The anime is still over 2 years behind the manga so admittedly I forgot much of the subtlety and fine details. I had to re-read the race: I forgot whether or not Sayaka said anything in her head during the race in the manga (she didn't), but when I watched the anime, the way she said "Touko..." in her head... man. I'm not even cheering for Sayaka to win Touko or anything (she never "struck" me the way Yayaka did) but I felt a little bit of doki-doki there.
And even during Touko's run, where everything's supposed to fall away to white and Yuu can only see Touko, I'm flipping through the manga pages again and again and I feel like I'm almost missing the supposed impact of the scene even AFTER watching it in the anime. As if I can STILL flip through the manga with nothing more than a "hmm, yeah, Yuu's love for Touko grows yet again, by a bit, another brick in the wall". It was so much more vivid and "blown-up" in the anime, I just got swept up with the whole "woohoo! You're gay! Yuri is great!"
Personally I think the "obviousness" of the anime is fine, it's neither better nor worse; imo it serves as a foil almost to the manga. It copies the "big picture" stuff but goes a little above and beyond in animation and audio, which obviously the manga couldn't do anyway.
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