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VigorousJammer
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That's right! For instance, the word "manga"（漫画）is used when referring to the TV anime Doraemon, as well as the comic version of it. Much in the same way the English word "cartoon" can be used to refer to juvenile comics as well as TV cartoons. However, where "Cartoon" has the automatic implication of something being animated, with comics only sometimes being referred to as "cartoons", the roles are somewhat reversed when it comes to the word "Manga". In many cases, the word "manga"（漫画） is still used to refer exclusively to the comic version of a series, and only sometimes to the TV version. I've also seen the katakana form of "Comic"（コミック）and "Comics" （コミックス） being used as well... typically when it comes to seinen and josei series... stuff with a more mature, serious flare to it, so it seems like "Manga" tends to share a similarly juvenile tone as the word "Cartoon" does in English. For more serious animation in Japan... they would never use the word "manga", instead referring to it as "anime" or "the animation", "the animated series", or perhaps just "the series". There's also the word "Gekiga" （劇画）, which means something like "Dramatic pictures", and is occasionally used to refer to more serious comics... but was originally used to refer to serious films. The kanji "Geki" literally means "a drama" or "a play", so Gekiga would literally mean something like "A drama told through drawings". However, I've never seen the word "Gekiga" used for animation like "Manga" is... perhaps they just have a subtle, different connotation. Anyway, this is simply my perception of things... viewing Japanese culture from the outside, looking in... so I may be somewhat inaccurate about some of this. Last edited by VigorousJammer on Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:41 am; edited 2 times in total |
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DerekL1963
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I can't speak to the UK, but at least in the US back in the 90's we were all still a little shaky on the meaning and usage of various terms. As late as the mid 90's, a new anime club was getting started at the local college - and calling themselves the "Japanimation Society". The first generation of otaku... we didn't even have a real name for the stuff. "Star Blazers" and "Battle of the Planets" were just "weird cartoons from Japan". But it was different from the (already rapidly watering down) US fare of the time - and we liked it. And mostly coming from the SF ghetto, we were used to multigenerational copies of videotapes (assuming we knew someone with a player... they weren't that common then). That was just the price for being able to see something other than at the whim of the local TV station or independent movie theater. (We would get a couple of hundred people in a room at a con just to watch crappy copies of ST:TOS episodes in the early 80's.) It's no wonder Akira was a hit... even as late as 1991 we were so desperate for anything resembling SF. |
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Shiroi Hane
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There were a fair few things I didn't know about (e.g. L.A. Hero and Iyadomi), but to inject a bit of local knowledge:
Just to be clear, while they have (or had, judging by some recent comments) an exclusive deal to sublicense titles from FUNimation and are the distributors for Kaze (née Viz Media Europe), others of their titles have been licensed directly from Japan, albeit using US materials (sometimes via Australia) in most cases.
It's not as drastic as you make it sound, since Animatsu licenses for Manga and Manga distributes for Animatsu. Index was something that was impossible for Manga to license since signing a deal with Universal required handing over information Starz weren't willing to provide to a competitor. There was also some mandate preventing Manga from releasing discs in NTSC which was increasing costs where PAL masters weren't available. Starz has actually sold Manga UK now however. I assume it it Fetch now running the @mangauk account
This has been the case for a long time. I think their web store has been operated by MVM since it launched in fact. It may seem strange, but since MVM are a retailer as well as a licensor it is really no different to when FUNimation's online storefront was a branded TRSI portal.
Jesse Gouldsbury I believe. He's also still regularly uploading "Manga Melt" and "Manga Cast" videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MANGAentertainment/videos
I never did (I learned the word "anime" from an Amiga magazine back around the time Akira was on the Beeb), but it's only relatively recently that video stores, where they had an anime section, called it "Manga". HMV, Virgin and MVC all did it.
We almost got a Blu-ray in the UK (I even had it ordered from Amazon) but it fell through. Problem was that the HD masters presented it as individual episodes but the English materials were for the two "films". |
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jrockfreak
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i still use the Manga app on my 360 from time to time, they have some good classics and early 2000's shows on there. Someone mentioned how animondays were all manga shows, did manga own the rights to the anime Tokko? I would love to see it released.
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Joe Carpenter
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Manga Entertainment brought the Read or Die OVA to the US, so they'll always have my respect for that, they were overall a pretty good publisher and it's a shame they faded into the ether.
Ah yes, the infamous "Up! Up! Up!" mistranslation. 
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WingKing
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The English dub of Excel Saga had the characters talking about "Japanimation" in the dialogue (most notably during the Sailor Moon parody in episode 17), and those DVDs first came out in 2002. |
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nobahn
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At the very least, they had the broadcast rights. |
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DerekL1963
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Wow... I thought it had died about by then. |
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animelytical
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Unless there is another Tokko, it is available on DVD. If it us one that you really want, you nay be pleased at its price. |
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Zalis116
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Mohawk52
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Well here in the UK StarZ took it in from the cold, gave it food and warmth then brutally raped it and left it for dead in the cold again. The body still twitches, but just barely.
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BadNewsBlues
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Damn that's a brutal analogy. |
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vonPeterhof
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 I also distinctly remember having a copy of Guinness World Records (pretty sure it was from 1999) where Akira was described as the highest grossing "manga style" animated film. I always assumed that it was an unnecessarily liberal interpretation on the part of the Russian translators, but looks like it could have well been like that in the original wording.
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