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Anime series based on manga
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)Ufotable announced the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in June 2018. Director Haruo Sotozaki and producer Hikaru Kondo led the project.
- Berserk (2016 TV series)Berserk, Kentaro Miura's sprawling dark fantasy manga, returned to Japanese television screens on the 1st of July 2016 with a new anime adaptation that…
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z premiered on Fuji Television on the 26th of April 1989, and from that first episode it was chasing something its predecessor never quite…
- Berserk (1997 TV series)Berserk, the 1997 anime television series, opens not with a hero's journey but with a survivor's rage. Guts, a lone mercenary warrior, is shown already…
- Fist of the North StarFist of the North Star opens with a single phrase that would eventually conquer the internet decades after anyone first read it: "You are already dead."…
- The Rose of VersaillesThe Rose of Versailles arrived in Japanese readers' hands on the 21st of May 1972, and it asked something no shojo manga had dared ask before: what if the…
- Sailor Moon (TV series)Sailor Moon first aired in Japan on the 7th of March 1992, and within three years the franchise had generated $1.5 billion in merchandise sales.
- Attack on Titan (TV series)On the 1st of July, 2019, a young boy named Eren Yeager stood atop a wall that had protected humanity for a century. He watched as a massive creature…
- Black ButlerBlack Butler, the manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso, opens on a single night in Victorian-era London that changes everything.
- Crayon Shin-chanCrayon Shin-chan is a Japanese manga series created by Yoshito Usui, and from its first appearance in 1990, it has never quite behaved the way anyone…
- Monster (manga)In December 1994, a manga titled Monster began serialization in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original magazine. The story centers on Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese…
- Tetsujin 28-goTetsujin 28-go arrived in 1956, the creation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and it asked a question that would echo through decades of Japanese popular culture: what…
- Tokyo RevengersIn 2017, a twenty-six-year-old part-time worker named Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his ex-girlfriend Hinata Tachibana has been murdered.
- Claymore (manga)Claymore is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi, and it opens on a world where the line between human and monster is drawn in…
- Oshi no KoOn the night of Ai Hoshino's delivery, obstetrician Gorou Amamiya stands in a hospital room filled with the sterile scent of antiseptic and the hum of…
- Blue ExorcistBlue Exorcist opens with a teenager pulling a sword from a scabbard - and discovering he is the son of Satan. Rin Okumura does not learn this quietly.
- Cobra (manga)Cobra, the manga series by Buichi Terasawa, opens not with a hero striding across a starfield, but with an ordinary office worker named Johnson who is bored.
- Aim for the Ace!Aim for the Ace! began as a single story in a Japanese girls' magazine in January 1973, and it never really stopped. Sumika Yamamoto's manga about a high…
- Bastard!!Bastard!! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara, and it is named after its own irreverence.