KeeliaWhitefield623
What Is Anime According to
Anime is most often based off of a manga, which is basically 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 but 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 and so i don't have much expertise in reading it, obviously with my love for anime I have given manga a chance in some places but it will never be just like anime to me. Manga has become ever more popular in lots of areas of the planet including the Usa. Manga often is available in magazines that will incorporate a few chapters of several different series, some daily, some weekly, plus some much more disseminate as well as 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 become produced simultaneously as 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 continue a hiatus or create 'filler' episodes which have no real connection to the overall storyline. One problem that this creates for fans of anime but not manga would be that the manga is always ahead, thus the people who see clearly knows what is going to happen prior to the anime viewers will, one of the numerous reasons I have almost always 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 according to game titles, and some even have entire franchises of video games based on the anime. One of the best examples I can 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 game titles have within them, and also to possess the entire thing presented to you visually can definitely be rather stunning. Another 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 time period that the Pokemon anime came prior to the games, it had not been until about five years later which i realized how wrong I had been. Those are only a limited number that were in many cases beloved video games of my childhood that left me wanting more, having an anime to watch that continues or gives me more plot and story is definitely an attractive thing.
Of course, some anime are even original creations, these however require much more work than simply taking comic strips and animating them together (not really a proper explanation of the manga to anime transformation however the gist from it). Original creations require, at least in my opinion, a really visionary person to produce them. OVA's, or original video animations, while sometimes based solely off an anime of the same name but created by another animation organization, would be the most often seen types of original anime content. Most OVA's are short long ranging from one to five episodes each, however in certain specific cases there are others which are between 10-100+ episodes long, obviously this can be a factor of how much time and work adopts them. Currently I'm following two anime OVA series that are around ten episodes each long but rather than weekly episodes they only release about one episode every 6 months, you heard right I said six months between episodes. Obviously this seems like a problem, but many OVA are thought to be better than their parent story anime by a great deal of the anime viewing public.
Not surprisingly some anime even evolves a measure 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 these live-action movies was not spectacular, it is quite a different watch and provides you a better check out the capabilities that anime has over what special effects can perform for any movie. Seeing the live-action Dragon Ball, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka movies along with other specials, I have to admit which i was quite disappointed together, but mainly because of bad acting and low budgets. Earlier I mentioned 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 primary character Spike Spiegel, that alone puts it within the seemingly random set of actors I have seen in other live-action things. Hopefully Cowboy Bebop does well in American markets so we see more big name 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 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 personally watched among Studio Ghibli's movies recently, Ponyo around 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 is packed with stars including Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Betty White and many others, which was very unlike the usual a couple of actors you might recognize.
