![]() ![]() Ultra Maniac started out with a one-off OVA pilot before getting picked up for a full 26-episode series.The Tamagotchi anime series started out as two movies, Tamagotchi The Movie in 2007, and Happiest Story On Earth in 2008.Sanrio even planned on making a third Unico movie before "Sanrio Animation" was shut down in the mid-1980s due to bankruptcy. However, Sanrio and Mushi Productions decided to save some ideas from the animated series as a series of movies released in the early 1980s ( The Fantastic Adventures of Unico in 1981, and Unico in the Island of Magic in 1983). The film was planned as a potential anime series but for unknown reasons, Japanese executives quickly rejected it. The 1979 short movie Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather by Sanrio Animation and Osamu Tezuka, was Unico's animation debut.It was released on home video in the UK and (barring a release of the first two episodes) was pretty much the only Robotech Brits got to see until The '90s. Robotech had a pilot movie entitled Codename: Robotech, basically an extended edition of the Clip Show episode "Gloval's Report" taking bits from the first part of the Macross Saga.Similarly, One Piece had the pilot OVA Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack.Kimagure Orange Road's pilot was a TV special loosely based on one of the chapters in the manga.The eventual Mazinger Z spinoff UFO Robo Grendizer started off as a 30-minute movie named Uchu Enban Daisenso.Because their initial dub had so much footage cut out from the actual movie, they had to copy/paste five minutes of footage from episode 2 to fill in for the lost time. ![]() Funimation used Curse of the Blood Rubies as the pilot to sell the series. The first series had a pilot movie for the American run.It was eventually dubbed as part one of Digimon: The Movie, and it was arguably the part that fared the best in translation. Digimon Adventure has a short anime movie, unusually released a week before the series itself it was set four years earlier and starred a younger Taichi and Hikari, and its events are later stated to be the reason why the eight heroes are The Chosen Ones. ![]()
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