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What Is Anime According to
Anime is most often based from a manga, which 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 but the two are usually quite closely associated with each other, otherwise directly following each other, although in almost all cases the manga comes first before the anime. Unfortunately I'm not keen on the genre and so i don't have much expertise in reading it, of course with my love for anime I have given manga an opportunity here and there however it will never be just like anime in my experience. Manga is becoming increasingly popular in many areas of the planet such as the United States. Manga often comes in magazines which will include a few chapters of countless different series, some daily, some weekly, and some much more disseminate or even produced randomly. While not all anime is based on manga, I'd venture to say that a minimum of 90% of them are. It is not uncommon for an anime to become produced simultaneously as the manga it's following, however this often results in the anime making up ground to the manga too quickly which forces the anime creators to either continue a hiatus or create 'filler' episodes that have no real link with the general storyline. One problem that this creates for fans of anime although not manga would be that the manga is definitely ahead, thus those 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.
That's not all though, anime is also very commonly according to game titles, plus some have entire franchises of game titles based on the anime. Among the best examples I'm able to think about 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 to possess the entire thing given to you visually can definitely be quite 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 much more. It was actually a misconception of mine for that longest period of time the Pokemon anime came before the games, it had not been until about 5 years later that I realized how wrong I was. Those are only a select few that were in many cases beloved video games of my childhood that left me wanting more, having an anime to look at that continues or gives me more plot and story is definitely a beautiful thing.
Of course, some anime are even original creations, these however require much more work than taking math comic strips and animating them together (not really a proper explanation from the manga to anime transformation however the gist from it). Original creations require, a minimum of in my opinion, a truly visionary person to produce them. OVA's, or original video animations, while sometimes based solely off an anime of the same name but developed by another animation organization, are the most commonly seen types of original anime content. Most OVA's are short in length which range from 1 to 5 episodes each, however in some specific cases you will find others that are anywhere from 10-100+ episodes long, obviously this is a factor of how 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 6 months, you heard right I said six months between episodes. Obviously this sounds like a problem, however, many OVA are thought to become much better than their parent story anime by a large amount of the anime viewing public.
Not surprisingly some anime even evolves one step further into having a live-action movie or series made based on 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. As 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 effects can do for a movie. Seeing the live-action Dragon Ball, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka movies along with 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, which is still in development at this point, but looks promising with 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 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 among Studio Ghibli's movies recently, Ponyo around 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, which was very unlike the usual one or two actors you might recognize.
