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are a variant of Japanese manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 which are available in manga style books and digitally as e-book
E-book

An e-book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated computer hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices....
s, occasionally called e-manga. Films comics are known by other names, when referring only to anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 adaptions they can be called Fanbooks or . Films comics are not restricted to anime and may be adapted from other countries' television and film and translated into the Japanese language
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
, an example being Disney films, and may even be based on live-action productions.

Typically manga are adapted into anime but instead Anime comics are literature adapted from an anime.






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are a variant of Japanese manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 which are available in manga style books and digitally as e-book
E-book

An e-book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated computer hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices....
s, occasionally called e-manga. Films comics are known by other names, when referring only to anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 adaptions they can be called Fanbooks or . Films comics are not restricted to anime and may be adapted from other countries' television and film and translated into the Japanese language
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
, an example being Disney films, and may even be based on live-action productions.

Typically manga are adapted into anime but instead Anime comics are literature adapted from an anime. Anime comics use anime cel
Cel

A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn traditional animation. Celluloid was used for animation and film production up until the late 20th century, however, it burned easily and suffered from spontaneous decomposition, and was largely replaced by cellulose acetate p...
s as manga frames and narrate directly from the anime story rather than the manga that it was originally based on.

Films comics are cheap to produce and use simpler language than manga. Younger readers and anime enthusiasts are the target demographic for films comics. Although films comics are an alternative to manga, readers may progress into purchasing manga later while using films comics as a gateway drug
Gateway drug

The gateway drug theory is the hypothesis that the habitual use of less deleterious drugs may lead to a a future risk of using more dangerous hard drugs and crime....
 from an anime to manga transition.

Companies such as Tokyopop
Tokyopop

Tokyopop, stylized TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, and Original English-language manga in English language, German language, and Japanese language....
 and Viz
VIZ Media

Viz Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, California, California, United States, is an anime, manga and Japanese entertainment company founded in 1986 as Viz, LLC....
 release films comics but refer to them as Cine-manga and Ani-manga respectively. These western companies also release films comics for young readers. Films comics are well received in English speaking countries; some titles sell more than 500,000 copies.