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Let's face it: Most of the time, a work is at its best in its original form. However, sometimes there are exceptions to this, and be it by [[Adaptation Distillation]], [[Woolseyism]] or [[Superlative Dubbing]], the new version of a story comes out so much better than the old that even the original creator admits the superiority of the new one.

Contrast [[Disowned Adaptation]].

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== Anime and Manga ==
* The English dub of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' is officially considered superior to the Japanese version.
** Ditto with a select few other dubs, such as ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'' and ''[[You're Under Arrest]]''.
** It's been said that [[Hideaki Anno]] prefers some of the performances in the original (non-[[Netflix]]) North American dub of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' to the Japanese version, though Anno tends to be nebulous about such things.
* The staff at [[4Kids! Entertainment]] apparently loves ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', although Japan does ''not''.
* [[Hayao Miyazaki]] reportedly prefers the French dub of ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' (with [[Jean Reno]] in the title role) to the original.
* Yasuhiro Nightow has nothing but praise for the animated version of ''[[Trigun]]''. After the anime ended, he started having anime-only characters cameo in the manga, and cribbed the anime's climax to use in his story several years later.

== [[Film]] ==
* [[Chuck Palahniuk]] prefers the ending of the film version of ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' to his own.
* Christopher Priest, the author of the original novel of ''[[The Prestige]]'' had this reaction to seeing the movie: "'Well, holy shit.' I was thinking, 'God, I like that,' and 'Oh, I wish I'd thought of that.'"
* [[Stephen King]], in an interview on the DVD of ''[[The Mist]]'', says that he liked the movie's ending better than that of the original story, and wishes he'd thought of it himself.
** Ditto for the original 1976 adaptation of ''[[Carrie]]''. He's not too big on [[The Rage: Carrie 2|the sequel]] or [[The Remake]], though.
* [[Mark Millar]] has said that the ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'' movie is superior to the comic book.
* Gary Wolf preferred the film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' to the novel he wrote, ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?]]'', upon which it was based. He loved it so much that when he wrote a sequel to the film, he retconned the first story [[All Just a Dream|as a dream.]]
* [[J. K. Rowling]] has said that there are some things in the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' movies which she wished she had made up when she wrote [[Harry Potter|the books]]. The only such thing she has named specifically is the [[Canon Foreigner|talking shrunken]] [[Oracular Head|head]] from the third film. Ironically, the fandom tends to regard the shrunken head as [[The Scrappy]].
* David Morrell preferred the ending of the ''[[Rambo|First Blood]]'' film as [[Spared by the Adaptation|Rambo doesn't die]]... thus allowing for sequels that ended up making him millions.

== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Umberto Eco]] thinks that William Weaver's English translations of his novels are better than the originals.

== [[Music]] ==
* [[Nine Inch Nails|Trent Reznor]], describing hearing [[Johnny Cash]]'s cover of "Hurt", stated that "that song isn't mine anymore."
* After [[Jimi Hendrix]] released his cover of "All Along the Watchtower", [[Bob Dylan]] publicly stated that he was going to start playing the Hendrix version instead of his own in the future.

== [[Video Games]] ==
* The creators of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' apparently liked the dub voice actors so much that whenever special-edition re-releases of the games come out of Japan, they use the English vocal track exclusively.
* Even though it's a [[Massively Multiplayer Crossover]], the writers behind ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' generally churns out favorable results from [[Humongous Mecha]] series that wind up not being well received in their original animated form (various ''[[Gundam]]'' and ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' being a few prime examples). Subverted with ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', where director Mitsuo Fukuda, in a series of Twitter posts, [[Disowned Adaptation|didn't appreciate]] how developer Banpresto rearranged the story. In a variation, [[Kenichi Suzumura]], the voice actor for Shinn Asuka in ''SEED Destiny'', stated he preferred how the events of ''Z'' handled the story.

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