LogFAQs > #910570512

I went and read the Detroit Metal City manga. I'd heard from camps saying that there was no point in reading it because the series starts to suck after the content the anime covers, and others saying all the best parts came after the anime. I think I understand both sides now. There are essentially three main jokes the series uses that most of its humor is based off of: Krauser doing crazy stuff which is inherently funny, Negishi and Krauser being the same person which gives us some funny contrast, and Negishi being totally pathetic. The manga goes off on tangents a lot more than the anime, which is a good thing (Deathism, the "scat metal" band is ridiculously over the top and hilarious), so there's plenty of supplementary humor there too. Unfortunately, while the first two ingredients are still there and hilarious when they happen, there's a lot more of the third. It's used fairly lightly in the anime and early on, so it works to keep things fresh, but eventually it feels more sad and pathetic than funny. Sometimes I feel like I just don't get the joke. The anime might be a bit of an improvement over the manga for the parts it adapts too, since the music is awesome and the directing is super stylish. Regardless of all that, I did enjoy the manga a lot. I laughed a lot at it, which is what really matters.
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