The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert back to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue.

The first Digimon anime introduces the Digimon life cycle: They age in a similar fashion to real organisms, but do not die under normal circumstances because they are made of reconfigurable data.

The Digimon series has a large number of video games which usually have their own independent storylines with a few sometimes tying into the stories of the anime series or manga series.

In another anime series, Digimon, there is parallel universe called " digital world ".

* Digimon Sovereigns, fictional creatures from the anime series Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Tamers

The idea of an animal companion composed of technology rather than flesh has also inspired several works of fiction, such as the anime based loosely on the " Digimon " virtual pets ( itself a contraction of " Digital Monster ").

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.

In the Digimon Adventure anime, one of the main villains, Etemon has the character of an Elvis impersonator.

* In the 13th episode of the first season of the anime Digimon Adventure ( エンジェモン覚醒 !, " Angemon's Awakening!

" Takaishi, a character from Digimon anime

* Yamato " Matt " Ishida, a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02

* Willis ( Digimon ), in the anime series

He has also written a number of episodes for the animated TV show Digimon: Digital Monsters, has appeared on the game show Jeopardy !, and has written and provided voices for the English dubbed versions of several Japanese anime works.

For example, it is an idiosyncrasy of team leader characters in the Digimon anime to wear goggles.

* An episode of the anime Digimon Frontier, entitled " The Great Trailmon Race " ( a homage to Wacky Races ), a ShadowWereGarurumon and his Dogmon sidekick attempted to undermine the other racers, as a reference to Dastardly and Muttley, and, at one point in the original Japanese version, ShadowWereGarurumon gives Doggymon a Dick Dastardly-style knock to the head after Doggymon laughs.

* D3 Digivice, a device from the fictional anime / manga Digimon series

* Digimon Data Squad, season 5 of the Digimon anime

is a fictional character in the Digimon Adventure 02 anime series.

Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items.

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

In the 2006 anime Black Lagoon, the nickname of the local Russian mob boss is " Balalaika ".

* In anime Bleach is an example, Ikkaku Madarame carries a bokken when in his Gigai as he wasn't allowed to carry a real sword in public.

Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

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

" Southern Cross " is the Japanese title of the Orange Crew, a group of Gym Leaders who preside over the Orange Island archipelago's league and are featured in the Pokémon anime.

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.

is a 1998 Japanese anime series developed by Sunrise.

Cowboy Bebop is now considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anime of all time.

This implies that much anime is not specifically Japanese and therefore lacks a distinct national identity.

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.

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

There is a character in the Saint Seiya comic and anime called Cepheus Daedalus, a silver saint from Argentina, master of Andromeda Shun and Chameleon June.

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

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

, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.

Where foreign distribution occurs, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television series, cartoons and anime.

* In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as, is an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline.

Solid State Society is a sequel to the TV anime series storyline, and so takes place in a separate continuity.

* 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.

* The anime film Spirited Away is set in a bathhouse for kami, and a main character is the spirit of a destroyed river.

* Aria ( 2001-2008 ), by Kozue Amano, is a manga and anime series set on terraformed version of the planet Mars in the 24th century.

* DT Eightron, an anime set on the year 2187.

* The comedy sci-fi anime series Martian Successor Nadesico is set in the year 2196.

* The anime series Macross Plus, Masoukishin Cybuster, and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are all set in this year.

* The storyline of the anime The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz is set in the year 2060.

* The anime comedy Copihan is set in the year 2034.

The famous anime and manga series InuYasha is set in this period despite some moments that were set in the modern era.

* In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, an early 1990s Japanese anime television series based on Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea and set in 1889, there is a submarine called the Nautilus, which is also captained by a Captain Nemo.

In March 1992, Gainax had begun planning and production of an anime movie called Aoki Uru (" Blue Uru "), which was to be a sequel to Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise set 50 years later ( so as to be easier to pitch to investors ) which, like Oritsu, would follow a group of fighter pilots.

Legendarily, he would soon agree to a collaboration between King Records and Gainax while drinking with Toshimichi Ōtsuki, a representative at King ; with King Records guaranteeing a time slot, Anno set about making the anime.

The Japanese anime version was first released on DVD in 2002, and then a full 10-DVD set in 2005.

Mewtwo also appears in the musical Pokémon Live !, a live action adaptation of the anime set after Pokémon: The First Movie, and is portrayed by Marton Fulop.

is a 1988 anime film set in Gundam's Universal Century timeline of Gundam, specifically U. C.

* Black Stars, a set of characters from the anime " Keroro Gunso ", see List of Sgt.

* Voices of a Distant Star, a Japanese anime, is set in 2047.

is a 13-episode anime OVA series set in the Gundam universe.

: The Car Acrobatic Team ( or the Car Acrobats ) is one of the original set of characters that appeared both in the manga and in the anime.

The. hack games are set after. hack // Sign, a TV anime series that establishes the games ' setting, The World.

, also known as Stellvia of the Universe, is an anime series set in space.

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.