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Originally posted by Trencher

Is anime and manga the same thing?

I thought that anime is short for animated movies and that manga was, well... manga?

Anime is basically an animated feature. It is a Japanese cartoon show, except that anime is often aimed at a more mature audience than western cartoons.

 

Manga are comics. Comic books and graphic novels. Once again they are usually intended for a more mature audience than western comic books (although western graphic novels seem to be aimed an a more mature audience these days).

 

Adam Warren did a manga of the Dirty Pair. Though he is a westerner he did the comic in Japanese manga style.

 

The version of the Dirty Pair I posted in Other Genres is from the Original Anime that preceeded the manga done by Warren. If the only version of the Dirty Pair you are familiar with is Warren's be prepared -- the anime version is somewhat different.

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Originally posted by Edsel

I have never heard of such a term. I got curious when you mentioned this and did some research but to no avail. So no, I do not believe that there is.

 

I should also point out that this style, while common, is not universal. Many anime/manga artists prefer a more realistic style. An example of such a manga would be the high school drama Great Teacher Onizkua.

 

There is also a rather extreme drawing style called "super-deformed" that is mainly used in comedic cut-scenes, although there was an entire seried of SD Gundam. This style is characterized by very small bodies and very large heads. CLAMP is notorious for their SD versions of themselves that appear in the afternotes of many of their manga.

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