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What's Anime Based On

Anime is most commonly based off of a manga, which is simply the Japanese word for comics. Usually when people call something manga they mean that it was produced in Japan. Some people prefer manga over anime and vice-versa but the two are often quite closely associated with one another, otherwise directly following one another, although the the manga comes first prior to the anime. Unfortunately I am not a fan of the genre and so i do not have much expertise in reading it, of course with my love for anime I have given manga a chance here and there however it will never be just like anime to me. Manga is becoming ever more popular in many parts of the world including the Usa. Manga often comes in magazines which will incorporate a few chapters of countless different series, some daily, some weekly, and some even more spread out or even produced randomly. Whilst not all anime is based on manga, I would venture to say that a minimum of 90% of them are. It is not uncommon to have an anime to be produced simultaneously as the manga it is following, however this often leads to the anime catching up to the manga too quickly which forces the anime creators to either go on a hiatus or create 'filler' episodes that have no real connection to the general storyline. One problem this creates for fans of anime but not manga would be that the manga is definitely ahead, thus those who see clearly will know what will happen before the anime viewers will, one of the many reasons I've more often than not avoided anime discussion forums is because of the spoilers that manga readers inadvertently blurt out and may ruin months of anime viewing for me.

It gets better though, anime is also very commonly based on video games, and some even have entire franchises of video games based on the anime. One of the best examples I'm able to think about for this is Star Ocean: EX, the anime almost follows the games storyline and cinematic perfectly, many people might not realize how powerful of storylines some video games have within them, and also to have the entire thing given to you visually can really be rather stunning. Another great current types of games turned anime are Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Valkyria Chronicles, Gungrave, Devil May Cry, Pok?mon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter, and many more. It actually was a misconception of mine for the longest time period the Pokemon anime came prior to the games, it wasn't until about five years later which i realized how wrong I had been. Those are only a select few that were oftentimes beloved video games of my childhood that left me wanting more, through an anime to watch that continues or provides me with more plot and story is definitely a beautiful thing.

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Of course, some anime are even original creations, these however require far more work than taking comic strips and animating them together (not a proper explanation from the manga to anime transformation but the gist from it). Original creations require, a minimum of in my opinion, a really visionary person to create them. OVA's, or original video animations, while sometimes based solely off an anime of the identical name but created by another animation organization, would be the most often seen forms of original anime content. Most OVA's are short in length which range from one to five episodes each, but then again in certain specific cases you will find others that are anywhere from 10-100+ episodes in length, obviously this can be a factor of methods enough time and work adopts them. Currently I am following two anime OVA series that are around ten episodes each in length but rather than weekly episodes they merely release about one episode every six months, you heard right I said 6 months between episodes. Obviously this seems like a problem, however, many OVA are thought to be better than their parent story anime with a large amount of the anime viewing public.

Unsurprisingly some anime even evolves a measure further into having a live-action movie or series made based on it. Many of the popular anime have spawned off live-action creations such as Gantz, Dragon Ball, Detective Conan, Cowboy Bebop, and Great Teacher Onizuka. While the success of those live-action movies hasn't been spectacular, it is extremely another watch and provides a better check out the capabilities that anime has over what effects can do for a movie. Having seen the live-action Dragon Ball, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka movies and other specials, I have to admit which i was quite disappointed together, but mainly because of bad acting and low budgets. Earlier I pointed out the Cowboy Bebop live-action movie, that is still in development at this point, but looks promising using the Matrix star Keanu Reaves playing the main character Spike Spiegel, that alone puts it over the seemingly random group of actors I have seen in other live-action things. Hopefully Cowboy Bebop does well in American markets therefore we see more big name actors starring in live-action anime based movies, it's my belief that situations are leaning that way since I've noticed an increase in actors like Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Andy Richter, and Will Arnett amongst many others doing the voice-overs for major anime movies (usually ones made my Studio Ghibli) in an attempt to bring a wider American audience to anime. I actually watched among Studio Ghibli's movies recently, Ponyo on the cliff by the sea, in English and was overjoyed when I could recognize popular television and movie actors voices, however that movie is packed with stars including Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Betty White and many others, that was very unlike the typical one or two actors you may recognize.