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This Week in Anime - What Is This, An Anime Crossover Episode?


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FilthyCasual



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 1:30 pm Reply with quote
Psychic Miku is my favorite. Fighting Miku is a close second though.

In terms of manga, there's quite a few crossovers. Deadpool Samurai had a really fun moment where Kohei Horikoshi drew All Might. Baby Steps, Yamada and the 7 Witches, and Aho Girl all had a fun crossover. Real Account had a crossover with Fuuka which hilariously revealed embarrassing details about Fuuka's protagonist that the death game mascot said to post on the wiki. This led to the creation of an English Fuuka wiki for the sole purpose of exposing the MC. Then you have crossover chapters between Nanoha and Prisma Illya, multiple crossover manga between Fate/ and Tsukihime, and the list goes on. Videogame-wise you have Super Robot Wars.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:08 pm Reply with quote
As someone who's been watching One Piece for over 15 years, that Toriko crossover episode was maybe the worst thing I've seen associated with the franchise. The DBZ crossover could have been fun, but again, there was Toriko like some sort of malignant growth. And I thought that before we learned about its author. Ugh.
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Joe Mello



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:11 pm Reply with quote
Shin-chan is the Spiders Georg of crossovers, especially if it's tokusatsu.

I don't think my college's anime club ever popped as much as when they saw Isaac and Miria rock up in Durarara
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:33 pm Reply with quote
Another notably-overlooked crossover is the Time Bokan: Royal Revival OVAs from '93 and '94. The first gathered villain teams from various titles under the broad Time Bokan umbrella, allegedly coming out of retirement for a great competition to be the new lead villain team. The second featured the villain team from Yatterman encountering various Tatsunoko heroes from the '60s and '70s, including Gatchaman and Casshan, while on a mission to "Tatsunoko Land."
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John the Dark Lord



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 3:15 pm Reply with quote
Shinkalion also got Godzilla for its movie, together with a return of both Evangelion and Miku.

Season 2 of the show had to leave Miku and Godzilla behind, but there was another crossover with EVA, a different crossover episode with Hello Kitty, and Maetel (loli version) from Galaxy Express 999 became a pilot this season like Miku did in the previous one.

The third series is currently airing, so we are probably getting more in the near future.
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MarshalBanana



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 3:24 pm Reply with quote
One of the best crossovers I ever saw, was "CB Chara Go Nagai World".
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Heishi



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 3:30 pm Reply with quote
Key wrote:
Another notably-overlooked crossover is the Time Bokan: Royal Revival OVAs from '93 and '94. The first gathered villain teams from various titles under the broad Time Bokan umbrella, allegedly coming out of retirement for a great competition to be the new lead villain team. The second featured the villain team from Yatterman encountering various Tatsunoko heroes from the '60s and '70s, including Gatchaman and Casshan, while on a mission to "Tatsunoko Land."


Let's not forget that PS1 crossover game, Tatsunoko Fight and of course, Tatsunoko vs Capcom.

It's too bad Tatsunoko isn't very popular among the mainstream anime crowd and is only a pretty small niche these days and only somewhat popular with boomers who grew up with Speed Racer and the butchered English adaptions of Gatchaman.
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onpufan



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 5:37 pm Reply with quote
I don't think i get the joke about liking Hatsune Miku makes you gay.

Joe Mello wrote:
Shin-chan is the Spiders Georg of crossovers, especially if it's tokusatsu


I remember his crossover with Kamen Rider Fourze where he interacts with both the live-action actors for Gentaro and Yuuki as well as animated versions of them.
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pi8you



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 6:13 pm Reply with quote
On creators doing self-crossovers, has anyone done it harder than CLAMP (xxxholic/Tsubasa)? The Ai Yazawa connected universe is also pretty fun.

RE Jump crossover games, it's Jump Super Stars on the DS or get out, even if it was never localized (or was it?).
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Triltaison



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 11:04 pm Reply with quote
I always like seeing silly cameos in the backgrounds of somewhat related series (like the Vandread pilots wandering around the base in Stratos 4 or Lum being in the crowd scenes of so many '80s shows), but it's nice when those actual full on crossovers pop up.

I really liked the old Scramble Wars OVA and still have my VHS copy. That one crosses Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force, and Genesis Surviver Gaiarth in a silly Wacky Races style race. For a little one shot, Minky Momo vs Creamy Mami also amused me quite a bit and Gundam x Hello Kitty was a pretty fun little gag, too.

I don't remember much about the show itself anymore, but Peeping Life definitely had a memorable Tatsunoko x Tezuka cross going on with its opening that still pops into my head occasionally. Opening here for those interested.
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Dr. Wily



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 11:11 pm Reply with quote
I'd never seen that Oda picture of Goku before and I know that will haunt my dreams tonight. Like... that had to have been intentional, right? Because that's just Luffy's face on Goku's body again! I know the man can draw other faces.
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zekro94



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 12:01 am Reply with quote
There was also a ps2 game called Battle Stadium D.O.N (D=dragon ball, O=One Piece, N=Naruto) which played like smash clone or something. Jump Victory vs+ has a better gameplay and even if older it has more charm. Plus it has Bobobo-bo and D-Grayman (qs a support but still)
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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 4:19 am Reply with quote
Gintama did a lot of parodies of other shows, but they also did two crossover episodes with Sket Dance, with the first episode airing on Gintama (ep 227), and the follow up on Sket Dance (ep 26). This was fun in part because Tomokazu Sugita and Daisuke Sakaguchi played characters in both series (Isekei Quartet also had shared seiyuu among its cast).

There's also the apparently shared universe of Madlax with Birdie Wing and Valkyrie Drive, though I'm not sure if there's any actual crossing over of the franchises.

@Triltaison: You beat me to the shoutout to Peeping Life, which I'm always ready to shill for! Very Happy It wasn't just the OP (which I love), but many of the sketches had crossovers as well. Like Yatterman's Boyacky hosting a talk show that had guests from other series, or Gold Lightan and Ambassador Magma bonding over both being transforming gold robots. More details than you want here: shameless plug.
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AQuin1904



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 6:25 am Reply with quote
Shoutout to (admittedly rarer) classic shoujo manga crossovers, like that time in the late 70s when Sukeban Deka featured characters from Glass Mask (both series I wish were more readily available in English). Apart from some fourth-wall-breaking moments, nothing stands in the way of assuming they both just share a world.
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Greed1914



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 9:34 am Reply with quote
Dr. Wily wrote:
I'd never seen that Oda picture of Goku before and I know that will haunt my dreams tonight. Like... that had to have been intentional, right? Because that's just Luffy's face on Goku's body again! I know the man can draw other faces.


That is what I'm wondering. It's Luffy in Goku cosplay. Plenty of anime will have episodes end with a card with another artist's rendition of their characters, and they look fine, even in a different style. This looks so off putting, that it makes me at least want to think it's a joke.
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