User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 356: Tartarus arc - Prologue, Predictions./@comment-4829046-20131013104810/@comment-7418318-20131013163606

As far as story and character development is concerned I agree.

But some things in manga's can't really be brought into the anime as an exact duplicate without sucking.

Heh... just take Naruto for some boring manga to anime internal monologue adaptions with the opponents facing each other for what feels like half an episode without moving a muscle to give just one example.

Also a manga is produced under time and page-number contraints, so small elaborations and extensions are fine by me, as long as they don't suck (like Milliana and Kagura vs. Yuuka and Lyon -_-), undermine or outright destroy character development (like Eren only being able to enter Titan shape because of TEH RAGE the "teh" was misspelled intentionally ) or somehow change the direction of the story.