* The anime Get Backers has overarching plots involving a semi-constructed megabuilding called the Limitless Fortress.

* 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.

In the world of anime, the MTV spoof series Ultracity 6060 created by Beavis and Butt-head animator Mike Judge has become a hard-to-acquire cult classic among American anime fans.

It has also been portrayed various times in the anime series Negima!

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.

* Edward Steam, from the anime movie Steamboy, has various parts of his body replaced by machinery following an industrial accident.

The anime series was dubbed in the English language by Animaze, and has been licensed by Bandai Entertainment for releases in North America.

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.

In many countries, most actors who regularly perform this duty are generally little-known outside of popular circles such as anime fandom, for example, or when their voice has become synonymous with the role or the actor or actress whose voice they usually dub.

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.

The series has been adapted into an anime series with a total of two seasons and one epilogue film.

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.

In his third year there, he saw the film Hakujaden ( The Tale of the White Serpent ), which has been described as " the first-ever Japanese feature length color anime.

In more recent times it has also been used to refer to fans of the anime character Sailor Moon .. See also: Moonie ( disambiguation ).

* In the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Human Instrumentality Project has the goal of achieving the state of a Noosphere.

He has also occasionally worked on anime and video games, as a composer as well as a scenario writer.

An interesting phenomenon has been the continuing collaboration between French and Japanese animators, resulting in a series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime, including such titles as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), The Mysterious Cities of Gold ( 1982 ), and more recently, Ōban Star-Racers ( 2006 ).

Fans in the West have adopted a wide range of Japanese anime and manga terminology, however the strong stylistic and thematic similarities between a sector of shōjo works has led to regarding them as a genre or style, sometimes with an attempt to assign it by degrees.

Toho has also been involved in the production of numerous anime titles.

Engrish has featured occasionally in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone cartoon South Park, such as the song " Let's Fighting Love ", used in the episode " Good Times With Weapons ", which parodies the poorly translated opening theme sequences sometimes shown in anime, and in Parker and Stone's feature length Team America: World Police where the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is depicted singing the song " I'm so Ronery ".

* Edward Elric, the titular character of the manga and anime Fullmetal Alchemist got his last name from Elric of Melniboné, although the writer Hiromu Arakawa has stated that she never actually read any of the books in the Elric Saga.

* Kore wa Zombie Desu ka ?, a series of Japanese light novels by Shinichi Kimura ( which has also been adapted into manga and anime formats ), features as its protagonist a zombie who was raised from the dead and befriended by a powerful necromancer.

Throughout history, succubi have been popular characters in music, literature, film, television, and especially as video game and anime characters.

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.

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 ).

The Sengoku period has been used as the setting for a myriad of books, films, anime, and video games.

The Rurouni Kenshin OVAs, to name one series, exemplified numerous aspects of OVAs ; they were slightly based on chapters of the author Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga that had not been adapted into the anime TV series, had higher-quality animation, were much more violent, and were executed in a far more dark and realistic style than the TV episodes or the manga.

In the English-dubbed anime, " Mina's " personality is adjusted somewhat further ; she adopts a valley girl dialect, and in the latter two seasons is rewritten as being sarcastic or mean-spirited in places where she had not been in the original Japanese.

This manga, loosely based on the French Revolution, has been made into several Takarazuka musicals and into an anime series and a live-action film.

The manga has been adapted into a 51-episode anime series ( which closely follows the manga ) and an anime film.

As well as the drama CD, there have been two CD releases of Fruits Basket to coincide with the anime adaptation, Memory for You and Four Seasons ( also known as Song for Ritsuko Okazaki ).

The Fruits Basket anime adaptation has also been well received, ranking third in Anihabara's list of top televised anime series in Japan for February 2002.

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 1981, this episode was made into anime ( called " Doraemon Comes Back "), and in 1998, this was released as an anime movie.

Where foreign distribution occurs, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television series, cartoons and anime.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

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

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.

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.

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

* Origin ( anime ), an English title used for the anime series released as SoltyRei

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.

Voyager Entertainment released DVD volumes and comic adaptations of the anime years later.

While the anime series was in production, two very different manga retellings were also developed and released: a shōnen version of the story entitled The Vision of Escaflowne and a shōjo retelling titled Hitomi — The Vision of Escaflowne.

is a ninety-eight minute anime film released in Japan on June 24, 2000 that retells of the story in the Vision of Escaflowne.

* Japanese ( manga )— Katsura Hoshino: D. Gray-man, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ( 2004 – present ; main character, Allen Walker, is " the pierrot who will cause the akuma to fall "; anime based on manga released 2006 – 2008 ); Takashi Hashiguchi: Yakitate !!

Japan pan = bread ), serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday ( 2002 – 2007 ; features a clown-character named Pierrot Bolneze, heir to the throne of Monaco ; anime based on manga released 2004 – 2006 ).

In 2000, ADV Films released their 60-minute anime film, Sin: The Movie.

In 1989-1990, Eiken Animation of Japan released Seton Doubutsuki ( Japanese: シートン動物記, English: " Seton Animal Chronicles ") a 45-episode anime TV series that depicts the different literary works of Seton including his 1898 " Wild animals I have Known ".

In 2006, the seijin shotacon OVA anime, which the producer has described as the first shotacon anime, was released.