@Slip
Manga is the birth child of Anime
Let it poop out the anime babies after you watch the BOUNTIFUL glory called Manga, Manga is so fun and great!

@Agentmax
Well.. There is an app on your Android phone (I think iPhone to) called Mango.
It lets you connect to Manga Servers such as Manga Reader or Manga fox and download them onto your phone, the best part is they are compressed SO well they take next to no space

Its awesome and I got backgrounds for my phone from them
If you wanna see I'll post it here so you can have them
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Oh yeah did I include my happy face?

Manga fanboy detected.

>Manga
>"Birth child" of anime
Yeah, sure, if the only anime you've seen is Naruto.

Dude you dumb?
Whats bad about Manga, Manga gets turned into Anime all the time.
Such as The World God Only Knows we were discussing early, don't be silly >.<
Anyone care to share some Manga that got turned into Mainstream anime?
Because I got a GIANT list prepared if you want

Just to note, I don't have anything against Manga; I enjoy both, but I take a liking to anime more often than I do to Manga.

Not always.
You do realize that many of the top-rated anime series came from a different source that even the manga version structured upon? Many come from eroges and light novels.


Mainstream Anime =/= Great Anime Series

I know that many anime series which take their roots from manga are good, but most of the anime that came from their drawn counterparts are not that good.

Anime is better than Manga, in my opinion, for the following reasons:
- Voice Actors can portray the emotion, strength, and thoughts of the characters much better than written text can
- Soundtracks that play in the background help GREATLY in reinforcing the effect of a scene
- Art quality tends to surpass their manga counterparts by a longshot. Sometimes the manga version is unique, though (such as TWGOK)
- Animation and timing can create suspense and rush (from the action, if applicable) that turning a physical page or clicking a mouse cannot.

An anime OVA/Movie that fits the list above is 5 Centimeters Per Second.

A few perfect examples of anime series that took its roots from the same source as the manga counterpart and still managed to be worlds better are CLANNAD and Spice and Wolf.

One particular series that recently aired is AnoHana, which has no manga counterpart whatsoever, and has very high ratings.

Wasn't Clannad originally a visual novel?

Adding to that, Angel Beats and Black Rock Shooter are examples of great anime that didn't come from a manga.

Most of the highly regarded anime came from Visual Novels/Light Novels.

tl/dr

Manga != child of anime, it's the opposite.
From the manga came the anime, that's a fact.
Also that's also a fact that manga usually has more action and it's more exciting.
Third fact: ANIME WITH DUBS SUCK, DONT BOTHER EVEN THINKING ABOUT THEM.

SOME of them suck. The dubs for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya were pretty good in my opinion.

I doubt they were better than the original japanese dubs.

Except for the part where that's an opinion.

Baccano, Cromartie High, Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho.
Not every dub is bad.

Just most of them.