Comments on: How to enjoy anime adaptations – Don't compare with its source http://hontouni.com/zan/2008/10/27/how-to-enjoy-anime-adaptations-dont-compare-with-its-source/ Stripey Insists Sisters Cry Oniichan Now Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Adaptations From Another Angle | Furu Anime Panikku http://hontouni.com/zan/2008/10/27/how-to-enjoy-anime-adaptations-dont-compare-with-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-7359 Adaptations From Another Angle | Furu Anime Panikku Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:19:26 +0000 http://hontouni.com/taihendesu/?p=906#comment-7359 [...] problem with the life action adaptations, and not so much for anime ones. Stripey enlightened us on how to enjoy anime adaptations some time back, and the tips might prove to be useful with life action adaptations [...] [...] problem with the life action adaptations, and not so much for anime ones. Stripey enlightened us on how to enjoy anime adaptations some time back, and the tips might prove to be useful with life action adaptations [...]

]]> By: Haesslich http://hontouni.com/zan/2008/10/27/how-to-enjoy-anime-adaptations-dont-compare-with-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-7358 Haesslich Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:43:32 +0000 http://hontouni.com/taihendesu/?p=906#comment-7358 Stripey: As I said earlier... it doesn't matter if the adaptation's faithful or not if they don't execute things well and make it awful as a consequence. There are problems with non-faithful adaptations, which usually involve bad writing or bad directing... especially if the original was lauded for an original story or refreshing spin on an old cliche but then the director goes back to the same tired ones and completely trashes the freshness of the work which was praised in the first place. The two Type-Moon animes that exist (remember, Hisui says there was no Tsukihime Anime) show this - Fate/Stay Night was executed... okay, but not well - and as I noted, given the producers had promised to ALTER the story and had done so for the first few eps before going for a full-on Fate route as if the first six episodes didn't happen was disappointing. Kara no Kyoukai is a faithful adaptation of the novels and is quite entertaining to watch as a piece of animation even if you're not familiar with the work... but if you are familiar with it, the pleasure is increased by being able to actualy see scenes animated, and beautifully at that. Tsukihime which didn't exist took Shiki Tohno and turned him from a person who was a normal schoolboy with a badass side into a generic harem lead.... and cut out Kohaku and Hisui for the most part. Tsukihime the MANGA, on the other hand... Well, just LOOK at this and tell me you don't want to read it (Dr.Master's up to Volume 5, and Volume 6 was released just this year in Japan if I remember it correctly): http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_178-179.jpg http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_180.jpg http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_181.jpg http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_182.jpg See? Everything that anime-which-didn't-exist wasn't. Dr. Master has this volume in print, along with the one afterwards. Ciel in her French baker's outfit is... Stripey: As I said earlier… it doesn’t matter if the adaptation’s faithful or not if they don’t execute things well and make it awful as a consequence. There are problems with non-faithful adaptations, which usually involve bad writing or bad directing… especially if the original was lauded for an original story or refreshing spin on an old cliche but then the director goes back to the same tired ones and completely trashes the freshness of the work which was praised in the first place. The two Type-Moon animes that exist (remember, Hisui says there was no Tsukihime Anime) show this – Fate/Stay Night was executed… okay, but not well – and as I noted, given the producers had promised to ALTER the story and had done so for the first few eps before going for a full-on Fate route as if the first six episodes didn’t happen was disappointing. Kara no Kyoukai is a faithful adaptation of the novels and is quite entertaining to watch as a piece of animation even if you’re not familiar with the work… but if you are familiar with it, the pleasure is increased by being able to actualy see scenes animated, and beautifully at that.

Tsukihime which didn’t exist took Shiki Tohno and turned him from a person who was a normal schoolboy with a badass side into a generic harem lead…. and cut out Kohaku and Hisui for the most part. Tsukihime the MANGA, on the other hand…

Well, just LOOK at this and tell me you don’t want to read it (Dr.Master’s up to Volume 5, and Volume 6 was released just this year in Japan if I remember it correctly):

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_178-179.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_180.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_181.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h212/haesslich/Manga/LunarLegendTsukihimev04_182.jpg

See? Everything that anime-which-didn’t-exist wasn’t. Dr. Master has this volume in print, along with the one afterwards. Ciel in her French baker’s outfit is…

]]> By: Stripey http://hontouni.com/zan/2008/10/27/how-to-enjoy-anime-adaptations-dont-compare-with-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-7356 Stripey Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:41:39 +0000 http://hontouni.com/taihendesu/?p=906#comment-7356 Zyl: Thanks bro! Haesslich: Sorry for the distress caused. *spanks spam filter* :P On Tsukihime, you brought a very important point into the picture - execution. Degree of faithfulness to any adaptation can become irrelevant if the series was well executed which, to be fair, Tsukihime did accomplish to some measure with its sinister mood and initial hook. Sadly the anime plot was so swiss-cheesed that the tale just imploded. I'm looking fwd to KaraKyou though. :) Zyl: Thanks bro!

Haesslich: Sorry for the distress caused. *spanks spam filter* :P

On Tsukihime, you brought a very important point into the picture – execution. Degree of faithfulness to any adaptation can become irrelevant if the series was well executed which, to be fair, Tsukihime did accomplish to some measure with its sinister mood and initial hook. Sadly the anime plot was so swiss-cheesed that the tale just imploded.

I’m looking fwd to KaraKyou though. :)

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