danth Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Anyone know exactly what a Japanese "Film Comic" is? There's an old one for Mospeada I'm thinking of getting. But what is it? Is it stills from the anime put into a book form? Or is it original art? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 A film comic is basically a comic book using footage of the actual anime instead of original artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danth Posted October 7, 2005 Author Share Posted October 7, 2005 A film comic is basically a comic book using footage of the actual anime instead of original artwork. 334845[/snapback] Doh! I should have known. Now I'm not sure if I want them... Thanks for the answer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltane70 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I'd get them just for the fact that they are fairly rare. This is actually the first time I even heard of film comics for Mospeada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanata67 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 (edited) A film comic is basically a comic book using footage of the actual anime instead of original artwork. 334845[/snapback] so basically a book of cells? wasn't the secret of "nymh" or however you spell it like that? Edited October 8, 2005 by kanata67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Don't know about The Secret of Nimh being released in film comic form, but I used to have the Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 film comic published by Viz several years ago. It's missing a lot of scenes, but it sure beats watching the movie compilation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 (edited) They're not just books of cells. They're paneled and have speech balloons like comic books using actual stills. I think Disney does that now, but I never seen the Nimh ones. Here's a Macross one. Edited October 8, 2005 by >EXO< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Payne Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 They're also known here in the US as "Animanga" or "Cinemanga" for live action stuff -- Tokyopop's been releasing a lot of them for the kiddies, using non-anime properties like Spongebob or Lizzie McGuire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noriko Takaya Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Film comics have been around for a long time here in the States. I remember buying a couple of Star Trek related ones when I was kid. By the way, I have 2 of them myself. Care to guess what series they are from? What! You already know! Damn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Payne Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Film comics have been around for a long time here in the States. I remember buying a couple of Star Trek related ones when I was kid. I actually have three of them (Amok Time, Trouble With Tribbles and Devil in the Dark) -- bought them at a library book sale once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 what about those comic dvds? i see those with the anime dvds at the store and i wodnered what they were, is it just the comic on a disc? is there voices or sound? whats the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 what about those comic dvds? i see those with the anime dvds at the store and i wodnered what they were, is it just the comic on a disc? Bingo. whats the point? The point is getting 50 years of back comics in one place cheaply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 the ones ive seen werent old comics, or cheap, they were just 1 comic per disc near as i could tell, and they were weird looking ones that ive never heard of, i think one of em was called ratman yes rat not bat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 the ones ive seen werent old comics, or cheap, they were just 1 comic per disc near as i could tell, and they were weird looking ones that ive never heard of, i think one of em was called ratman yes rat not bat 335205[/snapback] I dunno then. I thought you meant the stuff like the Spiderman collection. http://www.wickedcoolstuff.com/40yeofamspcd.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 (edited) the ones ive seen werent old comics, or cheap, they were just 1 comic per disc near as i could tell, and they were weird looking ones that ive never heard of, i think one of em was called ratman yes rat not bat 335205[/snapback] I dunno then. I thought you meant the stuff like the Spiderman collection. http://www.wickedcoolstuff.com/40yeofamspcd.html 335216[/snapback] those are just scans of the pages, covers and articles within the comic books. Not interactive or anyone reading. There's one for Uncanny X-Men also. The one comic per disk might be interactive. Marvel does those too. Sometimes they have limited flash animation. Edited October 9, 2005 by >EXO< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaku-Smeghead Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 The Dragonball series was the same way all the theatrical DBZ movies in Japan had Film comic-books anime cells with words attached basicly... in book form Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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