Since the Anime is catching up to the Manga

[Assertn]

yeah but kai.....
the neji vs kimimaro fight took place around the same time as the neji vs naruto fight did in the anime

this would be chapter 193 vs episode 61
now we're on chapter 248 vs episode 122

in a matter of 61 weeks, the ratio changed from 3.16 to 2.03


....to tell you the truth......
i have no idea what that means [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

uchiha barles: i know, i was one of them who did that [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]


EDIT: ok, i decided to go through the math once again....so here's what i have....

First of all, the functions for anime and manga releases are the simple slope formula y=mx+b
the b variable is replaced with the # of episodes/chapters already out since last week
the m variable is 1, since only 1 episode/chapter is released per week

Anime:
122+t=A(t)
t = # of weeks from last release
A(t) = total # of anime episodes at week "t"

Manga:
248+t=M(t)
t = # of weeks from last release
M(t) = total # of manga chapters at week "t"

Ratio:
M(t) = A(t) * (208/122)
M(t) = A(t) * (104/61)


Next step is to combine these 3 functions into 1 function

first, since both Manga and Ratio functions are solved for M(t), we'll combine these:
248 + t = A(t) * (104/61)
(248 + t)(61/104) = A(t)

now that we have this solved for A(t), we can combine it with the Anime function:
(248 + t)(61/104) = 122 + t
(1891/13) + (61/104)t = 122 + t
(305/13) = t - (61/104)t
(305/13) = (43/104)t
t = 56.74 weeks

so there ya have it......at the rate its going, the anime will catch up to the manga in march of next year

[broshiggie]

regarding manga/anime formula.

I think Assertn's method is good for a rough estimate and the theory behind it is solid.

I think you could make it even more precise with the following tweak.

First break up the anime into pieces, filler and non-filler. Filler being episodes which share content 100% with the manga.

So lets say (to simplifiy) that there were only 3 non-filler sections of naruto. Section A) consisted of 20 manga issues and 5 episodes, or 4 issues/episode. Section B) consisted of 25 issues and 5 episodes, or 5 issues/episode. C) contained 20 issues and 10 episodes (damn flashbacks) or 2 issues per episode.

So we have ratios of .2 episodes per issue, .25, and .5. Given a large enough sample size i think we will see a pretty tight average and standard deviation.

As far as i can remember, every issue of manga was represented in the anime series, e.g. all fillers in manga were represented in anime.

So to find the average # of issues/episode, one would first have to find the average of the subsets. This will be the average issues per episodes for all the manga issues. Call this value "X".

But then we have to take into account filler episodes. For this i think the best method would be to look at the current ratio of filler eps to content eps and assume that the end result will be similar until the manga catches up (at which point we will be getting nothing but fillers until more content is introduced). Call this value "Y".

So the formula for A(t) would actually be:

A(t) = X*M(t) + Y*M(t)

Where the first term is anime derived from content, and the second term is episodes derived from filler.

Our final ratio equation would be A(t) = (X+Y)*M(t)

At least i think that will work. It just seemed to me to be more accurate to count the filler eps and the manga eps separately and then merge the results.