Jaguar has an anime ->
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It has everything to do with the times. In the past the series that would get anime were rarer than what is now. Now, we have the privilege of getting almost all successful series adapted into anime, in the past, nearer even, it wasn't like that.
In fact that is simply wrong. Much of 2011 animation is pretty limited even in Sakuga moments. Is pretty debatable if MHA has better animation or not.
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Seems like you don't understand what is the heart of an adaptation!
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"... constantly tone shifting, and it's Anti-climatic moments are part of what makes it so well written", WHAT?? O_O, this is like saying "my S**t is part of what makes me smell so well". Is totally a Fallacy, and it seems to me just used for the appearance of sophistication.
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I claim 99 adaptation is superior!
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Say it to One Piece and its bad pace.
I agree with you on the 12-24 episode thing almost completely, but your opinion on the 1999 series of HXH is subjective. I for one do not believe that changing characterization in a series really makes it "better". Though for the sake of argument, lets say that it did, isn't that a fallacy of an adapation? I mean if for example, your favorite manga got an anime, and then when the anime premiered the characters acted way differently than in the manga that you've gotten used to and love, wouldn't you on some level be a bit disappointed? That's how I feel toward 1999 HXH. It mishandled the the characters and made what was unique very generic and shallow. While I admit I used to hate on 1999 wholesale, I will give it credit that it had much more inspired direction, somewhat better music (I love OP 2 for the TV 1999 run), although what it had in that it lacked in artistic consistency. Some episodes looked great while others looked terrible. 2011 had this too, but to a lesser extent. Fair enough that animation techniques have come a long way since then, but still. I can't forgive the missteps that the 1999 anime had with the character development/treatment, so that's why it'll always be the lesser adaption in my opinion. Why should I settle for a show that's sorta like HXH: The manga in some some ways, when I want to watch something that's closer to the original manga I liked? That's not to say I want something that's 1:1 for every frame, because even Gintama which is a pretty faithful adaption made some changes that did enhance the anime adaption, however it seemed to me that the staff of that had a pretty tacit understanding of how the characters and world of the series tick in opposition to HXH's first adaption that sorta just did it's own thing and by doing so killed a lot of the uniqueness that the manga had. So while you enjoyed it more, and that's totally fine, going in a different direction from the source material is cool if you do it right, which 1999 did not. I basically agree with the sentiment that both adaptions had flaws, but at the very least --tonally inconsistent or not, I feel like 2011 was at least a bit more unique.
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I think short anime are worse, if not exactly the same, but to each their own. I'd go as far as saying anime has no idea how to pace itself anymore.
Fix it for you. You're welcome *Insert Moana You're Welcome Song in here*
If this argument is the one I'm thinking of, I'd like to point out that this huge "fuck-up" almost had no bearing on the story until said arc. I'm almost positive that Togashi forgot about that dude until he needed to have some emotional resonance for the Chimera ant arc and figured "Why not". That being said, even if one allows that, it doesn't change the fact that 1999 also fucked up a lot of things so this is more a moot point than an actual argument in it's favor.
No it didn't. The 2011 had a lot of poorly animated sequences particularly whenever an episode got outsourced (which was a lot) it was far from consistent animation wise and the scene to scene comparison between the two makes it look embarrassingly low budget
1999 also had some pretty badly drawn episodes that make the highlights of the series stand out only because the really bad episodes were terrible. It's saved by some pretty good storyboarding, which, I'll admit is it's strong point, but there were some embarrassingly badly drawn episodes in there as well as the constantly washed out color scheme made it look 10 years older than it actually was, and as such it's aged really badly.
Except it doesn't since they changed the entire motivation of a character and by the time thus scene happens it loses the impact which you can't write off as "it doesn't matter" since its a huge turning point for the character itself, that it more significant than complaining about a character's reaction being different from the source of material like its a huge derailment.
While a lot of people will disagree with you given the nature of the fanbase to believe Togashi can do no wrong that's still not an excuse considering one adaptation was covering material while it was still being updated versus one being up against years worth of completed material so the change makes no sense.
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I never said it didn't but I'm not sure what logic dictates that a 138 episode TV series had more consistent animation than a 64 episode one.
And honestly? I agree with you. It doesn't change the fact that Kite didn't do diddly for the entire series whether he was introduced in episode one or 99, so making it sound like it was a huge hole for him not to be in the first episode really is an exaggeration. Yes, it was dumb of them to not include him in the beginning, and yes what they did do was pretty dumb, but frreal? If he were to be written out of the series completely in favor of something else, we'd still get a pretty asspull-ish event in the end since again, he did nothing to contribute to the series other than be in the first chapter/episode of 99 for a few minutes.
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I'm not sure what a handful of good scenes over a whole lot of bad ones makes for one series to be better than another either, but here we are.
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I know you may not be talking to me, but I never said long anime were good, I just said short ones are equally as bad because they too have either very rushed pacing or end before anything happens, and then we don't get sequels for years or at all. So i reiterate that 96% of anime nowadays have shit pacing.
The problem with this is you change one thing, and that leads to changing another thing, and then another, and then another and then it essentially isn't the same product anymore --it's just something that happens to share the same name with the original project. Now am I saying things need to be same all the way around? No, I agree there needs to be some changes, but I really don't think Hollywood is the example we really want to follow. I'll say my example in a previous post again. If there is a game/movie/book/manga/comic you like and they announce an adaption for it, and leading up to that adaption's release everything is looking exactly like the original, and then once it's released it's totally different, are you really telling me you'd be happy with that product that only has maybe flimsy similarities to the original story? No one when seeing that their favorite thing is getting adapted into a different form of media thinks to themselves "Hey I hope they totally remove everything I liked about the original!" Hollywood is known for taking too many liberties in adapting things which is why they're generally reviled in many ways. Making a small change like having one character appear in a different place but still fulfill the same role is fine, but changing character personalities and shirking off parts of the plot stops being an adaption and starts to become a totally different story. Which, hey, if that's what the staff wants, they should announce that from the start --"This is a different story from the original, so keep that in mind" so people know what to expect, rather than dropping that bomb when they're already hyped.