Manga and Anime Project | Проект Манга и Аниме

Manga magazines usually have many series publishing concurrently with approximately 20-40 pages allocated to each series per issue. These comics manga books, or "anthology magazines", are also known as "phone books".

Films, which are generally released in theaters, represent the highest budgets and generally the highest video quality of anime. Some anime movies are only released at film or animation or cartoon comics festivals and are shorter and sometimes lower in production values.

Manga magazines also contain one-shot comics and various four-panel yonkoma. Manga series can run for many years if they are successful. Manga artists sometimes start out with a few "one-shot" manga projects just to try to get their name out.

Other types of anime films include compilation movies, which are television episodes edited together and presented in theaters for various reasons, and are hence a concentrated form of a television serial. These may, however, be longer than the average anime movie.

When a cartoon series has been running for a while, the stories are usually collected together and printed in dedicated book-sized volumes, called tankobon. These are the equivalent of American comic's trade paperbacks. These volumes use higher-quality paper, and are very useful.

Television series anime is syndicated and broadcast on television on a regular schedule. Television series are generally low quality compared to OVA (Original Video Animation), because the production budget is spread out over many episodes rather than a single film or a short series.

Recently, manga "deluxe" versions have also been printed as readers have gotten older and the need for something special grew. Old manga have also been reprinted using somewhat lesser quality paper and sold for 100 yen (one US Dollar) each to compete with the used book market.

Most episodes are about 23 minutes in length, to fill a typical thirty-minute time slot with added commercials. One full season is 26 episodes, and many titles run half seasons, or 13 episodes. "Eyecatch" scenes are often found in TV series anime and are generally similar throughout the series.

Manga are primarily classified by the age and gender of the target audience. In particular, books and magazines sold to boys (shonen) and girls (shojo) have distinctive published cover art and are placed on different shelves in most bookstores.

OVA (Original Video Animation; sometimes OAV, or Original Animated Video) anime is often similar to a television miniseries. OVAs are typically two to twenty episodes in length; one-shots are particularly short, usually less than film-length. They are most commonly released directly to video.

Traditionally, japan manga are written from right to left. Some books publishers of translated manga keep that format, but some switch the direction to left to right, so as not to confuse Western readers.

It is very common for one title to spawn several different releases. A title that starts as a popular television series might then have a movie produced at a later date. A good movies example is Tenchi Muyo!.