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What is the best anime based on a Square Enix manga?

By YPB Team

Shonen battles, gothic mysteries, casino schools and quiet island comedies, all born in the pages of Square Enix's Gangan magazines.

  1. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood — ranked #11
    Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
    Bones' 2009–2010 adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga, serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2001 to 2010.
    1000pts
  2. Soul Eater — ranked #22
    Soul Eater
    Bones' 2008–2009 adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo's manga, serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan, about students at a school for weapon meisters.
    862pts
  3. Bamboo Blade — ranked #33
    Bamboo Blade
    AIC A.S.T.A.'s 2007–2008 adaptation of the Young Gangan manga by Masahiro Totsuka and Aguri Igarashi, about a high-school girls' kendo club.
    597pts
  4. Toilet-bound Hanako-kun — ranked #44
    Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
    Lerche's 2020 adaptation of AidaIro's Monthly GFantasy manga, about a schoolgirl and the ghost who haunts a school bathroom.
    597pts
  5. Barakamon — ranked #55
    Barakamon
    Kinema Citrus' 2014 adaptation of Satsuki Yoshino's Gangan manga, about a calligrapher who moves to a small island in the Goto Islands.
    596pts
  6. Akame ga Kill! — ranked #66
    Akame ga Kill!
    White Fox's 2014 adaptation of the Gangan Joker manga by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro, about a band of assassins fighting a corrupt empire.
    517pts
  7. My Dress-Up Darling — ranked #77
    My Dress-Up Darling
    CloverWorks' 2022 adaptation of Shinichi Fukuda's Young Gangan manga, about a doll-making student who sews cosplay costumes for a classmate.
    517pts
  8. Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless — ranked #88
    Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless
    Silver Link's 2016 adaptation of Nozomi Uda's Gangan Online manga, about a high-schooler who wants to do as little as possible.
    423pts
  9. The Case Study of Vanitas — ranked #99
    The Case Study of Vanitas
    Bones' 2021–2022 adaptation of Jun Mochizuki's Gangan Joker manga, about a doctor who treats vampires in 19th-century Paris.
    310pts
  10. Pandora Hearts — ranked #1010
    Pandora Hearts
    Xebec's 2009 adaptation of Jun Mochizuki's Monthly GFantasy manga, about a young heir cast into a prison dimension called the Abyss.
    310pts
  11. Handa-kun — ranked #1111
    Handa-kun
    Diomedéa's 2016 adaptation of Satsuki Yoshino's Barakamon prequel manga, following the calligrapher Seishu Handa in high school.
    310pts
  12. Kakegurui — ranked #1212
    Kakegurui
    MAPPA's 2017 adaptation of the Gangan Joker manga by Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura, set at an academy where students gamble for status.
    310pts
  13. Daemons of the Shadow Realm — ranked #1313
    Daemons of the Shadow Realm
    Bones Film's 2026 adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's Monthly Shonen Gangan manga, about twins Yuru and Asa and the paired daemons they command.
    0pts
  14. Black Butler — ranked #1414
    Black Butler
    A-1 Pictures' 2008 adaptation of Yana Toboso's manga from Monthly GFantasy, about a Victorian earl and his demon butler.
    0pts

Comments 1

Two series by the same artist meet here, Fullmetal Alchemist and Daemons of the Shadow Realm, both from Monthly Shonen Gangan: https://youpick.best/articles/fullmetal-alchemist-ranked-many-ways

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