Aka anime comic, Cine-Manga (a trademark of Tokyopop), Ani-Manga, visual manga.
In this genre, the artist adapts animation to the comic-book medium by taking actual frames from the cartoon and adding word balloons. Often made obvious by the difference between characters and background.
This seems to be originally an anime/manga thing that has spread to the West. It is not known how closely related to fumetti this phenomenon might be.
Especially funny if the anime was a manga first. Recursive Adaptation here we go!
Apparently this medium experienced a brief boom in the United States circa 1970, when it was known as "Film Novels", "Fotonovels" or "Photostories", but faded when home video became popular because it was marketed as a substitute for being able to watch the actual movie.
See also Comic-Book Adaptation.
For photographic comics that aren't based on anything, see Photo Comic.
Examples:
- Bleach
- Case Closed
- Chobits
- Dragon Ball
- Inuyasha
- Love Hina
- Tenchi Muyo!.
- Pokémon: The Series had one of these adapting Pokémon: The First Movie, and a Nintendo Power book did it for the first six episodes of the original series.
- Captain Harlock: According to one source
, this was the first anime to get one of these.
- Space Battleship Yamato
- Steamboy
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its film adaptation Macross: Do You Remember Love?.
- Mobile Suit Gundam had a lengthy series that covered the movie trilogy.
- Joe Books did a line of them for Disney, as have Tokyo Pop and Random House:
- 101 Dalmatians
- Aladdin
- Alice in Wonderland
- Beauty and the Beast
- Big Hero 6
- Cars
- Cars 3
- Chicken Little
- Cinderella
- Cinderella 3 A Twist In Time
- Coco
- Finding Dory
- Finding Nemo
- Frozen (2013)
- Frozen II
- The Good Dinosaur
- The Incredibles
- Inside Out
- Lady and the Tramp
- The Lion King (1994)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- Meet the Robinsons
- Moana
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Pooh's Heffalump Movie
- Ratatouille
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Tangled
- Toy Story
- WALL•E
- Winnie the Pooh (2011)
- Zootopia
- Happy Feet
- The Lord of the Rings
- Madagascar
- Shrek 2
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
- Darths & Droids
- DM of the Rings
- Richard J. Anobile has adapted a few movies into these:
- Robert and Louise Egan penned a photonovel based on Little Shop of Horrors that included the deleted Meek Shall Inherit montage.
- Joe Books, Tokyo Pop and Random House did more for Disney:
- Star Wars films:
- Battlestar Galactica (1978)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Again, lots of Disney Channel series:
- Drake & Josh
- Malcolm in the Middle
- The Mandalorian
- Richard J. Anobile did one based on Mork & Mindy.
- Power Rangers:
- Sesame Street
- A series of Star Trek "Fotonovels" began in late 1977. Each adapted one episode, beginning with "The City on the Edge of Forever". The run ended after one year and 12 volumes.
- IDW's Star Trek: The Original Series: New Visions uses frames from the series, but tells new stories with them.
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
- All Grown Up!
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Sort of used in The Beano following the new Dennis the Menace (UK) TV series with stock art from the show appearing in the comic sometimes with speech bubbles. Inverted with The Beano video which used excerpts from the comic for its animation and averted with The Beano Superstars adaptations of episodes of the earlier Dennis the Menace (UK) TV series which just used the script from the show with new artwork.
- The Cuphead Show!
- Lots of Disney series:
- ''The Fairly OddParents!
- Family Guy
- Friendship is Dragons is a web Campaign Comic based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
- Invader Zim
- Jackie Chan
- Shows from Disney XD's Marvel Universe have some that readers could consider Recursive Adaptations, since both of those cartoons were already based on comic books.
- My Little Pony (G3)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch
- Star Wars: Clone Wars
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- ''Star Wars: Forces of Destiny
- Star Wars Rebels
- Transformers: Animated had a series of comics made using screenshots of the actual show by IDW Publishing, which managed to adapt the entirety of the first two seasons.
- Totally Spies!
