User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 361: Two Bombs, Predictions./@comment-5840892-20131115163838/@comment-7418318-20131116001241

I just re-checked to make sure and the vast majority of the pages in the manga have literally NO scenery.

They consist of the fore-ground (the people and the desert hyacinte) against a completely blank background. Only after the fight is over we see some mountains in the background. In the anime on they didn't include the mountains into the background, but at least we constantly see a sunset-colored sky with clouds and dried out ground around with crevices around the hole of the plant, along with additional people and wagons.

So I really don't get why you think that the scenery is emptier in the anime than in the manga, since it's really the other way round.