Inuyasha received a second season to finish off the manga five years after the original anime finished airing. Even the timeless classic Sailor Moon recently underwent a full reboot to better adhere to the story told in the manga. With those thoughts in mind, here are, in no particular order, 5 anime that could use a similar treatment.
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Example, is yet again, Dragon Ball Super, compare its manga and anime. Tokyo Ghoul had a good first season. For the second season, it completely deviated from the manga. Let's hope the third season does it some justice. Seasonal anime structure is less risky and lets the studio develop the anime to its full potential.
The downside is that it can be many years of manga drawing/writing to generate enough source material for a single season. This means that if the manga hasn’t been finished yet (which is normal) then the anime can’t be finished either or that it must be finished with a improvised ending.
Though the manga ran for 13 years, the anime started and ended before the comics had come to its conclusion, a la Game of Thrones and its infamous final season. So eventually, the series ran out of source material, and with no basis for its finale, the anime concluded at the end of a major plot arc.
The anime started in 2019, had one season, just premiered its movie in 2020 in Japan and now the second season of the anime just started airing this Fall 2021 season.
If a Season 2 is immediately announced after Season 1's conclusion, this means it was already planned a long time ago. Otherwise, the production will have to wait at least two years for the same staff to return and produce Season 2.
Anime Season is the same as Japanese TV seasons. There are four anime seasons in the year, lasting roughly 13 weeks for each: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Note that a typical anime season will last for 12-13 episodes, with each episode airing weekly.
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The Longest Anime Of All Time, Ranked By Number Of Episodes (February 2022)1 Mrs.2 3000 Whys Of Blue Cat (Lan Mao) - 3,000+ Episodes. ... 3 Ninja Boy Rantaro (Nintama Rantarō) - 2321+ Episodes. ... 4 Prince Mackaroo (Ojarumaru) - 1917+ Episodes. ... 5 Oyako Club - 1818 Episodes. ... 6 Doraemon (1979) - 1787 Episodes. ... More items...•
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Series with 12 episodes. ... Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka — twelve episodes plus a Fan Service OAV.Asobi Ni Iku Yo plus an OAV.Ben-To.Black Blood Brothers.Black Lagoon had two seasons of this kind, the second called "The Second Barrage".Blood C.Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai.More items...
Sazae-sanAnother notable monumental undertaking would be the current Guinness World Record holder for longest running animated show, Sazae-san, which is still on the air with over 7000 episodes--but don't worry, it's actually not even available in its entirety and was never licensed out for western audiences.
One Piece has the least amount of fillers out of the Big Three, with only 94 filler episodes in total. Considering that it's still running, it now has more episodes than Naruto and Bleach combined. The anime has been running since 1999 and is close to reaching its 1000th episode in a few short weeks.
The 7 Most Popular Anime SeriesNaruto Shippuden. Masashi Kishimoto/Shippuden/NMP. ... One Piece. Funimation Productions. ... Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima/Funimation Productions. ... Pokemon. The Pokemon Company. ... Dragon Ball Z. Shueisha, Inc./Funimation Productions. ... Sailor Moon Crystal. Toei Animation/PNP. ... of 07. Bleach.
The first anime that was produced in Japan, Namakura Gatana (Blunt Sword), was made sometime in 1917, but there it is disputed which title was the first to get that honour.
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Anime with 1000 episodes Whilst the 1K-club is a prestigious group to be a part of, One Piece is by no means there alone with 16 anime series broadcasting over 1000 episodes. However, One Piece is the first non-family orientated anime to reach this milestone i.e., a series not specifically designed for children.
1 MANGA LASTED LONGER: BLEACH. Probably the most well-known version of an anime coming to an end before the manga is Bleach. That’s because, alongside One Piece and Naruto, Bleach was considered one of the “Big Three," a group of incredibly successful manga that served as the pillars of Weekly Shonen Jump.
9 ANIME LASTED LONGER: TENCHI MUYO. Tenchi Muyo had a pair of manga from the series original creators Hitoshi Okuda and Fujimi Shobo—one that ran from 1994 to 2000 in No Need for Tenchi!, and another from 2000 to 2005 in The All-New Tenchi Muyo! Both series ended well over a decade ago, but the Tenchi franchise just continues to run.
The anime ran for over 350 episodes, but it came to a stop in 2012, a full four years before the manga ended. The final arc, “Thousand Year War,” remains entirely without an adaptation, and as of now, there’s no confirmation it’ll ever receive one.
Even though the Naruto manga came to an end in 2014, the anime seemed to have no interest in bringing things to a close. Instead, they carried on for another three years past the manga’s ending, until finally circling back around to do the last bits of the story and moving on to Boruto.
Dragon Ball GT ran for two years and sixty-four episodes with very little input from Toriyama, a fact that inflames more than a few Dragon Ball fans. Nonetheless, things got back on track with Dragon Ball Super, a series that received quite a bit of supervision from Toriyama.
Anime series do not always end at the same point as the original manga. Here are some adaptations that outlived or ended before their sources. The ultimate goal of any anime and manga fan is to see a complete adaptation of a series they love.
Fairy Tail just came to an end as an anime, after three different seasons that had multi-year breaks between them. The last season did a decent job bringing the final arc of the manga to life, so it feels weird even having this series here. However, right now, there’s a new manga series running from illustrator Atsuo Ueda and Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima called Fairy Tail:100 Years Quest.
Angel Beats! is a cult classic that is one of the most-watched anime of all time. The anime revolves around topics of death and the afterlife, and it creates a story about these topics that is beautifully told. Angel Beats! was worked on in collaboration with the visual novel studio, Key. Key has worked on other popular anime like Air and Clannad. Although Angel Beats! has such a dedicated fan base, over nine years later, there has been no word of a season two.
The eleven episodes that were released for the show are only a fraction of the source material, as Princess Jellyfish has 17 volumes of content to read. The abrupt ending to the show was sad for intense fans of the anime, but that doesn't change the fact that this anime can be watched again without getting old.
Told through non-linear storytelling, the plot revolves around characters ranging from gangsters, immortal beings, criminals, monsters, alchemists, and more. What’s even more interesting is that all of these characters are trapped on a train ride from hell.
The anime adaptation aired content from the first 21 chapters of the manga but ended that same year of release with no news of a second season.
On Ice. Yuri!!! on Ice is a sports anime that took over the anime world in 2016. The anime consists of 12 episodes following the lives of male, competitive ice skaters. Fans have gone crazy for the show, and even professional skaters were watching the show.
However, this zombie, action, thriller only got a 12-episode adaption, which was four volumes from the manga.
The anime was originally produced alongside the manga to increase manga sales, and, since the manga has not been worked on in a while, there seems to be no hope for a season two.
However, these 51 episodes didn't cover the entire manga. It was canceled due to having a low amount of viewers and low disc sales.
Sadly the anime was canceled and due to a myriad of problems the manga flopped in the end.
Gantz is mangaka Hiroya Oku's breakout series and is one of the must read seinen series of the medium. It's one of those series that is hard to explain as it starts pretty simple but branches off into multiple paths with many different plotlines to follow.
Ranma 1/2 is one of the most recognized anime and manga series there are. Even if you haven't actually experienced the series for yourself you've most likely seen its main character in one place or another.
The ultra-perverted anime and manga of Prison School were a good hit with the anime for the series' exaggerated anime perversion and over the top humor. It had a pretty successful first season as well as a pretty successful manga. Sadly pretty successful wasn't enough for Prison School as it was not renewed for a second season.
Rave Master is a highly rated manga by Hiro Mashima, the same creator behind the Fairy Tail series. It's a manga that starts off strong and ends strong as well. Sadly the same can't be said for this series' anime adaptation.
The popular anime and manga series Rurouni Kenshin (or Samurai X) is a victim of another anime adaptation curse. The curse of an anime adaptation surpassing its source material when it comes to speed. Once this series passed the manga it had to begin inserting its own original material instead of following the manga blueprint.
Though the manga ran for 13 years, the anime started and ended before the comics had come to its conclusion, a la Game of Thrones and its infamous final season. So eventually, the series ran out of source material, and with no basis for its finale, the anime concluded at the end of a major plot arc.
Rurouni Kenshin is based on a long-running manga of the same name that saw 28 volumes released over five years. The anime ran for a total of three seasons, with 95 episodes by the series' end. As for the plot, Himura Kenshin is the anime's protagonist, a man trying to put his past as an assassin behind him as he defends the weak in Meiji-era Japan.
The most significant difference between the show and its source material is that the manga reveals the backstory of the enigmatic Shiro, whereas the anime keeps her character a complete mystery.
While the anime has a total of 101 episodes, the series fails to end on a high note.
It was likely for this reason that the series was cast aside after only 12 episodes. While it's unfortunate that the Deadman Wonderland anime was canceled so early, continuing onward with a second season would've been a bit difficult due to the rushed storytelling of the anime adaption.
Highschool of the Dead ended due to a real-life tragedy. Highschool of the Dead is a zombie survival anime that focuses on a group of high school students who struggle against not only the numerous undead but also the rapidly decaying morality among those who've survived the initial outbreak.
So in the anime, it all begins with the Black Swordsman arc and ends at the Golden Age arc .