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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 Son Goku with the four-star 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 the Movie, 2006 L.E. US DVD cover      
Patlabor (a portmanteau of "patrol" and "labor") refers to Mobile Police Patlabor (機動警察パトレイバー, Kidō Keisatsu patoreibā), an anime and manga franchise created by Headgear, a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii, writer Kazunori Ito, mecha...
x Blue Submarine No. 6 Blue Submarine #6's sail is visible as she departs from a flooded city under attack from Zorndyke's forces     青の6号
Blue Submarine No. 6 (青の6号, Ao no Roku-gō, Blue Number 6) is the name of a manga series by Satoru Ozawa, which was subsequently developed into a four episode OVA series by Gonzo. Recently, Shouji Murahama of GONZO stated with NewWords Magazine that...
x Strawberry Panic! Strawberry Panic! Girls' School in Full Bloom      
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 Japanese author Sakurako Kimino, which focus on a group of teenage girls attending three affiliated all-girl schools on...
x The Rose of Versailles Oscar Jarjayes portrait      
The Rose of Versailles / La Rose de Versailles (ベルサイユのばら, Berusaiyu no Bara), also known as 'Lady Oscar', is one of the best-known titles in shōjo and a media franchise created by Riyoko Ikeda. It has been adapted into several Takarazuka Revue...
x Simoun Screenshot from the anime's opening sequence      
Simoun (シムーン, Shimūn) is an animated TV 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 same characters...
x Kannazuki no Miko Chikane & Himeko      
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 Revy, weapons specialist      
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 From left to right: Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sasuke Uchiha     ナルト
Naruto (NARUTO -ナルト-, romanized as 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 aspires to...
x Slam Dunk Slamdunk cover1      
Slam Dunk (スラムダンク, Suramu Danku, officially romanized SLAM DUNK in Japan) 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...
x Buzzer Beater BuzzerBeater vol1 Cover     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 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 1 (English version)      
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (るろうに剣心 明治剣客浪漫譚, Rurō ni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan), 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      
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 Japanese multimedia franchise composed of manga, animated films, anime series, video games and novels. It focuses on the activities of the fictional counter...
x My-HiME          
x Shakugan no Shana This is the logo to Shakugan no Shana      
Shakugan no Shana (灼眼のシャナ, lit. Shana of the Blazing Eyes), also known simply as Shana, is a collection of Japanese light novels written by Yashichiro Takahashi and illustrated by Noizi Ito centering around Yuji Sakai, an ordinary Japanese high...
x Devil May Cry          
x Appleseed          
x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha          
x Hellsing       ヘルシング  
x Martian Successor Nadesico The cast of Martian Successor Nadesico      
Martian Successor Nadesico or Mobile Battleship Nadesico (機動戦艦ナデシコ, Kidō Senkan Nadeshiko) (often shortened to Nadesico) is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by...
x Tekkaman Blade   Tekkaman      
x Sister Princess Sister Princess Logo      
Sister Princess (シスター・プリンセス, Shisutā Purinsesu) is a popular Japanese bishōjo series authored 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...
x Tsukihime Tsukihime      
Tsukihime (月姫, lit. Lunar Princess) is a Japanese eroge dōjin visual novel game 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....
x The King of Braves GaoGaiGar          
x Green Green          
x Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise NGEscreenshot02      
The Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion) franchise is a multi-billion dollar umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. The central (and original) works of the franchise feature an...
x Astro Boy          
x Death Note Screenshot from the anime series     デスノート
Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a university student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on...
x Saint Seiya Saint Seiya      
Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢, Seinto Seiya), also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1986 to 1991, and adapted into an anime TV series by Toei...
x La Blue Girl La Blue Girl      
La Blue Girl (淫獣学園, Injuu Gakuen La Blue Girl) is a 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), features a large amount of tentacle rape. It departs...
x My-Otome          
x Zipang          
x Gate Keepers Gate Keepers cast      
Gate Keepers (ゲートキーパーズ, Gēto Kīpāzu) is primarily a role-playing game for the PlayStation. The game was then adapted into a manga series written by Hiroshi Yamaguchi and drawn by Keiji Gotoh and an anime series produced by Gonzo, and first aired on...
x Lamune          
x Project A-ko Project A-ko US DVD cover      
Project A-ko (プロジェクトA子, Purojekuto Eeko) is a popular movie that spun off 3 OVA movies and later two alternate-universe OVAs (the "Vs." series) were released. This parody series references a number of other works of anime from the 1970s and 1980s....
x Nasu          
x Ojamajo Doremi series Ojamajo Doremi's musical theme is also reflected in its logo      
Ojamajo Doremi (おジャ魔女どれみ, Ojamajo Doremi) is a magical girl anime metaseries consisting of four regular TV anime series, one 13-episode sidestory, two anime films, and a manga series. The various series were aired from 1999-2003, with companion...
x Battle Angel Alita          
x Yu-Gi-Oh! The logo used in Western releases of Duel Monsters, known simply as Yu-Gi-Oh!      
Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王, Yū☆gi☆ō, lit. "Game King") is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi. It has spawned a franchise that includes multiple anime shows, a trading card game and numerous video games. Most of the incarnations of the franchise...
x Saiyuki Franchise          
x Guyver          
x Di Gi Charat DiGi Charat Nyo!      
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 for short) who was adopted as the mascot of Broccoli's retail chain store, Gamers. The...
x Tiger Mask Tiger Mask   Tiger Mask II  
Tiger Mask (タイガーマスク) began as a Japanese manga in 1968 and was later adapted into a successful anime series in 1969. In real life, the name has been used by a succession of Japanese professional wrestling characters as a gimmick. The Tiger Mask...
x Getter Robo 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! Oh My Goddess!      
Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Aa Megami-sama), also known as Ah! My Goddess!, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima. A spin-off of Fujishima's previous series You're Under Arrest!, it premiered in the September...
x Gundam RX-78-2 Gundam (Art by Katoki Hajime)   Turn A Gundam  
Gundam (ガンダム, Gandamu) is a metaseries of Japanese anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Gundam". The metaseries started in 7 April 1979 as a serial TV show called Mobile Suit Gundam. That first TV series...
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Super Deformed Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
After War Gundam X
x Super Deformed Gundam SD-Gundam model Gundam    
Super Deformed Gundam or SD Gundam is a series that spawned from the Gundam series. This series takes the mobile weapons and characters and express them in super deformed style. SD Gundam originated from a contributed illustration of a junior high...
x Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Gundam Wing title screen Gundam    
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (新機動戦記ガンダムW, Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu), was an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony...
x Turn A Gundam Turn A Gundam title screen Gundam    
∀ Gundam or Turn A Gundam (∀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 the anime satellite television network, Animax, created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th Anniversary celebration....
x Mobile Fighter G Gundam G Gundam title screen      
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (機動武闘伝Gガンダム, Kidō Butōden Jī Gandamu, "Mobile Fighting Legend G Gundam") is a Japanese animated television series directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo, Getter Robo Armageddon). Created to commemorate the 15th anniversary...
x Zillion          
x Red Garden 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 Logo from show opening   Mazinger Angels  
Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ, Majingā Zetto), known 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 it...
God Mazinger
Grendizer
Great Mazinger
Z Mazinger
x Z Mazinger 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 Great Mazinger. Behind him is the Great General of Darkness and the background is the Mikene Emperor of Darkness 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 Japan in 1974, immediately following the end of...
x Grendizer /wikipedia/images/en_id/2949113 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 was broadcast on Japanese television from October 5, 1975, to February 27,...
x God Mazinger GodMazCover 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 March 1984 (1984-09-30) in the...
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