Manga vs Anime: Flying Witch (2016) and A Centaur’s Life (2017)

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A Centaur's Life, Flying Witch, Manga

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch

I recently picked up the first four volumes of the lovely Flying Witch manga by Chihiro Ishizuka, and that’s given me a bit of a reference point to muse on anime adaptations.

I was really looking forward to the adaptation of A Centaur’s Life only to be disappointed by how… pedestrian it was. With essentially one exception[1] it was a straight up case of next chapter, next half episode. Given how… scattered the manga for A Centaur’s Life can be sometimes this essentially replicated and magnified the faults of the series.

2016 in Review

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Amanchu!, ARIA, Days, Dirty Pair, Encouragement of Climb, Flying Witch, Grimgar, Hibike! Euphonium, Inari KonKon Koi Iroha, KonoSuba, My Hero Academia, Say "i Love You", Sound! Euphonium, Yama no Susume

Source: https://www.animelab.com/shows/grimgar-ashes-and-illusions

This is going to be a little difficult as the stats page that I usually use for these posts has disappeared[1].

So there isn’t a 4^th quarter rankings this year, nor is there an all-time ranking.

Amanchu! (2016)

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Amanchu!, ARIA, ARIA the NATURAL, Flying Witch, Orange

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/amanchu

In retrospect Amanchu! was never going to live up to my hopes of matching or exceeding ARIA, and it was unfair of me to have those expectations.

So.

With that disclaimer in place, what is Amanchu, and what is a fair assessment of Amanchu?

Flying Witch (2016) and what are YOUR Comfort or Zone-out Anime Redux?

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Encouragement of Climb, Flying Witch, Yama no Susume

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch

Flying Witch ended as it began: a charming show that was a simple pleasure to watch. A show that always made me smile, and often made me laugh.

The humour remained understated, and casually delivered throughout, which speaks to the consistently high writing standards for Flying Witch. As the saying goes “Drama is easy, comedy is hard”, and making comedy look effortless is harder again.

Which is why Flying Witch has such a high rewatch value for me, and is the latest addition to my list of comfort or zone out anime.

For that matter, so is Encouragement of Climb.

Since it’s been three years since I last asked, what are your new comfort anime?

When you reach the point of saying “I need to zone out now, time to pull up X”, what are the new shows that come to your mind first?

Simple Pleasures: Flying Witch (2016) and My Hero Academia (2016)

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Flying Witch, My Hero Academia

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch

Flying Witch and My Hero Academia started as my favourites of the season and have only swapped places.

Both shows are, in different ways, simple pleasures. Shows with a raison d’etre that they keep to in an honest way that just makes them fun to watch.