Disappointing changes from manga

TuyNOM said:
@Batora07
To be honest, I'd like to believe you, but I doubt that hitting cows (if you're talking about the elephant/cows stuff we see in the episode) helps the character to be more appealing.
I won't say that he was unbearable like Asta but he seems too generic. Stupid and weak heroes, I think a lot of shounen have reused this concept and I must admit that I'm irritated to see this kind of archetypes.

The conflict between the wizards and the normal humans is a very recurrent theme, thus MC rejected by his society and he must therefore try to be accepted by others.

I hope the series will have interesting themes or an original worldbuilding at least, wait and see

Batora07 said:
I agree. They messed up quite a bit on the introduction of Seth and removed all the humour and original traits of Seth as a character.
They just made Seth clumsy and made him like any other shonen character with no distinctive traits. In the manga he's supposed to be stupid and naive at first so much that he punches cows because he thought they were Nemeses (they have the exact same color pattern) even if he drinks milk with their appearance displayed on the milk bottle every morning :p.



Also they changed the fact that this is peasants that runs after him and then try to lynch him in front of Alma, and that was an important point of the manga at least in the first scene to present the background of the universe to viewers.
Also that's because he causes so much mess that are presented to the reader in the manga that the sentence of Alma "You're really no different than a nemeses" (which is not in this episode) has so much sense and it also gives to the reader a glimpse of what are trully the nemeses (are they really evil ?).
They do tell in one sentence of Alma that he always cause mess to the Pompo Hills but since it's an anime adaptation they should SHOW and don't tell to the viewer, also this sentence is drowned in the middle of all the other background explanations for the universe and don't impact much the viewer (sorcerers are heavily discriminated and lynched pretty much everywhere).
And the incident with the cows at the beginning is too different to be considered a purposely made mess, Seth causes mess on purpose because he thinks it's the best way to achieve his goals :
- punches nemeses/cows so that he can save injured people/resting peasants,
- breaks the egg of a nemeses so he can beat the living crap out of it and being seen as a hero and stop being discriminated as a sorcerer vermin instead of waiting for the egg to hatch or even make it roll while it's hatching to eject it from the Pompo Hills...

Instead in the anime, in the first episode the only mess he does is caused by purely accidental reasons... that's not the way Seth has been build up as a character in the manga, thus the disappointement...

Also wtf is wrong with Seth and the books (seriously couldn't believe they made Seth read a book while he's completely stupid and ignorant about pretty much everything and discovers the world with the reader in the manga, seriously he can't make the distinction between a rabbit and a deer).
And he can cast spell (Titan Punch) even with his gloves ??? WTF ! Did they read past the first chapter when they adapted this into an anime ?

Also I can't verify it now, but I think he still has his glove on the right hand in the first episode when he crashes on the nemeses' egg while in the manga he lost it and that allowed him to not die since that's how he successfully landed without dying...



I'm really disappointed on those changes but I still was entertained by all the other aspects (opening and ending are good, music is fitting, animation is constant all the episode and colours are good too, Alma's voice is top tier, and Seth's voice doesn't disappoint me as much as I thought it would when I first saw the trailers).
It's just a shame they failed to correctly introduce the hero to anime-only viewers who will then think the show is just "generic" (and they're right, this episode just felt like an adaptation of shonen#4758) while the manga is so fresh and entertaining (seriously all the bits from the first chapter that made me laugh and found it original are removed).
But either way I'll still eagerly wait for the next episodes (and they can't decently fail Rumble Town's arc)

Edit : images comes from the japanese manga version because I couldn't find the original scans at this moment + I'm trying to learn japanese and it's more easier with manga I already know + it's cool :p

SovereignSky said:
Read first 2 chapters after seeing this topic......I VASTLY prefer the anime version save for maybe the lynching part, as for the glove thing, he says it's too slow using the gloves not impossible, so it makes sense given it took him like a full minute or two to charge the Fantasia for the fist. It'd be impossible if he JUST got the gloves, but both anime and manga clearly say he's been training thus it makes no sense for it to still be impossible.

Also, I didn't find any humour in his stupidity so yeah no thanks. Only 4 chapters to read everywhere I see so.....

milklim said:

I wish i can read the manga but it's not translated into English :(