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Message: [QUOTE="MasterEn, post: 274840, member: 3287"] this mostly depends on the country. anime acts like an advertisement for the comic in japan. the whole point of it is to sell more issues of the comic. in america, more people tend to watch the show over the comics. i've watched a lot of dragon ball over the years, but i only ever got one book in the series and read like 3 in total ever. i did read some tenchi muyo books because of the show but those had new stories in them, rather than being just a retread of the show. a lot of the time the anime goes off rails and deviates away from the comic or the comic is taking too long to be made, so the anime does its own thing. sailor moon and hellsing are a couple of good examples of this. and nowadays, you have people who make abridged versions of animes which usually are considered better than the original or stand next to it as being fantastic, like hellsing ultimate and its parody series. adaptations have a very strange place in storytelling. you never know what will result because of them existing. we have dragon ball super because of the dragon ball evolution movie existing. so, that might be a good thing depending on who you ask. the built up interest in sailor moon sparked up a full live action show [which has sailor mercury go over to the dark side, and she looks very cute as a villain] and a full remake of the cartoon series. i'd say that it would depend on the comic's story and whoever is put in charge of making the anime adaptation. if you can't get anyone good to make the anime, it might just be best to let it remain a comic only series. if you can, then hope for the best. apologies if i derailed this thread so early. there's so much stuff to talk about and cover with adaptations in general, let alone just the anime variety. and sometimes i bring up stuff that's tangentially related to the topic. [/QUOTE]

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