When I finished Berserk manga, I wanted to introduce it to other people too. So I decided to show it to my brother first.
I knew from the beginning that he wasn't gonna just randomly start reading a manga that I recommend to him no matter what I told him about it so I told him to watch the 1997 anime first. I was thinking that when he finishes the anime he will be intrigued by the all questions it leaves hanging and he will start reading the manga like I did.
Well in short, he liked it, he was also asking me about all the questions, and I told him to read the manga. In short he was ready to read it... Yesterday I asked him "Have you finished it yet?" And he answered "No I am not gonna read it. They announced an anime. I am just gonna wait for the anime" .... At that point I was just face-palming. No matter what I told him "read it! the anime is not gonna be as good as the manga" or "it's CGI bullshit" I just couldn't convince my lazy ass brother.
Well I don't blame him, I would probably do the same. Just keep in mind that both him and me hadn't read one single manga in our lives before and we both prefer the visual adaptation of anime from since we were kids (naruto, one piece, hunter x hunter ....). The only reason I started reading Berserk manga was that the anime started with an absurd 1st episode and in the end I was just "What? What happened to Casca? Where is Rickert? Why it didn't show his death? How the hell did Guts survived? Who the fuck was that guy in the 1st episode??" ..
Where am I going with this? Well... The anime was a perfect gateway to the manga cause of all these questions it "forced" you in a way to go read the manga and I feel that the new anime is gonna ruin that.... Well I already got a live example. My brother may even lose his interest for Berserk completely after the new anime...
Whatever... I just wanted to share my thoughts about that. I think we don't need a half assed anime adaptation. If it was in my hands I wouldn't put a new anime and if I would, I would make sure it would be an 100% faithful to the manga adaptation from the beginning... No censorship, no bullshit animation ... oh and NO CGI.
I knew from the beginning that he wasn't gonna just randomly start reading a manga that I recommend to him no matter what I told him about it so I told him to watch the 1997 anime first. I was thinking that when he finishes the anime he will be intrigued by the all questions it leaves hanging and he will start reading the manga like I did.
Well in short, he liked it, he was also asking me about all the questions, and I told him to read the manga. In short he was ready to read it... Yesterday I asked him "Have you finished it yet?" And he answered "No I am not gonna read it. They announced an anime. I am just gonna wait for the anime" .... At that point I was just face-palming. No matter what I told him "read it! the anime is not gonna be as good as the manga" or "it's CGI bullshit" I just couldn't convince my lazy ass brother.
Well I don't blame him, I would probably do the same. Just keep in mind that both him and me hadn't read one single manga in our lives before and we both prefer the visual adaptation of anime from since we were kids (naruto, one piece, hunter x hunter ....). The only reason I started reading Berserk manga was that the anime started with an absurd 1st episode and in the end I was just "What? What happened to Casca? Where is Rickert? Why it didn't show his death? How the hell did Guts survived? Who the fuck was that guy in the 1st episode??" ..
Where am I going with this? Well... The anime was a perfect gateway to the manga cause of all these questions it "forced" you in a way to go read the manga and I feel that the new anime is gonna ruin that.... Well I already got a live example. My brother may even lose his interest for Berserk completely after the new anime...
Whatever... I just wanted to share my thoughts about that. I think we don't need a half assed anime adaptation. If it was in my hands I wouldn't put a new anime and if I would, I would make sure it would be an 100% faithful to the manga adaptation from the beginning... No censorship, no bullshit animation ... oh and NO CGI.