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What's Anime According to
Anime is most commonly based from a manga, which is simply the Japanese word for comics. Usually when people call something manga they mean that it had been produced in Japan. Some people prefer manga over anime and vice-versa but the two are usually quite closely related to each other, 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 knowledge of reading it, obviously with my fascination with anime I've given manga a chance in some places however it will never be as good as anime in my experience. Manga has become increasingly popular in lots of parts of the planet such as the United States. 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 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 to have 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 rapidly which forces the anime creators either to continue a hiatus or create 'filler' episodes that have no real link with the overall storyline. One problem this creates for fans of anime although not manga is that the manga is always ahead, thus the people who see clearly will know what will happen before the anime viewers will, one of the many reasons I have almost always avoided anime discussion forums is because of the spoilers that manga readers inadvertently blurt out and could ruin months of anime viewing for me.
It gets better though, anime can also be very commonly based on video games, and some even have entire franchises of game titles in line with 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, some people might not realize how powerful of storylines some game titles have within them, and also to possess the entire thing given to you visually can really be rather 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 much more. It actually was a misconception of mine for that longest period of time that the Pokemon anime came before the games, it wasn't until about 5 years later that I realized how wrong I had been. Those are just a select few that were oftentimes 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 an attractive thing.
Of course, some anime are even original creations, these however require much more work than taking comic strips and animating them together (not a proper explanation from the manga to anime transformation but the gist of 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 same name but developed by another animation organization, would be the most often seen forms of original anime content. Most OVA's are short long which range from one to five episodes each, however in some specific cases you will find others that are between 10-100+ episodes long, obviously this is a factor of methods much time and work goes into them. Currently I'm following two anime OVA series that exist ten episodes each long but instead of weekly episodes they merely release about one episode every 6 months, you heard right I said 6 months between episodes. Obviously this seems like a problem, but many OVA are considered to become better than their parent story anime by a great deal of the anime viewing public.
Unsurprisingly some anime even evolves one step further into having a live-action movie or series made according to it. Most of the 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 gives 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 that I was quite disappointed together, but mainly due to bad acting and low budgets. Earlier I mentioned the Cowboy Bebop live-action movie, which is still in development at this time, 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 so we see more big name actors starring in live-action anime based movies, it's my belief that things are leaning that way since I've noticed a rise in actors like Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Andy Richter, and Will Arnett amongst many others doing the voice-overs for major anime movies (usually 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 by 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, that was very unlike the typical one or two actors you may recognize.
