HarbinLien390
What's Anime Based On
Anime is most often based from a manga, which is simply the Japanese word for comics. Usually when individuals call something manga they mean that it was made in Japan. Some people prefer manga over anime and vice-versa however the two are often quite closely related to each other, otherwise directly following one another, although the 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, obviously with my love for anime I have given manga an opportunity in some places but it will never be just like anime in my experience. Manga has become increasingly popular in lots of parts of the planet such as the Usa. Manga often is available in magazines that will incorporate a few chapters of several different series, some daily, some weekly, and some much more disseminate as well as produced randomly. Whilst not all anime is dependant on manga, I'd venture to say that at least 90% of them are. It's not uncommon for an anime to be produced at the same time because the manga it's following, however this often leads to the anime making up ground towards 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 overall storyline. One problem this creates for fans of anime although not manga would be 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 numerous 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 can also be very commonly according to video games, and some have entire franchises of video games in line with the anime. Among the best examples I'm able to think of with this is Star Ocean: EX, the anime almost follows the games storyline and cinematic perfectly, some people may not realize how powerful of storylines some video games have within them, and also to possess the entire thing presented to you visually can definitely be rather stunning. Some other 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 was actually a misconception of mine for the longest period of time that the Pokemon anime came before the games, it had not been until about 5 years later which i realized how wrong I had been. 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 gives me more plot and story is always an attractive thing.
Obviously, some anime are even original creations, these however require far more work than simply taking comic strips and animating them together (not a proper explanation from the manga to anime transformation however the gist of it). Original creations require, a minimum of for me, a really visionary person to produce them. OVA's, or original video animations, while sometimes based solely off an anime of the identical name but created by another animation organization, are the most often seen types of original anime content. Most OVA's are short in length ranging from one to five episodes each, however in some specific cases there are others which are between 10-100+ episodes in length, obviously this is a factor of methods much time and work goes into them. Currently I am following two anime OVA series that are around ten episodes each in length but rather than weekly episodes they only release about one episode every six months, that's right I said 6 months between episodes. Obviously this seems like a problem, however, many OVA are considered to be much better than their parent story anime by a large amount of the anime viewing public.
Unsurprisingly some anime even evolves one step further into using a live-action movie or series made based on 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. While the success of these live-action movies was not spectacular, it is extremely a different watch and provides you a better check out the capabilities that anime has over what effects can perform for a movie. Seeing the live-action Dragon Ball, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka movies and other specials, I must say that I was quite disappointed with them, 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 time, but looks promising with The Matrix star Keanu Reaves playing the main character Spike Spiegel, that alone puts it over the seemingly random set of actors I've come across 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 things are leaning this way since I've noticed an increase in actors like Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Andy Richter, and Will 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 personally watched one of Studio Ghibli's movies recently, Ponyo on the cliff through the sea, in English and was overjoyed when I was able to 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, which was very unlike the typical a couple of actors you may recognize.
