His major work in this format is the seven-volume manga version of his tale Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which he created from 1982 to 1994 and which has sold millions of copies worldwide.

A Japanese manga adaptation of the book was published in 1994 by Tokuma Shoten.

The manga was adapted into two anime series in 1994 and an original video animation ( OVA ) in 1997.

* 1994 — In Japan, over 1100 manga and anime artists and fans sign a petition requesting that the Walt Disney company acknowledge that their movie The Lion King was based on characters and situations from Jungle Emperor.

Category: 1994 manga

is a manga created by Ryūsuke Mita and serialized in Monthly Dragon Magazine from 1988 to 1994.

Ancient astronaut theory has been used as background or main topic in many fictional works such as Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), the movie Stargate ( 1994 ), the movie Knowing ( 2009 ), the movie Prometheus ( 2012 ), the TV show Earth: Final Conflict, and innumerable comic books, manga books and video games.

Appearing as a serial in the manga magazine Hana to Yume from 1994 to 2000, the chapters were collected and published in twenty tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha from February 1995 to February 2001.

Category: 1994 manga

A Dr. Slump follow-up manga was written by Takao Koyama, illustrated by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, and serialized in V Jump from 1994 to 1996 under the title.

Four films were produced by Toei Animation from 1994 to 1995 while the manga and TV series were still running.

The DNA² manga was published in Japanese magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump 1993 No. 36 through 1994 No. 29 and consists of 42 chapters collected in 5 tankōbon volumes:

is a Japanese manga series originally penned by Noriyuki Yamahana under the pen name HANAKO, serialized in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine ( 1994 – 2000 ).

( often referred to as " Naoki Urasawa's Monster ") is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original between 1994 and 2001, and reprinted in 18 tankōbon volumes.

Category: 1994 manga

The first two volumes of the manga series were released in 1988, the third in 1994, and the fourth in February 2007.

Category: 1994 manga

The manga, which lasted 175 chapter over 19 tankōbon from 1990 to 1994, went on to sell 49, 000, 000 copies in Japan, earned Togashi a Shogakukan Manga Award in 1994, and received a hit anime adaptation.

" It consists of 20 novels which were first published by Fujimi Shobo under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko label in the Monthly Dragon Magazine between 1994 – 2003, and was the basis for the first anime and manga series.

It is among the earliest sexually explicit manga ( eromanga ) commercially published in the United States where it dates from 1994.

An action video game for the Super Famicom, based on the manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow, was released on August 26, 1994 and was published by Visit.

The series was serialized by Hakusensha in the monthly shōjo ( aimed at teenage girls ) manga magazine Hana to Yume from 1987 to 1994.

A second manga titled ran from 1994 to 1995, but restarted in the seinen magazine Ultra Jump in October 2005, with its sixth tankōbon volume being issued in November 2008.

Saiyuki Reload is faithful to the manga from the fourteenth episode and onward, having deviated from it for the first 13 episodes.

As part of a larger multimedia franchise, the games have inspired a variety of subsequent games, novels, manga, and anime series.

In 2004 Japanese animation studio GONZO announced an anime version of Witchblade, with a subsequent manga adaptation.

Inoue later used basketball as a central theme in two subsequent manga titles: Buzzer Beater and Real.

In 2004 Japanese animation studio GONZO announced an anime version of Witchblade, with a subsequent manga adaptation.

It is also a the name of a subsequent manga series by Kia Asamiya, which is alternatively titled Meteor Schlattschiff Nadesico ( Mobile Battleship Nadesico ).

The original Ring ni Kakero was adapted to anime, 27 years after its manga debut, and as mentioned before, the Saint Seiya anime adaptation was resumed in 2003 and an attempt to start the Zeus Chapter was made with the release of the Saint Seiya Tenkai-Hen Josō ~ Overture ~ movie in 2004, which was planned to continue the story with the subsequent release of OVAs, but due to discrepancies between Kurumada and Toei Animation, the project failed and was abandoned, although Kurumada still plans to publish the Zeus Chapter, written and drawn by him, in manga form in the near future, by 2012, a considerable amount of elements from it have already been revealed by Kurumada in Saint Seiya Next Dimension.

* Lupin III, Japanese manga series by Monkey Punch and the subsequent media franchise

* The manga and subsequent anime Bleach features several magic swords, called zanpakuto (" soul-cutting swords ").

Later anime iterations were based on a subsequent manga in 2003.

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.

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

* In the manga and anime world of BLAME!

* Arcologies are common elements in futuristic anime and manga titles.

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They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga ( see examples cited below ).

* In the manga / anime Gintama, the main character, Gintoki Sakata, wields a bokken as opposed to a katana, as the story takes place in an Edo period of an alternate timeline where a weapons ban has been imposed by imperialistic aliens.

* Ceres, Celestial Legend ( Ayashi no Ceres ), an anime / manga work

* Seras Victoria, a character in the anime / manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is " Ceres "

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.

* Cepheus Daidalos, a fictional character in the manga and anime, Saint Seiya

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.

* 8 Man, a manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by writer Kazumasa Hirai and artist Jiro Kuwata.

* 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.

* In Glass Mask ( episode 29 of the anime and volume 17 of the manga ), Ayumi Himekawa played Carmilla in a stage adaptation of the novella.

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

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

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

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation ( Now owned by TV Asahi ) produced an anime series of Doraemon.

Unlike the anime and manga ( some based on the stories in select volumes ), they are more action-adventure oriented and have more of a shōnen demographic, taking the familiar characters of Doraemon and placing them in a variety of exotic and perilous settings.

Overall, the films have a somewhat darker tone in their stories, unlike the manga and anime.

Doraemon is also mentioned in several anime and manga by other manga artists.