Some of these revivals have amounted to little more than comfort food, consoling nostalgic audiences that the fictional people they cherished turned out okay in the end. Others seem like grand experiments in taking storylines and characters that seem so deeply rooted in the era of their conception, and seeing how they survive the trials of modern television. But regardless, they are nothing new, especially to anime fans, whose entertainment diet often revolves around a parade of reboots.
But others attempt to solve a more complicated predicament—like not overlapping the source material, which is a more common situation than you think. One of the strengths of manga is that it tends to be the work of a single person’s creative process. They might have assistants and editors helping them out, but the consistency of the series rides heavily on the manga author’s output. If they decide to take a break, the story stops.
premiered, which attempted to retell the original story in a 1:1 fashion, excising any filler or big deviating details. Two years later, areboot was announced, this one taking the same approach to filler while also giving us more of the story that had been told since the first anime ended. Both of these series are usually regarded as better versions of the dual adaptations.was announced.