As anime culture becomes more than globally widespread and culturally accustomed, one side of the industry that has too been booming in popularity is the gaming sector. Anime games aren't a new thing, of course, their primeval history going back equally far as the late 1900s. Only a particular niche of that industry that has really started to flourish in recent years is the mobile gaming category.

Anime shows based on video games and the vice-versa, both are common phenomena. An anime video game may get adapted into a show and so that a different story may be explored, or just just for the sake of ad to attract not-gamers to the franchise. Merely whatever the case, many games have been adapted into their very own anime series in the by, and this list looks at ten such cases.

10 Princess Connect! Re: Dive (2020)

Princess Connect Re:Dive, the whole Gourmet Guild Gang

Princess Connect! Re: Dive (Priconne in short, for people who don't want to waste half their breath pronouncing the name) is non on the listing of anime that you should watch if you like Konosuba, simply information technology certainly should be.

The story follows a hero by name only, an amnesiac and weakling by the name of Yuuki, and his adventures with his fellow adventurers of the "Gourmet Order." Although the game is an activity RPG, the anime falls more nether the slice of life comedy category.

9 Vampire Holmes (2014)

Sherlock Holmes holds a Guinness tape for being the almost portrayed man grapheme ever in media, that'south how popular he is. Merely it's a shame the author of the books, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle didn't live long enough to see his creation be turned into a playable character, that too a vampire hunter, in a Chinese mobile game.

Then once more, taking into account its 3.39/10 score on MyAnimeList, it's probably for the best he wasn't around to witness this.

viii Granblue Fantasy The Animation (2017)

Granblue Fantasy The Animation (2017)

The game on which the anime is based is what tin only be called a monumental success, having been developed past the creative duo behind games such as Final Fantasy. But despite having such fantastic source material to piece of work with, the anime is absolutely beautiful in the animation department and as lacking in everything else.

Not a particularly bad adaptation by whatsoever ways, the full general opinion of the fans criticizes its mediocrity and how much of a generic RPG plot it has.

7 Azur Lane (2019)

"Cute girls looking beautiful while fighting battles" isn't an official genre simply it might as well be, as people who take watched enough anime should know. Strike Witches and Girls Und Panzer being adept examples of such female-centric anime, not to mention the hundreds of others.

Azur Lane takes information technology a stride further past introducing literal real-life military warships, similar the American destroyer USS Laffey to name one, in the form of moe anime girls. It is a concept and so outlandish in nature it can only happen in the globe of anime.

6 Rage of Bahamut (2014)

Rage of Bahamut (2014)

An immensely successful "digital collectible card boxing game,"Rage of Bahamut has spawned 3 anime series in total from a single game. The first adaptation came out ii years afterwards the game'due south initial release and was produced by MAPPA, the studio backside several popular anime shows such as Jujutsu Kaisen.

A 1000 story nearly the dominant races that rule Earth, the Gods, demons, and humans. It revolves around an ancient legendary dragon past the name of Bahamut, which threatens to destroy the world.

v Chain Chronicle: The Lite of Haecceitas (2017)

Chain Chronicle The Light of Haecceitas (2017)

A tower-defence force, RPG, and card trading game all rolled into 1, Chain Chronicle takes place in a generic action-fantasy setting, in a fictional world called Yuguto. The "Black King" appears and poses a danger to the safety of the unabridged world, and it's upwards to the protagonist and his companions to defeat him and stop his evil from spreading.

The first anime accommodation of the game was in the grade of 8 OVA episodes, which were followed by an anime film trilogy with the subtitleThe Low-cal of Haecceitas.

4 Idolish7 (2018)

There are plenty of anime and games virtually female idols where the playable grapheme is usually a male responsible for managing the group.Idolish7 takes a step in the contrary direction by swapping the genders. It isn't the starting time game e'er to do so, only i of the nearly popular ones.

Similar to the rhythm game's story the anime features a daughter, given the proper noun Tsumugi Takanashi in the anime, as she is tasked with the duty to manage an idol group of 7 people. A manga adaptation of the game was released in 2015, and ii seasons of the anime have aired until now.

3 Seisen Cerberus (2016)

Seisen Cerberus (2016)

Like to the sameRage of Bahamut, Seisen Cerberusputs an all-powerful dragon at the center of the story which acts equally a plot device to farther the progression of everything else. An action RPG, its premise is ready effectually the victim of a tragedy Hiiro (yep he is the "hero" of the story) whose only mission in life is to become his revenge against the dragon that killed his parents.

After getting a manga adaptation two years afterwards its release, the game got an anime as well in 2018, made by the aforementioned studio that producedSword Art Online, Genco.

2 Fate Series

The Fate series is one of the well-nigh prominent and pop anime franchises currently ambulation, with more than shows under its name than nigh people tin keep rail of. Across its several seasons, movies, games, spin-offs, and manga, the serial tells the epic tale of the Holy Grail War and its participants.

The very first game was an adult visual novel released on Windows and subsequently other platforms. Fate/Grand Lodge was a mobile-exclusive online RPG released in 2015, which was adapted into an anime later on.

1 Honkai Impact 3rd: Cooking with Valkyries (2019)

Genshin Touch is a video game pop on such a global scale that probably every mobile gamer on the planet has heard of it at this bespeak. Although not nearly every bit popular, Honkai Impact 3rd is from the same developer miHoYo, and information technology's what put their name on the map in the outset place.

The game doesn't take a full-fledged anime adaptation yet, the closest matter being a spin-off one-act skit with 5 minute long episodes. Their official Youtube aqueduct, on the other paw, has many 3D blithe clips featuring the game'south characters.

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