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BAKUMAN_FROZEN

                                                July 9, 2013


  The Bakuman anime is incredibly
  weak. They're deeply convinced
  that the Manga is too slow and
  talky to be anime and they mess
  with the story constantly-- but
  they have no feel for what                Mashiro groans in pain
  they're doing, they keep having           as he draws in the hospital,
  characters go out of character            and Azuki runs over and props
  for the sake of Drama, and                him up, helping to hold the
  instead of tightening things up,          pen.  WTF?
  they end up making it dull with
  repetitive, looping dialog that               The Mashiro-Azuki relationship
  often doesn't quite make sense.               is admittedly difficult to
                                                put over, but the *manga*
     "We need to get 5th place."                could do it.
     "Will we be able to do it?!"

  The manuscript is done, turned in,
  finished.  The shell has been fired,
  whether it hits has nothing to do           Some of the best material
  with any further effort on their part.      in the manga is throughly
                                              "talky"-- e.g. the dialog
                                              about geniuses and
                                              gamblers.  This is just
                                              dropped from the anime.




                They were allowed to do *three* seasons of
                this, in an era when single season anime
                is practically the rule.

                     Maybe I need to work more on that
                     theory of mine about Japanese
                     creative teams having respect for
                     the original work.

                              OTAKU_RESPECT

                              With something like "Ouran Host Club"
                              it's impressive how much they succeeded
                              in tightening up the story in the manga
                              while remaining true to it;

                              with something like "Hikaru No Go", it's
                              remarkable how faithful they were to a
                              story nearly devoid of physical action...

                                 "Bakuman" makes one wonder.


        Actually, by the time you get to
        the third season, it seems like
        it stays on track -- there are        One suspects that had some
        no more abominations thrown in        fan feedback to help show
        like the visual kei rocker who        them the way...
        wants to do manga.
 
               (Um: but that was in the original 
                manga, dude.  What you talking about?) 

        It has it's flaws, but these are
        largely the flaws of the original.




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