RTL II is a privately owned, commercial, general-interest German

German television

Television in Germany began in Berlin on March 22, 1935, broadcasting for 90 minutes three times a week. The German television market had approximately 36.5 million television households in 2000, making it the largest television market in Europe...

 television channel

Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...

.

It was founded as a second-generation commercial broadcaster in 1993. It quickly became infamous for its perceived "trash programming", comprising lots of soft porn as well as shows such as Peep and many pseudo-documentaries being mainly vehicles for nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic. The amount of clothing worn depends on functional considerations and social considerations...

. Despite dropping all erotic programming in late 2001, its bad reputation follows RTL II to this day. Today, programming pillars are daily episodes of the local Big Brother

Big Brother (TV series)

Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...

 in access primetime, and a primetime lineup consisting mostly of docu-soaps, movies and licensed series such as 24 and Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...

. Recent efforts to move further towards quality programming with science magazines and documentaries have met with an indifferent audience response. Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

 and Germans

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 pronounce it RTL Zwei.

The channel's prime-time newscast RTL II News is frequently criticized for its selection of news stories: Catering to a young audience, it has been known to put a CD release or the launch of a new gaming console in the second headline slot directly after the day's top event. This unconventional approach has supposedly brought RTL II's broadcasting licence into jeopardy at least once, as a German commercial broadcaster

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 has to feature minimum amounts of serious informational and cultural programming to be allowed a full channel licence. Though widely criticized, the newscast is well-produced and quite popular with its target audience.

On weekdays, RTL II also airs an anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 afternoon under their kids/youth banner "Pokito". Following tensions with media authorities, RTL II's Standards and Practices department is believed to be especially sensitive about children's programming. As a consequence, many anime fans criticize the channel for cutting scenes in anime series like Detective Conan

Case Closed

Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...

, InuYasha

InuYasha

, also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008...

, One Piece

One Piece

is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...

  and Naruto

Naruto

is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become the Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of...

  until 2009 the new Channel "Pokito" digitally Television not Satellite. Sometimes an episode is even edited down if its original version had previously been given a FSK

Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft

The Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft is a German motion picture rating system organisation run by the Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft based in Wiesbaden.- Assignment :The main tasks of the FSK are approving and rating movies and trailers, videos and DVDs, and...

 6 rating, meaning that it is suitable for children ages 6 up and may legally be aired at all hours of the day. The channel also broadcasts Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 films dubbed in German on a regular basis.

RTL II's corporate identity used to change more often and more drastically than that of any other competing channel in the same time, sporting three totally different logo

Logo

A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...

s and at least four on-air design strategies in less than ten years. This is believed by some to reflect the difficulties to establish the channel as dynamic and provoking yet not as the "trash" that defined its early years. The pace of design change has slowed in recent years, with the Roman-numeral rendition of the channel's name (the "pause button") being in use since 1999.

On Sunday 28 June 2009 RTL2 received its first in years to represent 15 years of RTL 2.

RTL II is mainly owned by RTL Group

RTL Group

RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...

 and Tele München Gruppe, but also by The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

, Hubert Burda Media

Hubert Burda Media

Hubert Burda Media is a German privately held, family-owned global media company with its origins in printing and magazine publishing. The company is headquartered in Offenburg and Munich, has additional main offices in Berlin and Hamburg and has more than 7400 employees...

 and Bauer Verlagsgruppe

Bauer Verlagsgruppe

The Bauer Media Group is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV...

.

From Canada

• Blood Ties
  Blood Ties (TV series)
  Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a Vampire assists Police in dealing with crime...
  
  
• Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
   (Flashpoint – Das Spezialkommando)
• Whistler
  Whistler (TV series)
  Whistler is a Canadian television drama centring on the aftermath of the mysterious death of a local snowboard legend. The series was created by Kelly Senecal and developed by Patrick Banister, John Barbisan, Mindy Heslin, and Susan James.-Premise:...
  
   (starting 2009)
• The Listener
  The Listener (TV series)
  The Listener is a Canadian science fiction drama set in Toronto about a young paramedic named Toby Logan with the ability to listen to people's minds. The series premiered on Fox International Channels beginning with the Arabic-speaking area of northern Africa and south-western Asia on March 1, 2009...
  
   (The Listener - Der Gedankenjäger)

From the United States

• 24
  24 (TV series)
  24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
  
   (season 1-5)
• The A-Team
  The A-Team
  The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit". The A-Team was created by...
  
   (Das A-Team)
• According to Jim
  According to Jim
  According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001 to June 2, 2009.-Synopsis:Jim is an abrasive but lovable suburban father...
  
   (Immer wieder Jim)
• Andromeda
  Andromeda (TV series)
  Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt...
  
  
• Angela's Eyes
  Angela's Eyes
  Angela's Eyes is an American drama that premiered on July 16, 2006 on Lifetime TV and ran for 13 episodes. The show aired Sundays at 10 pm. Lifetime announced that the show would not be picked up for a second season....
  
   (Angela Henson – Das Auge des FBI)
• Battlestar Galactica
  Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
  Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson...
  
  
• Bewitched
  Bewitched
  Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
  
   (Verliebt in eine Hexe)
• The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...
  
   (Drei Mädchen und drei Jungen)
• Californication
  Californication (TV series)
  Californication is an American comedy-drama that premiered on Showtime on August 13, 2007. The show was created by Tom Kapinos. The protagonist, Hank Moody , is a troubled novelist whose move to California, coupled with his writer's block, complicates his relationships with his longtime girlfriend...
  
  
• Dead Like Me
  Dead Like Me
  Dead Like Me was an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons...
  
   (Dead Like Me – So gut wie tot)
• The Dead Zone
  The Dead Zone (TV series)
  The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...
  
   (Dead Zone)
• Dexter
  Dexter (TV series)
  Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...
  
  
• Dog the Bounty Hunter
  Dog the Bounty Hunter
  Dog the Bounty Hunter is a reality television show on A&E which chronicles Duane "Dog" Chapman's adventures as a fugitive recovery agent, or bounty hunter...
  
   (Dog – Der Kopfgeldjäger)
• Dream On
  Dream On (TV series)
  Dream On is an American adult-themed situation comedy about single New Yorker, Martin Tupper. The show used a gimmick where old black and white clips were used to punctuate the main character's feelings or thoughts...
  
  
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
  
   (Der Prinz von Bel-Air)
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
  Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
  Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...
  
   (Hercules)
• Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  
• Home Improvement (Hör mal, wer da hämmert!)
• I Dream of Jeannie
  I Dream of Jeannie
  I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries...
  
   (Bezaubernde Jeannie)
• I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
  
   (Ich liebe Lucy)
• Laverne & Shirley
  Laverne & Shirley
  Laverne & Shirley is an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from January 26, 1976, to May 10, 1983...
  
  
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
  
   (Law & Order: New York)
• Little House on the Prairie
  Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
  Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books...
  
   (Unsere kleine Farm)
• Matlock
  Matlock (TV series)
  Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of attorney Ben Matlock. The show originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced The A-Team, then from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC.The show's format was similar...
  
   (Matlock [Fernsehserie])
• Rodney
  Rodney (TV series)
  Rodney is an American television sitcom that was shown on ABC from September 21, 2004, to June 6, 2006. Ric Swartzlander was the creator and executive producer of the comedy series...
  
  
• Sleeper Cell
  Sleeper Cell (TV series)
  Sleeper Cell is a one-hour drama on the Showtime network that began airing on December 4, 2005. The tagline for the first season was "Friends. Neighbors. Husbands. Terrorists." and the tagline for the second season was "Cities. Suburbs. Airports. Targets." The series was nominated for an Emmy award...
  
  
• Smallville
  Smallville (TV series)
  Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...
  
  
• Stargate SG-1
  Stargate SG-1
  Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
  
   (Stargate – Kommando SG-1)
• Stargate Atlantis
  Stargate Atlantis
  Stargate Atlantis is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself...
  
  
• Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...
  
  
• True Blood
• Xena: Warrior Princess
  Xena: Warrior Princess
  Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....
  
   (Xena)

German Reality Shows

• Big Brother
  Big Brother Germany
  Big Brother Germany is a reality show on RTL II . It was the first adapted version based on the original Dutch Big Brother series by Endemol in 1999.-Big Brother Germany summary:...
  
  
• Wife Swap
  Wife Swap
  Wife Swap is a reality television program, originally produced by UK independent television production company RDF Media and created by Stephen Lambert. It was first broadcast in 2003 on the UK's Channel 4. Since 2004, a US version has also been broadcast on the ABC network...
  
   (Frauentausch
  Frauentausch
  Frauentausch is a German reality television series.This program is much like the other Wife Swap shows, when, for ten days, wives exchange homes and families. They are allowed to advise each other through a video and information cards. The meet blindfolded, half-way en route to their new homes...
  
  )

Anime

Only Mario series

Mario (series)

The video game series, alternatively called the series or simply the series, is a series of highly popular and critically acclaimed video games by Nintendo, featuring Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in many games, his brother Luigi. Gameplay in the series often centers around jumping on and...

 do not belong RTL II.

• Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari
  Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari
  Little Women, also known as is a 1987 Japanese animated television series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, produced by Nippon Animation.A sequel series, Little Women II: Jo's Boys, premiered in 1993.- Plot :...
  
   (Eine fröhliche Familie)
• Attack No. 1
  Attack No. 1
  is a Japanese manga series by Chikako Urano. It also became the first televised female sports anime series in the shōjo category.The anime is an adaptation of Chikako Urano's 1968 volleyball manga serialized in Weekly Maragaret Magazine under the same name. Chikako was considered one of the...
  
   (Mila Superstar)
• Beyblade
  Beyblade
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoki. Originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from 2000 to 2002, the individual chapters were collected and published in 14 tankōbon by Shogakukan...
  
  
• Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
  Sailor Moon
  Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...
  
   (Sailormoon – Das Mädchen mit den Zauberkräften)
• Captain Tsubasa
  Captain Tsubasa
  , also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long running Japanese manga, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981...
  
   (Die tollen Fußballstars)
• Case Closed
  Case Closed
  Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...
  
   (Detektiv Conan)
• Cat's Eye
  Cat's Eye (anime)
  is a comic written and drawn by Tsukasa Hojo. The comic was made into a televised animated series originally broadcast in 1983 on NTV. Cat's Eye has also aired in a number of countries outside Japan, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Philippines, and China...
  
   (Ein Supertrio)
• Chibi Maruko-chan
  Chibi Maruko-chan
  is a shōjo manga series by Momoko Sakura, later adapted into an anime TV series by Nippon Animation, which originally aired on Fuji Television from January 7, 1990 to September 27, 1992. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of a little girl nicknamed Maruko and her family in suburban...
  
  
• Crayon Shin-chan
  Crayon Shin-chan
  is a Japanese manga and anime series written by Yoshito Usui.Crayon Shin-chan follows the adventures of five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara and his parents, baby sister, neighbors, and friends and is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan....
  
   (Shin Chan)
• Digimon
  Digimon
  , short for , is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga and video games. The franchise's eponymous creatures are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.-Conception and...
  
  
  • Digimon Adventure
    Digimon Adventure
    is a Japanese animated television series created in 1999 by Toei Animation based on the Digimon virtual pet made by Bandai. It is the first series of the Digimon anime "metaseries"...
    
    
  • Digimon Adventure 02
    Digimon Adventure 02
    , also commonly referred as Digimon Zero Two, is the direct sequel to the previous series and takes place three years after the original series. With most of the original characters now in junior high school, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in...
    
    
  • Digimon Tamers
    Digimon Tamers
    is the third animated series based on the Japanese Digimon franchise, first broadcast in 2001 on Fuji TV in Japan and on Fox Kids in the United States. The story takes place initially in a "alternative" universe, on a world much like Earth where Digimon is just a franchise, composed of video games,...
    
    
  • Digimon Frontier
    Digimon Frontier
    is the 4th Digimon TV series first broadcast in 2002. After prompted to do so by unusual phone messages, the five main characters go to a subway station and take a train to the Digital World. Once there, they meet two secondary characters, Bokomon and Neemon, who act as guides, and tell the...
    
    
  • Digimon Data Squad
• DoReMi
  Ojamajo Doremi series
  Magical DoReMi, known as in Japan, is a magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation in 1999. It focuses on elementary school students who become witch apprentices. Led by Doremi Harukaze, the girls must maintain their double lives in secret.Magical DoReMi has been followed up by...
  
  
• Dr. Slump (2nd series)
  Dr. Slump
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Shueisha's anthology comic Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984 which were collected into 18 tankōbon volumes...
  
  
• Dragon Ball
• Dragon Ball Z
• Dragon Ball GT
• Flint the Time Detective
  Flint the Time Detective
  Flint the Time Detective, known in Japan as , is an animated Japanese television series directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi. It was based on a manga by Hideki Sonoda and Akira Yamauchi and was published by Kodansha in Japan...
  
   (Flint Hammerhead)
• Ganbare, Kikka-zu!
  Ganbare, Kikka-zu!
  is a romantic soccer kid manga drawn by Noriaki Nagai. It was published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic magazine from 1985 to 1989. The series won the 1987 Shogakukan Manga Award for best children's manga. The story is usually classified as Comedy, Drama, Shōnen and Sports. Cover art can be seen...
  
   (Kickers)
• Hikari no Densetsu
  Hikari no Densetsu
  is originally a manga series by Izumi Aso about a girl named Hikari Kamijou who dreams of becoming a national rhythmic gymnastics champion. The manga series title translates into English as "Legend of Light"...
  
   (Die kleinen Superstars)
• Hamtaro
  Hamtaro
  is a Japanese anime series. The main character is a hamster named Hamtaro who has a variety of adventures with other hamsters, called "Ham-Hams" . The show is based on a manga series by Ritsuko Kawai, Hamtaro Gets Lost and Other Stories, and Jealous Hamtaro and Other Stories...
  
  
• InuYasha
  InuYasha
  , also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008...
  
  
• Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
  Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
  is a fantasy shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. The story is about the adventures of a high school girl, Maron Kusakabe, who is the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc and transforms into a magical girl kaito—phantom thief—to collect the scattered pieces of God's power which...
  
   (Jeanne, die Kamikaze Diebin)
• Lady Oscar
• MegaMan NT Warrior
  MegaMan NT Warrior
  Mega Man NT Warrior or Mega Man Battle Network, known in Japan as , is an anime and manga series based on the Mega Man Battle Network video game series...
  
  
• Monster Rancher
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
  Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
  is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo...
  
   (Die Macht des Zaubersteins)
• Naruto
  Naruto
  is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become the Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of...
  
  
• One Piece
  One Piece
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...
  
  
• Oz no Mahōtsukai
  Oz no Mahotsukai
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, known in Japan as is an anime adaptation based on four of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum. In Japan, the series aired on NHK then TV Tokyo from 1986 to 1987...
  
  
• Pokémon
  Pokémon (anime)
  , abbreviated from , is a children's TV anime series, which has since been adapted for the North and South American, Australian and European television markets...
  
  
• Power Stone
  Power Stone
  Power Stone is a fully 3D arena fighting game series made by Capcom. Power Stone was initially released on the Sega NAOMI hardware and later ported to the Dreamcast...
  
  
• Princess Sarah
  Princess Sarah
  is a 1985 Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, A Little Princess. Spanning 46 episodes, it originally premiered in 1985 across Japan on Fuji Television as the 11th series of Nippon Animation's famous World Masterpiece Theater staple.It was...
  
   (Die kleine Prinzessin Sara)
• Futari wa Pretty Cure
  Futari wa Pretty Cure
  Pretty Cure, known in Japan as , is a Japanese magical girl anime series, part of the Pretty Cure metaseries produced by Toei Animation and broadcast across Japan by Animax, TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation. The series is watched mostly by elementary and secondary students in Japan; it...
  
    (Pretty Cure)
• Ranma ½
  Ranma ½
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi with an anime adaptation. The story revolves around a 16-year old boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood in martial arts...
  
  
• Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
  Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
  Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is a 1987 animated space western following a similar theme as Galaxy Rangers and Bravestarr. Originally a 1984 anime series known as created by Studio Pierrot, it achieved moderate success in Japan...
  
  
• Shaman King
  Shaman King
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. Shaman King follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King in the Shaman tournament....
  
  
• Taro the Space Alien
  Taro the Space Alien
  is a manga and anime series created by Yasunari Nagatoshi. In 2000, the manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.Viz Media is the licensor of the series in the United States. The series has not had a release in English....
  
   (Taro Alien)
• The Adventures of Mini-Goddess
• The Girl in the Wind: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
  Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (anime)
  is an anime series produced by Nippon Animation which ran for 52 episodes on Japanese TV from 1992–1993. It is based on the 1854 song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" by Stephen Foster.-Plot:...
  
   (Jeannie)
• Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Jou Sensei
  Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Jou Sensei
  Little Women II: Jo's Boys, also known as is a 1993 Japanese animated television series based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Men, produced by Nippon Animation...
  
   (Missis Jo und ihre fröhliche Familie)
• Wedding Peach
  Wedding Peach
  is a shōjo manga by Nao Yazawa and Sukehiro Tomita that was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine. In North America it is translated and published by VIZ Media in its entirety, comprising six volumes....
  
  
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
  Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
  is a Yu-Gi-Oh! series which aired in Japan between April 2, 2008 and March 30, 2011, following the previous series, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and was succeeded by Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, on April 11, 2011...
  
  
• Yu-Gi-Oh!
  Yu-Gi-Oh!
  is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi. It has produced a franchise that includes multiple anime shows, a trading card game and numerous video games...
  
  
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, known in Japan as , is an anime spin-off and sequel of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime. It aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 6, 2004 and March 26, 2008, and was succeeded by Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's...
  
  
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters
  Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters
  Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters is a twelve-episode mini-series commissioned, produced, and edited by 4Kids Entertainment and is part of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise....
  
  

Other Animated Series

• Action Man
  Action Man
  Action Man is an action figure boys' toy launched in Britain in 1966 by Palitoy as a licensed copy of Hasbro's American "moveable fighting man": G.I...
  
  
• Calimero
  Calimero
  is an Italian/Japanese cartoon about a charming, but hapless anthropomorphized cartoon chicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head...
  
  
• Care Bears
  Care Bears
  The Care Bears are characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner turned the Care Bears into plush teddy bears...
  
  
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
  Casper the Friendly Ghost
  Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, but is quite personable...
  
   (Casper)
• The Chipmunks
  The Chipmunks
  Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
  
   (Alvin und die Chipmunks)
• Duck Dodgers
  Duck Dodgers
  Duck Edgar Dumas Aloysius Eoghain Dodgers is the metafictional star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. He is actually the famous cartoon star Daffy Duck, cast in the role of an intergalactic future hero....
  
  
• Duckman
  Duckman
  Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997, created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck. The sitcom is based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse comic...
  
  
• Gargantua
• Get Ed
  Get Ed
  Get Ed is an American computer-animated television series which debuted in 2005 that aired as a part of the Jetix programming block on the United States cable television network Toon Disney until the channel closed in 2009, and also used to run on the ABC Family channel before they switched over to...
  
  
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's successful toy line Masters of the Universe...
  
  
• Huntik
• Isnogud
• Jackie Chan Adventures
  Jackie Chan Adventures
  Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated television series chronicling the adventures of a fictionalized version of action film star Jackie Chan. Many of the episodes contain references to Chan's actual works. This series ran on Kids' WB! from September 9, 2000 to July 7, 2005 for a total of 95...
  
  
• The Mézga Family
  The Mézga Family
  The Mézga Family is a fictional family from three animated TV series shot by PannóniaFilm studios, Hungary between 1968 and 1978....
  
   (Die Abenteuer der Familie Metzger)
• Mystery of the Third Planet (Die Adventure Alisa)
• Mucha Lucha
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...
  
  
• Winx Club
  Winx Club
  Winx Club is a 2004 Italian animated television series, created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Rainbow S.r.l.. The series is aimed toward children between the ages of five and twelve, but is also popular among teens...
  
  
• Xiaolin Showdown
  Xiaolin Showdown
  Xiaolin Showdown is an American animated television series that aired on Kids WB and was created by Christy Hui. Set in a world where martial arts battles and Eastern magic are commonplace, the series follows four young warriors in training that battle the forces of evil...