In 2004, NHK ( Japanese public TV network ) produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, as well as a manga series under the same title released in 2005.

From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

* In the manga and anime series Gunslinger Girl, Henrietta carries an Amati violin case.

* In the anime television series Beyblade, the character Enrique possesses the bit beast Amphilyon, which is based on this creature in design.

* Boomer ( Bubblegum Crisis ), a fictional synthetic life form developed by Katsuhito Stingray in the anime series Bubblegum Crisis

In the world of anime, the MTV spoof series Ultracity 6060 created by Beavis and Butt-head animator Mike Judge has become a hard-to-acquire cult classic among American anime fans.

It has also been portrayed various times in the anime series Negima!

The manga and anime series Fist of The North Star has one of its major fighting style, Nanto Seiken, with the Crux as its symbol.

The Robotech Masters series itself was an English dub of the Japanese anime Super Dimensional Calvary Southern Cross.

In Akira Toriyama's manga and anime series Dragon Ball, a scientist named Dr. Gero created several cyborgs, including villain Cell, sibling cyborgs Android 17 and Android 18, as well as Android 20, who was built from Gero himself.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

is a 1998 Japanese anime series developed by Sunrise.

The anime was adapted into two manga series which were serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Fantasy DX.

The anime series was dubbed in the English language by Animaze, and has been licensed by Bandai Entertainment for releases in North America.

Notable examples of space adventure anime series developed around this period include Sunrise's Outlaw Star and Madhouse's Trigun.

Thus, Cowboy Bebop was not just a normal anime series produced by Sunrise.

The leader of the creative team was director Shinichiro Watanabe, most notable at the time for directing the futuristic adventure anime OVA series Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam.

Unlike many anime titles, viewers weren ’ t expected to have knowledge of Asian culture — character names, signs, and the like were primarily in English to begin with — or have seen any other anime series prior.

Watanabe's main inspiration for Cowboy Bebop was Lupin III, a crime anime series from the late 1970s through the mid -' 80s.

is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.

With the superheroines, shōjo manga saw releases such as Pink Hanamori's Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Reiko Yoshida's Tokyo Mew Mew, And, Naoko Takeuchi's Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, which became internationally popular in both manga and anime formats.

In more recent times it has also been used to refer to fans of the anime character Sailor Moon .. See also: Moonie ( disambiguation ).

* Sailor Venus or Minako Aino, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime / manga Sailor Moon

* Moonie, fan of the anime series Sailor Moon

" Sailor outfits, along with other styles of school uniform, play an undeniably large role in otaku culture as evidenced by the large amount of anime, manga, and dōjinshi featuring characters in uniform, Sailor Moon being one of the most popular examples.

* Darien Shields, fictional character in the anime series Sailor Moon

It was also noted in one issue that he has an interest in Japanese anime and manga as well, with titles such as Sailor Lunar, Dragon Tall 33, Tech Robo, and Tragic Knight Sayearth.

* Sailor Moon: The first arc of the final season of the anime adaptation tells a story heavily based around the tale of the Snow Queen.

When Sailor V was enough of a hit to earn its own anime adaptation, Takeuchi was asked to expand the concept to include more girls, and when she did, she placed Usagi Tsukino as the protagonist, with Minako as a part of the team.

In the anime, Minako is given a slightly different backstory, having spent some of her time as Sailor V in England, where she met a young Interpol officer named Katarina who taught her English and acted as a big sister, and a young man called Alan, with whom she fell in love.

She has a crush on Yaten Kou throughout the Sailor Stars anime storyline, and in one episode the sinister idea of herself as a cat with Yaten gives her a nosebleed — a common symbol of sexual arousal in anime.

In the anime and manga, Minako dreams of being an idol ; in the live-action series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, she actually is one.

Sailor Moon was his introduction to anime and manga fandom.

Collectively, the various Pretty Sammy vehicles spoof the magical girl genre of anime ( particularly Sailor Moon, with the " champion of justice " theme ), using the characters from AIC's popular Tenchi Muyo!

Cheez TV aired a number of Marvel based cartoons such as X-Men, The Marvel Action Hour, The Incredible Hulk ( 1982 series ), and Spider-Man: The Animated Series plus several anime series, including Teknoman, Transformers, Eagle Riders, Medabots and in more recent years Pokémon, Beyblade, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Sonic X, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

Sailor Saturn is featured in the third season of the Sailor Moon anime, Sailor Moon S, and few episodes of the fifth season, Sailor Stars.

In the anime and manga Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars practices pyromancy by searching for visions in a roaring fire.

* In the anime series Cowboy Bebop, Earth has become a backwater wasteland after a horrific accident caused one of the jumpgates that humans used to travel the solar system to explode, destroying part of the Moon and causing the destroyed bits to rain down on the earth.

This practice is also fairly common in certain comics, such as Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon, which makes several product-placement-esque usages of " Pawky ", ( a modification of the name of the Japanese snack " Pocky ", popular among the anime and manga fan community in which the story is set ) or Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, which includes numerous references to the series Codename: Sailor V, which Sailor Moon was spun off of ; the anime makes further use of this meta-referential gag, going so far as having an animator on a Codename: Sailor V feature film be a victim in one episode.

From 1958 to the mid-1960s, Toei continued to release these Disney-like films and eventually also produced two of the most well known anime series, Dragon Ball in 1986 and Sailor Moon in 1992.

* From the anime and manga series Sailor Moon:

In the anime, Usagi and Mamoru don't know each other's shared histories, and don't know that they work together as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask.

Mamoru typically gets very involved in Senshi battles, fighting alongside the Senshi as opposed to his anime rôle of throwing a rose and then letting Sailor Moon deliver the finishing blow.

* For the Sailor Moon anime character, see the Sailor Moon SuperS movie