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.

* Absalom is the name of a character in Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece during the Thriller Bark arc.

* Franky ( also known as Cutty Flam ), of the manga One Piece by Eiichirō Oda, rebuilt most of his body with scrap metal after sustaining serious injuries.

* One group of major antagonists in the manga Blame!

* Cross Epoch, a crossover chapter of the Dragon Ball and One Piece manga

* Franky ( One Piece ), cyborg from anime and manga One Piece

One of the most widely published Japanese manga artist, nearly all of his stories have been translated into other languages, including English.

* In the manga and anime One Piece, one of the main protagonists, " Black Leg Sanji ," uses kicking techniques very similar to Savate.

* Oz ( One Piece ), a manga character

In the popular manga One Piece there is a Harpy named Monet.

In the manga series One Piece, the villain of the Fishman Island Arc Vander Decken IX shows erotomania towards the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi.

One of the main characters of Hiro Mashima's manga Fairy Tail, Lucy Heartfilia, takes her name from the song.

* Boa Hancock, a character in the One Piece manga and anime series

* Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the manga One Piece

* Her name is used as the surname of Princess Vivi in the manga series One Piece.

* Maxim, a fictional ship in the manga and anime series One Piece

* Buggy the Clown, an antagonist in the One Piece manga / anime series

* Smoker ( One Piece ), a character from the manga and anime One Piece

* Cipher Pol, a governmental organization from the One Piece manga and anime series

* Franky ( One Piece ), a character in anime and manga series One Piece

One evening, Shuichi is looking over lyrics for a song he was writing when his paper is blown away by the wind and picked up by a tall, blond haired ( light brown in the manga ) stranger.

At the end of the One Year War, Char goes to Axis and his experience there is partly depicted in the manga Char's Deleted Affair, where he heroically protects Axis in two major battles against the Earth Federation.