* Cleopatra ( 1970 film ), a 1970 Japanese anime film

The anime draws heavily on Western sources, such as pulp detective stories, film noir, and American Westerns.

was a 2008 musical based on the 1990 anime film of the same name.

The manga was first adapted into a theatrical anime film adaptation in 1995, titled Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii.

The series has been adapted into an anime series with a total of two seasons and one epilogue film.

A film called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, was created after the anime series and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, premiering on the SKY Perfect satellite television network on September 1, 2006.

* Kite ( film ), a 1998 hentai anime film

* Kite Liberator, a 2008 anime film and the sequel to the hentai anime film

In 1982, Otomo made his anime debut, working as character designer for the animated film Harmagedon.

is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films.

The film topped Titanics sales at the Japanese box office, also won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award.

In his third year there, he saw the film Hakujaden ( The Tale of the White Serpent ), which has been described as " the first-ever Japanese feature length color anime.

Miyazaki then left Nippon Animation in 1979 in the middle of the production of Anne of Green Gables to direct his first feature anime The Castle of Cagliostro ( 1979 ), a Lupin III adventure film.

It is noted for its mix of conventional documentary film styles ( with actual film, no less ), with a more traditional anime storytelling fashion.

In that same year he composed the score to the cult-classic anime film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise.

Examples include the Sean Connery film Outland, the Firefly television series, and the film sequel Serenity by Joss Whedon, as well as the manga and anime series Trigun, Outlaw Star, and Cowboy Bebop.

In anime, Hayao Miyazaki directed Spirited Away in 2001, breaking Japanese box office records and winning several awards, followed by Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo in 2004 and 2008 respectively.

The only exceptions were in 2002 and 2005, with winners Spirited Away, a traditionally animated anime film, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, a stop-motion animation film.

She has also lent her voice to English-language localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops ; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ; Seth Balmore in Lost Odyssey ; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II ; Norma Beatty in Tales of Legendia ; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty ( both of which reunite her with her Final Fantasy X and Drawn Together co-star James Arnold Taylor ) and Harley Quinn replacing Arleen Sorkin in Batman: Arkham City.

Hols is often seen as the first major break from the normal anime style and the beginning of a later movement of " auteuristic " or " progressive anime " which would eventually involve directors such as Hayao Miyazaki ( creator of Spirited Away ) and Mamoru Oshii.

Shikigami are a popular motif in modern anime and fantasy-novels, such as Teito Monogatari, Inuyasha, Nurarihyon no Mago, and Spirited Away.

" Far Away ..." ( or " Haruka ...") was covered by-Oz-for the similar album Counteraction-V-Rock covered Visual Anime songs Compilation -, which was released on May 23, 2012 and features covers of songs by visual kei bands that were used in anime.

*" Far Away ..." ( ハルカ ..., February 24, 1999 )-1st ending theme to anime Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne

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.

* The anime Digimon is set in a variant of the cyberspace concept called the " Digital World ".

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.

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.

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.