Hi all,
Last weekend I stopped by the local Virgin Megastore (OK, no the best place to buy anime/manga related stuff, but I had nothing to do and it is close to where I live) and was browsing the manga section. There was Ai Yori Aoshi, Chobits, MKR, Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo, Inuyasha, CCS, just to name a few. And… Found they had only one copy of To Heart manga. You don’t have to guess what happened next. I wasn’t expecting anything in particular since (1) I haven’t played the game, (2) I have only seen the anime (as well as some screen captures of the game) and (3) I don’t know which one was first (that is, the anime or the manga), but I am glad I got it.
The manga itself is not slow paced as the anime and it has even a lot of great moments (when Akari wakes Hiro, when Multi asks Akari if she is Hiro’s girlfrind, when Hiro calls Multi but then hides, making Multi believe she is imagining things, when Serika pats Sebastian, Ayako and Akari’s head, etc). The character design is different from the anime (even from the game), although, if you have seen the anime or played the game, you know who is who. How different? Well, they look like SD version of their respective characters. (C’mon, how much cuter can a Chibi-Multi can be???)
Now, the real question: Storywise, it is a bit different from the anime, and since most of us are more familiar with anime than manga, one might wonder when you should get the anime and when you should get the manga (or which offers more bang for the buck)? As I mentioned above, there were manga like Ai Yori Aoshi (in my case, I haven’t seen either) and Chobits, which has both versions (anime and manga). Obviously, if I had the $$$, I would get both, however, that’s not the case, specially not if what’s in the manga is (almost) the same as the anime. Notice that anime/manga like MKR does offer you something different, so in that case, I might get both. So, what do you thinkg? Do you know if the anime/manga is/are the same (like Ai Yori Aoshi) is the same? If they were the same, which one would you get? In the case they are not, which one would you get or would you get both?
On a side note: since ADV Films got the rights for the manga, is there any chance they will get the rights of the anime???
[This message has been edited by fxho (edited 05-17-2004).]