I live in California in terrified of all these big earthquakes going on . <| sep |> so you think pizzagate is fake ? <| sep |> I believe that anime should be its own thing . If someone is complaining about something after only having watched the anime and then a source material reader comes in and says something along the lines of , yeah but in the MangaLNVNWN it ' s like this insert spoilers here is quite frustrating , because I can neither read those spoilers , nor do I have any interest in actually reading the source material a lot of the times . However I do believe that if you cannot judge the series as a whole if you ' ve only seeing the anime version of it . You should judge the anime based on its own merits not the series . For example someone says I hate Touma , he ' s a shit protagonist then I believe you need to clarify which Touma you ' re talking about . While anime Touma and LN Touma aren ' t all that different , there are still distinctions that must be made . You can ' t cover up the faults of an anime with the source material . If it ' s bad in the anime then you should judge it based on the anime , not the source material . For example I really like the Fate VN , but I ' m not a huge fan of UBW because of stuff that is just impossible to translate into the anime medium . TLDRNo . The anime and the source material are separate entities and should be judged as so , but people should clarify which one they have issues with .