The manga/anime connection

"But Plawres Sanshiro have not female wrestling, is only boy with his robot."

This comment was left awhile back, whilst we were talking about the never-produced "Wrestloid Baby". I had put forth the idea that maybe the other shows out in the market place made another show dealing with wrestling dolls unattractive to the Japanese networks. It always made we think about that weird way things work in Japan, at times.

It's true that, in the show based on the manga, Plawres only has the one episode were a female robot is shown taking part in a match (see above) ... vs the boy's male robot; a mixed match, never a female vs female match. Yet in the manga, there is a female robot that the lead characters control that fights both in mixed and F vs F matches.




Named Sakurahime, she plays a smaller roll in the stories, but is there, none-the-less. But, when the show was adapted for TV, she and her female foe (La Llorna) were completely left out.



Yet in other manga, let's take Air Gear as an example, the simple introduction of a character as wrestler is enough to set the animation department to work on an entire episode devoted to her, a match/chapter which never appeared in the manga at all.















Obviously, the time that the series were made, the target audience the producers are aiming for, the writers that move the story along ... all will play a roll in the inclusion/exclusion of content. It does make it hard to figure out what shows to watch, or manga to buy though ... I've gotten a lot of manga over the years on the idea that it would have something to add to my collection, only to find out that I had been misled by the TV show ... OK, fine, there is no wrestling in the Sailor Moon manga ... lesson learned.