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Lots of manga get an anime adaption, and pretty often the anime's story
deviates partly or a lot from the story told in the manga. This usually leads
to different endings lacking information, or even giving surplus information
as compared to the manga with the same name.

But this also made me wonder: is there also an anime that shares the same name
as a manga (it supposedly was based on) but deviates 100% from this the story
as told in the manga? So the story in the anime is totally different from the
manga, but still shares the same name.


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Are there anime named after a manga, but totally different from it?


Sorry, this is not manga, but I'd like to mention [_The
Idolmaster_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idolmaster).

[The original game of The
Idolmaster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idolmaster#Game_series) is an
arcade game about producing girls as idols.

However, the first anime series [Idolmaster:
Xenoglossia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolmaster:_Xenoglossia) is a robot
anime. Girls ride big robots named "IDOL".

EDIT: Added some background of my understanding.

# Mushi Production

[Mushi Production](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushi_Production) is one of
first animation studios in Japan. Mushi Production is known for [Tetsuwan
Atom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_\(1963_TV_series\)) which is the
first Japanese anime series. Mushi Production was founded by [Osamu
Tezuka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka) who is "Godfather of Anime"
and the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney. This studio was created by
manga/anime creators (animators).

At Mushi Production, animator's opinion was most important and business-side
people didn't have a voice.

Lacking business sense, Mushi Production bankrupted in 70's.

# Sunrise

[Sunrise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_\(company\)) is a spin-off
company from Mushi Production. The founders of Sunrise knew why Mushi
Production failed, so they decided a new policy that have strong business
executive members and animators can't poke to the business side. For example,
animators can't become board members of Sunrise. At Sunrise, it moves in the
opposite way: animator's opinion is NOT adopted.

Sunrise had a big success in robot anime. For example:
[Gundam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam), [Code
Geass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass) and [My-
HiME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My-HiME).

# Namco

In 2007, Namco (the game company that created Idolmaster) finished acquiring
Sunrise and merged executive members. In that time, Idolmaster was one of the
most successful games by Namco. The executives gave an order to the animator
team that created My-HiME to create an anime version of Idolmaster. Animators
at Sunrise were professionals of robot anime, they weren't fit to make idol
anime, but they had a policy. Therefore, they created robot anime that used
characters of Idolmaster.


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I’m not sure whether this pair fully conforms with your request but there is
no doubt that these works share the same name but have nothing (not even the
genre) connecting them.

You may have heard of [Kodomo no
Jikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_no_Jikan), a somewhat
controversial anime and manga. Well, AniDB reveals that there is another
animation called [Kodomo no Jikan](http://anidb.net/perl-
bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=2001) — which happens to be a hentai with a
completely different plot and different characters. (The link will probably
lead to a 403 variant if you’re not logged in to AniDB.)

Granted, the hentai was first (2002) and it’s very possible that the mangaka
just didn’t know it existed when she started the manga in 2005.


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