Curated category
American anime-influenced animated television series
- Perfect Hair ForeverPerfect Hair Forever arrived on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block on the 7th of November 2004 without any announcement that it was coming at all.
- Star Wars RebelsStar Wars Rebels arrived on Disney Channel on the 3rd of October 2014 with a question hanging over it: could a new animated series capture what made the…
- Street Fighter (TV series)Street Fighter, the animated television series that aired from 1995 to 1997, arrived at a peculiar moment in pop culture.
- Castlevania (TV series)Castlevania, the American adult animated series that debuted on Netflix on the 7th of July 2017, began not as a television show but as a film pitch that sat…
- Kappa MikeyKappa Mikey began not in a television studio but in a toy company. Larry Schwarz was working at Rumpus Toys, a toy design firm in New York City, when he…
- High Guardian SpiceHigh Guardian Spice was supposed to be Crunchyroll's very first original series. Instead, when it premiered on the 26th of October, 2021, it was…
- Avatar: The Last AirbenderAvatar: The Last Airbender premiered on Nickelodeon on the 21st of February 2005, and what greeted viewers that evening was unlike anything American…
- RWBYRWBY, pronounced "Ruby," launched on the 18th of July 2013, on the Rooster Teeth website, and it arrived with a question its creators never expected to face…
- Star Wars ResistanceStar Wars Resistance premiered on Disney Channel on the 7th of October 2018. Its protagonist, Kazuda Xiono, was a New Republic pilot recruited by the…
- She-Ra and the Princesses of PowerShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power arrived on Netflix in 2018 with a question embedded in its premise: what happens when a child soldier discovers that…
- Star Wars: VisionsJames Waugh, vice president of franchise content at Lucasfilm, pitched the idea for Star Wars: Visions to Kathleen Kennedy in early 2020.