In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

* It was also during the 1990s that the anime craze grew out of video games, and the youth group known as otaku began to pour into Akihabara.

The Robotech Masters series itself was an English dub of the Japanese anime Super Dimensional Calvary Southern Cross.

In Akira Toriyama's manga and anime series Dragon Ball, a scientist named Dr. Gero created several cyborgs, including villain Cell, sibling cyborgs Android 17 and Android 18, as well as Android 20, who was built from Gero himself.

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

Thus, Cowboy Bebop was not just a normal anime series produced by Sunrise.

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.

Watanabe's main inspiration for Cowboy Bebop was Lupin III, a crime anime series from the late 1970s through the mid -' 80s.

Cowboy Bebop was voted by IGN in 2006 as having the greatest soundtrack for an anime.

In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine.

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

was a 2008 musical based on the 1990 anime film of the same name.

Being the only anime character selected, Doraemon was described as " The Cuddliest Hero in Asia ".

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

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

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 Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.

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.

The following year she was the voice of the title character, Kiki, a 13-year-old apprentice witch who leaves her home village to spend a year on her own, in the anime movie Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1998 ).

This was often done for letterbox widescreen anime on VHS, though the practice of " hiding " subtitles within the lower matte also is done with symmetrical mattes, albeit with less space available.

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

It was later adapted into several manga titles, five televised anime series, two three-episode original video animations ( OVAs ), and five movies.

* Barefoot Gen Fact-based manga which subsequently was adapted into film, anime and television drama formats.

The manga was adapted into a ninety-six-episode TV anime series which ran on Fuji TV from March 26, 1986 to March 2, 1988.

Two of the nine-volume comics were adapted into two anime original video animation episodes titled Battle Angel for North American release by ADV Films and the UK and Australian release by Manga Entertainment.

* 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.

Much of Japanese animation ( anime ) makes use of techniques adapted from limited animation.

In a discussion of original versus adapted anime, Brian Hanson of Anime News Network goes on to say:

In comparison to hentai, which " is anime erotica ", it was adapted " among coy fans and distributors who preferred to use a foreign term for their pornography " in the west, the abbreviation ecchi is seen as softer in meaning than the full term.

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.

The anime adapted two of the three arcs in Kurumada's manga-the project to adapt the third arc to the anime never started.

As Kurumada had completed his manga in 1991, its third act was finally adapted to anime, releasing the episodes as OVAs, starting in 2003 and finishing in 2008, at last adapting Kurumada's manga completely to anime.

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

The series was adapted into an anime TV series produced by Kitty Films and broadcast on Fuji Television affiliates from 1981 to 1986 over 195 episodes.

The CD drama was later adapted into a short anime, and was included with Japanese home releases and broadcasts of Mewtwo Strikes Back and later in North America in December 2001 as part of Mewtwo Returns.

The manga was adapted into two anime series in 1994 and an original video animation ( OVA ) in 1997.

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.

Among her early time works, Mon Cherie CoCo, 1971, was adapted into an anime TV series, and her work, Haikara-san ga Tōru, 1975 to 1977, was very successful, winning the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1977 .< ref name =" KodanshaHahn ">

Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release.