Portal:Anime and manga/Anniversaries/April/April 7
Manga serialization
- 1974 – Getter Robo by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa begins serialization in Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Film releases
Television series and specials
- 1968 – Princess Knight finishes airing on Fuji TV
- 1970 – The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee begins airing on Fuji TV
- 1973 – Devilman finishes airing on NET
- 1975 – Ganba no Bōken begins airing on NTV
- 1979 – Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel begins airing on TV Asahi
- 1979 – Mobile Suit Gundam begins airing on NBN
- 1981 – Belle and Sebastian begins airing on NHK
- 1981 – Little Women begins airing on Fuji TV
- 1986 – Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin begins airing on TV Asahi
- 1987 – Esper Mami begins airing on TV Asahi
- 1987 – Ox Tales begins airing on TV Tokyo
- 1989 – Aoi Blink begins airing on NHK G
- 1992 – O~i! Ryoma begins airing on NHK
- 1995 – Mobile Suit Gundam Wing begins airing on TV Asahi
- 1995 – Slayers begins airing on TV Tokyo
- 1997 – Kindaichi Case Files begins airing on NTV
- 1998 – Cardcaptor Sakura begins airing on NHK
- 1998 – Silent Möbius begins airing on TV Tokyo
- 1999 – Angel Links begins airing on WOWOW
- 2001 – You're Under Arrest!: Fast & Furious begins airing on TBS
- 2002 – Pita-Ten begins airing on TV Osaka and TV Tokyo
- 2004 – Tetsujin 28-go begins airing on NTV
- 2006 – Ballad of a Shinigami finishes airing on WOWOW
- 2007 – Toward the Terra begins airing on MBS and TBS