{"id":1023,"date":"2005-01-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/24\/ask-john-how-many-anime-within-an-anime-are-there\/"},"modified":"2005-01-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-how-many-anime-within-an-anime-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-how-many-anime-within-an-anime-are-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: How Many Anime Within an Anime Are There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nAre there any other features which could be described as containing &#8220;an anime within an anime&#8221; &#8211; based on recollection, the only one I know of is Martian Successor Nadesico and Gekiganger 3?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Gekiganger-3 anime series invented for Martian Successor Nadesico is probably the best known &#8220;anime within an anime,&#8221; Beside the brief clips of the show seen in the Nadesico television series, there was a &#8220;Nekketsu Robo Gekiganger-3&#8221; OAV released in 1998 which served as a partial transition between the end of the Nadesico television series and the Nadesico movie. While the Gekiganger-3 OAV story took place within the Nadesico continuity, the self-contained episode, about Akito, Yurika and Ruri going to a theater to see the Gekiganger-3 movie, was mostly original Gekiganger-3 animation.<\/p>\n<p>But Gekiganger-3 is not the only &#8220;anime within an anime.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure there are examples that I&#8217;m not familiar with, or have temporarily forgotten, but a few other examples include the Magical Girl Yongo-chan anime television series that Kazuto Iizuka of World of Narue loves; the fantasy anime created in Golden Boy OAV 6; the Kujibiki Unbalance anime TV series that the characters of Genshiken adore; and the Time Journeys and Louis Monde anime in the Animation Runner Kuromi OAV series.<\/p>\n<p>While Nadesico spun off a single Gekiganger OAV, the Genshiken anime TV series has gone one step farther by creating three full length episodes of Kujibiki Unbalance. &#8220;Kujian&#8221; episodes 1, 25 &amp; 26 will be released as bonus OAVs with each of the three Japanese Genshiken TV series limited edition DVD volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Are there any other features which could be described as containing &#8220;an anime within an anime&#8221; &#8211; based on recollection, the only one I know of is Martian Successor Nadesico and Gekiganger 3?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}