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Dragon Ball started as Journey to the West meets Raiders of the Lost Ark . Dragon Ball Z evolves into Journey to the West meets Superman .
Dennou Coil is Mega Man Star Force meets .hack and Recess , with dashes of Codename: Kids Next Door and Nintendogs , cooked in a Kid Detective shaped pot.
Black Butler is Mary Poppins meets Doctor Faustus meets Artemis Fowl .
Mazinger Z is Tetsujin 28-go meets Astroboy meets Science Ninja Team Gatchaman .
One Piece is Dragon Ball meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets the Land of Oz .
Mahou Sensei Negima! has been (inaccurately, due to intentional Genre Shift ) described as "Harry Potter meets Love Hina ." But it was more like Hunterx Hunter meets Love Hina , but with magic. But now, it can be described more as Harry Potter meets Final Fantasy Tactics , with some Dragon Ball in the mix, and some bonus Fanservice on top. All the while, having the cast of a Harem Series .
Read or Die as James Bond meets X-Men meets Reading Rainbow .
Baldr Force EXE Resolution is The Matrix meets Serial Experiments Lain meets Appleseed meets Scanners .
Samurai Champloo is The Last Samurai meets Hustle And Flow, and set to the plot of True Grit .
Cowboy Bebop can be described as Firefly meets the Spaghetti Western genre, with some Star Wars and John Woo thrown into the mix. However, since Firefly started syndication in 2002 and Cowboy Bebop in 1998, it would be more accurate to say that Firefly is Cowboy Bebop meets zombie horror and conspiracy theory movies.
The manga Kaze Hikaru can be described as Peacemaker Kurogane meets Rose of Versailles .
Lucky Star can be described as Azumanga Daioh meets Genshiken . Or alternatively, Seinfeld meets Genshiken .
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann : FLCL does GaoGaiGar .
Elfen Lied : X-Men meets Carrie meets Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hide meets Love Hina .
Speaking of which, Rebuild of Evangelion has been described as Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann .
Code Geass : Mobile Suit Gundam meets Death Note . Some fans like to add X1999 to that description.
Meanwhile, Gundam 00 actually is Gundam meets Death Note ; or, if you want to be more accurate, Gundam meets Full Metal Panic! with Light Yagami thrown in for good measure. (Incidentally, Gundam 00 is from the same people who also brought you Code Geass .)
With the First Generation finished, it's safe to say that Gundam Age is Mobile Suit Gundam meets Martian Successor Nadesico ; you could also argue that Age is Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam meets Martian Successor Nadesico with a hint of Red Faction for good measure.
Lyrical Nanoha can be easily described as Cardcaptor Sakura meets Gundam . Alternatively, the first two seasons are Sailor Moon meets Dragon Ball Z and Star Trek , and the third season is more like Sailor Moon meets Detroit 1-8-7 .
When the Haruhi Suzumiya novels were licensed, poor advertising hilariously and inaccurately described the series as "Hannah Montana meets Heroes ". Azumanga Daioh meets Snow Crash might be better.
Busou Renkin is Bleach meets Full Metal Alchemist .
The Big O is Batman meets Godzilla meets Sin City .
Nightwalker is Interview with the Vampire meets Forever Knight .
Narutaru : Pokémon meets Neon Genesis Evangelion . And goes off its meds .
Tokyo Mew Mew : Sailor Moon meets Captain Planet meets Strawberry Shortcake .
Alive The Final Evolution : The Happening meets X-Men turned into a Shounen series.
Vinland Saga : Berserk meets Vicky the Viking.
Berserk : Devilman and Violence Jack meet Hellraiser and Guin Saga and serve it up with an order of BFS .
Welcome to the NHK : Foucault's Pendulum meets Fight Club .
Psyren is Gilgamesh meets Gantz .
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX : Yu-Gi-Oh! ! meets Neon Genesis Evangelion .
Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds : Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Les Misérables , The Chronicles of Narnia , Superman , Paradise Lost , and motorcycles.
Yu-Gi-Oh! in general can be seen as Pokémon meets Magic: The Gathering .
Kaiba : The art style can best be described as Astro Boy meets Yellow Submarine with a hint of The Little Prince .
Part one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure could be described as Fist of the North Star meets Dracula . (The later parts are completely different, however.)
Rozen Maiden is Pinocchio meets Highlander , with the moe turned up to eleven.
Bastard!! !! : Dungeons & Dragon Ball Z . (Thanks goes to Looney Toons and Epsilon from his forums.)
Monster : The Fugitive meets Hannibal Lecter with a touch of the Halloween franchise thrown in.
Black Jack is House meets Batman , though it may also be taking variable levels and concoctions of mind-altering substances .
From the page here, Kaitou Saint Tail sounds like "Sailor Moon meets Sly Cooper ". This may be inaccurate.
Similarly, the page for Keroro Gunsou makes it look like "Hamtaro + Invader Zim — Crapsack World ". Once again, possibly inaccurate.
Bobobo Bo Bo Bobo is Fist of the North Star meets a VERY BIG bag of CRACK laced with LSD .
The first few episodes of Gundam SEED are like Mobile Suit Gundam meets Gundam Wing (The Strike is the original RX-78 (White/Blue Hero Gundam), Aegis is Epyon (Red Transforming Gundam), Blitz is Deathscythe (Black Cloaking Gundam), Buster is Heavyarms (BFG Gundam), and Duel is Sandrock (Semi-normal but heavily-armored Gundam). Later on, Freedom is Gundam Double X .
Digimon Tamers : Digimon meets Neon Genesis Evangelion . No seriously . See here . (To clarify: there are many references to Eva. The general tone of it, however)
Digimon in general: Pokémon meets Super Robot Wars .
GaoGaiGar (and the entire Braves series) is Transformers meets 70s/80s Super Robot shows.
Macross Plus is effectively Macross meets Top Gun .
Many people think of Yes! Precure 5 as Sailor Moon meets Tokyo Mew Mew meets Super Sentai .
Fate/stay night : Shaman King meets Claymore . (with sex... at least at first... )
The plot of one episode of Hayate the Combat Butler is described by the narrator as "Die Hard on a cruise ship."
Soul Eater : Bleach with a hint of Harry Potter , directed by David Lynch while smoking crack with Tim Burton .
Superbook : Dragon Tales meets The Bible .
Diebuster : Gunbuster meets FLCL .
Godannar : Getter Robo meets Ai Yori Aoshi .
Sailor Moon : Power Rangers /Super Sentai meets Cutey Honey .
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni is Azumanga Daioh meets Children of the Corn to play Clue .
FLCL is like if Hayao Miyazaki and Thomas Pynchon had an anime baby, and Quentin Tarantino was its creepy uncle.
Kurozuka : Fist of the North Star meets Ninja Scroll .
Madlax : Apocalypse Now andThelma & Louise had a kid. An animated one. It's babysat by Gosford Park and spends a lot of time hanging out with that weird Karamazov kid down the lane. No, really.
Adding Azumanga Daioh to BECK will give you K-On! as a result.
Kinos Journey : Quantum Leap meets The Twilight Zone , with some Gulliver's Travels on the side.
Wicked City is Men in Black meets Supernatural with a dash of H. P. Lovecraft thrown in.
Baccano ! is probably Highlander meets Pulp Fiction .
Fist of the North Star is Mad Max meets Bruce Lee films.
Daitarn 3 is James Bond meets 70s Super Robot shows.
RahXephon : Brave Raideen meets Neon Genesis Evangelion .
Afro Samurai is Samurai Champloo meets The Boondocks .
Another Gundam franchise: G Gundam . Mobile Suit Gundam meets... guess what: Dragon Ball .
Neon Genesis Evangelion is Mazinger Z meets Hamlet meets Three's Company meets the Book of Revelation.
Transformers Cybertron is Transformers Energon meets GaoGaiGar .
Eureka Seven is Gundam X meets Neon Genesis Evangelion . With surfers.
Genesis of Aquarion is Getter Robo meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Van Dread meets neo-paganism.
The Five Star Stories is Heavy Metal L Gaim meets Final Fantasy .
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! started out with Mafia meeting Rugrats reading The Little Prince , then it got adopted by Shonen Jump who somehow saw fit to raise it with conspicuous amount of Ho Yay . Recently it started playing Yu-Gi-Oh! ! with the child of Pokémon and Digimon (who got married after resolving their differences).
Cannon God Exaxxion is Gunsmith Cats meets Mazinger Z meets V .
Puni Puni Poemi is Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura meets Excel Saga .
Kurokami is Fate Stay Night meets Darker than Black .
Yureka (iD eNTITY in English) is .hack meets Slayers .
Princess Tutu is Cardcaptor Sakura meets Swan Lake by way of Revolutionary Girl Utena and The Neverending Story , as written by Neil Gaiman .
Or, Grimm's Original Fairy Tales meet the Disney movies inspired by them, and decide to try to write something more three dimensional than either of themselves. and pull it off.
Onani Master Kurosawa is Death Note starring Glenn Quagmire who then gets abducted and replaced with Holden Caulfield .
Tokko is Bleach meets Elfen Lied .
Bleach is essentially Yu Yu Hakusho meets Rurouni Kenshin ... with a little DBZ thrown in for good measure.
Katte Ni Kaizo : The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya meets Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (it's also from the same Mangaka as the latter), although it predates both series. So it's essentially The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya and Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei before they broke up.
Combine one part Fullmetal Alchemist with a dose of Shakugan no Shana and you'll end up with To Aru Majutsu no Index .
NEEDLESS is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets s-CRY-ed .
Serial Experiments Lain is Ghost in the Shell and the last two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion , starring Hotaru Tomoe .
While we're on that note, Dennou Coil is quite literally Hayao Miyazaki At His Computer .
Alice Academy is Gunnerkrigg Court meets X-Men and they all get shipped off to Hogwarts .
Bokurano is Ender's Game meets Survivor meets — you guessed it — Neon Genesis Evangelion .
From the article on Bakemonogatari : Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei meets Mononoke on acid. Lots and lots of acid .
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok is Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro meets Norse Mythology.
Super Dimension Fortress Macross is Space Battleship Yamato meets Mobile Suit Gundam meets Idol Singer
∀ Gundam is practically Gundam X meets Mad Max .
Pandora Hearts is Black Butler meets Alice in Wonderland .
Umineko No Naku Koro Ni is Ten Little Indians meets Groundhog Day
Black Lagoon is Pulp Fiction meets Cowboy Bebop .
Tytania is Firefly meets Dune .
Bubble Gum Crisis is Streets of Fire meets Blade Runner .
Heroman is 1960s Humongous Mecha man ga meets 1960 superhero comics , as made in modern Japan and set in modern America.
Apothecarius Argentum is House meets Elizabethan Royalty.
Yumeiro Patissiere if you look at the main characters in context, it's Gakuen Alice meets Kitchen Princess . Or, if you look at it from the fairy point of view, it's A Little Snow Fairy Sugar meets Kitchen Princess .
Hakobune Hakusho is Gakuen Alice meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey .
Ergo Proxy is Serial Experiments Lain meets Fallout meets Neon Genesis Evangelion minus the Giant Mecha and plus the painful amounts of UST and Tsundere .
Ai Kora is Love Hina (loser protagonist, harem) meets Great Teacher Onizuka (completely perverted yet honourable protagonist, nutty school life) with a Looney Tunes paint job.
Angel Beats! is Haibane Renmei meets Haruhi Suzumiya , down to the bossy Yurippe wanting to participate in a baseball tournament. Add a tiny bit of To Love-Ru to account for Yui's tail.
Durarara!! is Celtic mythology meets Baccano meets Anon ymous . In Japan.
Bakugan is Beyblade meets Digimon
D.Gray-Man is Full Metal Alchemist meets Bleach , as directed by Tim Burton .
And so is Soul Eater . The biggest difference being that Soul Eater goes on and off anti-depressants and caffeine, while D.Gray Man hasn't touched either in years.
Perfect Blue is, according to a review, Walt Disney meets Alfred Hitchcock .
Darker than Black is X-Men after watching faaaar too much Neon Genesis Evangelion , guest-starring Batman .
Vampire Hunter D is Dracula meets the Man With No Name Trilogy , with a bit of Shane .
Oh My Goddess! : Of all things, Bewitched meets Love Hina .
Sekirei is Pokémon meets Highlander , or alternatively, Pokemon meets Kampfer .
Banana no Nana : Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu meets The Legion of Substitute Heroes meets Hayate the Combat Butler .
Future GPX Cyber Formula is Speed Racer meets Knight Rider with some elements of Gundam thrown into it.
Barajou No Kiss could be accurtely described as Pandora Hearts meets Ouran High School Host Club . No, really!
Pani Poni Dash! can be summed up as the bastard lovechild of Azumanga Daioh and Excel Saga .
Star Driver is Code Geass meets Asura Cryin'
Katana is XxXHolic meets Japanese swords .
Fullmetal Panic is Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team meets Mobile Suit Gundam Wing .
The Tatami Galaxy is Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei meets Groundhog Day meets Scott Pilgrim .
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is Excel Saga meets Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi meets mescaline.
Desert Punk is probably intended as something like Trigun meets Terminator , with a cast full of jerks . It's also inadvertently Fallout meets echi.
Mai-HiME is for all intents and purposes Sailor Moon meets Foucault's Pendulum .
Loups Garous is K-on ! meets Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni .
Kara No Kyoukai is Elfen Lied meets Hellsing , with characters pulled from Black Lagoon .
Similarly, Gunslinger Girl is Elfen Lied meets Saikano .
Highschool of the Dead is Saved by the Bell meets Resident Evil .
Strike Witches is Touhou meets World War II
Puella Magi Madoka Magica is Hidamari Sketch meets Faust .
[C] - The Money and Soul of Possibility is Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets The Inside Job meets Shin Megami Tensei ... all written by stock brokers driven mad by recession and LSD.
Bamboo Blade is Azumanga Daioh meets A League of Their Own .
Toriko is Fist of the North Star meets Chowder .
aNIME/Gun X Sword has been dubbed "Manga/{{Trigun}] with giant robots:" it's like the love child of the Space Western and the Humongous Mecha genre, with maybe a dash of True Grit .
Azumanga Daioh is Peanuts meets High School .
Space Adventure Cobra is James Bond meets Flash Gordon /Barbarella meets Lupin III .
Akumetsu is Punisher meets V for Vendetta and Atlas Shrugged .
Bakuman。 : School Rumble meets Death Note .
Summer Wars is Digimon meets WarGames .
Moetan is Lyrical Nanoha meets Dora The Explorer , and then Genshiken invites them into its van.
Deadman Wonderland is Gantz meets Elfen Lied meets the first story arc of Riki-Oh .
Fractale is Dennou Coil meets Now and Then, Here and There .
The anime Gungrave is Scarface with Zombies.
Gunslinger Girl is The Professional meets Ghost in the Shell .
The Film Within A Film of Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A wakening of the Trailblazer can only be described as Gundam 00 meets Sengoku Basara . It's just that awesome and hilarious .
The OVA for Black★Rock Shooter could best be summed up as Persona meets the Magical Girl genre.
Shugo Chara! : Kamichama Karin meets Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Kurogane no Linebarrel is Zeorymer meets Super Robot Wars OG .
Karakuridouji Ultimo is Zatch Bell! meets Astro Boy .
Houou Gakuen Misoragumi is Ouran High School meets Maria†Holic .
Heroic Age is Starcraft meets Gurren Lagann meets Dragon Ball Z .
Mai-chan's Daily Life is A Serbian Film meets Hostel , presented as a Slice of Life manga.
Legendz is Kingdom Hearts Meets Shin-chan
Transformers Armada can be summed as Transformers meets Xiaolin Showdown .
Rosario + Vampire is something like Love Hina meets Elfen Lied , with vampires .
Drifters is Record of Lodoss War meets Deadliest Warrior .
Yumekui Merry is Soul Eater meets Pandora Hearts , while being Lighter and Softer than either series.
Metal Fight Beyblade is Beyblade meets Saint Seiya .
Kimba the White Lion is Astro Boy meets Animal Farm .
Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro : Black Butler meets Howl's Moving Castle meets Beetlejuice .
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Dragon Ball .
Fullmetal Alchemist (both versions): Berserk meets Hunter × Hunter .
Pilot Candidate is Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Police Academy .
Soil is Daniel Clowes (slight Grotesque Gallery non-anime style) meets Junji Ito (Mind Screw story about an Uncanny Village infested with freaky spirals ).
Vision of Escaflowne is Record of Lodoss War meets Mecha Show with a dash of Steampunk
Millennium Actress is Forrest Gump meets Titanic
Jabberwocky is (from Mangafox) "The Da Vinci Code (Historical In-Joke conspiracies) meets Jurassic Park (dinosaurs are alive)" meets Anonymous Rex (they're humanoid and disguised) meets The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (literary characters (EG Dorian Gray and The Count of Monte Cristo ) are real). Stylistically it's HellBoy meets Sin City .
Nerima Daikon Brothers is The Blues Brothers meets Anime .
Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel : Kyunkyun Tokimeki Paradise!! : "If you ever wondered what it would be like if Sailor Moon had to battle Team Rocket for 7 Dragon Balls , now you know." ([1] )
Senki Zesshou Symphogear is Lyrical Nanoha meets Madoka meets Ar tonelico
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is Blade Runner meets CSI: Crime Scene Investigation .
Trigun is Star Wars meets the Spaghetti Western ; or alternatively, the anime version of Firefly .
Shinryaku! Ika Musume is Yotsuba&! meets Invader Zim meets Spongebob Squarepants .
Toward the Terra : Nineteen Eighty-Four meets X-Men , IN SPACE! .
Mirai Nikki is Highlander meets Death Note with a dash of Neon Genesis Evangelion and a side order of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni .
Panzer World Galient is Star Wars meets Gundam meets Medieval European Fantasy .
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