Gintama Manga Worth Reading if Seen Anime

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• #1

I but finished all of Naruto for the commencement time. Considering I like the characters so much, I'one thousand thinking nigh reading the manga, but idk if it will be worth it.

I'm non new to anime, but I've seen only the post-obit series:

-Naruto
-Naruto Shippuden
-Cowboy Bebop
-Dragon Ball/Z/Super
-Yu yu Haka(any)
-Total Metal Alchemist Alliance
-Gundam Wing (ass)
-Atomic number 26 Blooded Orphans

I've been wanting to get more than into anime, and by extension manga, merely idk where to starting time. I approximate I'm looking for recommendations, but I'1000 also wondering if people like to read manga that they've already seen the anime for. So...recommendations and is information technology worth information technology?

• #2

Absolutely. In most cases you get to see the original vision. The pacing is too generally much quicker, so you can get through them in no time. I especially recommend the Dragon Brawl manga if you've just seen the anime.

• #iii

Aye, I've washed it many times.

• #iv

For sure. I started Ane Piece by watching the anime, then jumped into the manga. It's a different experience.

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• #v

The manga is always better unless it's Mob Psycho 100.

My just existent question when it comes to reading the manga versus watching the anime is that new volumes of manga cost me anywhere betwixt $15 and $xx Canadian, versus subbing to Funimation or Crunchyroll for similar $8.

• #half-dozen

Absolutely. In most cases you go to see the original vision. The pacing is also generally much quicker, and then you tin can go through them in no time. I particularly recommend the Dragon Brawl manga if y'all've only seen the anime.

How readily available are manga similar Naruto and Dragonball? I'yard assuming they are no longer being printed. Does that add a premium?
I guess I would probably rather read DB than rewatch it for the millionth time.

• #8

How readily bachelor are manga similar Naruto and Dragonball? I'm assuming they are no longer beingness printed. Does that add together a premium?
I guess I would probably rather read DB than rewatch it for the millionth time.

DB is always in print. I recommend the DB/Z manga over the anime.

• #9

A lot of the time the manga tells more of the story, since anime tends to adapt only a [pocket-sized] portion. You lot can besides go more sense of the characters, and sometimes the story itself is different.

IMO if it's a series you similar then information technology's worthwhile. More than so than even watching the anime.

• #x

Yes, only in some cases it'south improve to read the manga and skip the anime entirely.

One Piece, Promised Neverland and Eyeshield 21 are some that come to listen.

• #eleven

Information technology'south not always a one-to-one translation. And then yes.

• #12

How readily bachelor are manga like Naruto and Dragonball? I'g assuming they are no longer beingness printed. Does that add a premium?
I gauge I would probably rather read DB than rewatch it for the millionth time.

I mean those ii are some of the most popular series, it shouldn't be hard to find.

• #xiii

I've wanted to read the Bleach and FMA manga, but damn, information technology is expensive to buy them all.

• #14

How readily bachelor are manga like Naruto and Dragonball? I'thou assuming they are no longer beingness printed. Does that add together a premium?
I judge I would probably rather read DB than rewatch it for the millionth time.

Shonen Spring digital vault at $1.99 a month is an astonishing deal.

• #15

Is Amazon the all-time place to notice them?

• #16

Tokyo Ghoul manga is 100% better than the anime, so yep.

Sometimes the accommodation sucks, best to go back to the source fabric.

• #17

In my experience, if the manga existed first (equally most are), the manga is a amend experience.

If an anime had a manga adapted later (I believe Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion fall into this category), the anime is commonly the ameliorate experience.

If you've seen an adaptation, I recommend checking out the original. If what you lot seen was original, I don't recommend the accommodation.

• #18

Information technology really depends on the manga and the anime for me. Often, an anime will only cover a office of the story, or volition skip stuff, or will only straight upwardly exist a bad adaptation. In these cases, it's worth it. Simply sometimes an anime adaptation is so perfect (like Gintama, for example), that there's not as well much point.

Tin can't speak for Naruto specifically, merely if yous're from the Us and don't mind digital, I think you can become information technology on the Viz Shonen Bound subscription service for pretty inexpensive.

• #19

Is Amazon the best place to observe them?

If you want physical copies the Viz bigs are the best bang for your buck while having actually loftier quality newspaper. They are multiple volumes in i. There is some censorship, but that'southward sadly unavoidable with the english language DB manga, but information technology's nowhere near as bad equally the censorship in the onetime anime dub.
No idea if they do this with other series.

If you want to save money merely go that digital shonen jump vault sub.

• #twenty

Shonen Jump digital vault is the Game Laissez passer of manga

• #21

Seems like a waste of time to me, unless the anime told a different story or was incomplete

• #22

Seems like a waste product of fourth dimension to me, unless the anime told a different story or was incomplete

There's a number where the anime went a completely unlike direction, didn't tell the full story or even went into a completely dissimilar genre agile the anime didn't

• #23

Fullmetal Alchemist - Yes. The manga expands on the Ishval war in ways that the Brotherhood doesn't explore. Plus you'll become more than content that the starting time 9 episodes of Alliance but kind of speeds through. I recommend it.

The Promised Neverland - REQUIRED. The anime just finished a very controversial 2d season that skipped about 45% of the manga.

Monster - Yeah. In my opinion the art, paneling and PACING brand the manga a superior feel.

One Piece - Yeah. Unless you're watching a fan edit of the anime, you're going to be overloaded with filler arcs, filler episodes and Atrocious pacing.

Cowboy Bebop - No. Information technology's an anime original story, the manga can be interesting just it's not that special, just some side stuff.

Dragon Ball - Aye. Akira Toriyama's fine art and paneling brand this a cute experience, top tier manga imo.

Dragon Ball Super - Complicated. Super'due south manga released simultaneously with the anime every bit both teams were given the same storyline from Toriyama but took their own liberties. The Super Manga undercuts or skips some of import graphic symbol moments covered in the anime merely it does have some cool touches unique to the manga. Super too just finished a massive arc that the anime hasn't adjusted yet and is starting a completely new one.

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• #24

Mostly if things are different or you desire more and if you want to spend your time doing that.

• #25

Of class. Both use their respective mediums strengths in unlike ways. Claymore anime obviously has the border in fight scenes since they are, you know, animated. However, the anime lacks any of the mood and atmosphere created by the manga'southward splash pages

(There is no analogue for this in the anime)

And of course, there are times similar Berserk 2016/2017 where they just completely fuck everything up

(It looks a million times worse in move as well)

Hell, even when the adaptation is pretty damn good there will be differences (some large, some modest) like in Dorohedoro

• #26

Generally you are supposed to commencement from the starting time again. That's part of the reason why anime are beingness made, to get you to buy and read the manga.

• #27

The anime adaption is in most cases incomplete, so yes. The anime ordinarily exists to promote the manga, lite novel or game that it's based on.

It's not but small series either. A lot of big/popular manga have incomplete adaptions, that often times diverge wildly from the source material. Nausicaa, Akira, Bastard!!, Soul Eater, Berserk and Battle Affections Alita notably spring to heed.

• #28

Easy re-readability is probably one of the greatest strengths of comics as a medium.

Comics are probably the only medium I frequently go back and reread stories since you control the stride.

Even somthing as long equally popular SJ manga are tin be read in similar 2 weeks or even a couple of days depending on how quick you lot read.

• #29

One of these things is not like the other....

• #30

One of these things is non like the other....

Hey, I prefaced it with "Sometimes they completely fuck information technology up" lol

• #31

The manga is (usually) the creator's original vision.

• #32

It definitely depends on which anime and manga. Some of the guidelines that have been posted in here so far are pretty skilful though.
-If the manga came first, then the manga is probably worth reading.
-If the anime was an original thing that existed earlier its manga, then the manga can more than than probable be skipped.
-If the manga is one that is know for peculiarly amazing artwork, it's probably worth reading.
-If the anime was considered to pretty much exist a one-for-one dead-on adaptation, information technology'due south probably okay to not go through and read the manga.
-If the anime is vastly different, ends earlier the manga did, has an alternate catastrophe to how the manga ended, or has a lot of side-stories and one-shots, then information technology might be worth checking the manga out.

There are definitely some manga I would recommend reading after watching the anime version, like GTO which tells and so many different stories compared to the anime (but honestly I don't fifty-fifty consider the GTO anime to be worth watching; the manga is amazing and my absolute favorite simply I could go the rest of my life with never watching a 2d of the anime again).
Merely then in that location are some like Hellsing Ultimate that are then close of adaptations that I think it'due south okay to skip the manga (and it hurts to say that since I beloved the manga and the Crossfire side stories featuring Yumiko and Heinkel).
But so if you've just seen the first non-Ultimate version of Hellsing, it'southward so different from the manga that you should definitely read information technology (or seek out and spotter Ultimate).

It'southward definitely a case-past-case matter that'll take different answers and recommendations for different anime.

• #33

Seems like a waste of fourth dimension to me, unless the anime told a different story or was incomplete

The latter is the case 90% of the time.

• #34

Like shooting fish in a barrel re-readability is probably one of the greatest strengths of comics equally a medium.

Comics are probably the just medium I oftentimes go dorsum and reread stories since you command the pace.

Even somthing equally long as pop SJ manga are tin be read in like ii weeks or even a couple of days depending on how quick you lot read.

Same. I practice re-reads for my favorites every 2-4 years. Albeit not a fave, I re-read most of Naruto concluding summer. I tin can't imagine doing that with an anime.

Seems like a waste material of time to me, unless the anime told a dissimilar story or was incomplete

That'southward nigh cases, and the manga is much quicker to become through. The anime is the real waste of time nigh of the time.

• #36

That'south virtually cases, and the manga is much quicker to get through. The anime is the real waste of time nigh of the time.

I feel this as I get older. I'five been losing interst in non-original anime over the years becuase I know the original story exists in a medium I really similar that is less of a time investment.

• #37

It depends. If an anime series is based of a manga or LN (for example, basically any Shonen Spring publication), it is always good to read the source fabric to make a contrasted experience. To exist honest, I already got tired of most manga-to-anime adaptations as these extend for seasons, especially Shonen titles. I dropped MHA and left Golden Kamuy on hold because of this, and probably Beastars and Dorohedoro will follow suit (although Orange and MAPPA are doing a nifty job).

If the series is original, the manga/LN adaptation can sometimes offering a dissimilar point of view without derailing also much from the base of operations elements. The entire Gundam franchise, like almost everything Sunrise produces, is a great example of the latter. Gundam: The Origin is written and drawn past 0079/Trilogy's animation director and character designer (Yasuhiko Yoshikazu), with certain changes and additions to the original story, and the OVA makes a good glimpse of these changes. The aforementioned could be said of more than recent iterations like Zeta Gundam Define or Gundam Wing: The Celebrity of the Losers.

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• #38

Yes.

For example, a lot of people are going to get into mode of the business firm husband next flavor equally the anime is premiering. Only....it looks like it'southward going to exist a dramatically better read than a watch.

Plus pacing for reading a manga is normally a lot more time respecting than animes these days.

• #39

If you want physical copies the Viz bigs are the all-time bang for your cadet while having really high quality newspaper. They are multiple volumes in 1. In that location is some censorship, just that's sadly unavoidable with the english DB manga, merely it'due south nowhere about every bit bad as the censorship in the old anime dub.
No idea if they practise this with other series.

If y'all want to save money just get that digital shonen jump vault sub.

It'south so annoying how I can't sub to this where I alive.

• #40

Generally most anime are essentially advertisements for the manga, so I would always recommend reading the source fabric first.

• #41

It depends. Some have very faithful adaptions but even the nearly faithful will have cuts and changes, some accept a shorter 12 episode run even when the manga ran for several volumes and some were adapted before the manga was finished making for large changes.

• #42

For me it depends. Some anime adaptations are 1:1 and then it doesn't make much of a difference, but some adaptations leave a lot out or are very dissimilar.

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• #43

I typically skip anime altogether and read the manga instead. I'm non really a fan of many adaptations. There are a few cases when the adaptations feel like accommodating improvements, similar with Demon Slayer, just most battle manga/anime doesn't exercise much for me.

• #44

Tokyo Ghoul manga is 100% meliorate than the anime, so aye.

Sometimes the accommodation sucks, best to go back to the source material.

• #45

The real big encephalon motion is to read the LN.

• #46

Anime adaptations are frequently low budget with poor visual parity and in the instance of near Leap or other shonen properties, tons of uninteresting filler.

The recent Jojo revival is an exception every bit Spring goes, just information technology's also a late night anime with more than coin and effort beingness put in by a more accomplished studio as opposed to something aimed at kids, who adults retrieve are stupid

Anime adaptations of non-shonen are generally amend quality but manga is generally the better choice.

• #47

Anime adaptations are often low upkeep with poor visual parity and in the case of almost Jump or other shonen properties, tons of uninteresting filler.

The recent Jojo revival is an exception as Jump goes, but it's besides a tardily night anime with more than money and effort being put in by a more accomplished studio equally opposed to something aimed at kids, who adults think are stupid

Anime adaptations of non-shonen are by and large amend quality but manga is generally the better option.

Money=/=Quality. A lot of current shonen anime are very high quality, I Piece for example has been firing on all cylinders in terms of animation and direction for years at present. JoJo as well doesn't have a lot of money going into information technology and the productions of those shows struggle a lot due to poor schedules. When JoJo looks good it'southward considering of the passion of the people working on it, non because of coin or the studio. David Production is as well non a more than accomplished studio than the likes of Toei, Basic, etc.

• #48

If information technology's promised neverland, or tokyo ghoul and then yep.

simply generally yes.

• #49

Sometimes a manga is amend, then aye.
I prefer the Expiry Note and Assail on Titan mangas to their animated counterparts.

• #50

I'd similar to say "replace manga with source material and the reply is yes", but in that location is a flake more than nuance to it than that.

one: If information technology's an original anime then the manga volition be a cutdown or heavily changed accommodation - example in point, something like Piddling Witch Academia.
2: If a spider web novel was the source textile then 99.9% of the time the low-cal novel will exist an expanded and tidied up version that the anime and manga volition be based on, for example something like Re:Nada.
iii: If a light novel exists, 99.9% of the fourth dimension the manga and anime volition be a cutting down adaptation of information technology.
four: In rare instances (mostly KyoAni projects) the source fabric will be taken equally a rough base for the anime and massive changes will be made, but they'll really be for the better and you'd only want to read the source out of marvel. Examples are Chuunibyou and Violet Evergarden.

So basically: just find out what the source textile is. If the respond is a webnovel then read the calorie-free novel, if the answer is light novel so read the light novel, if the answer is manga and then read the manga, if the answer is game so play the game, if the reply is anime so probably skip other adaptations unless they have adept word of oral cavity.

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