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A Anime/Manga Franchise represents an overarching brand. It can contain titles that exist in the same universe, or merely recurring elements. Franchises can also include "sub-franchises" that further group related titles.
 
 
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x Dragon Ball        
The Z Fighters (孫 悟空, zetto senshi), also known as the Z Senshi, Z Warriors and Earth's Special Forces, are a small organization of superhuman martial artists in Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise, all of whom are dedicated to protecting the...
x Patlabor        
Patlabor (a portmanteau of "patrol" and "labor") also known as Mobile Police Patlabor (機動警察パトレイバー, Kidō Keisatsu patoreibā), is an anime and manga franchise created by Headgear, a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii, writer Kazunori Itō, mecha...
x Blue Submarine No. 6       青の6号
Blue Submarine No. 6 (青の6号, Ao no Roku-gō, literally "Blue #6") is a post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Ozawa, first published in 1967, which was subsequently developed into a four-episode original video animation (OVA)...
x Strawberry Panic!        
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!, Sutoroberī Panikku!) is a series of Japanese fictional illustrated short stories written by Sakurako Kimino, which focus on a group of teenage girls attending three affiliated all-girl schools on Astraea Hill. A...
x The Rose of Versailles Oscar and Marie Antoinette      
The Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら, Berusaiyu no Bara), also known as Lady Oscar or La Rose de Versailles, is one of the best-known titles in shōjo manga and a media franchise created by Riyoko Ikeda. It has been adapted into several Takarazuka Revue...
x Simoun        
Simoun (シムーン, Shimūn) is a Japanese anime television series that was broadcast in Japan in 2006. It ran for 26 weekly episodes from 3 April to 25 September. A manga adaptation was published in three issues of Comic Yuri Hime. The manga shared the...
x Kannazuki no Miko        
Kannazuki no Miko (神無月の巫女, lit. Priestesses of the Godless Month) is a manga series created by the duo Kaishaku. The series was serialized in fourteen chapters by Kadokawa Shoten and in Shōnen Ace in 2004 and 2005, and collected in two bound volumes...
x Black Lagoon        
Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーン, Burakku Ragūn) is a manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe, and published in Shogakukan's Sunday GX since 2002. An animated television series based on the manga aired in Japan from April 8, 2006, to June 24, 2006,...
x Naruto       ナルト
Naruto (NARUTO—ナルト—, NARUTO) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and dreams to become the Hokage,...
x Slam Dunk        
Slam Dunk (スラムダンク, Suramu Danku) is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been...
x Buzzer Beater       ブザービーター
Buzzer Beater (ブザービーター, Buzā Bītā) is a manga series by Takehiko Inoue. The series debuted on the web and was later published in print format by Shueisha, being serialized in its Monthly Shōnen Jump manga magazine. It can be read on Inoue's website...
x The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya       涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱
is the first Japan light novel in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' series written by Japanese author Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Japanese artist Noizi Ito. It was first published on June 6 2003 (ISBN 4-04-429201-9). Kyon is an ordinary freshman high...
x Rurouni Kenshin Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 28 (original version)      
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-, Rurōni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Rōmantan), also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting...
x Genesis of Aquarion        
Genesis of Aquarion (創聖のアクエリオン, Sōsei no Akuerion) is an anime TV series written and directed by Shoji Kawamori, produced by Satelight. The science fiction series is a homage to the Super Robot shows of the 1970s and 1980s, executed with modern...
x Ghost in the Shell Motoko Kusanagi from the manga   Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex  
Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊, Kōkaku Kidōtai, literally "Mobile Armored Riot Police") is a media franchise based on the Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. The first manga was originally serialized in Young Magazine...
x My-HiME          
x Devil May Cry          
x Appleseed          
x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha          
x Hellsing       ヘルシング  
x Martian Successor Nadesico        
Martian Successor Nadeshiko, known in Japan as Mobile Battleship Nadeshiko (機動戦艦ナデシコ, Kidō Senkan Nadeshiko) (also rendered as Nadesico), is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga,...
x Tekkaman Blade   Tekkaman      
x Sister Princess        
Sister Princess (シスター・プリンセス, Shisutā Purinsesu) is a popular Japanese seinen series written by Sakurako Kimino and illustrated by Naoto Tenhiro. It began as a serialized light novel series in 1999. In 2001, a manga series and a bishōjo game for the...
x Tsukihime        
Tsukihime (月姫, lit. Lunar Princess) is a Japanese adult dōjin visual novel created by Type-Moon, who first released it at the Winter Comiket in December 2000. It was adapted in 2003 into an anime series, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, produced by J.C.Staff...
x The King of Braves GaoGaiGar          
x Green Green          
x Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise        
Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion) is a Japanese media franchise created and owned by Gainax. Most of the franchise feature an apocalyptic mecha action story, which revolves around the efforts by the paramilitary...
x Astro Boy          
x Death Note       デスノート
Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a...
x La Blue Girl        
La Blue Girl (淫獣学園 La☆Blue Girl, Injū Gakuen La Blue Girl, roughly "Lewd Beast Academy: La Blue Girl") is an erotic anime and manga series. Based on the manga by Toshio Maeda, the La Blue Girl anime, like his other hentai series (e.g., Urotsukidōji)...
x My-Otome          
x Zipang          
x Gate Keepers        
Gate Keepers (ゲートキーパーズ, Gēto Kīpāzu) is primarily a role-playing video game for the PlayStation. The game was then adapted into a manga series written by Hiroshi Yamaguchi (山口 宏, Yamaguchi Hiroshi) and drawn by Keiji Gotoh and an anime series...
x Lamune          
x Project A-ko        
Project A-ko (プロジェクトA子, Purojekuto Eeko) is an animated movie that led to later releases set in the same series, and spinoff release as well. This parody series references a number of other works of anime from the 1970s and 1980s. The title itself...
x Nasu          
x Ojamajo Doremi series        
Magical DoReMi, known as Ojamajo Doremi ( おジャ魔女どれみ, Ojamajo Doremi, lit: Troublesome Witch Doremi) in Japan, is a magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation in 1999. It focuses on elementary school students who become witch...
x Battle Angel Alita          
x Yu-Gi-Oh!        
Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊戯王, Yūgiō, lit. "Game King" or "King of Games") is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi. It has produced a franchise that includes multiple anime shows, a trading card game and numerous video games. Most of the incarnations of...
x Saiyuki Franchise          
x Guyver          
x Di Gi Charat        
Di Gi Charat (デ・ジ・キャラット, De Ji Kyaratto) is a Japanese anime and manga series created by Koge-Donbo. The series follows a catgirl named Di Gi Charat "Dejiko" who was adopted as the mascot of Broccoli's retail chain store, Gamers. The original anime...
x Tiger Mask     Tiger Mask II  
Tiger Mask (タイガーマスク, Taigā Masuku) is a Japanese manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Naoki Tsuji. The series was first published in Kodansha's Bokura Magazine from 1968 to 1969 and was later published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine...
x Getter Robo        
Getter Robo (ゲッターロボ, Gettā Robo, typically romanized as Getter Robot in the various manga) is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV...
x Street Fighter          
x Oh My Goddess! Belldandy      
Oh! My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Ā Megami-sama), or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima. It premiered in the November 1988 issue of Afternoon where it is still being serialized....
x Gundam     Turn A Gundam  
The Gundam Series (ガンダムシリーズ, Gandamu Shirīzu) is a metaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Mobile Suits" (MS); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam. The metaseries started on...
Super Deformed Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
After War Gundam X
x Super Deformed Gundam SD-Gundam model Gundam    
SD Gundam (SDガンダム, Esu Dhī Gandamu, short for Super Deformed Gundam or BB Senshi SD Gundam BB戦士SDガンダム BB Senshi Esu Dhī Gandamu) is a series that spawned from the Gundam series. This series takes the mobile weapons and characters and express them in...
x Turn A Gundam   Gundam    
Turn A Gundam or ∀ Gundam (∀(ターンエー)ガンダム, Tān Ē Gandamu) is a 50 episode anime series that aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks and on the anime satellite television network, Animax, which was created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th...
x Mobile Fighter G Gundam        
Mobile Fighter G Gundam, known in Japan as Mobile Fighting Legend G Gundam (機動武闘伝Gガンダム, Kidō Butōden Jī Gandamu), is a Japanese animated television series directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo, Getter Robo Armageddon). Created to commemorate the...
x Zillion          
x Red Garden        
Red Garden (レッド ガーデン, Reddo Gāden) is a Japanese animated television program produced by Gonzo studios and broadcast in Japan on TV Asahi since October 3, 2006. The plot revolves around four girls who become involved in a series of supernatural...
x Mazinger Z     Mazinger Angels  
Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ, Majingā Zetto), known briefly as Tranzor Z in United States, is a Super Robot manga and anime series created by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and...
God Mazinger
Grendizer
Great Mazinger
Z Mazinger
x Z Mazinger   Mazinger Z    
Z Mazinger (Zマジンガー, Z Majingā) is a retelling of the Mazinger Z story by Go Nagai, mixing it with ancient Greek mythology. Here, Greek myths are the human testimony of the epic battles between robots piloted by extraterrestrials. The appearance of...
x Great Mazinger   Mazinger Z    
Great Mazinger (グレートマジンガー, Gurēto Majingā) is a manga comic book and anime television series by manga artist Go Nagai, made as a direct continuation of the successful Mazinger Z series. It was aired on Japanese television in 1974, immediately...
x Grendizer   Mazinger Z    
UFO Robot Grendizer (UFOロボ·グレンダイザー, UFO Robo Gurendaizā, sometimes romanized as UFO Robo Grendizer) is a super robot TV anime and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai. It is the third entry in the Mazinger trilogy. It was broadcasted on Japanese...
x God Mazinger   Mazinger Z    
God Mazinger (ゴッドマジンガー, Goddo Majingā), also known as Majin Densetsu (魔神伝説) is an anime, manga and novel series created by manga artist Go Nagai. The anime aired on Japanese TV from April 15, 1984 (1984-04-15) to September 30, 1984 (1984-09-30) in...
x Mazinger Angels   Mazinger Z    
Mazinger Angels (マジンガーエンジェル, Majinga Enjeru) is a manga series which began in 2004 and chronicles the adventures of four women who pilot giant robots in the Mazinger vein. The concept is a spoof on the late 70's and early 80's popular TV series...
x Gomanism        
Gōmanism (ゴーマニズム) is a social/political commentary manga series by Japanese author Yoshinori Kobayashi. It first appeared in a weekly Japanese magazine SPA! in 1992. After the conflict over editorial style of the magazine during the Aum Shinrikyo...
x Moomin          
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