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 was adapted into two manga series which were serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Fantasy DX.

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 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.

** The Japanese anime was dubbed in Hindi and telecast as Jungle Book by Doordarshan in India during the early 1990s.

** The anime was also dubbed in Arabic under the title " فتى الأدغال " ( Fatā al Adghāl: Boy Of The Jungle ) and became a hit with Arab viewers in the 1990s.

Just as Rei is more fiery in the anime than in the manga, she is changed again in the dubbed series.

It first began airing English dubbed anime films and original video animations in the early 1990s, although the programs were often edited in order to fit the market pressures typically placed on basic cable.

Kazuma ( dubbed " The Treasoner " in the manga and " The Shell Bullet " in the anime ) and Ryuhou are the two s-CRY-ed characters bearing a rivalry used to drive and focus the plot.

The anime has been dubbed in Tagalog in the Philippines.

* Doordarshan also telecast English cartoons at 12. 00 noon during summer vacations in a programme named " Fun Time " which showed cartoons like Spider-Man, Giant Robo, Gayab Aaya, Guchhae, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli ( a dubbed Hindi version of a Japanese anime with original music composed by Vishal Bharadwaj ), Talespin & Duck Tales also the comic plays of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Didi's Comedy Show.

The anime was also broadcast in the Arab World ( as " مغامرات نيلز " Nils ' Adventures ), Canada ( in French ), France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Iran, Iceland ( as " Nilli Hólmgeirsson ") Belgium, Greece ( as " Το θαυμαστό ταξίδι του Νίλς Χόλγκερσον "-" The wondrous journey of Nils Holgersson "), The Netherlands, Poland ( as " Nils and the wild geese "), Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovenia ( as " Nils Holgerson " with one s ), Hungary ( as " Nils Holgersson csodálatos utazása a vadludakkal "), Czech Republic ( as " Nils Holgersson "), Israel, Turkey ( as " Uçan Kaz " (" The Flying Goose ")), Italy, Hong Kong ( dubbed into Cantonese ), Mainland China, South Africa ( Translated to Afrikaans as " Die wonderlike avonture van Niels Holgerson "), and Albania, but in some countries it was cut to allow for commercials.

Streamline also licensed and dubbed other popular anime series and movies such as Fist of the North Star, Wicked City, Lensman, Vampire Hunter D and The Professional: Golgo 13.

During the 1990s VHS era, before the common availability of hybrid DVDs, anime distributors released anime via subtitled or dubbed tapes with the subtitled editions being noticeably more expensive than the dubs which were expected to sell better.

It spawned a 52-episode Japanese / English dubbed anime series named Super GALS!

Saiyuki Gaiden had a few chapters adapted into the original anime and its own OVA that has been produced by Studio Pierrot and will be dubbed into English by Sentai Filmworks, using the original voice actors of Gensomaden Saiyuki.

* Major Hyuuga, dubbed by Kenji Hamada in the anime 07-Ghost

They prefer subtitled anime in the original language to the dubbed version.

The anime was licensed for an English-language dubbed release by Funimation Entertainment in June 2006.

There, the episodes are shown weekdays, 3 to 4 times a day, and are dubbed over the English edited versions of the anime.

He has also written a number of episodes for the animated TV show Digimon: Digital Monsters, has appeared on the game show Jeopardy !, and has written and provided voices for the English dubbed versions of several Japanese anime works.

Originally aired on Japanese TV in 1975, the anime has been dubbed into 42 languages and screened on television in various territories, including China, Australia, Germany, the United States, South Africa, Portugal, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Latin America, Chile, Israel, Iran, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Finland, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon as " Zena ", and Iran as " Nikoo " ( نیکو ).

) The Japanese dubbed version used the original voice actors from the 1980s anime series.

Marine Boy was one of the first color anime cartoons to be shown in a dubbed form in the U. S., and later in Australia and the United Kingdom.