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Anime and manga about revenge

  • Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood began with a notice printed in the 20th volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, released in August 2008. Its author, Hiromu Arakawa, used that volume to announce that a second anime adaptation was already…
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)In a 2020 poll, Japanese schoolchildren admired a fictional demon slayer more than their own mothers.
  • Akira (manga)Akira was the first comic in the world to be colored digitally. Steve Oliff colored the American edition of the manga.
  • Berserk (2016 TV series)The 2016 Berserk anime mixed 3D models with hand-drawn 2D art. Shadows on both got the same pen-like hatching effect.
  • Vinland Saga (manga)Vinland Saga began as a story about slavery, not Vikings. The manga's editor pushed for a Viking warrior hero first.
  • Berserk (manga)Kentaro Miura's manga Berserk kept going after he died in 2021. His friend Kouji Mori now supervises the story.
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no YaibaDemon Slayer began as a quiet manga about a boy who sold charcoal. By July 2025 it had over 220 million copies out.
  • Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan was the first non-English show to become the world's most in-demand TV program.
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen TrainDemon Slayer: Mugen Train topped the 2020 worldwide box office. It was the first non-American film to do so.
  • Black ButlerIn Black Butler, a demon ignores a cult's summoning and answers a twelve-year-old boy's call instead.
  • Attack on TitanAttack on Titan's giants began with a drunk customer at an internet cafe.
  • Fullmetal AlchemistTwo brothers try to bring their mother back in Fullmetal Alchemist, and lose a leg and a whole body.
  • Tokyo RevengersIn Tokyo Revengers, a part-timer shoved from a subway platform lands twelve years in the past.
  • Oshi no KoIn Oshi no Ko, a doctor is murdered and reborn as his idol patient's son. He remembers his old life.
  • Lone Wolf and CubA one-year-old crawls toward a sword instead of a ball in Lone Wolf and Cub.
  • Code GeassCode Geass is a Japanese anime television series produced by the studio Sunrise, and its premise rests on a single dangerous gift. The gift is called Geass, and it is the power of absolute obedience. Whoever receives it can issue a command…

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