[Beak]

Originally Posted by runeazn

when reading manga i've got like a sound list of these things and when i hear the anime, i always say yep thats what i thought it would be said + the actual fitting voice..

ah i know what you mean very well. one of the easier ones to picture is some loli/short tsundere with rie's voice since most often than not she will be the VA

on a side note, sometimes it's the opposite. you watch the anime then exclaimed "Oh man, this is horrible" but then you go online and see people state how the manga/LN is superior and out of curiosity you tried the manga/LN and love it.

[Darkchao45]

Anime adaptations are just that, adaptations. It will never stick 100% to the source material. Therefore, it can be a new experience even though you already have an idea of whats to come. I watch One Piece even though I read it and get all tingly inside just like when I read the manga. I do tend to favor the original material though. Things get changed which can be good or bad, mostly bad. My most hated adaptations are D.N.Angel and E's Otherwise. The Anime for those series are just...disgusting. Read the Manga's and save yourself some eye cancer

Originally Posted by Beak

on a side note, sometimes it's the opposite. you watch the anime then exclaimed "Oh man, this is horrible" but then you go online and see people state how the manga/LN is superior and out of curiosity you tried the manga/LN and love it.

Its happened to me sometimes as well.

[TwistedLunacy]

I find that it's the opposite for me...

After i've read the manga/light novel/visual novel, i usually go to watch the anime just to experience the material from a different perspective. I also like to see if the voices and personalities are portrayed the way i imagined...

And it's usually the sime vice versa, but when i go to read the original material, i have higher expectations since most of the time the original is the best...

[Amario]

Well the main problem is if the anime will follow through with what happens in the manga/light novel.

As long as it doesn't go off track I think that the anime adaption will be much more effective to those watch it.

But recently from manga/light novel adaptions have been rather disappointed especially with Beelzebub latest episode release was utterly terrible can't imagine what the hell they were thinking for this.
I think High school DxD is the only anime currently that has followed through with vol 1+2 of the light novel although there was a filler half way through the series. None the less have become even a bigger fan of Rias.