Here's my story on the subject: I started out watching anime. Sailor Moon, DBZ, whatever was on TV. Then I saw Kodocha and Evangelion subbed. Then Inuyasha came on TV. So I went out and bought Eva and Inuyasha manga because I already knew I liked them. Then I bought Fushigi Yuugi on a whim. Then I bought some CLAMP stuff. Then my friend bought me Love Hina. Then it snowballed from there and I can safely say I have over 100 manga. (I have heck of a lot of DVD's too... between that and gas money I'm always broke... LOL)

Anyway... I've come to the conclusion that I usually like manga better than anime. I love love love :wub: the anime, don't get me wrong. It's awesome to hear the voices and music and see everything in colorful action, but there's something about manga. I've been a bookworm since I was a little kid. There's something about the feel of a bound rectangle of paper in your hands... You can read it at your own pace too (which in my case is pretty fast... it pisses my imouto-chan off). A good manga will flow so that slow parts read slow and action packed parts read fast, a flash of well-flowing panels. Another reason is that the manga are USUALLY longer. They usually take a manga of about 20 volumes and make a standard 26 episode anime. Examples: Kare Kano, Fruits Basket... Megami Kohousei (Candidate for Goddess/ Pilot Candidate) is a 12 episoder that's WAY different from the manga.

There are some cases where I do like the anime better: Wolf's Rain- it's much longer and more complete as an anime because the anime came first.

Evangelion: My favorite anime. The voices are soooo important in this one and the Eva action!

Gundam--- whatever (SEED, wing)--- I have read some manga but they really just suplement the anime. Giant robot action is best viewed animated.


SOOOOOOOO! What do you guys think?

i would have to say that i like anime better than manga,but thats mostlly because i grew up on tv and dont read that often,the last book i read was tsubasa resevoir chronicles and i enjoyed it very much,and it was the naruto manga that introduced me to the series,so even though i dont read that much i still like to read manga,but,i still prefer anime over manga.

anime..manga...

which one...hmm
I like BOTH..

of course I agree with what hayama said...and to me ..there are the ones worth watching as an anime are there are those worth read as a manga..

they both great..hey I buy Shonen Jump every week...now my closet is full of it..

Hayama, I agree with you as I prefer manga but I'm afraid you got some parts wrong at the end (or at least that's what I think..):
probably the manga Gundam series you have seen are just Anime Comics (as they are called..) and I suggest for example you read these two mangas I have already spoken about in another topic: Gundam Ecole du Ciel (Haruhiko Mikimoto) which, as I believe, has some spectacular way of drawing, and also Gundam Char's Deleted Affair (Hiroyuki Kitazume) which tells the story of Char between 0079 and 0096...
you've got to read the gundam series that were BORN TO BE MANGA, they're absolutely fantastic (I also suggest Gundam Origins by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko)

The manga for Wolf's Rain is an Anime Comic

The manga for Evangelion is simply Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's version of Studio Gainax's anime (in fact it's not even finished) it's made up of 9 volumes for the moment..