[A choking laugh. Rex is still silent in horror as César explains.]
Japanese animation. Cartoons. Manga is Japanese comics. Some of it is for kids, but there's shows for teenagers and adults, too. They tend to have more serious plot lines, and use the freedom of animation to tell stories that'd have impossibly expensive special effects if they were live action.
That being said, there's a whole genre of live action shows with practical effects called Tokusatsu, or Toku for short. But they can only do so much. Usually several fake city blocks get destroyed. And then there's a sub-genre called sentai that involves a team of masked color-coded superheroes that fight monsters or aliens or some other sort of threats with martial arts, giant robots called mechas, and team attacks.
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Japanese animation. Cartoons. Manga is Japanese comics. Some of it is for kids, but there's shows for teenagers and adults, too. They tend to have more serious plot lines, and use the freedom of animation to tell stories that'd have impossibly expensive special effects if they were live action.
That being said, there's a whole genre of live action shows with practical effects called Tokusatsu, or Toku for short. But they can only do so much. Usually several fake city blocks get destroyed. And then there's a sub-genre called sentai that involves a team of masked color-coded superheroes that fight monsters or aliens or some other sort of threats with martial arts, giant robots called mechas, and team attacks.