Mouse is another one and isn’t galaxy angels also? I know asagiri no miko is and so is If I see you in my dream.
I believe Azumanga Daioh was originally released as 130 5-minute episodes. Somehow they managed to paste the pieces together for home video.
Galaxy Angels is a 15 minute ep show, yes. Azumanga Daioh is NOT a 5-minute show. There are 26 normal episodes and the show has an intro and an ending. You may be getting confused/bad information, because the original manga was a 4-panel gag strip.
Isn’t Azumanga Daioh broken up though into small segments within the 30 minute show?
I haven’t watched the series yet [on order], but my information about the format comes from the synopsis at animenfo. It reads: Based on four panel comic, each episode is rather short around five minutes. I interpreted this like SCDawg to mean not 5-minute shows, but 5-minute segments stitched together.
It depends on how you define “epsisode”. There are a bunch of sub-stories within each episode that are named. But even those sometimes run longer than 5 minutes, I think. But I’ve seen the show. It’s a traditional 24-minute episode run time.
Someone lent me the “free” first episode which was sent with a recent Newtype magazine last night. It was about 20 some minutes, but it also jumped from say a teacher walking into the wrong class, to a debate about asking a girl to join a club, to her getting bitten by a cat, to a race, to the same cat, to a very smart young kid, to a another new girl it was about five or six “shorts” within the 26 or so minute show that might or might not have had something that tied them all together beyond the same characters.
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Different quesiton, in light of being reminded of Neon Genesis Evangelion by the re-release or the Platinum Edition being released soon, has come to mind about the manga.
As far as my net searches have shown there are only eight manga in English and so far as my limited Japanese and translation programs seem to show, also only eight manga in their original Japanese, but the end of eight says “To Be Continued In Evangelion Number Nine”.
So are there actually or are there plans to be more manga in the series which just have not been translated or perhaps written yet which would make this like Gate Keepers which has two volumes out with the promise of a third?
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As far as my net searches have shown there are only eight manga in English and so far as my limited Japanese and translation programs seem to show, also only eight manga in their original Japanese, but the end of eight says "To Be Continued In Evangelion Number Nine".
You just need to know where to look. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
http://www.gainax.co.jp/anime/eva/comic.html
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Ah thank you for this link.
So it just has not been translated yet because it is too new if I am reading that correctly, the first book edition was only April 23, 2004 in the original Japanese. Okay something to look forward too sometime in the future, leaves a lot I am waiting for manga wise but it’s nice to actual have a lot of different ones to wait for, for a change. Thanks again for the link.
No azumanga is a full episode. It was shown in thie own half hour slot in japan unlike the ones previously mentioned which shared their slot with something else.
The manga for Evangelion is weird. The guy drawing it is one of the original Evangelion creators, yet it is just now getting to the real meat of the show. Essentially what happened, as I understand it, is that he kind of petered out and quit for awhile and wasn’t even sure if he was going to continue creating it. Then he started again. There was like a few month hiatus, it went for awhile, another few month hiatus, and then it went for a short bit before going on like a 1.5 year hiatus.
Forget where I saw this information … I think it was in one of the issues of the Eva manga that was out (back when Viz was packaging them all as if they were actual issues and not). I think this was even back around volume 5 or 6! Needless to say he started again and Viz started translating the manga again.
THEN I think what happened is that the market got Tokyopopped and Viz was left with an outdated strategy, so they had to take something like a year to retool and get back up to speed.
So, um, yeah. It was quite a while. It’s worth it, though. The Eva manga is rather different from the anime. I like it.
I can kind of understand if he went almost right from the anime to the manga how that can burn someone out on a concept. It’s new and fresh to those seeing the anime and reading the manga, but we’re not there draft after draft before it is actually considered for an anime and then a manga. At least one of which requires planning meeting after meeting for each episode, character design, creature/etc design, yeah I can see how it can burn a person out.
Viz was truly caught off guard by Tokyopop and is only now starting to recover?
This is one of the few times I have found the manga to still be fresh even knowing to a point before even reading it what has happened in the anime which could happen in the manga. In a strange way that never happens the other way, I can read the manga and the anime still seems fresh, but this is one of the few times it seems fresh. Other then perhaps Steel Angel Kurumi but that manga is so different then the anime, if I did not know they were the “same” I wouldn’t know one was not sort of another/alternate reality story based off the anime.
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Viz was truly caught off guard by Tokyopop and is only now starting to recover?
They revamped their entire production line to work on a different schedule. They completely eliminated monthly issues. They "remastered" a lot of their older books to be in the new style. They even changed the size of some of the remade books. All of this was done quite suddenly in reaction to Tokyopop's disturbing the market. I think the amount of work involved kept them busy for a very long time, is all.
The “shrinking” of their books is something that I noticed but thought the difference was just between say “collectors editions” and “special editions”. They did it in response to the Tokyopop more hand held sizing huh?
Yes I can see how basically revamping your entire company can slow things down just a tad.
I was wondering if anyone knows from a first hand reading or just from someone else perhaps reading it, if the manga Gunslinger Girl is any good?
When I was in one of the local bookstores recently there was a copy I picked up and looked through before putting back and looking at something else.
By the time my mind was made up to give it a final look over as one of my two choices, someone else had purchased it, but it did look interesting, so any news is welcome. It was called a comedy but from my glances through it that does not look right and I cannot remember the publishing company either, and googling brings up all sites in Japanese, not my week for searches.
Is this one anyone recommends? Are they any existing manga or anime it can be compared too?
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Gunslinger Girl got acquired by ADV.
http://www.adv-manga.com/catalog/TitleGUNSLINGERGIRL.asp
Personally, I never heard of it. And you really need to start to know where to look. I never use Google. Don’t know why, just never do.
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Thank you for that information. Only in the last two searches has google truly let me down, but then again maybe anime and manga information is a little out of their league at the moment.
I actually would have started there, with the publishing company, if I remembered the name of the publishing company. Though when trying to search by title I remembered the “good old days” when searching by title might actually bring news of the book or manga rather then, as near as I could translate, numerous fanfic which might show popularity but are not the best source for unbiased information. Still though if I translated correctly it might mean it is popular but still not sure without knowing more about it, like possible comparisons.
Sadamoto is primarily a character designer. I remember one interview with him where he said that he wasn’t used to the pressure of constantly doing a manga.
It sucks, all my favorite mangaka are ones that move really, really slow. But at least I know they have time to work on the quality.
quote:When you enclose the title in quotes and qualify the search as English-only, Google returns over 20,000 hits, most of them relating to the GG manga, anime or PS2 game. Try this search.
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Thank you for that information. Only in the last two searches has google truly let me down, but then again maybe anime and manga information is a little out of their league at the moment.
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