Forum:Anime/Manga Differences Article

I was reading back to bleach in it's early days and notices a lot of differences between the anime and manga during that time(particularly in volume 1). I had the idea of having an anime to manga comparison. For example episode 1 and chapter 1 we do a full analysis of each and find particular differences and oddities. Example in the manga chapter 1 takes course over and day while in the anime it takes place over a course of 2 days. It is odd the Ichigo is wearing his school uniform when he encounters his first hollow in the anime considering in the manga the story begins on a friday in late May at 2:23 am and the whole course of events takes place over a day, while in the anime adaptation it takes course over 2 days which means Ichigo would have encountered his first hollow in the anime on a Saturday while most high schools do not have classes. and other things like how the switch between karin being taken by fishbone D in the anime instead of yuzu(which I think is because karin has more spiritual energy than yuzu and would be more desirable so it would make more sense for anime continuation purposes.) Tell me if you would be interested in doing a project like this. --Lemursrule 19:32, January 3, 2010 (UTC)--Lemursrule 03:52, January 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've noticed a lot of differences between the anime & manga too, especially in the early days, and I am quite interested in picking out the differences. But I'm not sure if creating new articles on it is the way to go. We have projects under way to create extensive summaries of the episodes and chapters (the Volume Summary Project and Anime Summary Project), and all episode summaries have links to the summaries of the chapter that they cover (and I plan to do the same for the chapters - linking them to the episode pages), so comparing & contrasting them should be straight forward. Though I think you are proposing something much more detailed than that. I'd like to get some opinions on this. Yyp   (Talk)  22:05, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

i have seen the other important anime wikias have it (one piece, naruto, etc.) an article about anime-manga dferences in the series i cant actually create and edit it since i am not acknowledged enough about the manga as i have only read the fake karakura arc complete and portions of other arcs therefore someone that has sees the anime and has read the most/all of the manga should do an article about that, like i said it is a suggestion as i have seen the other wikias on important animes have it


 * Well, we won't do it just because it other wikis do it. Something like this should be done because the idea has merit in its own right. And I'd like to see what people think about it. I'm not against somehow listing the differences, but I think we should look at working it in with the existing articles/projects first. Anyway, thoughts? -- Yyp  (Talk)  22:49, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

I agree, it would be great to intergrade this into existing projects instead of creating new articles. I was not aware of other anime wiki's doing these, however I think we should do not for just the sake of doing it to be like the other anime wiki's but as a service to those not quite familiar with the manga and are more aware of the anime(like how I was a few years ago, I wish there could have been something to that extent). The Bleach wiki is a very unique wiki not just fan service mardi gra but very informative and not bias(i.e you dub vs sub people, seriously its been almost 4 years move on)and to be perfectly honest I think this wiki is one of the better ones because it is constantly updated and is more organized. If anyone else likes this idea please post comments to either this thread or my talk page.--Lemursrule 23:01, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

i suggested this not cause other wikias are doing this but actually cause i was searching for differences in the naruto manga with the anime and tought that i had also seen a lot of diferences in the bleach manga but am reading to much at the moment to just go back and read it all to see the diferences and then i searched for it in the bleach wikia and thought "why doent the bleach wikia have this?" there are also alot of diferences in the manga and anime in bleach but i couldnt bring myself to read it from the start since like i said was with too much other mangas at the moment but i still wanna know the diferences in the original story then once again thought that i probably wasnt the only one who had this kind of dilema and suggested it like i said this suggestion is made because i thought that there are people like me that want to know more about the manga but for some reason hasnt read it and not because other wikias have it (altough that did give me the idea) Aizen sorrow z 01:51, January 4, 2010 (UTC)aizen sorrow z

This would be a great addition I am glad you are interested in learning more about the manga the good news is with Bleach over its entire anime run stays very strict to the manga with only minor plot changes in the anime after volume 4, the major overhall will be with volumes 1-3 however in the ova memories in the rain is an exact adaptation of volume 3 unlike its television counter-part. I would love to do a full analysis of volume 1 which makes up episodes 1-5 in the anime if people are willing to jump on board with this. The manga is actually very funny a lot of the humor was taken out of the anime and karin is much more sarcastic in the manga and Orihime is clearly the poster child for ADHD and for what ever reason the hollow pepper ball training was taken completely out of the anime and rukia is histarical. Believe it or not the later viz translation of volume 1 is very good there is cursing. I would pick up the special hard cover edition of volume 1 there are color pages it was re-translated and comes in an illustrated dust jacket it is very nice I would pick it up its $20 and you can buy it at borders.--Lemursrule 03:52, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

Well, one way we can attempt to do it is to first have it as a Bleach wiki project. You know have is titled as Bleach Wiki:Difference Between the Manga and the Anime Project and start constructing the project page like an article that chronicles the differences between the manga and the anime. The short version of the difference is that Episodes 1 to 63 often cut out conversation and interaction and padded fights because they were stuffing multiple chapters into episodes but episodes since then have been padding both interactions and fights because now they are stuck for material, despite all the filler arcs and episodes. The advantages of having it as a bleach wiki project page to begin with is that it can be "messy" without being at risk of deletion. Also, we can test the viability and usefulness of the page and once we are happy that the page is useful and it is in a fit state to be seen, we can move it and make it into an article. However, while I am happy to host such a project as part of the Bleach Wiki:Policy & Standards Committee, I have no resources to spare. Both the members of the committee and the admins are stretched thin as it is. So it is not just a matter of saying, "this is a good idea". Someone has to still implement the good idea. Not that I am saying it is a good idea, just that I am happy for the idea to be tested. Tinni  (Talk)  05:57, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

That sounds like an excellent idea. I could help work on volume 1/ episodes 1-5 comparison since I am very familiar with that material. But, I think you are right this should go through kinda of like a beta-test stage to see weither or not we will continue with this.--Lemursrule 18:10, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

Considering our need to separate what happened in the anime from what happened in the manga, I'd like to propose we make a page outlining the major (and minor) differences. Maggosh 01:27, April 19, 2010 (UTC)

I agree. I did suggest this to the admins a few months ago along with my dvd page. I have a great knowledge of both the anime and manga. If we gather enough support for this, I would be more than happy to help you out. --Lemursrule 01:38, April 19, 2010 (UTC)

Anime/Manga difference section
I have been thinking about this since the issue of Gin's eyes came out, I am still not sold on the idea of having one huge article with all the differences between the Manga and the Anime. However, I am increasingly beginning to think that we should include a section in each article that notes the differences for that character between the anime and the manga. We already have a something resembling that in the "censorship section". We'll just have something like that but expanded to include other differences. Tinni  (Talk)  15:00, April 20, 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Maggosh 14:32, April 28, 2010 (UTC)