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Are [The Wolverine](http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wolverine) movie (now
on theaters) and the [2011 Wolverine anime
series](http://wolverineanime.wikia.com/wiki/Wolverineanime_Wiki) based on the
same plot?  
From the trailers I can tell they definitely look similar.


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Are the storylines from The Wolverine movie and anime the same?


No, they're different. The settings and some of the characters are the same
but the overall plot isn't.

The Marvel animated series Wolverine was based on the 1982 Chris Claremont and
Frank Miller graphic novel of the same name. Both the anime and movie have
characters " _Mariko_ ", " _Shingen_ ", " _Yukio_ ". Both also have Mariko in
an arranged marriage, but only in the anime is where Mariko is Logan's
girlfriend. There's also this giant samurai automaton in both the movie and
anime.

The beginning of the anime has Logan and Mariko both in New York City where
she's kidnapped. Whereas the movie has him in the woods following the events
of " **X-Men: Last Stand** ". It seems there's a lot of mutants in the anime
that aren't in the movie, in particular, Kikyo, a mutant who can extend a
sword out of his wrists, similar to Logan and Omega Red, a Russian biomedical
experiment.

I've never read the original graphic novels, but according to [this blog
post](http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/20110923/is-wolverine-anime-truer-to-
the-comic-than-the-movies/), the anime is more faithful to the original novels
than the movie series.


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