Interest Stacks

Adaptation of Ys 1. Uses some music from the actual game which is great because the ost goes hard. Enjoyable if you've played and enjoyed the original game.

Adaptation of Ys 2.

Promotional anime made for Ys 4: the Dawn of Ys, not Mask of the Sun which are both essentially the same game but DoY released on the PC Engine (Turbographix) and MotS released on SNES. Also not an adaptation of Memories of Celceta. This was made essentially to see if any companies were interested in a YS 4 anime but no one was.

A spin off of the Cold Steel part of the Kiseki (Trails of) series. I believe it takes place either far into the series or after all 4 CS games.

A completely original anime based on the Persona series of games with completely original characters and story. There are many other Persona anime adaptations, however, those are very well known. Persona 3-5 all have full adaptations and Persona 2 has an teaser for a cancelled anime adaptation.

Adaptation of Atelier Escha and Logy.

Adaptation of the first Atelier Ryza game (Thighs.)

Adaptation of the Megami Tensei Novel, not the video game but related enough to be mentioned here.

Loosely based on the Shin Megami Tensei game.

Anime based on Shin Megami Tensei Children Franchise. Also had a 52 episode sequel.

Perhaps the only relevant SMT adaptation out there, this aimed to be a full adaptation of devil survivor 2 that came out about a year or two after the game did.

A sequel anime to Final Fantasy 5 of all things. There are many other Final Fantasy anime such as the FF7 spinoffs, FF15 specials/movies, and the Spirits Within.

Straight up has nothing to do with Final Fantasy but it has chocobos in it.

Adaptation of the third Fire Emblem, Mystery of the Emblem. MAL also has like most of the cinematics from Fire Emblem Heroes as well as some little side animations or ads they'd have on Youtube for some reason.

Adaptation of Legend of Mana, made to coincide with the remaster of the game released a year prior.

Completely original PSO2 anime.

Adaptation of Tales of Phantasia. There are a whole lot of Tales of anime, but a lot of them are pretty well known. There are pretty lengthy adaptations of Symphonia, Zestria, Abyss, as well as little crossover anime and the gacha game.

Adaptation of Tales of Eternia.

Full adaptation of the Sega Saturn cult classic/game that was really big in Japan but nowhere else at all, Sakura Taisen. Only game in the series to actually have an English fan translation. Additionally there was an ova that depicted side stories and such called Ouka Kenran.

Original sequel to Sakura Taisen 2 with a bit of 1.

Semi adaptation of Sakura Taisen 3 that takes place at different moments in the game. Has a continuation called Le Nouveau Paris.

Original Sakura Taisen movie that takes place between 3 and 4.

A cute original OVA made to celebrate the voice actor of Sumire's retirement. Takes place after the fourth game.

Not an adaptation, but a sequel to Sakura Taisen 5, aka the one that was actually released officially in English on the PS2 and Wii which to this day I still find a kinda weird choice of consoles.

Adaptation of Shin Sakura Taisen, as in the the only chance Sakura Taisen had to make a comeback but failed so hard and now we'll never get official English releases of the games in the series that were actually good.

Essentially 3 special episodes of the Mega Man cartoon that were scrapped because the cartoon's art style was changed from cool epic anime to yucky american cartoon. However, they were officially released by capcom for Rockman's 15th anniversary (in both english dub and sub!).

A one episode special that essentially is a prequel to Mega Man X.

Adaptation of the Mega Man NT Warrior manga that's based on the world of Mega Man Battle Network. It's okay, but many probably have memories of watching this on Teletoon and other similar channels. I kid you not this has 4 more seasons after this, with the first one being another 50 episodes. No clue about game accuracy on those.

Similar to Rockman.EXE, this is an adaptation of a Rockman manga loosely based on Mega Man Starforce. Also just ok.

Second season to Ryuusei no Rockman that's actually based on the second Starforce game.

A loose adaptation of Dragon Quest 3.

Anime very loosely based on Dragon Quest but mostly just takes the setting. Very popular in Japan. There was also a remake in 2020.

Part of the Dai no Daibouken series. There were also two other movies:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7436/Dragon_Quest__Dai_no_Daibouken_Tachiagare_Aban_no_Shito
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7364/Dragon_Quest__Dai_no_Daibouken_Buchiyabure_Shinsei_6_Daishougun

A prequel anime to a completely original Dragon Quest anime.

A not so well recieved adaptation of Dragon Quest 5, a very beloved entry in the series.

An adaptation of Disgaea 1. As one of the few things on this list I actually watched, it wasn't too bad but don't expect too much. Only watch if you're a fan of the first game.

A trailer with original animation for the Disgaea anime.

A completely original movie that takes the setting and elements from the Ni no Kuni games.

I'm gonna be real I have no clue, but I think it's an adaptation of Growlanser 4 of some sorts although it's just a single episode that was used as promotional media. They made 4 Growlanser games? What happened to Langrisser? Honestly probably doesn't matter.

An adaptation of Shenmue 1, but it's so-so.

When Shenmue 2 released in North America, it was exclusive to the Xbox due to the Dreamcast being shot several times in the head. Thus they released this short movie bundled with Shenmue 2 on the Xbox to recap the story.

Adaptation of Star Ocean: The Second Story. Game accurate for like a single episode, then goes original.

Not an adaptation, but a series of trailers? for Star Ocean: Anamnesis which is the Star Ocean gacha.

Semi original adaptation of Wild Arms 1 with some crossover with Wild Arms 2.

A kinda chopped up adaptation of Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia that adapts just the first bit of the game.

Adaptation of Xenosaga 1.

Pretty original adaptation of the first Hyperdimensional Neptunia game. Has a 2 episode recap special and an OVA.

Adaptation of Mistwalker + Akira Toriyama's Blue Dragon. Fairly sure it's not exactly game accurate. Has a 50 episode second season. This is actually a surprisingly known game adaptation anime from what I can tell.

I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS HAD AN ADAPTATION I LOVE TRAILS IN THE SKY - 2 episode ova that crazily enough tries to adapt the entire first game in 120 minutes which is...not a good idea.

Adaptation of Arc the Lad 2. Game accurate for a bit, then goes full original.