One Piece: Anime vs. Manga

[Assertn]

The manga crams a lot of stuff into each chapter. For basically this entire arc, the anime has been 1 to 1 between their episodes and the manga's chapters. Sometimes it feels like it moves almost too fast, other times its just like the anime - you just can't wait to see what happens next.

Then there's the typical differences....less censorship, less low-budget cheese, etc. The music is usually the best thing the anime has to offer.

[DarthEnderX]

I'm of the opinion that anime is always better where shounen is concerned since for me, so much of the appeal of shounen hinges on the fights being awesome, and black and white still images just doesn't make for an awesome fight scene for me.

I do read alot of One Piece manga though after I've seen it in anime form, and I can honestly say that One Piece feels like it's written FOR anime, because the pacing of the manga just feels frenetic. It's jumps around like crazy and just crams so much stuff into each chapter that it feels like it's rushing around all the time.

But that turns out to be perfect for the anime, because when you pace that out just a little bit, and add pauses for effect, it comes out perfectly.

Whereas other manga are paced around the manga, and flow well within the manga, and then when you convert that to anime, it becomes stretched out and ends up with alot of awkward pauses.

It also helps I think that One Piece has a much more comedic tone overall than most of the other shounen I watch. Because the anime writers can throw in little funny bits here and there and it feels much more natural than when they try and add something in that's serious.