Because it's an adaptation. Also, most fans(and even creators of the originals) are ticked off if an adaptation isn't faithful to the original.
This applies to stuff beyond manga, like TheWitches(where even Roald Dahl hated it for not being faithful, so much he stood outside theatres to tell people not to watch it).
And alienating an existing fanbase is a bad thing in general.
edited 28th Jul '11 5:09:43 PM by Signed
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What kind of silly question is that?
Anime can be adaptions, either of Manga, Light Novels or Video Games, or they can be original works. But why take the characters of an existing work and use them for something completely unrelated? Its almost never turned out well. If you want an original anime, watch original anime!
First, most anime aren't actually super-faithful. There's going to be at least a fair amount of scene reordering in even the more faithful series, and a number of anime create new plots so that they can have an ending
Second, the type of adaptaion you're talking about is largely exclusive to superhero comics, western cartoons, and other things that don't have plots. Manga generally do
edited 28th Jul '11 5:17:53 PM by Hylarn
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They do, but western superhero comics do not lend themselves to direct adaption the same way as manga.
Like, you can say "oh, we're going to make an anime of Fairy Tail", and anyone who's familiar with the manga will have a good idea of what it will be like.
But if you say "oh, we're going to make a cartoon of Batman", it could end up being almost anything.
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Why can't I have both?
I generally don't read manga, so most of these stories I will only experience if they make an anime adaption.
On the other hand, some of my all time favorite anime (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Sora No Woto, just to name a few) are original works.
But I see no reason to take characters from an existing property, and completely ignore the story created for those characters.
Edit: To be fair, thats sorta what Nanoha is, admittedly.
edited 28th Jul '11 5:30:32 PM by SakurazakiSetsuna
But to waist time and money to poorly animate a existing property is redundant. Why not cut down on adaptions and focus on making your existing properties better? Also when they do the reverse the manga makes a new story for the anime. Why should only one of them be limited to that?
edited 28th Jul '11 5:34:20 PM by jayday12345678910
....WhyI'm not quite sure what you're talking about now, but...the quality of animation does not depend on whether it's an adaptation or not...
Suffice to say, NOT being faithful to the source is a complete waste. If you want to come up with an original non-filler story, why not just create new characters rather than taking existing characters and putting them out of context?
The anime doesn't have to be 100% similar to the manga, they could always use their extra time to expand on certain elements of it, but that's as far as it can go assuming it has materials to work with and hasn't overtaken the manga yet.
edited 28th Jul '11 5:39:42 PM by Signed
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I think you are very, very uninformed about how this industry works and why anime gets made.
Also you haven't addressed my point that not everyone reads manga. Or hell, what about anime adapted from Light Novels? Very few Light Novels ever get translated. Would you prefer to not have a Haruhi Suzumiya anime? Or Toradora? Or Bakemonogatari? And what about anime adapted from Visual Novels, such as Kanon, Clannad or ef?
Your view of this is very, very narrow. And you have yet to provide a reason for why existing characters should be used for original plots, instead of new characters?
Hell, the fact that Nanoha uses a few characters from Triangle Hearts 3 is rather irrelevant, and in fact is at this point nearly trivia.
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I was saying that if they spent less money on making a adaptation and used the money to make their poor animation better it could possibly push the medium slightly forward.
I WOULD prefer them to make a completely original property but if they wanted to use a already existing one why make a direct adaption.
edited 28th Jul '11 5:43:42 PM by jayday12345678910
....WhySora no Woto is not an original work
it was based on a manga
That's backwards in a couple of respects:
First, it has to do with how the anime industry works, not the manga one. They're used to making straight-forward adaptations, so there'll be inherent resistance against doing something else
Second, very, very little is made to promote manga. The rights stay with the authors, who don't have the kind of money to fund something like that. It's superhero adaptations that are made to promote the comics. Marvel and DC can afford to do that kind of thing
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No, it was not. All three Anime No Chikara shows (Sora No Woto, Senkou No Night Raid and Occult Gakuin) were anime originals. That was the entire point of the Anime no Chikara block. Sora No Woto also has a manga, but it was not based on that manga. The manga was produced in conjunction with the anime. Just like, say, the Madoka Magica manga.
edited 28th Jul '11 5:44:02 PM by SakurazakiSetsuna
I'm not sure why you think making adaptions of works is redundant. If anything, trying to tack somebody else's name onto the adaption of an original work is bigger bullshit, since they won't even bother to market under their own ideas.
Fight smart, not fair.Assuming I understand what you just said...making original anime costs money too you know. And while you don't have to worry about the legal stuff involved with adaptation, you do have to worry about the fact that there's a slightly higher risk with original anime.
In the end it kinda balances out. I like both.
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Right, the Anime no Chikara block was, unfortunately, a failure, but then a year later, Madoka Magica comes along and is now the second best selling anime of the last decade.
edited 28th Jul '11 5:48:11 PM by SakurazakiSetsuna
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You are aware that very frequently the publisher of the manga in question is going to be on the production committee for the anime, right? And thus will get a cut of the profits, and a say in how the anime is produced. Boosting sales of the original work is, very much, an objective of an anime production.

This question as been bugging me all day. Why do anime recreate the manga? Why dont they just use the characters and create original stories for non filler purposes? Animes even pan out chapters and create loads of filler just so they can adapt the manga.
....Why