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Fantasy anime and manga

  • Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XVThe anime Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV tells the friends' backstories the game had no room for.
  • The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can EnterIn The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Noir's new power can kill him if his Life Points reach zero.
  • Last Order: Final Fantasy VIIJapanese fans disliked how Last Order: Final Fantasy VII showed Nibelheim, so a later game redrew the scene.
  • InuyashaIn the manga Inuyasha, a dying priestess orders her own body burned along with a sacred jewel.
  • NarutoOn the night Naruto was born, his father sealed a nine-tailed fox inside him. He grew up scorned by the village.
  • Oh My Goddess!A wrong number connects a college student to a goddess who offers him one wish. He wishes she will stay forever.
  • Pom PokoStudio Ghibli's Pom Poko ends on a golf course, where a grassy clearing is all that remains of an ancient forest.
  • One PieceOda sealed the truth about One Piece's treasure in a box and sent it to the ocean floor.
  • One Piece (1999 TV series)One Piece, the Japanese anime television series made by Toei Animation, first aired on Fuji Television in October 1999. Since then, more than 1,100 episodes have gone out, and they were later exported to over 80 countries. The series…
  • Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z got its name because its creator wanted the series to end.
  • Final Fantasy: Legend of the CrystalsFinal Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals was the first animated Final Fantasy work and the first direct game sequel.
  • Pokémon (TV series)Pokémon, the Japanese anime television series, has broadcast more than 1,300 episodes and now airs in 192 countries at the same time. It began on TV Tokyo with a simple premise. A ten-year-old trainer and his partner Pikachu would travel a…
  • Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014 TV series)Ronja, the Robber's Daughter is Studio Ghibli's first television series.
  • Dragon QuestOver 300 Japanese schoolchildren were arrested for truancy when Dragon Quest III went on sale.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimIn Tolkien's appendices, King Helm Hammerhand's daughter has no name, so a film gave her one.
  • Fairy TailFairy Tail, a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima, had 72 million copies in print by February 2020. That figure places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its hero is Natsu Dragneel, a wizard who roams a…
  • Naruto (TV series)The anime series Naruto opens on Naruto Uzumaki, a young orphan ninja who wants nothing more than recognition from his peers. His dream is to become the Hokage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Nobody around him takes that…
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise)Neon Genesis Evangelion had a manga running eight months before its anime aired.
  • Final Fantasy: UnlimitedFinal Fantasy: Unlimited was planned for 52 episodes but ran only 25. Low ratings and a film flop cut the anime short.
  • FrierenFrieren is an elven mage who makes a promise to her friends that, for her, is almost no promise at all. Under a meteor shower called the Era Meteors, which appears once every fifty years, she agrees to gather with her old companions again…
  • Witch Hat AtelierWitch Hat Atelier is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama, and its story begins with a mistake born of longing. A girl named Coco has dreamed for years of becoming a witch. One day she casts a spell by…
  • Delicious in DungeonDelicious in Dungeon, a manga by Ryoko Kui, opens with a red dragon swallowing a spellcaster named Falin Touden. Her surviving companions are cut off from most of their supplies, deep underground, with a rescue to attempt. Their answer is…
  • Black CloverIn the manga Black Clover, the hero wants to be Wizard King but has no magic.
  • Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…
  • Hunter × HunterHunter × Hunter, the Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi, is spoken aloud as "hunter hunter," because the multiplication sign in its title makes no sound. The doubled name came from a television variety show called Downtown, where…

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