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mewpudding101
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Yyyyup. The manga had a completely different plot. For adaptations, I enjoy something that adapts the manga faithfully, but possibly adds a few things in. Hence, why I like Sailor Moon Crystal, Tokyo Mew Mew, Naruto Shippuden (even if the fillers can get ridiculous sometimes), and Gintama (that additional rain scene with Kagura was great!). |
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jroa
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I don't really think they are so completely unrelated though, but more like distinct interpretations of the same general story. The underlying framework and certain highlights are quite similar in both cases. Everything involving the Archangel Michael is about the same (minus the lack of a flying horse in the anime), and (moderate spoiler for recent anime episodes and future manga volumes) spoiler[Maria still gets attacked by Ezekiel in spear form and later finds herself in a situation where they're going to burn her at the stake.] Even without Bernard or Galfa existing, it's not like she is praised by the Church or the soldiers affected by her activities. Which reminds me...the Church in the manga isn't portrayed any more positively. If anything, the priests are easier to dismiss as non-entities since they're mostly nameless and faceless. |
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Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer
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  You know, I teach a mythology class, and all I could think of was, "Crap, now students are going to ask about this in addition to all the ones who think Artemis is a man thanks to either Sailor Moon or the innumerable romance authors who inexplicably name their heroes "Artemis." (I wish I was making that up.)
That would make sense, though it still bothers me in a nit-picky way. |
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ANN_Lynzee
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I would have never guessed Galfa and Bernard were anime original characters, given how interesting they are as a whole. Bernard is hands down one of the best villains I've watched in awhile.
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justsomeaccount
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^ For me the most surprising this is that the writer and series compositor for this anime is Hideyuki Kurata who also wrote Samurai Flamenco (which I consider it the biggest trainwreck I've seen, even at being silly) and the same as adaptator of Tokyo ESP (which I considered it had a very messy and purposeless structure and tone problems that hurt them a lot), among other different stuff that I've not seen but I heard aren't very good. Not the kind of person you would think could bring so much detail about the time period (spoiler["¡Desperta Ferres!", I am spanish and I didn't even know of that and how fitting is for Galfa's character!]), complement smoothly the new characters with the old ones and get the tone changes while not perfect well enough to not feel too dissonant and flow naturally. If this is his way to show how much he's improved (to my eyes), welcome!
About the manga, I read the first volume and to be honest I consider it a different take of the same story, the manga being much smaller, episodic and calm, and less ambitious, which reminds more to Moyashimon. Some of the omitted adventures are very weird though, spoiler[in one the inquisitors turn into demons, and I don't know if they died or not, if Maria turned them into demons or not, it was very weird and I don't know if Maria actually killed them or not. Details like these make the characters a little different so I wouldn't try to combine them as an unified story.] |
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Eldritcho
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One thing i noticed about the manga is that it seems to embrace it's more out-there/sillier elements more than the anime. The anime seems to shy away from them a bit more, and places the series in a much more real-world/ serious setting (or as real as one can get with witches and angels in it), which, to me at least, makes the more out-therestuff it does have seem a bit jarring.
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