Recycled In Space / Anime & Manga

• Assassination Classroom:
  • It's Great Teacher Onizuka. With an alien.
    • Which is funny because they DO go to space.
  • It could also be Stand and Deliver IF JAIME ESCALANTE WAS A TENTACLE MONSTER!
• Azumanga Daioh is Wayside School IN JAPAN!
• Belle is Beauty and the Beast IN CYBERSPACE!
• Blame! (2017) is the Dollars Trilogy IN A CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA!
• Blaster Knuckle is essentially what the early arcs of Berserk would be like if Guts was a black boxer, the demons were members of The Klan, and the whole thing was set during the 1880s American South.
• Bungou Stray Dogs is Jojos Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind WITH LITERATURE!
• Buddy Daddies is Spy X Family BUT GAY!
• Cells at Work! is Osmosis Jones (or Ozzy & Drix) AS A JAPANESE ANIME SERIES!
• Cyborg 009 is Justice League of America or Iron Man AS A MULTINATIONAL TEAM OF CYBORGS!
• Densha de D is Initial D WITH TRAINS!
• Digimon Adventure 02 is Digimon Adventure THREE YEARS LATER!
  • Digimon Tamers is Yu-Gi-Oh! and Ultra Q together AS A DIGIMON SHOW!
  • Digimon Frontier is Super Sentai AS A DIGIMON SHOW!
  • Digimon Data Squad is Ultraseven AS A DIGIMON SHOW!
  • Digimon Fusion is Super Robot Wars and Transformers together AS A DIGIMON SHOW!
• Dinosaur King is Pokémon: The Series BUT WITH DINOSAURS!!
• Dragon Ball Z is Dragon Ball IN SPACE, WITH ALIENS!
  • Dragon Ball GT is Dragon Ball Z WITH EVEN MORE SPACE - and with Kid Goku, thereby recycling stuff from the original DB as well!
    • Ever watched Dragon Ball Z Abridged? You'll love Space Australia.
• ‘’EDENS ZERO’’ is Fairy Tail IN SPACE!
• Explorer Woman Ray is kind of Indiana Jones WITH A FEMALE PROTAGONIST! (who is also probably Japanese, lives in the '80s, and has definitely Japanese, twin girl versions of Short Round).
• Fighting Foodons is Pokémon: The Series WITH LIVING FOOD!
• Freezing is Claymore IN THE FUTURE!
  • Or Cyborg 009 IN A WORLD OF ACTION GIRLS!
• Gankutsuou is The Count of Monte Cristo IN SPACE! Told from Albert Morcerf's point of view.
  • Studio Gonzo loves these. In addition to Gankutsuou, Gonzo is also responsible for these:
    • Samurai 7 is Seven Samurai WITH MECHA!
    • Romeo X Juliet is Romeo and Juliet ON A FLOATING CONTINENT!
• Gun Frontier is literally Captain Harlock (or one of his Identical Ancestors) IN THE OLD WEST!
• GUN×SWORD is Kill Bill with Humongous Mecha
• Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick is... Moby-Dick IN SPACE!
• Jackals was about a killer-for-hire getting caught in the middle of a gang war between assassins with animal-themed skills. Nearly every manga from the same author features some variation of this plot.
  • Arachnid had a single organization of insect-themed freaks targetting a young spider-girl for funsies. It established a funfacts battle narration format the stories below all follow. In short, is a Stealth Sequel to Jackals set IN A SCHOOL.
  • The sidestory Caterpillar is basically Arachnid IN A CRUISE SHIP.
  • Killing Bites has four yakuza organizations betting on the outcome of fights between beastmen with rich people watching as in Caterpillar. The first battle royale is set ON AN ISLAND.
  • Himenospia borrows more and more from Arachnid as it goes on. The ant/wasp-themed Shadow Dictator role is split between the protagonist and the more experienced antagonist who is FROM AMERICA.
  • Choubu no Shinobi is literally Arachnid in SENGOKU-ERA JAPAN, with several reused character designs.
• Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is Attack on Titan IN A STEAMPUNK VERSION OF TAISHO-ERA JAPAN, WITH TRAINS AND GUNS AND MORE TRADITIONAL ZOMBIES IN THE PLACE OF TITANS.
• Kochi Kame is Father Ted WITH POLICE OFFICERS AND IN JAPAN!
• Knights of Sidonia is... Also Attack on Titan IN SPACE!
• Megumin from Konosuba is Rikka Takanashi DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BAY!
• The planned series of Lupin VIII, had it been completed, would have been Lupin III, IN SPACE, IN THE FUTURE.
• Megalo Box is a 50th anniversary retelling of Tomorrow's Joe WITH CYBERPUNK.
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is... The Da Vinci Code with Unicorn Gundam acting as Cryptex IN SPACE!
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is Revolutionary Girl Utena in space with duels using mechs instead of swords.
• My Hero Academia is Naruto WITH SUPERHEROES STARRING ROCK LEE!
• Planetes is literally recycling in space!
  • It could also be treated as a Slice of Life IN SPACE!
• Powerpuff Girls Z is The Powerpuff Girls IN JAPAN!
• Pokemon: Sun and Moon is Yo-Kai Watch AS A SCHOOL-SET Slice of Life SERIES!
  • Which would be considered Hilarious in Hindsight as Yo-Kai Watch itself would get a series like that 3 years after the release of Sun and Moon.
• Pretty Cure does this often, often recycling plots from past seasons and, on occasion, other shows by Bandai and/or Toei:
  • Suite PreCure♪ is Futari wa Pretty Cure WITH A MUSIC THEME!
  • Smile PreCure! is Yes! PreCure 5 WITH FAIRYTALES!
  • Dokidoki! PreCure is Fresh Pretty Cure! WITH PLAYING CARDS!
  • HappinessCharge PreCure! is HeartCatch PreCure! WITH FORM-CHANGING CARDS!
  • Go! Princess PreCure is Aikatsu! WITH PRINCESSES!
  • Maho Girls PreCure! is Ojamajo Doremi WITH TEENAGE PROTAGONISTS!
    • Or Futari Wa Pretty Cure WITH WITCHES!
    • Or Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders AS A PRETTY CURE SERIES!
  • KiraKira Pretty Cure a la Mode is Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi AS A PRETTY CURE SERIES!
    • Or Smile Pretty Cure! WITH A DESSERT THEME!
  • HUGtto! PreCure is Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AS A PRECURE SHOW!
    • Or Dokidoki! PreCure WITH EVERYDAY LIFE JOB EMPLOYEES!
  • Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure is literally Pretty Cure IN SPACE!
    • Or more specifically Maho Girls Pretty Cure IN SPACE WITH FIVE CURES!
  • Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure is Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star WITH DOCTORS AND ANIMAL PARTNERS!
    • Or Kamen Rider Ex-Aid AS A PRECURE SHOW!
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica is Goethe's Faust WITH MAGICAL GIRL LESBIANS!
• Ranking of Kings is Shrek AS A DRAMA!
• Sazae-san is La Familia Burrón IN JAPAN!
• Summer Wars is the first Digimon movie WITHOUT DIGIMON!^note Makes sense as Mamoru Hosoda was involved in both works.
• Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends is Yes! Pretty Cure 5 WITH TAMAGOTCHIS!
• Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar is Tenchi Muyo! in an Alternate Universe WITH HUMONGOUS MECHA!
• Tokyo Mew Mew is Sailor Moon WITH NEKO GIRLS!
• Tokyo Revengers is ERASED WITH TEENAGE GANGSTERS!
• Ulysses 31 is The Odyssey IN SPACE!
• The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz IN SPACE!
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: the entire franchise is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Gundam WITH CARD GAMES!
  • The original manga (and the Duel Monsters anime) is Ultraman Tiga WITH CARD GAMES!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters is Yu-Gi-Oh! WITH MONS!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX is Ultraman Dyna WITH CARD GAMES!
    • Or Mobile Suit Gundam SEED AS A YU-GI-OH! ANIME!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds is Yu-Gi-Oh! ON MOTORCYCLES!
    • Or Initial D WITH CARD GAMES!
    • Or Ultraman Gaia WITH CARD GAMES!
    • Or Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny WITH CARD GAMES!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL. "Card Games on Rocket Ships!"
    • Or Danganronpa WITH CARD GAMES!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V is the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise UP TO ELEVEN!
    • Or Black★Rock Shooter WITH CARD GAMES
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS is Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds IN CYBERSPACE!
    • Or Kamen Rider Ex-Aid WITH CARD GAMES!
    • Or Digimon Tamers AS A YU-GI-OH! ANIME!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! is Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS'' IN SPACE!
    • Or SSSS.DYNɅZENON AS A YU-GI-OH! ANIME!
• Yumeiro Pâtissičre is Shugo Chara! WITH DESSERTS!

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