
Warning! Spoiler info to follow
Manga vs OAV
Angel Sanctuary's OAV is three episodes long, the manga is 20 volumes long. This is a very obvious
difference, therefore let me assure you that the entire manga does not fit into these three episodes -
only the first three graphic novels and part of the fourth are covered. Personally, I believe the manga
is better than the OAV, but I don't think the OAV is bad by any stretch of the imagination. It skips,
basically, from plot point to plot point, and cuts out any cute sections the manga had going straight to
what counts. Certain characters were taken out and replaced with other people, or combined with another
person. For example, instead of
Ruri
ever actually being in the OAV, they just have
Rociel doing everything.
The game "Angel Sanctuary" is taken out of the OAV completely. It's a mystery as to where Rociel gets the
strength to rise again. Instead of Kirie attempting to kill Setsuna, Katan is the one who
commits the deed.
Some of the things that they did in the OAV differently from the manga annoyed me...instead of
Setsuna
breaking the ball that almost falls on him from that tower,
Arakune
destroys it while attacking him.
Whereas the scene was pivotal in the manga, showing
Setsuna
that at some level he had powers he wasn't aware of, it had a different air about it in the OAV.
Katan
was supposed to be doing all he could to keep innocent people from being involved in what was going on,
for example, in the manga he tried to stop
Kirie
from delivering the killing strike, but in the OAV he kills her himself. As this is a huge "No" for
Katan's
character, it is probably the change I hate the most. The OAV ends with an ending that makes
you scream for more, but unfortunately that's all there is. |