Top 15 Anime Based on Light Novels
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 11, 2013 01:12 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Comparison, Infinite Stratos, Light Novels, Rankings, Sword Art Online
The light novel – a genre which at its loosest could be defined as any novel with an anime-style cover, periodic illustrations and, of course, a sparsity of text inversely proportional to the length of its title – having apparently long since outstripped manga and visual novels as the premier source material for late night anime adaptations, it is only fitting that the best such adaptations be ranked by the viewers who lap them up.
1. Infinite Stratos
2. Sword Art Online
3. A Certain Magical Index
4. Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo
5. Hyouka
6. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
7. Baka to Test
8. Ore no Imouto
9. Haruhi
10. Bakemonogatari
11. Kokoro Connect
12. Accel World
13. Chuunibyou
14. Spice & Wolf
15. Durarara!!
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And where's Fate Zero?
The list is indeed a crime.
Still believe Japanese rank ?
lurk more dude !
Fate/Zero is a VN, not a LN...
Do your research before you embarrass yourself.
You should be ashamed
Fate/Zero is a novel....
Go find a rock and live under it.
They tried. Cirno had made herself a home there already.
Fate/Stay Night is a VN....Fate/Zero is a LN
Don't care about list.
Picture fucken saved.
We have a winner!
am I the only one who hated index? well I also hate SAO and sakura-sou, and infinite stratos looked like a really boring fanservice shit and didn't watched in the first place
No FMP? No Baccano? Oh, rly?
Here comes the fanboy whining because your favorite animes aren't in the list.
someone's probably never heard of baccano before.
I stopped reading here.
True popularity: Votes / Years Since Screened Squared.
I stopped watching Infinite Stratos after like 3 episodes lol. Baccano!! is amazing tbh.
No Toradora? That series was a masterpiece.
Toradora was magnificent!! :D
I was surprised.
But then again, by otaku standards, it's ancient history.
No full metal panic...
Seriously, why is it do hard to understand that FMP was not THAT popular in Japan. It did OK, but it was nowhere near as good a seller as other LN adaptations.
Exactly. FMP was much more popular especially in the US and other Western countries than it ever was in Japan.
still, being one of KyoAni's earlier projects should at least make it pretty noteworthy.
While it actually was great, especially first season.
Well...no. Since it sold poorly... not that many people might have seen it. And those who saw it, and didn't buy it, didn't think it was a good adaptation, or good anime.
oh wait, I just checked the full listing. FMP did make the list... at last (25th) place.... with 4 votes... and 24th place got over 40 votes.... and Hidan no Aria ranked 17th.... and I think I'm gonna be sick.
The vote pool seems awfully small and the options awfully limited.
O hey, someone else was wondering the same thing!
My thoughts exactly
Remember that people who vote on these lists have a memory span of about 2 years at best. I agree though that FMP should be near the top.
Why is Infinite Stratos even on this list?!? It was so bad...
The animation was good, and the mecha fight scenes were actually pretty interesting. But the story was so bad and cliché, that you have to wonder if it was intentional.
Also describes SAO a bad plot that reads like a rip off of dot hack crossed with a side plot from GiTS SAC but it has nice art work ,fight scenes and some moe characters.
Of course the GiTS crew would have solved the hostage situation in a single episode.
It was intentional.If you look at it at a marketing stand point,that kind of story sells and that is exactly what he did.
I agree. I was immensely disappointed by the series - it was entirely forgettable.
Bad is your comment, loser!
Eh...hit and miss with this list...
As much as I disliked Chunibyou, having it ranked lower than the anime of Sword Art Online baffles me.
Bear in mind that the story of the LN is different from the anime.
Exactly. If the topic was "Top 15 Light Novels that were made into Anime." I could understand.
Slayers.... I mean freaking slayers
no Baccano!! ??? sucks list is sucks
bakemonogatari and spice and wolf so low in the list? this sucks.
Infinite Stratos, really? *doublefacepalm*
i need more hands to triplefacepalm.
i nid moar hands ...
Not a terrible list, though I'd change the order myself and cut it down to 10.
Top 15 Anime Based on Light Novels, as voted by people whose opinions you can safely ignore.