Screen & Page usually looks at remarkable anime that has made the transition to the manga page,but this week we're making another exception, this time for a North American animation that also made the jump to manga, and spacious Hero 6.
spacious Hero 6 is not an anime,and the presence of Japanese characters or an anime-derived aesthetic certainly doesn't gain it an anime. But it is the highest-profile Disney animated film to glean a manga adaptation, and the first to glean its own promotional manga ahead of release. Plus, or the title's journey from page to screen to page again --- a journey that never would have happened without the 1990s anime boom --- is fascinating.
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Source: comicsalliance.com