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- Tai Chi Chasers is Digimon Tamers meets Bakugan.
- Takopi's Original Sin is Shadow Star meets Heathers and The Butterfly Effect.
- Talentless Nana is My Hero Academia meets Assassination Classroom meets Death Note meets Among Us.
- Alternatively, it’s X-Men meets Danganronpa.
- Or Elfen Lied meets Marshal Law.
- Tales from Earthsea is Berserk meets The Black Cauldron meets Eragon meets Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings with a bit of Princess Mononoke.
- Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is Great Detective versus Gentleman Thief meets Shugo Chara! filtered through Puni Puni☆Poemi lens.
- The Tatami Galaxy is Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei meets Groundhog Day meets Scott Pilgrim.
- Tekken: The Motion Picture is Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie meets Mortal Kombat: The Movie.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: FLCL meets GaoGaiGar.
- Alternatively, Dead Leaves does GaoGaiGar (it, Gurren Lagann, and the fifth episode of FLCL were all directed by the same guy).
- Or Gunbuster meets Getter Robo meets Megas XLR.
- Or Mobile Fighter G Gundam meets Exalted.
- Or Neon Genesis Evangelion meets a bag of crack.
- More like Transformers on testosterone, adrenaline, growth hormones... AND with a small dash of cocaine.
- Or Mobile Fighter G Gundam meets Star Wars.
- According to the writer himself, it's Getter Robo in the setting of Xabungle.
- Mazinger Z -or Great Mazinger- meets Getter Robo meets GunBuster.
- Gundam meets One Piece.
- Or Dune meets Mecha and Shōnen
- Or Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Diebuster and Dragon Ball Z, with a bit of Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
- Texhnolyze is The Six Million Dollar Man meets Nineteen Eighty-Four and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
- There's a Ghost Behind That Gal is Little Ghost Q-Taro meets Gals!.
- Tiger & Bunny:
- Super Heroes + Reality TV
- More specifically, X-Men + Reality TV
- As for Hero TV itself, it's pretty much a cross between COPS and Super Sentai as directed by Vince McMahon.
- Super Heroes + Reality TV
- To Love Ru is Black Cat meets Urusei Yatsura.
- Toilet Bound Hanakokun is Beetlejuice meets GeGeGe no Kitarō
- Or Fruits Basket meets Natsume's Book of Friends and a bit of YuYu Hakusho.
- Tokkô is Bleach meets Elfen Lied.
- Tokyo Ghoul: The Metamorphosis meets Elfen Lied.
- Or The Saga of Darren Shan meets Devilman.
- Tokyo Mew Mew: Sailor Moon meets Captain Planet and the Planeteers meets Strawberry Shortcake.
- Tokyo Revengers is Re:Zero meets Crows.
- Toriko is Fist of the North Star meets Chowder.
- Or Hunter × Hunter meets Fighting Foodons minus Pokémon
- More likely, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo meets Fighting Foodons ... on acid.
- Better yet, Fist of the North Star with the zaniness of One Piece plus Food Wars! note , all escalated to the levels of Dragon Ball Z.
- Toward the Terra: Nineteen Eighty-Four meets X-Men, Recycled IN SPACE!.
- Trigun is Star Wars meets the Spaghetti Western; or alternatively, the anime version of Firefly.
- Or Rurouni Kenshin meets Outlaw Star meets Fist of the North Star.
- Trinity Blood is (rather blatantly) Trigun meets Hellsing Ultimate.
- Transformers: Armada can be summed as Transformers meets Pokémon and Xiaolin Showdown.
- Transformers: Cybertron is Transformers: Energon meets GaoGaiGar.
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- is Kingdom Hearts meets the many works of CLAMP. Later, it takes cues from PandoraHearts with the Mind Screw territory.
- Its sister series, ×××HOLiC, is what happens when you combine the premise of Mononoke with The Twilight Zone, with Equivalent Exchange aesops pulled from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- 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.
- Twin Princess of Wonder Planet is Yume no Crayon Oukoku meets Ojamajo Doremi.
- Tytania is Firefly meets Dune.
U
- Uma Musume Pretty Derby is Kemono Friends meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Sports Anime.
- Umineko: When They Cry is And Then There Were None meets Groundhog Day
- Or, more generally, Golden-Age detective fiction meets Western occult/macabre literature. Two major factions within the story are even called Mystery and Fantasy.
- The Visual Novel is essentially Agatha Christie meets Suspiria (1977) meets Higurashi: When They Cry.
- Or Higurashi: When They Cry meets Jiggle Physics.
- Add one detective story, supernatural elements, a mindscrew worthy of Neon Genesis Evangelion, plus the brutality of Gantz and you're good to go.
- Or Criss Angel Mindfreak meets Breaking the Magician's Code meets Groundhog Day.
- Or, more generally, Golden-Age detective fiction meets Western occult/macabre literature. Two major factions within the story are even called Mystery and Fantasy.
- Under the Dog is Gantz meets Gunslinger Girl with elements of Black Bullet.
- The Unpopular Mangaka and the Helpful Onryo-san is The Helpful Fox Senko-san with a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl.
V
- Valvrave the Liberator = Mobile Suit Gundam SEED + Code Geass + Legend of the Galactic Heroes + Rosario + Vampire + Kamen Rider Kiva.
- Mecha design appears to have been influenced by Aura Battler Dunbine.
- Vagabond is Berserk meets Blade of the Immortal meets The Blade of the Courtesans
. - Vampire Hunter D is Dracula meets the Dollars Trilogy, with a bit of Shane.
- Vampire Knight can be described as Fruits Basket meets The Twilight Saga... minus the sparkling.
- Vandread is Macross meets Sakura Wars meets Martian Successor Nadesico.
- Variable Geo is Rumble Roses meets The King of Fightersnote
- Alternatively, it's Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie meets Dead or Alive.
- Violence Jack is Devilman meets Escape from New York meets Conan the Barbarian meets The 120 Days of Sodom meets AKIRA with the Canon Welding of The Dark Tower.
- Violet Evergarden (the series) is Great Expectations meets The Sound of Music meets Gosick, with a dash of ef - a fairy tale of the two.
- The Vision of Escaflowne:
- Record of Lodoss War meets Mecha Show with a dash of Steampunk.
- Or Record of Lodoss War + Inuyasha + Gundam.
- Or Fushigi Yuugi meets Aura Battler Dunbine minus the kill em all ending.
- Vinland Saga is Berserk meets Vicky the Viking meets Rurouni Kenshin.
- Or Icelandic Sagas meets Seinen Demographic.
- Or The Last Kingdom meets Ringing Bell meets A Song of Ice and Fire.
- Vividred Operation can be thought of as any one of a handful of combinations.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha meets Strike Witches.
- Iron Man meets Strike Witches.
- Super Sentai meets Strike Witches.
- Prétear meets Strike Witches.
- Xenosaga meets Bokurano meets Strike Witches (noticing a pattern with these?)
- Pretty Cure meets Iron Man.
- Pretty Cure meets Brave Series.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha meets Vandread.
- Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song can be described as Vocaloid meets Terminator with a dash of Re:Zero.
W
- Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is Hayate the Combat Butler set in the world of Disgaea}(specifically Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice).
- Or My Hero Academia meets G-Rated Highschool DXD.
- Or My Hero Academia meets Rosario + Vampire
- Welcome to the NHK: Foucault's Pendulum meets Fight Club.
- Wicked City is Men in Black meets Supernatural with a dash of H. P. Lovecraft thrown in.
- The Wind Rises is The Aviator meets Porco Rosso meets Oppenheimer with a bit of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.
- Witch Hat Atelier is Little Witch Academia with the dark, mature tone of Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Wolf's Rain is Watership Down meets The Last Unicorn by way of Final Fantasy VII. With the bleakness of Texhnolyze.
- Wonder Egg Priority is Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets 13 Reasons Why.
- WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? is Black Bullet meets NieR meets The Elder Scrolls Plus a whole lot of onions.
- The World's Finest Assassin is KonoSuba (but with a more competent ensemble of characters) meets Assassin's Creed meets EarthBound (as the main character is tasked to stop a prophesied world destruction).
- World Masterpiece Theater - western children's literature meets anime.
X
- Xam'd: Lost Memories:
- RahXephon (or, for the cynically minded, Neon Genesis Evangelion) meets Studio Ghibli.
- Guyver meets Eureka Seven.
- Witchblade and The SoulTaker meets Eureka Seven.
Y
- Yasuke is Afro Samurai meets White Cat Legend meets Samurai Champloo meets Gintama meets Samurai Jack meets Sengoku Basara.
- Yo-kai Watch is Pokémon or The Real Ghostbusters meets GeGeGe no Kitarō. With a bit of Gintama (due to its Shout-Out tendencies)
- Alternately, Gravity Falls meets Doraemon.
- Yo-kai Watch: Shadowside is Yo-kai Watch meets Digimon meets Kamen Rider Ghost.
- Your Lie in April: The Fault in Our Stars meets Whiplash, with a little bit of The Spectacular Now thrown in.
- Your Name is "Freaky Friday" Flip meets Chungking Express meets Melancholia meets The Butterfly Effect.
- Yuki Yuna is a Hero is Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets The Big O.
- Yumeiro Pâtissière 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.
- Alternately, it's Yakitate!! Japan meets a whole bunch of shoujo manga.
- Yuri Kuma Arashi is basically Attack on Titan with bears with the symbolism (and lesbian tones) of Penguindrum and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- YuYu Hakusho is Dragon Ball Z meets Evil Dead. Or Evil Dead meets Saint Seiya with Japanese Mythology instead of Greek Mythology.
Z
- Zambot 3 is Getter Robo meets A Wrinkle in Time meets Uncanny X-Men meets Dune.
- Zentrix is Terminator with CGI mecha.
- Zetman is Dragon Ball meets Kamen Rider and Devilman.
- The 1994 pilot chapter is Denkō Chōjin Gridman meets The Punisher and Devilman
- Zoobles is seriously Bakugan cross-mated with Jewelpet.
- Zoids is best summarized as basically being Gundam meets Mad Max
- Zoids Genesis = Zoids: Chaotic Century + The Seven Samurai
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead = Zombieland + Z Nation + Dead Rising + One Piece + Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! + I Am a Hero + Zombie Land Saga + School-Live! + Dorohedoro.
- Zombie Land Saga is Love Live! meets Being Human (UK).
