Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items.

* In the anime television series Beyblade, the character Enrique possesses the bit beast Amphilyon, which is based on this creature in design.

In the 2006 anime Black Lagoon, the nickname of the local Russian mob boss is " Balalaika ".

* In anime Bleach is an example, Ikkaku Madarame carries a bokken when in his Gigai as he wasn't allowed to carry a real sword in public.

Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

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

" Southern Cross " is the Japanese title of the Orange Crew, a group of Gym Leaders who preside over the Orange Island archipelago's league and are featured in the Pokémon anime.

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.

is a 1998 Japanese anime series developed by Sunrise.

Cowboy Bebop is now considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anime of all time.

This implies that much anime is not specifically Japanese and therefore lacks a distinct national identity.

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.

* The anime Digimon is set in a variant of the cyberspace concept called the " Digital World ".

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

There is a character in the Saint Seiya comic and anime called Cepheus Daedalus, a silver saint from Argentina, master of Andromeda Shun and Chameleon June.

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

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

, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.

The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert back to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue.

Where foreign distribution occurs, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television series, cartoons and anime.

* In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as, is an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline.

Solid State Society is a sequel to the TV anime series storyline, and so takes place in a separate continuity.

Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

" Tjaden appears as a well-liked school teacher in the sequel, The Road Back, but it is unclear whether he is the same person as in the prequel.

He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999-2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is established that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the son and heir of Dmitri Harkonnen and his wife Victoria.

He is featured in 1965's Dune, the original novel in the science fiction series, as well as the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

David Davalos ' Wittenberg is a " tragical-comical-historical " prequel to Hamlet that depicts the Danish prince as a student at Wittenberg University ( now known as the University of Halle-Wittenberg ), where he is torn between the conflicting teachings of his mentors John Faustus and Martin Luther.

The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.

Like Enterprise, the new film ( which did contain an indirect reference to the series: Scotty believes he has been " exiled " to the remote Starfleet outpost, where Kirk and the older Spock encounter him, as punishment for losing Admiral Archer's beagle-whom Kirk is quite familiar with-in a transporter mishap ) also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.

In the official comic book prequel to the movie Star Trek, Worf is a General in the Klingon Empire who is dispatched to deal with Romulan Captain Nero and his significantly altered mining vessel, the Narada.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Slayers Special is a spin-off prequel series of 30 novels published from 1991 to 2008.

Prophet's Power, numbered as the second book in the series, is actually a prequel to the first, Hard Crash ; thus it is harder for readers to understand what happened in the story.

There is also a prequel novel and a companion book available.

Paul's birth is featured in the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson prequel novel Dune: House Corrino ( 2001 ).

He is portrayed in the 1993 film Gettysburg ( based on the The Killer Angels ) by Tom Berenger, and in the prequel, Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), by Bruce Boxleitner.

Coincidentally, Lawson is the maternal uncle of Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy.