Why is this manga not getting an anime/anime adaptation ?

Nov 30, 2024 10:16 AM

-POPEYE-

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Manga is so good! Why its not getting what it deserves which is Anime adaption/ anime!

Nov 30, 2024 10:36 AM

CrunchyCrobat

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Well, you read the manga, you should know how hard it would be to adapt it, and from what I have seen of other with similar artstyle, it's not gonna work well, the animation usually sucks, unless it's a cg anime like with gantz O

Nov 30, 2024 10:37 AM

Mr_Sai

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vagabond is in the same boat as berserk
anime is about making money and they aren't main stream anough so they dont see value in it

Mr_SaiNov 30, 2024 10:45 AM

Nov 30, 2024 11:48 AM

Zarutaku

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Too expensive to adapt properly.

Nov 30, 2024 12:04 PM

Thecrot

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The Vagabond manga is very difficult to adapt for several reasons, such as the impeccable artstyle it offers and the very complex story. Such an anime would be very expensive and most of the time, many anime adapted from big series ended badly! So we won't have high hopes for this!

Nov 30, 2024 12:06 PM

MUGIWARA_0001

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the background art is so pretty in this manga.. it will be so hard to deliver such beautiful & pretty art in anime..

Nov 30, 2024 12:09 PM

MidnightTv13

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if they were to ever adapt, they'd have to give it not only the slow cinema treatment for its meditative art work depicting the minute detail of life, but also the art style in itself would be difficult in nailing to a T. It's a lot of money and while Monster and such did get the budget for something of that scope, it is difficult to say this ever will. look at how they treat Berserk.

Nov 30, 2024 12:09 PM

Baskarite

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Too detailed of art to adapt on a cheap budget. No new chapters in like 10 years so the publisher wouldn’t commission a studio to make an anime when they’d see no profit from it. The manga isn’t even extremely popular anyways, so if, by some miracle, the author decided to start writing it again, the manga’s sales probably wouldn’t justify paying the exorbitantly high price a good adaptation would require.

The best chance for an adaptation is for a large studio like MAPPA to make it as a prestige project like Vinland Saga, but even that had support from the manga publishers.

Nov 30, 2024 1:06 PM

thischeetobussin

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Incredibles hard to adapt this to manga format so it’s understandable why it hasn’t happened yet. Doesn’t really need one either imo.

Nov 30, 2024 1:13 PM

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TheKidGizmo

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Artstyle. mappa can't adapt it either

Nov 30, 2024 4:46 PM

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Strange_Hero

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Inoue hasn't finished the series, the fact that it has been on hiatus for 10 years coupled with the intricately detailed art makes it poison for any animation studio.

Nov 30, 2024 5:29 PM

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As much as it pains me to say it, i dont want it to be animated tbh. Its perfect as it is with its style on the manga, its great, and i feel like it would be too hard to make justice out of it if they animated it... and i dont want them to butcher it. So I'd say its alright the way it is

Nov 30, 2024 5:54 PM

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EBTW871

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Mr_Sai said:
vagabond is in the same boat as berserk
anime is about making money and they aren't main stream anough so they dont see value in it

That is so insanely wrong mate. It’s that they’re hard to adapt. They’re among the most mainstream manga that exist.

Nov 30, 2024 7:20 PM

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Clovis

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Some of the artwork would be impossible to adapt in 2D animation. Even if they went full CGI, I'm sure it would still require a large budget in order to match the quality of the manga.

I heard that the studio behind Arcane would love to adapt Vagabond, which would be a blessing from God of course. But I'm sure a lot of ungrateful losers would still be mad if that happened.

Nov 30, 2024 7:23 PM

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Absurdo_N

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I think this type of work is better as a manga.

Nov 30, 2024 9:23 PM

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Musashi_Arun

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I don’t know, maybe it will after some years , you never know

Nov 30, 2024 10:26 PM

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Uruichi

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Ben10ison said:
Manga is so good! Why its not getting what it deserves which is Anime adaption/ anime!

Same reason as we Berserk fans are not getting a proper adaptation of the source material, it’s too detailed to adapt into the medium of animation especially the Golden age arc where the “modern” audiences won’t be able to handle some of the graphic elements presented and it will probably get cancelled on twitter lol as for Vagabond you would need some Takt Op Destiny staff and producers to adapt that beast

Dec 1, 2024 12:06 AM

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Lograi

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Not every manga needs an anime adaptation.

Dec 1, 2024 12:49 AM

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kuroneko99

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The same opinion was seen here too.

You can read the author's comment here; "People should say 'Before making a movie, you should resume the serialization of the comics first.'"

And it seems a French animation company has keen interest for anime adaptation of the series.

Dec 1, 2024 2:02 AM

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ShokatAli

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Just look at berserk. it's very hard to adapt the artstyle

Dec 1, 2024 2:28 AM

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MUGIWARA_0001 said:
the background art is so pretty in this manga.. it will be so hard to deliver such beautiful & pretty art in anime..

There are many anime with highly detailed backgrounds so that is not the case. The problem will be with character animation. The main problem is popularity. Remember the movie Redline? The animation and art is top-tier still it is not that popular. Vagabond and other manga like berserk are not that popular compared to Battle shounen and isekai which will make a lot of money. Therefore, it is possible to adapt them but it will be expensive adapt them and nobody will try to do something risky like this because it can lead to a complete failure.

Dec 1, 2024 4:34 AM

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sayandeepbiswas1

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maybe after 15-20 years when animation tech is advanced enough(and cheaper) and Inoue decides to cap of the manga properly

Dec 1, 2024 5:21 AM

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Mr_Sai

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EBTW871 said:

Mr_Sai said:
vagabond is in the same boat as berserk
anime is about making money and they aren't main stream anough so they dont see value in it

That is so insanely wrong mate. It’s that they’re hard to adapt. They’re among the most mainstream manga that exist.

in the west they are
but not in japan

Dec 1, 2024 7:42 AM

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kihel

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Because the original author does not want it to be animated.

Dec 1, 2024 8:11 AM

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CrunchyCrobat said:
Well, you read the manga, you should know how hard it would be to adapt it, and from what I have seen of other with similar artstyle, it's not gonna work well, the animation usually sucks, unless it's a cg anime like with gantz O

would be sick if kamikaze douga did it in the style from the star wars vision episode they made

Dec 1, 2024 1:38 PM

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EBTW871

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Mr_Sai said:

EBTW871 said:

That is so insanely wrong mate. It’s that they’re hard to adapt. They’re among the most mainstream manga that exist.

in the west they are
but not in japan

True, but they’re still more popular than a lot of other manga even in Japan.

Dec 1, 2024 2:01 PM

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Daddie

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Isn't anime usually made to help more manga?

Dec 1, 2024 11:15 PM

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JigglypuffSenpai

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Mr_Sai said:
vagabond is in the same boat as berserk
anime is about making money and they aren't main stream anough so they dont see value in it

vagabond is acc really popular though, its not about the manga being popular just the artwork is too hard to animate

Dec 2, 2024 5:16 AM

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With a series more niche than others, it doesn’t make sense to expend the amount of money and time it would take to adapt its very detailed ever changing art style. So if they did adapt it in a lackluster way it would just end up like the 3d berserk adaptation. Also the series is currently in an indefinite hiatus, author said he wouldn’t go back until he finished his current manga (‘Real’) which is not close to finishing as of right now.

Dec 7, 2024 10:50 AM

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Zarutaku said:
Too expensive to adapt properly.

Berserk and Vagabond are two of the most impressive manga of all time. Now that alone isnt a good reason to not adapt it. But when its specifically the ART that is the reason these two manga are so popular the reason becomes obvious.

If a studio wanted to do vagabonds art justice and give it the quality of animation that could match the art of the manga they would be spending anywhere from 4-10× the amount of labor on it than they could on a mediocre isekai like Bofuri or in another world with my smartphone. When you spend that much time on a show it needs to blow up like my hero academia or death note to make any money. Unfortunately Vagabond and berserk (as an anime) cannot possibly reach the audience required to make as much money as those two series. Consider that only 2 out of 55 movies to reach a billion dollars at the box office are rated R and it proves my point. hell those two movies (joker/ deadpool and wolverine) both came out very recently too all things considered. They only saw their success due to aging audiences.

So yeah, too much money to fund the project. No chance of making it back.

Sharmat_00Dec 7, 2024 10:55 AM

He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.

Good luck with berserk Kouji Mori, you'll need all the help you can get. We believe in you.

Dec 10, 2024 12:50 AM

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elderonn

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What is the difference between a manga getting an anime adaptation and getting an anime? Please I need to know!

Dec 14, 2024 2:21 PM

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neekbarn

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The closest thing I’ve seen is Uzumaki but we al know how that turned out…

Dec 15, 2024 10:33 AM

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devil_lady

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I think it boils down to the technical talent and skill it would take to even direct an adaptation, let alone the work required to animate intricate panels and backgrounds. I imagine it would be more expensive than any studio in the industry would have the desire to invest in. A lot of the same reason Berserk will probably never get a full adaptation.

Dec 19, 2024 5:08 PM

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It won't get an anime because the manga doesn't have the typical anime artstyle. At least that's my theory. I also heard that Inoue has blocked all the rights, meaning that no one can adapt any of his manga into an anime or live action, which makes no sense because a Slam Dunk movie was released in 2022. (The comment that said that Inoue blocked all the rights is from 2018.)

wildhoodDec 19, 2024 5:17 PM

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