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INTEREST: Tatsuki Fujimoto Is Heavily Involved in Chainsaw Man Anime's Production

It's nice to see an author so involved in the adaption of their work.

MFrontier wrote:

It's nice to see an author so involved in the adaption of their work.

Indeed, though I do wonder how involved the average author is with their series' anime these days. Is it standard to be so involved or is it the rare exception?

smurky turkey wrote:

MFrontier wrote: It's nice to see an author so involved in the adaption of their work. Indeed, though I do wonder how involved the average author is with their series' anime these days. Is it standard to be so involved or is it the rare exception?

I think cursory involvement is usually the case, depending on their schedule or how willing they are to be involved, but some authors get very involved...like Asato Asato with Eighty-Six, etc.

Without more detail, its hard to see how involved he could be while still working on a weekly manga.

I noticed a Gustave Doré print from Paradise Lost in the background of a frame in Vol. 10, that stood out because he's one of my favorite artists.

Then next day, watching episode 2, I saw a different Doré print from Dante's Inferno in the background as they're leaving Makima's office. I went back and checked and the print wasn't in that scene in the manga, so it had me thinking the author must be heavily involved to have continuity of such an odd detail.

This is hilarious to me. Don't get me wrong; objectively speaking I think it's wonderful how involved the original creator is in this adaptation. What I find funny only applies to my own experience of the episodes: while I quite enjoyed the first one, I almost disliked the second one because...I didn't think it captured the spirit of the manga

I think the anime is too serious; action & drama work well enough but the more bizarre, slice of life scenes do not. Denji doesn't come across as funny as in the manga, just kinda pathetic (which he was! but in a more endearing way). Dialogue lines are exactly the same, so I guess I do not like the voice actor and the direction/timing of the scenes. I also think Makima sounds too youngish and sweet for what I was expecting in my head. Ironically, the animation being so smooth makes the "funny scenes" flow very different and I find them awkward instead. The OST does NOT help.

I will still keep watching and I hope I get used to it, but if you told me 30 days ago that I would be enjoying the new Bleach anime (which adapts a very lackluster arc) MORE than CM I would have called you crazy.