I'm amazed Fruits Basket hasn't been mentioned yet, unless it's been mercifully repressed in most people's conciousnesses. The characters' personalities were changed, several important plot elements and characters removed and the most important plot element of all- The Truth About Akito- completely ignored and replaced with some hashed-up crap. I can only thank heaven they aborted this monstrosity so quickly. They could never have recovered the actual storyline after the what they'd done anyway.
InuYasha didn't come happily out of anime either. They keep changing around plot elements and removing scenes, including a large number featuring SesshoMaru and Kagura which kills me because I LOVE THEM. What always drives me nuts about anime is where they remove important arcs or scenes and replace them with anime-onlys, which are never as good as manga originals (although the DC anime doesn't actually do so badly out of them recently). Anime artwork is never as good as manga artwork either. Kagura's death was pretty, but it was infinitely more beautiful in the manga.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho was an abomination. The artwork was horrendous, I don't know what the hell was happening to their hair colours, and don't get me started on the english voices. Of any anime. I really hate anime english voices. Why is it that, aside from Studio Ghibli movies, no anime can get voice actors that don't sound like CeeBeeBies rejects?
