Manga or anime?

Manga's a pretty okay retelling of the anime with gorgeous art, let down mostly by a stretch of really retarded flashback chapters and some other awkward attempts to integrate ideas from sources outside of the anime into that original story

The anime is entirely those retarded flashback chapters, and does a poor job of translating Yas' really nice artwork into moving pictures (which is really odd, given that dynamism is one of the areas that Yas' manga work shines, and his experience as an animator/animation director always comes through)

What do you think?

Manga then

>>21689871 (OP)

the answer is always the source material



there are ZERO instances of an adaptation ever beinf better than the original

The answer in this case is that the origin is a dumpster fire in any incarnation

That's like every Leiji Matsumoto adaptation out there.

This is truth.

The Origin is not a substitute for 0079. The Origin is almost it's own continuity. The moviess are not a substitute for 0079, they are supplementary material. Just watch 0079. It's really good.

>>21689871 (OP)

Literally just watch 0079. Origin will not fit into the continuity if you try and watch other series after it due to changes in MS development continuity and some strange recharacterization and what not. 

If you have seen 0079 just read the manga. There is nothing to gain from the anime since it focuses on Yas' worst original sections.

Yes, I have watched 0079, but it was a long time ago. Why do you think Origin is bad in itself, disregarding the continuity issue? If it's bad enough, I'm tempted to just rewatch 0079 instead of reading it.

You could have probably read a chunk of it instead of thinking about reading it, researching it, and asking if you should

Manga's pretty at least.

There are a couple odd things about the main story I take issue with, but the main thing that's wrong with Origin are a bunch of stupid ass flashback parts that are added in, about a couple volumes worth. They have some awful, overly contrived subplots and are pretty much just an indicator of Yas' raging Char boner where he has to make him some kind of overpowered wunderkind able to skillfully pilot Guntanks as an 8-year old and physically knock people down with just his menacing aura.
