

I had watched _Tokyo Ghoul_ and _Tokyo Ghoul Root A_ a few months ago. Now I
just finished reading the _Tokyo Ghoul_ manga and noticed that there are
various places where the manga was different from the anime and many things
were left out in the anime.

I haven't really read many manga but from what I have heard, it's the same
case in many manga to anime productions.

My question is, who decides what goes into the anime and what stays out of it,
and what changes will be made, with respect to the manga? Is it the studio
producing the anime, the author of the manga, or is a mutual agreement between
the two made?


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I think your question is closely related to questions like _Why aren't books
adapted one-to-one?_.

One aspect why an adaptation is different is because there are other people
working on it. If you want to express feelings, there are many different ways
to do that. For example, the mangaka thinks that a "No..." with a sad face is
enough emoting while the director of the anime thinks this is not enough and
has the character do a Darth-Vader-like "NOOOOOOOO!!!!". One example of this
is (not an anime, I normally just read manga) Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire. In the book, it says:

> "Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire, Harry?", he asked calmly

while in the movie we get [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g3xrYjreN4).

On the other side, you have a book like "Who censored Roger Rabbit" by Gary K.
Wolf, which was adapted into the 1988 Who framed Roger Rabbit. In the book,

> Roger is killed in the beginning of the novel.

Following this event, the detective tries to solve this mystery instead of the
one he tries to solve in the movie. Thus the plots are completely different
and bear no resemblance to one another. The adaptation is, so to say, in name
only.

This might happen because the director thinks that he has a better grip on the
story the author wanted to tell, so he just "improves" it. Or he thinks that
he has a better story to tell in the universe and he just wants to import all
of the framework the title entails. This can be seen with video game movies:
the Resident Evil movies import nothing from the games except maybe the
premise of zombie-like creatures attacking and some names.

And then there are those directors who just want to profit from the name.
Their story has pretty much nothing to do with the original material. For
example, the Tomb Raider movies contain no levels from the games (that were
released before the movies were made, don't know about newer ones). Lara could
just be called Nancy Drew and could be a 13 year old girl; except for the
sexualization, it could be the same movie. Lara could have been a 40 year old
male "archeologist". But the studio wanted to profit from the name "Tomb
Raider", so they made a Tomb Raider movie that had nothing to do with the Tomb
Raider games.

PS: The last two categories can be combined. You could pretty easily swap the
Resident Evil and Tomb Raider examples in them but the motive is different.


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