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Why is it people get confused with the difference between Manga and Anime?
Manga is - A) A cartoon strip
B) The name of the company that brings Anime to
western audiences.
I love Anime. I love it to bits. I've only been a full fan for only a few months, watching whatever I can on TV/Video or otherwise.
I've actually been a fan of Anime for several years, when I was introduced to Ghost in the shell and BubbleGum Crisis by a mate of mine. Then I got into the TV series of Fist of the North Star, showing late night (as usual) on channel 4. I never really took it on board, until a while ago, when I watched Tokyo Revelation on the sci-fi channel. I started watching more, more and more.
Then came my DVD player......
I can't believe I spent nearly £300 in under a month of DVD's, with a large percentage of them being Anime.
I bought -
Ghost in the Shell - fantastic, the DVD enhances it
superbly.
Blood: The last vampire - Short, but good while it lasted.
Urotsukidoji 1+2 - One of the films that started the
"Breasts (I toned it down) and tentacles"
Urotsukidoji 3 - Excellent, yet confusing continuation.
AppleSeed - One of the films that got the ball rolling for
me.
Perfect Blue - Amazing thriller, very psychological.
StreetFighter 2 - Suprisingly good anime, I was a fan of the
games.
StreetFighter Alpha - pretty good for the money.
Princess Mononoke - One of the best Anime films I have ever
seen. I spent the extra fiver for the
collectors edition that came with a book
I also bought Akira on video, what the hell does Tetsuo become at the Olympic stadium?
Thank you Sci-fi, channel 4's god-awful treatment of the very little Anime they did show forced me to get Cable. After stopping Fist of the North Star and showing only Shadow Skill the movie, I wrote to channel 4 complaining, they came up with a feeble excuse that the nature of Anime was too extreme for viewing. From channel 4 !!!!! I ask you, the channel that has swearing during day time, shows a large amount of pornography and banned films !! By the way that was the same excuse they used for not renewing their contract to show WWF Heat.
*Rant over*
My shopping list is getting larger, with Riding Bean, patlabor, Ninja scroll and imports of Genocyber, violence Jack, Urotsukidoji 4, My neighbour Totoro, Nausicaa and Adventure Kid(Duo). Hurrah for Christmas !!
Fingers crossed for all of NeonGenesis Evangelion on DVD.
From Latino, ta-ra for now !
Manga is - A) A cartoon strip
B) The name of the company that brings Anime to
western audiences.
I love Anime. I love it to bits. I've only been a full fan for only a few months, watching whatever I can on TV/Video or otherwise.
I've actually been a fan of Anime for several years, when I was introduced to Ghost in the shell and BubbleGum Crisis by a mate of mine. Then I got into the TV series of Fist of the North Star, showing late night (as usual) on channel 4. I never really took it on board, until a while ago, when I watched Tokyo Revelation on the sci-fi channel. I started watching more, more and more.
Then came my DVD player......
I can't believe I spent nearly £300 in under a month of DVD's, with a large percentage of them being Anime.
I bought -
Ghost in the Shell - fantastic, the DVD enhances it
superbly.
Blood: The last vampire - Short, but good while it lasted.
Urotsukidoji 1+2 - One of the films that started the
"Breasts (I toned it down) and tentacles"
Urotsukidoji 3 - Excellent, yet confusing continuation.
AppleSeed - One of the films that got the ball rolling for
me.
Perfect Blue - Amazing thriller, very psychological.
StreetFighter 2 - Suprisingly good anime, I was a fan of the
games.
StreetFighter Alpha - pretty good for the money.
Princess Mononoke - One of the best Anime films I have ever
seen. I spent the extra fiver for the
collectors edition that came with a book
I also bought Akira on video, what the hell does Tetsuo become at the Olympic stadium?
Thank you Sci-fi, channel 4's god-awful treatment of the very little Anime they did show forced me to get Cable. After stopping Fist of the North Star and showing only Shadow Skill the movie, I wrote to channel 4 complaining, they came up with a feeble excuse that the nature of Anime was too extreme for viewing. From channel 4 !!!!! I ask you, the channel that has swearing during day time, shows a large amount of pornography and banned films !! By the way that was the same excuse they used for not renewing their contract to show WWF Heat.
*Rant over*
My shopping list is getting larger, with Riding Bean, patlabor, Ninja scroll and imports of Genocyber, violence Jack, Urotsukidoji 4, My neighbour Totoro, Nausicaa and Adventure Kid(Duo). Hurrah for Christmas !!
Fingers crossed for all of NeonGenesis Evangelion on DVD.
From Latino, ta-ra for now !
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Fogmaster wrote:
> Anime? manga films are rubbish, they always have sword fighting and big eyes,
> thats all I have to say.
Refer to my earlier list.
None of these have any sword fighting in at all.
Watch some of those films then come back and tell us how wrong you were.
And if you still think anime is rubbish at least it will be your opinion rather than someone elses stereotype.
> Anime? manga films are rubbish, they always have sword fighting and big eyes,
> thats all I have to say.
Refer to my earlier list.
None of these have any sword fighting in at all.
Watch some of those films then come back and tell us how wrong you were.
And if you still think anime is rubbish at least it will be your opinion rather than someone elses stereotype.
Anime? manga films are rubbish, they always have sword fighting and big eyes, thats all I have to say.
Manga also didn't release a wide enough
> range of titles,
> leading to many 18's/banned like Urotsukidoji, devil man and
Devil man was
> banned? I saw that on channel 4 made me laugh a lot and I was about 14 at the
> time,
Devil man wasn't banned i know, but titles like this were probably near being banned.
We all know the difference between cartoon violence etc, but those knuckle-dragging apes at the bbfc who love using their film-butchering scissors obviously don't.
> range of titles,
> leading to many 18's/banned like Urotsukidoji, devil man and
Devil man was
> banned? I saw that on channel 4 made me laugh a lot and I was about 14 at the
> time,
Devil man wasn't banned i know, but titles like this were probably near being banned.
We all know the difference between cartoon violence etc, but those knuckle-dragging apes at the bbfc who love using their film-butchering scissors obviously don't.
All Manga is Anime, but not all Anime is Manga!
Like someone said below, not all vacuum cleaners are Hoovers, but everyone calls them Hoovers.
Like everyone calls sticky backed plastic Sellotape, but that's just a brand.
This list of things like this go on. But in general most people call Anime, Manga. It's just the most common name you associate with Anime, so everyone uses it!
:)
Like someone said below, not all vacuum cleaners are Hoovers, but everyone calls them Hoovers.
Like everyone calls sticky backed plastic Sellotape, but that's just a brand.
This list of things like this go on. But in general most people call Anime, Manga. It's just the most common name you associate with Anime, so everyone uses it!
:)
Totoro wrote:
Manga also didn't release a wide enough
> range of titles, leading to many 18's/banned like Urotsukidoji, devil man and
Devil man was banned? I saw that on channel 4 made me laugh a lot and I was about 14 at the time,
DEVIL MAN
It was like a sort of gory version of Power Rangers, with strange demons who tended to be half naked.
Very weird but entertaining none the less
Manga also didn't release a wide enough
> range of titles, leading to many 18's/banned like Urotsukidoji, devil man and
Devil man was banned? I saw that on channel 4 made me laugh a lot and I was about 14 at the time,
DEVIL MAN
It was like a sort of gory version of Power Rangers, with strange demons who tended to be half naked.
Very weird but entertaining none the less
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Isn't anime the crappy version of Manga?
Manga isn't just the cartoon book
> things, it's the videos as well me thinks. If not why does it say Manga on the
> side of half the weird Japanease cartoon videos in my local video shop?
oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
listen carfully.
manga is a company , anime are the cartoons.
manga released the anime videos, not all of them are weird.
manga didn't always release the best anime so some of it is slightly weird i guess.
> Isn't anime the crappy version of Manga?
Manga isn't just the cartoon book
> things, it's the videos as well me thinks. If not why does it say Manga on the
> side of half the weird Japanease cartoon videos in my local video shop?
oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
listen carfully.
manga is a company , anime are the cartoons.
manga released the anime videos, not all of them are weird.
manga didn't always release the best anime so some of it is slightly weird i guess.
Yea, i know the bad press that anime gets(i.e being on t.v really late and idiots thinking it's just all violence etc)
People get confused about anime/manga because when manga(the company) first started to release videos in the early or mid 90's many people didn't really know what these cartoons were so just called them manga cartoons.
Manga also didn't release a wide enough range of titles, leading to many 18's/banned like Urotsukidoji, devil man and not enough PGs/Us like LupinIII, patlabor,wings of honnemise.Many people (including my parents) got the wrong end of the stick.
i made this list on a previous topic, but if you missed it..
If you are looking for more anime dvd's i suggest:
Patlabor1&2 (hopefully soon patlabor3)
patlabor t.v series
wings of honneamise
cyber city oedo 808
my neighbour totoro (show this to any doubting thomas who thinks all anime is violent)
kiki's delivery service
macross plus
riding bean
gunsmith cats
cowboy bebop
castle of cagliostro(and other lupinIII titles)
yurusei yatsura
People get confused about anime/manga because when manga(the company) first started to release videos in the early or mid 90's many people didn't really know what these cartoons were so just called them manga cartoons.
Manga also didn't release a wide enough range of titles, leading to many 18's/banned like Urotsukidoji, devil man and not enough PGs/Us like LupinIII, patlabor,wings of honnemise.Many people (including my parents) got the wrong end of the stick.
i made this list on a previous topic, but if you missed it..
If you are looking for more anime dvd's i suggest:
Patlabor1&2 (hopefully soon patlabor3)
patlabor t.v series
wings of honneamise
cyber city oedo 808
my neighbour totoro (show this to any doubting thomas who thinks all anime is violent)
kiki's delivery service
macross plus
riding bean
gunsmith cats
cowboy bebop
castle of cagliostro(and other lupinIII titles)
yurusei yatsura
Manga is a company that makes anime movies and comics.
The actual genre is called Anime but people call it manga because most of the comics and movies seen are made by manga.
just purists call it anime.
The actual genre is called Anime but people call it manga because most of the comics and movies seen are made by manga.
just purists call it anime.
Isn't anime the crappy version of Manga?
Manga isn't just the cartoon book things, it's the videos as well me thinks. If not why does it say Manga on the side of half the weird Japanease cartoon videos in my local video shop?
Manga isn't just the cartoon book things, it's the videos as well me thinks. If not why does it say Manga on the side of half the weird Japanease cartoon videos in my local video shop?
Latino Reheat wrote:
> I'm rather upset that I'm forced to call it Manga instead of Anime.
who is forcing you to call it manga?
god have some back bone why dont you
> I'm rather upset that I'm forced to call it Manga instead of Anime.
who is forcing you to call it manga?
god have some back bone why dont you
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