The creator of Welcome to the NHK revealed the story draws inspiration from the real lives of socially non-interactive people fighting depression and anxiety.
Bakuman draws inspiration from the real lives of the creators of the anime series Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. There are many manga references in the anime series.
Mawara Penguindrum is about a terminally-ill girl, Himari. Her brothers, with the help of strange penguins, try to save their sister's life. The disease which Himari's character suffers from spread in Tokyo in 1995 after a group of terrorists attacked multiple subway lines with sarin gas.
Based on the post-World War II era, the story follows Seita and Setsuko, two young siblings who lost their mother in a bombing. The movie is an adaptation of Akiyuki Nasaka's autobiographical account.
The anime series has taken inspiration from famous ancient books like Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of Greenlanders.
The anime series tells the story of two siblings, Mirai and Yuki, who get stuck in Tokyo with their mother after a massive earthquake.
The concept of anime, Hanako-san of the toilet, is a Japanese legend about a girl named Hanako-san who haunts girls' restrooms in high schools.
Yasuke, a Netflix anime, shows the story of the first African samurai who fought in 16th-century Japan.
The sci-fi anime series reportedly draws inspiration from John Tutor, a man who claimed to be a time traveller from 2036 and warned about a World War and nuclear fallout.