It perfectly portrays that early 00's anime style with the hideous big eyes. It's similar to the anime style, but much more detailed of course. It actually is very pleasant to look at while reading. In the Michel arc, they had at least 2 or 3 chapters without singing! Needless to say, this concept worked way better in the anime. Only in the bigger fights, a few panels with actual lyrics would be shown. They also would only show one panel with some catchphrases and then directly a panel with the enemy being defeated. In the manga, it often felt like it was the last thing they'd do to save the day. This concept of defeating with songs was so much more developed in the anime. I even sometimes forgot that they actually SING to defeat their enemies. I know this is very difficult to portray in manga of course, since you can only work with visuals. In the anime, you would be entertained with the catchy, pop-ish sounding songs every episode, making them stuck in your head. It's in the name, these mermaids save the day by singing their enemies to defeat (I don't even know if you can put it this way). One last complaint I have is the actual concept of Mermaid Melody. Overall, this arc felt much more developed than the Gackto one in the manga, but it hurt my brain so much trying to understand what was going on. I must admit it has also been a long time since I saw the anime, so I can't compare if it was explained better in there. It felt like they tried to fit too much information in a few chapters. Everything was so unclear to me, and I'm definitely not too young to understand complex stories, but this. I am still very confused about that Michel arc. Especially the Michel arc made my brain hurt. I'm not talking about the parts where the girls are just humans and have fun, it's more about the actual fighting parts. Now I know some things get lost in translation, but the dialogue was kind of long and annoying sometimes. It's not like this is a bad thing, but it certainly helped making the anime more child-friendly by leaving out parts like this.Īnother thing which clearly showed the older targetted audience in the manga was the dialogue. So needless to say, there are many drawings of the girls naked (with parts covered of course) using a towel. In the manga, they often show how the girls actually wipe off the water with towels and turn parts of their body humanly that way. For example: in the anime, when the mermaids were bathing, they would never show you how they turned back into humans after getting out. In which aspect is the manga more mature then? Of course, it has its typical Japanese favorite romantic moments thrown in, but the fact that the anime had such a big succes in Italy with children says enough. Let's say I'd compare it to Winx Club which I used to watch around that time as well. I was 12 years old when I started watching the anime and looking back at it now, it's kind of childish and happy/romantic feeling. It's also safe to say that the manga is quite more mature than the anime. It felt like many parts were missing and the story jumped to different plots, but that could also be because pretty much all manga reader sites have listed the chapters in a weird way which concluded in me reading the wrong follow-up chapters sometimes (please fix this oh my god it was so confusing). like the first part of the manga series (The Gackto arc) was so rushed compared to the anime. The anime is much more developed with its 50 episodes per season. Mostly, when having watched an anime and being curious for the manga, you expect a broader approach to the story with much more content. This was something that kind of really surprised me. I was curious for the "original" story of the anime, wondering if it was any different. As Mermaid Melody was my very first anime I watched about 8 years ago, I felt like I had to read the manga sometime.
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