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Why Beyblade Manga Rocks

When anime and beyblade manga made its debut in America, it was typically considered a quirky Japanese style of cartoon made for children.  A little later, when manga and anime galvanized characters like the Mario brothers began to control the computer game market, folk started to take more notice.  Many of the first generation of American and western european game players became charmed by the style of art in their games and wanted more.  Who could blame them?  Just look at beyblade manga.

Lots of the most popular Nintendo games in history have their origins in manga and anime.  Aside from the most noted P and PG rated games like Mario, Pokemon and Digimon, lots of the M and R rated games, too, have their sources in Japanese cartoon art, animated or otherwise.  Still other Japanese games such as the captive of Zelda, began as games and then were made into manga and anime.  Nonetheless, the style of the originals were in most situations clearly related to manga, beyblade manga and anime.

This has seemingly small to do with how anime has had an impact on the american film industry till you glance at the dates when these Playstation games were released in the U.S.  And notice that many of our best Hollywood directors were preteen and teen boys when these games came out.  Their first introduction to M and R rated anime would have been through these computer games and would naturally have led straight to an interest in what else beyblade manga offered.

Just as the sixties produced a number of French provoked Hollywood productions, the end of the twentieth century and the 1st decade of the twenty-first century have seen Japanese anime-inspired films.

The ghost in the Shell is one of the most highly commended anime productions of all time.  Years back, director James Cameron called it the most literary and artistic adult toon in history.  His contemporary production, Avatar, recently became one of the highest grossing film in history.  The influence of Cameron’s exposure to the great anime features like spook in the Shell and beyblade manga is apparent throughout the movie.

The Matrix, another ticket office hit, also owes a massive debt to ghost in the Shell.  When the unknown directorial team, the Wachowski siblings, gave their pitch to producer Joel Silver, they asked him to watch the anime and told him that was what they wanted to create on the screen.  The Matrix trilogy went on to become not just a box office success, but keeps a big cult following to this day.

Another of the most well-known directors of the previous two decades is Quentin Tarantino, who harked back to manga and anime in his Kill Bill films.  Tarantino is an avid anime fan and there are substantiated rumors that he plans to make anime prequels to Kill Bill in the future.

The list doesn’t stop there, either.  Beyblade manga and anime have caught the imagination of Hollywood giants and audiences alike and doubtless we will be seeing much more of it in the future.