It is no secret that anime is often created to help sell manga, light novels, or just merch in general. It is like a 12-episode promotional commercial to help get you hooked on characters and invested in the plot. It is why you see so many anime series that only adapt fractions of the source material, never to be heard of again. Either it wasn’t received well or it didn’t boost sales enough.
But not always!
Creativity is dying, but never dead. Sometimes anime studios dare to make an original creation that has no light novel or manga to dictate its story. However, these original anime series always end up in a very Schrodinger’s Box place when it comes to their conclusion.
As they are original stories with no source material, they are both finished and unfinished. A series could end with a cliffhanger and never be picked up again, and that is how the story was meant to end because there is no source material saying otherwise.
Then you have series like, for example, Psycho-Pass. The series could have and perhaps should have ended with its very strong first season that told an interesting story to a satisfying conclusion. Yet, they made two more seasons and a series of movies in that world, because it is technically an open-ended detective story – there is always another case and another cop to solve it.
If you are looking for “complete” original anime with no source material, I’ve gathered a list. I went through 4,500+ entries in the MyAnimeList database (I saw Ex-Arm and where the ratings end o_o), clicking on everything reasonably well-known enough and that I didn’t already know had source material.
I can say that, from what have seen on this list – which is a decent portion, but not all – these stories end pretty conclusively, but again, original anime stories with no source material can end in an open-ended way just in case the studio thinks they might be able to pick it up later.
As a note, any series that do have manga or light novels – as many of the below do – had those written based on the anime, not the other way around.
Complete Original Anime With No Source Material
***** 2/20/2026 ***** The “Does It Have Manga/Novel Adaption?” column is a new addition, and is presently a Work in Progress. Please be patient as I fill in the contents as I have spare moments of time. Latest Update: August 19th.
| Series | Does It Have Manga/Novel Adaptions? |
| 5 Centimeters Per Second | Novel and manga both expand upon the story with new inner monologue, character focus, and—in the manga’s case—additional context for the ending. The One More Side novels examine the story from different perspectives. |
| 91 Days | Adapted to 2 Novels, does include new content in its three novel-original chapters and an additional epilogue for the story. |
| AICO: Incarnation | 3-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Akiba Maid War (Akiba Meido Sensou) | Has a 6-chapter 4-koma manga that is just jokes. |
| Akudama Drive | 9-volume manga adapts the anime story, but does offer a lot more details on the various characters and their individual stories. |
| Aldnoah Zero | Manga series labeled Season One and Season Two cover the anime. Twin Gemini is a manga-original side story. Season Two manga does lightly expand upon the ending. |
| A Lull in the Sea (Nagi no Asu kara) | 6-volume manga adapts the anime story. |
| Angel Beats | Last Operation manga adapts the anime but wedges in a lot of extra content for the characters. Track Zero light novel is a single-novel sequel about the founding of the SSS. Heaven’s Door manga is a manga adaptation of Track Zero. There is also a visual novel adaptation that adapts the anime, but has romance routes. |
| Anila to Cocora | No manga or novel adaption. |
| Animegataris | No manga or novel adaption. |
| AnoHana – The Flower We Saw That Day (Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.) | Novel, Manga, and Visual Novel all adapt the anime with minimal new content. |
| A Place Further Than The Universe (Sora yori mo Tooi Basho) | 3-volume manga adapts the anime with small added moments between the characters. |
| Apocalypse Hotel | Single volume manga is just comedic skits. |
| Appare-Ranman | 3-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Aquarion | Genesis and Evol both have manga and novel adaptations, but they only cover the anime story. Future Legend is a one-volume Genesis side story. |
| Argento Soma | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Astro Note | No manga or novel adaption. |
| Ayaka | The ongoing Muzzle Flash Back manga is adapting the anime, but includes a lot of new content and context right from the beginning. |
| Babies of Bread | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Bakuten | Two-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Bang Brave Bang Bravern | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Basquash | 2-volume manga adapts the anime. Eclipse Stage is a spin-off following the Eclipse Girls. |
| BBK/BRNK | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Blassreiter | Genetic manga is a side story following Snow. Judgement is a light novel I can’t find. No proper novel or manga adaption. |
| Blood+ | Both the manga and novel adaptation work with the same story, but greatly change and abridge a number of parts of it. The Russian Rose novels and Adagio manga are both prequel stories about Saya and Hagi in the Russian Revolution. Kowloon Nights manga is a prequel about Hagi looking for Saya and getting worked over by sinister men in a Boy’s Love story. |
| Blue Gender | Single volume manga is an extremely abridged adaption of the anime with a “similar, but different” ending that ends up in the same place anyway. |
| BNA – Brand New Animal | BNA Zero: The Animals That Can’t Be Brand New novel is a prequel about Shiro. The single volume manga tells stories set in between events of various episodes of the anime, so it is more of a companion than a continuation. |
| Bucchigiri!? | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Bucchigire Bakumatsu Bad Boys | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Buddy Complex | 2-volume manga adapts the anime. Coupling of Battlefield is a manga adaptation of the mobile game story. |
| Buddy Daddies | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Bullet / Bullet | No novel or manga adaption. |
| C-Control : The Money of Soul and Possibility | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Candy Boy | The 2-volume manga is more positive about the relationship, introduces more characters into the story, and can be a bit different from the anime outside the core moments. Young Girls Fall in Love manga is a spin-off following Sakuya. |
| Candy Caries | No novel or manga adaptation. |
| Cardfight! Vanguard | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Carole & Tuesday | 3-volume manga adapts the first half of the story, with a manga-original conclusion. It also focuses less on the plot and more on the relationship between the two girls. |
| Case File nº221: Kabukicho | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Casshern Sins | Has a single-volume manga adaptation, but I can’t find it. |
| Charlotte | 6-volume manga adapts the story well with bonus manga scenes, the 4-Koma manga also gives extra tidbits for the characters, but is mostly a comedy. |
| Chikyuu Daisuki! Kikkun | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Classic Stars | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Classicaloid | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Classroom Crisis | 2-Volume manga and Three-novel light novel series adapt the anime. The manga is very similar to the anime, the light novels do expand on the anime story a bit more, even going beyond the anime end. The Two-novel Another Crisis novels are just side story slice of life fluff. |
| Cluster Edge | 2-volume manga rapidly adapts the anime story, focusing more on the action. |
| Code Geass | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Comet Lucifer | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Concrete Revolutio | The 2-volume manga re-arranges the non-linear events from both seasons into a stream-lined, more condensed story, but does have a different, manga-original ending. |
| Cosmic Princess Kaguya | The novel adapts the movie story and, while the manga also adapts the same story, it tones down the yuri as the manga artist is homophobic. |
| Cowboy Bebop | Red Planet Requiem novel is a Spike and Vicious prequel. The titular manga manga is a collection of side stories. The Shooting Star manga is an alternate universe story using the characters. |
| Coyote Ragtime Show | 3-volume manga follows the same story of the anime, but goes deeper into the story moments and character interactions providing a “similar, but deeper”, parallel sort of story to the anime’s telling of it. |
| Cross Ange | 3-volume manga condenses the anime story and does end differently. School of Angels and Dragons is a Alternate Universe story set at school. |
| Cute High Earth Defense Club | Single-volume manga is a slice of life story focused on the character set during the first season. The light novel is adapting the anime, and still ongoing. |
| Darker Than Black | 2-volume manga adapts the first season, but the Shikkoku no Hana manga is an alternate story that pretends Season 2 never happened. |
| Darling in the Franxx | The manga has differences throughout and fully diverges into manga-original story at Chapter 37. This divergence corresponds to anime episode 19/20. |
| Death Parade | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Deca-Dence | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Delusional Monthly Magazine (Gekkan Mousou Kagaku) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Dennou Coil | Single-volume manga cuts all the intrigue and focuses on the kids in the other world. It also ends with seeing Kanna on the other side in Episode 20. The 13-novel light novel adapts the anime story and goes far deeper into the intrigue/scifi side. |
| Dog Days | Single light novel and single-volume manga both adapt the first season of the anime. |
| DIY – Do It Yourself | 3-volume manga adapts the anime |
| Dragonaut – The Resonance | Single-volume manga tells quite a different story from the anime, but does use the same premise. |
| Duel Masters | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Dusk Beyond the End of the World (Towa no Yuugure) | Ongoing manga does indeed appear to be telling the anime story. |
| Earth Maiden Arjuna | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden) | The single light novel adapts the anime series, the Paradise Lost novel adapts the sequel movies. |
| Endride | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Engage Kiss | 2-volume manga adapts the anime story. |
| Ergo Proxy | Only has a spin-off manga, Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker, about Hoody. |
| Escaflowne | 8-volume Vision of Escaflowne manga retells the same basic plot, but more violent and and fight-focused. Two-volume Messiah Knight manga is a more shoujo retelling (again, quite different from the anime) where there is minimal fighting and maximum character interactions. Energist’s Memories manga is side stories. Seven-volume light novels adapt the anime and movie normally. |
| Eternal Boys | 2-volume manga adapts the story in a more slice of life focused way, condensing and skipping much while making its own changes. |
| Eureka Seven | Original 6-volume manga retells the story in its own “similar, but different way”, Gravity Boys manga adapts the New Wave and New Vision game story, Pocket Full of Rainbows light novel adapts the movie story, 5-volume AO manga tells a “similar, but different” version of the AO sequel anime, 2-volume Save a Prayer is an alternate timeline, technically a sequel to AO’s story, 2-volume Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven New Order tells an alternate sad end to the original anime. |
| Extreme Hearts | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Fafner in the Azure | 2-Volume Dead Aggressor manga and single light novel adapt a compressed version of the anime, the 9-volume Dead Aggressor expands the anime story to include lore bits from Fafner’s other media (stage plays, drama disc, ect) |
| Fairy Gone | 2-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Fanfare of Adolescence (Gunjou no Fanfare) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Fena: Pirate Princess (Kaizoku Oujo) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| FLCL | 2-volume manga is a re-interpretation of the anime, and quite different at times. 3-volume light novel is more like the anime, but expands on characters and events far more. |
| Flip Flappers | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Food for the Soul (Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi) | Ongoing manga appears to adapt the anime. |
| Fractale | 3-volume manga adapts the anime. Fractale/Reloaded novel is technically a distant sequel set 200 years after the anime. |
| Free | 2-volume High Speed novels are prequel stories about the characters set in elementary school and junior high. |
| Future Kid Takara | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Gad Guard | 4-volume light novel adapts the anime. |
| Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (Suisei no Gargantia) | 3-volume manga adapts the anime. Mizuhana no Bellows manga is original side story. The 2-novel Haruka, Kaigō no Tenchi light novels are sequel to the anime, but follows a different main character. |
| Gatchaman Crowds | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Ghost Hound (Shinreigari) | 2-volume Shinreigari Another Side manga tells a standalone story with the characters separate from the events of the anime. |
| Giant Beasts of Ars (Ars no Kyojuu) | 3-volume manga adapts the anime story. |
| Gibiate | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Girlish Number | 3-volume novel adapts the anime, the 3-volume 4-koma manga tells small comedy skits with the characters, single volume Girlish Number Shura tells comical alternate professions for the girls. |
| Girls Band Cry | Ongoing manga appears to be adapting the anime. |
| Girls Und Panzer | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Glasslip | Single-volume Hina’s Lip manga is a prequel from Hina’s perspective. 3-volume light novel adapts the anime. |
| Goodbye Lara | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Granbelm | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Great Pretender | Released one volume in 2020 before the author went on hiatus. Likely discontinued. |
| Ground Defense Force Mao-chan | 2-volume manga tells a streamlined version of the anime plot |
| Grow Up Show: Sunflower Circus | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Guilty Crown | 7-volume manga adapts and expands on the first half of the anime only. 3-volume Guilty Crown: Dancing Endlaves manga is a spin-off following Ayase. Princess of Deadpool novel is a side story that happens parallel to the anime story, following a new main character. |
| Gunbuster | 5-volume manga adapts the anime story. Diebuster also had a manga, but it was canceled after 4 chapters. |
| Gun X Sword | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Hamatora | Once planned to be a mixed media project, then abandoned, the 3-volume Hamatora manga tells a different version of the story. |
| Hanasaku Iroha | 5-volume manga adapts to about Episode 13 with a number of small differences. Green Girls Graffiti is a spin-off following Minko. The Place to Bloom One Day six-novel series is a sequel that covers a seven year period for all the major characters after the anime. |
| Heat Guy J | Single-volume manga uses the characters for a manga-original story. |
| Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo) | All manga adapt various anime stores, EXCEPT the 11-volume Hell Girl R manga which continues the story after Season 3 (Season 4 is not related or adapting this manga, either). You can just start at the beginning. |
| Heroic Age | 4-volume manga adapts the anime story, but from Iolaus’s POV. |
| High School Fleet | While the Haifuri manga adaptation of the anime story does have several differences and diverges from the anime, you can continue the anime story past Chapter 30. You would just want to consider reading it from the beginning due to its various changes. The Interval light novels are just comedy side stories and High School Fleet: Maidens of Loreley is an original spin-off manga. |
| Highspeed Etoile | Is currently ongoing, but does appear to be adapting the anime story. |
| Himawari | 1-volume manga is meant to be a bridge between Season 1 and Season 2. |
| Housing Complex C (C Danchi) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Id: Invaded | 3-volume ID: Invaded #Brake-Broken manga continues the story past the anime. |
| IGPX – Immortal Grand Prix | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Infinite Ryvius | 2-volume manga loosely adapts the anime events from Aoi’s POV rather than the brothers. |
| Izetta: The Last Witch (Shuumatsu no Izetta) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night (Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai) | Both the 4-volume manga and 3-volume light novel are just adaptations for the anime story |
| Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Just Because | The anime story was adapted into a single novel. It does give a novel-original prologue. |
| JX3: Chivalrous Hero Shen Jianxin (Jian Wang 3: Xia Gan Yi Dan Shen Jianxin) | No novel or manga adaption as far as I know. (Chinese manga can be tricky to find, and this is indeed a Chinese series) |
| K | 3-volume Memory of Red manga is a prequel about the Red clan going-ons. |
| Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (Koutetsujou no Kabaneri) | Four-volume manga and two-novel light novel adapt the anime (not the movies). Akatsuki light novel is a short prequel following Ikoma before infection. |
| Kado: The Right Answer (Seikaisuru Kado) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kagewani | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kaiba | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kaina of the Great Snow Sea (Ooyukiumi no Kaina) | 4-volume manga adapts the anime story, but not the movie which concludes the story. |
| Kaleido Star | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kamichu | 2-volume manga condenses the anime story. |
| Kamierabi God.app | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kawagoe Boys Sing | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kemonozume | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kemurikusa | Single-volume manga retells select episodes/events from Wakaba’s POV |
| Kill la Kill | 3-volume manga adapts the anime, but was canceled before covering it all. |
| Kiznaiver | 2-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Kochoki – Young Nobunaga | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Koupen-chan | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Kurau Phantom Memory | The 2-novel light novel adapts the anime story while the one-volume manga highly condenses it down to focus more on the core plot. |
| Kuromukuro | The 7-novel light novel, Kuromukuro: A Ghost at a Speed of 290,000 Kilometers per Second, is a sequel to the anime, picking up right after the end. |
| Kyousougiga | The 2-volume manga only adapts the version of the story from the original 26-minute OVA. |
| Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne | The single-volume Dawn of Memoria manga is a companion to the anime, detailing the daily life of Yurikano. |
| Last Exile | Fam, the Silver Wing manga adapts the story of the sequel series, but the 2-volume Travelers from the Hourglass takes place in between the original series and Fam. There is no manga for the original anime, only the sequel. |
| Lazarus | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Le Chevailer d’Eon | The 8-volume manga uses the same concept, but adapts the story differently than the anime. |
| Link Click | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Listeners | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Little Witch Academia | Single-volume manga and single-novel light novel are original stories in the world, the 3-volume manga is a mix of original stories and adapting some events from the anime. |
| Lonely Hero (Gu Xiong) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Love Flops (Renai Flops) | Three-volume manga adapts the anime story. |
| Love Through a Prism (Prism Rondo) | Ongoing manga appears to be adapting the anime story. |
| Lycoris Recoil | The manga adapts the anime so far, but it is still ongoing. The novels are cute Chisato and Takina slice of life moments. |
| Macross | 2-novel Macross the Ride light novel is a side story/prequel to Macross Frontier. |
| Madlax | Single-volume light novel, A Traveling Girl and the Land of Ignorance, follows Elenore and has a different continuity for the character. |
| Maebashi Witches | No novel or manga adaptation |
| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai) | Has two manga. The two-volume Satoru Akahori has manga-original sub-plots, but the same story. The one-volume Kenji Tsuruta, I can’t find, but the volume blurb (in Japanese) alleges it is different from the anime in small ways. |
| Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly | No novel or manga adaptation |
| Martian Successor Nadesico | 4-volume manga is only loosely based on the anime plot and is otherwise a manga-original story. |
| Mawaru Penguindrum | 3-novel light novels and 5-volume manga adapt the anime story |
| Mayonaka Punch | Single novel and 2-volume manga both adapt the anime story |
| Mebius Dust | No novel or manga adaptation |
| Mecha Ude: Mechanical Arms | 13-volume manga adapts the anime story in a more detailed, better paced way. |
| Meiji Gekken 1874 | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Metallic Rouge | Ongoing manga is adapting the anime, but doing a better job fleshing out and pacing the story. |
| Michiko and Hatchin | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express | No novel or manga adaptation |
| Miru: Paths to My Future (Miru: Watashi no Mirai) | No novel or manga adaptation |
| Mnemosyne | Allegedly both a single novel and a single volume manga, but I can find neither. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam (all of it, though it has many companion manga) | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Momentary Lily | 2-volume manga works with an alternate timeline to the anime and is more slice of life. |
| Mononoke | Multiple short manga series adapt the individual arcs from throughout the anime. |
| Moonrise | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Narenare – Cheer for You | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Negative Positive Angler | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | The manga is best described as “similar, but different” in how it explores the story. Worth a read, but not a continuation of the story. |
| NieA Under 7 | The 2-volume manga was created concurrently with the anime, and uses the same concept, but tells an alternate story. |
| Night Raid 1931 | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Ninja Kamui | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Noein | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Noir | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Now and Then, Here and There (Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Number24 | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Occult Academy (Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Odd Taxi | 5-volume manga adapts the anime in increased detail. Single novel adapts key anime moments from different POVs. RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi 6-volume spinoff manga follows detective Sato. |
| Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse | Ongoing manga appears to be adapting the anime. |
| Osomatsu-san | Alongside being an adult parody of a children’s series, Osomatsu-san had a 10-volume manga that was not strictly adapting the anime and was sort of just doing its own thing with the concept. |
| Otogizoushi | 2-volume manga is a prequel story to the anime. |
| Our Rainy Protocol (Bokura no Ame-iro Protocol) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Overtake | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt | Single-volume manga is a prequel to the story. |
| Paranoia Agent | Adapted to a single novel, but I can’t find it. |
| Patlabor | Designed as a multi-media venture, you can find the anime story and at least one of the movie plots within the 22-volume manga. The manga has story before and after what the TV anime covers, so there is no place to “jump in” after the anime. The light novels are original stories. |
| Phi Brain | 2-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Planet With | 8-volume manga works with the same premise, but is doing its own thing with it. It is not a adaptation of the anime story. |
| Plastic Memories | 2-volume Say Goodbye is a prequel manga following Michiru and Zack. |
| Please Teacher (Onegai Teacher) | Single light novel adapts the aniems tory while 2-volume manga adapts the anime story, but makes a number of changes to it. |
| Please Twins (Onegai Twins) | 2-novel light novel and 2-volume manga both adapt the anime, but both make their own changes to the story. |
| Pretty Cure (all of It) | … We’ll tackle this in a post all it’s own, because it will be lengthy. Coming soon™ |
| Princession Orchestra | |
| Princess Principal | |
| Psycho-Pass | |
| Puella Magi Madoka Magica | |
| Punch Line | |
| RahXephon | |
| Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace | No direct manga or light novels, but this entire series was a re-imagining of author Edogawa Ranpo’s gruesome horror mystery short stories. |
| Re-Main | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Re:Creators | 6-volume manga adapts the anime. One More is a spin-off with new characters. Chikujōin-san is Having Way Too Much Fun manga is also a spin-off about Chikujōin |
| Release the Spyce | |
| Revenger | Two-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Revolutionary Girl Utena (Shoujo Kakumei Utena) | |
| Revue Starlight | |
| Robihachi | |
| Ronin Warriors (Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Trooper) | Two-volume manga adapts the 1988 original series without the filler, only covering the core plot |
| RWBY | 3-volume manga adapts the first two seasons, but skips a lot. |
| S.Cry.Ed | |
| Sakura Quest | |
| Samurai Champloo | |
| Samurai Flamenco | 2-volume manga isn’t adapting the anime, but is just sort of episodic comedy adventures. |
| Sarazanmai | Single light novel adapts the anime story, Reo and Mabu manga is a side story. |
| Scared Seven | |
| Seiren | |
| Sekko Boys | Single-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| Serial Experiments Lain | |
| Shigofumi | |
| Shinobi no Ittoki | |
| Shirobako | 2-volume manga and Shirobako Introduction novel both adapt the anime story |
| Showa Monogatari | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Simoun | Single-volume manga and 2-novel light novel are very loose retellings of the anime. Single-volume Simoun Magical Biyūden manga is a comedic retelling. |
| Sirius the Jaeger | |
| SI-VIS: The Sound of Heroes | |
| Skate-Leading Stars | |
| Sonny Boy | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Sorairo Utility | No novel or manga adaption. |
| So Ra No Wo To | |
| Space Battleship Yamato (Uchuu Senkan Yamato) | |
| Space Dandy | 2-volume manga adapts select stories and adds a few new adventures. |
| Space Patrol Luluco (Uchuu Patrol Luluco) | |
| Speed Grapher | |
| Spiritpact | No novel or manga adaption. |
| SSSS.Gridman | |
| Stars Align | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Strike Witches | |
| Symphogear | 3-volume manga adapts the first season. Ongoing Shirabe Meshi manga is a alternate universe story. |
| Tada-kun Never Falls in Love (Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai) | |
| Tamako Market | |
| Tari Tari | 2-volume manga adapts the anime story. |
| Tenchi Muyo | |
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan | |
| Terror in Resonance (Zankyou no Terror) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Texhnolyze | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Tiger and Bunny | Has seperate manga adaptations for both Season 1 and Season 2 that adapt the anime story. Tiger and Bunny: The Comic and Tiger and Bunny: The Comic 2 are both original side stories in the world rather than adaptations of the anime story. |
| The Day I Became a God (Kamisama ni Natta Hi) | 2-volume manga adapts the anime. |
| The Gymnastics Samurai (Taisou Zamurai) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| The Legend of Super Normal City Kashiwa Z (Chou Futsuu Toshi Kashiwa Densetsu Z) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| The Lenticulars | No novel or manga adaption. |
| The Lost Village (Mayoiga) | The 3-volume novel adapts the anime. The single novel is a spin-off following Lion. |
| The Marginal Service | No novel or manga adaption. |
| The Mars Daybreak (Kenran Butou Sai: The Mars Daybreak) | |
| The Rolling Girls | |
| The Way of Pon (Pon no Michi) | |
| To Be Hero X | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Tokyo 24th Ward (Tokyo 24-ku) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Train to The End of The World (Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?) | 3-volume manga adapts the anime story, but more from Akira’s perspective. |
| Tsuki ga Kirei | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Tsuritama | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Turkey | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Tweeny Witches | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Uninhabited Planet Survive (Mujin Wakusei Survive) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Valvrave the Liberator (Kakumeiki Valvrave) | |
| Vandread | |
| Vividred Operation | 2-volume manga adapts the aniem story. 4-koma Viviop is a comedy spin-off. |
| Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song | Single light novel and 4-volume manga both adapt a more condensed version of the anime story. |
| Waiting in Summer (Ano Natsu de Matteru) | 3-volume manga adapts the anime |
| Warlords of Sigrdrifa (Senyoku no Sigrdrifa) | The two seperate light novels, Rusalka and Sakura, are side stories following those individual characters. Kurū no Eiyū manga is a prequel while Non-Scramble manga is a more comedic, slice of life spin-off. |
| Wish Upon the Pleiades (Houkago no Pleiades) | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Witch Hunter Robin | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Wolf’s Rain | 3-volume manga is an adapts the anime story. |
| Wonder Egg Priority | No manga or novel adaption, sadly. |
| World Conquest Zvezda Plot (Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda) | 3-volume manga adapts the anime, Junketsu no White Light is a spin-off that follows the White Light, and 4-koma no Zvezda is a comedy spin-off |
| Xam’d | Single-volume manga adapts a condensed version of the story. |
| Yamishibai | Single volume manga adapts select episodes from the first season, with one manga-original story at the end. |
| Yuki Yuna is a Hero (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru) | While there are many manga series for Yuki Yuna is a Hero, they are all either adaptations of the anime or side stories/prequels. None continue past the anime. |
| Yurei Deco | Has a web manga on Line that is ongoing, but I’m region-locked from looking at it. |
| Yuri Bear Storm (Yuri Kuma Arashi) | 2-novel light novel adapts the story, but the 3-volume manga is a completely different take on the story. |
| Yuri on Ice | Single-volume Welcome to Madness is a spin-off the follows Russian Yuri. |
| Zenshuu | No novel or manga adaption. |
| Zettai Shounen | 2-novel light novel adapts the anime, though gives more inferiority for the characters. |
| Zombieland Saga | 4-volume manga adapts the first season. 3-volume The First Zombie spin-off follows Tae Yamada. |
Did I miss one? Leave a comment! I did my best, but these lists will never be perfect.
Tada Never Falls in Love is missing here.
Indeed it was! And no no longer.
Thank you for taking the time to tell me
I don’t know if you go back and update stuff in situations like this, but Link Click has been confirmed to get a third season, so it’s not actually complete.
Love Through a Prism
Added! Thank you for taking the time to let me know.