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What's Anime Based On
Anime is most commonly based from a manga, that is basically the Japanese word for comics. Usually when individuals call something manga they mean that it had been produced in Japan. Many people prefer manga over anime and vice-versa however the two are often quite closely associated with one another, otherwise directly following one another, although the the manga comes first before 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've given manga a chance in some places however it will never be as good as anime in my experience. Manga is becoming increasingly popular in many parts of the planet such as the Usa. Manga often comes in magazines that will incorporate a few chapters of several different series, some daily, some weekly, and some even more disseminate or even produced randomly. Whilst not all anime is based on manga, I'd venture to say that at least 90% of them are. It is not uncommon for an anime to become produced at the same time as the manga it is following, however this often results in 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 link with the general storyline. One problem this creates for fans of anime but not manga is that the manga is definitely ahead, thus the people who read it will know what will happen before the anime viewers will, one of the many reasons I have 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 personally.
It gets better though, anime is also very commonly based on video games, plus some have entire franchises of game titles based on the anime. Among 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 may not realize how powerful of storylines some video games have within them, and also to have the entire thing given to you visually can definitely 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 that the Pokemon anime came before the games, it wasn't until about 5 years later which i realized how wrong I was. Those are only a select few which were in many cases beloved game titles 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 a beautiful thing.
Of course, some anime are even original creations, these however require far more work than taking math comic strips and animating them together (not a proper explanation of the manga to anime transformation but the gist from it). Original creations require, a minimum of for me, a truly visionary person to produce them. OVA's, or original video animations, while sometimes based solely off an anime of the identical name but developed by another animation organization, are the most commonly seen types of original anime content. Most OVA's are short in length ranging from one to five episodes each, but then again in some specific cases you will find others that are between 10-100+ episodes long, obviously this can be a factor of how enough time and work adopts them. Currently I am following two anime OVA series that exist ten episodes each in length but rather than weekly episodes they only release about one episode every 6 months, that's right I said 6 months between episodes. Obviously this sounds like a problem, however, many OVA are considered to be better than their parent story anime by 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. Many of the more popular anime have spawned off live-action creations for example 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 quite a different watch and provides you a better look into the capabilities that anime has over what effects can perform for any movie. Having seen the live-action Dragon Ball, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka movies along with 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 over the seemingly random group of actors I've come across in other live-action things. Hopefully Cowboy Bebop does well in American markets so we see more big named actors starring in live-action anime based movies, it's my belief that situations are leaning this way since I've noticed a rise in actors like Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Andy Richter, and can Arnett amongst many more doing the voice-overs for major anime movies (usually the ones made my Studio Ghibli) so that they can bring a wider American audience to anime. I actually watched one of Studio Ghibli's movies recently, Ponyo on the cliff by the sea, in English and was overjoyed after 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 others, that was very unlike the usual one or two actors you may recognize.
