History ShownTheirWork / AnimeAndManga

*** In ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' when Hareta and his friends visit Veilstone City in volume 7, there's a shot as they're approaching the town, the entire city appears ''exactly'' as it in Platinum version. [[spoiler:Mitsumi]] has brown eyes under most circumstances, but gains green eyes when she's a Galactic grunt; as Galactic grunts all look the same, and all have green eyes.

* While ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' plays fast and loose with mythology (a necessity, since [[AllMythsAreTrue all of it is true]]), it's clear the author did their research into the various myths before choosing which parts to build on.

* ''{{Anime/Planetes}}'', both in its original and animated incarnations, is nothing if not accurate to an [[JustForPun astronomical]] degree, up to and including the diaper-clad astronauts. NASA itself has plenty of ''{{Anime/Planetes}}'' fans among its ranks. Rumor has it that if someone actually built the ''Toy Box'' (the orbital garbage truck the characters use) as it appears in the source material and somehow got it into space ''it would work exactly like it should''.

* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' manages to do this with its source materials. The things the characters do in this gag anime might be funny, they are never ''out of character''. Megumin using a talent show to give her a chance to cast ''Explosion''? 100% something she would do. Ainz using that same talent show to create falling snow that he watches silently [[note]]Because his home Japan is a corporate hellscape where climate change has destroyed the environment to the point that even seeing falling snow is considered a miracle[[/note]]? Also completely in character. The show is full of moments that might get a chuckle out of the casual viewer, but at the same time bring tears to the eyes of familiar fans.

-->"By the way, you wouldn't happen to know the secret to writing interesting comics, would you? It's reality! Reality is the lifeblood that makes a work pulse with energy! Reality itself is entertainment! You might think comics draw on imagination and fantasy, but that's wrong! To write something interesting, you have to write [[WriteWhatYouKnow what you've seen, what you've done, what you've experienced!]]" ''*proceeds to [[RefugeInAudacity disect a spider with his pen while explaining how anyone who includes a spider in a comic must know everything about it down to the taste]]*''
** This also extends to Creator/DavidProduction (DP) in regards to the animated adaptation. Back when Araki was publishing the manga adaptations of Parts [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable 4]] and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind 5]], they were instances of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture[[labelnote:*]]Part 4 was published from 1992 to 1995, but took place in 1999 and Part 5 was published from 1995 to 1999, but took place in 2001[[/labelnote]]. At the time, Araki depicted certain objects' designs the only way he could back then, but since the animated adaptation began in 2012, DP took the opportunity to treat Parts 4 and 5 as [[PeriodPiece Period Pieces]]. One example was the [[ProductPlacement Pepsi]] logo towards the end of Part 4. In the manga, the logo's design was incorrect for the setting of 1999, but DP used the correct updated logo during the aforementioned year for the anime. Another example is the technology as seen throughout Part 5. Stylized colors withstanding in some instances, DP made sure to update the tech designs from the manga to resemble what would've been seen around 2001, such as Abbacchio's headphones, Cioccolata and Secco's cellphones, and several laptops.

** The ''Going Merry'' acquires a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klabautermann Klabautermann]] spirit, and the real-life phenomenon of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre Brocken spectre]], gigantic shadows being cast by people standing at high altitudes. Also noticeable are details concerning sailing, from how weather phenomena work to how the Marines give a backwards, palm-inward salute to avoid showing superiors tar-stained hands.

** There's the case of Page One's Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Spinosaurus devil fruit. Between its first and second appearance, a new fossil discovery (as of April 2020) suggested that the ancient Spinosaurus's tail was more akin to a paddle to allegedly aid the creature during swimming. Oda accordingly updated the appearance so it now match the newest depiction of the dinosaur. This bit was commented by the man himself in one of the SBS (Q&A) columns when an eagle-eyed reader noticed the change.

*** All of Ruby's Pokémon have natures that go best with the Contest segment they're meant for--this is further justified in story as Ruby's main talent: when fighting Zinnia's Pokémon, he identified its nature at a glance and uses its favorite pokeblock as a distraction to end the fight peacefully.
*** In ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' when Hareta and his friends visit Veilstone City in volume 7, there's a shot as they're approaching the town, the entire city appears EXACTLY as it in Platinum version. [[spoiler:Mitsumi]] had brown eyes under most circumstances, but gains green eyes when she's a Galactic grunt; as Galactic grunts all look the same, and all have green eyes.

* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', the car at the start and end is a representation of a real car and the studio obtained a car of that make and model then recorded its sounds to use in the film.

* Several institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, were consulted in the production process of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'''s AnimatedAdaptation, and as such, information on astronomy, geology, cartography and meteorology are painstakingly presented. From the techniques used in setting a telescope up to track an object of interest, the equipment and methods used to locate new asteroids, and all of the different facts surrounding the Earth Science Club's activities, everything seen in ''Asteroid in Love'' is true to their real-world equivalent. And yes, the stars on ''every'' on its StargazingScene are totally accurate.

** The broader ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' canon as a whole actually does an excellent job of showing its work when it comes to basing its {{Mon}}s on Many real mythological entities, literary works, religious concepts or even specific lifeforms. Sure, RuleOfCool is in play first and foremost, but they do like to pick pretty obscure stuff to portray and usually do a great job of accuracy in deriving aspects for it; sometimes they even play with multiple Digimon based on different interpretations and views of the same subject (there are plenty of Digimon based on {{Satan}}, for instance, exploring different portrayals of him from over the years). Now keep in mind, we're talking thousands of Digimon species, so that's a hell of a lot of work. And of course, though it's rare that much of the details come to pass as relevant in the anime, manga or games themselves, [[AllThereInTheManual the Japanese supplementary material]] simply loves to show off how much work they have to show.

* ''Manga/KamuiDen'': Surely one of the crowning examples in modern media. The detail in which author Shirato Sampei describes everything from mountain fauna to 17th century taxation can be overwhelming. And there are long sections of expository text that resemble textbook entries.

* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' did a pretty good job averting the HollywoodAtlas with regard to Germany. Most of the non-white people we see besides Tenma are Turkish or Vietnamese (two of the most prominent immigrant populations in Germany), while Tenma's adopted hometown of Dusseldorf has a much higher Japanese population than the rest of the country. And Cologne really is notorious for flooding all the time, so a flood washing out [[spoiler: the bodies of some of Johan's unfortunate foster parents]] is very plausible. It's [[RealPlaceBackground plausible]] right down to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelmännchen ampelmännchen]]...

* ''Anime/CTheMoneyAndSoulOfPossibility'': The creators use many RealLife economic terms and concepts. Just check out the show's fridge page to see how much work they did. However, any student of economics will see it as either a CosmicHorrorStory or pro-austerity AuthorTract. Every policy the Financial District has in place would only serve to destroy the global economy through debt ([[RetGone erasing people and entire countries from existence]] in the process) and encourage Entres to quicken the process through reckless spending.

* The ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' anime has been recognized for being one of the few animes that get American history right.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' makes a point of explaining how the brain works and why NinetyPercentOfYourBrain is so ridiculous, subverting it in the process.

* Boy howdy, do the animators of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' demonstrate how much work they did, shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7a7C4a2nfk&feature=related here.]]

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' gets a surprising amount of stuff about the Renaissance correct considering how much gets thrown into silly harem antics.
%%* Of all things, an '''H-Manga,''' ''Manga/FemmeKabuki'' manages, save [[EthicalSlut "Saint"]] [[PhenotypeStereotype Jodie]] [[ButNotTooForeign Hanabusa-Abbot]] to be historically accurate about the years before and during Meiji Restoration to the point one could actually use it as a reference.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

* While ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' plays fast and loose with mythology (a necessity, since [[AllMythsAreTrue all of it is true]]), it's clear the author did their research into the various myths before choosing which parts to build on.

* Ambiguous autism may be a common tendency, but seldom there is a case like the local IdiotSavant Mashiro from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', where a diagnosis of autism became WordOfDante. Looking at the scarily accurate descriptions of Mashiro's mannerisms, especially on little things like having a flat affect, being incredibly picky about food textures, etc, Hajime Kamoshida must have consulted a standard textbook about the condition.

* Of all things, an '''H-Manga,''' ''Manga/FemmeKabuki'' manages, save [[EthicalSlut "Saint"]] [[PhenotypeStereotype Jodie]] [[ButNotTooForeign Hanabusa-Abbot]] to be historically accurate about the years before and during Meiji Restoration to the point one could actually use it as a reference... [[ADateWithRosiePalms between "sessions" of course.]]

* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'':
** The author of the novels shows this through details that emphasize the parallel between the Galactic Empire and the Second Reich/German Empire/Prussia. For example, the Kaiser's palace is Neue Sanssouci, a new version of Sanssouci, the palace belonging to the German Emperors. The animators take it further by including architectural detail such as greatly decorated gazebos, also existing in the actual Sanssouci.
** Then we have the myriad historical allegories and parallels. The main one is Reinhard von Lohengramm [[spoiler:being a very direct {{expy}} of Frederick the Great, in that not only is he a tactical genius, but he also advocates Enlightened Despotism, ie a monarchy informed by enlightenment values of improving society for everyone, not just for the wealthy, encouraging the production of knowledge, fighting unfairly gained privilege and corruption]].

* One scene in ''Manga/MariaHolic'' explains rosaries and what they are used for. Doubles as a TakeThat to ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''.
* ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' did a pretty good job averting the HollywoodAtlas with regard to Germany. Most of the non-white people we see besides Tenma are Turkish or Vietnamese (two of the most prominent immigrant populations in Germany), while Tenma's adopted hometown of Dusseldorf has a much higher Japanese population than the rest of the country. And Cologne really is notorious for flooding all the time, so a flood washing out [[spoiler: the bodies of some of Johan's unfortunate foster parents]] is very plausible. It's [[RealPlaceBackground plausible]] right down to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelmännchen ampelmännchen]]...
* Good use and explanation of scientific concepts throughout ''Manga/MurasakiiroNoQualia''.

* Pick any of Creator/ChieShinohara's history-based manga, with her travelling to the various locations for research. ''Dreamdrops In A Golden Birdcage'' and, more famously, ''Manga/RedRiver1995'' take part in ancient Turkey and depict the current era realistically. ''Manga/RedRiver1995'' itself is based on the writings of Mursili II, Kail in her story, with some artistic changes and depicts the modern-era appearance of where the Hittite Empire used to stand.

* Despite being of separate authors and genres (science fiction horror and action shounen respectively), both Sagusa Yu's ''Manga/TerraforMARS'' and Murata Shinya's ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' obviously show an intense fascination with the strengths and weaknesses of various real-world insects. In ''Arachnid's'' case, this is part of the [[AnimalMotifs Insect Motifs]] related to each of the assassins and their method of killing, including the main character, whose abilities mimic various spiders (hence the title). This is taken more literally in ''Terra Formars'', where the exterminators attempting to kill off the mutated humanoid cockroaches populating Mars inserted themselves with the cells of bugs to combat the hostile man-made aliens. For example, the main character so far, Komachi, gives himself the power of the Asian Giant Hornet when his {{Berserk Button}} is pushed.

* AmbiguousDisorder may be a common trope, but seldom there is a case like the local IdiotSavant Mashiro from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', where a diagnosis of autism became WordOfDante. Looking at the scarily accurate descriptions of Mashiro's mannerisms, especially on little things like having a flat affect, being incredibly picky about food textures, etc, Hajime Kamoshida must have consulted a standard textbook about the condition.

* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' is really good about its research most of the time, to the point where they ''copied foreign-language graffiti''. They also like RareGuns. The big exceptions are some of the translations; their gratuitous English can be pretty bad and they managed to mess up a Russian translation of the title at the beginning of the second season (but hey, they corrected it in the next episode!).

* Ecchi manga ''Manga/NanaToKaoru'' has a number of accurate (and very detailed) segments on the preparation and maintenance of bondage gear.

** Zenitsu's strongest attack shows Gotouge did the proper homework on the effects of such insane speed, [[spoiler:the 7th Form: Honoikazuchi no Kami has Zenitsu's haori starting to be thorn apart on his way to behead Kaigaku, showcasing just how fast Zenitsu is at that moment, guaranteed super sonic speed at the bare minimum, in order for the air friction to start burning his clothes off]].

* One reason for ''Anime/GunBuster'''s lasting appeal is that despite being a [[UpToEleven rip-roaring]], [[{{Fanservice}} fanservice-filled]] SuperRobot series, it has more hard science worked in than the average [[RealRobot real robot]] series. ...And then regularly [[StuffedIntoTheFridge stuffs it into the fridge]] [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste anyway]] in favor of [[PlayedForLaughs silliness]], RuleOfCool, and powering everything by [[CallingYourAttacks screaming]].

* Mangaka Kaoru Mori is known for taking this trope to [[UpToEleven extremes]] as anyone who's read ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'' and ''Manga/ABridesStory'' can attest.

* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'':