He further comments that manga artist " Mizu Sahara's artwork brings a bit of clarity to scenes that might have come off as muddled in the anime ".

This practice is also fairly common in certain comics, such as Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon, which makes several product-placement-esque usages of " Pawky ", ( a modification of the name of the Japanese snack " Pocky ", popular among the anime and manga fan community in which the story is set ) or Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, which includes numerous references to the series Codename: Sailor V, which Sailor Moon was spun off of ; the anime makes further use of this meta-referential gag, going so far as having an animator on a Codename: Sailor V feature film be a victim in one episode.

While generally very faithful to the manga, some material from further into the story was cut, such as Senju's assassination attempt and the Suzuno Murder Race episode.

However, she later let them work alone in the making of the script so that both manga and anime would have different endings, and to develop the manga further.

" This is further backed up in the manga where in one scene she is receiving a fax from Becky ( about Riff-Raff ), and the note scrawled on it addresses her as Larry.

At first Peau is easily disturbed by Tommy's methods of wooing her yet within time and patience ( though finite ) she warms up to the young werewolf and they become friends ( Although the manga has them taking their relationship much further, as Poe has feared being pregnant with Tommy's child by the end of volume eight.

It started out as a manga title serialized in Japanese language monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh published by MediaWorks, and later branched out to PlayStation 2 as a game and then further into numerous other media channels.

Through his evil role in the story Vampires he develops a further demonic nature in the manga Alabaster where he is seen as having no qualms about torturing, raping and killing to achieve his ends.

: In the manga version of Plastic Little, it is further known that Tita also has the ability to sense weather patterns at least a day ahead of time.

In the manga, to prevent further bloodshed, Megumi decides to voluntarily return to Takeda's mansion.

is a Japanese manga series created by Hiyoko Kobayashi centering around a couple whose age difference makes it difficult for them to further their relationship, as one is a high school girl and the other is her physics teacher.

Examples include Oshii Mamoru ’ s 1984 animated film Beautiful Dreamer, which is based on an episode of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura ( 1978-1987 ) that depicts the baku as a tapir.

* The characters Haine Rammsteiner in the manga Dogs and Dogs / Bullets & Carnage was experimented on as a child, leaving him with augmented regenerative abilities as well as increased reflexes.

* 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.

Original manga based on the Doraemon movies were also released in CoroCoro Comic.

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.

C ' mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.

is a media franchise based on the Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.

Both were based on storylines from the first manga.

Hentai manga on display at a Japanese bookstore.

Even after focusing primarily on his manga career, Asamiya continued to do character designs and creative consultation on anime series based on his stories, occasionally under the Kikuchi name.

To that end, he has worked on projects with Image Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics, as well as developing a manga adaptation of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

The next year, Otomo began work on a manga which would become his most acclaimed and famous work: Akira.

* Mars ( TV series ), a 2004 Taiwanese drama series based on the manga by Fuyumi Soryo

If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or even during its run, although sometimes manga are drawn centering on previously existing live-action or animated films ( e. g. Star Wars ).

Writers on manga history have described two broad and complementary processes shaping modern manga.

Hasegawa's focus on daily life and on women's experience also came to characterize later shōjo manga.

From the 1950s on, shōnen manga focused on topics thought to interest the archetypal boy, including subjects like robots, space-travel, and heroic action-adventure.

He collects manga despite his hatred of Japan's influence on American animation.

is an internationally renowned manga artist, born on November 23, 1961.

Mylene's parents Max and Millia, Akiko Houjoh, and Dr. Chiba also return in the manga, whereas those characters never featured in the OVA.

* 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.

This story was reprinted in the last chapter of the manga Book 6.

In early 2009, Miyazaki returned with a new manga called, telling the story of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter designer Jiro Horikoshi.

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.

The anime included some story arcs not covered in the manga, and is notable for being the only one of Rumiko Takahashi's four long-running series where the television series ending corresponds to the manga ending.

A live action movie was also made by Toei in 1986, though it deviates significantly from the story in the manga and anime.

Early on in the story, Daisuke Ido, a bounty-hunting cybernetic doctor who finds and revives Alita plays a major role as well, but midway through the manga he becomes marginalized as focus begins to increasingly shift to Desty Nova, an eccentric nanotechnology scientist who has fled from Tiphares.

The story follows the manga, taking place three years after Belldandy and Keiichi first meet.

The plot does not seem to follow any of the existing canon, but uses plot devices from several different story arcs from the manga, mostly the Lord Of Terror arc.

* " Monsters ", a manga short story by Eiichiro Oda

His 2001 miniseries Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives told the story of some incidental Sandman characters, and was later retold by Jill Thompson in manga form ( 2005 ).

In July 2006, a short story based on the manga was published in issue 15 of Margaret magazine.

Only the third story arc of the manga, which is the most popular and well-known, received an English release in North America by Viz Media from 2005 to 2010.

Though it only covers part of the manga, critics felt the ending brought the story to a good stopping point while making it clear that there was much left for the Sohma and Tohru to deal with, including the curse and Tohru's future choice between Kyo and Yuki.

A manga series loosely based on the anime with a whole new story line and written for a mature audience.

The titular story of Volume 2 of Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima's manga comic Lone Wolf and Cub revolves around Linji's saying " if you meet a buddha, kill the buddha ," in which the protagonist must overcome his self to assassinate a living buddha.

The story arc " Lone Goat and Kid " features an assassin who wanders with his son in a babycart, referring to the film / manga series, Lone Wolf and Cub.

Destiny of an Emperor is based on Hiroshi Motomiya's manga, Tenchi wo Kurau, which follows the story of popular Chinese historical figure Liu Bei and his sworn brothers, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.

* Leo ( Kimba ): The main protagonist of the story who, in the original manga, is followed from birth to death.

Hiroo Takeuchi ) released in Japan, based on the second half of Dr. Tezuka's original manga story.

Exclusive songs, inspired by the manga story were commissioned from international and Japanese DJs, and the story was launched in fortnightly episodes on the Net, with the individual songs available free through iTunes Japan.

However, it ran past the story arc of the manga, resulting in a new ending.

The story of the manga begins at the same point as the start of the anime and carries the story a little bit beyond the anime itself.