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Media franchises
- Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed began as a game about a prince who wasn't a prince. In the early 2000s, Ubisoft Montreal set out to make a sequel to Prince of Persia: The…
- James BondJames Bond was born from a very deliberate act of boredom management. On the 17th of February 1952, Ian Fleming sat down at his Goldeneye estate in…
- Toy Story (franchise)Toy Story arrived in theaters on the 22nd of November, 1995, and it carried a secret that no film had ever carried before: every frame of it was made…
- Media franchiseA media franchise is a collection of related works derived from a single original creative property, such as a film, a novel, a television program, or a…
- PokémonPokémon began as the private obsession of a boy in Machida, a suburb of Tokyo, who spent his childhood catching insects in the ponds and fields around his…
- GundamGundam is a Japanese media franchise that began airing on the 7th of April 1979, and what started as a single animated series about giant fighting robots has…
- Silent HillSilent Hill began as a small internal project at Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo in September 1996, and what emerged from that studio would reshape what…
- DevilmanDevilman is the manga series by Go Nagai that sent a 16-year-old reader named Nanase Ohkawa into a state of shock she never forgot, and eventually led her to…
- KonoSubaKazuma Satou, a Japanese teenage shut-in known as a NEET, dies in an untimely and embarrassing manner. He meets Aqua, a goddess who offers to reincarnate him…
- 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…
- The Beatles AnthologyThe Beatles Anthology began with a single day's sales figure that had never been achieved before: 450,000 copies of one album sold in a single day.
- Granblue FantasyGranblue Fantasy launched in Japan in March 2014 on Android, iOS, and web browsers, built by a studio called Cygames. What made it remarkable from the start…