* In the manga and anime world of BLAME!

In 2004, Mamoru Oshii released the anime movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence which received critical praise around the world.

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

The show inspired a few fanzines such as Protoculture Addicts and Animag both of which in turn promoted interest in the wide world of anime in general.

The futuristic dystopian world of Battle Angel Alita revolves around the city of Scrapyard, grown up around a massive scrap heap that rains down from Tiphares ( Salem in the anime ).

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 ).

Unlike others, this group was able to find fans in other parts of the world through their eroge and anime themes.

Multiple conventions dedicated to anime and manga, comics, TV shows, video games, science fiction and fantasy may be found all around the world.

While it has been cited as a " complex and compelling villain " by some critics, its goal of world domination was received as a trait shared by "… every anime villain …", and likened to a James Bond villain by Daily Record.

Many anime and manga are very popular around the world and continue to become popular, as well as Japanese video games, music, fashion, and game shows ; this has made Japan an " entertainment superpower " along with the United States and the United Kingdom.

Catgirls are found in various fiction genres, and in particular Japanese anime and manga where they are more commonly referred to as neko ( 猫, literally cat ) or nekomimi ( 猫耳, literally cat ear ( s )), in cosplay activities both in Japan and around the world, in video games, and in online virtual worlds such as Second Life.

Rayearth combines elements from the magical girl and mecha anime genres with parallel world fantasy.

The anime Neon Genesis Evangelion features a parallel world in one of the final episodes.

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

Products of popular culture, including J-pop, manga, and anime have found audiences around the world.

Shimoda is the real world location for Pallet Town in the Pokémon games and anime.

* In the manga and anime Cheeky Angel, the character of Miki Hanakain is the heir to a traditional zaibatsu, compared with her friend Megumi Amatsuki whose profitable family business is smaller, less traditional, but as a result more nimble and able to adapt to the modern world.

It is a rare example ( for its time ) of an anime arch-enemy having a clear reason for conquering the world ( the other major example being Space Battleship Yamato ).

Appearing only in the anime, it is supposedly the largest racing vehicle in the world.

* The boom in the anime world market, which produced a wave of young talents who wanted to become voice actors rather than actors.

In the second half of the 1990s, the boom in the animation world led to the increase of anime shown in the Tokyo area.

Young people across the world began consuming kaiju ( monster ) movies, anime ( cartoons ), manga ( comic books ), and other modern Japanese culture.

On May 22 Kid Rock's June 8, 2008 concert at Germany's Rock AM Festival was aired on every MTV affiliate around the world on their debut show " World Stage ".

MTV Networks has launched numerous native-language regional variants of MTV-branded channels to countries around the world.

* Transit ( 2005 film ), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four different people in countries in the world

In 1997, while accepting MTV Video Music Award for " Best New Artist " for her song Sleep to Dream, Apple said: " This world is bullshit, and you shouldn't model your life on what we think is cool, and what we're wearing and what we're saying.

Many cable networks operate from Argentina and serve the Spanish-speaking world, including Utilísima Satelital, TyC Sports, Fox Sports en Español ( with the United States and México ), MTV Argentina, Cosmopolitan TV, and the news network Todo Noticias.

During this period, MTV launched channels around the world to show music videos produced in each local market: MTV Latin America in 1993, MTV India in 1996, and MTV Mandarin in 1997, among others.

* Mutha's Day Out, 1990s rock band, signed to Chrysalis records, had 3 videos on MTV rotation and 2 world tours

Later in the evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the CBC ( Video Editor: Colin Dean ) was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia, as well as on televisions around the world ( though notably neither US feed, ABC or MTV chose to show the film ), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to the song " Drive " by The Cars.

As expected by the label, Music for People created a bit of a buzz in the musical world as the band received MTV airplay with their lead single " Free "' s music video, with the single charting on the Billboard's Hot 100, and hitting No. 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks.

Her MTV Unplugged release was particularly successful in introducing Shakira into the English speaking world.

In addition to the original MTV2 channel in the United States, there have been a number of other MTV Networks channels around the world known as MTV2.

In 2000, Monica made her film debut in the third drama from MTV Films, Love Song, as Camille Livingston, a young woman torn between the life her parents have planned for her and the world she experiences after meeting a musician from the wrong side of the tracks.

* Page and Plant had performed it on their MTV Unplugged appearance and their 1995-96 world tour, swapping it with " Nobody's Fault but Mine " at times.

Following Radiohead's 1993 Pablo Honey tour of America, Yorke became disenchanted at being " right at the sharp end of the sexy, sassy, MTV eye-candy lifestyle " he felt he was helping to sell to the world.

In an interview with MTV News Matt told the reporter he was trying to disconnect and cut all ties to the music world.

The 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony was interrupted by a streaker named David Monahan while Hayden Panettiere was presenting the award for Best Song, with his fully uncensored genitals broadcast live around the world.

The show debuted on October 26, 2003 on the MTV network in the United States and was later licensed around the world.

Loeb toured the world again, making special stops in Sanrio stores for in-store autographs while appearing with Hello Kitty at the Japanese MTV Music Awards.

They had an interview with MTV Germany and explained that their mission was to introduce the world to Turkish music.

After taking the drug, Grivo switches to jangly, upbeat pop music ; his song " Happiness Pie " becomes an anthem for the post-GLeeMONEX world and wins an MTV Video Award for Best New Video.

The opening song, " The Fading ," was played on MTV's Headbanger's Balls rotation and had the band elected as one of the 10 best up-and-coming bands in the world by MTV and Kerrang !.