User blog comment:AngelBliss/Fairy tail chapter 331/@comment-4829046-20130520065826/@comment-4829046-20130520124923

Like I said, I'm not mean, I merely aim to make something better. I'm sorry if I went over-board here but you would too if you were in my shoes. I was born with this need to make something look nice and authentic and everywhere I turn I see blasphemy. Mostly I notice in media, movies mainly. Many times a perfectly good story is RUINED when adapted into a movie. It makes me want to rip my eyes out. I also feel the same way whenever I see a good thing being destroyed and in turn I developed a desire to make things better. Its kinda an inherent thing, cause my Dad had that streak since childhood, albeit he is a lot smarter than me in that regard. I look at it beyond the money, beyond the greediness of people, what I want to do is give a good thing justice.

If a person comes up with a brilliant idea/concept, no matter the person's gender, social status, wealth, physical appearance, it deserves to be made a reality. If you are going to profit from that idea and/or change the idea to suit you then you are scum. This is evident in animanga. You get this perfect story in a manga or light novel and what does the anime do? Why, it changes things to fit the quota. Small changes are fine but changes that actually change the storyline? Da fuq! Adding comical things is fine since comedy is essential but omitting or re-writing entire scenes is unacceptable.

Eg of good adaptation=

Manga/light novel version ; Two people meet up at a cafe and decide to go to the mall. On the way they have small unimportant chats at random locations, near the park, near an ice-cream stand etc. finally reaching the mall and meet up with another pal. They then talk about something shopping related and visit 3 shops.

Anime/Movie version ; Two people meet up at a bus stand and decide to go to the mall. On the way they have a long chat near the park, finally reaching the mall and meet up with another pal. They then visit 2 shops.

The editing is extremely subtle and you don't see that big a problem and you realize its cause its difficult to draw or depict all those scenes at the same time and they manage to keep all the important concepts unaltered.

Eg of bad adaptation=

Anime/Movie version ; The two people suddenly bump into each other at the mall and while having an extremely small conversation is met by the pal and visit one shop...

What? This is a mere example but I'm sure you get what I mean. The whole concept of meeting up and going to the mall is removed and the interactions are limited, making it a lot more unrealistic and pathetic.

This is just a random one I came up with and if you don't get it then I have some names for you;

Avatar the last Airbender The movie

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Catwoman movie

See if you can survive this comment =P