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 the manga and anime series Gunslinger Girl, Henrietta carries an Amati violin case.

* In the manga and anime world of BLAME!

* Arcologies are common elements in futuristic anime and manga titles.

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They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga ( see examples cited below ).

* 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.

* Ceres, Celestial Legend ( Ayashi no Ceres ), an anime / manga work

* Seras Victoria, a character in the anime / manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is " Ceres "

* Cepheus Daidalos, a fictional character in the manga and anime, Saint Seiya

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.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

* 8 Man, a manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by writer Kazumasa Hirai and artist Jiro Kuwata.

* 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 Glass Mask ( episode 29 of the anime and volume 17 of the manga ), Ayumi Himekawa played Carmilla in a stage adaptation of the novella.

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

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation ( Now owned by TV Asahi ) produced an anime series of Doraemon.

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.

Overall, the films have a somewhat darker tone in their stories, unlike the manga and anime.

Doraemon is also mentioned in several anime and manga by other manga artists.

* Capricorn ( manga ), a manga series created by Johji Manabe

* In the manga series Death Note, L uses Capoeira as his fighting style.

* Chirality ( manga ), a manga series

In total, 1, 344 stories were created in the original series, which are published by Shogakukan under the manga brand, extending to forty-five volumes.

In addition, Doraemon has appeared in a variety of manga series by Shōgakukan.

In 2005, Shōgakukan published a series of five more manga volumes under the title Doraemon + ( Doraemon Plus ), which were not found in the forty-five Tentōmushi pipi volumes.

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.

* Masaki Murakami, from the manga / anime series Guyver

* Murakami Yagami, from the manga / anime series Blue Seed

* Shū, a fictional character in the Fist of the North Star manga and anime franchise

* Falco, a rival character from the manga Fist of the North Star

* Zhang Taiyan, grandmaster of Hokuto Sōkaken in the manga and anime series Fist of the Blue Sky

* Fist of the North Star — ( 2005 ) ( Atomiswave ), ( 2007 ) ( PlayStation 2 ) based on manga with the same name.

Many popular manga series began as one-shot stories, these include Dragon Ball, Fist of the North Star, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Berserk, Kinnikuman and Death Note among others.

* Shin, one of the Nanto masters and main villains in the manga / anime Fist of the North Star ( Hokuto no Ken )

* Nanto Seiken ( 南斗聖拳-" Sacred Fist of the South Dipper "), a fictional martial arts style featured prominently in the manga and anime series Fist of the North Star

In Tetsuo Hara and Buronson ’ s influential manga Hokuto no Ken, known to western audiences as Fist of the North Star, the main character, Kenshiro, was deliberately created by them drawing inspiration from Bruce Lee and Max Rockatansky, from the Mad Max film franchise.

* The first of the three fat enemies in Stage 5 is named " Heart ", as a reference to the popular manga Fist of the North Star ( original Japanese name Hokuto No Ken ), which featured an extremely overweight martial artist called Heart.

Rock Lee's consumption of alcohol and his Drunken Fist style were changed in both the English-version edited anime and manga of Naruto to avoid referencing an underage character consuming alcohol.

The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star.

Of incidental note, the popular Japanese manga, Fist of the North Star, used this legend as a model for its death omen star ( 死兆星 ), in which it was said that people who saw the star would die later in the year.