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

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 >

In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first " anime ambassador.

In 2008, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Doraemon as the first anime cultural ambassador.

The first Digimon anime introduces the Digimon life cycle: They age in a similar fashion to real organisms, but do not die under normal circumstances because they are made of reconfigurable data.

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

In 1987, Otomo continued working in anime, directing an animated work for the first time: a segment, which he also wrote the screenplay and drew animation for, in the anthology feature Neo Tokyo.

When the first movie was released on February 22, 1981, it was regarded as the beginning of a new age of anime.

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.

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

The film topped Titanics sales at the Japanese box office, also won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award.

Miyazaki then left Nippon Animation in 1979 in the middle of the production of Anne of Green Gables to direct his first feature anime The Castle of Cagliostro ( 1979 ), a Lupin III adventure film.

Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985.

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.

* The first airing of the anime Full Metal Panic!

Sally the Witch -- being the first magical girl genre anime -- may ( even more broadly ) be the first shōjo anime as well.

The self-titled first season of the anime is a derivative of the light novel's first three volumes.

Three alternate retellings of The Vision of Escaflowne have been released in manga form, with first two manga series developed at the same time as the anime.

Despite the anime series itself being on hold, Sunrise gave artist Katsu Aki the existing production and character designs, resulting in the first manga series having the heavy shōnen feel and curvaceous Hitomi that was originally planned for the anime series.

American media mogul Ted Turner bought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for an English-language release, but canceled it without explanation before any episodes were aired.

This time, the show, along with some of the other anime that aired with it, was dubbed by Singaporean voice actors.

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.

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.

Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax also aired the series, both in Japan and on its various worldwide networks, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

* Huckleberry no Bouken, a Japanese anime aired on Jetix Play

It also brought anime into prominence in late 1990s with its Toonami action block and aired late night programming such as the Midnight Run, ToonHeads and Space Ghost Coast to Coast which was more popular with older audiences and lead way for the creation of its young adult late night block Adult Swim in 2001.

( aired 1985 – 1986 ) is a television anime, part of the Gundam series and a sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

The series was originally aired by Nagoya Broadcasting Network ( and its sister ANN stations ), rerun on the anime satellite television network, Animax, across Japan and later its respective networks worldwide, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and other regions.

The anime series aired first on Japan's Yomiuri TV on October 17, 1994, and ended on November 27, 1995.

The series was adapted by Toei Animation as a 76-episode anime television series which aired on TV Asahi and Fuji TV in 1994 to 1995.

Toei Animation adapted Marmalade Boy into a 76-episode anime television series which aired on TV Asahi in 1994 to 1995.

* Spaceketeers US, Science Fiction Saiyuki Starzinger ( SF西遊記スタージンガー Esu Efu Saiyūki Sutājingā ?, from episode 65 onwards: SF西遊記スタージンガーII ) an anime series aired in Japan from 1978 to 1979. In the United States it is referred to as Spaceketeers and is part of Jim Terry's Force Five series.

These adaptations include a twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 ; a live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 ; and a 43-episode anime television series, aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000.

The anime series, which was created by Studio Pierrot, ran for 75 half hour episodes from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo, along with the 77-minute extra New Year's Special that aired in January 2004.

Although the anime generally followed the manga's plotline, faithful readers of the manga were disappointed that the last arc was not aired.

The series was later aired by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across Japan and later its respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, South Asia, and other regions, but is one of the few Gundam series which has never been brought to the United States.

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

The series has 39 episodes, aired in Japan from April 5, 1996 to December 28, 1996 across TV Asahi's ANN stations and the anime satellite television network Animax.

is a 50 episode anime series that aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks and on the anime satellite television network, Animax, which was created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th Anniversary celebration.

Cheez TV aired a number of Marvel based cartoons such as X-Men, The Marvel Action Hour, The Incredible Hulk ( 1982 series ), and Spider-Man: The Animated Series plus several anime series, including Teknoman, Transformers, Eagle Riders, Medabots and in more recent years Pokémon, Beyblade, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Sonic X, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

Syfy has aired anime programming off and on throughout its history.