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Anime series based on manga
- Bleach (TV series)Bleach, the Japanese anime television series, ran for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo between 2004 and 2012. It adapts the manga Bleach by Tite Kubo. Studio Pierrot produced it, and Noriyuki Abe directed. The title is written in capital letters,…
- Vinland Saga (TV series)Vinland Saga, the Japanese anime television series adapted from Makoto Yukimura's manga of the same name, turns on a single declaration: "I have no enemies." Polygon called that line the biggest highlight of the entire anime. It hits hard…
- Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood began with a notice printed in the 20th volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, released in August 2008. Its author, Hiromu Arakawa, used that volume to announce that a second anime adaptation was already…
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is set in the year 2030, in a Japan where many people have replaced their bodies with prosthetics and become cyborgs. It is an anime television series about an elite law enforcement unit that…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)In a 2020 poll, Japanese schoolchildren admired a fictional demon slayer more than their own mothers.
- Berserk (2016 TV series)The 2016 Berserk anime mixed 3D models with hand-drawn 2D art. Shadows on both got the same pen-like hatching effect.
- Jujutsu Kaisen (TV series)In 2024, Guinness World Records and the data-science firm Parrot Analytics named Jujutsu Kaisen the most in-demand animated television show, taking the title from Attack on Titan. Jujutsu Kaisen is a Japanese anime series produced by the…
- One Piece (1999 TV series)One Piece, the Japanese anime television series made by Toei Animation, first aired on Fuji Television in October 1999. Since then, more than 1,100 episodes have gone out, and they were later exported to over 80 countries. The series…
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z got its name because its creator wanted the series to end.
- Berserk (1997 TV series)The 1997 Berserk anime opens with its hero already scarred. Guts, a lone mercenary, has lost an arm and an eye.
- Fist of the North StarAn editor's used-bookshop find led to the manga Fist of the North Star.
- The Rose of VersaillesWhat if the commander of the Royal Guard at Versailles were a woman? The manga The Rose of Versailles asked it in 1972.
- Sailor Moon (TV series)A fan petition with over 12,500 signatures brought Sailor Moon back to American TV.
- Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan was the first non-English show to become the world's most in-demand TV program.
- Black ButlerIn Black Butler, a demon ignores a cult's summoning and answers a twelve-year-old boy's call instead.
- Cardcaptor SakuraCardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally opens a book in her basement. The book was made by a sorcerer named Clow Reed, and it holds a set of magical cards that now scatter into the world. Unless she gathers…
- Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
- Initial DInitial D is a Japanese street racing manga written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, and its hero starts each day delivering tofu. Takumi Fujiwara is a high school student. For years he has made those early morning runs in his father…
- Naruto (TV series)The anime series Naruto opens on Naruto Uzumaki, a young orphan ninja who wants nothing more than recognition from his peers. His dream is to become the Hokage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Nobody around him takes that…
- Soul EaterAtsushi Ohkubo's manga Soul Eater runs on a strict counting rule. A living weapon must absorb the souls of 99 evil humans, followed by one witch, in exactly that order. Break the sequence and the tally starts over from zero. A rule like…
- Crayon Shin-chanWhen Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui died in 2009, the manga did not end. His team began a new manga.
- Monster (manga)A surgeon disobeys an order and saves a boy instead of the mayor. That boy grows into the killer in Monster.
- Tetsujin 28-goIn the manga Tetsujin 28-go, a ten-year-old boy inherits his dead father's giant war robot.
- Tokyo RevengersIn Tokyo Revengers, a part-timer shoved from a subway platform lands twelve years in the past.
- Claymore (manga)The magazine that launched Claymore shut down exactly six years to the day after the manga began.
- Witch Hat AtelierWitch Hat Atelier is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama, and its story begins with a mistake born of longing. A girl named Coco has dreamed for years of becoming a witch. One day she casts a spell by…
- Hajime no IppoHajime no Ippo opens its hero's boxing life with a test involving falling leaves. A professional boxer named Mamoru Takamura sets a bruised high school boy a task. Catch ten leaves from a tree at the same moment, with a single week to…
- Baki the GrapplerBaki the Grappler is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keisuke Itagaki, and it has sold in numbers few comics ever reach. By May 2021, the various Baki series had more than 85 million collected volumes in circulation. By…
- Blue ExorcistIn Blue Exorcist, a teenager pulls a sword and learns he is the son of Satan. His flames burn blue.
- Cobra (manga)The manga Cobra opens with a bored office worker who asks for a dream and remembers a hidden life.
- Aim for the Ace!Hiromi Oka's toughest opponent in this 1970s tennis manga is her own fragile confidence.
- Delicious in DungeonDelicious in Dungeon, a manga by Ryoko Kui, opens with a red dragon swallowing a spellcaster named Falin Touden. Her surviving companions are cut off from most of their supplies, deep underground, with a rescue to attempt. Their answer is…
- Bastard!!Kazushi Hagiwara's manga about a dark wizard names its characters, spells and places after rock and metal bands.
- Kaiju No. 8Kaiju No. 8 rests on one bitter irony. In this Japanese web manga by Naoya Matsumoto, a man named Kafka Hibino longs to join the force that kills monsters. Then he gains the power to turn into one himself. Every dream he has left now…
- DorohedoroDorohedoro, a Japanese manga series by Q Hayashida, begins with a man whose head is that of a reptile and who cannot remember who he used to be. His name is Caiman. His only clue to the sorcerer who cursed him is a full-size man living…
- Haikyu!!Haikyu!!, a Japanese manga written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate, had more than 75 million copies in circulation by December 2025. That total places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its subject is a high school…
- Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…
- One-Punch ManOne-Punch Man is a Japanese manga series about a hero who can end any fight with a single punch. Saitama has trained so thoroughly that no opponent can test him, and the reward is boredom rather than glory. His creator, who goes by the…