Berserk Manga
Why Berserk Manga Rocks
When anime and berserk manga made its debut in America, it was often considered a quirky Japanese style of cartoon made for kids. A little later, when manga and anime galvanized characters like the Mario bros started to control the computer game market, folk started to take more notice. Many of the first generation of American and EU gameplayers became captivated by the style of art in their games and wanted more. Who could blame them? Just look at berserk manga.
Plenty of the most popular Playstation games ever have their origins in manga and anime. Apart from the most famed P and PG rated games like Mario, Pokemon and Digimon, plenty of the M and R rated games, too, have their sources in Japanese cartoon art, animated or otherwise. Still other Japanese games like the captive of Zelda, started as games and then were made into manga and anime. However, the style of the originals were in most cases obviously related to manga, berserk manga and anime.
The best anime sites “style” has spilled out into our culture in forms that are far removed from a simple drawing style.
This has seemingly little to do with how anime has had an impact on the North American film industry till you look at the dates when these Nintendo games were released in the U.S. And realize that many of our greatest Hollywood directors were preteen and teen boys when these games came out. Their first intro to M and R rated anime would be through these Playstation games and would naturally have led straight to an interest in what else berserk manga had to offer.
Just as the sixties produced a number of French impressed 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 ever. Years back, director James Cameron called it the single most literary and creative adult toon in history. His fresh production, Avatar, recently became one of the highest grossing film in history. The influence of Cameron’s exposure to the great anime features like ghost in the Shell and berserk manga is apparent throughout the movie.
The Matrix, another box office hit, also owes a huge debt to ghost in the Shell. When the unknown directorial team, the Wachowski bros, gave their pitch to producer Joel Silver, they asked him to look at the anime and told him that was what they wished to create on the screen. The Matrix trilogy went on to become not just a box office success, but keeps a massive cult following to this day.
Another of the most well known directors of the past two decades is Quentin Tarantino, who paid homage to manga and anime in his Kill Bill films. Tarantino is an eager 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. Berserk manga and anime have captured the imagination of Hollywood giants and audiences alike and no doubt we will be seeing much more of it in the future.