It looks like I’m on an anime(ish) kick right now. Why ish? Because today I’m looking at Anonymous Noise. Anonymous Noise is the story of a high school student, Nino Arisugawa, and her search for her childhood friends, Momo Sakaki, and Kanade Yuzuriha, through music. Anonymous Noise began life as a manga series by Ryoko Fukuyama in 2013. In April of 2017, it was adapted into a twelve episode anime that can currently be seen on Amazon Prime and Hidive. This was followed by a live action version in November 2017 that can be seen on YouTube (and, of course, I can’t find the English dub at the moment. The Spanish dub is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVQUgunR0A and the Indonesian dub is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI-TlSWaEZI). The original manga spans eighteen volumes. The anime covers the first six volumes, while the movie covers the first five.
Also needless to say, it’s impossible to cover six volumes in twelve episodes and the anime leaves out some of the characters’ backstory and the live action version cuts out even more of the manga, in the end turning it into a different story. Even with the story compression, the anime is fairly true to he original story. The live action... not so much. The best way I’ve I can think of to describe it is that the anime is the WB version, while the movie is the Disney Channel’s. Don’t believe me? Here’s the song from in NO hurry’s TV appearance on the anime:
And the movie version:
Yeah, just slightly different vibes. And it’s not just the plot (Just. Hah!) and the music, they remove nearly all of Nino’s inner dialogue, making movie-Nino come across as a slightly neurotic, well, idiot. The original Nino is anything but an idiot. And she’s not slightly neurotic in the original, she’s very neurotic. Again, just a slightly different vibe.
Overall, I’d recommend both the manga and the anime, but feel free to pass on the movie (if you can find it).
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