Not even close?
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In the 1990’s, when the publishing industry was at its peak, each manga magazine had several hit works, and on the contrary, the number of airtime slots for anime was much smaller than now, so there was a waiting list for anime adaptation.
And there were many hit works that ended up not being made into TV anime because the series ended before their turn came.
The serialization of “Keiji the Clouds and Beyond” in the 90’s in JUMP was a huge hit that sold 17 million copies.
However, in those days Jump had a lot of hits right after it, such as Slam Dunk, YuYu Hakusho, BØY, and Nubee, so maybe this historical work with a high hurdle to make an anime was put off.
A similar thing happened with Sunday in the 90s, with “OBI wo Kyutto ne ne! Long term serialized works such as “Our Field” were not made into anime.
There are many other works that did not make it into anime.
Rising Impact” and “Mr. FULLSWING”, which lasted for more than 10 volumes in the hotly contested JUMP PSYREN – Siren” and “M X Zero”, as well as “Stopper Poison Island” and “Planet’s If only “Samidare” and “Yugami-kun has no friends” had had a chance, they could have made it into an anime. It was a good piece of work that would have been
Are most of your novels already animated?
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Unlike manga, in the case of light novels that reached their peak after the increase in the number of anime slots, a large percentage of hit works have been adapted into anime.
Even so, there are some works that were big hits but were not made into anime.
At the top of the list is “Ragnarok” by Yasui Kentaro.
It is a popular light novel that has been a hit for a long time as an action battle high fantasy, but When this film was released in 1998, Boogie Pop wasn’t laughing, Maria is watching. Full Metal Panic! At that time, there were a lot of hits outside of high fantasy.
SE” was completed without being made into an anime for some reason.
SE” by Dr. Natsumi didn’t make it into an anime for some reason and it was completed.
SE” by Natsumi-sensei was not made into an anime for some reason. I heard that both the fans and himself thought it was this one and not “SE”.
One of the more famous ones is “Lying Mi-kun and Broken Ma-chan”, the debut work of Human Iruma-sensei.
It is the representative work of Iruma-sensei, who became a popular illustrator and the creator of hit works such as “Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko” and “Adachi to Shimamura”, but it was not made into an anime because of the content of the work.
In the Narrow classics, “Days of the Dragon Killer” falls under this category.
It was popular at the same time as “Magical High School’s Inferior Students” and “Log Horizon”. It was also successfully made into a book and sold 650,000 copies, but it was not able to become an anime.
If you look at light literature, there are quite a few popular works that have been made into live-action but not into anime.
The most famous one is “Biblia Koshodo no Jiken Techo”.
Not only was it made into a live-action film, but it was also made into a comic book, but it was never made into an anime.
Summary
I’m sure there are many reasons for this, but I’d like to see popular manga and light novels made into anime as much as possible.
The still unfinished “Yotsubato! I’d like to ask that “Dungeon Food” and “Otome Narrative” not be part of this lineup as well!
