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Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. Manga, Vol. 1
by Jirou Oimoto, Yuumikan, Koin
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
We watched the first two episodes of the anime in my University's anime club a few months ago, and I immediately fell in love and binged the entire season. As someone who is also trash at video games and sometimes my friends convince me to play them only for me to end up doing just as horribly as I said I would, I loved Kaede (aka Maple) and how, even with her adorable but terrible idea, she still ended up becoming a boss at the game (even though, as one of the club officers said repeatedly, this would never work in a real MMO).
Anyway, after bingeing the first season and craving more material before the second season came out (which is supposed to happen at some point this year) I bought the three currently existing English translated mangas for the anime and started reading. I had to stop for a while because of school, but finally went back and finished the remaining few pages.
My opinion is that... a concept such as this cannot be very well translated into manga. It doesn't work as well when we can't SEE Maple destroying the monster, second by second, bit by bit. It's not something that can be switched into two dimensional art on non-moving pieces of paper. I would get confused at several parts about what exactly was happening and had to think back to how it happened in the anime because otherwise I'd have no clue what was going on.
In addition, I feel like the manga does not show as much of Maple and Sally's friendship as the anime does. In the anime they spend a lot of time in the game together, whereas in the manga it seems like they don't spend as much time together and spend a lot more time solo. There are also other little moments with side characters in the anime that don't happen in the manga that I really missed (like Frederica telling Maple where to go fight some monsters and earn points; in the manga, Maple just finds them on her own).
I read on Wikipedia that before this was an anime OR a manga it was a light novel, so it makes sense, I suppose, why not everything could be stuffed into the manga accurately. Still, I really wish the manga had more of Maple and Sally's friendship like the anime, because that was the main thing that kept me watching the entire first season (that, and wanting to know what ridiculous thing Maple would do next).
One thing I'm grateful to the manga for is that now I can finally understand the "chatrooms" (or I should say forum posts) that would be at the very end of each episode but would move way too fast for me to be able to read every single translation in time.
Anyway, after bingeing the first season and craving more material before the second season came out (which is supposed to happen at some point this year) I bought the three currently existing English translated mangas for the anime and started reading. I had to stop for a while because of school, but finally went back and finished the remaining few pages.
My opinion is that... a concept such as this cannot be very well translated into manga. It doesn't work as well when we can't SEE Maple destroying the monster, second by second, bit by bit. It's not something that can be switched into two dimensional art on non-moving pieces of paper. I would get confused at several parts about what exactly was happening and had to think back to how it happened in the anime because otherwise I'd have no clue what was going on.
In addition, I feel like the manga does not show as much of Maple and Sally's friendship as the anime does. In the anime they spend a lot of time in the game together, whereas in the manga it seems like they don't spend as much time together and spend a lot more time solo. There are also other little moments with side characters in the anime that don't happen in the manga that I really missed (like Frederica telling Maple where to go fight some monsters and earn points; in the manga, Maple just finds them on her own).
I read on Wikipedia that before this was an anime OR a manga it was a light novel, so it makes sense, I suppose, why not everything could be stuffed into the manga accurately. Still, I really wish the manga had more of Maple and Sally's friendship like the anime, because that was the main thing that kept me watching the entire first season (that, and wanting to know what ridiculous thing Maple would do next).
One thing I'm grateful to the manga for is that now I can finally understand the "chatrooms" (or I should say forum posts) that would be at the very end of each episode but would move way too fast for me to be able to read every single translation in time.