Media Research Failure/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* An [http://www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/15/Opinion/Japanese.Anime.Destroying.American.Society-3032463.shtml?reffeature=recentlycommentedstoriestab article] on the Oregon Daily Emerald criticizing anime for destroying American society says that ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Digimon]]'', and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (which at first is spelled "Yugio", but after that, "sorry, Yu-Gi-Oh!") all began life as trading card games. In reality, while they all have had card games, none of them started out as that. ''Pokémon'' began life as a pair of Game Boy games created by Game Freak (and the card game came to the U.S. just a few months ''after'' the video game was released there), ''Digimon'' was originally a virtual pet (hence "Digimon", or Digital Monsters), and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' started out as a manga written by Kazuki Takahashi.

** And funnily enough, ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' wasn't actually about a card game - it was about gaming in general.

{{quote| "[Ranma] fell into a well where a [[Action Girl|great female warrior]] had drowned. Now, [[Just Add Water|when he gets wet, he gets wild]]! Bad guys learn not to spit when Ranma's around."}}

** An issue of ''[[Game Players Magazine]]'' did something similar when previewing the Ranma SNES game. They said the series was about "a family of fighters where the kids are trained by their parents. The kids become masters and beat up would-be bullies."