Usually I see it as an animated copy of the source material, though at times they make changes to it for better or for worse.

A common occurrence is changing the order of the events of the manga when making the conversion to the anime, which sometimes isn't done well, or makes it have a different feeling. A good example of this is the spider anime this season, in that you don't know the other classmates have been brought over until much much later.

I see it as an artist and studio trying to replicate and enhance the source material. Nothing can beat reading a good manga, but watching an anime of the same thing feels completely different.

And I suppose anime is just advertisement for its source material, as well.

Authencity and love given

You can easily see when the animators are given a big budget and do their best to elevate a manga (MHA, Assassination Classroom, One Punch Man)

I just evaluate if I enjoyed it more or less than the source it adapted and why that is the case.

It depends. Some like Monster remain very faithful to the source material while some like Gintama add fillers and their own personal tweaks to the manga. Both approaches can fail miserably or work spectacularly.

1. Anime censors some of the violence and nudity. Such as Midnight's costume is meant to be the same colour as her skin or in season 3 where they gave "Camie" the white overlay on her body.Though the latter is removed in the Blu Ray
2. Season 5 made some changes by swapping around the last 2 story arcs and cutting out good chunk of content from one of them

I would say that there are only small changes due to the pace of the episode, but not in the plot or its development

Only minor cuts and little edits.

Up until season 5 it was almost identical, except they added a few episodes of content. The Froppy episode with the smugglers was anime only, as was the episode during the Provisional License exam where Momo et al. got through the first challenge. Other than that, the first episode of each season (after a certain point) is a recap anime only and there are tie in episodes for the movie. Very little was removed, but all that was added.

In season 5 though, to time out with the movie, the Endeavour Agency arc and My Villain Academia arc were swapped around. It messed with the pacing, continuity, and resulted in cuts to MVA, particularly around Spinner. Many manga readers say it's worthwhile to go back and read it, especially if you want to read on past the anime. (The next arc is rather fight heavy, so it's up to you if you want to wait to see it animated.)

compared to the anime, the manga is way more detailed and all the small changes really matter in general, for example in character dynamics. thats why i think if anyone is interested in death note after watching the anime the manga should be read to further see what the authors intended the story to convey.

They aren't extremely different really, its mainly the ending, and the second half cutting out a few bits and pieces, nothing too major, though I think its a reason why people can be more negative against Near and Mello.

For me Yotsuba arc feels more interesting in manga thanks to having many little details, scenes and interactions that were removed in the anime.

And if you only watch the anime you would think Sayu was left traumatized at the end, maybe never recovering, but manga shows her at her graduation ceremony on the epilogue chapter that wasn't adapted into the anime

To my recollection, the events that do happen in the anime happen mostly the same as they did in the manga. The big differences are deleted scenes.

Besides the ending they are not that significant imo , however, there’s a manga drawing that i love that is not in the anime, on the first chapter , there’s 1ndrawing that says a lot about ligths character before he got corrupted by the death note , and its when he decides to use the death note to change the world after he killed the guy that got ran over by the truck , in the drawing we see ligth turned over in his bed while covering himself with his bedsheet asking himself if he has the guts to use the notebook again to change the world and he looks TERRIFIED , it’s interesting to see him so distraught because he is usually calm and collected, like I said its just one drawing , but it just tells so much about how he initially felt about killing people .

1st season doesn't have that many and most of them aren't significant comparison s1 anime vs manga but season 2 has some important one that they skipped

Holy cow they skipped a lot of details sometimes full parts of chapters or chapters themselves

As a comparison, season 1 adapted the first four volumes in 12 episodes, the second season however, adapted volumes 5-10, 2 extra volumes, in 12 episodes, so u can expect a lot of content to be skipped.

I'd say manga then anime, although doing it that way may leave you disappointed if the voices you have in your head for them aren't the same as the anime (like mine), but i'd love Nagatoro either way even if she was mute. I don't know what she sounds like in the anime, but i know it will never live up to what i hear in my head, which is a mix of Konata Izumi, Yoruichi, and Haruhi Suzumiya's english voices. Also hear Gamo as Revy, for some reason.

I say this as someone who prefers anime and thinks anime as a medium is superior to manga. Not that manga isn't a good medium.

I'd also recommend the webcomic, but be warned that she's a lot more sadistic there. For some people this will be a good thing, i am some people. Others may find it offputting. If you aren't turned off by the idea of her being totally sadistic, or are turned on it by it like i am, i'd say webcomic then manga then anime.

The start of the manga is a bit chaotic and imho anime reorganized it into a more coherent story, with a clearer romantic escalation. So I think the first season of anime is a better introduction to the story. But there were still a few things that manga did better, so I think if you like the characters it's worth reading the manga version of the story and of course the ending is manga only.

I’d say they’re unique enough experiences, as the anime adds scenes, skips things, and rearranges details, that you can continue on with the anime and then go back and read the manga from the start

It doesn't matter which one you experience first, as long as you experience the whole thing. Don't be one of those weirdos who watches the anime and then reads the manga from where the anime ended. The manga is worth reading from start to finish even if you've already seen the anime, and the anime is worth watching even if you've already read the manga.

I personally preferred watching the show first, then continuing from Ch.92. Probably cause i’ve always preferred anime over manga in general.

Bruh what they did with Taro's face 😭😭😭😭

Good thing is: it'll still bring new people and we can tell them to read the manga if the anime sucks, which i'm not that convinced of

Personally i just dont like the soft shading, wish it was more cel shaded but eh

Bro's mouth is 10 miles away from his moustache 

And now, we pray it doesn't fall off

Tbh I read both LN and manga and I’m pretty disappointed yes the voice acting was incredible and so does the animation as well, but the change from manga and LN to anime was simply unacceptable I’m not ok with the scene that change at all

Does anyone know if the "bathroom scene" got deleted or will play out later? I'm an AnimeOnly.

Well, I understand the disappointment but it is what it is.. From the Manga reader, it felt like there’s so many scene changes, but from the LN reader they’ve only change and remove some dialogues. I also heard a lot of complaints like this, but the problem is most people from the manga are not aware that the Light Novel is the “Original” source. Considering that the manga is so far away from the whole story.

I really wouldn't.

The anime honestly is messing everything up for fan service and skipping stuff for the sake of it- There reducing the characters to there absolute barebone stereotypes all for the sake of making the characters "easier to understand" to wider people making the characters extremely empty and dull feeling especially compared to how rich in character they are in the manga- the story also feels extremely dull for the same reason.

Idk it's honestly a dumpster fire in my opinion- I really would just continue reading unless the momentary joy of seeing some scenes animated is worth the disappointment with the fact they don't do most of it justice and the only ones they ACTUALLY try on are HanaNene and all the characters they can't fan service are heavily screwed over (Kou and Teru for example having there EXTREMELY important arc cut all for fan service aka Mitsuba.)

I would suggest against it honestly and just continue reading the manga- it's sm better

I think it's doing a good job in season two they adapted the clock keepers arc (the one they skipped) and then after that they adapt from volume 8 onward without altering the order of events.

Just keep in mind they skipped things from the chapters in between the clock keepers arc and the hell of mirrors arc because of how they inverted the order, the only major thing aside that is the thing Aoi wants to tell Nene, since they inverted the order that goes nowhere since in the manga it's to talk about the hands appearing connecting with the hell of mirrors

The first season was a little off, but they added that skipped arc in the second season. They also fixed the animation, so it’s definitely worth watching!

Just do as you like. Most people sadly fail to understand what the point of an anime is. It's a visual adaptation, and by definition it's never gonna be the same as the manga. If you go to watch an anime or a movie that's a manga or a book adaptation expecting it to be exactly like the source material, that you're expecting something that's impossible.

As for as manga and amine goes, they should be both considered as their own thing. Their own story, with their own visuals, and their own codes. Viewing it any diffentely is kinda false because manga and animes are two totally different mediums with differents industries.

As for the TBHK anime in specific, i always tell people that i think it's done pretty fine in my opinion and that we are at least lucky to have one to begin with ! So do what that what you will ! And do as you want of course, nobody here so decide for you ! ^^

I was an anime only at first, but now I highly recommend attentively reading the manga in its entirety. As much as I love what Wit has done, especially when it comes to action scenes, world and character designs, there are things the manga conveys much better, character interactions chief among them.

The main differences are in chapters 50-70 (uprising arc) and 86-89

the anime was only better than the manga in terms of story telling in the first 2 seasons. After season two i recommend you to read the manga

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chap 51-foward

Usurping arc has the most cuts in the anime Same whit the marley arc Others are nearly the same

These are the parts where entire scenes or events were heavily altered or removed for the anime:

Chapter 1 (corresponding to S1E1)

Chapters 31-33(corresponding to S1E23-25)

Chapters 50-58(corresponding to S2E12 and S3E1-4)

Chapters 93-97(corresponding to S4E2&3)

Outside of those, there's always some changes here and there. Sometimes the manga has more detailed explanations, sometimes the anime can improve upon certain scenes or add more details.