Curated playlist
Fiction about size change
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll improvised Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on a boat trip in 1862. He published it three years later.
- Super Dimension Fortress MacrossA pop star who never existed had a real hit song in the anime Macross.
- Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryDahl's early drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had nine golden tickets, not five.
- One PieceOda sealed the truth about One Piece's treasure in a box and sent it to the ocean floor.
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z got its name because its creator wanted the series to end.
- Case ClosedCase Closed, a Japanese manga series by Gosho Aoyama, had more than 270 million copies in circulation worldwide by January 2023. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. It runs in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, a magazine…
- Super SentaiOn the 8th of February 2026, No.1 Sentai Gozyuger aired its final episode. It was the 49th season of Super Sentai, a Japanese franchise of superhero team shows produced by Toei Company and aired by TV Asahi. The run reached back to 1975.…
- Attack on TitanAttack on Titan's giants began with a drunk customer at an internet cafe.
- Dragon Ball (manga)519 chapters of Dragon Ball, a Japanese manga by Akira Toriyama, filled 42 tankōbon volumes. By 2022, those volumes had sold 260 million copies worldwide. Toriyama, though, never planned for such a run. He first guessed that the story…
- The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)The Seven Deadly Sins, the Japanese manga by Nakaba Suzuki, began with a pilot chapter that its author drew more than twenty times. One discarded manuscript, titled Chapter X, reached English readers in 2015 on the website of Kodansha USA.…