Series are great manga but can't be good anime

[Jasta85]

Ok, there are a lot of manga series out there which don't really have a storyline, they are just made up of a lot of chapters of separate incidents that don't really have any connection to each other (aside from introducing more characters). The just finished to love ru is an example. I really liked the manga cause while it was rapedative (as many fanservice manga are) it was enjoyable. However i quickly got bored with the anime because it ended up just being a ton of fanservice. here is the reasons why a fun manga can turn into a bad anime.

the problem is that there is no actual storyline, each chapter is basically it's own one shot episode. also, the chapters are VERY short, you could put all their content into a 12 minute episode, so the anime has to figure out how to turn those into full episodes, basically they just stick in a lot of fanservice and random conversation, but it makes the quality go down overall. they should make their episodes divide in half so they can put 2 separate chapters into one episode, the 2nd season of full metal panic actually did this with a few of its episodes, having 2 mini episodes contained in one, and it was great, cause there was no needless material in them, just a bunch of quick laughs.

Another reason why good manga can't be turned into good anime is that the content is too over the top. Manga typically has a lot more blood, guts, sex and nudity than anime, and it gets to a point where the rating of the series would go into adults only if they actually included all the material (berserk is a good example lol, just about every character in that series gets raped at one point in time, graphically in a few cases). Anime production companies want to get as big an audience as possible so they want teen ratings, or at most a mature rating. In order to get these they have to tone down a lot of the material, even cutting out many scenes cause they are just too extreme. While this may make it watchable by the general public it really annoys the manga fans as they KNOW what it is supposed to be like and when you get the diet coke version instead it is disappointing.

anyway, just my observations on a few things, any thoughts on this?

[Minimoto]

I also think that most Shoujo cannot be turned into an anime. Why? Obviously because they are generically the same with maybe a tweak here and there. People won't bother watching most of them, don't you agree?

[The Origonal Head Hunter]

Comedy series in the vein of Azumanga Daioh and Lucky Star don't need to be put in anime form, I think. Having read the Azumanga manga, which is a series of almost entirely 4 panel newspaper-style quick punchline comics, I haven't bought the anime because I don't see something like that translating well into a 30 minute show. Sure it has its longer storylines, but not enough to justify an anime series.

[Sukunai]

This is the same problem that normal good literature often faces. Text is just text, but a good writer can open up your mind and take you to incredible places all seen on the greatest monitor ever made, your mind.

Manga is often just good literature with some pictures added in.

Then again, sometimes the anime manages ok, because a moving picture can be more fun.
Some anime starts off as a dating sexual content themed creation and then they ditch the sexual content and presto you have an anime that is marketable.
It's often amusing to know, that some anime I have really liked, originally involved siome bloke trying to get between the legs of ever damned female in the show.

I think some anime has a bit too much 'fanservice' for it's own good. Some anime simply must have been made as nothing but an excuse to offer fanservice. I don't know where Queen's Blade came from, but every show is just a reason to show off big hooters. The story is accidental.

I've seen some anime ans then checked out the manga and been impressed by how the anime was so totally the manga. But I am wondering if that is increasingly not the case.

I've liked Haruhi Suzumiya, but I must confess, I think season 2 has been a great mangled concept. I plan to eventually splice in the season 2 shows into season 1 and just disregard any references to 'season' 2. Never happened, there was simply some season 1 shows that got lost.