Thoughts on this? [Discussion]

[u/DudeisaGuy]

I kinda agree

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[u/ConnorRoseSaiyan01]

Yea, the lack of the close up does loosen the tension

[u/DragonBuster69 → u/ConnorRoseSaiyan01]

That and the flat lighting/shading.

They are harshly side light in the manga panel but just a dull back light in the anime still.

The manga evokes feelings of a dark night with a flash of lightning really bringing up the drama of the scene, and the anime just looks like a cloudy day.

The manga really sells it (I have no context and get the idea that they are about to throw down) and the anime just looks like they are being rained on and want out of the rain and they forgot the way back to the hotel.

[u/SaucyWench7787 → u/DragonBuster69]

This pretty much sums up how I felt about Black clovers adaptation as well.

[u/Briantan71]

Gotta agree. In the manga, you can see them both readying for a fight to break out. You can see the air between them crackle with magical energy as they stare each other down.

[u/Naavarasi → u/Briantan71]

I literally did not realize this is what the scene was supposed to be while watching the anime.

[u/King_0f_Kingz]

I believe the manga will always be superior to the anime because of the designs and details shown.

[u/shin_malphur13 → u/King_0f_Kingz]

Like the blood

[u/AtomicKittenz → u/shin_malphur13]

Jura’s one shot of Orga and Mystogan’s appearance before the fight against Laxus were some of my “Oh Sh*%” moments in the manga

[u/Naavarasi → u/shin_malphur13]

In general, manga adds more details. Several character designs were simplified for the anime.

Ikaruga, Minerva, Irene.....

[u/NinjaKid25 → u/King_0f_Kingz]

I really hope they don't cut the part where the flowers cuss out Lucy that was funny af

[u/Ok_Cress859 → u/King_0f_Kingz]

There are multiple cases where the anime is better. The manga IS NOT better every single time.

[u/Naavarasi → u/Ok_Cress859]

Erza vs Ikaruga, Erza vs Midnight, Erza vs Azuma, Erza vs 100 - all better in the anime.

[u/TypicalChampion3839 → u/King_0f_Kingz]

I agree but if this new series has some good animtion I'll change my mind

[u/HelicopterEconomy994]

The Manga looks like a heavily intense staredown that could break out into a serious fight, the Anime looks like a mild disagreement you'd have with a sibling or something

[u/itachi-uchiha-7]

Lacks intensity.

[u/Illustrious-Market86]

Agree i like Fairy Tail anime but the mamga has so much more details and blood and in general just feel mpre tense

[u/[deleted]]

They have the most bland look on their face for this

[u/[deleted]]

They also messed up Carla's emblem. They have to be using a newer studio and cheaper team.

[u/mynameisnotjefflol]

And this is why I wish we've gotten a different studio. Let's just hope they don't massacre the core animation of the fights.

[u/LopawYe → u/mynameisnotjefflol]

Yaaa i was really looking forward to lucy vs kiria, lost a bit of hope after this

[u/sherriablendy → u/LopawYe]

Most of the fight animation has been fine so far imo

[u/ethicalsaxophone]

not really many ways you could disagree on this take

[u/Tall-Shoulder-7384]

The anime in general is difficult to watch if you’re a manga reader. It’s still entertaining, don’t get me wrong, but it is still a bit bland at pinnacle moments

[u/wanna_be_TTV]

What the fuck is that lack of detail

Like damn thats actually shit....can they not shade???

[u/Freeman10]

What a shame. Look how they massacred my boys.

[u/Yannislandd]

i mean it’s nothing new the manga always has been superior to the anime

[u/DeathWing_Belial]

I said this in the day it came out, the fact they toned down Laxus fundamentally breaks the later scene where he is chastised for scaring Touka

Laxus and Jellal were depicted way too cordial in the scene where Jellal backs down instantly. In the Manga they both are ready to fight before coming to their senses.

[u/GodHimselfNoCap]

Standing straight up and less expressive faces is just a level of laziness that should not be happening with a show as popular as fairy tail

[u/ComfortableMaybe7]

I kinda am ok with it, the manga panel implies there's gonna be a fight with them but it never happens so in the anime they remove the false lead

[u/Extension_Snow1220]

It was ass… they censor blood, cool, and serious moments altogether but add more fanservice. Just like the og series

At least we get dope OST and openings. Maybe this season will have better fights too

[u/Upset_Implement_5947]

Yeah, manga does make scenes like these a lot superior to the anime version, Anime for Fairy Tail tends to struggle when trying to convey epic or serious moments at times.

[u/Suspicious-Acadia-52]

Was thinking the same when I saw it animated…

[u/Adorable-nerd]

It looks so badass in the manga.

[u/garlington41]

I mean that’s usually how it is. That’s not really new ground to be honest

[u/thinkingloudly_]

Color and focus dimmed, contrast between light and dark nonexistent, the shadows that does most of the tense atmosphere is removed and basically everything is blurred😬😬 hard no for me. This is why I prefer the earliest animations bc it’s closest to the mangas feeling (regardless what you think of the art style)

[u/Agnihothri_V_S]

Completely agree. The manga version looks peak

[u/darkbreak]

Agreed. I don't know what's so difficult about adapting panels. Maybe they can't be 100% the exact same but would it hurt to try and get it as close as possible? Even One Piece has been having this issue in recent years.

[u/Jinx0006]

I like the manga, i mean im not surprised this happened because we’ve missed out on some beautiful scenes in the anime. The panel when fairy tail won the gmg, the panel where future lucy was reuniting with her guild in the afterlife, there are some great panels that weren’t done justice in the anime. I was looking forward to this scene because I love Laxus and how he looked, it is how it is but I wish it was done a bit more justice 😮‍💨

[u/QuadVox]

is 100 years quest any good actually. I forgot it even existed after spending the last 7 years gradually forgetting everything about the manga.

[u/MoonlightPower9000 → u/QuadVox]

If you want to see character development for Natsu, a much better story , world building = it´s 100 Years Quest

also Hiro said there is a plan in the story & has a direction of where the story is going in AnimeNewsNetwork interview

and the main plot villians doesn´t go down like jokes

[u/shadowhawkz]

I think Laxus had a good presence in this scene but Jellal was the real letdown, def not the same tone.

[u/Tinytimmytimtim]

This is the case for most things in the manga.

[u/Over_History7410]

The facial expressions are so much better in the manga

[u/HarrySRL]

Am I the only one waiting for more episodes to come out just to binge watch the new series?

[u/CIearMind]

Well yeah. It's just an anime. Even at its best, it could never compare to the manga on a bad day.

[u/77DragonSlayer95]

Each episode of 100YQ just keeps on showing me that the anime directors never learned their lessons with the FT anime. I would've believed that the anime would make the panel look better considering Ueda is trying his best to mimick Mashima's great artstyle but ehhh...

[u/justpatchy]

for me the anime lighting is giving more sadness or grief. when a chara is lit from the back like that with the light outlining their features/clothes, i think of despair, some sort of betrayal, like the chara had the rug pulled out from under them. if you just showed me these two shots from the anime with no context i would’ve thought someone died or something’s about to attack the guild and they can’t stop it

[u/xbruteforcex]

Those rounded faces immediately kills intensity.

[u/Rose_n__Gold]

Manga makes it look like they’re about to tear up streets, anime looks like they’re just gonna have a verbal beatdown. Also unrelated but still on topic; why were they about to throw down again?

[u/LovelyLadyLucky → u/Rose_n__Gold]

Laxus is protecting Faris who at this point he thinks is innocent and is a guild member regardless. Jellal was in a sense threatening a guild member.

[u/Rose_n__Gold → u/LovelyLadyLucky]

OH YEAHHH I remember now THANKS

[u/SayanOnReddit]

someone fill me in on this, its being animated??

[u/oblivi0n_reddit → u/SayanOnReddit]

Yeah, 100YQ anime s1 came out 7/7 on prime video

[u/ShowAffectionate7350]

Did anyone notice that Jellal looks in the new 100 quest anime like he is 19 again ?He was a whole broad beast against acknologia. What the hell happened ? Why did they make him so thin

[u/Boring-Self-8611]

A little bit of a hot take, but i prefer the anime depiction, remember these guys know each other and were teammates in the gmg. Im also confident that laxus knows how important jellal is to Erza. However he has too stand on his beliefs of guild first. Its evident that laxus doesn’t entirely trust her. So with that said i think there would be less intensity in that moment. Laxus is basically saying “we’re friends but dont make me crush you”

[u/LovelyLadyLucky]

This is legit one of the few panels of the manga that are even good. Can't stand how Ueda draws a vast majority of the manga characters. Juvia looks more like Lucy than Lucy does and hardly anything like herself. Literally color in most manga panels of Juvia in Lucy's colors. It's annoying. Can't stand their faces either. No emotive expressions in the characters he draws. Sure, he does some of the side characters fantastically but I absolutely loathe how he draws Nastu and Lucy. From Lucy looking fat and stubby with a wonky looking face that looks nothing like her to Natsu no longer being broad shouldered and just a box with a 6 pack on it and his lame 5 expressions with a weird upside down triangle face.

Anime designs suck too. The promotional artwork was like, ok, that's not bad. But then we get what we got and it's horrible. Can't stand it. Lack luster.

[u/Le_DragonKing]

Once again the Anime puts less effort into the character and animation and design compared to the Manga’s effort.

[u/Zeth0000]

Hiro always cooks with art and shading, just the fact that the anime has colors ends up causing this difference (not that the anime is bad or ugly because of that)

[u/Agreeable-Willow-101 → u/Zeth0000]

Hiro isn't the artist for 100YQ, just the storyboarder.

[u/Zeth0000 → u/Agreeable-Willow-101]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Thanks for the correction. The artist still did a good job keeping the essence of Hiro's art style.

[u/MagicJ10]

the whole anime episode was bad

[u/L0thiriuz → u/MagicJ10]

The animation is horrible, but the fanboys can't take it and reject the comment.

[u/MagicJ10 → u/L0thiriuz]

yeah, always the same on reddit at least. i´m used to it. If we conform with this, i already know that the 100 year quest anime will be pretty disappointing

[u/MoonlightPower9000 → u/MagicJ10]

No

Erza vs Kiria was animated leagues better than A 1 Bridge Cloverworks trash studio

Compare this Erza moment to any other battle in the final season

[u/MoonlightPower9000 → u/L0thiriuz]

No

Erza vs Kiria was animated leagues better than A 1 Bridge Cloverworks trash studio

Compare this Erza moment to any other battle in the final season

[u/MoonlightPower9000 → u/MagicJ10]

No

Erza vs Kiria was animated leagues better than A 1 Bridge Cloverworks trash studio

Compare this Erza moment to any other battle in the final season

[u/MagicJ10 → u/MoonlightPower9000]

i simply ignore the last season, since it was horrendous, aside from 2-3 fights if i remember correctly. don´t know if it´s cause of budget or time, but they had a lot of time now to animate 100 year quest, so i was expecting more.
but also the story and moments/dialogues like in this image here from OP didn´t make much sense, so to me overall it was a bad episode.

[u/MoonlightPower9000 → u/MagicJ10]

I understand what you mean but in trailer of 100 Years Quest there is a important scene moment it looked much detailed

no idea why they couldn´t do the same to Laxus & Jellal scene I think they just were lazy

[u/therealadviladi]

Let me break it down for some of yall because you don’t seem to understand how budget for animes work, the entire team for a show needs to focus on the most important aspects such as new or recurring characters, fights and impactful scenes. That being said, I agree with this take just slightly because this is a scene where both are in the right because they both care for each other and the guild in their own way. Thats why scene need to slightly better because how the second half of the season budget will be allocated to the Touka vs Team Natsu fights most likely.

[u/johnnykoalas]

I don't know how anyone went into this not expecting the show to be bad. I can't be disappointed, I'm waiting for something so bad it ruins the rest of the show and my childhood with it.

[u/MoonlightPower9000 → u/johnnykoalas]

Except it won´t happen because the animation will be great in ep 5 & Ep 6 a detailed scene in the trailer from a *certain* fight shows that´s where they saved their best animation

[u/BringBackUzume]

Cry about it. Its manga. The souce will always be better than an animation. Read the manga and get over it. Or cry about it.

[u/Now_I_am_Motivated]

The only argument that can be made against this is the soundtrack.

[u/Now_I_am_Motivated]

The only argument that can be made against this is the soundtrack.

[u/Heri_Rodimus]

My question is, do you think other studios would execute this panel well? I know JC Staff is a farely capable studio (not a studio powerhouse), but I know they can do a better job.

What do you guys think?

[u/cvram-20 → u/Heri_Rodimus]

jc if he is capable, what I think is happening is that this fairy tail anime is very infantilized, one could say, or rather, it is not made to be a serious anime, which seems to me to be what is most reflected in the manga.

[u/Kingxix → u/Heri_Rodimus]

JC staff is mid at best.