It also feels more like an action the cat-like Obi would do better than Zen, giving us more moments to really see how agile and observant Obi is.Īnd I think, in some ways, Bones has improved on the manga’s base story through these little changes. For the anime, I think the idea was to give Obi more of a chance to develop his character and his relationship with Shirayuki. In the manga, this action was performed by Zen. Take the moment in the anime where Obi is escorting Shirayuki pack to her room after being drunk, where he catches a spy who is throwing a message over the wall. There are moments in the manga where Obi isn’t present or the actions he performs in the anime were originally performed by Zen. In fact, a lot of the changes to the story center around Obi in some way. It lacks the full fight scene and it lacks the same kind of desperate and angry emotions. What we get for the manga version of this fight scene is about one and a half pages of Obi throwing Itoya into a tree and talking. The lack of movement means fight choreography is hard to display, and if the panels or flow of the page isn’t done right, the scenes can lose the sense of tension and action. Fight scenes can be notoriously hard to convey in manga format. The basic fact that we are allowed a clearer picture of how Obi moves and how he fights creates this more complete image of him as this cat-like thief/assassin that we don’t really get to see in the manga because of the nature of a static medium like comics. Honestly, any fight scene with Obi in it is going to be great, and I think that’s one of the main benefits of the anime when we come to Obi’s character. The animation becomes highly stylized and the movements of both characters become fluid and manages to convey Obi’s anger and absolute desperation and Itoya’s own fear after finding Kazuki missing as well. It’s a short scene, but I would honestly say this is the best fight scene in the whole series. Take the fight scene after Shirayuki gets kidnapped in the second season, where Obi is searching for her and runs into one of her kidnappers. The manga has a few great fight scenes in it, but with the help and expertise of Studio Bones, those scenes have been turned into a selling point for the show (at least for me). Much of this has to do with Studio Bones themselves and Director Masahiro Ando, and I think we can most clearly see this in Bone’s love of theatrics and fight scenes. However, when we look at overall enjoyment and handling of the core story, the anime is edging out ahead. Of course the manga has its advantages when it comes to story and there are aspects of the comic format that cannot be replicated in anime. In many of these “Manga or Anime?” posts there has been a good balance between the anime and the manga, but - perhaps due to some bias on my part from seeing the anime first - I almost find that I’m gravitating more and more to the anime this time around. They do this through the use of enhanced action sequences, the addition of more theatirics or drama to a scene, some changes to plot’s pacing, and a great voice cast. Bones straddles the line between keeping to the source material and adapting it in such a way that it makes sense for an anime. With each of these adaptations, Bones took the source material and created something uniquely theirs, and they have used the same skill to create the anime for Snow White with the Red Hair. Ouran High School Host Club, Soul Eater, Space Dandy and we can’t forget about Mob Psycho 100. They just have certain way of injecting energy and style into many of the anime’s they produce. Studio Bones has to be one of my favorite animation studios. For the purpose of this review, I’ve only had the chance to read up to chapter 34 in the manga, a little bit past where the anime ends. If I had to make a decision right now, I would say that while the manga has the advantage of story, the anime has the advantage of polish. The story is still pretty much the same, but I can’t deny that there are a few moments in the manga that I find to be much better in the anime. In doing so, I also discovered just how much Studio Bones altered and added to get it to the current anime we have now. I recently watched back through the whole series on a day or so that I wasn’t feeling well, and finally felt the need to see where the story went after the anime ended. There was one thing I’ve never gotten around to doing though, and that was read the manga. I’ve discussed both seasons of the anime at length before, so if you’re looking for a review of the anime, be sure to check those two posts out. I love the characters, the slight fantasy setting, and how some episodes focused on Shirayuki using her herbology knowledge to solve problems. Snow White with the Red Hair has been one of my favorite romance anime for a while now.
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