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After all, it's a reboot of an American TV series made using heavily edited footage of an anime. We Baby Bears is this, in stark contrast to its parent series We Bare Bears. Since it has manga visual design traits and effects like shinier Black Bead Eyes, Wing Ding Eyes, Face Faults and such, not to mention the bears' more chibified designs, it looks very much like a Kodomomuke series. Xiaolin Showdown uses Asian-influenced themes and window-dressing and uses visual gags commonly found in anime. The character designs, however, are distinctly western. When X-Men: The Animated Series was dubbed and localized for Japan, new openings and eyecatches were animated that evoke all sorts of anime-related tropes; Anime Theme Songs, Speed Stripes, even a Beam-O-War between Professor X and Magneto. See for yourself. The short-lived amateur studio White Radish produced two short films in the mid '90s that were
drawn in the anime style: The Apprentice and The Item. Animation — Canada Abby Hatcher, a co-production between Canadian studios Guru Studio and Spin Master Entertainment, is a CGI kid's show but with anime elements, especially with the use of quivering puppy dog eyes and miniature mouths with curved corners, speed lines, and the chibi-styled Fuzzlies. The Nelvana series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs , perhaps as a consequence of being outsourced to APPP, has some strongly animesque elements in its artstyle. Cybersix uses heavy anime elements in its style, due to being a coproduction between the now defunct Canadian studio Network of Animation and Japan's TMS Entertainment.
Light, Ryuk, and L appear in Jump
Super Stars as support characters. Misa, Near, and Mello are added as support characters in Jump Ultimate Stars as well. [99][100] The 2019 video game Jump Force features Light and Ryuk as non-playable characters, playing a key role in the game's story mode. [101] Musical[edit] Main article: Death Note: The Musical In 2015, a musical adaptation of the manga called Death Note: The Musical ran in both Japan and South Korea. It was originally composed in English by Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics by Jack Murphy and book by Ivan Menchell. [102] An English production was announced in May 2023 to play at the London Palladium for two nights on August 21–22, 2023,[103] directed by Nick Winston starring Joaquin Pedro Valdes as Light, Dean John-Wilson as L and Frances Mayli McCann as Misa.
[167][168] In February 2018, it was reported that the live-action series had been sold to Netflix. [169] Reception[edit] Sales[edit] According to Oricon, Sword Art Online was the top selling light novel series of 2012, with eight volumes figuring among the top selling light novels. [170][171] It was ranked first in the 2012 and 2013 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! rankings, as well as top five placement in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and top 10 in 2019. [172][173][174][175][176] It was also the second best selling light novel series in the first half of 2016 in Japan, selling 489,374 copies. [177] Sword Art Online: Progressive sold 321,535 copies in the same time period. [177] By 2017, the series has an estimated 20 million copies in print worldwide. [178] By 2021, the series has 26 million copies in print. [179] The number of sales have reached 30 million in 2022. [180] Critical response[edit] Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku hails Sword Art Online as the smartest series in recent years, praising its deep
insight on the psychological aspects of virtual reality on the human psyche, its sociological views on creating a realistic economy and society in a massively multiplayer online game setting, and the writing staff's ability to juggle a wide variety of genres within the series. [181] Eisenbeis particularly noted how the romance between Kirito and Asuna is explored bringing "definition to exactly what love is like in a virtual world. "[181] However, at the time of this preliminary review, he had only watched the first 12
episodes of the series.