However, all Gundam timelines and worlds, long after their own anime series, do eventually intersect and combine in the series Turn A Gundam.

* Loran Cehack, the fictional protagonist in the anime series Turn A Gundam

* WD-M01 Turn A Gundam, a mecha from the anime Turn A Gundam

Turn A Gundam was the last Gundam anime TV series to be directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was the main creator of the Gundam franchise and had written and directed many previous Gundam works.

Many anime and manga titles that were previously licensed for release in North America were cancelled, including Turn A Gundam.

Several anime series with soundtracks featuring performances and / or lyrics by Robin include Cowboy Bebop, Jin-Roh, Macross Frontier, Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Please Save My Earth, The Vision of Escaflowne, Earth Girl Arjuna, Turn A Gundam, Wolf's Rain, Genesis of Aquarion and its sequel Aquarion Evol.

* 1998: Designs mobile suit mecha for the anime Turn A Gundam.

The WD-M01 Turn A Gundam is a fictional mecha from the calendar system in the anime Turn A Gundam.

The design is still exotic to Gundam anime fans, however, Syd Mead designed Turn A Gundam using real world industrial design aspects, which was aimed to make it look simple and realistic.

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.

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.

* Mu La Flaga, a character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Yoshiyuki Tomino's original plot for the anime was considerably much more grim, with Amuro dying halfway through the series, and the crew of the White Base having to ally with Char ( who is given a red Gundam ), but finally having to battle him after he takes control of the Principality of Zeon.

Audiences were expecting another giant robot show, and instead found MS Gundam, the first work of anime in an entirely new genre, the mecha drama or the ' real robot ' genre as opposed to the ' super robot ' genre.

Mobile Suit Gundam was also later aired by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across Japan, with the series continuing to be aired on the network currently, and later its respective networks worldwide, including Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and other regions.

In 1979, before the end of the anime, Yoshiyuki Tomino himself created the first novelizations of the original Gundam anime series.

* New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop ( 2010-ongoing ) by Katsuyuki Sumisawa is a novel continuation of the Gundam Wing anime series taking place primarily on the terraformed Mars.

* Nu Gundam, in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

* MSA-003 Nemo, a mobile suit from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam ( 1985 )

* The name of Celestial Being's carrier ship in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

Some of the most famous are anime such as Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, the Super Robots such as Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go ( Gigantor ) and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, and the Real Robots such as Yoshiyuki Tomino's Gundam series and Shōji Kawamori's Macross series.

* Strike Gundam, mobile suit from the Cosmic Era timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries

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.

* The first mobile suit in the sci-fi anime series Mobile Suit Gundam is completed at space colony cluster Side 3 in 2118 ( U. C.

* Axis, a colonized asteroid in the Gundam anime universe

** Axis Zeon, inhabitants of the asteroid Axis in the Gundam anime universe

In the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny, the positron cannon of the plant spaceship Minerva is called the Tannhauser.

* " Resolution " by Romantic Mode, the second opening theme for the anime After War Gundam X

The is a metaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots ( or " mecha ") called " Mobile Suits " ( MS ); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam.

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.

In the second season of the anime, she is the first attempted victim of Mytho after The Raven's blood possesses him, and she almost loses her heart.

* An episode of the anime Digimon Frontier, entitled " The Great Trailmon Race " ( a homage to Wacky Races ), a ShadowWereGarurumon and his Dogmon sidekick attempted to undermine the other racers, as a reference to Dastardly and Muttley, and, at one point in the original Japanese version, ShadowWereGarurumon gives Doggymon a Dick Dastardly-style knock to the head after Doggymon laughs.

As opposed to the anime, where her origins are unknown, it is revealed in one of Professor Tomoe's flashbacks that she became Kaolinite after being struck by random lightning during a chaotic storm that occurred as the pair attempted to reconstruct the maimed body of his daughter Hotaru.

* Dancouga-Super Beast Machine God Super Robot anime series, the code THX-1138 was used to activate the combination sequence for the Jyusenki Tai to combine their respective mecha into the gigantic robot Dancouga for the first time in episode 15

Starting in 2001, Guardians of Order replaced the company's previous practice of producing stand-alone games for anime series for which they had obtained licenses with Ultimate Fan Guides — a series of supplements for BESM which combine information on the episodes, characters and themes of anime series with statistics and game information for those series.

Cowboy Bebop is now considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anime of all time.

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.

Robot / mecha anime and manga differ vastly in storytelling and animation quality from title to title, and content ranges all the way from children's shows to ones intended for an older teen or adult audience.

For example, Finland's national gathering Finncon is funded by the government, while all conventions and fan activities in Japan are heavily influenced by anime and manga.

* The anime series Macross Plus, Masoukishin Cybuster, and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are all set in this year.

Sunrise has been involved in many popular and acclaimed anime television series, including Mobile Suit Gundam ( and all its various spinoffs and sequels since 1979 ), the Mashin Eiyūden Wataru series ( 1988 – 1997 ), the Yūsha series ( 1990 – 1997 ), the Eldran series ( 1991 – 1993 ) which has now become part of the Yūsha series since the Takara Tomy merger, and the Crest of the Stars series ( 1999 – 2001 ).

In Australia, all Sunrise, Inc anime featuring an English dub are exclusively licensed to Madman Entertainment.

This has its origin in the foreign fandom of manga and anime, which used a different method ( or no method at all ) to transcribe the word.

There are many possibilities to classify a work itself as ecchi, but this elements have to occur quite often ( for example in all episodes of an anime ).

Bandai Visual stated in a 2004 news release ( for their new OVAs aimed at women ) that about 50 % of the customers who had bought their anime DVDs in the past fell into the category of 25-to 40-year-old men, with only 13 % of purchasers women, even with all ages included.

On December 7, 2004, a Tokyo law firm representing Media Factory sent letters and e-mails to the anime BitTorrent directory AnimeSuki and fansub groups Lunar Anime and Wannabe Fansubs requesting that they halt the fansubbing and hosting of all current and future fansubbing productions.

The anime series based on Emma and Aria were both licensed in 2008, and Area 88, Gankutsuou, Kurau Phantom Memory, Noein, Shura no Toki, and UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie were all licensed after the legal action in 2004.

Other cosplayers, who prefer to create their own costumes, still provide a market for individual elements, accessories, and various raw materials, such as unstyled wigs or extensions, hair dye, cloth and sewing notions, liquid latex, body paint, shoes, costume jewellery and prop weapons. Some anime and video game characters have weapons or other accessories that are hard to replicate, and conventions have strict rules regarding those weapons but, most cosplayers engage in some combination of methods to obtain all the items necessary for their costume ; for example they may commission a prop weapon, sew their own clothing, buy character jewelry from a cosplay accessory manufacturer, and buy a pair of off-the-rack shoes and modify them to match the desired look.

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

One of Japan's top ranked kickboxers, Nagashima makes all his entrances and publicity appearances for K-1 dressed as different female anime characters, accompanied by cosplaying girls.

While on board the Nadesico, Akito has more problems to deal with than just the Jovians ; nearly all the female members of the crew, especially the vessel's captain Yurika Misumaru, seem to be head over heels in love with him, though all he wants to do is cook and watch his favorite anime, Gekigangar III.

Another episode makes a parody of the Macross anime, as the crew celebrates a Miss Nadesico contest to decide a new captain and public figurehead, in which all the female crew members participate.

In the anime series Umineko no Naku Koro ni The rounds of the battle between Battler and Beatrice take place in different dimensions, in order to show all kinds of possibilities ( much to Battler's dismay ) also the character Bernkastel is known for her ability to travel into different worlds by the usage of " fragments ".

Fuji Television also operates three premium television stations, known as " Fuji TV One " (" Fuji TV 739 "-sports / variety ), " Fuji TV Two " (" Fuji TV 721 "-drama / anime ), and " Fuji TV Next " (" Fuji TV CSHD "-live premium shows ) ( called together as " Fuji TV OneTwoNext "), all available in High-definition.

The main characters are similar to their manga counterparts, but side characters become underdeveloped ; some did not appear in the anime at all.

In the Funimation dub, Frieza has been voiced by Linda Young who continued to voice Frieza in the video games, and other media of the series over the span of 10 years, until the role was re-cast in Dragon Ball Z Kai ( after episode 1 ), where he is voiced by Christopher Ayres ( making him Frieza's first male English voice actor in the anime ) who confirmed he would voice Frieza in all future video games, although in Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi, there were some voice recordings of Young's mixed in with his.

Anime Unleashed ( and in turn, all of the anime series which aired on the block ) was canceled in March 2006.