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.

* ladies ' comics ( redīsu komikku or redicomi ), originally meaning any manga for adult women ( see josei ) but now often applied specifically to pornographic manga for women

Despite the anime series itself being on hold, Sunrise gave artist Katsu Aki the existing production and character designs, resulting in the first manga series having the heavy shōnen feel and curvaceous Hitomi that was originally planned for the anime series.

Shōnen-ai originally connoted ephebophilia or pederasty in Japan, but from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, was used to describe a new genre of shōjo manga, primarily by the Year 24 Group, about beautiful boys in love.

Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as, is a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990 and originally published in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine.

: The focus character of both the anime and the manga is Speed Racer, originally Gō Mifune.

: Other regular characters included Sparky, whose full name in the movie and in Speed Racer: The Next Generation is Wilson Sparkolemew ( in the manga and anime, he is only called Sparky ), was originally named and is called Bujía in the Latin American version, the company mechanic, whose yellow shirt bears an " pid " that matches both his original Japanese name and the North American renaming.

* At the end of the manga, Rex Racer is portrayed driving the Mach 5 — a scene that may have inspired the backstory of the car in the live-action film, in which it originally belonged to Rex who relinquished ownership to his younger brother, Speed.

It was originally confirmed that Viz Media would release the manga beginning on September 2010.

The manga originally ended in 2002 after 12 volumes, but new chapters are being serialized in an online manga anthology.

Enix began publishing manga in 1991 in its own Gangan Comics publications, which originally consisted of Monthly Shōnen Gangan, Monthly Gangan Wing, and Monthly GFantasy.

The Weekly Shōnen Jump's sister publication was a manga magazine called Shōnen Book, which was originally a male version of the short-lived shōjo manga anthology Shōjo Book.

The manga is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English originally by Tokyopop, but has since been re-licensed by Dark Horse Comics.

Along with the novels, Kurata scripted the official R. O. D manga illustrated by Shutaro Yamada, which was originally published in Ultra Jump magazine and later printed into four paperback volumes, and Read or Dream, a manga illustrated by Ran Ayanaga set in the same universe as Read or Die.

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Demon Lord Dante.

The manga was originally published by Kodansha from to in Shōnen Magazine.

It was originally serialized in the weekly manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 1981 – 1986.

* Rikdo Koshi, creator of the manga Excel Saga, originally started out as a dōjinshi artist.

: A prodigy novelist in her high school years, usually referred to as sensei and originally featured in the Read or Die manga as a teenage friend of the older Yomiko.

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

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

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

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.

His major work in this format is the seven-volume manga version of his tale Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which he created from 1982 to 1994 and which has sold millions of copies worldwide.

Since the mid-1970s, women have created the vast majority of shōjo manga ; notable exceptions include Mineo Maya and Shinji Wada ).

A manga created by Leiji Matsumoto.

In addition, manga have been created based on the many of the series ' games, including A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, the Oracle series, Four Swords Adventures, The Minish Cap and Phantom Hourglass.

* Superior ( manga ), a Manga created by Ichtys

* Fullmetal Alchemist, the English title of a series of Japanese manga and anime created by Hiromu Arakawa

The anime and manga were created simultaneously, but, despite some similarities, they progressed in different directions.

Before starting work on Oh My Goddess !, Kōsuke Fujishima created the manga You're Under Arrest !.

* In the anime and manga Pandora Hearts, one of the main characters, Alice, had a pet cat that died, but returns 100 years later as a chain in a realm created by one of Alice's memories.

( also rendered as Nadesico ), is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya.

*, a Japanese manga series created by Min Ayahana

is a Japanese manga series created by Clamp, a manga artist team made up by Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona.

* Studio TRON, a comic book and animation studio created by manga artist Kia Asamiya

Since this debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shōjo manga.

In 2000, Naoki Urasawa created a Japanese manga entitled 20th Century Boys that was inspired by Marc Bolan's song, " 20th Century Boy ".

, is a manga and tokusatsu series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama.

Created by Osamu Tezuka and based on his manga of the same title which began publication in 1950, it was the first color animated television series created in Japan.