Line #27 MultinationalTeam/AnimeAndManga


1	* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' has a main cast consisting of [[TheHero Jotaro]] (1/2 Japanese, 1/4 British, 1/4 Italian), his grandfather [[CoolOldGuy Joseph]] (British), [[PlayingWithFire Avdol]] (Egyptian), [[TheSmartGuy Kakyoin]] (Japanese), [[TheLancer Polnareff]] (French), and [[TeamPet Iggy (Boston Terrier)]].
2	* The Akatsuki organization from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' consist of shinobi from different villages in the ninja world. The members include Pain and Konan (Rain Village), Itachi Uchiha (Leaf Village), Kisame Hoshigaki (Mist Village), Sasori (Sand Village), Deidara (Stone Village), Hidan (Steam Village), Kakuzu (Waterfall Village), Tobi/[[spoiler:Obito Uchiha (Leaf Village)]], and Zetsu (Unknown).
3	* ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' is one of the earliest pioneers of this, even preceeding ComicBook/XMen of all things. 001 (infant Ivan Whiskey) is Russian, 002 (gang member Jet Link) is American (specifically, he's a [[BigApplesauce New Yorker]]), 003 (ballerina Francois Arnoul) is French, 004 (East German escapee Albert Heinrich) is German, 005 (pacifist Geronimo Jr.) is a southwestern Native American, 006 (farm/chef Chang Changku) is Chinese, 007 (spy/actor Great Britain) is British, 008 (refugee/guerrilla fighter Pyunmar) is African (unspecified where), and 009 ([[TheHero Leader]] Joe Shimamura) is half Japanese, half American.
4	* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' spinoff series, ''The Doraemons'', revolves around the misadventures of the titular character (Japanese) and his fellow robot feline buddies, each of them a robot cat from a different country - Dora-the-kid from America, Doranichov from Russia, Doramed III from the Middle East, Dorawan from China, Dora-rinho from Spain and El Matadora from Spain. National stereotypes abound, too, with [[AmericansAreCowboys Dora-the-kid a cowboy]], [[AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu Dorawan a martial artist]], El Matadora a bullfighter, Dora-rinho a soccer fanatic who's ''never'' seen [[CompanionCube without his football]], and so on.
5	* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars''[='s=] [[Anime/SakuraWars2000 various]] [[Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie adaptations]] may take place mostly in Japan, but the Tokyo team alone has people from as far away as Italy and Russia.
6	* Mithril from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic!'' is this, with Sousuke being Japanese, Melissa a Chinese-American, Kurz a German, Teletha and Italian-American, and Kalinin being Russian.
7	* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' usually has varied nationalities among its characters. Curiously, it's very rare for the main character to be Japanese ([[ButNotTooForeign even partially]]); one exception is Domon Kasshu of ''G Gundam'', and most protagonists in the Build series spinoffs.
8	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' had Amuro (either Japanese-Canadian or Japanese-Mexican depending on version of the story), Bright (British), Ryu Jose (Argentinian), Kai Shiden (Puerto Rican), Frau Bow (German), Mirai Yashima and Hayato Kobayashi (both Japanese), as well as a number of Space Colonists such as Sayla Mass (supposedly of French descent).
9	** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'' had a unusually (at the time of the series) high variety of races amongst the recurring cast. The main character, Usso, is European, but Shakti, the female lead, is of African or Indian descent, as are a large number of side characters.
10	** In ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'', a unit of TrueCompanions was formed from rival champions of different countries: American Chibodee Crockett, French George [=DeSand=], Japanese Domon Kasshu, Chinese Sai Saici, and Russian Argo Gulskii. There were also recurring heroic characters [[SixthRanger Swedish Allenby Beardsley]] and [[CharClone German Schwarz Bruder]].
11	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'''s TrueCompanions were Japanese (Heero), United States (Duo), European (Trowa), Arabian (Quatre), and Chinese (Wufei) descendants, though the important nationality distinction for them was that they were all Colonists and not Earthlings.
12	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' uses this trope as well: Setsuna (Soran Ibrahim) is Kurdish, Lockon (Neil / [[BackupTwin Lyle]] Dylandy) is Irish, Allelujah (real name unknown) is Kazakh. Tieria ([[YouAreNumberSix Base Sequence Pattern 0988]]) [[ArtificialHuman has no ethnicity]].
13	* In ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'', the Technora Corporation Debris Section has two Japanese astro-trash collectors, a Cuban-American captain, a Russian first-mate, a caucasian (probably American, but at the same time fulfilling Japanese middle manager stereotypes, and relatively harmless) PointyHairedBoss, his boot-licking toady from India, and a German OfficeLady temp.
14	** In the anime. In the original manga Fee is clearly black and the office staff ''don't exist''.
15	** ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'' also feature at least two mixed marriages: Fee's stay-at-home hubby is white, while Yuri's late wife was Japanese.
16	* In ''Kagaku Kyujotai Technovoyager'', the team consists of a Japanese (who is the central character in the series), an American, an English, a Jamaican and a French. However, the characters' nationalities were changed into American when the series was exported to the US as ''Thunderbirds 2086''.
17	* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' -- kind of. Revy is a racially Chinese American, Dutch is black American, Benny is Jewish American and Rock is Japanese... Not-american. Defining them as '[[VillainProtagonist good guys]]' is kind of a stretch too. Since they're pirates, EqualOpportunityEvil may cover them just as well.
18	** If you expand the scope a little to include some of the people they have happened to have teamed up with on occasion, the list includes the Russian Balalaika, Taiwanese Shenhua and her Irish driver, and the presumably Hong Kong Chinese Mr. Chang.
19	* The ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' girls are all princesses of the seven different oceans.
20	* Kirika is Japanese, or at least asian, while Mirielle is Corsican French, in ''Anime/{{Noir}}''.
21	* Each ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' series generally features a cast of various ethnicities and nationalities. After being {{Macekre}}d into ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' purportedly showed one of the first romances between a Caucasian and African on US animation.
22	* In the SpaceWestern-cum-HumongousMecha anime ''Anime/SeiJuushiBismarck'', the main team of heroes consisted of an Englishman, a Japanese, an American and a Frenchwoman; each one wore the appropriate flag on his/her battle helmet and uniform. When the show was Americanized as ''Anime/SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'', the Japanese and French characters' nationalities were ignored. However, since the show was a SpaceWestern and the American character was a futuristic cowboy, he got to stay American. The Englishman also retained his nationality; in fact, the plot of one of the new episodes made for America was based on his status as a descendant of Scottish royalty.
23	* ''Manga/DGrayMan'' ''loves'' this trope. Allen is British, Lenalee is Chinese, Kanda is Japanese, Krory is Romanian, and Miranda is German. It's the same with the bad guys; Tyki is Portuguese, Lulu Bell is French, and Skinn, Jasdero, and Devit are American. Listing all the examples this series has would take too long. Kanda's nationality has never been confirmed, and is always given as 'Japanese?' with a question mark. Recent plot developments suggest he is more likely to have been born and raised in China.
24	* The titular organization in ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' is one of these, with members from their world's {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s of Japan, Germany, England, Russia, France, Italy, Finland, and the United States.
25	* ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'': Shuta and Ginrai are Japanese, Cab is Filipino, Minerva is French, Lightfoot is American, Ranger is Canadian, and Road King is British.
26	** Even the bad guys get in on the action -- Cancer is Chinese, Bullhorn is Mexican, Wilder is American, and Hydra and Buster are (East) German. The rest of the Decepticon-allied humans in the series - Clouder, Giga, and Mega - are of unspecified nationality.
27	* The mercenary pilots of ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' primarily come from the NATO powers: Americans, West Germans, Brits, and others. The main character is Japanese.
28	* Don't forget the BBA! ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'''s main protagonists were Takao (Japanese, and the leader), Rei (Chinese), Max (Japanese-American), and Kai (Japanese with cultural ties to Russia). They got to compete against plenty of other teams, some uninational and some also multinational.
29	%%* The pilots from ''Anime/RahXephon''; it's a surprisingly blatant example.
30	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' of course, being that the characters are [[NationsAsPeople personifications of nations]] as well as acting as a soldier from each. The main two groups would be the Axis Powers and Allied Forces, though the idea of good guys and bad guys is not the point of the series. The main character is [[TheMillstone North Italy]], though [[DrillSergeantNasty Germany]] seems more in charge. [[LargeHam The United States]] usually acts like the head of the Allies, much to the chagrin of [[{{Tsundere}} England]].
31	* From ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi'', when time comes to [[spoiler:save the world from Space Nazis]], we get the main team of Junichiro Koizumi (Japan), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Pope Benedict XVI (The Vatican), George H.W. Bush (U.S.A.) and Yulia Tymoshenko (Ukraine).
32	* The [[GreyAndGrayMorality protagonists]] of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' are variously Chinese, Japanese, Scandinavian, and a possibly Hispanic [[IntellectualAnimal cat]].
33	* The Mighty Bombshells, a failed attempt to bring the American style of comic book art to manga, consisted of Ms. Liberty and Dynamite Girl (U.S.A.), Fireball (England), Blitzkrieg (Germany), Red Dragon (China), and Cherry Blossom (Japan).
34	%%* ''Manga/{{Freezing}}''
35	* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'' has more of a Multinational BattleHarem which, according to [[SenseiChan Maya]], is actually "enough to start a war": [[TheOneGuy Ichika]] and [[ChildhoodFriend Houki]] are Japanese, [[UpperClassTwit Cecilia]] is British, [[AnimeChineseGirl Rin]] is Chinese, [[{{Bifauxnen}} Charlotte]] is French, and [[TykeBomb Laura]] is German. Season 2 then throws in the Half-Russian, Half-Japanese [[spoiler: [[StudentCouncilPresident Sara]][[ShrinkingViolet shiki]] sisters]] in the mix.
36	* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' does this with some of the teams. But since there are really only four factions in the shaman fights, it's natural.
37	* The Idol Choujin in ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' include, by the end of the series: Kinnikuman and Rikishiman/Wolfman (Japanese, although technically Kinnikuman is an alien), Terryman, Specialman, and Geronimo (American; Geronimo is a full-blooded Apache), Robin Mask and Neptuneman (British), Warsman (Russian), Ramenman (Chinese), Buffaloman (Spanish), Brocken, Jr. (German), and Canadianman (Guess, dummy.)
38	** Sequel series ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' features the New Generation Idol Choujin: Kinniku Mantaro/Kid Muscle (from Planet Kinniku), Terry the Kid/Terry "The Grand" Kenyon (Japanese-American), Kevin Mask (British) Seiuchin/Wally Tusket (Irish), Gazelleman/Dik Dik van Dik (Tanzanian), Checkmate (from Monaco), Illoukhine/Comrade Turbinski (Russian), Jade/Jaeger (German), Scarface/Eskara (Italian), Barrier-Free Man (Swedish), Chaos Avenir (alien from an unknown planet), and Hanzou/Hanzo the Horrible (alien from the planet Iga)
39	** There's also virtually every villain group from either series, but we'll spare you the details.
40	* ''Anime/{{Gravion}} Zwei'' featured the Gran Troopers -- Faye (Chinese), Alex (American), Hans (German), Ivan (Russian), and Jose (Brazilian).
41	* ''Manga/SilentMobius'' has the AMP team, Kiddy Phenil (Australian), Lebia Maverick (American), Katsumi Liqueur (half-Japanese, grew up in Hawaii), Lum Cheng (Chinese), and Rally Cheyenne (half-human, mother's nationality unknown). Yuki Saiko, Nami Yamigumo, and Mana Isozaki are Japanese.
42	* The superheroes of [=HeroTV=] in ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' come from a variety of backgrounds, despite not being an actual team. Kotetsu/Wild Tiger is Japanese. Antonio/Rock Bison is Hispanic or possibly Mexican descent. Ivan/Origami Cyclone is Russian. Pao Lin/Dragon Kid is Chinese. Keith/Sky High is American.
43	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has this somewhat with The Black Knights. As they are a Japanese resistance group, the vast majority of its members are, obviously, Japanese. However, its core members include [[TokenEnemyMinority Britannians]] (Lelouch/Zero, Diethard), Indians (Rakshata), and later, Chinese (Xingke, Tianzi). It's explicitly stated that they are fighting for justice and to rebuild the nation in a new vision as the "United States of Japan". Your ethnic background is of little importance.
44	* ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'' has the Magic Academy's students. The protagonist Akari is Japanese, Sara is half-Japanese, half-Indian, Miria is from the USA, Leon is Austrian and Nicola is Russian.
45	* A variant of this trope is present with the Ooarai Girls' Academy sensha-do club of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. While the members of the club are Japanese, their tanks are from units from different countries: Germany (Panzer IV, [=StuG III=], Tiger(P)), France (Char B1 Bis), [=USA=] ([=M3=] Lee), Czech Republic (Panzer 38(t)), and Japanese (Type 89, Type 3 Chi-Nu). Justified as these tanks are the remnants of the then defunct sensha-do club of Ooarai, and the better tanks were sold off in the past.
46	* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'' takes place at a British WizardingSchool with a lot of international students. The main trio consists of Atsuko "Akko" Kagari (from Japan), Lotte Yanson (from Finland), and Sucy Manbavaran (from the Philippines). Other prominent characters include Diana Cavendish (from England), Amanda O'Neill (from the USA), Constanze Amalie von Braunschbank-Albrechtsburger (from Germany), and Jasminka Antonenko (from Russia).
47	* ''Anime/GreatPretender'': Laurent's crew hail from Japan, France (...[[MistakenNationality as far as most people know]][[note]]he's actually Belgian[[/note]]), Iraq, South Korea, [[spoiler:and potentially the United States, given Cynthia's accent.]]
48	* ''Manga/DrStone'': The astronauts on the ISS include ''three'' Russians, one Japanese, one Asian-American, and one White American (technically a space tourist).
49	* ''Literature/YakitoriSoldiersOfMisfortune'': The protagonists Unit K-321 is made up of Akira Ihotsu (Japan), Tyron Baxter (USA), Amalia Schulz (UK), Zihan Yang (China) and Erland Martonen (Sweden).

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