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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?


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Is it common for games to get a anime?


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.


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Indeed. I've seen a few anime based on video games, and while they aren't that
common, they aren't uncommon, either. Some anime are literally used to promote
games, but these are usually card games like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Duel Masters. One
of my favorite anime, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, or Bridge to the Starry Skies,
is based off of a visual novel!


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