Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

manga is when an author finally decides to materialize his imagination by transferring his ideas onto paper. hence how characters behave, look and how the story progresses will be at it's purest because it was the author who penned it down.
the only things that we cannot imagine will be the colour of things and the voices of the characters, well, actually...colours can be seen on the cover and the tone of their voices can be inferred from the font used...but nvm..
lots of people tell me that anime is better than manga because things actually MOVE.
well maybe.
i disagree but then again it depends on what people look out for. some people want to see the action of moving pictures.
i don't particularly care for that.
the problem with anime is that it has undergone the influence of many other people apart from the author. hence its manifestation will be a corrupted one in the sense that it was not as the author had originally imagined.
the director will decide how the scenes will progress, the voice actors, how the characters sound and feel, the animators, how the people look and move, the producer, the quality of the aformentioned and the resemblance to the original.
unless of course the author does all these roles and insists on replicating what he has in his mind. in such a case then purity would be retained.
or there never was a manga and the writers created the anime right from their head working as or alongside the director..these are rare cases where there was no manga but the creators just went straight to animation...if i am not wrong, i think ~Here and Then, Now and There~ is one such anime, and an excellant one at that.
otherwise, it is just a matter of how close the anime is to the manga.
because of these views, manga still reigns as top on my list over anime.
the next issue under scrutiny would then be my view on scanlations...