Why are 1:1 adaptations of comic books very few unlike with manga?
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Why are 1:1 adaptations of comic books very few unlike with manga?
Well, if we're talking comics that span DECADES, most adaptations will try their best to mix, match and simplify everything into a single, cohesive narrative.
Even still, one shots that require absolutely no other info like Killing Joke or Red Son(Which got absolutely BUTCHERED) still get massive changes that often degrade or outright go against the original narrative.
The real reason is that while japan often likes to capture the original because they want the fans to keep buying the manga, which is why a lot of adaptations are essentially trailers for the original light novel or manga which keep on going and sometimes are outpaced by the anime, leading to either massive fillers like Bleach or anime only endings like Full Metal Alchemist, writers in the west don't give a shit about who liked the original work are often nepotism hires who feel they can do better than the original writer and want to "Make it their own" because they feel that they'll be getting in assured fans just because the original work was popular, but feel they can make it better by "Updating" it. Adaption writers are more often than not as deluded and bad at their jobs as localization teams.
TLDR western writers suck and somehow feel like they can outdo a story that more often than not survived the test of time their entire lifetimes twice over, because they're stupid.
Well with Scott Pilgrim the creator likes to mix things up for each adaptation. But in general I don't know. They are also rarely animated.
If you want the actual reason instead of the delusions the moron homosexual wrote above is that creative heads outside of Japan think making a 1:1 adaptation will just make the comic book irrelevant and no one will even bother to check (most people already dont bother to check but still)
I bothered man
>He thinks anime is 1:1 with manga
It is.
Sometimes to a pretty insane degree, where they just copy manga panels and stick them in the show.
Like with Kamikatsu, but that one gets a pass since the original mangaka also worked on the anime and they had negative budget.
DC made a few of them, like Batman Superman Public Enemies, and it's dogshit
your pic isn't even 1:1 with itself
The only 1:1 adaptation I can think of is The Maxx and IIRC Persepolis is 1:1 as well
There's also Zack Snyder's Watchmen and 300, and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City.
I was thinking animation but yeah Sin City is a good example with Miller himself heavily involved
>Watchmen
Didn't they remove the squid?
Also, the guy who made Amelia Rules got a page from an issue animated 1:1
>Snyder
>1:1 adaptation
Have you just never read any of these books at all?
Not only did he remove the squid he vastly changed many of the scenes tones and missed the point completely on the stuff he did keep in. Zack Snyder has never ONCE understood the material he was working with and instead just focuses on visual spectacle.
>Zack Snyder's Watchmen
No.
Watchmen is one of those weird cases where it's technically a very faithful, almost 1:1 adaptation of the comic yet it feels different because the tone of the original was altered.
That happens with manga occasionally, too. A good example is Violinist of Hamlet, where the anime is TECHNICALLY a very faithful adaption, but it sucks a lot of the humor out of the show in favor of playing it as a serious drama most of the time.
It's not just the tone or the abridgement or the ending, it was also a lot of little tweaks, mostly of characters. It all adds up.
Persepolis had a few scenes taken out and the animated film had new scenes exclusively for the film.
Yes, that was largely his point.
If you're talking about animation, ask yourself this question
Would AMC have greenlit an Invincible animated series back when The Walking Dead's show was still a hit?
That's your answer
TWD sucked when it started veering off the plot.
I meant how back then no major network would even greenlight an animated series like Invincible period strictly because its animated
TWD was only good for the first couple episodes.
>TWD sucked when it started veering off the plot.
So like immediately then
TWD sucked after season 1 because they replaced most of their writing staff for season 2 which led to that boring farm season from which the show never really recovered.
Manga adaptions are made to push sales of the manga. Comic adaptions are made to sell everything other then the comic.
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Cultural subversion
It’s because Bryan based Ramona and Scott off himself and his ex wife. He’s too bitter about the divorce and let it ruin the anime.
Adaptations shouldn't be 1:1 but they should at least keep the moments you wanted to see adapted period
Invincible ISN'T 1:1 but everything that made Mark vs Nolan so effective was kept in right down to the "What will you have after 500 years?" exchange
I think the show actually improved that bit
a week ago
Most anime are never 1:1 adaptations if you count stuff like censorship and some dialogue getting cut to condense it. I guess usually the plot beats are the same but most times I find myself surprised at how different the manga feels.
sad.
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Damned if I know. It's annoying as FRICK. We keep getting writers making up new shit with in-name-only versions of characters, and acting shocked when their new creation flops.
Birds of Prey I'm looking at you.
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Because
1) 90% of the time the manga has already finished its publication run. It's for that reason that you have garbage like FMA 2003 and filler episodes like Goku getting a driver's license, which all wildly deviate from the source material, kept to a minimum.
2) 100% of the time Manga authors are just done with the work and don't care to fiddle with it anymore after devoting years of their lives to it. That's why the new Scott Pilgrim thing isn't an adaptation, the author of the original wanted to frick around with the setting some more.
1:1 adaptations don't exist
Shows have only recently (since the mid-to-late 2000s or so) pushed to be more 1:1, there was a lot more creatively liberty taken with anime adaptations back in the day, for better and worse.