Can you tell the difference between these two easily mistaken things?

Manga and manga comics has always been popular worldwide for its unique style, varied genres, and format of reading right to left, and its amazing inking and artwork that captures every single detail, allowing the reader to feel as if they are in the story. Most manga's become anime's, but the manga is almost always the original one which may or may not have events that the anime does and it is almost always longer than the anime. You may be thinking, most manga's become anime's? I thought manga was anime. 
Truthfully, they are not the same. Therefore, manga is not anime. There are distinct differences from the two, and here are the differences.

Manga:
Manga is usually found in comics or the Japanese illustrations read right to left instead of the usual left to right format. The illustrations are inked and sectioned out for easy reading, also, like I had stated before, It's usually first and the original before the making of anime and may have a few different events added or left out from the anime as well as the fact that it is usually longer or ahead of the anime. The anime might be fifteen episodes, but the manga could be fifty chapters with extra information important to the story line that you never knew when you watched the anime like Zombie Loan. The quality of manga is a lot better than anime because drawings are more detailed and defined. Manga is preferred because of the fact that it is more in detail and has the original story line and plot so you can distinguish what truly happens when you read the manga and watch an anime of the same thing. Also, it is not colored, but the inking and background techniques make up for that.

Shugo Chara in the manga

Anime:
Anime sounds like animation, and that is exactly what it is, Japanese animation, the opposite of the comics and illustrations. Anime provides a good experience because of it being in color instead of the black and white manga so you can distinguish the character's hair color,etc. and voice with animation, but is less detailed and the events are usually slightly different. In addition, the manga is the true original story line, so keep that in mind.

Shugo Chara in the anime

In general, Manga is illustrations or the comics, and Anime is the animation,  but the manga is the original. For example, in Soul Eater the manga, Crona, one of the characters, is a girl. However, in the anime, Crona's a boy. Also, in Shugo Chara manga, Amu ends up with Ikuto most likely, in the anime, Amu is more lkely to end up with Tadase. Both are enjoyable, but I am more fond of manga. After all, that's why my blog is called "Manga Madness" not "Anime Madness." I will consider adding posts on my favorite anime's and manga's though. That's all for today! Later~