The protagonists have no personalities beyond being a love interest (and, for half the duo being a country girl), rest of the cast is so irrelevant you won’t even remember their names and of course the glaring plotholes from the movies are kept (yeah, yeah, somehow when being in a capital city have you seen the full date anywhere, sure, yeah yeah you’ve conveniently forgot about something that would get heavy coverage as a national tragedy, of course, yada yada). Now who the hell though it would be a good idea to make it into a manga without hiring the greatest manga illustrator they could get their hands on? No, instead we get an artist that rings no bells (no offense to the artist, but that’s just how it is) who delivered an adaptation that only highlights how the plot of the movie wasn’t I guess most of us can agree that the greatest part of the movie was the animation. On tonight’s Manga Nightmares we have a manga adaptation of Your Name. It’s unseasoned, raw, mushy, oily, boring, take it back, thank you.

I can only recommend this to those who insist that the story and characters in the movie are of good quality: read this and realize how half of all romances are better written than Kimi no Na wa: the movie was good for completely different reasons. That's not how you make a manga, that's a collection of still, reference-based artwork. The panel to panel transition is awkward and random and most of all, makes it look like the series was drawn simply by pausing the movie at certain points and remastering the seen in paper.

Simplistic sketches of faces that are typically drawn for side characters in gag comedies. The art, especially during those gender bender boob touching moments, is hideous. Our characters convey zero personality and emotions. An empty shell: a polar opposite of what the movie was. They somehow managed to make the story inferior, too fast paced, and completely lack in spirit and polish. It wasn't very good, but it was enough for sure. no Na wa is thus far the only manga adaptation that is inferior to the anime.ĭespite Kimi no Na wa movie's mediocre cast and below average story, the amount of details and pretty scenes made the thing worth of my while to a point where I watched it twice and bought it on bluray. 5 centimeters per second manga, on the other hand, continued the story much further, introduced a whole new aspect to the narrative, and utterly focused on character feelings. Voices of a Distant Star manga build an incredible melancholic atmosphere with powerful, bittersweet conclusion. There where the movies have been simplistic feel-good experiences that are -arguably doing their job - but still aren't much more than pretty to look at, the manga alternatives have been pushing the characters and story much further: offering the real emotional content. Manga adaptations based to Shinkai Makoto's movies have been very rewarding and practically obligatory reads in the past.

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