Curated playlist
Post-apocalyptic anime and manga
- Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebop lost its toy company sponsor after early footage showed it would never sell spaceship toys.
- Akira (manga)Akira was the first comic in the world to be colored digitally. Steve Oliff colored the American edition of the manga.
- Fist of the North StarAn editor's used-bookshop find led to the manga Fist of the North Star.
- Battle Angel AlitaA doctor digging through a garbage dump finds a living cyborg head and torso. He names her Alita, after his dead cat.
- Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan was the first non-English show to become the world's most in-demand TV program.
- Attack on TitanAttack on Titan's giants began with a drunk customer at an internet cafe.
- Gurren LagannIn the anime Gurren Lagann, the hero Kamina dies in episode eight. Simon must then carry the story.
- Violence JackThe final chapter of manga Violence Jack reveals its ruined world was re-created by God.
- Bastard!!Kazushi Hagiwara's manga about a dark wizard names its characters, spells and places after rock and metal bands.
- DorohedoroDorohedoro, a Japanese manga series by Q Hayashida, begins with a man whose head is that of a reptile and who cannot remember who he used to be. His name is Caiman. His only clue to the sorcerer who cursed him is a full-size man living…