There are always going to be some changes between anime and manga because some things work better on screen and other not, like in every other adaptation.

I don't think the anime Is actually trying to change the personality of the characters, it's just a different style/vibe

One thing I want to say for JJK specifically is that I’m pretty sure Gege collaborated with the anime studio a bit more than normal, where he checks in with the director a lot.

There’s some sort of fan book where Gege talks about the anime a bit and mentions how his reference to I am Legend turned into a Lord of the Rings reference and Gege thought it was interesting and unimportant enough to let it go through

https://imgur.io/a/M9tM8mQ

I think Mappa is a pretty good choice for this considering how willing they are to take creative liberties for the adaptation.

Especially during fight scenes. There are a lot of sequences in season 2 where characters perform incredible feats of speed and strength that makes them look far more impressive than the manga- a big example of this would be Choso vs Kenjaku, where in the manga Choso uses his blood to slightly manipulate Kenjaku’s footing at one point and the anime version of that has him pull out a gigantic pillar of stone.(Sukuna’s fight against Jogo and Mahoraga is likewise changed quite a bit from this desire for flashiness)

A big part of the changes is that some things look very flashy and are more entertaining to see in an animated medium- it is completely understandable for animators to be able to prioritize flashy fight scenes since more than the manga since that’s a lot more entertaining than simply seeing still images of it in a manga.

It’s also noteworthy to mention that there are also moments where the adaptation heavily relies on music to enhance a scene, which is of course not something the manga can do. I’d argue that one of the biggest changes in Shibuya was the feelings around Nanami’s death- something that had a pretty big change in presentation on account of that music.

Nanami’s death is a lot quieter in the manga, which really adds to the grimness of it. In the anime it’s a very ceremonious.

A lot of it is for the sake of emotional impact and character consistency. It’s also to make JJK more fitting for the anime medium.

Gojo being calm and confident is fitting for his character after beating Jogo in Season 1. Im sure the Director of Season 2 was aware of why he’s so popular, and he decided to portray him as the confident pretty boy instead of the locked-in Jujutsu Master.

My favorite change in the anime is when Nanami is killed, and Yuji starts crying while he’s running at Mahito. He doesn’t cry at Nanami’s death in the manga.

The artistic changes are just to make moments look more hype as needed. Sukuna’s Domain Expansion, Todo’s arrival, or Gojo’s “Honored One” moment are all done for the sake of well.. hype.

The manga itself is very edgy… literally. It’s very intentionally scratchy and Gege looked to do so for the sake of emphasizing JJK’s horror-aspect. Even the heroes are psycho-looking in the manga. The anime looks to change that, it makes them easier to root for.

Unpopular opinion: I don't like how they adapted a lot of the fights in season 2, especially Gojo vs special curses, besides butchering a lot of the panels (cough cough Through Heaven and Earth Gojo panel), the fight pacing is just too slow in the anime, anime drags few panels to a whole minute because they keep spamming slow motion no jutsu, while it's supposed to be very fast in the manga.

It doesn't fit one bit, I know they probably did this to prolong the episode but this is not the way to go, most animes resolve this issue by adding anime only extra fight scenes in between the manga panels. This is especially noticable in the beginning fightning sequences before Gojo kills hanami

I think It depends on how big the changes are, if they are relatively minor like in this case i'd say it's more style more than anything.

Like in the Gojo example you made, if they really wanted to change his character and make him into someone who only enjoys to fight and is not concerned then they should have changed the story and let him blow up the civilians. That would be a case of making the decision to change the story/characters. Otherwise it's just them making something cooler/more visually appealing

i remember they fleshed out junpei in season 1, but i think that gege had something to do with that. he said in a extra page that he created junpei to die so he didnt develop his character properly

At maximum they are just gonna make the moments more dramatic but genuinely what do you even expect them to change?

People say jujutsu society change but did it?

https://preview.redd.it/eu178b2eu2cf1.jpeg?width=929&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9500d9954eec42449c1e2fb1ad7dc610cf625b3e

They didn't even acknowledge those who died lmao sorcerers are still mere tools

It's probably because the final chapters don't really "zoom out" to the greater impact. It focuses mainly on wrapping up the character arcs we have, and less on the implications of the wider world. Curses and cursed energy are now public knowledge, which is bound to have major consequences on the state of the world, and it probably does in-universe, that's just not what's discussed in the manga.

Besides the brief shot of Utamine worrying about the barriers holding up they didnt go into detail of society dealing with the fall out of curses becoming public knowledge or all the curses gathering in the city. I don't think it's a bad thing that Yuji, Nobara and Megumi get to act like students again by the end but there wasn't much shown about how the higher ups are dealing with everything. 

because nothing ever happens

>tell, not show.

That's why, outside from Sukuna and others moving on, we saw NOTHING in the end.

The epilogues did add some things, but it was minimal to the overall scale of the jjk world. Gege rushed all of it in one chapter because he only had one chapter remaining.

It was doomed to be not good.

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Not complaining though, Uraume scenes>>>>>

Surprised how you didn't mention the biggest benefactor from it, Demon Slayer, completely mediocre and forgettable manga, amazing anime thanks to Ufotable

They are talking about the scene in the anime where Todo's favorite idol, Nobuko Takada, fights with him vs Mahito in a very funny bit that wasn't originally in the manga. In the manga it just skips right from Mahito seeing the locket to Todo slapping his hand in order to activate Boogie Woogie. Its an example of how the anime elevated the source material in that moment by adding that crazy almost dreamlike sequence.

I mean, the manga is 90% action with meh worldbuilding and forgettable characters, it's all aura farming and cool fights.

JJK’s anime is still the GOAT for that nonsense with Todo and Takada against Mahito. I’m sad I’ll never get to relive the experience of seeing that for the first time.

Improving an already written story with the benefit of hindsight will always be 100 times easier than making it good in the first place

The studios just seem to have realized they'll get more worth by their coin by risk trying to do that than by just adapting the manga page by page or going off in their own direction entirely

The jokes are a bit off in the adaptation. They loose some of the impact when the single funny image has to be split into a scene of multiple character talking after one another.

I'd read the manga. The anime cuts out a lot of the early SOL stuff which is clearly your speed and doesn't have the budget to adapt the fight scenes which the author of JJK praised.

It's not a bad anime on its own, but it's a subpar adaptation.

Mappa changed/added some minor stuff in season 1 of Chainsaw Man ,the final season of Attack on Titan and even jujutsu kaisen but it didn’t affect the overall story and the anime remained faithful to the original manga.

In the section on horror vs action I would like to add that the anime simply does horror in a different way. Part of the horror in manga format is imagining how something moves or how it sounds, both of which the anime actually has to do. I think the anime does the creepy curses really well, from movement to sound. One good example would be the curse at the end of season 2 that tries to take the little girl before Yuta comes in.

They will add stuff in but not change the parts already there; so, some fights would be way longer and there may be large amounts of Anime only interactions.

yep i already read the change.

our heros free gojo, team up with sakuna and defeat the dark masters and save the digital world. returning home to their families. only sad part is when they gotta leave their digimon at the end.

What do you think the JJK version of “I caught a Lolita,Batman!” is?

Manga Gojou is a masterpiece don't get me wrong. But those eyes bro.. You can see the budget in those crystal eyes like goddam.

There's something about manga Gojo that's just *chef's kiss*

Manga 100%. Something just seems off about the anime version but it still looks good.

Manga gojo

they both looked DAMN GOOD.

with that said. manga lol

Manga is always better. .

Ajin has a really good artstyle. I have not seen the anime, but i can say this ajin manga is amazing

I’d recommend reading the manga. I read the manga after I finished watching the second season of the anime, which I liked a lot. The manga has made me “awe” a lot with how surprisingly good the plot is, something that the anime never made me feel.

The second season of the anime uses the same story elements of the manga but diverges completely. I think both are really good stories, so I recommend watching the anime first, then reading the manga to find out how the author ended the story.

A lot of the second season was original.

Extremely different. I’ve seen a lot of people on here who really enjoyed the anime but the truth is doesn’t even compare to the manga. Manga is fantastic, better plot, character development, pacing, art, just everything. Highly recommend the read

Freiren, the manga is great but the anime just elevates it into the stratosphere.

I love both versions, but personally I like seeing the fight scenes in manga more than the anime. There is a grittiness to them that the anime doesn't really capture. Nonetheless, I am grateful to be able to see frieren in both anime and manga form

for me its the opposite, the manga works because its a very simple story that you can read very fast, the anime is quite slow and spends too much time on the action scenes, but the problem is the story isnt deep or complex enough to make use of that time so it just becomes looking at the pretty drawings with 0 thoughts.

athough the production is ofc great in every technical way.

Bocchi the rock! Manga is the obvious example being 4 koma manga lol

Nichijou's adaptation by KyoAni is incredible on every level. Animation, voice acting, music, pacing...

Piano no Mori was a really bad adaptation as well. It's one of my favorite manga but the anime wasn't great.

Bocchi The Rock. The way it adapts manga's visual gags is phenomenal.

Same goes for Pop-Team Epic. The fucking Hellshake Yano sequence was brilliant

First person to read the manga

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Pretty sure the said leak culture made fans hate jjk too, people only listened to other people on other platforms without doing the reading themselves and started hating the series because others said so

Culling games was good, the military arc was enjoyable too read too and was resolved, one way at least. Sure, it has it's flaws, but people make them out to be WAY too bad.

That and, remember when the entire fandom raged at the last chapter not having all leaks? Almost a year ago

https://preview.redd.it/r0g9ce4vmbqf1.png?width=811&format=png&auto=webp&s=f715baf5da8be2838b373df390a72380154057bb

Was worth it for the Uraume and Sukuna panels tbh

I got no problem with people hating Fushiguro. But if I have to read comments about how "his character got wasted" I'm going to strongly worry about the processing capability of the individual in question when they can't comprehend a narrative decision that isn't a shonen trope copypasted ad nauseum.

The only thing "wasted" about Fushiguro was that weird ass Susanoo rib cage he was forming that went nowhere since Sukuna didn't showed anything about it either.

Yeah they're gonna read the leaks, make tons of memes about it and the amount of memes there are over a single panel will eventually result in someone believing it is true

Like just look at what was happening last week with the "Gramps and Granny defeated Sukuna" and people were still making memes over that fan translation even after the chapter was officially out

Did you just try talking sense in jujutsuf*lk?

Still damaging Modulo discussions, by the way