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

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.

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.

* 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 2001, Cowboy Bebop became the first anime title to be broadcast on Adult Swim in the United States.

Most of them had previously worked together, in addition to having credits on other popular anime titles.

Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

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

In the United States, on September 2, 2001, Cowboy Bebop became the first anime title to be shown as part of the U. S. Adult Swim Launch .< ref >

The original stories are heavily abridged, though on rare occasions events play out differently than the anime.

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

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

* The 1981 anime series Fang of the Sun Dougram focuses heavily on the exploits of a team of guerrilla fighters working to bring independence to their home planet.

Since the film's success abroad, most Ghost in the Shell media has been translated and released in English-speaking territories, including the anime series, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, and the United Kingdom's AnimeCentral.

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.

A second game bearing the anime TV series title Stand Alone Complex was released in November 2004 on PlayStation 2, developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and Cavia and published by Bandai.

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

Following the tentacle scene in Guyver: Out of Control in December 1986, the Urotsukidoji anime series by Toshio Maeda was released on OVA beginning in 1987 and released in America in 1992 by Anime 18.

* Adult anime, or hentai anime, is anime that relies primarily on sex.

* It was also during the 1990s that the anime craze grew out of video games, and the youth group known as otaku began to pour into Akihabara.

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

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.

New, albeit censored, editions of all three manga volumes remain in print from Kodansha in the United States ; home video versions of the various films and anime series are available in English as well.

He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into two theatrical anime movies, two anime TV series, an anime TV movie, and several video games.

Oda Nobunaga appears frequently within fiction and continues to be portrayed in many other anime, manga, video games, and cinematic films.

Nobunaga is portrayed as evil, villainous, bloodthirsty, and / or demonic in the video games: Ninja Master's, Sengoku ( 1991 ), Inindo: Way of the Ninja, Atlantica Online, Sengoku Basara ( and anime ), and the two video game series Onimusha and Samurai Warriors.

He has also occasionally worked on anime and video games, as a composer as well as a scenario writer.

Anime's first notable appearance at SF or comic book conventions was in the form of video showings of popular anime, untranslated and often low quality VHS bootlegs.

Throughout history, succubi have been popular characters in music, literature, film, television, and especially as video game and anime characters.

It was later adapted into several manga titles, five televised anime series, two three-episode original video animations ( OVAs ), and five movies.

In the United States, it outsold Gundam on video tape, and the first volume of the English DVD release of The Vision of Escaflowne was the fourth best-selling anime DVD for the month of September 2000.

Ninja appear in many forms of Japanese and Western popular media, including books ( Kōga Ninpōchō ), television ( Ninja Warrior ), movies ( You Only Live Twice, Ninja Assassin, The Last Samurai ), Satire ( REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book ) video games ( Tenchu, Shinobi ), anime ( Naruto ), manga ( Basilisk ) and Western comic books ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G. I.

Spin-off media include an anime, three CD soundtracks, a home video collection, and a series of video games, as well as various licensed merchandise.

Several bonus features were added to each game, such as art galleries, bestiaries, and cutscenes — including computer-generated full motion video used at the beginning of Final Fantasy IV and anime scenes used throughout Chrono Trigger.

Two of the nine-volume comics were adapted into two anime original video animation episodes titled Battle Angel for North American release by ADV Films and the UK and Australian release by Manga Entertainment.

The Western is popular in comic books, computer and video games, anime, role-playing games, and radio dramas.

The Sengoku period has been used as the setting for a myriad of books, films, anime, and video games.

He has worked as a voice actor in many original series, video games and anime, which started as young Martin Brisby in The Secret of NIMH when he was 10 years old.