I watch and enjoy plenty of anime, but I disagree. I always prefer manga over anime. Like films based on books, anime is an adaptation. You're getting a mix of creative visions that, in my opinion, don't always jive well with the original author's style. The quality of the different parts can be very inconsistent. Because anime can't linger on individual scenes forever, it fundamentally changes the pacing, and I rarely feel that added content "improves" the story. Compared to manga, it doesn't leave nearly as much room for the reader's imagination.precita wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:40 pm Watching something, especially an action series, is more fun in animation because you get to see the movement and attacks in motion and the voice acting and music usually also elevates a scene. In manga you just get still images, and unlike the original manga which is Toriyama's art and story, the Super manga doesn't have that prestige (even though they all work from the same outlines).
I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I don't feel the manga has felt rushed at all since the BoG "arc". If anything, the anime feels extremely padded in comparison.precita wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:40 pmUntil the manga started doing new stories with Moro and the current arc, it just felt like a more rushed "cliff notes" version of the anime just loosely following the same plots but changing everything else to condense it. Obviously the manga had no time to cover an 80 person tournament, so almost all of it was off-screen or rushed.
I don't think the DB or Z anime improved the original manga, but since Toriyama didn't draw Super, who knows? I do think an anime adaptation of the Moro arc would improve the product for plenty of other people, regardless of added content. Anime is just more popular. It's kind of like how a lot of people don't like to watch foreign-language media with subtitles...some people just aren't as inclined to reading manga. Either they don't like it or they can't connect with it, and that's perfectly fine.
I'd look forward to the continuation of the anime if it picked up the manga story. It would be cool to see the animator's take on the fights, hear the voices for the new characters, and hear the veteran cast at it again. But for me, Dragon Ball is best as manga.