This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.
Another victory for literacy.
Oh, the Humanity~
Even though the basic story is stupid generic, you can tell with the manga that the author cared about this thing, cuz the characters actually interact with each other.
Whereas with the anime, you’re basically getting two cardboard cutouts that may happen to share dialogue in the same frame.
And don’t expect anything like the following in the anime:
No, anything that makes the characters somewhat endearing isn’t serious enough. Christ, the director for this shit was responsible for Watamote, Negima!?, and Baka to Test. What the fuck happened?
Characterization – MC-kun
It’s funny, cuz even though the MC became this buff, standard everyhero in the anime, he still comes out the worse for it by virtue of having any character nuance stripped away.
Here’s just a bit of the background given to him in the manga:
And what does the anime give us in regards to his motivation and history?
Four seconds of nothing, translated by an idiot.
Characterization – Onee-san
The onee-san chainsmokes like a construction worker in the manga. Even though smoking sucks or whatever, you have to admit it does look cool as fuck. Manga wins.
Characterization – Stella
Honestly, couldn’t even tell you what separates anime Stella from every other red-haired mega-bitch of the past few years.
It seems her only purpose is to serve as a tsundere checkbox on the real hero‘s to-do list.
In the manga she actually serves as a main character, with personality and more consideration given to her background than a two-line flashback.
Now, I don’t want to give the impression that the manga is some literary masterpiece with great characters and a lack of paint-by-numbers Japanese sexism, but it sure as fuck is 100x better at humanity than the anime is.
Fap/Schlick Material
Fine, anime. You can have this one.
Translation
While the scanlation is as shit as most scanlations are, it should take you significantly less time to read the manga than watch the anime. So by virtue of having less contact with the cancer, the scanlations win this round.
tl;dr
This is how the manga ended the introduction arc:
And here’s how it got animated:
Fuck everyone involved with the Rakudai anime, and may their families die terrible deaths.
But you know this is based on Light Novel, right?
LN is here:
https://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Rakudai_Kishi_no_Eiyuutan
Yeah, but an LN vs Anime article would be boring.
Not like it matters much anyway, since the manga was a straight adaptation and the anime just seems to be doing its own thing.
I may regret saying this, but LN->manga adaptions are usually better than LN->anime ones. (Exceptions may apply, i.e. Fullmetal Panic)
Caught up on the manga several months ago, haven’t gotten around to watching the first episode yet. Should just I skip it?
Yes.
Thanks based Sagey.
OP is classy though.
Aww don’t be like that, the anime had at least a good stylized opening.
I’m afraid this is an apples and oranges comparison: the manga and LN are titled Rakudai Kishi no Chivalry, and the anime you compare it to, while similar in all its red-hair-tsundere-magic-school glory, is Rakudai Kishi no *Cavalry*…
Fine. Then I take the position of “fuck oranges”.
I’d say it’s doing really fucking well for being the cheap shit it is. I mean, the value/money ratio is high.
Let’s all hope the manga gets caught up with the LN since this happens in the newest Vol
http://pastebin.com/KFwURrpP
>As they thightly embraced
This translation is great, for all the wrong reasons.