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Aug 15, 2019 5:54 PM
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Is it the first time that a western comic book is adapted to anime without being adapted to anything else before?
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It isn't, Radiant is adapted from a French comic and there's adaptations of Marvel comics as well (just have to look at Stan Lee's person page).
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Radiant was based off a french comic.
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It isn't, Radiant is adapted from a French comic and there's adaptations of Marvel comics as well (just have to look at Stan Lee's person page).

Well Marvel comics had adapted to movies or western animation series before but thanks for Radiant.
Aug 15, 2019 6:34 PM
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There is going to be another American comic anime adaptation soon.

https://twitter.com/mrmarkmillar/status/1105353561553162242
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Aug 15, 2019 6:51 PM
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There's also the Witchblade anime
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There's also the Witchblade anime

It has tv series.i
Aug 15, 2019 7:56 PM
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Anime adaptations of western source materials are fairly common, so I would assume not. There are even anime of The Diary of Anne Frank and Les Misérables.

By the way, anyone who's watched the whole thing can say if it's any good? I have a feeling it's gonna take a while before any reviews are posted.
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Howl's Moving Castle, Arriety and Robber's Daughter are adaptions of Western works by Studio Ghibli, but Earthsea draws partially from the Western work and partially from a Manga. OF course, Miyazaki also worked with World Masterpiece Theater which adapted classic literature into Anime series.
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Being a bit specifical: ANIME (not a manga) adaptation from AMERICAN (US) comics (not french etc)... still it comes after Witchblade, for example.

Know something really unprecedented?

- An ANIME
- adapted
- from
- KOREAN manhwa

old east asian issues prevents that
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Rob7 said:
Being a bit specifical: ANIME (not a manga) adaptation from AMERICAN (US) comics (not french etc)... still it comes after Witchblade, for example.

Know something really unprecedented?

- An ANIME
- adapted
- from
- KOREAN manhwa

old east asian issues prevents that
Tower of God is being adapted I believe
Aug 16, 2019 1:42 AM
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Rob7 said:
Being a bit specifical: ANIME (not a manga) adaptation from AMERICAN (US) comics (not french etc)... still it comes after Witchblade, for example.

Know something really unprecedented?

- An ANIME
- adapted
- from
- KOREAN manhwa

old east asian issues prevents that

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Tower of God is being adapted I believe

So does Noblesse as far as I know
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AnotherGuy said:

By the way, anyone who's watched the whole thing can say if it's any good? I have a feeling it's gonna take a while before any reviews are posted.


Yeah, watched everything back to back, and I gotta say, I'm left feeling very satisfied. The music is fantastic, the action comedic, violent AND gory at the same time, the world interesting and the characters entertaining (especially Philly the Kid).

Probably one of the more unique animes I've seen in recent memory. Love the genre blend, so definitely worth a watch imo.
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10 Anime Series Based On Western Comic Books
https://comicbook.com/2016/09/12/10-anime-series-based-on-western-comics/

All of them adapted to another things before adapting anime.
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Two more exotic cases:

Uchuusen Sagittarius (1986) is adaptation of italian comic book.
Kagaku Kyuujo-tai TechnoVoyager (1982) is continuation/fanfiction of the british sci-fi marionette show Thunderbirds.

(By the way the japanese animators love Thunderbirds. Thons of references to it and Stingray in many shows including Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, Macross II: Lovers Again and One Piece.)
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Mutafukaz is another French comic given the anime treatment.
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There's Cybersix, adapted from an Argentinian comic, but actually made with western audiences in mind.
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There's Batman ninja
Aug 17, 2019 3:22 AM
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Anime? This is not anime.
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MindOfOsaka said:
Anime? This is not anime.


Yes it is anime. It’s on MAL

A mod said so: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1795640
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Old_School_Akira said:
MindOfOsaka said:
Anime? This is not anime.


Yes it is anime. It’s on MAL


Meh. Black dude wrote it and a white lady helped scripting. It went through Kickstarter first and then they just hired a Japanese studio to do the animation. Like a ton of productions from America.
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MindOfOsaka said:
Old_School_Akira said:


Yes it is anime. It’s on MAL


Meh. Black dude wrote it and a white lady helped scripting. It went through Kickstarter first and then they just hired a Japanese studio to do the animation. Like a ton of productions from America.


Yes. The original source material is a Western source material. If Western source materials weren't allowed than Studio Ghibli's Arriety also doesn't count as Anime.

The fact a white person helped with the script doesn't mean the original script wasn't in Japanese nor does the fact she's white mean she can't write scripts in Japanese. For all we know she was simply in charge of writing the script for the English dub. This also ignores the fact there are now a few non-Japanese working at the Japanese studios, so should those Anime get nixed because of that?

The original audio is in Japanese, but the English subtitles are for the Japanese audio, but the closed captioning is for the Japanese version and not the English version. Even the credits are in Japanese and not English. So no, not like a ton of productions from America.
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Yemi_Hikari said:
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Meh. Black dude wrote it and a white lady helped scripting. It went through Kickstarter first and then they just hired a Japanese studio to do the animation. Like a ton of productions from America.


Yes. The original source material is a Western source material. If Western source materials weren't allowed than Studio Ghibli's Arriety also doesn't count as Anime.

The fact a white person helped with the script doesn't mean the original script wasn't in Japanese nor does the fact she's white mean she can't write scripts in Japanese. For all we know she was simply in charge of writing the script for the English dub. This also ignores the fact there are now a few non-Japanese working at the Japanese studios, so should those Anime get nixed because of that?

The original audio is in Japanese, but the English subtitles are for the Japanese audio, but the closed captioning is for the Japanese version and not the English version. Even the credits are in Japanese and not English. So no, not like a ton of productions from America.
Carole and Tuesday would be less of an anime since the singing voice for Tuesday is half white and half Japanese.
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I think it's trash. Boring uninspiring trash. Zero backstory, zero character development, and plot is stupid as it gets. Great art tho, but that's about it
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MasterHavik said:
Carole and Tuesday would be less of an anime since the singing voice for Tuesday is half white and half Japanese.


Yup. that's exactly where the logic they were using was going.
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I think it's trash. Boring uninspiring trash. Zero backstory, zero character development, and plot is stupid as it gets. Great art tho, but that's about it
I am gonna guess you didn't watch the show but eh it is your opinion.

Nice two year old account you got there with 43 posts.
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like someone else said, copy of Trigun, and cowboy bebop. The first thing I thought of was Trigun when I started watching it.
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Sorakaa said:
like someone else said, copy of Trigun, and cowboy bebop. The first thing I thought of was Trigun when I started watching it.


There is a difference between actually copying another series and taking influence instead. Trigun and Cowboy Bebop aren't the only series from which Canon Busters draws inspiration. Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo are other Eastern series, but Boondocks is a Western one.
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MasterHavik said:
zeus-faber said:
I think it's trash. Boring uninspiring trash. Zero backstory, zero character development, and plot is stupid as it gets. Great art tho, but that's about it
I am gonna guess you didn't watch the show but eh it is your opinion.

Nice two year old account you got there with 43 posts.


Well you guess wrong. It's garbage
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Yemi_Hikari said:
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like someone else said, copy of Trigun, and cowboy bebop. The first thing I thought of was Trigun when I started watching it.


There is a difference between actually copying another series and taking influence instead. Trigun and Cowboy Bebop aren't the only series from which Canon Busters draws inspiration. Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo are other Eastern series, but Boondocks is a Western one.


afro samurai? How are they the same. it wasn't anything alike
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zeus-faber said:
MasterHavik said:
I am gonna guess you didn't watch the show but eh it is your opinion.

Nice two year old account you got there with 43 posts.


Well you guess wrong. It's garbage
I really doubt you watched the series as there was character development and backstory for all of our main characters. You seem like a troll looking for clout.

Sorakaa said:
Yemi_Hikari said:


There is a difference between actually copying another series and taking influence instead. Trigun and Cowboy Bebop aren't the only series from which Canon Busters draws inspiration. Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo are other Eastern series, but Boondocks is a Western one.


afro samurai? How are they the same. it wasn't anything alike
As someone who has seen Trigun and Cowboy Bebop a number of times just because the main character has an afro and a gun doesn't make them a copy. Are fans stupid or lazy when they use the word copy? I know what actual copies look like and this ain't one chief.
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afro samurai? How are they the same. it wasn't anything alike
As someone who has seen Trigun and Cowboy Bebop a number of times just because the main character has an afro and a gun doesn't make them a copy. Are fans stupid or lazy when they use the word copy? I know what actual copies look like and this ain't one chief.


I don't know why people don't understand the difference between copying and being influenced by, but some do honestly think those two words are interchangeable. For someone like me who is on the creative side of things - fanfic and fanart under this name - not understanding the difference is problematic as said person doesn't understand that by labeling something as copying they are in effect accusing the artist/writer of plagiarism.

I'd actually purposefully tossed in Afro Samurai knowing full well Afro Samurai is quite popular among African Americans who like Anime because they are able to see themselves in a medium they love and enjoy. This in turn means Afro Samurai would be an influence on the original creator even if the only visible similarity is the fact the main characters have an afro. I don't know if there's anymore similarities due to the fact Afro Samurai is a series I plan on eventually getting around to watching.

This tells me they don't know the difference between the two.

Seriously, if someone held copyright over the character archetype of "main character has an afro and a gun" then that means African American's are only allowed one such character ever. Yes, they use similar tropes, but tropes aren't copyrightable. In fact, it is how each person utilizes these tropes differently that makes the series unique.
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As far as Western comics getting made into anime, there have been a number of anime adaptations I can recall. Obviously, there are the Marvel TV anime (Blade, Iron Man, X-Men, and Wolverine) and movies (Iron Man: Rise of Technovore and Avengers) made by Madhouse earlier in the decade. Others coming to mind:

-Batman: Gotham Knight
-Ninja Batman
-Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
-Witchblade
-Marvel Disc Wars: The Avengers
-Cybersix
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zeus-faber said:
MasterHavik said:
I am gonna guess you didn't watch the show but eh it is your opinion.

Nice two year old account you got there with 43 posts.


Well you guess wrong. It's garbage

This actually makes me want to watch it,if only to see how bad I think it is. Since you know, personal opinions and such.
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As far as Western comics getting made into anime, there have been a number of anime adaptations I can recall. Obviously, there are the Marvel TV anime (Blade, Iron Man, X-Men, and Wolverine) and movies (Iron Man: Rise of Technovore and Avengers) made by Madhouse earlier in the decade. Others coming to mind:

-Batman: Gotham Knight
-Ninja Batman
-Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
-Witchblade
-Marvel Disc Wars: The Avengers
-Cybersix
Would also add the Madhouse Punisher/Black Widow movie which is excellent.
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Anime adaptations of western source materials are fairly common, so I would assume not. There are even anime of The Diary of Anne Frank and Les Misérables.

By the way, anyone who's watched the whole thing can say if it's any good? I have a feeling it's gonna take a while before any reviews are posted.
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like someone else said, copy of Trigun, and cowboy bebop. The first thing I thought of was Trigun when I started watching it.


There is a difference between actually copying another series and taking influence instead. Trigun and Cowboy Bebop aren't the only series from which Canon Busters draws inspiration. Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo are other Eastern series, but Boondocks is a Western one.


Literally plays Homage to Cowboy Bepop as well. In one episode 9ine tells Philly, see you zombie Cowboy.
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Setsuei said:
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Well you guess wrong. It's garbage

This actually makes me want to watch it,if only to see how bad I think it is. Since you know, personal opinions and such.
Setsuei said:
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Well you guess wrong. It's garbage

This actually makes me want to watch it,if only to see how bad I think it is. Since you know, personal opinions and such.

It's not that bad, was actually a decent watch. Don't feed the trolls until you've made an opinion for yourself.
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Anime? This is not anime.
it's an anime. Castlevania ain't anime since was made by a US studio even if it's from a Japanese mind?....your logic is stupid.
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AllMightY said:
Setsuei said:

This actually makes me want to watch it,if only to see how bad I think it is. Since you know, personal opinions and such.
Setsuei said:

This actually makes me want to watch it,if only to see how bad I think it is. Since you know, personal opinions and such.

It's not that bad, was actually a decent watch. Don't feed the trolls until you've made an opinion for yourself.

I don't intend to and they don't need me to feed them. Plenty if people do that already.
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Anime? This is not anime.
it's an anime. Castlevania ain't anime since was made by a US studio even if it's from a Japanese mind?....your logic is stupid.
Neo Yukio is also not an Anime because the only work done in Japan was the Animation whereas with Canon Busters the audio and such are done in Japan. I don't know whose worse, those who insist they know what good Anime is because they're fans of AtLA and think it is an Anime simply because the animation was done in Japan or those who want to nix anything not targeted at a Japanese target audience specifically. That doesn't work with the world wide simulcasts which now happen, or should we say the new Fruit Basket isn't Anime because it wasn't intended just for a Japanese audience on release.
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Yemi_Hikari said:
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it's an anime. Castlevania ain't anime since was made by a US studio even if it's from a Japanese mind?....your logic is stupid.
Neo Yukio is also not an Anime because the only work done in Japan was the Animation whereas with Canon Busters the audio and such are done in Japan. I don't know whose worse, those who insist they know what good Anime is because they're fans of AtLA and think it is an Anime simply because the animation was done in Japan or those who want to nix anything not targeted at a Japanese target audience specifically. That doesn't work with the world wide simulcasts which now happen, or should we say the new Fruit Basket isn't Anime because it wasn't intended just for a Japanese audience on release.


Hi just wanna chime in to correct you on the AtLA thing. Most of the animation was actually done by 3 studios in South Korea: JM Animation, DR Movie, and MOI Animation. In fact a lot of animated shows from America have their animation mostly done in South Korea. The more you know -^_^-
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Neo Yukio is also not an Anime because the only work done in Japan was the Animation whereas with Canon Busters the audio and such are done in Japan. I don't know whose worse, those who insist they know what good Anime is because they're fans of AtLA and think it is an Anime simply because the animation was done in Japan or those who want to nix anything not targeted at a Japanese target audience specifically. That doesn't work with the world wide simulcasts which now happen, or should we say the new Fruit Basket isn't Anime because it wasn't intended just for a Japanese audience on release.


Hi just wanna chime in to correct you on the AtLA thing. Most of the animation was actually done by 3 studios in South Korea: JM Animation, DR Movie, and MOI Animation. In fact a lot of animated shows from America have their animation mostly done in South Korea. The more you know -^_^-


I'm aware of the fact AtLA was done in a South Korean studio as much as I'm aware quite a few shows from America utilize studios from South Korea for the animation. The point was, how can you know what good Anime is if you're not only deciding something is Anime based on where the animation was done, but also don't realize exactly where it is done. They decide based on what they think is "Anime style", yet many times they've only ever been exposed to one specific style of Anime.
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It isn't but it might be the first one to actually being a sequel/remake of the original comic.
Most anime based on comics before this besides radiant didn't bother actually adapting anything from the comics besides characters
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