different animated that I don't mind. I most read manga aimed at older women or men as a result with often rather scrappy art and vague stories.
A lot of the series I do read end up as live action movies somehow as a result. But those rarely suffer from being too close to the source material for it to bother me - a lot more artistic licence goes into the new versions.
Occasionally I buy a series as both anime and manga (like Death Note - Nana and Gintama might join that group if they are released too) because I saw enough to like in both versions to justify watching and reading the same story again.
With anime, to pick up on the tangent that's developing, I get an awful lot of enjoyment out of the voice acting and pacing. I read extremely quickly with manga and belt through tense fight scenes rapidly, or miss the impact of a poignant sentence or act sometimes in my hunger to find out what happens next. Anime sets its own pace, which is sometimes annoying but sometimes pushes it to another level of thrill.
I recently finished watching Paradise Kiss, a series I'd loved when I read the manga quite a long time ago. The manga actually made me very melancholy in some ways all on its own. However, when I watched the anime - despite it not actually being that great an adaptation in some ways - I literally got goosebumps at one scene which hadn't really moved me at all in the original manga.
Following voice acting (Japanese) is a passion of mine too. Obviously this doesn't carry over into manga at all. I just make up voices for all the characters myself with varying degrees of success...
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A lot of the series I do read end up as live action movies somehow as a result. But those rarely suffer from being too close to the source material for it to bother me - a lot more artistic licence goes into the new versions.
Occasionally I buy a series as both anime and manga (like Death Note - Nana and Gintama might join that group if they are released too) because I saw enough to like in both versions to justify watching and reading the same story again.
With anime, to pick up on the tangent that's developing, I get an awful lot of enjoyment out of the voice acting and pacing. I read extremely quickly with manga and belt through tense fight scenes rapidly, or miss the impact of a poignant sentence or act sometimes in my hunger to find out what happens next. Anime sets its own pace, which is sometimes annoying but sometimes pushes it to another level of thrill.
I recently finished watching Paradise Kiss, a series I'd loved when I read the manga quite a long time ago. The manga actually made me very melancholy in some ways all on its own. However, when I watched the anime - despite it not actually being that great an adaptation in some ways - I literally got goosebumps at one scene which hadn't really moved me at all in the original manga.
Following voice acting (Japanese) is a passion of mine too. Obviously this doesn't carry over into manga at all. I just make up voices for all the characters myself with varying degrees of success...
R
