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Fantasy anime and manga
- Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XVBrotherhood: Final Fantasy XV launched on the 30th of March 2016 at an event called "Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV", a dedicated media showcase for the game…
- The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can EnterIn January 2017, a user named Meguru Seto uploaded the first chapter of a fantasy story to Shōsetsuka ni Narō. This website allowed anyone to publish their…
- Last Order: Final Fantasy VIILast Order: Final Fantasy VII arrived in Japan on the 14th of September 2005, bundled inside a special release called Advent Pieces: Limited.
- InuyashaInuyasha is a Japanese manga series created by Rumiko Takahashi, and it begins with a betrayal. In 1496 Japan, a priestess named Kikyo and a half-demon she…
- NarutoNaruto Uzumaki was born into a lie. On the night of his birth, his father, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, sealed a monstrous nine-tailed fox called…
- Oh My Goddess!Oh My Goddess! began with a wrong number. Keiichi Morisato, a college sophomore, accidentally dials the Goddess Help Line and finds himself face to face with…
- Pom PokoIn the Tama Hills, a group of tanuki drummed their bellies to create a sound like Pom Poko. This rhythm came from a 1919 poem by Ujō Noguchi that became a…
- 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…
- Final Fantasy: Legend of the CrystalsFinal Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals holds a specific claim that no other animated work can match: it was the first piece of animated media ever produced…
- Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014 TV series)Astrid Lindgren wrote the novel Ronja, the Robber's Daughter in Sweden during the 1980s. The story centers on a bandit chief's only child who grows up within…
- Dragon QuestDragon Quest, the Japanese role-playing franchise that first arrived on the Famicom on the 27th of May, 1986, turned into something Japan had never quite…
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimIn June 2021, New Line Cinema announced a fast-tracked anime film to secure the rights to J. R. R. Tolkien's novels before they expired.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise)Hideaki Anno stood at the helm of Gainax in 1995, steering a project that would become Neon Genesis Evangelion. The anime series began airing on TV Tokyo in…
- Final Fantasy: UnlimitedFinal Fantasy: Unlimited launched on TV Tokyo on the 2nd of October 2001, slotting into a 6:30 PM Tuesday timeslot aimed squarely at younger viewers.
- Black CloverBlack Clover, the manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Tabata, opens with a premise that sounds almost like a joke: in a world where every person is…