/a/ - Animu & Mango

If the anime is good, I will start reading the manga/LN it's based off, if not, then I won't.

Because, if it's good, you find out about a nice manga that you probably would have missed otherwise

Because the anime can elevate the source material for whatever parts of it it adapts.

>>810029

Because the Manga/LN is almost always objectively better than the anime, due to budget limitations and narrative limitations of motion picture animation. It serves as a 10-14 week advertisement to tell you if the LN/Manga is worth reading. Also >>810031

>>810029

Many people do this journey: they start with anime, then go to reading manga and finally stick with the novels.

It's a matter of adaptation and getting used to it, and also what you said about reading complete materials.

Every medium is good on its own, but the cross adaptation often gives them bad names.

What >>810036 said is true, it can elevate, but it also can tarnish the original.

>>810031

>>810032

>>810035

Im not OP but I don't read manga because I rather read a book instead.

Anyways, you are willingly watching low effort, low quality advertisement hidden as a product which only goal is to lure you into buying the manga.

I understand studios not being able to fit the entire manga into an anime because of budget and time but watching these anime that are obviously just advertisements to make you buy the manga is about as braindead as just watching straight up television ads for enjoyment.

To answer OP, there is absolutely no fucking reason to watch these types of anime and it is one of the reasons why I dislike seasonal anime. Fuck the whole 12 episode anime with cliffhanger ending but never a second season trend that is going on nowadays. Oh and if the show ever does get a second season because it became popular for some reason, the second season will be utter trash because it was made to scam the already existing fanbase of their money.

>>810046

>low effort, low quality advertisement

Not all of them are low quality or low effort, some of them are good and can make certain scenes even better than the manga/LN, with the music, dialog and/or animation. Plus you sometimes get original content in the anime that can be just as good, if not better than the source matterial, maybe the most drastic example being Full Metal Alchemist, with the second half of the anime being original content with it's own original ending, since the manga wasn't finished.

You also keep saying that people have to buy the manga/LN when most /a/nons probably just read it for free on various webstites.

Furthermore as >>810035 said, by watching the anime, you will now of a good manga, that you would otherwise have missed out. There are also a few cases where the manga hasn't been fully translated, and a new show based on the manga, will create the necessary demand in order to translate it from where it left out(see Killing Bites, and to some extend Warau Salesman).

Lastly for shows that you know will adapt the entire manga, it's a question of low time preference vs high time preference, as in when the anime reaches the manga, and it either ends waiting for new chapters to appear, or it starts to create filler content, do you either wait for the new season to start(high time) in the idea that the animation, dialog and music are good and make the source material better and the wait is worth it, or you read the manga now(low time) and enjoy the story now(or at least, once every week, instead of once every year)? Of course you can also do both.

>the second season will be utter trash because it was made to scam the already existing fanbase of their money.

That can be true for manga as well, so I don't know what you are getting at. The author, instead of ending the manga here and now, decides to milk it for extra sheckels, like with Attack on Titan.

There's good adaptations and bad adaptations, you can't just make a sweeping judgement because it has to be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Have you ever tried watching the anime of manga that you like, and vice-versa, instead of trying to consume EVERY FUCKING ANIME IN SIGHT?

>>810065

Literary fiction is objectively superior to mangas.

>>810067

They're fundamentally different forms of media, you dumb fuck.

>>810054

>Lastly for shows that you know will adapt the entire manga, it's a question of low time preference vs high time preference, as in when the anime reaches the manga, and it either ends waiting for new chapters to appear, or it starts to create filler content, do you either wait for the new season to start(high time) in the idea that the animation, dialog and music are good and make the source material better and the wait is worth it, or you read the manga now(low time) and enjoy the story now(or at least, once every week, instead of once every year)? Of course you can also do both.

I think you have the time preferences the wrong way around. High time preference means you want stuff immediately, and low means that you're more indifferent to something coming later rather than now.

>>810068

With how poorly light novels are usually translated, Manga is superior, as it's harder to fuck up.