What manga can you read? 15 manga episodes

It's always exciting to hear that your favorite manga is getting an anime adaptation.

Seeing your favorite characters take on movement and color as well as a new voice is an amazing experience. However, not everything is a flower bed of roses.

Placeholders, poor animation, poor voice acting, and poor music choices can ruin even the best manga as it adapts to the screen.

Knowing this unfortunate truth, here are our selections manga that are actually better than their anime adaptations.

15. Fist of the North Star

The tale of Kenshiro in a post-apocalyptic wasteland is a tale of cruelty and death.

The manga is filled to the brim with great art, characters, and gore.

In anime, unfortunately, only one thing is true: blood.

Of course the quality is notterrible .

But compared to the source, it is clearly not enough. Throw in uninteresting characters and storylines that aren't in the manga, and you have a disappointing piece that pales in comparison to the real thing.

14. One Punch Man

One Punch Man tells the story of Saitama, a hero who can defeat any enemy with a single punch.

Art is hereincredible , it is one of the best published manga.

The first season of the anime came out with a lot of anticipation because of this, and they performed beautifully.

But in the second season there was a change of studios, which caused doubts among the fans ... doubts that, unfortunately, were justified.

It is by no means terrible.

But compared to what we had before and with the source, it's justsad .

13. The strongest student in Kenichi's history

Kenichi is an ordinary boywithout any ability to martial arts and martial arts.

But after becoming harder than ever to defeat his bully, he sees himself being attacked by more and more powerful enemies.

This results in him having to conform to the occasion again and again in order to maintain his leisure.

This is a fairly simple shounen fighting rig and is quite good in this genre. It has cool characters and interesting fights that are scattered throughout the series.

However, the anime achieves none of these points.

Weak animation with static combat, subdued music, and some sub-par voice acting make this captivating story into an unforgettable anime.

12. The Seven Deadly Sins

Seven Deadly Sins is a shonen set in a magical medieval world.

The animation of the first two seasons was donevery good and was highly acclaimed by the fans.

But the same fate befell One-Punch Man and this anime.

Changes in the animation studio have resulted in a level of quality that has becomemuch below average, and this caused an uproar among the fans.

When it comes to the Seven Deadly Sins, save the heartache and keep reading the manga.

11. Junji Ito Collection

Junji Ito is one of the greatest horror manga writers, with a unique and detailed art style that can instill fear in just about anyone.

This anime took several stories from his works and made an almost personalized adaptation.

However, he couldn't pick up the slightest bit of creepiness from its source.

The overly simplistic art, along with a funny atmosphere instead of an unsettling one, makes for a terrible horror anime compared to the source material.

10. Toriko

Toriko is a typical fighting shonen, with the difference that it focuses on food (literally everything is about food).

The anime also had a lot of good material. So what went wrong?

Filler episodes, filler characters (even appearing and affecting gun arcs), judgment in battles (regardless of the severity of injuries, there is no blood) and some stiff (and strangely shiny) animation.

9. One piece

One Piece is an amazing manga.

After the travels and adventures of the Straw Hat crew, you will have an unforgettable experience.

And while anime can capture that feeling well, it's not without its flaws.

First, the pace is terrible, with some infamous episodes adapting the contenthalf a chapter .

Second, filler episodes. In most long-running anime, you sometimes have to make closed arcs to break away from the manga.

And third, the quality of the animation is a roller coaster, ranging from great (like the Wano arc) to terrible (like the Dressross arc).

All in all, the anime still has some really good parts, like the music and voice acting department, so it's worth watching if you're a fan.

But if you have to choose one of the ways to enjoy the story, manga is the answer.

8 Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul is one of the best-selling seinen manga, and for good reason.

This is a great story with well developed characters and beautiful art.

In the anime, it was decided to cram as many chapters as possible into each episode. As a result, the characters were underdeveloped, acted irrationally, and were killed without any emotional weight.

The animation is still good and the music can be nice, but the manga is so much better it's not even funny.

7 Killing Akame Ga

Akame Ga Kill follows a gang of assassins who kill them on their way to a better kingdom.

It's a darker shounen that uses death and blood and gore as an argument - and throws in some comedy here and there to keep it from being so dark.

The anime uses the darker side of the manga in the first few episodes to draw in new viewers, but seems too afraid to continue like this later on. This allows comedy to take the front seat, which kind of underestimates its main attraction.

Also, later plotfully deviates to a not-so-good place.

Basically, read the manga.

6. Bleach

Bleach was one of the three main pillars of Shounen Jump magazine at the time of publication, along with Naruto and One Piece.

But that was also the only time the anime wascanceled instead of ending with the manga.

Cause?

So much bad filler that even hardcore fans find it hard to handle.

Just to give you an idea: out of all 366 episodes, 160 are minor.

Making 45% filler for the entire anime series was probably not the best decision.

5. Record of Ragnarok

Record of Ragnarok is basically the pinnacle of fighting manga.

The duels between humans and gods, and how cool they sound and act, is what attracts the audience here.

So the biggest challenge for anime was to bring the fights and characters to life in the coolest possible ways, a challenge theycrackling failed.

Epic battles are reduced to displaying pictures, great characters look and sound completely bland... there's a lot that misses the mark.

I mean, even starting out with his heavy metal music is boring as hell with everything stuck in place.

They really screwed up with it.

4. Rosario + Vampire

Tsukune is an ordinary kid, and because of his poor grades, he can't find a school that accepts him.

As a last resort, his parents can get him into the Youkai Academy, a place that is actually reserved for monsters.

So begins his life underground and tries not to be killed by his classmates.

Although the manga is an ekti-comedy, it turns into an action movie with a good plot. The anime is the opposite, focusing exclusively on the worst aspects of the story and deviating from the original source at every opportunity.

It's a real shame, because manga is a lot of fun.

3. The way of the domestic husband

The Way of the Househusband is a simple comedy manga that follows a former yakuza boss who goes out of his way to be a great housekeeper.

It's a fun piece filled with beautiful little moments for everyone to enjoy.

Anime? Not so much.

It's like watching a slide presentation.

jokes almostnot accompaniedanimation and the timing seems wrong.

So this anime has basically turned into the reading equivalent of manga, but with worse art, comedy, and bad coloring.

Honestly, just read the manga.

2. Berserk

Many manga fans call Berserk one of the best ever written.

A statement that makes you think that a well-animated adaptation will come in handy sooner or later, doesn't it...?

Well, that's right, but alsovery wrong .

The first adaptation, made in the 90s, is pretty good. But he only adapts what the manga had finished up to that point.

Two decades later, and there's still plenty of animation material to be announced and promised to deliver the 2016 anime.

The result couldn't have been more impressive if he had tried: horrendous and clumsy animation, entire arcs cut off, and storylines that rush to nothing.

Even the sweetest fans will be left with a sour taste in their mouths after watching this adaptation.