Marvel Anime is a series of four television
anime series and two direct to video films produced in collaboration between
Marvel Entertainment and Japanese animation studio
Madhouse. The four twelve-episode series, based on
Iron Man,
Wolverine,
X-Men, and
Blade respectively, aired in Japan on
Animax between October 2010 and September 2011. An English-language version aired in North America on
G4 between July 2011 and April 2012. Each of the series, guided by writer
Warren Ellis, largely features Japan as the setting for the storyline.