Top 15 Anime Which Made You Check Out The Original
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 10, 2011 13:58 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Adaptations, Light Novels, Rankings, Visual Novels
Anime fans who have checked out the original work their favourite anime were adapted from share some of the most interesting.
1. A Certain Magical Index
2. Steins;Gate
3. Bakemonogatari
4. Natsume’s Book of Friends
5. Baka to Test
6. Haruhi
7. Gintama
8. A Certain Scientific Railgun
9. Kamisama Dolls
10. Working!!
11. Durarara!!
12. Usagi Drop
13. Highschool of the Dead
14. Infinite Stratos
15. Clannad
Since popular anime adaptations generally stem from originals which are already popular (such as the Index series, a huge best-seller in its own right), the effect of an adaptation on the sales of the original work generally seems to be moderate – although in some cases, notably K-ON!, the huge success of the anime can propel a formerly obscure title into a becoming best-seller itself.
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Hm. A decent list, I find.
I'm not usually one to go back to the originals, but I have indeed checked out the originals of Haruhi, Railgun and Clannad. Other than that, I've read the Negima, Lucky Star and K-On! manga and played the Fate/Stay Night game.
Interestingly enough, I feel that the kind of Anime that will compel one to check out the original the most is if it has a reputation for being a horrible adaptation...
Wow, this is of animes that I've actually checked out the originals...
A lot of anime adaptations follow the original very closely, so there's usually not much point in checking out the original unless it's superior to the anime.
On that note, I'm glad I checked out the Fate/Stay Night VN as it's simply magnificent.
i find most originals to be superior to anime but maybe it's just me.
The original will always be more detailed, only very rarely do the adaptations really follow word for word.... Haruhi and Toradora just an example.
>Toradora
>Word for word
You mean like that time where they crammed an entire light novel into one episode?
Index being no.1 doesn't surprise me. The show is great and I ended up loving Railgun even more after that was animated.
But there's an original for Kamisama dolls? I thought it was an anime first deal O-o... shows what I know :(
Anyone know where i can check out the original source?
it goes up to 6+ volumes or something, however due to low manga popularity it's being translated very.... very slowly.
I checked out the Gantz manga because the anime was so disappointing.
if were talking about checking out the original in terms of bad anime adaptions... tenjou tenge... haha if only that show was as badass as its OP
No doubt about that one and to me it was not disappointing, it was a disaster.
Claymore is where?
not on the list because the anime was alright but kind of boring :D
the anime was fine until the last 2 episodes which obviously rushed seeing how the manga updates one chapter a month.
hellsing? the original anime started out good but then went super shitty so i picked up the manga. and lucky star k-on and ruroni kenshin are all manga i picked up after falling in love with the anime. oh and after watching shuffle i had to play the game. a bit disappointed though. i actually found the anime to be better.
Clamp's manga are always so long running, that I have to read them after each anime is over so that I can see how the story really ends.
Plus the Clamp multiverse has so much overlap, it is fun to see who shows up in any given manga and issue.
The one in particular that really hooked me was Tsubasa Chronicles. That in turn sucked me into CCS, and then xxxHolic, and Chobits, and their web continues :)
My personal list:
1-Planetes
2-Azumanga Daioh
3-Kare Kano (to finish the damn story)
4-Fruits Basket (likewise)
5-Nausicaa (I'm not sure if I read the manga before seeing the movie)
I'm also interested in Nodame Cantabile and Nichijou, but I can hold off for a while.
Oh, forgot about Rurouni Kenshin, but I dropped that one, too much of an investment.
Actually i only checked the Usagi Drops out.
Daiji Sang character connected so close to the reality. and the father-daughter marrage is quite ...hard to make a comment...
Tsubasa Chronicles anime drew me into the Clamp manga multiverse. Not only did I have to see how the story ended, but I wanted to see how all of the cross-over work tied-in.
That led to CCS, Chobits, xxxHolic, etc. The Clamp world is amazing to explore!
i agree clamp mangas are pretty gd. i liked the earlier titles like rayearth, rg veda and X but tsubasa chronicles, xxxHolic are awesome too. didn read ccs or chobits though, only watched the anime.
Waiting on Steins;Gates official visual novel translation to finish up. these dudes http://vn.shourai.net/
atlas and agth can only go so far for my visual novel experiences.
El.
Psy.
Congroo.
finally a list i can partially agree on
I've only ever really done it is when the anime only covers like the first 3 novels then you have to read the shit to get the rest of the story
I`m not usually check out the original,because the first impressions are strongest.Maybe the original is a good article,but after i watched anime which adapt a lot of origin work,it`s hard to accept them to chance my impressions,even make chaos.
I can't be the only one who first got into Pokémon because of the anime, and then played the games because of it...
That's pretty common for non-Japanese pokefans to get into the games through the Anime first, expecially in America where the Anime and Red/Blue came out almost simultaneously.
I know that's what happened to me. I have long since stopped following the Pokemon Anime, but I have been playing since I got Pokemon Blue as a little kid, and I have kept playing up till now with White. I enjoyed it back then, and I still enjoy it now.
Actually the opposite happened with me. I checked out the anime early on and found it was so crappy that I stayed as far away from Pokemon as possible. Years later while looking on Gamefaqs I found out the Pokemon games were rpgs and since I play all rpgs in existence I decided to try some out. I don't like the older ones that much but I do like some of the newer ones.
eeeeh? steins gate was so boring tho >.> well w/e to each his own i guess
Boring only because you are incapable of thinking anything beyond harem ecchi loli.
It was a best selling series in japan and VERY popular in Americas as well. Due to the way it was handled.
Jk on first line.
12. Usagi Drop
Believe me, don't check the original work!!
Come on, the ending isn't that bad. In a sense, it's quite idealistic.
I have mentally denied that ending and substituted my own.
sadly all the light novel translators apart from the ones for A Certain Magical Index are %$^%&^&% lazy and they seem to progress few lines every month.
I wish I could find a way to motivate them
motivate yourself to learn the %$^%&^&% language
unfortunately most americans prefer pictures rather than complete text, so light novel translations would obviously be slower.
where's Baccano?
Strange, the only anime I've ever actually been forced to read because the series didn't end well enough for me is D gray-man...but I almost did it for shaman king but decided I didn't really care enough.
Read Shaman King. It's one of the best manga I've ever read, and miles away from both the anime and your usual shonen.
Consider this: Anna has a backstory and the pre-tournament 'Let's find the location!' fillers pretty much don't exist.
I'm reading the infinite stratos translations on baka-tsuki, the anime was spectacular, but the thought of mecha in a harem comedy with those characters is even more spectacular, the protagonist gets his IS stolen, the protagonist gets shot at at one point, ceci gets her arms sliced through during a battle, and had to wear long sleeved gloves befitting an oujo-sama...
its an excellent novel to be sure.
What about Akira and Ghost In The Shell? Those are 2 of my first, both turned out a ton better than the animated works.
Agreed with many.
Aditionally, i started reading Nana to Kaoru's manga due to the OVA's awesomeness, long ago started following the Naruto manga since i got bored of all the TV series' fillers, plus i picked Kaiji up where it left off in the anime... i had to have more Kaiji!!
Fate/Stay Night, Clannad, Gantz, HotD... list goes on.
Where the hell is Higurashi?
Again another crappy list...
Yeah, Higurashi is missing. Umineko should be on the list too. : /
Yes, Umineko SHOULD be. Its anime is really pure crap.
For me it's Gantz, One Piece and DEFINITELY Hellsing. After I watched it's TV series I began with the OVA and then started to read the manga, and boy was I in for a ride!
Poor visual novels.
In the view of anime, Durarara is great, but Baccano! is much better.(hmm, they share same director and same original writer)
But these ranklists often merely include recent anime.
Kimi ni Todoke, Kaichou wa Maid-sama, and Maria-sama ga Miteru (although I've read more of the manga than the light novels).
finally, a somewhat decent list.
There were only two instances thus far where I checked the "original" (or at least the manga) because of the anime. Those two are Shiki and Nurarihyon no Mago. It has more to do with the delays though (Shiki was in hiatus halfway through the series so I went ahead and read the manga, and the novel, well I can't read it anyway LOL; Nurarihyon's second season was taking its time with the early portion of the Kyoto arc so I went ahead with the manga).
"Bungaku shojo" and "Spice & Wolf". It would be nice if those release were a little bit faster and not only every 6 months :-(