Too Many Losing Heroines! - Vol. 4 Ch. 17 - 17th Loss: Scramble date

[LeBronBron]

How fare is the anime compared to the manga?

 

[acoustics]

How fare is the anime compared to the manga?

way ahead, anime adapted 3 volumes of the ln. latest episode was even written by the original author (as a kind of filler, but i mean that in a good way).

 

[LeBronBron]

way ahead, anime adapted 3 volumes of the ln. latest episode was even written by the original author (as a kind of filler, but i mean that in a good way).

How man volumes has the manga adapred?

 

[Shamz]

BROOOOOOOOOOO. By patterns, I found Asagumo actually is more fitting as a losing heroine than Yakishio by character quirkiness. Just look at Yanami and Komari. But im honestly quite attached to Yakishio because ive always been the type of reader that supports the sports girl character...

Is she going away or is this just to set up a closure for her feelings?

 

[Virtt]

First of all GYAT
Second GIRL YOUR TO INNOCENT WTH

*YOU'RE
*TOO
BUT I AGREE ON BOTH OF YOUR POINTS

 

[acoustics]

How man volumes has the manga adapred?

only started reading on volume 4, but iirc this is around half of volume 2 i think? volume 3 should be komari's arc.

 

[Regislam]

愛はどこからやってくるのでしょう

自分の胸に問いかけた

ニセモノなんか興味はないの

ホントだけを見つめたい

……

 

[Shamgarsan]

Chicks dig capacitors.

 

[BlackElite]

AAAHHHHH SHE HASN'T CONFESSED! WHY YOU SAY THAT AAAAAAHHHH

 

[hazbiy97]

only started reading on volume 4, but iirc this is around half of volume 2 i think? volume 3 should be komari's arc.

You read the raw? afaik there is no official translation, and fan translation stopped at volume 3 and it’s not even finished

 

[acoustics]

You read the raw? afaik there is no official translation, and fan translation stopped at volume 3 and it’s not even finished

there is. sevenseas licensed the series somewhere in july, and released official translations up to volume 3. the fan translations are up to date to volume 7.

 

[hazbiy97]

there is. sevenseas licensed the series somewhere in july, and released official translations up to volume 3. the fan translations are up to date to volume 7.

Where is the fan translation? I can’t find any past vol 3

 

[tondave12345]

Youth 🤦

 

[spiffinn]

Just now discovered this and caught up. Thanks for scanlating!

 

[WhiteRabbitBR]

Miss click

 

[Kayamaru_graves]

for a split second i was like, "oh, did i miss when she told him initially?" but nope i was caught off guard the exact same as the characters lol.

 

[apstorm]

I'd disagree. IMO: I think that the Manga elevates itself more through the artist's top-notch caricature work and excellent sense of which moments to draw, which isn't as well-realized in the anime. The anime has great animation and colouring but has a significantly narrower range of character expression and doesn't capture the quirky personalities of the main lead as well, which makes him feel somewhat more generic as a character.

I suppose we can say they take different approaches and do different things. Since I recently started the anime and it's pretty fresh in my mind, I just took a look back at chapter 1 to think about the differences. Yanami's post-dump scene is handled very differently.

In the manga, you see all these flashbacks, and she has a very sweet and innocent look as she drinks the soda--honestly, while reading that, I didn't even realize it was the guy's leftover soda. It just seemed like we were supposed to see how charming Yanami is as she recalls romantic memories.

In the anime, she comes across totally differently, as broken and unhinged. There's a clear focus on her picking up her crush's leftover drink, added details to make it seem grosser with the chewed straw, a dead look in her eyes as she drinks it, etc.

Personally I found the anime rendition far more straightforward and entertaining. In the manga my opinion of Yanami started off as, "aw, what heartbreak for this delicate maiden", whereas in the anime it was more like, "wow, this girl just bluescreened". Plus we got more commentary from Nukumizu about it, instead of just silence from him while Yanami's memories played. I felt this made Nukumizu seem less passive in the anime and more an active part of our experience.

There's absolutely an art to manga pacing, to imply a sequence of events without actually seeing it occur. And that's very respectable, because in manga format it gets drawn out if you show everything. But I like how in anime you can see everything without it feeling drawn out, and feel that that's a plus. The main disadvantages in anime are that it's harder to do narration without it feeling slow (while that's natural for manga), and the chances of actually reaching the end of the plot are tiny.

As far as the first few volumes are concerned, I definitely much prefer the anime's first episode or so to what the manga did- manga felt extremely barebones and haphazard introducing the story at the start, like arcosapphire basically described. But it's certainly shaped up much better since then. These latest chapters feel 1:1 with the anime as far as the events depicted. I still personally prefer seeing everything animated and in full color with actual backgrounds and voice acting, but I personally don't feel like I've been particularly getting more context from the manga than what I saw in the anime.

I was hoping there would be details I was missing, but it just hasn't been feeling like that. I can kind of grant the expressions do feel more varied, but there's a lot more detail to the anime, on the whole, for me. I mostly started reading the manga hoping to find more stuff and maybe, eventually, see how the story progresses beyond the end of what was shown in the anime, but the manga has barely reached the halfway point of the anime season.

In addition, the anime gave a somewhat-satisfying finale that almost doesn't need more... The implied event between Yanami and Nukumizu on the ferris wheel, for instance, in addition to what we explicitly heard him tell her moments before that implication about her efforts to fake or find a boyfriend. I'd still like to see a second season that progresses beyond that implied event, but I can be satisfied with the implication as it stands. It still feels like it communicated the author's intended endgame for all of this. I really like the fact it was an episode the original author wrote explicitly and exclusively for the anime, which I feel reinforces that point, so the anime doesn't really need more because it seems to communicate how he feels everything should ultimately lead towards.