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  • Bleach (TV series)Bleach, the Japanese anime television series, ran for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo between 2004 and 2012. It adapts the manga Bleach by Tite Kubo. Studio Pierrot produced it, and Noriyuki Abe directed. The title is written in capital letters,…
  • Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebop lost its toy company sponsor after early footage showed it would never sell spaceship toys.
  • Neon Genesis EvangelionDirector Hideaki Anno called Neon Genesis Evangelion a metaphor for his own four-year depression.
  • Pokémon (TV series)Pokémon, the Japanese anime television series, has broadcast more than 1,300 episodes and now airs in 192 countries at the same time. It began on TV Tokyo with a simple premise. A ten-year-old trainer and his partner Pikachu would travel a…
  • Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
  • Naruto (TV series)The anime series Naruto opens on Naruto Uzumaki, a young orphan ninja who wants nothing more than recognition from his peers. His dream is to become the Hokage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Nobody around him takes that…
  • Soul EaterAtsushi Ohkubo's manga Soul Eater runs on a strict counting rule. A living weapon must absorb the souls of 99 evil humans, followed by one witch, in exactly that order. Break the sequence and the tally starts over from zero. A rule like…
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer began as a Japanese comic inspired by Elvis and James Bond. Tatsuo Yoshida merged two films into one hero.
  • Final Fantasy: UnlimitedFinal Fantasy: Unlimited was planned for 52 episodes but ran only 25. Low ratings and a film flop cut the anime short.
  • Gurren LagannIn the anime Gurren Lagann, the hero Kamina dies in episode eight. Simon must then carry the story.
  • Serial Experiments LainThe anime Serial Experiments Lain begins with a dead girl's email.
  • Space Runaway IdeonSpace Runaway Ideon came straight out of director Yoshiyuki Tomino's studio after Mobile Suit Gundam, the signature work he had just finished. Sunrise produced it, and Tomino both created and directed it. The story sends ordinary human…
  • Baki the GrapplerBaki the Grappler is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keisuke Itagaki, and it has sold in numbers few comics ever reach. By May 2021, the various Baki series had more than 85 million collected volumes in circulation. By…
  • Kaiju No. 8Kaiju No. 8 rests on one bitter irony. In this Japanese web manga by Naoya Matsumoto, a man named Kafka Hibino longs to join the force that kills monsters. Then he gains the power to turn into one himself. Every dream he has left now…
  • Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…
  • One-Punch ManOne-Punch Man is a Japanese manga series about a hero who can end any fight with a single punch. Saitama has trained so thoroughly that no opponent can test him, and the reward is boredom rather than glory. His creator, who goes by the…
  • 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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