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What's Anime Based On
Anime is most often based from a manga, which is simply the Japanese word for comics. Usually when people call something manga they mean that it was produced in Japan. Many people prefer manga over anime and vice-versa however the two are usually quite closely associated with one another, otherwise directly following each other, although in almost all cases the manga comes first prior to the anime. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of the genre so I do not have much knowledge of reading it, of course with my fascination with anime I have given manga a chance in some places however it will never be just like anime to me. Manga is becoming increasingly popular in many areas of the planet such as the Usa. Manga often is available in magazines that will include a few chapters of several different series, some daily, some weekly, plus some much more spread out or even produced randomly. While not all anime is based on manga, I would venture to say that a minimum of 90% seem to be. It is not uncommon for an anime to be produced simultaneously as the manga it is following, however this often results in the anime catching up towards the manga too rapidly 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 that this creates for fans of anime although not manga is that the manga is always ahead, thus those who see clearly will know what will happen prior to the anime viewers will, one of the numerous reasons I've more often than not avoided anime discussion forums is due to the spoilers that manga readers inadvertently blurt out and could ruin months of anime viewing for me.
That's not all though, anime can also be very commonly according to game titles, and some have entire franchises of game titles based on the anime. One of the best examples I can think of with 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 presented to you visually can definitely be quite stunning. Some other great current examples 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 that longest period of time the Pokemon anime came prior to the games, it had not been until about five years later which i realized how wrong I was. Those are just a select few that were in many cases beloved video games of my childhood that left me wanting more, through an anime to look at that continues or provides me with more plot and story is always an attractive thing.
Obviously, 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 for me, a truly visionary person to create them. OVA's, or original video animations, while sometimes based solely off an anime of the identical name but developed by another animation organization, would be the most commonly seen forms of original anime content. Most OVA's are short in length ranging from 1 to 5 episodes each, however in certain specific cases there are others which are between 10-100+ episodes in length, obviously this can be a factor of methods much time and work goes into them. Currently I'm following two anime OVA series that exist ten episodes each in length but rather than weekly episodes they merely release about one episode every 6 months, that's right I said 6 months between episodes. Obviously this seems like a pain, but many OVA are considered to be better than their parent story anime with a great deal of the anime viewing public.
Not surprisingly some anime even evolves one step further into having a live-action movie or series made according to it. Most of the more popular anime have spawned off live-action creations for example Gantz, Dragon Ball, Detective Conan, Cowboy Bebop, and Great Teacher Onizuka. As the success of these live-action movies hasn't been spectacular, it is extremely another watch and provides you a better look into the capabilities that anime has over what effects can do for any movie. Having seen the live-action Dragon Ball, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka movies and other specials, I must say which i was quite disappointed with them, but mainly due to 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 with The Matrix star Keanu Reaves playing the primary character Spike Spiegel, that alone puts it within 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 named 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 can 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 around the cliff through the sea, in English and was overjoyed when I could recognize popular television and movie actors voices, however that movie comes complete with stars including Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Betty White and many more, which was very unlike the typical one or two actors you may recognize.
