Some see it as a tribute while others see it from a business viewpoint that it draws in more support for the anime than it would have had otherwise.

is a 1998 3D fighting arcade game by Capcom that draws heavily from the various sub-genres of Mecha anime.

* Negima: In the anime, Negi Springfield briefly draws and fires a magic gun ( resembling an antique pistol ) while flying on his staff.

He draws heavily from anime and related styles, but produces paintings and sculptures in media more traditionally associated with fine arts, intentionally blurring the lines between commercial and popular art and fine arts.

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

* 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.

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.

* 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.

The fairytale-ballet anime Princess Tutu is set in the fictional Kinkan Town, which is heavily based on Nördlingen.

However, in publicized reviews for the anime and manga, his character has received mixed reviews, with his personality being heavily criticized.

The fictional world of this story created in the anime, manga, and its novels is heavily based on Persian art, history and culture and those as well of Central Asian art, languages, and religions.

The manga and anime Nijū Mensō no Musume, or the Daughter of Twenty Faces, focuses heavily on Akechi's arch-rival.

is a heavily fanservice-themed manga and anime series created by Seiji Matsuyama.

It also features heavily in the anime Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back where it is used to represent the nostalgia people feel for the 20th century.

Teen Titans frequently uses self-referential humor, and its animation style is heavily influenced by anime.

Given the close ties between the world of Japanese console RPGs and animation, the magazine also heavily featured information about manga and anime by noted UK based writer, Helen McCarthy.

The general direction of the anime borrows heavily from the Fate scenario, with select segments from Unlimited Blade Works included as filler while only a couple nods are given toward the Heaven's Feel option.

Because the anime is co-produced by Sega Sammy Holdings, the Guilty Gear video game series is heavily referenced, with actual gameplay sequences being shown multiple times, Ohno cosplaying as Kuradoberi Jam, and various other minor references.

Kujibiki Unbalance was likely originally conceived ( at least partially ) to avoid potential copyright problems from referencing another series too heavily, but has since spun off into its own full fledged manga and anime series.

One of earliest mecha designs in the Real Robot genre, Guncannon's concept of a heavily armored humanoid machine with dual shoulder cannon became the inspiration for various artillery fire-support mecha in other mecha anime and games.

Unlike the international dubs and like many broadcast anime in the USA, Magical DoReMi was heavily edited and localized for US audiences and a lower TV-Y rating.

The 2012 anime series implies heavily that Fujiko is bisexual.

is an anime and manga series that is heavily influenced by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Nanika is heavily influenced by Japanese anime, such as Kanon and Ghost in the Shell.

When the Japanese children's anime Magical Doremi got released in North America by 4Kids Entertainment, it had to get heavily edited and changed for United states viewers as well as for a lower, TV-Y Rating.

Due to this, anime containing homosexual characters is often heavily censored through plot changes, dialog editing, and the deletion of scenes.

In some extreme cases, when the dubbing company elects to change the emotional undertones of certain scenes, the music in an anime will be heavily changed in its dubbed counterpart to relate to the intended revised tone.

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

* 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 ".

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 >

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.

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.

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

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.

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.