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.

* 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.

* Capricorn ( manga ), a manga series created by Johji Manabe

* In the manga series Death Note, L uses Capoeira as his fighting style.

* Chirality ( manga ), a manga series

In total, 1, 344 stories were created in the original series, which are published by Shogakukan under the manga brand, extending to forty-five volumes.

In addition, Doraemon has appeared in a variety of manga series by Shōgakukan.

In 2005, Shōgakukan published a series of five more manga volumes under the title Doraemon + ( Doraemon Plus ), which were not found in the forty-five Tentōmushi pipi volumes.

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.

* Masaki Murakami, from the manga / anime series Guyver

* Murakami Yagami, from the manga / anime series Blue Seed

In 2003, Kodansha published Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, a collection of manga chapters previously unreleased by Shirow.

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

The first entry in the franchise was Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga, first published in 1989 in Young Magazine.

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

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

* A character in the anime / manga Ghost Hunt

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.

* New Port City, fictional megacities where the Masamune Shiro manga Ghost in the Shell and Dominion: Tank Police series are mostly set

Examples of this include: Caprica ; Fullmetal Alchemist ; Ghost In The Shell ; RoboCop ; the DC Comics superhero Robotman ; the Cybermen from the Doctor Who television series ; the cymeks in the Legends of Dune series ; or full-body cyborgs in many manga or works in the cyberpunk genre.

Among them are manga and anime such as Dr. Slump ", Dragonball Z, Clannad, Detective Conan, YuYu Hakusho, Urusei Yatsura, Love Hina ( whose lead male character is called Urashima Keitaro, and with a girl named Otohime Mutsumi ), Doraemon, Gintama, Kamen Rider Den-O ( the namesake of the Imagin Urataros, given by Naomi ), Cowboy Bebop, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi, Ghost Sweeper Mikami and RahXephon.

Publications include Akira, Astro Boy, Berserk, Blade of the Immortal, Ghost in the Shell, Trigun and Blood Blockade Battlefront by Yasuhiro Nightow, Gantz, Hellsing and Drifters by Kouta Hirano, Blood +, Multiple Personality Detective Psycho, and America's longest running manga series, Oh My Goddess!

* Puppet Master in Ghost in the Shell manga and anime.

Japanese manga series Ghost in the Shell cyclically returns to this paradox of a " human " whose body is replaced by artificial parts.

In their original manga versions, these three titles exhibited a mood that was more along the lines of frantic slapstick comedy ( Urusei Yatsura ) or convivial dramedy ( Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell ).

For the Ghost in the Shell movie, Oshii elected to leave out the humor and character banter of Masamune Shirow's original manga.

( most commonly known as Project 2501 in the film adaptation ) is an original character from the manga Ghost in the Shell.

* Ishikawa ( Ghost in the Shell ), a character in the Japanese seinen manga Ghost in the Shell

* Kazuya Shibuya, a character in the light novel / manga / anime series Ghost Hunt

* Ghost in the Shell-Japanese cyberpunk manga

* The Major, nickname of Motoko Kusanagi, character in the Japanese anime / manga series Ghost in the Shell

* The Japanese cyberpunk manga, Ghost in the Shell ( as well as its popular movie and TV adaptations ) centers around an anti-cyberterrorism and cybercrime unit.