Manga adaptations based to Shinkai Makoto's movies have been very rewarding and practically obligatory reads in the past. There where the movies have been simplistic feel-good experiences that are -arguably doing their job - but still aren't much more than pretty to look at, the manga alternatives have been pushing the characters and story much further: offering the real emotional content.

Voices of a Distant Star manga build an incredible melancholic atmosphere with powerful, bittersweet conclusion. 5 centimeters per second manga, on the other hand, continued the story much further, introduced a whole new aspect to the narrative, and utterly focused on character feelings. Kimi no Na wa is thus far the only manga adaptation that is inferior to the anime.

Despite Kimi no Na wa movie's mediocre cast and below average story, the amount of details and pretty scenes made the thing worth of my while to a point where I watched it twice and bought it on bluray. It wasn't very good, but it was enough for sure. This manga version is not enough. They somehow managed to make the story inferior, too fast paced, and completely lack in spirit and polish. An empty shell: a polar opposite of what the movie was.

Our characters convey zero personality and emotions. The art, especially during those gender bender boob touching moments, is hideous. Simplistic sketches of faces that are typically drawn for side characters in gag comedies. The panel to panel transition is awkward and random and most of all, makes it look like the series was drawn simply by pausing the movie at certain points and remastering the seen in paper. That's not how you make a manga, that's a collection of still, reference-based artwork. Nothing more.

I can only recommend this to those who insist that the story and characters in the movie are of good quality: read this and realize how half of all romances are better written than Kimi no Na wa: the movie was good for completely different reasons.

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go watch the movie. The manga is the same with the movie, with some few additional scene that were cut from the film. if u read this b4 watching the movie, you are doing a disservice. Because the movie was the true superior adaptation. The visual and sounds of the movie will add layer and depth to the experience. More than reading the manga will ever done. But if you finish the movie and like it i suggesting reading it on your free-time. Because it has some scene that were cut from the film, but sadly if your looking for a OVA or extended ending. Your not lucky the manga end right where the movies ends.

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