ZakMoffatt610
Aus Salespoint
What Is Anime Based On
Anime is most often based off of a manga, which is simply the Japanese word for comics. Usually when people call something manga they imply that it had been produced in Japan. Some people prefer manga over anime and vice-versa however the two are often quite closely related to one another, if not directly following one another, although the the manga comes first before the anime. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of the genre so I don't have much knowledge of reading it, of course with my fascination with anime I have given manga a chance here and there but it will never be just like anime to me. Manga is becoming increasingly popular in many parts of the planet such as the Usa. Manga often comes in magazines which will incorporate a few chapters of countless different series, some daily, some weekly, and some much more disseminate as well as produced randomly. Whilst not all anime is based on manga, I would venture to say that at least 90% seem to be. It is not uncommon for an anime to be produced simultaneously because the manga it's following, however this often leads to the anime making up ground to 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 general storyline. One problem this creates for fans of anime but not manga would be that the manga is always ahead, thus those who read it will know what is going to happen before the anime viewers will, one of the many reasons I have more often than not avoided anime discussion forums is due to the spoilers that manga readers inadvertently blurt out and may ruin months of anime viewing for me.
That's not all though, anime is also very commonly according to game titles, and some even have entire franchises of video games based on the anime. Among the best examples I can think of for 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 game titles have within them, and to possess the entire thing presented to you visually can definitely be quite 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 much more. It was actually a misconception of mine for the longest time period the Pokemon anime came before the games, it wasn't until about five years later which i realized how wrong I was. Those are just a select few 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 far more work than taking comic strips and animating them together (not a proper explanation of the manga to anime transformation however the gist from it). Original creations require, a minimum of in my opinion, 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 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, but then again in certain specific cases you will find others that are anywhere from 10-100+ episodes long, obviously this can be a factor of methods much time and work goes into them. Currently I am following two anime OVA series that exist ten episodes each long but instead of 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, however, many OVA are considered to become better than their parent story anime with 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 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 those live-action movies hasn't been spectacular, it is quite another watch and provides a better check out the capabilities that anime has over what special effects can do for a 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 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 time, but looks promising with The Matrix star Keanu Reaves playing the primary 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 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 an increase 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) in an attempt to 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 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, which was very unlike the typical one or two actors you may recognize.
