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5 TOP ANIME FIGURES
ANIME – Today, a lot of people know at least something about the phenomenon called ‘Anime’. Some people would refer to it as ‘Japanese Animation’, while others would say that they are the better cartoons than the American ones. And in fact it is true if you would ask the majority of Anime fans out there.
Anime has been around and blossoming all over the world for a long time. Now, anime I not limited to Manga, Video Games and other media forms, it is expanding online also.
In the early 1990s, Anime approached its fans slowly across the web. A number of sites were launched to display different Anime series with a variety of content. Soon people started searching for their favorite Anime series online very frequently. The fans would search for images and screenshots related to the specific shows they watched and liked.
The fans of Japanese Animation were verily into drawing own Anime pictures. And when the trend got hugely popular, the fans started to submit their Anime fan art online to show off their creativity. And this was only a starting point.
Today, there are many Anime characters that are loved by millions of people worldwide.
And there are Anime action figures manufactured after them and sold in a large number.
It was not possible to talk about all them in this article, so we listed the top 5 Anime Figures –
1. Queen’s Blade – The title does not refer to any single figure, actually this is a series of action figures based on visual combat book series published by ‘Hobby Japan’,
These Anime characters are licensed from ‘Lost Worlds’. It features only female characters. These characters were created by these artists – Hirokazu Hisayuki, Kazuhiro Takamura and Katsuzo Hirata.
Currently, Kaiyodo, a toy manufacturer produces these anime figures.
Characters – Leina/Reina, Airi, Risty/Listy, Nanael, Melona, Irma, Nowa, Tomoe, Echidna, Menace, Elina and more
2. Final Fantasy Anime Figures - Final Fantasy is a media franchise owned by ‘Square Enix’. It centers on a series of science-fantasy console role-playing games and it is also available as anime, motion pictures, printed media and other media forms. In the mid 1980s, it entered the Japanese video game industry with simple racing games, RPGs and plat-formers for Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System.
Characters – Cid, Biggs, Wedge, Chocobos and Moogles
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime Figures – This is a commercially critically successful and also influential Japanese anime began in October 1995. This series has won several major animation awards. It was created by Gainax, written by Hideaki Anno, and co-produced by TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems.
Evangelion is an apocalyptic mecha action series revolving around the efforts of a paramilitary organization ‘Nerv’ fighting monstrous ‘Angels’ using giant mecha ‘Evangelions’. This anime has different forms – TV, Movies and Games.
Characters – Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley Soryu, Shinji Ikari, Toji Suzuhara, Kaworu Nagisa, Gendo Ikari and Misato Katsuragi
4. Ikki Tousen – Ikki Tousen is a lone rider with the strength to withstand a thousand. It is a Manga created by ‘Yuji Shiozaki’ based on ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ the classic Chinese novel. This Anime series features a very large cast of attractive young girls fighting in short skirts that get constantly ripped off and other ecchi situations like numerous rape scenes.
This Anime TV series ran from July 30, 2003 to October 22, 2003. The Manga of this series was released in English by ‘TOKYOPOP’.
Characters – Inabaya, Hajime Iijima, Gakushu, Erica Shaffer, Amy Treadwell, Josh Phillips, Stephanie Sheh, Stephanie Sheh and many more.
5. Death Note – Death Note is a Japanese Manga series Death Note was created by writer ‘Tsugumi Ohba’ and artist ‘Takeshi Obata’. This Anime series revolves around Light Yagami, a student who discovers a supernatural notebook, ‘Death Note’ that is dropped on Earth by a dead God, ‘Ryuk’. The notebook grants its user an ability to kill anyone they see just by writing the name of the person in the notebook. The story focuses on Light’s attempt to fight crime and male clean world using the notebook and the conflicts between him and his opponents. It also involves a mysterious detective known as ‘L’.
This anime is available in these media forms – Manga, Live-action films, Light novels and Video games
Characters – Light Yagami, L, Misa Amane, Near, Mello and Shinigami
The popularity of Anime is growing very fast. It is liked by people of all age groups.
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