Anime video downloads for Japanese cartoons like naruto, Evangelion, Sailor Moon, Doraemon are much sought after by manga and cartoon fans. While these are normally screened in Japan over TV, the teens and even young adults around the world are getting fascinated with these anime series. Since they are not able to watch them via TV broadcasts, they are buying up anime VCDs and DVDs. With anime video downloads made available nowadays either for free or for a fee, here is a quick discussion on both free and paid options.
Free Services to Download Anime Videos
Fans have been downloading free videos for a while now at P2P networks. It is not totally problem free of course. Users have complained about the videos being incomplete with scenes cut and viruses, spyware and adware are often downloaded together with the video files. The performance of their PCs goes down as a result.
On top of P2P networks, you can also find anime videos at fan sites. They are not exactly free as we would soon realize. Similar to peer-to-peer, your videos may have missing or skipped episodes. Tell me which fan likes to watch an incomplete cartoon series where all the major scenes like showdowns are taken away. Fansub sites are also prone to the same problems at P2P when downloading anime videos.
Anime Video Downloads Membership Services
Registered members can now download not only anime videos but movies also at membership services. We are talking about dozens of DVD quality videos you can have access to. Transfer them to a DVD or CD and you can play it on both your PC and TV. Typically, such services do not cost more than $39.99 and it is a one off deal to download unlimited anime movies and videos. There are no bandwidth restrictions at all.
Like what we mentioned earlier, you can download anime videos and movies in full complete series and seasons. Even movies adapted from manga and anime like Death Note are available to members. No wonder it has gotten cartoon enthusiasts all over the world getting excited.
You can start to watch Death Note, or catch Bleach in a momentâs time when you download the full length DVD quality anime video downloads at my video blog.
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Please don’t let yourself be irritated from the quotation marks. It’s the german version. 
Too lazy to search and change them.
Okay, here’s my problem:
Whenever I find an anime I’m interested in to watch, I end up not watching them most of the time. This has one particular reason: Whether the respective anime only is a manga adaption or not. Because if that is the case, I can never decide what I should do. Should I read the manga? Or should I watch the anime?
I’d rather go with the anime. Just because it looks better, and I like japanese.
But knowing that an original manga exists previous to the anime, I always get the feeling I’m missing something out if I were to watch the anime instead of the manga. That is, since in most cases, the anime misses lots of things or changes the plot completely. I cannot watch an anime knowing that the plot is different. Unfortunately even, the plot goes in a worse direction and many people say that the manga is to be preferred. (Or maybe the plot is better sometimes?)
This makes me go with the manga then. However, I either already know a lot of the plot and just jumping into the un-animated version of the series seems utterly wrong to me.
Or, and that’s the the biggest problem, the style of the original manga is so different from the anime that I cannot adjust to the new one.
Which makes me to stop the manga and anime completely.
I’m really demanding on that point sadly. If the manga looks „bad“, no way I’ll read it. This made me almost stop reading Bitter Virgin. If I had done that, I could never forgive me I guess.
If the manga looks good though, I stick with it most of the time, since I know that many animes have fillers or, as I mentioned hundreds of times already, a different story. That’s to be applied for series like naruto or One Piece in my case.
„Great Teacher Onizuka“ emphasized my problem. It’s already some time ago that I watched it. I started watching the anime, and really enjoyed it the first time. Then however, I felt that the whole series was getting a little boring. Incidentally, I read somewhere that GTO originally was a manga and that the anime’s plot not only turns out to be different from the manga but that it is also worse if you believe the common opinion. Now that made me stop watching the anime. But the manga wasn’t after my liking at all. It kinda misses the charm of the anime. >_<
Going back watching the anime isn’t anymore, since I’ve heard that it should be turning out rather badly in comparison to its predecessor.
Now you may say: „I don’t get it, just read the manga as a whole and then watch the anime as a whole, dimwit!“
But sorry, I can’t do that. I simply can’t. After having read the manga, or watched the anime I know the whole plot already. It’s just no fun to read something which’s outcome you already have seen previously. 
Aside from that, I don’t have the time to do everything twice. I cannot start reading the anime, seeing that I don’t really like it, and then take a look at the anime, no time for that, no sir.
Take Fullmetal Alchemist as a recent example: Should I watch it? Should I read it? I already informed myself on wikipedia and if I’m right, the anime also turns out to be different from its original story. Now should I go with the manga, or still watch the anime? As I said, I’m sure I would stick with the anime from its „appearance“, as I already looked a bit into the manga but if the plot is different …
I hope after reading this outlining my situation, you get an idea of the problem. It is really hard for me to always decide with what I should be going, really.
It might have been a little complicated read, it’s hard to gather the thoughts but the basic issue I have is this: Do I watch or read a series I’m interested in?
So what do you do? How do you decide? You just watch the anime and don’t care about the manga for a single second? (This being an anime forum mainly, I guess that’s the way it is for most of you)
Or vice versa? Or you read and watch both? Or you do a little research to find out which one’s better? The problem there is though, that’s its really hard to find that out without getting spoilered. That’s why I don’t actually like to inform myself about the series I plan on watching, to begin with.
And what’s your opinion about it? Do you generally prefer the anime version or the manga version of a series you like? Continue reading »
I like a lot of different kinds of anime, but I’m really a fan of more serious stuff. It doesn’t have to be super serious and don’t cross it out just because it has some silly moments.
Stuff I liked manga and anime wise was: Monster, Vagabond, Gantz, Oldboy, Initial D, Neon Genesis Evangelion, HunterXHunter, Liar Game, Veritas, Bakuman, Slam Dunk, Ichigo 100%, and a bunch of others. This was just to give you the idea of what I like.
I’m really looking for something more on the seinen side, but if it’s a pretty good shounen, I’ll check that out, too.
The most recent anime I’ve watched is Eden of the East, and it seems pretty good so far. Continue reading »
After reading some articles, and gathering some info, I’ve concluded that in the Japan, the origin of manga and anime, the otaku (manga/anime fan) are met with incredible disdain worse than what befalls the occasional Trekker or SciFi nut here in the US. Heck the very words to describe fans are derogative in itself. I know that some otaku are known to be serial killers, but also I want to know if otaku being social outcasts is not just a result of the reclusive lifestyle, but also because society looks down at them.
Can anyone from Japan or who came from Japan shed some truth into this issue?
Pretty much, yeah.
I remember some Japanese transfer students came to my school and read manga in secret. I told them "just join the Otaku Club, they have plenty of manga!!" and they spazzed out and said "NOO I'm not an otaku!! How dare you!! D:"
One girl said people (in their old school in Japan) will make fun of otakus and basically, they'll be miserable in school.
so to this day they still read manga in secret. >.<
***they weren't fat w/ glasses like the "image of an otaku" that pops up when someone says otaku. They were normal people.
and they were trying to stay that way. i guess you can call it a major insult because most otakus are obsessed with manga and anime. and by obsessed i mean IN LOVE.
and well, i went to school in Japan and the guy next to me (he was not nerdy, ugly, or fat. just NORMAL) pulled out a notebook that had this anime charachter on it and the gangster guys started making fun of him. He spazzed too and kept insisting it was his little sister's.
^—-don't worry he didn't get pulverized. I yelled at those gangsters in english and they didn't know what the heck i was saying. 
i am a manga and anime fan but i don't know what to watch. i have watched or am watching these:
azumanga
fruits basket
kanon
naruto
ghost in the shell
mahoromatic
ultimate girls
guyver
so really i like loads of genres
i've also watched i"s
I recommend
Hellsing
Hellsing OVA
Tenchi Muyo
GunGrave
Full Metal Alchemist
Ah!My Goddess
Cowboy Bebop
Ninja Scroll
D.N. Angel
I want to learn how to draw manga and anime on the computer. I dont know how to draw at all, so where could I find good tutorials?
http://www.mangarevolution.com/
http://www.mangatutorials.com/
http://www.polykarbon.com/
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/
http://www.mangapunk.com/tutorials/
http://www.bakaneko.com/
These sites are great to start off…
The following are some of the steps I think is the way to start out (copy and pasted from one of my past answers to a similar question)…
1. Try it yourself: find an anime/manga/cartoon that you enjoy and try drawing it…
Be sure to choose an author/artist/cartoonist that uses a style that you are comfortable with (start out with a simple anime/manga/cartoon that doesn't have much inking or complications).
2. Learn some techniques: look at the websites fellow answerers (and I) have given you; try to learn some new techniques…
I personally have a special way I like to draw, but it never hurts to learn new methods.
3. Practice the basics: try drawing a simple human (animals are kind of hard depending what style you are using) without posing…
Do not try to do your favorite anime character just yet.
4. Piece it together: try drawing you favorite animated characters… Use some of the new techniques you've learned or just keep trying the author/artist/cartoonist's style.
5. Practice: I don't have to say much more here…
After you have it all figured out, add color, backgrounds, additional characters, and much more!
The best part is discovering your own style.
Good luck and I hope I've helped!
^_~
A book I find is the best so far if you want to get serious about drawing manga:
“Draw your own Manga”
by Haruno Nagatomo
Also recommended by Tokyo Animation College
When a manga series gets picked up as a anime, the anime invariably "catches up" to the manga, often forcing the anime to create original filler material to buy time for the manga artist to write more material. Often times, this filler material is inferior to the original story (see Bleach, naruto, Dragonball Z, the list goes on). So why does it take a comic book longer to produce than an animated cartoon?
I can't agree with all these people saying anime catches up faster because it has more people working on it. That's just stupid. Using that logic, shows like Naruto and Bleach will never catch up to the manga, because both the manga and anime release one chapter and episode per week, respectively.
In anime, you need more people to work on it because there's MORE that goes on. For one, there's color. There's voice acting. There's the synchronization between the voices and illustrations. Yes, it helps to have more than three or four artists working on an episode (most mangakas usually draw by themselves or have a small team that draws backgrounds, etc.), but anime episodes also require a LOT more than ~20 pages of drawings.
Anime catches up to manga because the anime isn't doing one chapter of manga per anime episode. A ~20 minute episode will cover at least two chapters of the manga, usually more. If both the manga and anime release one chapter and episode per week respectively (which is the norm), then do the math. Of course the anime will catch up to the manga.
Easiest example would be to have the manga's chapters be y=x+100 (the manga is one hundred chapters in, and releases one chapter a week), and the anime's episodes be y=3x (anime episode covers three episodes a week.) Set them equal to each other, and the anime catches up to the manga in 50 weeks.
I heard there's two different types of the inuyasha books, manga and anime; there is also a tv series. Do they all follow the same story line, what is the difference? Also, how many books are there? Is the tv series really finished? As much information would be super helpful.
Yea! Its called Inuyasha Ani-manga
Its like a manga, but only in the style.
The pictures are in color and they are taken from the Tv show!
Its very cool, I am up to vol 28.
They look like this.
http://www.emerchandise.com/images/p/VSL/pzGNVSL0034.jpg
Its like, reading the show lol Because they are EXACTLY the same, words and animation.
I dont know how many there are yet, but the highest i've seen is vol 34, also sadly the series did end, at episode 167.
But the books have 3 episodes each in them, and they are 11-13 dollars.
I have seen all the episodes of Naruto up until it slows down after Sasuke leaves and joins the forces of evil…. I am told that I should just skip all the rest and move to Shippuuden. What does that mean? Can I get a run down please?
Ok this can get kind of confusing so bear with me :p
Shippuuden means "Hurricane Chronicles".
naruto Shippuuden takes place after episode 135 of the anime. After 135 it's all FILLER'S and you will not be missing anything if you miss those episodes.
In Naruto Shippuuden, the character's are all 3 years older.
But trust me, it takes place exactly where the manga and anime left off!
So skip to shippuuden unless you enjoy watching crappy fillers o.o
Hope I helped ^_^
EDIT: No, it is not crucial that you watch ALL of Naruto. It's called a "Filler" arc for a reason!
Ive watched most of the fillers. Don't need to know about them, considering they have NOTHING to do with the actual plotline of the story!
EDIT AGAIN:
Once again, filler's are NOTHING. AllyAngels is wrong. Most of the time they are NOT funny. And if the creater of the anime and manga didn't explain "character bonding" or the "pasts of some unimportant people" it's obviously because he hadn't intended to! You won't learn anything. And they are really NOT funny. Besides, DON'T watch Naruto Shippuuden english dubbed/wait for it to come out. Because they will censor out EVERYTHING and it will suck.
Hope I helped!
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