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The manga can sometimes differ drastically from the anime.
In Sailor Moon, in order to catch up to the manga, they created an entire filler arc which dominated the first half of the second season. And the fifth season lacked most of the source material from the comic.
Revolutionary Girl Utena, the anime, was much more metaphysical and surreal than the manga. It was like it was written by Grant Morrison at certain times.
Bubblegum Crisis didn't have a manga.
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The original Gundam trilogy of movies is excellent. I've seen some of the subsequent incarnations of Gundam, and while they've gotten more technically sophisticated, I don't think any of them are as inspired as the original.
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The show VANISHED from the airwaves around here when B&W shows fell out of favor around 1970... a real tragedy.
It might not have helped nationally that he recharged his body by smoking "nuclear isotope cigarettes", but I wonder if those parts made it to the states.
There was a sequel animated miniseries some years called 8 Man After, featuring a new hero. It kept the intensity but lost the humor. Well, the intentional humor.
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I don't know the difference between anime and manga. I remember Speed Racer but I didn't really watch it very much. Were the Hurculoids or Thundar or Thunder Cats Japanese? I watched the Hurculoids(sp) as a kid and my boys watched the other two and I watched with them.
I watched Pokemon, Yugio and Battle something Z with my older grandkids. I played Pokemon with the boy and just gave all of my original Nintendo 64 and yellow, red, blue, gold, silver and crystal to my 4 little grand daughters (about killed me). Yugio was big with Dorian, too. I watche Sailor Moon with one of my older Gran girl, Dorian's sister.
On my own, I've seen and/or read Akira, Nausicaa (love), Princess Mononoki(sp), Crying Freeman, Tank Girl, Dirty Pair, Battle Angel and a number of shows on Toonami.
What's the show with the monkish kids who all fight each other? I know there's a number of them but this was very teenish.
Anyway, my latest favorite has been Avatar, the Last Air Bender. That, Nausicaa and Pokemon are probably my 3 favorites.
No, I believe the Herculoids, Thundar, and Thunder Cats are American. I remember the Herculoids from Cartoon Network when I was little.
I still have Pokemon Blue, I also had a guide but I don't remember where it is. I think I lost it, which sucks because I tried replaying it a couple of years ago and made a mistake.
My brother loves the Miyazaki movies, although the only two he owns are Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle (he even has the book). We used to have Little Nemo in Slumberland and Kiki's Delivery Service on tape but we gave them away.
I think you mean Xiaolin Showdown, but that was an American cartoon as well.
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THE HERCULOIDS (think "Johnny Weismuller Tarzan in space") was created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera, just like SPACE GHOST (think "Batman in space") the year before.
THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN (think "Kamandi all grown up", heh) was created by Steve Gerber, Alex Toth, and Jack Kirby for Ruby-Spears, a studio comprised of animators who'd left Hanna-Barbera and were trying to do something better. In this case, Toth designed the 3 main characters, but Jack Kirby designed EVERYTHING ELSE. The entire show looks, feels, read and even SOUNDS like a Kirby comic (heh). It feels more to me like a Kirby comic than ANY cartoons that were ever based on Kirby comics. Maybe because he was actually working on the show.
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What, no Gatchaman fans? I loved it as Battle of the Planets as a kid, even though they butchered it. (Seriously. They didn't even translated it. They chopped out the violent scenes then made up a story to go with the rest of the animation and added in the most annoying robot ever to try and explain what didn't make sense.)
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