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[Spectral_Orion]

Part of the problem is that a game and a manga are two different media. A manga doesn't have the privilege of using sound and animation, something a game is capable of. With a game like Yume Nikki, visuals and sound are big parts of YN's appeal. It's kind of like reading a book in plain paper versus reading the same story as a visual novel. The visual novel is clearly going to be more representative of the author's point of view, rather than leaving it to the reader to use their own imagination. A game can still function just as long as the user can interact with it, whether it has a cohesive story or not.

A manga, however, usually needs to have some sort of narrative to go by. Because the game itself has no spoken dialogue or clear plot, making a proper manga adaptation is much more difficult, let alone even coming close to capturing the same level of atmosphere. It really is no wonder that the author behind the official YN manga took some liberties with the source material (because how do you make a story from source material that never had a story to begin with?) That's why some fans dislike the official manga. Its story is just a presentation of someone's own headcanon and it's very different from how most people experience the game.

You can fashion up and string together some weird imagery. But if the reader has no idea what the manga is about or how the images coincide with one another, then the manga fails to present a cohesive narrative.

Some stories simply don't translate well into another medium. Yume Nikki is one of those games that NEEDS user input in order to be appreciated. In order to see specific events, you had to perform specific actions to trigger them. It's too open-ended to work as a linear narrative and the characters are too cryptic to write about. And if the plot is too vague and the characters are too non-descript... the manga simply won't hold up well. And if someone does attempt to make a linear narrative out of such a game, it's highly likely it's going to turn out differently than what fans of the source material expected.

[Rust]

They DID make a manga, but its not exactly accurate to the game, and doesn't really set any canon facts.
But they already made the maga with PERMISSION, but not CONFORMTION.

[allen the dumpster]

A world that's similar to the Yume Nikki world would be intresting in manga adaptation.

[JAGIELSKI]

Manga wouldn't really have that appeal for reasons already stated. Maybe anime would?

[Rust]

Originally posted by Darkhog | Computah iz ded:

Manga wouldn't really have that appeal for reasons already stated. Maybe anime would?

Nope for reason already stated

[Mama Bedlam]

http://mangakakalot.com/manga/yume_nikki It's been a thing.

[JulesMantis]

Actually their is a manga adaption of Yumi Nikki and I been wanting to read it.

[unayzah]

Just do what the makers of Angel Of Death did, the anime adaption is based off of the game, not the manga. Because this is a rather confusing game, with no instructions except to move, interact, and wake up, and the steps which are to spawn in the bedroom, go to bed, enter the dream world, and wake up, and repeat if not finished which finishing all in one go is unlikely.

[RokuroCarisu]

Originally posted by Sekrocatz:

Just do what the makers of Angel Of Death did, the anime adaption is based off of the game, not the manga.

That's also been done. Sort of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isc5El7FCIY

[Something rather absurd.]

Ok.