Movie vs Manga end
Yeah, so Baymax shoots his fist off and guides the lightning to power the portal, not too sure how but that's cool!
The story might not have started with the bot fight but we get it here in a flashback, they don't get arrested though.
Then Tadashi offers for Hiro to go to his school, just like the movie except Hiro is onboard for it, but he only wants to go because Tadashi's there. Hiro actually gets there and sees how Tadashi is with his friends, he realizes that it won't just be the two of them, Hiro's just along for the ride. Which is something I can really relate with, when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time around my cousins and it always seemed like they had some kind of friend that I didn't know there, I wouldn't interact, I would just do my own thing. "Don't talk to strangers." became rudimentary to me. Is it jealousy that the friends get attention and I don't? I'm not too sure. Tadashi has a cool mind reading invention though.
But this time when Hiro goes into the portal to save Abigail, he also has the hope of seeing Tadashi. Which makes it all the more hurtful when he doesn't find him but even then, Hiro believes that he's just in another dimension, different from Abigail's. When Baymax gets hammered by the debris, it's from behind, they're running from it rather than it coming from above. Though this would've been a cool moment to put in that shielding parallel again.
They have a few flashbacks before Baymax sends him off with his rocket fist, which makes it more powerful in my opinion, Baymax also brings up that everyone is waiting for him, he doesn't want to leave Aunt Cass or anybody else alone and he has to get Abigail out of there. I just realized, no "Ba-da-la-da-la-la-la" with the fist bumps. Stan Lee makes an appearance but not as Fred's dad or even Boss Awesome.
As you can see, despite all the electricity and stuff going out, nobody knows what happened, which means Callaghan actually turns himself in, he's not just caught. Minimax even makes an appearance, he rolls out of a ball! So cute. It's also the same ball that we see as Tadashi's first invention. He resembles regular Baymax a lot more though, just with a heart on his chest and it goes to Aunt Cass, not Fred. Then it ends with the same card in Baymax's fist.
What surprised me is that at the very end, we see those things that were initially missing including Krei and the in-between suit but they make it out as if that happened with Baymax 2.0, after the events of the manga.
I read the "afterword" and the person who made it, Haruki Ueno, talks about how they wanted to make it a unique experience different from the movie and they went through various versions even having it in the eyes of Mochi, starting out the manga with a one chapter one-shot but one of the more curious things he (or she, I can't find any pictures but Haruki is typically a boy's name) said "from the perspective of a manga-original character: a girl with a crush on Hiro..." I really want to see who that could be, maybe it was adapted into the series and became Karmi?
Overall, there are definitely some things that the manga did better than the movie and a few things the movie did better than the manga, for example, characters. In the manga, I feel that we get a more fleshed out version of Hiro, Tadashi and Callaghan with the backstories especially. But with the movie, I feel we get a more fleshed out version of everyone else, except Baymax, he's the constant between the two. Obviously there are only 2 volumes so they had to squeeze and the movie is an hour and 48 minutes but they're different enough to enjoy separately and respect for different reasons and it’s not like just reading an adaptation. I’m glad I read it, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
