anime adaptations are about as faithful to the manga as Krillon is to life find out why
in this video.
if you haven't watched the dragon ball z series your probably little bit confused so lets keep it that way
hello and welcome to the demo entertainment YouTube channel i'm Antonio
and today il be sharing why an anime adaptation usually gets changed from the manga in this
video i'l talk about why they make anime adaptations who's in charge of the creative aspects of
an anime and why they make the different from the manga if you want to skip my bullshit
i have time stamps in the description below.
so lets first answer why manga usually gets made into an anime adaptation i will be using
Shueisha as an example of course not all manga are made for the same reason but using one
of the biggest manga publishers does give some good insight into it there was a recent
interview with the Weekly Shonen Jump Editor in Chief Hiroyuki Nakano now during this interview
he answers the following question How do you decide which titles get adapted
into anime?
He responded with: "We at Shueisha can't make anime ourselves,
so there are a number of ways in which manga become anime.
Sometimes, a manga is popular and we want to broaden its appeal by turning it into an
anime, so we go around to various companies asking if they will adapt it as a way of promoting
the series.
Other times, other companies may reach out to us and ask if they can adapt the manga.
Either way, if there is a desire for an anime, we at Shueisha will sponsor it."
Now this basically means that they use the anime as a kind of a medium to get the manga
they publish more popular rather than doing it for the success of the anime, now of course,
they still want the anime to succeed but at this point its kind of more like a bonus if
the anime pays off for the money they spent sponsoring it
now you might ask how much does the anime boost their manga sales well it turns out
they make fucking bank so there was a recent Reddit post talking about this topic so I
will link in the description below basically the post talked about the number
of sales a manga had before and after an anime adaptation if we look at Tokyo Ghoul being
published in September 2011 to two and a half years it sold sold 2.6 million copies but
when the manga got its first season anime adaptation in July 2014 the rest of the of
the year the manga sold a total of 6.9 million copies then by March 2015 the manga sold 12
million copies in circulation.
When a manga gets an anime adaptation it gets an insane amount of attention a blog written
by Justin Sevakis also known as answerman goes a little bit more into depth about this
saying : "like just the news that it's in production
usually results in a ton of press coverage and increased awareness of the manga or light
novel series.
Book stores stack it on prominent displays.
Magazines run features about it.
In creating the buzz that makes for a bestseller, an anime adaptation is some of the best marketing
there is."
This is the reason why the anime adaptations also gets made while the manga still isn't
finished yet because the best time to make the adaptation is when the manga is still
gaining a lot of traction, of course, this also makes it kind of messy but we'll talk
more about that later so lets talk about who's in charge of the
creative aspects of the show, so the Director, producer and Scriptwriter work together and
are usually in charge although in some situations like Tokyo ghoul and reincarnated as a slime
the manga Writer also helps but of course there are other people involved who also have
a say on what happens in the anime so in a Reddit AMA, the director of Tokyo
Ghoul stated that “it constantly felt like those ideas were
being chipped away at by those above me.
I tried my best, and I honestly don't have any regrets given the movement space I was
allowed.”
Yes this means even the series director doesn't have complete control when it comes down to
what happens in the anime So real quick i just want to mention that
I sent an email to answerman asking exactly how they make the creative aspects of a show
and I ended up answering my own question asking if it was a combined task of the writers,
director, producer, that's then submitted to the production committee to finalize and
change answerman confirmed that this was correct for the most part but not every anime is the
same so you can expect it to change from time to time
a good guess is that the production committee also decides what happens in the anime and
that they do more than just gathering the funds for the anime
There are a lot of reasons why they make the anime adaptation different from the manga
the most common reason is that there isn't enough source material to continue so rather
than ending the show abruptly or giving it a long break for the manga to catch up the
studio decides how the anime ends of course like i said before it gets the help from the
manga writer to help make the ending for the anime.
now I'm not claiming to know everything about anime production so if you have any information
on this topic or you have a suggestion on a video that talks more about anime production
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