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I watched the first episode of 蟲師 and found that I couldn't follow the plot, so I innocently obtained the manga and read the first volume to get what was going on. I decided to re-watch the first episode, and was surprised at how closely the manga dialogue followed the anime. So much so that I opened up the manga file while listening to the video and was surprised to find that the two synced over 90%. I read through the manga with the episode running, alternating between the two when the visuals of the show got intense.
Does anyone else know anyone decent anime and manga pairs like this? More specifically, would anyone know if 鋼錬術師 and Brotherhood are this way? I haven't bothered to read the manga yet but if it turns out this way I might have to read/watch both.
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「夏目友人長」is the same way. Currently at three seasons covering material from the first 12 volumes of the manga, with season 4 already announced.
「だめっこどうぶつ」also follows the manga fairly closely, but there are more volumes than seasons.
「ぼのぼの」is the pairing I'm currently using. It is super weird, but I've learned a lot of things I never picked up anywhere else. Unfortunately another case of more manga than episodes.
In all three cases I think stories are pulled from different volumes across the sets. My usual sequence is 'watch random anime' > 'run out of episodes and search for manga' > 'read manga and re-watch anime intermittently'. In that order it's fun to find sections you recognize, to see where the stories do and don't overlap, and getting more background.
Besides the obvious benefits of overlapping characters settings and situations, the biggest benefit of reading while/after watching is the ability to hear the characters voice in your head while reading.
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There are some manga that are basically screenshots of the anime, so I imagine these types would follow it close to 100%, though I haven't actually checked. I have one for dragonball, but I have also seen them of some Ghibli films.
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Some anime are notorious for following the manga, so Hunter x hunter 2011, FMA Brotherhood and Gintama are safe bets, even if I haven't witnessed it myself.
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I've watched 未来日記 like this: watch an episode, then read the manga chapters it was based on. I'm doing the same for 懺・さよなら絶望先生 right now. These two generally follow the text of the manga pretty closely. However, there are a couple of changes from the 未来日記 manga, mostly fixing plot holes, and 懺 adapts the さよなら絶望先生 manga chapters out of order, jumping between volumes. I didn't do this for the previous さよなら絶望先生 adaptations, so I don't know how well they follow the original (I suspect that 【俗・】is less faithful). I also heard that Monster follows the original almost exactly.
I've noticed that the major exceptions to the "anime follows the manga" rule are adaptations of ４コマ comedy series. The dialog is usually represented faithfully, but they tend to make additional scenes and move events around. Usually this makes sense, due to the episodic and concise nature of the genres, but some animes go way beyond pragmatic adaptational expansion. らき☆すた has a few original characters and turns the whole thing into a much bigger otaku pandering fest, while スケッチブック full color's has more emphasis on the heartwarming and less emphasis on the funny (both the anime and the original manga of スケッチブック are among my all-time favourites, but for entirely different reasons).
