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.

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.

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

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

and aired on Animax from 2002 to 2005 ; there were also several OVA produced based on the anime series.

In Western fanfiction circles, hentai-based works are popularly referred to as " lemon ", based on a more popular hentai anime anthology series called Cream Lemon.

Even after focusing primarily on his manga career, Asamiya continued to do character designs and creative consultation on anime series based on his stories, occasionally under the Kikuchi name.

* Kirin, a recurring creature in the novel and anime series The Twelve Kingdoms ; the creature is based on qilin.

In the anime based on the video game however, Limbo is shown as a peaceful part of Hell where the shades of historical pagans debate with one another in philosophical matters.

Ghost in the Shell is a famous anime in the West based on his work, hence his popularity.

Mecha based on anime have seen extreme cultural reception across the world.

Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.

* Japanese ( manga )— Katsura Hoshino: D. Gray-man, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ( 2004 – present ; main character, Allen Walker, is " the pierrot who will cause the akuma to fall "; anime based on manga released 2006 – 2008 ); Takashi Hashiguchi: Yakitate !!

Japan pan = bread ), serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday ( 2002 – 2007 ; features a clown-character named Pierrot Bolneze, heir to the throne of Monaco ; anime based on manga released 2004 – 2006 ).

In addition, the anime cut-scenes introduced in the Sega Saturn version of the game return with subtitles based on the Xbox 360's system language.

In 1979 an anime based on Seton's 1922 book Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel was produced in Japan.

Episode 14 of the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico causes a rather confusing link between the world of the show itself and that of Gekigangar III, a popular anime that exists within its universe and that many characters are fans of ; the episode is essentially a clip show, but has several newly animated segments based on Gekigangar that involves the characters of that show watching Nadesico ( many of them being big fans of it themselves ).

* Red Baron ( anime ), an anime series based on the tokusatsu series

The term is generally applied only to fanworks based on Western fandoms ; the nearest anime / manga equivalents are more often called yuri and shōjo-ai fanfiction.

* 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.

* 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.