1345521 wrote:zarmack wrote:I'm at an utter loss at how anyone could prefer the manga. Its objectively worse in nearly every way.
I strongly dissagre. The manga has better:
ART (by FAR)
characterization
There, two things, even if you wanted to dispute characterization, the manga has far better art and thats kinda fact. The only thing the anime does objectivly better then the mangais give better treatment to characters aka like spotlight....
Everything else is up for debate
The has good art and captures Toriyama's style a bit better, but...As an artist myself, I can tell you that it isn't really better. While Toyo captures the signature style of the series better, he has a VERY crude understanding of anatomy, if any at all. It's no secret that he sucks at drawing necks, but beyond that he needs to really study proportions and basic anatomy, as I've noticed plenty of his illustrations where his arms were in impossible positions or when he draws incredibly small torsos with ridiculously long legs. These are easy fixes that can bring the best out of his talent, but as of now his art comes off as someone who EXCLUSIVELY draws dragonball and never ventured into the fundamentals. I know, because I used to be that dude.
The manga has a bit more consistency overall than the anime, but not by enough in my opinion to give it the edge that people give it credit for. It should be easy to keep a story consistent if not much at all is happening...
The storytelling is a toss up. The anime does too much at times, while the manga does too little. The best product would take the best parts of each's method of storytelling and world building. Toyo's exposition with Toei's characterization, and a combination of both approaches to the action scenes would be DOPE!
The anime, in my opinion, has the edge if and only due to it being an overall more entertaining product. What I mean by that is, for as "logical" as the manga tries to be, that's never been the reason I personally followed Dragonball all of these years. The hype moments and characters are what made the series a juggernaut, and there's so little of that in the manga that whatever positives it does has, it doesn't grab my attention. I expect to at bare minimum get some moments that I can remember with fondness. I get that with the anime in most if it's arcs...even the filler. I only remember like 3 things from the entire manga that could be considered HYPE: Goku using hakai, Kale's rampage, and Roshi vs Jiren. Sadly, I'm not fond of any of those moments. The anime: Goku vs Beerus nearly destroying the universe, Goku using Ssb Kaioken x10, Gohan vs Watagashi, Goku Black killing Future Bulma, Goku's epic rampage against Black abd Zamasu, Future Trunks transformation into SsRage(can't deny that it was cool when it first happened), Goku Black's first transformation into Rose, Vegeta finally get to beat the tar out of Black, Everything about Merged Zamasu, Father Son Galick Gun, Goku putting so much power into a Kamehameha that his arms go limp, Zamasu becoming one with a timeline, Zeno obliterating said timelime...all of this before ToP.
Other than that, the two versions are more or less equal to me. I lean to the anime for having more standout moments.