Comment on What are some adaptations with huge disparities in quality between the source and the anime?
erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh 2 months ago
Samurai Deeper Kyo, without a doubt and the anime is objectively pur trash. In the anime they changed samurai ennemies into aliens with sekigara battle becoming an alien invasion. In the manga we are in a classic seinen chanbara with light fantasy (the two biggest fantasy element are kyo and kyoshiro sharing the same body and nobunaga’s almosr immortality with his body rotting).
Butts@ani.social 2 months ago
I haven’t even heard of that title before, that’s interesting. I wonder if those differences were made out of creative intent or out of compromise somewhere in the production process.
erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh 2 months ago
it’s an old manga. the change on the anime was to tone down the story and makes it appeal to younger audience (the manga is highly adult only with a lot of bodies cut with lot of blood but because ennemies are monsters blood was changed to vomit kind of green). The sad thing is that the manga is reaaaaaally, lots of action, tragedy, politics and highly deserve the Shaman King treatment of a kai version (even badly animated as long they stick with the story, characters personnality and background because it would be better than what we had)
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
The anime is a good twenty years old at this point. In isolation, if you’re not familiar with the source material, it’s an okay-but-forgettable action series.