

I know in American television production there are pilots that are produced,
presumably as a proof of concept, for shows that are never aired. Or,
alternatively, as with Sherlock on BBC, the released first episode wasn't the
originally produced one.

Does something similar happen with anime, or are pilots only produced for
shows that will definitely air?


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Are pilots produced but not released?


The proof of concept for the animes are in the manga (most of the time). Take
_Naruto_ for example, in the pilot version Naruto is the son of the Nine-Tails
Fox and the chief of the village (kind of the third Hokage) says he has the
mission of getting a human friend to not turn evil like his father. It was a
pilot that changed prior the manga to be better.


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I can't think of many examples of pilot episodes for anime.

Not sure if this counts, since it was made to pitch to American TV networks,
but there _was_ a pilot episode produced for an English-language version of
Space Adventure Cobra. It re-used a few shots from the first episode of the
Japanese TV series, but was made up of mostly unique footage, using an
entirely new script that also had some modifications to some of the details of
the plot.


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Not really, since Most anime's are based on popular manga's already published.
Making a pilot in the US is byproduct of creator's who try to push their show
to producers and executives. If the manga is popular, the anime will no doubt
be successful. This is not always the case in the US and Japan. "The Big O"
was a miserable failure in Japan, but in the US was well received.


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