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''Omake'' (, usually written ) means ''extra'' in
Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...
. Its primary meaning is general and widespread. It is used as an
anime and manga Anime and manga are forms of mass media produced by the content industry of Japan. The anime and manga industry forms an integral part of Japan's soft power as one of its most prominent cultural exports. Anime is a Japanese cartoon with a sp ...
term to mean "extra or bonus." In the United States, the term is most often used in a narrow sense by anime fans to describe special features on
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releases: deleted
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s, interviews with the
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s, "the making of" documentary clips,
outtake An outtake is a portion of a work (usually a film or music recording) that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work's final, publicly released version. In the digital era, significant outtakes have been appended to CD and D ...
s, amusing bloopers, and so forth. However, this use of the term actually predates the DVD
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by several years. For at least the past fifty years in
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, ''omake'' of small character figurines and toys have been giveaways that come with
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s and
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and sometimes the ''omake'' is more desired than the product being sold. In English, the term is often used with this meaning, although it generally only applies to features included with
anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
, ''
tokusatsu is a Japanese term for live action film or television drama that makes heavy use of practical special effects. ''Tokusatsu'' entertainment mainly refers to science fiction, War film, war, fantasy, or Horror film, horror media featuring such te ...
'', and occasionally
manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...
. It is thus generally limited to use amongst fans of Japanese pop culture (sometimes called
otaku is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in ''Manga Burikko''. may be used as a pejorativ ...
); like many loan words from Japanese, ''omake'' is both the singular and plural form.


Description

''Omake'' often include comedy sketches where the characters behave out of character, break the
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, or subtly address opinions of the fandom known to the writers. Sometimes scenes from the TV show or
OVA , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA s ...
are humorously re-dubbed. One example, included on the ''
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'' DVD, replays scenes from the OVA series with new voice-acting in a rural accent. Other times, the same actors voice a new script that is more sexually suggestive, often ludicrously so. ''Omake'' can also consist of
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, and often comedic crossover clips that sometimes occur at the end of episodes of two shows airing concurrently from the same studio, such as recent
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and
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programs. For anime, these are often presented in
super deformed Chibi, also known as super deformation, or S.D. is a style of caricature originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized heads, and m ...
style, in the same way manga ''omake'' often is. For example, the anime OVA ''
Gunbuster ''Gunbuster'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese OVA anime series produced by Bandai, Victor, and Gainax and released from 1988 to 1989. It was the directorial debut of Hideaki Anno, best known as the creator and director of ''Neon Genesis ...
'' features super deformed characters trying to explain what the writers know to be mostly pseudo-science, or talking about their relationships with each other in a way they do not in the series itself. In the anime series ''
Reborn! ''Reborn!'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Amano. It follows Tsunayoshi Sawada, a young boy who discovers that he is next in line to become boss of the Vongola family, a powerful Mafia organi ...
'', one of the characters named
Haru Miura The characters of the ''Reborn!'' manga and anime series, known in Japan as ''Katekyō Hitman Reborn!'', are created by Akira Amano. Set in a fictional town called Namimori in Heisei, modern Japan, the series' main protagonists are of Japanese d ...
has an interview with each of the characters of the anime in '' chibi'' forms, and the characters' answers to the questions are often something they would never say in the anime or the manga. For live action programs, although not animated, the expressions and sound effects used for comedic purposes can often be inspired by the ''omake'' found in the animated mediums. The term "''omake''" has use also in video games; the
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game ''
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'' for the
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had a hidden folder on the game disc labelled "Omake", found by placing the disc into a computer, containing exclusive wallpapers and conception art. Another example of an ''omake'' in popular culture is related to
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's ''
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''. The secret "Blackjack" minigame after completion of the game is accessed by means of a button combination. The ''Final Fantasy'' "Playonline" site has a secrets section for ''Final Fantasy IX'', which requires passwords given in the official Piggyback guide to enter. The password needed to reveal the button combination for the Blackjack minigame is E-OMAKE. The minigame itself is an ''omake''. In some fiction writing communities based on forum sites, the term "''omake''" refer to derivative stories posted in a story thread, usually by users other than the author of the thread, and as a general rule are non-canonical by default. Members of these communities occasionally refer to having written or posted an omake with the term "''omaked''." ''Omake'' occasionally appears in fanfiction about anime or manga, after the story itself, usually as a humorous "alternative ending". An example of this is that at the end of each episode of ''
Dance in the Vampire Bund is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nozomu Tamaki. The manga was serialized in Media Factory's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Flapper'' between 2005 and 2012, and is licensed for publication in English by Se ...
'' is a 20–30 second ''chibi'' skit called "Dance with the Vampire Maids".


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References

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