Spirited Away ~ manga based on movie

[Winslow]

There is a 5 volume set of Spirited Away manga based on the movie. I bought the first volume a couple of weeks ago and was charmed by it. What a fantastic read. I ordered the 5 volume set from Amazon shortly after reading the first volume I liked it so much.

I found out later the panels were developed from clips form the movie.

What a great idea. Why aren't more anime or other animated features translated into comics?

[Tobei Miyake]

Why aren't more anime or other animated features translated into comics?I guess they're just very selective because there's probably not that huge of a market for things like that. But those Spirited Away ones are nice though, aren't they; I have them in the original Japanese, along with the Region 1 anime and the soundtrack.

CMX is doing an Appleseed (http://dccomics.com/cmx/?action=on_sale&i=3685) "movie book."
(I didn't read the original manga because the art didn't appeal to me, but I enjoyed the anime. And when Geneon releases it I'll get it along with the movie book and the soundtrack. I don't expect the CMX Appleseed movie book to be as good as the ones for Spirited Away though, of course.)

Tokyopop, also, of course, has an entire cine-manga (http://www.tokyopop.com/books/cinemanga.php) line; Akira is included in that... And they're doing a three-volume set for the original three Star Wars (http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/bts/publishing/news20050302.html) films; followed by a three-volume set for the prequel trilogy.

I'm not sure if any of these will be as good as the Spirited Away ones, though.

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A quick aside on the music front: Tokyopop also did a cine-manga (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/5033.html) for Linkin Park's 'Breaking the habit (http://www.mtv.com/music/video/index.jhtml?_lpvid=31503)' music video; I have that, and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002IQM2K/104-5619545-5958354?v=glance) has it...

[Winslow]

Ah . . . cine-manga . . . that's the concept I was wondeirng about.

Thanks for the reply. I'm checking out the links.

And yeah - Spirited Way is delightful and very well done.

[Infinity Chameleon]

There's a six or seven-chapter manga based on the first Naruto movie.

I have no idea if it's any good or not, because I've never read it, but it is out there.