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Manga adapted into films
- Akira (manga)Akira is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo, and when its first collected volume hit shelves in Japan in September 1984, its…
- 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…
- Berserk (manga)Berserk, the dark fantasy manga series created by Kentaro Miura, opens with a man born from the corpse of his hanged mother.
- 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…
- Battle Angel AlitaBattle Angel Alita opens on a garbage dump. Not a metaphor, not a mood-setter, but a literal scrap heap raining down from a floating city high above.
- Astro BoyAstro Boy is a small android with jet engines in his feet, a machine gun hidden in his hips, and the ability to feel. Osamu Tezuka created him in 1952 for a…
- Captain Harlock (manga)The year 1977 marked the beginning of a new era in Japanese comics. Leiji Matsumoto launched his space opera series in Akita Shoten's Play Comic magazine.
- Rurouni KenshinRurouni Kenshin opens on a man carrying a sword he has sworn never to use. It is 1878, the eleventh year of Japan's Meiji era, and Himura Kenshin wanders the…
- Black ButlerBlack Butler, the manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso, opens on a single night in Victorian-era London that changes everything.
- Attack on TitanAttack on Titan begins in the year 845, when two enormous humanoids punch through the outermost of three great circular walls and leave a boy named Eren…
- Fullmetal AlchemistFullmetal Alchemist began in a single magazine page published on the 12th of July 2001 in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, the monthly anthology put out by Square Enix.
- Bleach (manga)Bleach began with a drawing of a kimono. Tite Kubo, a manga artist whose previous series had just been cancelled, sat down with the image of a death god…
- DororoDororo begins with a bargain no father should ever make. A powerful daimyo named Kagemitsu Daigo strikes a pact with 48 demons, offering them anything they…
- 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…
- Ashita no JoeAshita no Joe begins with a young drifter wandering through the San'ya slums, an encounter that will set in motion one of the most debated endings in manga…
- 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.
- 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.
- Lone Wolf and CubLone Wolf and Cub begins with a one-year-old placed before two objects: a ball and a sword. His father, Ogami Itto, the shogun's executioner, watches in…