Animesque / Western Animation

Given how prominent animation is in both Japan and the western world, it's unsurprising that many western works draw heavily from anime.

Europe

• The Amazing World of Gumball uses countless anime-style facial expressions. The main characters are meant to resemble 70s Japanese mascots.
• Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes and Code Lyoko, both produced in France by MoonScoop. Code Lyoko includes a Japanese girl as one of the main characters, perhaps as a way of acknowledging its anime influences.
  • Code Lyoko uses a similar artstyle while trying to be different (notably with less exaggerated expressions than most animesque series), and was inspired by Serial Experiments Lain. The pilot, Garage Kids, is even more inspired by anime, when it comes to it's animation, plot and includes even more blatant Serial Experiments Lain influences.
  • Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes's overall art style (characters, fights, animation, places) is also influenced by Japanese animation.
• Il Était Une Fois...: The majority of series in the franchise feature characters designed in the style of anime (such as Psi, whose appearance resembles the old-school anime designs of Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel and Kimagure Orange Road; as well as Le Nabot who is designed similarly to Boyacky from Yatterman). However, it also features characters whose designs remain faithful to the clasical style of French comic drawings with Black Bead Eyes (like Pierre and Petit Gros).
• Miraculous Ladybug, a co-production between French studio Zagtoon and (to no surprise) Japanese studio Toei Animation. The heroine is a Chinese-French Magical Girl who relies on anime-styled transformation sequences; this also applies to Adrien Agreste (Cat Noir) and the characters who become superheroes in the subsequent seasons. It was originally even more anime-like before becoming an All-CGI Cartoon. The original trailer is often compared to Pretty Cure/Glitter Force and featured the protagonist with a huge Idiot Hero, which the anime concept was a complete success. The finalized cartoon is in CGI but still keeps a lot of its Japanese influences (for example, in some of Marinette's trains of thought, her mental images are drawn in the style of black-and-white manga).
• The 2007 adaptation of Valérian called Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline is another.
• The Podcats, a French series animated in Canada by the company who did Clash of the Dinosaurs and some of the effects for Underworld: Awakening.
• Iginio Straffi's shows Winx Club and Huntik: Secrets & Seekers (from Italy) were designed in an anime style, and every character has hair highlights and eyes reminiscent of characters from (respectively) Shoujo and Shōnen series. Both heavily feature transformation sequences. They don't use Limited Animation, though. Especially so with the Art Shift in Winx Club's 8th season.
• The Rainbow Magic movie, due to the character designs and animation style; no surprise, as it was co-produced by The Answer Studio.
• Robotboy, which is primarily visible in the Astro Boy-esque premise of the series.
• Spanish animated film Gisaku, going so far as not only being drawn in an animesque style, but also featuring a samurai as the protagonist. In Spain.
• Some early Mondo TV (an Italian studio) series were animated in Japan, so an anime style was unavoidable:
  • Christopher Columbus (animation by Nippon Animation)
  • The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (animation by Tatsunoko Production)
  • The Legend of Snow White (animation by Tatsunoko Production)
  • Kaiketsu Zorro (aka The Legend of Zorro) (animation by Ashi Productions)
  • Robin Hood no Daiboken (animation by Tatsunoko Production)
• Khuda-Yana, a Spanish series by B.R.B. Internacional, looks and moves a lot like your typical anime series.
• Angel's Friends, for the transformation sequences and magical girl motif. The characters look more akin to that of a normal anime as well.
• Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville, another Mondo TV production, has an art style reminiscent of anime from the mid-to-late 2000s and other animesque cartoons of the time (with characters having consistent shading and some like Kate having notable hair highlights) and a slight magical girl motif with the scenes where Kate or Ava use the Friendship Heart for anything from the Friendship Ceremony to Pocketpedia activations.
• Sophie et Virginie, for its very Japanese character designs and animation style; not surprising considering it was animated in Japan.
• The characters of Kaeloo often use sweat drops, face faults and other anime-like things.
• Ōban Star-Racers, the series was co-produced in Japan, so it isn't a surprise that it has a Japanese feel to it.
• The cartoon adaptation of Disney's Italian comic-book series W.I.T.C.H. (2004) produced by French studio SIP Animation also uses an anime art-style. The Sailor Moon inspirations are pretty obvious with the Magical Girl motifs. The art style was confirmed by a director to have been inspired by anime such as Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• The circus scene from the Tom Poes movie “The Dragon That Wasn’t, Or Was He?” is very anime esque with how the characters are drawn and animated; the film had some scenes outsourced to Japan.
• Totally Spies! is one of the most known animesque European shows. The cartoon was produced by the French company, Marathon Media. The show is known for its anime style and the use of every possible Japanese Visual Arts Tropes. In fact, the shows' creators have mentioned that Dirty Pair, which was massively popular in France in their youth, was a big influence on the show.
• Martin Mystery, Team Galaxy, and The Amazing Spiez! were created by the same company that made Totally Spies! and have the same anime-inspired artstyle, as well as many anime-styled expressions.
• Wakfu, a France-animated series based on a video game. It's so much that some episodes are produced in Japan. All humanoid characters (those of the Eliatrope, Sadida, Cra and Iop races) have designs and proportions which are faithful to the anime style. For the remaining characters, such as the monsters, the degree of anime influence varies.
• Jelly Jamm is primarily a Spanish-British co-production, but utilizes common anime expression tropes, including, but not limited to, Sweat Drops, Cross-Popping Veins, an Idiot Crow, and Gratuitous Japanese text in a few episodes. Bandai Namco is involved in the show's production, which may have something to do with it since they're a Japanese company.
• Pantheon: The show's art style is very reminiscent of popular late-90s and early-2000s anime.
• French cartoon Droners has an artstyle definitely reminiscent of anime, with the show also making use of quite a few anime expressions.

U.S.A.

• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: Writers, voice actors, and show creator based in New York City. American, Canadian, and British Arena Rock soundtrack. Animation was Tokyo Movie Shinsha and it showed.
• The Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld shorts from DC Nation have a very clear anime influence because it was made by Japanese studio David Production and the characters' designer is Brianne Drouhard, who did the character designing for one of the most known and influential animesque cartoons ever, Teen Titans (2003).
• Avatar: The Last Airbender is anime-influenced in its art style and animation.^note the creators cite Studio Ghibli as an influence, among others Design-wise, characters have fairly large eyes, exaggerated facial expressions, and Asian-inspired outfits, as the show is rooted in Eastern mysticism and mythology. The animation utilizes Manga Effects like the Sweat Drop and Cross-Popping Veins.
• The Legend of Korra, as the Sequel Series to Avatar: The Last Airbender, naturally carries over much of the latter's anime influence in its art style. The character designs, exaggerated facial expressions, and many of the outfits all retain the anime influence of the original series. That said, the animesque elements are downplayed compared to Avatar, since Korra mixes them with a Roaring '20s Western aesthetic for most of the environments.
• The Avengers: United They Stand added some Japanese-looking elements. Ant-Man, The Falcon, The Wasp, and Hawkeye were redesigned and given suits of Powered Armor, complete with Transformation Sequences.
• Ballmastrz: 9009 is a Sports Anime by the creators of Super Jail. Unlike other animesque [adult swim] shows like Perfect Hair Forever and Gemusetto Machu Picchu, it's a somewhat more serious attempt at creating an animesque cartoon rather than being a straight-up parody, although it's still heavily comedic. Ballmastrz Rubicon is even more so due to Art Shift.
• The classic Ben 10 series amalgamates elements from the anime style (speed lines, hair highlights, and flashy transformation sequences) with motifs and character designs from the comic book genre. The Omniverse incarnation of the franchise plays this trope more straight, with character designs that veer away from the American superhero comic book style.
• Blaze and the Monster Machines heavily borrows different styles of anime:
  • The trucks' faces feature large eyes similar in design to standard anime eyes.
  • The trucks' mouths tend to expand rather wide when shouting or grit rather exaggeratedly when angry or straining.
  • The "Robot Riders" miniseries takes inspiration from the Mecha genre popular in Japan.
  • As of the show's Art Evolution introduced in the "Wild Wheels" miniseries of Season 3, and into Season 4-onward, speed lines can sometimes be used. It gets much more expressive and detailed as the series progresses.
• The Blinkins, like many 80's cartoons, has animation by a Japanese company, though it was produced in America.
• Steve Ahn's Blossom Detective Holmes brings over the eastern flair from his time working on Voltron: Legendary Defender and The Legend of Korra, channeling it into a young adult mystery series. According to the series' mission statement, it aims to make anime a viable production in the U.S. the same way western series could be made in Japan.
• The Boondocks uses stylistic Watanabe-based animation, chiefly because Aaron McGruder is One of Us. Also, most of the animation studios that worked on this show are in Korea (however, Madhouse in Japan did do a bit of work on this show as well, and two of the animation studios are owned by Japanese companies Madhouse and Studio Gallop). There's an Easter Egg homage to Samurai Champloo in the second opening. The first one is a Shout-Out to Cowboy Bebop. So, in other words, they're both shout-outs to Shinichiro Watanabe. They even devote an episode to both Samurai Champloo's "Baseball Blues" and Shaolin Soccer ("The Red Ball")
• Each season of Captain N: The Game Master was outsourced to a different studio. The second went to Japan. Said season did stand out, though, with better drawn episodes like The Legend of Zelda (1989) crossover.
• The DiC series Care Bears has been described as animesque, and in fact it really looks like some of the children and adults are drawn in this style. (There is even an episode where a character is shown wearing a Sailor Fuku.) This was one of the examples of a co-production with Japanese animators, and there were even parts where they showed newspapers with scribbles that seem to indicate it being written like Japanese newspapers.
• Centurions, showing some of Sunrise's influence. It even served as the first ever project for their Studio 7 branch.
• The 4Kids Entertainment cartoon Chaotic is an interesting example of this. Although the first season uses simplistic-looking flash animation, the second season changes completely, using a style that is clearly based on anime.
• Conan the Adventurer, by the American-Japanese studio Jetlag Productions.
• Though it didn’t last beyond the Pilot episode, Constant Payne was heavily inspired by anime in its artstyle, and Word of God listed Cowboy Bebop as an inspiration.
• Crunchyroll normally distributes anime, but the few in-house series all carry the aesthetic. This has lead to immense vitriol from some fans who complain that it's "not real anime" or "just cartoons":
  • Onyx Equinox is probably the least overt example. Character designs are generally similar to those in Avatar, but some designs more closely resemble anime, e.g. Quetzalcoatl's true form.
  • High Guardian Spice is inspired by Magical Girl through and through.
  • Blade Runner: Black Lotus is actually listed as an anime, but it was made in-house. It resembles Japanese video games more than anime, but retains many of the medium's stylistic elements.
• The DCU:
  • Batman: The Animated Series has a couple of nods to The Castle of Cagliostro (and used TMS Entertainment to boot), but overall, the art style is closer to the old Fleischer cartoons. The New Batman Adventures episode "Growing Pains" in particular has a Ghibli-esque look and feel to it. A bit of research does yield that it was animated alongside some animators from Ghibli.
  • Batman Beyond borrows the setting, a futuristic city overrun by gangs, and a recurring theme of Bio-Augmentation from AKIRA.
  • Some of Justice League's action sequences are Dragon Ball-esque earth-shattering fights. The Justice League episode "Legends" also features a giant robot that is a not-too-subtle Shout-Out to EVA Unit-01. There's also the Justice League Unlimited episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core", which starts with a fight against a kaiju in Japan.
  • The Batman. With the fight scenes, use of stock footage for his suit-up sequence, and the designs for both Robin and Batgirl, it definitely takes influence from anime.
  • Batman: Gotham Knight was created by multiple anime studios, but was primarily made for an American audience, and distributed by an American company. The stories were American-made but the actual animation was directed by several famous anime directors. Each segment also uses a different animation style.
  • Bruce Timm revealed that before Justice League, the next Batman show was slated to be an anime-inspired reboot that he described as "Batman meets Power Rangers".
  • Teen Titans (2003) was heavily inspired by anime in general, and by bizarre, expressionist anime like FLCL in particular. This led it to have all the "quirks" of Japanese animation, like sweatdrops, "chibi" forms, etc. and a title theme by J-Pop band Puffy AmiYumi. Taking it even further, all the quirky "filler" episodes have the theme sung in Japanese.
  • Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, in which the Titans go to Tokyo, contains parodies and references to everything from Kodansha comics and weird Japanese commercials to Japanese art, and includes a sub-plot where Beast Boy sings the Japanese version of the theme song at a karaoke bar and gains a fanbase of Japanese schoolgirls. Even its spin-offs keep up the look; the DC Nation shorts resembled chibi omake chapters, and Teen Titans Go! is a Galaxy Angel-esque parody series that wouldn't look out of place in CoroCoro Comic.
  • Young Justice (2010) : From character designs, action sequences, to overall animation. Unsurprisingly since overseas studios in Seoul, South Korea, work on it such as MOI Animation, Inc., Lotto Animation,and DR Movie Co., Ltd., the latter which have work with Japanese companies on anime.
• One of the Dexter's Laboratory Cartoon Network Groovies is styled in an animesque style.
• Dungeons & Dragons (1983) was animated by Toei Animation from beginning to end, and while Marvel/TSR claim to have made sure to keep all designs as American-styled as possible, guest characters often look like they jumped straight out of an anime.
• While Frankenstein Jr. didn't have an especially anime-like art style, it was one of the first Western series to be inspired by anime—specifically, contemporary Super Robot works such as Gigantor.
• Gargoyles uses this trope fairly obviously, and has its share of Japanese directors and designers.
• G.I. Joe: Resolute, a Darker and Edgier incarnation written by Warren Ellis, animated by Titmouse Inc. channeling Madhouse, and voiced by four people. Given the lavish budget of the live-action film, fans wonder how much it cost to make this miniseries and if it can be repeated.
• G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 had all-American heroes animated in Japan and badly edited for the US. Few remember the show, but its merchandise like the Dragonhawk are much sought after. The original G.I. Joe series also had most of its animation done in Japan.
• Glitch Techs features dynamic action scenes, chibis, and expressive facial features reminiscent of 2000s boom of similarly-styled Western cartoons of the trend. It helps that one of the animation studios involved is Flying Bark Productions, which also animated Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the same style.
• True to the birthplace of the eponymous J-pop singers, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. And Janice Kawaye's role of Ami helps out, considering that she speaks fluent Japanese.
• DiC's Inspector Gadget. Aside from moving like '80s anime, the influence became especially visible in Gadget any time the characters were shaded. TMS Entertainment was even a co-producer during the first season.
• Invader Zim is very popular among anime fans and somewhat animesque; the Megadoomer was even a miniature, squat, practically chibi-style EVA with invisibility, and one sequence in the Christmas Episode is a practically shot-for-shot remake of a scene from End Of Evangelion. The DVDs were even produced by a company that usually produces anime DVDs, which caused most video stores to place the show's DVDs in the "anime" section.
• Jem was animated by Toei Animation. It has an overall Western art style; however, some Japanese things accidentally slid in, like some background extras looking animesque and a Japanese eyechart appearing instead of an American one. The series also uses characters who naturally have abnormal hair colors, which is uncommon in American animation, and has some Magical Girl traits. The show has Eye Catches as well, which are more common in anime than American cartoons.
• Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures is visually similar to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind because one of the studios contracted to animate the show was Pacific Animation Co. from Japan, a remnant of Topcraft, who did the anime film.
• Kappa Mikey: Everyone save the title character is drawn in a limited-animation anime style as the show is set in Japan — therefore everyone there is Japanese and must be drawn in a Japanese style, except the title character, who is American and drawn in a much simpler fashion. It pulls no punches when it comes to Facefaults and thinly veiled parodies. This is played for laughs in one scene when everyone gets a big-head facefault except Mikey, being drawn in American style. He holds his breath in an attempt to copy them, fails, then mumbles, "Show-offs".
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: The show's artstyle alone gives off this vibe, to say nothing of that fact that the animation is done by Studio Mir.
• The Legend of Vox Machina has a typical anime intro with an animation similar to Sakuga style, characters fighting enemies they will never meet in the show, solo character shot and all the main characters doing the typical Team Shot watching the sunset. The character designer is none other than Phil Bourassa, who also did Young Justice (2010) and DC Universe Animated Original Movies, and some of animation renderings were made by Production Reve, which is specialized in other Animesque shows like Voltron: Legendary Defender, DOTA: Dragon's Blood and The Legend of Korra.
  • The show also makes several nods to Dragon Ball Z because the voice actor, Travis Willingham is a fan of the anime; Grog's Unstoppable Rage is reminiscent of going Super Saiyan; and Grog holding Sylas while Keyleth fires a Sunbeam at them is a recreation of Goku holding Raditz in place for Piccolo to blast them with the Makankosappo.
• Magic Adventures of Mumfie: There are a lot of Ridiculously Cute Critters in the show, Mumfie's winking, the characters having Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises when they are shocked in "The Amazing Scarecrow", a villain who predates shojou anime villains such as the Grim Reaper and Zakkena, and Scarecrow occasionally using an anime style of eyes when smiling or sleeping. The first and second seasons were actually animated in Canada, and the most anime-esque season, the third, was animated in Spain.
• Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart: The show's creator worked on OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, so it isn't too surprising that this cartoon emulates quite a bit of anime tropes, from the incredible Action-Hogging Opening, to the Chibi designs of the characters, to the use of Manga Effects such as hexagonal speech balloons and Visible Sighs.
• Maryoku Yummy: Just by its name you would think it's Japanese, but it was actually made in America and based on the Edo period of art, most characters have Japanese names, and the characters make anime eyes sometimes, such as Fudan in "Doggone Dog" and Maryoku in "Cinderyoku".
• The Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon took a Japanese license, redrew it American style, and had it animated in Japan. What's more, the redesigns were based on some sketches that Mega Man (Classic) creator Keiji Inafune happened to have done in his spare time.
• Megas XLR, which combines something obstinately Japanese (the Giant Mecha genre) with something obstinately American (New Jersey and muscle cars).
• Monkie Kid was made with an Asian demographic in mind, so this is understandable. As well as having Sean Schemmel (Goku's EN voice actor) and plenty of well-known anime VA's, Monkie Kid is 2D animated by Flying Bark Productions (the studio that worked on both Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Glitch Techs) and contains multiple anime references.
• Monsuno. This can be further blurred by most of its English cast being more known for working on anime.
• Moonbeam City is partly this and partly based on 1980s American aesthetics like Patrick Nagel's works. It is a parody of 1980s cop shows, particularly City Hunter and Miami Vice, so it takes cues from both sources.
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) doesn't have an especially anime-like art style, but it borrows anime tropes and expressions such as Blank White Eyes, Visible Sigh, and Eye Catch.
• My Adventures with Superman is a more anime-inspired take on the Man of Steel, with the main character designer and several animators having previously worked on the similarly animesque Voltron: Legendary Defender. The staff behind the show have also admitted to taking inspiration from various anime, such as Dragon Ball, Trigun and Pretty Cure.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot is downplayed in the sense that the ordinary human characters have a Western aesthetic, but the robot and alien characters, especially the main character Jenny herself, have large eyes and use facial expressions common in Anime. There's even an episode that has Jenny lose her language OS disc after a trip to Japan, leaving her only able to speak Japanese for almost its entirety. It helps that her voice actress, Janice Kawaye, is a Japanese-American who speaks Japanese fluently.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is what happens if the My Little Pony franchise was rebooted using Anime Tropes. The art style adopted the distinctively big-head, tiny-mouth, wide and sparkling eyes style that anime is known for. Some anime graphical elements even found their way into the show. That said, the art style is still very westernized, in particular when it comes to the non-pony characters and animals.
  • The My Little Pony TV Specials were animated by Japanese studios, and it shows. The second one looks especially shoujo.
  • My Little Pony (G3) was often described in its heyday as an animesque take on the characters, specifically their character designs.
  • My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale retains the anime-esque elements through their expressions.
• Neo Yokio is an American production co-animated by Studio DEEN and Moi Animation to boot. The style imitates anime of the early 2000s, complete with frequently off-model characters, flat coloring, and many hallmarks of the genre that have fallen out of favor like sweat drops, nosebleeds, and chibification. It also seems to reference low budget anime dubbing, with poor lip syncing and voice acting of varying quality.
• The New Adventures of He-Man has some pretty clear anime influence in its Title Sequence, and some episodes actually have sweat dropping and other signature anime quirks!
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: The show's creator describes its style as combining decidedly-American character/art designs and Limited Animation with the visual effects and snappier editing more common in anime, especially the older type. He dubs this mix of styles "Hanna Barbanime", citing Steven Universe (which he previously worked on) as another example, and credits Dexter's Laboratory with inventing the concept. The opening sequence is very reminiscent of Hiroyuki Imaishi's work at Studio Gainax and Studio TRIGGER. It helps that the man himself did the storyboards. The cartoon also has animesque style characters due to the fighting game and Shōnen anime influences.
• The Owl House leans Western in its character designs and facial expressions, but has some obvious anime influences regardless, such as the large, expressive eyes, colorful hair on several characters (oweing to the show's otherworldly setting), animation patterns, and the Trapped in Another World plot heavily mirroring isekai works. Disney+ even lists the show under its 'Anime' tag!
• Ozzy & Drix was based on an American movie and animated in Korea, but came out during the rise of anime-styled shows, so looks animesque.
• The Pirates of Dark Water would weave in and out of this trope due to having Tama Productions among its studios. The pilot miniseries had a little extra work by Madhouse.
• Popples: The children have randoseru backpacks, the "ViVi" magazine in "A Hair-Raising Experience" has Japanese writing on it, and Party has Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises after very loud music is blasted into her ears by her radio at the near-end of "Pop Goes the Radio".
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016) has an anime-inspired sequence in "Power of Four" where the girls transform into one big glowing Powerpuff Girl and fight a monstrous version of Him. A Japanese song plays as this occurs and a girl takes off her glasses to show off her purple "anime eyes".
• Rainbow Brite made use of Japanese-outsourced animation, and it shows, especially the big eyes and thick eyelashes (which even the boys sport). Some of Murky Dismal's expressions wouldn't look out of place in an anime, either. The show is essentially a Magical Girl cartoon as well, and was even translated as Mahou Shoujo Rainbow Brite in Japan.
• Ready Jet Go!: The characters' huge, shiny eyes and spiky hair on some of them could bring anime to mind. Also, the comic-book style transitions and montages resemble anime. Notable that Craig Bartlett is a fan of Hayao Miyazaki.
• The Real Ghostbusters. The characters practically switch styles depending on whether or not they're shaded. Then you have things like Stay Puft's anime expressions in the opening, and a Face Fault during the old promo.
• The characters on Santiago of the Seas have large, shiny eyes, expressive mannerisms, and go through transformation sequences that wouldn't be out of place in a Magical Girl show. In fact, Niki Lopez has stated that the show's visuals were inspired by Sailor Moon and the works of Rumiko Takahashi (Urusei Yatsura, Inuyasha, Ranma ½, etc).
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is what would happen if you rebooted the classic She-Ra show using an anime format. The art style clearly borrows from 90's Magical Girl anime, particularly the way the characters's eyes are drawn, and the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Mœbius.
• Animated by Ashi Productions and having a Sentai-like team, Skysurfer Strike Force had several anime-inspired elements, especially the Skysurfers' Transformation Sequence.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil has some shades of this, since the main character is essentially a Magical Girl and there are quite a few anime references, along with some Gratuitous Japanese here and there. This is more pronounced later on, with a major character being a Sailor Senshi Send-Up.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars is described by its creators "like anime but in 3D", the show has clear influence in anime art style merged with the Genndy Tartakovsky style seen in Star Wars: Clone Wars.
• Star Wars Rebels: The successor of The Clone Wars naturally applied an animesque art style fused with a little Disney art style.
• Star Wars Resistance has an even more noticeable anime influence than its predecessors, right down to the more expressive faces and brighter color palette. It's even co-animated by Polygon Pictures, the Japanese studio behind shows like Knights of Sidonia, Blame! and Ajin, as well as the animated Godzilla films.
• Though its art style is mostly western, Steven Universe takes a lot of aesthetic and thematic hints from anime. Most notably, the Crystal Gems are essentially Magical Girl Warriors, and there are plenty of references to anime throughout the show. Pearl herself looks very reminiscent of an Osamu Tezuka creation, being very tall and bendy with a pointy nose. The first half hour episode "Bismuth" adds to this by adding Eye Catchs before and after the commercials.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, itself a co-production with Japan, with an old-school Super Sentai/Tokusatsu flavor.
• Many episodes of SWAT Kats have anime-like uses of shadows and shading. The series also has some of the most fluid animation and action scenes you'll find in 90s cartoons. This is probably because it was (for the most part) animated by Mook DLE, whom also helped out on Eureka Seven, Gungrave, R.O.D the TV and Mars Daybreak.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) has a Five-Episode Pilot animated by Toei Animation and several later episodes also done in Japan in a distinctly anime-like style at points. This predated the actual anime based on the series.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) is particularly Animesque in terms of storytelling but many of the action scenes have a clear anime influence. The opening sequence even has a Shout-Out to AKIRA. This actually got more pronounced as the series went on and the "Back to the Sewer" season dropped all pretense whatsoever.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) features even clearer stylistic anime influence than the 2003 show.
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles takes the crown of Animesque TMNT properties, with designs and action scenes that'd look right at home with some of Studio TRIGGER's more action heavy shows.
• Three Delivery is an anime-influenced series by Animation Collective.
• ThunderCats (2011) touts its look and animation by Japan's Studio 4°C as major selling points.
• Transformers:
  • Transformers: Animated. It helps that one of the co-owners of the property is a Japanese company, and all three of its animation studios are Japanese.
  • Transformers: Prime has some anime influences in the overall aesthetic of the show...largely because it's an attempt at blending the style of Transformers: Animated with the Michael Bay films.
  • The original Transformers cartoon uses this trope as well. Between much of its animation looking like full-blown anime at times, and the involvement of many prominent Japanese animators for both the show and the movie.
• Trollz is this, with speed lines, animesque eyes, and the girls being magical.
• VeggieTales in the House: The redesigns of the characters have huge shiny eyes. Plus, the Plantasaurus and Ultra Veggie sequences in "Sorry, We're Closed Today" are drawn in an anime art style. Plantasaurus and Ultra Veggie are even based on two popular Japanese franchises.
• Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, which was one of TMS's co-productions.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender. After all, it's a reboot of an American TV series made using heavily edited footage of an anime.
• We Baby Bears is this, in stark contrast to its parent series We Bare Bears. Since it has manga visual design traits and effects like shinier Black Bead Eyes, Wing Ding Eyes, Face Faults and such, not to mention the bears' more chibified designs, it looks very much like a Kodomomuke series.
• Xiaolin Showdown uses Asian-influenced themes and window-dressing and uses visual gags commonly found in anime. The character designs, however, are distinctly western.
• When X-Men: The Animated Series was dubbed and localized for Japan, new openings and eyecatches were animated that evoke all sorts of anime-related tropes; Anime Theme Songs, Speed Stripes, even a Beam-O-War between Professor X and Magneto. See for yourself.
• The short-lived amateur studio White Radish produced two short films in the mid '90s that were drawn in the anime style: The Apprentice and The Item.

Canada

• Abby Hatcher, a co-production between Canadian studios Guru Studio and Spin Master Entertainment, is a CGI kid's show but with anime elements, especially with the use of quivering puppy dog eyes and miniature mouths with curved corners, speed lines, and the chibi-styled Fuzzlies.
• The Nelvana series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs , perhaps as a consequence of being outsourced to APPP, has some strongly animesque elements in its artstyle.
• Cybersix uses heavy anime elements in its style, due to being a coproduction between the now defunct Canadian studio Network of Animation and Japan's TMS Entertainment.
• Nelvana's D.N. Ace has elements of this, with the show taking heavy inspiration from the Mon genre popular in Japan and the characters sporting anime-styled eyes.
• Another Nelvana series, Di-Gata Defenders, features a number of anime elements in its style. This is primarily seen in the way the characters' pupils are designed (with full colors in the irises and white spots in the pupils), although the hair and body proportions (especially head shapes) also have characteristics commonly associated with anime.
• The short-lived Euro-Canadian series My Life Me is best known for this. It was made to capitalize on the 2000s anime fad, and often makes use of common anime tropes for its visuals. The main character is even noted for being an aspiring manga artist.
• More subtle than most of the other examples, but Polly Pocket clearly derives from anime because of the characters' large eyes and relatively small mouths.
• Storm Hawks' anime influence is most notable in the hair and eyes, although it otherwise maintains the distinctive All-CGI Cartoon style other shows from Nerd Corps Entertainment have.

Australia

• Exchange Student Zero: All the characters from the Battle Day Zero game are drawn in an anime-like style, with both the series and its Made-for-TV Movie predecessor spoofing many common anime tropes.
• Kuu Kuu Harajuku is known with the main characters looking like anime-like characters due to being a Japanese band from Gwen Stefani.

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