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- O Maidens in Your Savage Season is Azumanga Daioh meets American Pie.
- Ocean Waves is Whisper of the Heart meets (500) Days of Summer meets 5 Centimeters per Second.
- Odd Taxi: Taxi Driver meets Durarara!! meets Aggretsuko
- Onani Master Kurosawa is Death Note starring Glenn Quagmire who then gets abducted and replaced with Holden Caulfield. In other words, It's Death Note with fapping.
- One Piece is Dragon Ball meets Berserk meets Treasure Island meets Vicky the Viking.
- Alternately, it's Monkey Island meets Dragon Ball meets Lupin III meets Popeye, with a dash of The Silmarillion.
- Or Dragon Ball meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets the Land of Oz.
- Or Dragon Ball meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
- Or Treasure Island meets Tintin, Stephen Chow, and Tex Avery.
- Or Treasure Island meets Super Mario Bros. meets Pokémon
- Or Mother meets Asterix meets Disney Ducks Comic Universe meets Les Misérables.
- On Your Mark is AKIRA meets Neo Tokyo meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meets Edge of Tomorrow meets the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga meets Heavy Metal, all made Lighter and Softer by Hayao Miyazaki, with a dash of Sonic Adventure 2 and Undertale.
- Oruchuban Ebichu is Crayon Shin-chan meets Hamtaro and Futari Ecchi.
- Oshi no Ko is Kaguya-sama: Love Is War meets Perfect Blue meets Monster.
- Osomatsu-san is Osomatsu-kun meets It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Bojack Horseman.
- Outlaw Star is Star Wars meets One Piece
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- PandoraHearts:
- Black Butler meets Fruits Basket meets Alice in Wonderland. (Since PandoraHearts actually is based on Alice in Wonderland, examples including Alice in Wonderland will not be included after this first one.)
- Tokyo Ghoul meets Death Note meets Black Butler.
- For an extremely strange and yet accurate anime/manga-free example, The Velveteen Rabbit meets The Bible meets Game of Thrones. And yes, we did just say that second one, as well as combine those three drastically different things.
- Pani Poni Dash! can be summed up as the bastard lovechild of Azumanga Daioh and Excel♡Saga.
- Or FLCL and otaku references (along with few Western ones) meets Schoolgirl Series in general.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is Excel♡Saga meets Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi meets mescaline.
- Or The Powerpuff Girls meets FLCL, with dashes of Mr. Driller, Colorful and South Park.
- Or Dirty Pair meets the filmography of Quentin Tarantino.
- Or Drawn Together meets Lethal Weapon
- Or Soul Eater meets Black Lagoon, In the Style of Dororon Enma-kun and Dead Leaves.
- Panzer World Galient: Star Wars meets Mobile Suit Gundam meets Medieval European Fantasy
- Mazinger Z meets Aura Battler Dunbine.
- Great Mazinger meets UFO Robo Grendizer meets Medieval European Fantasy.
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS meets Prince Valiant.
- Parasyte is Devilman meets The Thing (1982) meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
- Patlabor is Police Academy with a side of Armored Trooper VOTOMS.
- Perfect Blue is, according to Roger Corman, Walt Disney meets Alfred Hitchcock.
- Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation is PSO2 meets .hack//SIGN.
- Phantom Quest Corp. is Paranormal Mystery Squad meets Moonlighting
- Pilot Candidate is Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Police Academy.
- Plastic Memories is Blade Runner meets Chobits.
- Platinum End is Future Diary meets It's a Wonderful Life.
- Or Angel Sanctuary meets No Longer Human and Devilman.
- Plunderer is Heaven's Lost Property meets PandoraHearts.
- Pocos Udon World is Pom Poko meets Sweetness & Lightning meets Barakamon.
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is My Neighbor Totoro meets The Little Mermaid (1989) meets Spirited Away.
- Popee the Performer is Looney Tunes meets David Lynch.
- Pop Team Epic, for a better description, could be Beavis And Butthead meets The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Robot Chicken plus anything from [adult swim]. Or more simply, MAD and Daisies if they were made in Japan.
- The anime adaptation is The Amazing World of Gumball meets The Eric Andre Show meets Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! meets Daisies.
- Porco Rosso is Casablanca meets Top Gun: Maverick.
- Powerpuff Girls Z is The Powerpuff Girls meets Pretty Cure.
- Prétear is Snow White meets Sailor Moon and Kirby, with added garnishes of Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, Ultraman Gaia, and Martian Successor Nadesico.
- The Polygon Pictures Godzilla Movie Trilogy is Warhammer 40,000 meets the Kaiju genre.
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (and Crystal) is Cutie Honey meets Saint Seiya meets Himitsu Sentai Gorenger meets Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger meets La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine meets Barbie meets Clueless.
- Princess Mononoke is Pocahontas meets Berserk meets Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind meets Ran meets The Legend of Zelda, set in Feudal Japan.
- Princess Principal is described as being a Darker and Edgier Totally Spies! meets Steampunk with subtle references to H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.
- 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.
- Promare is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill meets Fire Force meets Zootopia meets this very wiki.
- The Promised Neverland is V1983 meets Torchwood: Children of Earth meets Soylent Green meets Coraline meets The Island.
- As Bennett the Sage puts it, it's what you'd get "if The Great Escape were a Grimm's fairy tale".
- Or Codename: Kids Next Door meets The Hunger Games and Made in Abyss.
- The second season of the anime adaptation is The Promised Neverland meets Tokyo Ghoul √A.
- Mix X-Men with The Powerpuff Girls to obtain Psychic Squad.
- Or better, take X-Men from Psychic Squad to obtain something like Powerpuff Girls Z
- Psycho-Pass is Minority Report” meets Blade Runner meets Johnny Mnemonic meets Nineteen Eighty-Four with a pinch of Puella Magi Madoka Magica''note . The titular passes may not contain the characters' souls, but when you mentally slip towards likely criminality, The Corruption sets in, and then you become what you've been fighting.
- Alternatively, it's Equilibrium meets Brave New World meets Minority Report meets Judge Dredd meets Paranoia.
- Psyren is Gilgamesh meets Gantz.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
- Hidamari Sketch meets Faust.
- Devilman meets Sailor Moon and Faust, with a sliver of the premise of the latter half of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and a healthy dose of Primer
- Neon Genesis Magical Girl.
- Magical Slayers with the tone of Animorphs
- Magical Girl meets Yume Nikki. You could possibly throw Faust into the mix too.
- Oh hey, the Hidamari Sketch guys did an adaptation of Sailor Nothing.
- Magical Girl meets Silent Hill. No, really!
- Berserk and Black Butler meet Magical Girl.
- Magical Girl Persona 3. Oh wait...
- Sayonara Nanoha Sketch Shooter HiME. Especially the HiME part.
- World of Darkness meets Magical Girl. You essentially die when you're Embraced into magical girl-hood? Check. You're exposed to mad beings from mad dimension, and will inevitably turns into one? Check. The world is literally crumbling and there is nothing you can do about that? Check.
- Magical Lich Madoka Magica - A show about Moe Liches and the creepy Plush Toy that creates them.
- Magical Girl version of Death Becomes Her, albeit much sadder and darker.
- Bokurano meets Magical Girl.
- Magical Girl meets To Serve Man
- Mahou Shoujo Ryuki Magica BLACK?
- How 'bout Cardcaptor Sakura meets Pet Sematary? (Gen Urobuchi once cited Stephen King as one his main influences, surprise surprise.)
- Sailor Moon by Stanley Kubrick
- Magical Girl meets Ultraman Nexus
- Mahoumonogatari
- Higurashi: When They Cry but with Magical Girls (Oddly enough Higurashi did have a Magical Girl Episode
) - Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion is essentially Paradise Lost meets The Matrix.
- Rebellion could also be considered Revolutionary Girl Utena meets Princess Tutu.
- Pui Pui Molcar is Tamagotchi meets Choro Q meets Ridge Racer meets Cars.
- Puni Puni☆Poemi is Excel♡Saga meets Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura.
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- Queen's Bladenote is Record of Lodoss War meets Soulcalibur meets Odin Sphere meets Mobile Fighter G Gundam (without the mecha) meets Ikki Tousen.
- The sequel Queen's Blade Rebellion is Queen's Blade meets Fire Emblem meets Water Margin meets Star Wars (without the sci-fi parts)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets is Osomatsu-san meets We Never Learn and How I Met Your Mother.
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- RahXephon: The Big O meets Neon Genesis Evangelion with the design of Brave Raideen
- Ran and the Gray World is Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel meets Big and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
- Ranma ½ is Urusei Yatsura meets early Dragon Ball meets Love Hina.
- Read or Die as James Bond meets Cowboy Bebop meets X-Men meets Reading Rainbow.
- Real Account: Sword Art Online meets Summer Wars.
- Reborn! (2004) 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).
- Record of Ragnarok is Smite meets Kengan Ashura
- Re:CREATORS is Super Smash Bros. Brawl meets The Truman Show meets TRON: Legacy.
- REDLINE is Speed Racer meets Death Race 2000 meets Dead Leaves.
- Ōban Star-Racers meets Tengen Toppa Gurrenlagann.
- F-Zero meets Wacky Races.
- The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World is Super Sentai meets KonoSuba, being a parody of both the Sentai and Trapped in Another World fantasy genres.
- Redo of Healer is The Rising of the Shield Hero meets I Spit on Your Grave.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena is The Rose of Versailles meets Highlander meets Skins as directed by David Lynch after watching way too much Sailor Moon.
- Or Princess Knight meets Belladonna of Sadness meets Dear Brother meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Kanon (Chiho Saito).
- Rideback is IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix meets V for Vendetta and Princess Tutu.
- Ringing Bell:
- Ernest Thompson Seton and Friedrich Nietzsche write a Revenge Tragedy : The Anime.
- Or simply Bambi meets Watership Down meets Afro Samurai.
- Rosario + Vampire is something like Love Hina meets Elfen Lied, with vampires.
- Rozen Maiden is Pinocchio meets Highlander, with the moe turned up to eleven.
- Or gothed up Zatch Bell!.
- Rurouni Kenshin is Shane meets Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro after taking some notes from Usagi Yojimbo.
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- Saikano is Elfen Lied meets Gunslinger Girl.
- Sailor Moon is Codename: Sailor V meets Super Sentai meets Saved by the Bell meets The Greatest American Hero.
- Saint Seiya is Dragon Ball Z meets Fist of the North Star meets Classical Mythology
- Or Classical Mythology meets Super Sentai.
- Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho is Saint Seiya meets Sailor Moon.
- Sakamoto Days is The Way of the Househusband meets Spy X Family
- Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru is Naruto meets Rurouni Kenshin meets Star Wars.
- Or Star Wars meets Seven Samurai.
- Samurai Champloo is The Last Samurai meets Hustle And Flow, and set to the plot of True Grit.
- Or Cowboy Bebop meets Feudal Japan.
- Or Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Feudal Japan
- Or Akira Kurosawa meets Quentin Tarantino.
- Samurai Flamenco: Kick-Ass meets Kamen Rider.
- Samurai Pirates is One Piece meets Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
- Samurai Pizza Cats is Ninja Captor meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets The Transformers, by way of Dr. Slump.
- Or ThunderCats (1985) meets Super Sentai and Ninja Senshi Tobikage.
- Sand Land: The Road Warrior meets Dragon Ball.
- Or Go Go Ackman meets Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai meets Disgaea meets Tank Girl meets Trigun.
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Great Teacher Onizuka meets No Longer Human meets Azumanga Daioh and South Park note .
- Scan 2 Go is Bakusou Kyoudai! Let's & Go!! meets Beyblade
- There's a fair bit of Zoolander in there too.
- School Days is Love Hina meets Audition.
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman = Ninja Butai Gekkou + Cyborg 009 + Kamen Rider + Thunderbirds.
- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is the original comic meets Kill la Kill...meets Rebuild of Evangelion meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Hailey's On It! meets Saving Me.
- Or the original comic combined with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil meets My Name Is Earl meets My Adventures with Superman meets The Boys: Diabolical, by way of Rick and Morty, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and with a little dash of Jujutsu Kaisen thrown in.
- Or the original comic meets Masters of the Universe: Revelation.
- Sekirei is Pokémon meets Highlander, or alternatively, Pokémon meets Kämpfer.
- selector infected WIXOSS is Magic: The Gathering meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Angelic Layer meets Black★Rock Shooter
- Seraph of the End is Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Fire Emblem with a touch of Final Fantasy and Attack on Titan.
- Serial Experiments Lain is Ghost in the Shell and the last two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, starring Hotaru Tomoe.
- Alternatively, it's Den-noh Coil meets Perfect Blue with a dash of Paprika.
- Purely in terms of tone, it's Digimon Tamers meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
- or Key the Metal Idol meets Snow Crash and Twin Peaks.
- Seton Academy: Join the Pack! is Animal Academy: Hakobune Hakusho meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
- The Seven Deadly Sins:
- Dragon Ball meets Arthurian Legend.
- Fairy Tail meets Arthurian Legend.
- Berserk minus the horror meets Fairy Tail.
- Similarly, the page for Sgt. Frog makes it look like "Hamtaro + Invader Zim — Crapsack World". Once again, possibly inaccurate.
- Or Invader Zim meets The Penguins of Madagascar.
- Shadow Star: Pokémon meets Neon Genesis Evangelion. And goes off its meds.
- Or Digimon Tamers meets Alien Nine and Shin Megami Tensei (specifically Devil Children), with the bleakness of Elfen Lied.
- Shangri-La Frontier is Sword Art Online meets The Angry Video Game Nerd meets Make Love, Not Warcraft.
- Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight: Love Live! meets Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- Shugo Chara!: Kamichama Karin meets Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Shy: Cardcaptor Sakura meets One-Punch Man.
- Simoun is thematically related to several very influential, very controversial sci-fi novels. The Left Hand of Darkness and A Canticle for Leibowitz are the most obvious influences but there's also a little The Space Trilogy and Doris Lessing, plus the obvious overlays of Top Gun and Last Exile and the title, which recalls The Little Prince.
- Skeleton Knight in Another World is Overlord (2012) meets MediEvil.
- Skull Man:
- The 1970 one-shot manga is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets The Fugitive.
- The 1998 manga is Batman meets Hitman meets Case Closed meets Ninja Gaiden.
- The anime is Hitman meets Case Closed meets CSI meets Hard Boiled meets Grand Theft Auto.
- Soil is Daniel Clowes (slight Grotesque Gallery non-anime style) meets Junji Ito (Mind Screw story about an Uncanny Village infested with freaky spirals).
- Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Dragon Ball.
- Sonic X is Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) meets Dragon Ball Z meets Sonic Adventure meets Kirby: Right Back at Ya! meets Pokémon: The Series.
- The third season is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Dragon Ball GT (The seven Mineral MacGuffins are lost in space, making the cast go in an adventure IN SPACE! fighting against some evil robotic empire who wants to take over the universe).
- Soul Eater: Bleach with a hint of Harry Potter, directed by David Lynch while smoking crack with Tim Burton.
- Or Tiny Toon Adventures meets Dragon Ball Z.
- Or The Nightmare Before Christmas meets YuYu Hakusho and Gravedale High.
- The SoulTaker is Guyver meets Boogiepop Phantom.
- Or Devilman meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Sound of the Sky is K-On! meets The English Patient.
- Space Adventure Cobra is James Bond meets Cyborg 009 meets Flash Gordon/Barbarella meets Lupin III.
- Space☆Dandy:
- Flash Gordon meets Cowboy Bebop meets Gurren Lagann. IN SPAAAAAAACE! (Even though all of those shows are already IN SPAAAAAAACE!)
- Or Outlaw Star meets Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Cowboy Bebop with Johnny Bravo as the main character.
- Space Patrol Luluco: If Inferno Cop and Kill la Kill had a baby, then died in a tragic car accident and left the baby to be raised by Fooly Cooly and Panty and Stocking instead, with her uncle Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann teaching her about the world.
- Or: Hayate the Combat Butler meets Space☆Dandy.
- Or Studio TRIGGER's Atomic Betty.
- Space Runaway Ideon is Mobile Suit Gundam meets Getter Robo meets Ultraman meets Mazinger Z meets Hamlet meets The Book of Revelation, all done in the style of Devilman.
- Spirited Away is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland meets Princess Mononoke meets The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
- Spy X Family is Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) meets The X's with a dash of the Mission: Impossible Film Series, lovingly seasoned in Sean Connery and Roger Moore era James Bond.
- Also, with its 1960's romantic adventure asthetics and schoolyard comedy in a glamorous Academy of Adventure, it can also be seen as From Russia with Love and The Spy Who Loved Me meets Harry Potter.
- A shorter version would be The Man from U.N.C.L.E. meets Yotsuba&!.
- Squid Girl is Yotsuba&! meets Invader Zim meets Spongebob Squarepants.
- Star Driver is Code Geass meets Asura Cryin'.
- Alternatively, it's Sailor Moon meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- Star Wars: Visions is Star Wars meets The Animatrix.
- Stealth Symphony is Discworld meets D.Gray-Man
- Steins;Gate has been described as "if Donnie Darko were taped over an episode of The Big Bang Theory".
- It is also Back to the Future as a Black Mirror episode.
- And arguably it is also La Jetée meets the Doctor Who Revival, with all the Timey-Wimey Ball in the plot.
- Stratos 4 is Armageddon (1998) meets Thunderbirds meets Azumanga Daioh meets a heaping helping of fanservice
- Strike Witches is Touhou Project meets Transformers meets World War II.
- Suicide Girl is Pretty Cure meets 13 Reasons Why.
- Summer Wars is Digimon meets WarGames.
- Or Snow Crash meets WarGames as a feel-good family movie.
- Superbook: Dragon Tales meets The Bible.
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross is Space Battleship Yamato meets Mobile Suit Gundam meets Idol Singer
- Alternately, it's Mobile Suit Gundam meets G.I. Joe meets Star Wars meets Idol Singer.
- Survival in Another World with My Mistress! is Monster Musume meets 7 Days to Die
- Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale is Sword Art Online meets Kamen Rider Ex-Aid.
- Symphogear is either Lyrical Nanoha meets Madoka meets EXA_PICO, Suite Pretty Cure ♪ meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Macross 7 meets Lyrical Nanoha or Kamen Rider meets Lyrical Nanoha.
