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Science fiction anime and manga

  • Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood began with a notice printed in the 20th volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, released in August 2008. Its author, Hiromu Arakawa, used that volume to announce that a second anime adaptation was already…
  • One PieceOda sealed the truth about One Piece's treasure in a box and sent it to the ocean floor.
  • Kurau Phantom MemoryA lab accident scattered twelve-year-old Kurau into light. When she reformed, another being came back with her.
  • DoraemonDoraemon, the hero of a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio, is a robotic cat with no ears. Robotic mice chewed them off, and he has feared mice ever since. The same sadness drained his original yellow color and left him blue. That…
  • Astro BoyAstro Boy, a robot boy, was built to replace a dead son and then sold to a circus. His creator rejected him.
  • Mole's AdventureA mole afraid of sunlight flew to another planet in Japan's earliest surviving TV anime.
  • FLCLFLCL begins with a Vespa, a twelve-year-old boy, and a blue vintage Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar. The boy is Naota Nandaba. The woman swinging a left-handed bass at his head is Haruko Haruhara, an alien who has just run him over. She…
  • GintamaGintama opens with a joke about its own page count. In the very first chapter, a character finishes a short fight and complains that it lasted only one page. The hero, Gintoki, snaps back: "Shut up! One page is a long time for a manga…
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise)Neon Genesis Evangelion had a manga running eight months before its anime aired.
  • Tetsujin 28-goIn the manga Tetsujin 28-go, a ten-year-old boy inherits his dead father's giant war robot.
  • Tokyo RevengersIn Tokyo Revengers, a part-timer shoved from a subway platform lands twelve years in the past.
  • Haruhi SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito, and it helped solve a math problem that had stayed open since 1993. In 2011, a crowd on 4chan set out to answer a puzzle inspired by the anime's…
  • Sword Art OnlineSword Art Online opens with 10,000 players logging into a virtual reality game for the first time on the 6th of November, only to discover that they cannot log out. The year is 2022, and each player wears a helmet called the NerveGear,…
  • Lazarus (Japanese TV series)Lazarus is an anime series that begins with a video posted online in October 2052 by a man the world believed it had lost. He is Dr. Skinner, a celebrated neuroscientist who vanished three years earlier. His message is short and chilling.…

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