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 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.

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

Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982, and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997.

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

Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982.

In 1988 Dark Horse Comics released a six-issue limited series, Godzilla, which was an American adaptation of the Japanese manga adaptation of The Return of Godzilla.

The first manga was originally serialized in Young Magazine from April 1989 to November 1990 and was followed by a sequel, Man-Machine Interface, from September 1991 to August 1997 ; each series was later published as its own tankōbon volume by Kodansha.

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

The first entry in the franchise was Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga, first published in 1989 in Young Magazine.

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

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

Avi Arad and Steven Paul are confirmed producers ; Jamie Moss was originally hired to adapt the manga into a screenplay but in October 2009 it was announced that Laeta Kalogridis had replaced Moss as writer.

Tentacle rape was not present in the Urotsukidoji manga, but was featured in a series that he would publish years later called Demon Beast Invasion.

Although the manga was never completed, it is regarded as a milestone in Otomo's career as it contained many of the same themes he would explore in his later, more successful manga such as Dōmu.

In 2008, the U. S. and Canadian manga market was valued at $ 175 million.

This kind of visual dynamism was widely adopted by later manga artists.

While in college, he developed an interest in manga, which led him to create his own complete work, Black Magic, which was published in the manga fanzine Atlas.

Hayao Miyazaki adapted his manga series Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind into a feature film of the same name in 1984.

He adapted it from his manga series of the same title, which he began writing and illustrating two years earlier, but which remained incomplete until after the film's release.

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.

For example, an Internet manga called Tonari no 801-chan, about a male otaku who dates a fujoshi, has been adapted into a serialized shōjo manga and a live-action film.

* 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.

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.

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 manga series has also been adapted into live-action television drama series in Japan, Taiwan and Korea it was also adapted into two live-action films.

Miyamoto Musashi | Musashi Miyamoto in Vagabond ( manga ) | Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue, adapted from an Eiji Yoshikawa's novel, Musashi ( novel ) | Musashi.

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

In 2000, just one year after publication, Battle Royale was adapted into a manga series, written by Takami himself, and a feature film.

Like most manga series that have been adapted to anime, there are several changes that occur in both timelines of the Speed Racer ( Mach GoGoGo ) series.

* Most of the stories from the manga that were adapted to the anime were given slight changes.

There are also stories never adapted into the anime series, thus making them manga exclusives.

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.

Eroticism for the masses: Japanese manga comics and their assimilation into the U. S. Sexuality & Culture, 6 ( 1 ) pp. 3 – 126.

One of the most widely published Japanese manga artist, nearly all of his stories have been translated into other languages, including English.

The group included Hagio Moto, Riyoko Ikeda, Yumiko Oshima, Keiko Takemiya, and Ryoko Yamagishi, and they marked the first major entry of female artists into manga.

Modern shōjo manga romance features love as a major theme set into emotionally intense narratives of self-realization.

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.

From 1975 to shōjo manga continued to develop stylistically while simultaneously branching out into different but overlapping subgenres.

The manga has been translated into English and fifteen volumes spanning the series are available from Viz Media.

They are also used as a symbol of dizziness, where the eyes of a cartoon character, especially in anime and manga, will turn into spirals to show they are dizzy or dazed.

While frequently expressed in large wooden carvings ( totem poles ), Chilkat weaving, or ornate jewelry, it is also moving quickly into works of popular expression such as Haida manga.

Kenji Uchiyama translated Seton's Work for the manga From English into Japanese.

Another notable example is the relationship between Genshiken, a manga series about popular culture, and Kujibiki Unbalance, a series in the Genshiken universe, which has spawned merchandise of its own, and is being remade into a series on its own.

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.