Line #8 HistoricalDomainCharacter/AnimeAndManga


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2	* UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison makes a brief appearance in Episode 9 of ''Anime/AppareRanman'' when Appare accidentally breaks into his house.
3	* Most of the cast of ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' are based on and named after famous historical authors from Japan and western countries, such as Creator/OsamuDazai, Creator/AtsushiNakajima, Creator/RanpoEdogawa, Creator/FScottFitzgerald and Creator/LouisaMayAlcott.
4	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
5	** Creator/AleisterCrowley appears as a character in the story. Of course, the real Aleister Crowley wasn't nearly so... [[DudeLooksLikeALady pretty]].
6	** Aiwass also makes an appearance as an otherworldly being who is also Crowley's mentor. "Aiwass" was the name of the voice that the real Crowley claimed to have heard in dreams that dictated the Book of the Law to him.
7	%%* Most of the cast of ''Anime/LeChevalierDEon''.
8	%%* Most of the cast of ''Manga/{{Drifters}}''.
9	* The entire ''[[Franchise/FateSeries Fate]]'' franchise runs off this. The servants are based on various historical figures ([[UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} Nero Caesar]], [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Zhuge Liang]], [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad the Impaler]]), mythical figures ([[Myth/CelticMythology Cú Chulainn]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]], [[{{Oni}} Shuten-Douji]]), or fictional characters who are in the public domain ([[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's Monster]], JekyllAndHyde, and [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice]]).
10	* While not the only anime set in the Bakumatsu period (and thus all characters are HistoricalDomainCharacter), ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is one of the few that completely reinvent/exagerate character traits (e.g. Saigo Takamori is a transvestite, Hijikata Toshizo is crazed about Mayonnaise, and Kondō Isami is a stalking gorilla). Also mixed in people that are far more legendary, such as Kintaro and Hyubei, and you have a crack manga.
11	* The ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' saga uses [[{{Expy}} expies]] of historical characters instead: e.g. Char Aznable (AKA: "The Red Comet") is an expy of Manfred von Richthofen (AKA: the RedBaron), Andrew Waltfeld is an expy of UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel (the original MagnificentBastard), etc. Things get complicated when later series start featuring expies of expies of historical people...
12	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has several brief appearances of historical characters, often as the bosses of the nations.
13	** A subset of this is {{shipping}} said historical characters with the nations they rule over. America[=/=]UsefulNotes/BarackObama, Prussia[=/=]UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, France[=/=]UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and England[=/=]UsefulNotes/ElizabethI are... ''quite'' popular among fanworkers.
14	*** Similarly, there are having them simply interact with the nation-tans. There's even one where Creator/BenjaminFranklin figures out America's true identity.
15	* In the 1970s, Toei made ''Ikkyuu-san'', an anime based on the (possibly fictionalized) earlier Zen Buddhist monk (according to Website/ThatOtherWiki) Ikkyuu.[[note]]which ran until 1982[[/note]].
16	** They also made an anime based on the earlier life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
17	* ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'' (set in 1800s Australia) has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light Colonel Light]], the city planner who started the Australian town of Adelaide. He fishes with Lucy-May's brother Ben and has various conversations with him.
18	* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' introduces UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid.
19	* ''Manga/MugenNoGunkanYamato'', being a HistoricalFiction manga, has many real-life admirals from both sides of the Pacific War.
20	* ''Anime/NijiNoKanataEShoujoDianaMonogatari'' is a biopic of Princess Diana and focuses on her early life to her teen years.
21	* In ''Manga/{{Nobunagun}}'' the main character is a reincarnation of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga. Other characters include such colorful personalities as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei, and UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton.
22	* ''Anime/ParisNoIsabelle'' has Léon Gambetta and Adolphe Thiers, though the latter goes through such a HistoricalVillainUpgrade that he's the anime's BigBad.
23	* ''Manga/RedRiver1995'' is based on actual Turkish history, including ''The Manly Deeds of Suppiluliuma'' and ''The Ten Year Annals of Mursili II''. Both of those books were written by the actual Mursili II, who is Prince Kail in the story. Protagonist Yuri Suzuki is mostly believed to be a CompositeCharacter of multiple, influential women, including Prince Kail's legal wife.
24	* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' has several characters who are actually clones of historical ones, such as Beethoven and Mata Hari.
25	* Most of the cast of ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' consists of several historical figures, particularly those involved in the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution such as UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, UsefulNotes/LouisXVI, Axel von Fersen the Younger, UsefulNotes/MarquisDeLaFayette and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre. Many of the historical figures play a role in the plot, with the protagonist, Oscar, being assigned to protect Marie Antoinette ever since the latter was a Crown Princess.
26	* ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'' uses numerous figures from history and mythology for their cast of characters notably, UsefulNotes/LuBu, UsefulNotes/SasakiKojiro, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, Raiden Tameemon, UsefulNotes/QinShiHuangdi, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, Leonidas I, UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin, {{UsefulNotes/Nostradamus}}, UsefulNotes/SimoHayha; and Soji Okita.
27	* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', both Hajime Saitou, and the Shinsengumi are characters that become important to the plot.
28	* ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'' has Marie Antoinette and several of the French aristocracy, who serve as the main heroine's Arch-Nemesis.
29	* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' uses a rather strange example in the form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor John Titor]], a forum poster back in 2000 and 2001 who claimed to be a time traveler - Only this time, Okarin's discovery of time travel changed the arrival date to 2010, [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy the claims (though slightly different this time around) are true]], and [[spoiler:her real name is [[SamusIsAGirl Suzuha Amane]]]].
30	* Many of the characters in ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' are actually historic people, among them Leif Erickson, Canute, and Sweyn, and ''possibly'' even the Jomsvikings, although it's difficult to tell if the Jomsvikings are just myth or if there was an original kernel of truth that was later built upon and exaggerated in tales. ([[spoiler:Technically even main character Thorfinn "Karlsefni" is one too, there really was a Thorfinn "Karlsefni" Thórdarson who was an explorer associated with Leif Erickson, although much of the life of the fictional version is entirely made up.]]) There was also an actual ''Thorkell the Tall'' who fought for the English and joined Canute, but it's not known if he was really a giant who could kill a hundred men with his bare hands.
31	* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton as the BigBad]].
32	* ''Manga/YaBoyKongming'' (AKA ''Paripi Koumei'') is a FishOutOfWater comedy about Zhuge Liang, 3rd century Chinese strategist featured in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', getting reincarnated in 21st century Japan and becoming the manager of Eiko Tsumiki, an up-and-coming musician.
33	* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'': When Thomas Edison died, he became a {{youkai}} called T. Energison.

Context HistoricalDomainCharacter / AnimeAndManga