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Keroro Gunso: Manga vs. Anime

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Keroro Gunso: Manga vs. Anime

Postby Tybre » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:51 pm

For those of you who don't speak Japanese, Keroro Gunso = Sgt. Frog. Sgt. Frog happens to be one of my favorite mangas, for the sheer fact that it has one genre - comedy. You see, most manga (like Naruto and Bleach) have the drama genre with things such as action and comedy listed as sub genres. But Sgt. Frog is purely comedy, through and through.

Here are the key differences:

The transfer from manga to anime is somewhat uneven, as some episodes strongly resemble the manga while others only borrow the basic story or even use it only as a starting point.

* Because of the time diffrence between the Manga's start and the Anime's Start, Angol Moa's backstory is modified somewhat. Everything up to the point of Mois telling Nostradamus about her destroying the earth but ended up being five years too late (2004 instead of 1999).
* Because Giroro, Kururu, and especially Dororo are introduced in the anime much earlier than in the manga, several storylines not featuring them at all were modified to include them.
* Whereas the manga is somewhat oriented towards teens, the anime is toned down to a level acceptable for children. For example, in the manga, when Natsumi is wearing Aki's bikini and reverts from an adult, her bikini does not, to her great embarrassment. In the anime, her bikini shrinks with her.
* Perhaps the most subtle difference is that in the manga, Earth is referred to as "Pokopen", whereas in the anime, it is "Pekopon". "Pokopen" is a derogatory word Japanese used to describe China during the Sino-Japanese Wars, and has since been banned from TV programs by the mass communications authority in Japan.
* Mutsumi (623) still has his radio show in the anime, but he is a student in Natsumi's class instead of a high school dropout, and his last name is Saburô (326) rather than Hojo.
* In the manga chapter LXXVI, Keroro plays a Game Boy Advance SP on Fuyuki's bed, while in the anime Keroro plays a Nintendo DS.
* Dororo has a trauma meter in the anime that appears frequently while in the manga there isn't one.
* In the anime Sumomo is a hit intergalactic popstar who appears in several episodes, while in the manga she is a female Keronian who appears in a bonus issue.
* Due to the anime being much farther ahead than the manga several episodes have been added, that are not in the manga. Sevral manga-based plots have had to been altered greatly to allow for these changes.

MANGA KERORO GUNSO ALL THE WAY!
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Postby Hairball178 » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:43 am

I've caught a few clips of the anime on youtube, but I've been addicted to this series since I bought the first manga.

I've heard the anime should be coming to the states any time now, but after reading the manga for years I already have my own voices picked out for them and I know that the US will more than likely use crappy voice actors.
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