Is it common for games to get a anime?


A lot of anime are based off of the plot of a manga and/or light novels.
Sometimes an anime is an original work that gets a manga story afterwards, but
that isn't always the case.

I remember watching Amagami, where you could obviously notice that it was
based on a game, and some are even named after the games such as Final
Fantasy.

So how common is it for a anime to be based of a game? I have only seen it
once or twice but is it really that uncommon? Or are they just animated in a
way that you won't directly notice that it comes from a game unless you
already know so?




Just like in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8240/1908), let's
take a look at [/u/homu](http://www.reddit.com/user/homu)'s
[data](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1wr94h/tv_anime_adaption_source_by_year/).

![TV anime source material year-by-year](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qhB6v.png)

This basically answers your question right here: between 8% and 15% (avg. 10%)
of anime in each year from 2000-2013 were based on a video game of some
variety. Games are a minor but not insignificant source for anime.

Now, if you're asking "what percentage of video games get turned into an
anime", the answer almost certainly rounds to 0%. There are a _lot_ of video
games out there (probably in the high hundreds per year, at least), but less
than 200 anime per year, only a fraction of which are based on video games.

This data set only covers TV anime (thus excluding ONAs, OVAs, and films), but
I see no reason to expect that an unusually large percentage of any of those
media would be based on games.




Just like in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8240/1908), let's
take a look at [/u/homu](http://www.reddit.com/user/homu)'s
[data](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1wr94h/tv_anime_adaption_source_by_year/).

![TV anime source material year-by-year](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qhB6v.png)

This basically answers your question right here: between 8% and 15% (avg. 10%)
of anime in each year from 2000-2013 were based on a video game of some
variety. Games are a minor but not insignificant source for anime.

Now, if you're asking "what percentage of video games get turned into an
anime", the answer almost certainly rounds to 0%. There are a _lot_ of video
games out there (probably in the high hundreds per year, at least), but less
than 200 anime per year, only a fraction of which are based on video games.

This data set only covers TV anime (thus excluding ONAs, OVAs, and films), but
I see no reason to expect that an unusually large percentage of any of those
media would be based on games.

