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Don't be so sure. domokun Me & two friends, once we stop being lazy, have already been developing a beginner-manga to a roleplay we frequent. If a manga gets big enough, the premise is often siezed-up for animes, no? XP

By size, I mean 'effect', how big it has became.. popularity. Lolcopter.

Besides, that's not necessarily true. While surely, every company that takes a manga & ports it into an anime is looking for profit, for potential profit, etc.. really, that doesn't apply to quite a number of anime. Take, Coyote Ragtime Show. I'll be damned if anyone heard of the manga prior to it being converted into the anime that's a good two episodes from being complete in Japan. There are no mass-products. Etc.

Furthermore, it depends on which anime you refer to, when you say, "who will then proceed to rewrite the whole thing their way altering things without regard to the original manga-ka's vision." Take, Hajime no Ippo. Save the obvious differences in certain characters' such as Giro-Michi's apperence and the fact it's.. colored, anime, has music, etc..

You'd be hard-pressed to find very many differences between the manga and the beginning-to-end of the anime. Although, the manga goes on much, much farther than the anime - what of the manga that is covered, is dead accurate on the anime standpoint. One of the few, and I do mean damned few differences I saw, was that Ippo [main character]'s classroom had a different number. And you're bordering the "that's just about it", far as how many changes were made.

Full Metal Alchemist, on the other hand.. the staff behind that did take it in a totally different direction from the manga at a very early point. And I'm glad. They could've either done that, or at the time, waited for the manga whilst putting out.. FMA.. Filler.

The very idea of it frightens the s**t out of me.

However, there are also small OVAs done for practically no profit/merchandicing by numerous anime studios, just for fan-service.

......Totally besides the point, while I don't see Tenkaichi Budoukai becoming a full-fledged anime or manga, I could definetely see it, if Clash comes back & keeps it active, having some artists take cracks at portrayals of characters/battle scenes. And hey, that may lead to bigger things; there's no real telling.

@Psychofish: You're probably right. I've only brought up the idea as a creative thought. Doubtful that anyone would carry it out.

@Typhoon_Omi: Excellent post. Great examples of Hajime no Ippo and Coyote Ragtime Show. You never know what will happen. wink

The simple reply is, of course, obviously this anime would never happen. It would be impossible. The characters would clash, no one would be able to follow with all the characters dying before they could become interesting, and all the episodes that didn't consist of us arguing would be spent listening to Ertai. However, it's fun to dream, because we as roleplayers, are losers dreamers.

The thing about that is that spectating is inherently unsafe. In a tournament where some supermage fills the stadium with lava because he's tired of his crafty opponent avoiding all his stuff (only to discover his opponent's still alive and he's got to do MORE). Watching the fights would be too dangerous and in many cases suicidal.

If Bubba doesn't die soon Torment is going to fill the entire legal area with Lava save for the food court...and he's going to go grab himself a coke.

Saying Dragonball has a massive fanbase is an understatement. There's a reason people love it so much--the internationally-loved manga is probably one of the best examples of series-building you're ever going to find in terms of pacing, middling out, and coming to an end (and then getting zapped back to life for one final stab that did not-half-bad).

Most Americans also dislike Dragonball because they like the pretty--they find classics (which are loved for more than nostalgic value) like Saint Seiya and Lupin III and the original Mobile Suit Gundam uninteresting because they're older or as you put it, "lackluster," when these were series that carried not on visuals but on character. Point of fact, I still enjoy Dragonball to this day--the Son Gokuu vs. Piccolo Majunior fight at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai still stands as one of the most intense comic fights ever done.

Hell, you take something like Captain Tsubasa, that'll never make it out here in the States although everybody else in the world knows about it and loves it--kinda like soccer itself. The US is, from what I've seen, a fickle and uneducated market that prides itself on "variety." Yeah, TokyoPop licensed over a hundred titles last year, but how many of them actually sell again? xp