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

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

*By YPB Team · Published November 3, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-anime-based-on-a-square-enix-manga*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood** — score 1000/1000
   Bones' 2009–2010 adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga, serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2001 to 2010.
2. **Soul Eater** — score 862/1000
   Bones' 2008–2009 adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo's manga, serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan, about students at a school for weapon meisters.
3. **Bamboo Blade** — score 597/1000
   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.
4. **Toilet-bound Hanako-kun** — score 597/1000
   Lerche's 2020 adaptation of AidaIro's Monthly GFantasy manga, about a schoolgirl and the ghost who haunts a school bathroom.
5. **Barakamon** — score 596/1000
   Kinema Citrus' 2014 adaptation of Satsuki Yoshino's Gangan manga, about a calligrapher who moves to a small island in the Goto Islands.
6. **Akame ga Kill!** — score 517/1000
   White Fox's 2014 adaptation of the Gangan Joker manga by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro, about a band of assassins fighting a corrupt empire.
7. **My Dress-Up Darling** — score 517/1000
   CloverWorks' 2022 adaptation of Shinichi Fukuda's Young Gangan manga, about a doll-making student who sews cosplay costumes for a classmate.
8. **Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless** — score 423/1000
   Silver Link's 2016 adaptation of Nozomi Uda's Gangan Online manga, about a high-schooler who wants to do as little as possible.
9. **The Case Study of Vanitas** — score 310/1000
   Bones' 2021–2022 adaptation of Jun Mochizuki's Gangan Joker manga, about a doctor who treats vampires in 19th-century Paris.
10. **Pandora Hearts** — score 310/1000
   Xebec's 2009 adaptation of Jun Mochizuki's Monthly GFantasy manga, about a young heir cast into a prison dimension called the Abyss.
11. **Handa-kun** — score 310/1000
   Diomedéa's 2016 adaptation of Satsuki Yoshino's Barakamon prequel manga, following the calligrapher Seishu Handa in high school.
12. **Kakegurui** — score 310/1000
   MAPPA's 2017 adaptation of the Gangan Joker manga by Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura, set at an academy where students gamble for status.
13. **Daemons of the Shadow Realm** — score 0/1000
   Bones Film's 2026 adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's Monthly Shonen Gangan manga, about twins Yuru and Asa and the paired daemons they command.
14. **Black Butler** — score 0/1000
   A-1 Pictures' 2008 adaptation of Yana Toboso's manga from Monthly GFantasy, about a Victorian earl and his demon butler.

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