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- 20th Century Boys is The Stand meets It with a dash of Left Behind, minus the religious/spiritual elements.
- Or the twisty-turny, flashback focused Myth Arc nature of Lost meets the child-hood reminiscence of Stand by Me.
- Or It meets Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You is Girlfriend, Girlfriend meets High School D×D meets Gintama meets Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.
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- Accel World is Sword Art Online meets Bleach.
- Or Digimon meets Highlander meets Den-noh Coil and Kamen Rider Kabuto.
- Africa Salaryman is Aggretsuko meets Daily Lives of High School Boys meets The Lion King
- Afro Samurai is Samurai Champloo meets The Boondocks meets Ninja Scroll meets Samurai Jack.
- Aggretsuko is Animal Crossing meets The Office meets Detroit Metal City.
- Or: Hello Kitty meets Bojack Horseman.
- Or The Office (US) meets Hello Kitty meets Death Metal.
- Ah! My Goddess: Of all things, Bewitched meets Love Hina.
- The TV series is more Bewitched meets Three's Company.
- Ai Kora is Love Hina (loser protagonist, harem) meets Great Teacher Onizuka (completely perverted yet honorable protagonist, nutty school life) with a Looney Tunes paint job.
- Akame ga Kill! is Assassin's Creed meets Animé meets Kamen Rider Ryuki and Mons.
- Alternatively, is Naruto meets A Song of Ice and Fire.
- AKB0048 is The iDOLM@STER meets Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell by way of Star Wars. Or alternatively The iDOLM@STER meets Equilibrium. Or The iDOLM@STER meets Revolution X.
- AKIRA is Blade Runner meets Fire Starter meets Kamen Rider meets The Warriors meets Violence Jack meets Mad Max meets Escape from New York.
- Akumetsu is The Punisher meets V for Vendetta and Atlas Shrugged.
- Aldnoah.Zero is Mobile Suit Gundam meets Martian Successor Nadesico meets Valvrave the Liberator.
- Alien Nine is Parasyte meets Azumanga Daioh
- Or Ender's Game meets Welcome to the Dollhouse.
- Alive: The Final Evolution: The Happening meets X-Men turned into a Shounen series.
- All You Need Is Kill is Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers.
- The live-action adaptation, Edge of Tomorrow is Groundhog Day meets Oblivion (2013).
- Amagi Brilliant Park is Theme Park meets Disney Theme Parks meets Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu meets Once Upon a Time without the Laser-Guided Amnesia (except for Latifah).
- Angel Beats! is Cowboy Bebop meets Haibane Renmei, with the setting and characters taken from 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.
- Alternatively, Haibane Renmei meets Competitive Multiplayer, specifically Modern Warfare meets Halo.
- Haibane Renmei meets Haruhi Suzumiya while a Key/Visual Arts representative stands behind you to give regular beatings with the office feels bat.
- Angel Blade: Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer meets La Blue Girl.
- Angel's Egg is Final Fantasy (specifically the first six games) meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Dark Souls, In the Style of Studio Ghibli meets Andrei Tarkovsky.
- Animal Academy: Hakobune Hakusho is Gakuen Alice meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
- Animal Land is Animal Farm meets Tarzan, with a touch of Rugrats thrown in for flavor.
- Or Dragon Ball meets The Jungle Book.
- Apocalypse Zero is Guyver meets Berserk.
- Apothecarius Argentum is House meets Elizabethan Royalty.
- Arcade Gamer Fubuki: The Wizard meets Panty Fighters.
- Area 88 is The Count of Monte Cristo meets Ace Combat.
- Artiswitch is a Lighterand Softer Wonder Egg Priority meets Paradise Kiss
- Armored Fleet Dairugger XV is Choudenji Machine Voltes V meets Space Battleship Yamato meets Space Sheriff Gavan.
- Ashita no Nadja is Candy♡Candy meets Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and The Thief Lord.
- Assassination Classroom is Great Teacher Onizuka meets Invader Zim.
- It's spin off series, Koro-Sensei Quest! is it's parent series meets Dragon Quest meets My Hero Academia.
- Assassin's Pride is My Hero Academia meets Black Butler set in Magic High School.
- Astro Boy is The Adventures of Pinocchio meets Adam Link and I, Robot, by way of Shazam!.
- Pluto adapts Astro Boy's The Greatest Robot on Earth arc In the Style of Blade Runner meets The Dark Knight Returns meets The Iron Giant meets Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- Asura Cryin' is My Lovely Ghost Kana meets Warhammer 40,000.
- Attack on Titan is Fullmetal Alchemist meets Berserk meets Code Geass meets Shadow of the Colossus meets Muv-Luv Alternative meets Starship Troopers meets A Song of Ice and Fire meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets X-Men meets Death Note.
- Attack on Titan: Junior High is the original meets Teen Titans Go! meets School Rumble.
- Aura Battler Dunbine: Mazinger Z meets Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam meets The Wizard of Oz.
- Azumanga Daioh is Peanuts meets High School.
- Or Wayside School meets Doki Doki School Hours.
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- Baccano! is probably Highlander meets Snatch.
- Or Fullmetal Alchemist meets Lackadaisy with a human cast instead of anthropomorphic cats.
- Basically just Pulp Fiction meets Fullmetal Alchemist meets Film Noir.
- Back Arrow is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets Planet With meets Code Geass.
- From the article on Bakemonogatari: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei meets Mononoke on acid. Lots and lots of acid.
- It can also be considered Mononoke with the witty, post-modern dialogue-heaviness of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
- Baki the Grappler is Punch-Out!! meets Hajime no Ippo meets Fist of the North Star meets Riki-Oh meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as done in the style of Rob Liefeld.
- Bakugan is Beyblade meets Pokémon: The Series meets Digimon.
- Bakuman。: School Rumble meets Death Note.
- Baldr Force EXE Resolution is The Matrix meets Serial Experiments Lain meets Appleseed meets Scanners.
- Bamboo Blade is Azumanga Daioh meets A League of Their Own.
- Banana no Nana: Haré+Guu meets The Legion of Substitute Heroes meets Hayate the Combat Butler.
- Bang Brave Bang Bravern! is the Brave Series meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury meets SSSS.GRIDMAN meets Ultraman Z.
- Or alternatively, Brave Exkaiser (Minus the King Loader) meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets DARLING in the FRANXX (But in a Yaoi context) meets Ultraman Z.
- BanG Dream! = K-On! + The iDOLM@STER + Love Live!.
- BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO = BanG Dream! (and Pastel Life) + Mini Vanguard + Imagin Anime
- BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! = BanG Dream! + from ARGONAVIS
- Baoh is Kamen Rider meets Fist of the North Star.
- Basilisk: Romeo and Juliet meets Ninja Scroll.
- Bastard!! (1988): Dungeons & Dragon Ball Z. (Thanks goes to Looney Toons and Epsilon from his forums.)
- Or Fist of the North Star meets Shazam!
- Battle Spirits Sword Eyes is Terminator meets Magical Land (with card games of course).
- B-Daman Crossfire is Battle B-Daman meets MegaMan NT Warrior.
- Beastars is Zootopia meets Bully meets One Stormy Night meets I"s with a side dash of Cowboy Bebop.
- Alternately it's Blacksad meets Yakuza meets There she is!!.
- Beast King GoLion is Great Mazinger meets Future Robot Daltanious meets Denshi Sentai Denziman.
- The Beautiful Skies of Houou High is Ouran High School Host Club meets Maria†Holic.
- Betterman is Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Ultra Q meets Serial Experiments Lain meets The Outer Limits meets Resident Evil meets AKIRA, all set in the same world as GaoGaiGar.
- Beyond the Boundary:
- Chuuni meets Bakemonogatari
- The Garden of Sinners meets K-On!. Mirai is like Ryougi Shikinote , except that she's a moeblob.
- The Mystic Archives of Dantalian is Gosick meets A Certain Magical Index. (Dalian and Index themselves are almost identical in both personality and function.)
- The Big O is Batman: The Animated Series meets Giant Robo with elements of Godzilla
- Or just Ergo Proxy meets Batman with Humongous Mecha.
- Or Daitarn 3 meets Cowboy Bebop and Metropolis (2001).
- Birdy the Mighty is Batman: The Animated Series meets Metroid with Ranma ½ undertones added to the mix.
- Black Bullet is The Walking Dead (2010) meets Berserk meets Fallout.
- Black Butler is Mary Poppins meets Doctor Faustus meets Artemis Fowl.
- Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro meets Hamlet meets Kyo Kara Maoh!.
- Or Hayate the Combat Butler meets Hellsing.
- Or Hellsing meets Code Geass meets Death Note meets Scooby-Doo.
- Perhaps Sherlock Holmes meets Faust will do
- Black Clover is Berserk meets Naruto meets Fairy Tail.
- Black Jack is House meets Batman, though it may also be taking variable levels and concoctions of mind-altering substances.
- Black Lagoon is Pulp Fiction meets Cowboy Bebop meets Shoot 'Em Up meets the works of Garth Ennis.
- The OVA for Black★Rock Shooter could best be summed up as Persona meets the Magical Girl genre.
- While its Anime is summarized as Mean Girls meets Sucker Punch.
- Overall, it's Kamen Rider BLACK meets Persona 3.
- The Maxx meets Revolutionary Girl Utena. BRS even has Image's '90s Anti-Hero look.
- Blade of the Immortal is Highlander meets Rashomon meets Lone Wolf and Cub meets Spawn.
- Blaster Knuckle is Berserk meets Django Unchained.
- Bleach is essentially YuYu Hakusho meets Rurouni Kenshin... with a little Dragon Ball Z thrown in for good measure.
- Don't forget Shaman King for the whole spirits and swords thing.
- Or Saint Seiya meets YuYu Hakusho.
- Or Soul Eater meets Naruto note
- Blood Blockade Battlefront is Durarara!! meets Overwatch.
- Or Baccano! (minus the 1930s setting) meets Darker than Black with a dash of Space☆Dandy and a few elements from Trigunnote
- Blood on the Tracks is Mommie Dearest meets Psycho and No Longer Human.
- Blue Exorcist is Supernatural and Devil May Cry meet Harry Potter.
- Or D.Gray-Man meets The Devil's Advocate.
- Blue Gender is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind meets Starship Troopers.
- On the [adult swim] bumper, this show was described as Starship Troopers meets the first Alien movie meets Futurama.
- BNA: Brand New Animal is Zootopia meets X-Men meets Bloody Roar.
- Bobobo Bo Bo Bobo is Fist of the North Star meets Looney Tunes after taking too much acid.
- Or Fist of the North Star meets Dr. Seuss
- Or Fist of the North Star meets a VERY big bag of crack laced with LSD.
- Or Fist of the North Star meets The Tick.
- Bocchi the Rock! is K-On!: Watamote edition.
- Or K-On meets Watamote with the Medium Blending of The Amazing World of Gumball.
- Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. is That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime meets The Rising of the Shield Hero meets Sword Art Online.
- Bokurano is Ender's Game meets Survivor meets — you guessed it — Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Or Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh, by way of Animorphs, Battle Royale and a bit of The Outer Limits (1995).
- Bokura no Hentai is every example of Otoko No Ko Genre meets Wandering Son and a dash of Deconstruction.
- Bomberman Jetters is Bomberman meets Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.
- Bouquet for an Ugly Girl is Skip and Loafer meets Kimi ni Todoke
- The Boy and the Beast is Disney'sThe Jungle Book (1967) meets The Karate Kid meets Wolf Children.
- The Boy and the Heron is Ikiru meets Madadayo meets Everything Everywhere All at Once meets Spirited Away meets The Wind Rises meets Princess Mononoke meets Grave of the Fireflies meets Howl's Moving Castle meets My Neighbor Totoro meets Evangelion:3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time meets The Fabelmans meets How Do You Live? meets Soul meets The Lighthouse meets Beau Is Afraid.
- Braiger is like Lupin III meets Daitarn 3.
- B't X is Saint Seiya meets God Mars.
- Bubblegum Crisis is Streets of Fire meets Blade Runner.
- Or Iron Man meets Violence Jack meets Neo Human Casshern.
- Buddy Complex is Mobile Suit Gundam SEED meets Zegapain with elements of Terminator and Pacific Rim.
- It also meets Minority Report near the end with three minds linking and Couplers being able to see possible futures and alternate timelines.
- Buso Renkin is Bleach meets Fullmetal Alchemist.
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- Cage of Eden is Lost meets ARK: Survival Evolved
- Cardfight!! Vanguard:
- In general, Weiss Schwarz meets Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Cardfight!! Vanguard G is Cardfight!! Vanguard meets Mirai Sentai Timeranger
- Cardfight!! Vanguard (V Series) is Cardfight!! Vanguard meets Cardfight!! Vanguard G meets Yu-Gi-Oh! GX meets Yu Gi Oh ARCV meets Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger + Kamen Rider Decade meets ''Kamen Rider Zi-O
- Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress is Cardfight!! Vanguard meets Cardfight!! Vanguard G meets Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds meets Yu Gi Oh ARCV meets Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS meets Code Geass
- Carole & Tuesday is Cowboy Bebop meets BECK meets Megalo Box.
- Cannon God Exaxxion is Gunsmith Cats meets Mazinger Z meets V.
- Castle in the Sky is Jules Verne meets Indiana Jones meets Star Wars meets The Legend of Zelda meets Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
- Cat-Eyed Boy is GeGeGe no Kitarō meets Orochi.
- Cat Shit One: Maus meets Apocalypse Now.
- While others have likened it to Watership Down meets Call of Duty: Black Ops.
- Cat's Eye is Charlie's Angels meets Lupin III.
- Cat Soup is Night on the Galactic Railroad meets Un Chien Andalou.
- [C] – Control:
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets The Inside Job meets Shin Megami Tensei all written by some drunk and LSD-laced stock broker.
- More like Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets the stock market. Oh, great more Black Boxes.
- Shin Megami Tensei meets Spice and Wolf?
- Pokémon with credit cards.
- Bleach with the Soul Society replaced by Wall Street.
- Eden of the East meets Yu-Gi-Oh!.
- CARDGAMES ON ECONOMICS! It is actually "money" instead of "economics", but who cares?
- Warren Buffet's take on Fate/stay night.
- Stock Market and International Economics...meets Lovecraft
- If FLCL was an allegory for economics instead of puberty.
- Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran: Samurai Champloo meets Xena: Warrior Princess.
- Case Closed is The Kindaichi Case Files meets Encyclopedia Brown meets The Spirit.
- Cells at Work! is Osmosis Jones (or Ozzy & Drix) meets Dirty Jobs.
- A Centaur's Life is Monster High (Cute Monster Girls in high school) meets Sazae-san (Low-key Slice of Life comedy)
- A Certain Magical Index:
- X-Men meets Angels & Demons.
- Naruto and NEEDLESS meet Shakugan no Shana and spice it up with Psychic Powers and Magic Versus Science.
- Its spinoff A Certain Scientific Railgun is A Certain Magical Index minus Urban Fantasy plus Schoolgirl Series (but not minus City of Adventure or World of Badass).
- Charlotte is X-Men meets Steins;Gate.
- Alternatively, Heroes meets A Certain Scientific Railgun (without all the school girls).
- Cheat Slayer is the isekai genre meets Marshal Law meets Diesel (Antarctic Press).
- Chibi Godzilla Raids Again is Godzilland meets Aggretsuko.
- Chinpui is Doraemon meets Urusei Yatsura.
- Chrome Shelled Regios is Mortal Engines meets Darker than Black.
- Chrono Crusade is Hellsing meets Skull Man meets Devilman meets Inuyasha.
- The anime adaptation is the same meets Gate Keepers meets Kamen Rider 555.
- City Hunter is Golgo 13 meets Miami Vice meets Dirty Harry meets James Bond meets Lupin III.
- Claymore is Berserk meets The Thing (1982) meets Charlie's Angels.
- Clockwork Planet is No Game No Life meets Unbreakable Machine-Doll with a heavy dose of Clock Punk.
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion = Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam + Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack + Mobile Suit Victory Gundam + Mobile Suit Gundam SEED + Neon Genesis Evangelion + The Vision of Escaflowne + Armored Trooper VOTOMS + Legend of the Galactic Heroes + Dune + X + Death Note + Berserk + Final Fantasy II + Final Fantasy VI + Final Fantasy X + Final Fantasy XII + Mega Man X4 + Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X + Mega Man Zero + V for Vendetta + Return of the Jedi + Kamen Rider + Kamen Rider V3 + Kamen Rider BLACK
- Alternately, it's a Perspective Flip of Mobile Suit Gundam from Char's point of view as opposed to Amuro's.
- Or better yet, Death Note meets Gundam.
- It could also be seen as Mobile Suit Gundam meets A Song of Ice and Fire with a little dash of Neon Genesis Evangelion for good measure.
- Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou is Showa Era Japanese Superheroes meets Watchmen.
- Cowboy Bebop is Lupin III meets 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Star Trek: The Original Series meets AKIRA meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Batman: The Animated Series meets Berserk meets Event Horizon.
- Alternatively, it's the precursor of Firefly (of the Spaghetti Western genre), with some Star Wars and John Woo thrown into the mix.
- It's also been called, more or less, Lupin III IN SPACE!!
- Crazy Food Truck is Mad Max meets Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Or Tank Girl meets Chef (2014).
- Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons = Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (and Destiny) + Choudenji Machine Voltes V + Toushou Daimos + Magic Knight Rayearth + Code Geass + Valvrave the Liberator + The Vision of Escaflowne + Neon Genesis Evangelion + Infinite Stratos + Freezing + Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds + Kill la Kill + Kamen Rider Agito + Kamen Rider Decade + Kamen Rider Gaim + Ultraseven (and its spin-offs) + Ultraman Nexus (and The Next) + Ultraman Zero.
- Alternatively, Macross Zero (Transforming Mecha, an island setting, a priestess character, a Love Triangle, and a powerful song) + Soukou no Strain (mecha, a Fallen Princess, Fanservice, lesbian characters, bullying, and a Captured Super-Entity) + Broken Blade (mecha, a Magical Society, and Un-Sorcerer discrimination) + How to Train Your Dragon (an island under attack by dragons and revealing them to be more than just violent beasts) + Van Helsing (a Creature-Hunter Organization, shapeshifting enemies, and an immortal villain with a Battle Harem).
- Crush Gear Turbo is Bakuten Shoot Beyblade meets Robot Wars.
- Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!:
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners = Cyberpunk 2077 + Arcane + DEVILMAN crybaby + Berserk + Chainsaw Man + Black Lagoon + Cyborg 009 + Battle Angel Alita + Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII + Grand Theft Auto IV + Metroid Dread + Sin City + Rogue One + TRON: Legacy + Minority Report + Blade Runner 2049 + Uncut Gems + True Romance + Reservoir Dogs + Top Boy + Breaking Bad + True Detective + The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance + Mobile Suit Victory Gundam + Neon Genesis Evangelion + SSSS.DYNɅZENON + Ultraseven X + Ultraman Decker
- Cyborg 009 is Justice League of America meets Ultra Q meets Iron Man meets Star Trek meets Lupin III, with small dose of James Bond (especially 007's part).
- 009 Re:CYBORG is Cyborg 009 meets James Bond meets Justice League meets Cowboy Bebop meets Digimon Tamers meets Rambo meets Space Adventure Cobra.
- Cyborg Kuro-chan is Felix the Cat meets Astro Boy meets Megaman meets Terminator meets Warrior Cats.
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- Daily Lives of High School Boys is Azumanga Daioh meets The Inbetweeners meets Community.
- Daitarn 3 is Zambot 3 meets James Bond.
- Dandadan is High School D×D meets Gravity Falls and Soul Eater, In the Style of Jujutsu Kaisen.
- The Dangers in My Heart is The End of the F***ing World meets Teasing Master Takagi-san.
- Darker than Black:
- X-Men after watching faaaar too much Neon Genesis Evangelion, guest-starring Batman.
- Heroes as a prequel to Fallout.
- Batman meets Phantom of Inferno's Zwei meets a downed power line, with a little bit of Ghost in the Shell thrown in for good measure.
- DARLING in the FRANXX can be described as Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans meets Pacific Rim meets Kamen Rider Amazons meets Star Driver meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Beauty and the Beast meets Warframe.
- Darwin's Game is basically Darker than Black meets Alice in Borderland and Real Account.
- Date A Live can be described as Neon Genesis Evangelion crossed with the Dating Sim genre and less Mind Screw.
- Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction is "Part District 9 meets O Maidens in Your Savage Season, part grimdark Deconstruction of Doraemon", according to Anime News Network.
- Dead Leaves is Super Jail meets Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and FLCL.
- Deadman Wonderland is Gantz meets Elfen Lied (with the Love Hina replaced by Oz and given more insanity) meets the first story arc of Riki-Oh.
- Alternatively Superjail! mixed with The Hunger Games.
- Or Eureka Seven meets Elfen Lied.
- Death Note is Crime and Punishment meets Monster meets 20th Century Boys meets Doctor Faustus meets Monk meets The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Scarface meets Kamen Rider Kuuga.
- Death Parade is Hell Girl meets Yu-Gi-Oh! Season Zero set in the Velvet Room
- Deca-Dence is like if the combined worlds of Mortal Engines and Attack on Titan were taken over by the world of Kaiba and turned into Westworld. And the main character is Vanellope Von Schweetz.
- Delicious in Dungeon is Record of Lodoss War meets Etrian Odyssey and Toriko.
- Demon Lord Dante is The Divine Comedy meets Johnny Got His Gun.
- Or The Incredible Hulk meets Godzilla and Ultra Series, by way of I Am Legend.
- The anime adaptation, on the other side, can be seen as Devilman meets the No Budget aspect of Beauty and Warrior.
- Or The Incredible Hulk meets Godzilla and Ultra Series, by way of I Am Legend.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is Bleach meets Berserk meets My Hero Academia meets Goblin Slayer meets Tokyo Ghoul meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Kamen Rider Hibiki meets Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.
- Or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood meets Rurouni Kenshin meets Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Or Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Phantom Blood meets Inuyasha meets Bleach meets Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Or Rurouni Kenshin meets John Carpenter's "The Thing"
- Den-noh Coil:
- Mega Man Star Force meets .hack and Recess, with dashes of Codename: Kids Next Door and Nintendogs, cooked in a Kid Detective-shaped pot.
- Literally Hayao Miyazaki At His Computer.
- Desert Punk:
- Trigun meets Terminator, with a cast full of jerks.
- Fallout meets echi.
- Fist of the North Star meets Lupin III.
- Detroit Metal City is Metalocalypse meets BECK.
- The Devil is a Part-Timer! is Slayers meets Clerks: The Animated Series
- Devilman:
- The original Devilman manga is Demon Lord Dante meets Ghost Rider meets Spider-Man meets the Book of Revelation.
- Or Hamlet meets The Mysterious Stranger and I Am Legend.
- The 1972 anime, on the other hand, is the original manga meets Mazinger Z meets Batman (1966) meets Spider-Man (1967).
- DEVILMAN crybaby is Devilman meets Hotline Miami meets The Dark Knight Trilogy meets Berserk.
- The original Devilman manga is Demon Lord Dante meets Ghost Rider meets Spider-Man meets the Book of Revelation.
- Devils and Realist: Black Butler meets PandoraHearts meets Supernatural ... with slightly less Ho Yay.
- D.Gray-Man is Fullmetal Alchemist meets Bleach, as directed by Tim Burton.
- D.I.C.E. (2005) is Zoids: Chaotic Century meets Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger meets the Metal Heroes meets Egyptian Mythology meets The DCU's Nanda Parbat.
- Diebuster: Gunbuster meets FLCL.
- Di Gi Charat is Lucky Star meets KaBlam!
- Dinosaur King is Pokémon: The Series meets Jurassic Park.
- DinoZaurs: Digimon Adventure meets Beast Wars.
- Dog Days is Most Extreme Elimination Challenge meets The Familiar of Zero.
- Dorohedoro is Genocyber meets Devilman meets Brave New World meets Escape from New York.
- Or Hellboy meets The Addams Family and Dragon Ball.
- Doron Dororon "combines My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba", according to SCREENRANT.
- Dr. Slump is Astro Boy meets Pippi Longstocking and Rocky and Bullwinkle.
- Dr. STONE is Jojos Bizarre Adventure Jo Jolion meets Horizon Zero Dawn meets Naruto meets MythBusters meets Rick and Morty.
- Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan is How to Train Your Dragon meets Transformers meets vore.
- Dream Eater Merry is Soul Eater meets PandoraHearts, while being Lighter and Softer than either series.
- Drifters is Record of Lodoss War meets Deadliest Warrior.
- Drifting Classroom is Lord of the Flies meets I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream and Planet of the Apes (1968).
- Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure: Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Tenchi Muyo!.
- Durarara!! is Celtic mythology meets Baccano! meets Anonymous. In Japan.
- Or Breaking Bad meets Persona meets the Boogiepop Series.
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- Earth Maiden Arjuna is Sailor Moon meets An Inconvenient Truth meets the works of Terrence Malick.
- EDENS ZERO is Fairy Tail meets One Piece meets Guardians of the Galaxy with shades of NieR: Automata, Outlaw Star, Kamen Rider Fourze and Irresponsible Captain Tylor.
- El Cazador de la Bruja: Amigo Tacos, when Taco Bell meets Maid Cafe.
- Add the spiritual elements of Noir with Thelma & Louise.
- Eldoran series:
- Element Hunters: When it was first announced most people wrote it off as just Pokémon with Chemistry. (As it turns out, the element Mons are more like mascots than anything else.)
- Elfen Lied is Berserk meets Carrie meets X-Men meets The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Friday the 13th meets Love Hina meets Devilman meets Monster meets Alien meets Predator.
- Or I Dream of Jeannie as done by David Lynch and Wes Craven.
- Eden: It's an Endless World! is Ghost in the Shell meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- El-Hazard: The Magnificent World is Tenchi Muyo! meets Arabian Nights meets Back to the Future.
- ERASED is Monster meets Your Name meets Back to the Future.
- Or Life Is Strange meets Case Closed.
- 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.
- Eureka Seven is After War Gundam X meets Neon Genesis Evangelion. With surfers.
- Or alternatively, it could be how Code Geass and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann were before they broke up.
- euphoria is Saw meets The Human Centipede.
- Or rather The 120 Days of Sodom meets all the usual high-school anime tropes.
- Expelled from Paradise is Combat Mecha Xabungle meets Zegapain meets Ghost in the Shell (both the first one and Innocence).
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- Fairy Tail is Rave Master meets Slayers meets One Piece.
- Or maybe Rave Master meets Hunter × Hunter.
- Or One Piece meets Naruto.
- The Familiar of Zero is Harry Potter meets Shakugan no Shana with the premise of Inuyasha.
- Fantastic Detective Labyrinth: Black Butler meets HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
- Fena: Pirate Princess: Yona of the Dawn meets Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
- Fighting Foodons is according to it's TV Tropes page, Pokémon: The Series meets Food Wars!.
- Final Fantasy: Unlimited is Final Fantasy IX meets Digimon Adventure.
- Fire Force is Soul Eater meets Fireproof meets Fire Starter meets Parasite Eve meets Hellblazer.
- Fire Punch is Violence Jack meets Snowpiercer meets Wolf's Rain meets Texhnolyze.
- Fist of the North Star is Mad Max meets the films of Bruce Lee.
- The Five Star Stories is Heavy Metal L-Gaim meets Final Fantasy.
- Or Mobile Suit Gundam meets Downton Abbey.
- FLCL is like if Hayao Miyazaki and Thomas Pynchon had an anime baby, and Quentin Tarantino was its creepy uncle.
- Alternatively, it's Evangelion meets Looney Tunes meets The Maxx.
- Or Urusei Yatsura meets Beetlejuice and a bit of* The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
- Or Rick and Morty meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil with a side of Doctor Who and Deadpool.
- Flip Flappers is Miyuki-chan in Wonderland meets Pretty Cure meets Princess Tutu
- Food Wars!: Shōnen meets Iron Chef.
- Fractale is Den-noh Coil meets Now and Then, Here and There.
- Alternatively, it's Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water meets Skies of Arcadia: Legends
- Franken Fran is Girl Genius + Frankenstein + Black Jack + Rick and Morty.
- Freezing = Black God + Cyborg 009 + 009-1 + Claymore + Ikki Tousen + Sekirei + Kamen Rider Ryuki + Kamen Rider 555 + Kamen Rider Kabuto + Ultraman Nexus.
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is To Your Eternity meets Spice and Wolf, according to Mother's Basement.
- from ARGONAVIS = BanG Dream! + BECK + THE iDOLM@STER: SideM.
- Fullmetal Alchemist is Hunter × Hunter meets The Dark Crystal meets His Dark Materials.
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), meanwhile, is the original manga meets the anime version of Trigunnote meets His Dark Materials, with a little bit of Berserk and Hellsing (2001), but without being as explicit as those series.
- Alternately, it's the original manga meets Frankenstein.note
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), meanwhile, is the original manga meets the anime version of Trigunnote meets His Dark Materials, with a little bit of Berserk and Hellsing (2001), but without being as explicit as those series.
- Full Metal Panic! is Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team meets Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
- Future Diary is Highlander meets Death Note with a dash of Neon Genesis Evangelion and side orders of Higurashi: When They Cry and Monster.
- More precisely, Death Note meets Deadman Wonderland meets Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Future GPX Cyber Formula is Speed Racer meets Formula One, where the race cars are equipped with AI naviagations a la Knight Rider.
- Future Robot Daltanious is Mazinkaiser meets Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan.
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- Gakuen Alice is Gunnerkrigg Court meets X-Men and they all get shipped off to Hogwarts.
- Gankutsuou is The Count of Monte Cristo meets The Fifth Element meets Samurai 7.
- Gantz is Doom meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Men in Black meets Saw.
- GaoGaiGar (and the entire Brave Series) is Transformers meets 70s/80s Super Robot shows.
- The Brave Express Might Gaine is Batman... with Trains, meets Cinderella.
- Brave Police J-Decker is Transformers meets Patlabor...or a brief 90s Sunrise mecha anime called Armored Police Metal Jack with sentient robots instead of powered armor (some Metal Jack storylines were even reused for J-Decker, as they shared some of the writing staff).
- The Braveof Gold Goldran is the Brave Series meets Golden Warrior Gold Lightan.
- Brave Command Dagwon is the Brave Series meets Transformers: Super-God Masterforce.
- Chouja Reideen is Raideen meets Brave Command Dagwon (same staff).
- Gatchaman Crowds: Despite having the name Gatchaman, it's really more like Tiger & Bunny meets Facebook and/or Summer Wars.
- The Gatchaman Crew themselves are somewhere between Sentai and Magical Girls; the conflict between Hajime and Sugane largely reflects that.
- Gate -- Thus the JSDF Fought There = Final Fantasy + Fire Emblem + The Legend of Zelda + Delta Force + Call of Duty + Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising + Medal of Honor + The Salvation War + Stargate + AKIRA + Rambo + Mortal Kombat + Warcraft + Command & Conquer + Metal Slug
- Genesis of Aquarion is Getter Robo meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Van Dread meets neo-paganism.
- Genocyber is AKIRA meets Devilman meets the works of David Cronenberg.
- Genshiken is Haruhi Suzumiya meets The Big Bang Theory.
- Getter Robo is Mazinger Z meets Science Ninja Team Gatchaman meets Cosmic Horror Story.
- The original Ghost in the Shell manga is pretty much Judge Dredd meets Neuromancer. Less so the subsequent anime adaptations.
- The franchise in general could be Blade Runner meets The Matrix, although it precedes the latter.
- The film adaptation is William Gibson meets Philip K. Dick.
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is Blade Runner meets CSI.
- Ghost Hound is Serial Experiments Lain but with ghosts and Astral Projection instead of the internet.
- Ghost Stories (the ADV dub) is Goosebumps meets South Park.
- Giant Robo
- The original manga is Gigantor meets North By Northwest.
- The Day The Earth Stood Still is Mobile Suit Gundam meets The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- Gigantor:
- The original is The Boy King And His Giant meets Astro Boy and Encyclopedia Brown.
- The 2004 series is Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still meets Astro Boy (2003), The Big O, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), and a toned down Sandman Mystery Theatre.
- Gintama is Rurouni Kenshin meets Kochikame meets Urusei Yatsura.
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is 5 Centimeters per Second meets Quantum Leap.
- Girlish Number is Seiyu's Life! meets Shirobako meets the Surprisingly Realistic Outcome factor of Wakeup Girls.
- Girls' Last Tour is Kino's Journey meets Fallout.
- Or Sound of the Sky In the Style of Romantically Apocalyptic, with the bleakness of The Road (albeit very toned down).
- Girls und Panzer: Saki meets Strike Witches meets Eyeshield 21 meets Mobile Fighter G Gundam meets World of Tanks meets Street Fighter.
- GJ-bu: The Breakfast Club meets Friends meets Place to Place.
- Ghost Talker's Daydream is essentially The X-Files meets Ghost Whisperer.
- Gigantic Formula is Mobile Fighter G Gundam meets Bokurano.
- given is K-On! meets Free!.
- Goblin Slayer is Dungeons & Dragons meets Doom (2016).
- Godannar: Getter Robo meets Ai Yori Aoshi.
- Godsider by Kouji Maki is Devilman mixed with the combination of Saint Seiya and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- God Mazinger is Mazinger Z meets Getter Robo meets GoLion.
- Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters and its sequels Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle and Godzilla: The Planet Eater are Godzilla meets Star Trek (or Planet of the Apes and/or The Future is Wild, depending on how you see it) meets Attack on Titan meets the works of Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Go, Go, Loser Ranger! = The Boys + Super Sentai (and Power Rangers)
- Golden Time is a Hotter and Sexier Toradora! meets Sybil.
- Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!! is essentially Super Sentai filtered through a whole lot of familiar Light Novel tropes.
- The anime adaptation in particular is Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger meets High School D×D, but with less Fanservice.
- Goodnight Punpun is Moral Orel meets Welcome to the NHK and No Longer Human.
- Gosick is Sherlock Holmes meets Rapunzel with a dash of Moe.
- Granbelm is Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Magic Knight Rayearth meets Kamen Rider Ryuki.
- Grave of the Fireflies is Barefoot Gen meets Johnny Got His Gun meets Schindler's List.
- Gravion is GaoGaiGar meets Hanaukyō Maid Team.
- Great Pretender is Black Lagoon meets Ocean's Eleven meets Lupin III.
- Green Blood is Gangs of New York meets Unforgiven meets Golgo 13.
- Grenadier: Trigun meets Feudal Japan plus Fanservice.
- Gun Blaze West: Rurouni Kenshin meets One Piece—IN THE WILD, WILD WEST!
- Gunbuster is Aim for the Ace! meets Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Ender's Game.
- The anime Gungrave is Scarface (1983) with Zombies.
- More specifically, if Trigun and Resident Evil hijacked Scarface halfway through.
- Gunslinger Girl is The Professional meets Ghost in the Shell.
- Or Elfen Lied meets Robocop.
- Or Black Lagoon meets Shonen.
- Or (mostly pertaining to the anime adaptations) Haibane Renmei meets Noir.
- GUN×SWORD has been dubbed "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.
- More likely, Trigun meets Cowboy Bebop - with Humongous Mecha!
- Gushing Over Magical Girls is Pretty Cure and Shugo Chara!, by way of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
- Guyver is the "Darker and Edgier biological mutant Tokusatsu" aspects of Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue with the "unsuspecting passer-by accidentally becomes the hero" aspect of Kamen Rider 555, in animated form.
