History TheMovie / AnimeAndManga

** Two movies also premiered with a short special. R had ''Make-up! Sailor Senshi'', which introduced the Sailor Senshi and SuperS had ''Ami-chan's First Love'' (based off the manga chapter of the same name). During the run of the SuperS season, a 45-minute special episode was aired containing 3 shorts: ''An Elegant Metamorphosis? Crybaby Usagi's Growth Diary" a recap of the first 3 seasons, ''Haruka and Michiru, Again! The Ghostly Puppet Show", which shows what Uranus and Neptune are doing during SuperS, and ''Chibiusa's Adventure! The Dreaded Vampire Castle" which has the Sailor Senshi fight a vampire and is loosely based on a manga side-story.

* Lampshaded in ''[[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan Bokusatsu tenshi Dokuro-chan]]'', where Sakura takes Shizuki to the cinema... to see Salaryman Binkan: The movie.

* ''FateStayNight'' got a movie based on one of the routes in the game: Unlimited Blade Works. Like all anime adaptation movies, some things were cut, some scenes were changed, and some others possibly enhanced.
* ''{{Sundome}}'' was adapted into ''four'' live-action movies.
* ''DragonBall'' has had 17 movies released theatrically in Japan (4 for Dragon Ball, 13 for Dragon Ball Z). The majority of them do not fit into the series continuity and are usually basic re-imaginings of the series sagas (Movie 7 featured three more androids made by Dr. Gero. Sound familiar?). In addition to these, there were 3 made for TV movies (that do fit into the series continuity), 2 [=OVAs=] and 3 live-action adaptations (with only one being more or less official).

* ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' has three theatrical movies, namely, ''My Conquest is the Sea of Stars'', ''Golden Wings'' and ''Overture to a New War''. Incidentally, the first of those three actually predated the release of the first animated series.

** Each Movie also aired with a short special. R had Make-up! Sailor Senshi, which introduced the Sailor Senshi and SuperS had ''Ami-chan's First Love'' (based off the manga chapter of the same name). During the run of the SuperS season, a 45-minute special episode was aired containing 3 shorts: An Elegant Metamorphosis? Crybaby Usagi's Growth Diary" a recap of the first 3 seasons, Haruka and Michiru, Again! The Ghostly Puppet Show", which shows what Uranus and Neptune are doing during SuperS, and Chibiusa's Adventure! The Dreaded Vampire Castle" which has the Sailor Senshi fight a vampire and is loosely based on a manga side-story.

* ''SailorMoon'' had three, one in the second season (''Sailor Moon R The Movie''), one in the third (''Sailor Moon S The Movie''), and a final in the fourth (''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=] The Movie''). None have anything to do with their corresponding seasons but seem to take place in just 'somewhere' in them. The S movie is the only one directly based on anything, a standalone manga chapter, The Lover of Princess Kagyua, Naoko Takeuchi wrote purposefully for adaption... there are quite a few plot diversions between them though.
** The [=SuperS=] movie is notable for having a traditional episode style title. Its full title is Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]: The Movie: The 9 Sailor Senshi get together! Miracle in the Black Dream Hole! The other two don't have any titles aside from Sailor Moon R/S: The Movie. (Though the English dub tacked some on anyway - (''Promise of the Rose''), (''Hearts In Ice'') and (''Black Dream Hole'').)

** The [=SuperS=] movie is notable for having a traditional episode style title. It's full title is Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]: The Movie: The 9 Sailor Senshi get together! Miracle in the Black Dream Hole! The other two don't have any title aside from Sailor Moon R/S: The Movie. (Though the dub tacked one on anyways)
** Each Movie also aired with a short special. R had Make-up! Sailor Senshi, which introduced the Sailor Senshi, S had Ami-chan's first love (based off the manga chapter of the same name), while S had 3 smaller ones: An Elegant Metamorphosis? Crybaby Usagi's Growth Diary" a recap of the first 3 seasons, Haruka and Michiru, Again! The Ghostly Puppet Show", which shows what Uranus and Neptune are doing during SuperS, and Chibiusa's Adventure! The Dreaded Vampire Castle" which has the Sailor Senshi fight a vampire and is loosely based on a manga side-story.

* ''The Disappearance of HaruhiSuzumiya'', based on the light novel of the same name, was released 2010.

* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross: Do You Remember Love?'' told an alternative version of the events during the series, and was later {{retcon}}ned into appearing in later Macross series as a fictional movie produced in the Macross '[[TheVerse Verse]] twenty years later, telling a garbled version of events that the few survivors had witnessed.
** ''MacrossFrontier'' got two: ''The False Songstress'' and ''The Wings of Goodbye''.

* Similarly, there are nine ''{{Naruto}}'' movies. The first three films are set in Part 1; the first takes place before the Sasuke Retrevial arc, the latter two sometime during the filler arcs. The six Shippuden movies seem to take place respectively before Sai's introduction, before Sasuke [[spoiler: killing Orochimaru]], sometime after [[spoiler: Asuma's death]], 20 years in the past, some nebulous time around [[spoiler:Pain's invasion and the 5 Kage Summit]], and some nebulous time before the [[spoiler:4th Shinobi World War]].

** It is worthy to note that the first movie was once intended as a GrandFinale in the early production process, [[NeverTrustATrailer indicated by early teasers]], but that plot was dropped later because of popularity.

* The first ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime film was meant to tie up loose ends and make sense of certain events in the first season. Later films in the series were more standalone, though still considered in continuity. Interestingly though, the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth movie feature an overarching storyline involving the three Dragon legendaries of Sinnoh.

* ''{{Jewelpet}}'' had Sweets Dance Princess.

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' will now have a movie adaptation of the fan-favorite Benizakura Arc.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' gets ''three'': A two part CompilationMovie of the anime followed by a movie-length continuation.

* The ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' movie takes the series' already-difficult-to-understand (at least for Westerners) Buddhist allegory, compresses it into two hours, and makes it even ''more'' allegorical. The resulting head trip of a film requires advanced knowledge of jungian theory, and knowledge of Gnostic belief to understand at all (but is still [[LesYay plenty hot]] if you don't).

* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', a feature-length movie that was supposed to be the "true" ending of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', as opposed to the [[GainaxEnding low budget]], [[MindScrew confusing]] TV finale. Instead, we were given a high budget, [[MindScrew confusing]] [[spoiler:KillEmAll]] ending.

* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', a feature-length movie that was supposed to be the "true" ending, as opposed to the [[GainaxEnding low budget]], [[MindScrew confusing]] ending of the TV series. Instead, we were given a high budget, [[MindScrew confusing]] [[spoiler:KillEmAll]] ending.

** Though if you go by the related sound stage, it's apparently an actual movie in story...
** Another movie was later released retelling the second season.

* Of the dozen or so movies in the ''{{Gundam}}'' franchise, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'' and ''Film/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer'' are so far the only {{The Movie}}s, while the rest are {{Compilation Movie}}s of the various series and {{OVA}}s. However, ''[[GundamSEED SEED]]'' and ''[[GundamSeedDestiny Destiny]]'' may be getting a movie at some point in the future.

** The SuperS movie is notable for having a traditional episode style title. It's full title is Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]: The Movie: The 9 Sailor Senshi get together! Miracle in the Black Dream Hole! The other two don't have any title aside from Sailor Moon R/S: The Movie. (Though the dub tacked one on anyways)

* ''EurekaSeven'' has an alternate continuity movie which re-writes everyone's back story and motivations. It is connected to the series though.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is getting ''three'': A two part CompilationMovie of the anime followed by a movie-length continuation.

* The ''CowboyBebop'' movie is a NonSerialMovie, although the fandom also has alternate speculations about it.
** It does fit in passably, considering the episodic nature of ''CowboyBebop'' - a reasonably long amount of time could pass between any two given episodes.

* Showing just how far in popularity ''AxisPowersHetalia'' has risen since its anime release in 2009, a movie was announced in September, 2009, for 2010.

* ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', a feature-length movie that was supposed to be the "true" ending, as opposed to the [[GainaxEnding low budget]], [[MindScrew confusing]] ending of the TV series. Instead, we were given a high budget, [[MindScrew confusing]] [[spoiler:KillEmAll]] ending.

* Similarly, there are nine ''{{Naruto}}'' movies. The first three films are set in Part 1, only the first of which takes place before the Sasuke Retrevial arc, the latter two sometime during the filler arcs. The six Shippuden movies seem to take place before Sai's introduction, before Sasuke [[spoiler: killing Orochimaru]], sometime after [[spoiler: Asuma's death]], 20 years in the past, some nebulous time around [[spoiler:Pain's invasion and the 5 Kage Summit]], and some nebulous time before the [[spoiler:4th Shinobi World War]].

* Currently there are 4 ''{{Bleach}}'' movies released. The first is about a group of rebels trying to destroy Soul Society, the second is about Captain Hitsugaya trying to clear his name, the third is about people forgetting Rukia and Ichigo, and the fourth is about Hell.

* Similarly, there are six, with a seventh announced, ''{{Naruto}}'' movies. The first three films are set in Part 1, only the first of which takes place before the Sasuke Retrevial arc, the latter two sometime during the filler arcs. The three Shippuden movies take place, presumably, before Sai's introduction, before Sasuke [[spoiler: kills Orochimaru]] and sometime after [[spoiler: Asuma's death]] respectively.

* {{Tamagotchi}} has two, but they both came out before the anime series came out.
* {{Jewelpet}} had Sweets Dance Princess.