when it comes to direction or execution do you prefer faithful 1:1 adaptation or artistic choice aka creative liberties?

faithful 1:1 adaptation like season 1

14.9%

artistic choice aka creative liberties like season 2 and 3 part 1

77.1%

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i do not know

8.0%

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Feb 15, 7:56 AM

deg

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so ye i observe that the jujtusu kaisen fandom is divided on this one like some groups are celebrating gosso is out as a director after season 3 part 1 since he did too many artistic choices aka creative liberties like how the maki massacre episode was not tragic in vibe but more on rule of cool instead

so thoughts? i voted for creative liberties of the director

Feb 15, 8:14 AM

Piromysl

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In recent years localisers have taught us what "creative liberties" actually means and it's nothing good.

PiromyslFeb 15, 8:26 AM

Feb 15, 8:15 AM

Stinkfly3

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Season 1 included bonus scenes and shots that weren’t in the manga.

Feb 15, 8:16 AM

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In recent years localisers have taught us what "creative liberties" actually means and it's nothing good.

@Piromysl thats why i said direction specifically since localization is another controversial matter

Feb 15, 8:18 AM

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Season 1 included bonus scenes and shots that weren’t in the manga.

@Stinkfly3 sure but im talking more on the vibe of the direction like the maki massacre episode and do you think season 1 is more faithful than season 2 and 3 part 1? so ye thats the point

Feb 15, 8:19 AM

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deg said:
@Stinkfly3 sure but im talking more on the vibe of the direction like the maki massacre episode and do you think season 1 is more faithful than season 2 and 3 part 1? so ye thats the point

Junpei was portrayed more sympathetically in the anime.

Feb 15, 8:20 AM

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Junpei was portrayed more sympathetically in the anime.

@Stinkfly3 answer which is more faithful to the manga then is it season 1 or season 2 and 3 part 1?

Feb 15, 8:22 AM

Stinkfly3

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Neither, in my opinion. There’s still anime-only content not present in the manga.

Feb 15, 8:23 AM

X_1817

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I mean come on if i wanted 1:1 adaption from the manga i would just read the manga yk

Feb 15, 8:26 AM

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hi777

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I feel like there should be a balance yeah there should be creative and artistic choices but that shouldn't hinder in enhancing the source material cuz I really feel like an adaptation should flesh out a story which was kinda fast paced in manga like they should take time and give them scene some time to breathe

Feb 15, 8:26 AM

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I mean come on if i wanted 1:1 adaption from the manga i would just read the manga yk

@Isaiahthefallen i see people that wants faithful adaptation saying they still want colors and voices rather than straight read the manga

Feb 15, 8:39 AM

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Jjk blowed up precisely because of its artistic sakuga direction lol. This isn’t really a debate. I will always prefer sakuga over accurate artwork. MHA and JJK are examples of this polarity (the first being conservative adaptation and latter being progressive/artistic).

Feb 15, 8:47 AM

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Depends on what kinda creative liberties.
For instance, I'm not sure I'm too fond of the overly cinematic approach they've taken with this season so far. There were a few scenes that seemed that way in S2, but they were isolated enough to feel refreshing and artistic.
This season, it feels like they're trying TOO hard to look cinematic and be different. Feels too deliberate and unnatural.

Feb 15, 9:19 AM

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If the creative liberties enhance the enjoyment compared to the source material then I'll take that any day. Demon Slayer benefits the most from that, read some of the fights in the manga or look at how some breathing techniques are drawn, then compare them to how they're adapted/portrayed in the anime. It's practically night and day. I don't have issues with 1:1 adaptations but if ALL adaptations were 100% 1:1 all the time anime would be so boring.

People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime.

Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait.

Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords.

Feb 15, 10:44 AM

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Where is the 3rd option? Real artistic liberties, so nothing like JJK S2-3.

Feb 15, 11:04 AM

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Piromysl said:
In recent years localisers have taught us what "creative liberties" actually means and it's nothing good.

That's probably because localizers don't confer with the original creators, whereas anime studios usually do.

*kappa*

Feb 15, 11:34 AM

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Honestly I prefer when there is some new content. I almost always read the manga before or during an anime is airing and if all anime were a carbon copy with thw manga I would probably not watch a few as it would be just a copy of the manga.

Feb 15, 2:54 PM

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deg said:
so ye i observe that the jujtusu kaisen fandom is divided on this one like some groups are celebrating gosso is out as a director after season 3 part 1 since he did too many artistic choices aka creative liberties like how the maki massacre episode was not tragic in vibe but more on rule of cool instead

so thoughts? i voted for creative liberties of the director

They are switching directors? Do yiu have a source for this?

Feb 15, 3:12 PM

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They are switching directors? Do yiu have a source for this?

@Yumacchi from a reliable leaker on twitter here https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2253112

Feb 15, 3:44 PM

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It's rare for anime to be 1:1 with manga. Some series adhere more closely to the manga than others, but in reality, almost every series is expanded, improved, or slightly changed in some way. Changes in the order of events, anime original scenes, extended fights, etc. JJK season 3 is more creative in showing some scenes but still, these are not big changes.
I think I prefer artistic choice because, even though things sometimes go wrong, this way of presenting the action reveals something new and interesting. It evokes more emotion.

Feb 15, 4:09 PM

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creative liberties but that also depends on the scene and whether it's fitting for it. if it doesn't then i'm going to be honest about it.

Feb 16, 2:35 PM

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ktg said:
Where is the 3rd option? Real artistic liberties, so nothing like JJK S2-3.

Care to elaborate?

Feb 17, 12:26 AM

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ktg said:
Where is the 3rd option? Real artistic liberties, so nothing like JJK S2-3.

Care to elaborate?

@Timbertan Gege is not really a good writer and an anime adaptation could have fixed a lot of issues if they were brave enough to actually elevate the source material, but they obviously didn't care enough.

There are several issues with the show, especially since Park left MAPPA. I won't go through every single detail, but I'll explain the either re-occuring ones or the bigger issues even if it only appeared once:
- The narrator: we have a narrator sometimes but sometimes we don't. Sometimes she tells us important things, sometimes she doesn't. This is really inconsistent and because of this inconsistency we don't even know how accurate her information is or that we can trust her. With creative liberty, they could have removed these information and replaced it with, for example, internal monologue. And to be fair, sometimes we actually got the information as internal monologue, so it is pretty obvious that they are copying Gege without changing stuff.
- S3E3: The whole episode is an exposition episode without actually doing anything artistic or creative. People are literally standing in a white room and talking. If you compare it to something like Monogatari, then you can see what actually artistic people can do with these setups. But even in this season, Medalist S2 had an exposition episode about ice skating rules and it was really interesting and visually engaging or Oshi no Ko S3 had an episode about how manga rights work, another well presented episode. Most people didn't even notice that they were just explaining stuff, because those were well-executed, unlike in case of JJK.
- S3E4: the point of this episode was to showcase Maki's power and that doesn't work if we don't know how strong Maki's opponents are. So again, the studio could have took the liberty to showcase their power, so the episode actually works from a narrative perspective. The only person that we've seen fighting was Naoya and he was beaten by Choso. So Maki could technically still be only as strong as Choso, which I assume is not really true. Even if we look at the pacing of the episode and the length of the fights, we could hardly create a valid power scaling.

Overall, there are several issues with the story that could have been fixed, but Goshozono failed to do any of that. There were so many creative decision that could have been made here, but somehow it looks like no one cared.

Feb 17, 10:44 PM

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1:1 adaptation lol

Feb 18, 4:57 AM

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1:1 "adaptation" is not an adaptation. The word itself implies at least some degree of change so that a story that was written for X medium can fit Y medium. If you don't do it, then it is going to be a book script pretending to be a movie or something like that, and that doesn't work. For example, inner monologues and narration are something that's meant to be very exceptional is audiovisual mediums, yet anime adaptations just copy-paste it most of the time and that's it, and it lowers the quality of the adaptation, as it just tells you everything straight to the face as if you were a kid, breaking the fourth wall constantly, making images and sound kind of pointless sometimes. However, JJK has a lot of "explaining the powers of X character" so I can't be too hard on the staff for that.

Now, it's obvious I prefer artistic freedom, every adaptation needs it, but if that means putting artistic expression above narrative and internal consistency, and pulling out nonsense out of thin air just because it looks cool (a bunch of random trains in the air for no reason in Sukuna vs Mahoraga), then no, I don't like that. The end goal is the narrative and telling a story, if you have to sacrifice that just to do cool stuff, then you should be doing something else instead.

I can't speak about Season 3, as I haven't watched it yet.

Feb 18, 5:04 AM

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Hmm…I wonder where I have seen this thread before…
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2253160&msgid=73870553

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