that's partly cause manga's popular enough over there to get various extras like that.and to save up moneys for later use in the case of filler and anime.
over here,shows based on comics are kinda...i mean,the majority of them is superhero stuff,and there's like uuh,an animated movie or two per year,same for life action ones,maybe a cartoon or two,and that's kinda it.and most of them tend to stick to the originals for the most part.
dunno,i kinda am talking out of my behind here to be 100% honest.
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Well, in the case of filler, manga tends to get an anime adaptation before the manga has actually finished. Once the anime catches up to the manga, their only options are to faff around and draw things out with padding and filler, such as Dragon Ball Z did, or break off contact with the manga and do its own thing, like Fullmetal Alchemist.
The point is, neither is really objectively better than the other. Quality is entirely subjective. But to say that western comics are all clusterf*cks of continuity where nothing ever changes or matters while anime and manga are consistently carefully-constructed plots with a concise beginning, middle, and end is being disingenuous to both.
Even when it contradicts everything else produced by the license holder. That's the point.
edited 22nd Apr '15 3:30:31 PM by TobiasDrake
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My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think there is a legitimate question over what's official when you get to some murky shit.
Like.
As mentioned, I'm a Doctor Who fan.
And. The BBC owns Doctor Who, the TARDIS, and the Time Lords. By default.
But Doctor Who has iconic monsters like Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, and a lot of other monsters and characters and companions and story aspects and things that are owned by the people that created them.
So when Doctor Who was cancelled there were a lot of films and books and things that had characters like Sarah Jane Smith or the Sontarans or whatever that had the permissions of the people who own those concepts but not the BBC-owned Doctor Who stuff.
My experiences with some of that in the 90s/00s are why I really like a lot of the ambiguity and fluidity and nonsensicalness in a lot of serialized storytelling.
...And why I hate fanwank because goddamn.
The worst thing is when fans try to take something that didn't make sense and try to force it into making sense. Like, not as a joke, but to actually get hired by a company just so you can get paid and have your explanations for things that never needed explaining become official shit.
Conversely, I feel like we are morally obligated to take simple, straightforward consistent things that made sense and turn them into an absurdist postmodern and insane mess.
Because it's better that way.
edited 22nd Apr '15 3:52:44 PM by unnoun
What is in continuity and what is official aren't the same thing.
The DBZ movies aren't in continuity. They're official though. The real 'canon' is the manga.
The Superman animated series isn't in continuity. It's official, though. The real 'canon' is whatever series is currently considered to be the mainline 'Superman' series. Action Comics!
It's not very difficult to get.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariSo, anyone else think the real reason Beerus didn't accept S Ko T's offer for food is because of how bad a cook she is? Sure, wanting to fuck Demigra's shit up was part of it but the main reason was definitely how bad a cook she was. Or at least that's now my personal headcanon.
What started out as a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned.I've just been amusing myself by reading stuff from the translations page on Kanzenshuu, and I found this.
God, that would be the best cameo ever.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!![]()
I think that's a pretty fair wish.
I mean, she's been the character for an eternity. A small cameo like that wouldn't hurt.
One Strip! One Strip!.....
PEOPLE WHINE ABOUT STAN LEE CAMEOS?!!!!!!
Why? What's wrong with him having small parts in the universe he helped create? Sure, He hasn't been involved in every single comic that's been a movie (even if he still cameoed) but he's the goddamned Stan Lee! He's earned it.
One Strip! One Strip!

"What is official" is an awful lot murkier for anime/manga than for Western comics, though.
Even if you ignore the doujins, there's the OVAs, the movies, alternate versions, etc. Dragon Ball has tons of movies that can't fit anywhere into the series, filler arcs that don't exist in the manga, and the varying futures of GT, Online/Xenoverse, Battle of Gods, and the original manga ending.
Take, for instance, the character of Garlic Jr. who was introduced in a movie that cannot fit into the canon of the series, then returned for an anime filler arc that didn't happen in the manga but did happen in the anime even though even the anime can't fit the movie into continuity, resulting in a character leading a storyline that may or may not be canon depending on if you prefer anime or manga continuity, despite the fact that the character cannot be canon even to the version of the story where he would be canon.
Other series, such as Tenchi Muyo, are even worse about that.
edited 22nd Apr '15 3:20:21 PM by TobiasDrake
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