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Media Factory Poll: Which Novel/Manga Do You Want Animated (Updated)
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Media Factory's Da Vinci Denshi Navi posted the results on Friday of a survey where the company asked its Twitter followers which novels or manga they most want to be turned into an anime. Media Factory received more than 6,000 replies, and the top 30 results were as follows:
| Rank | Title | Creator(s) | Format | Twitter Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zaregoto: The Kubikiri Cycle (article) | Nisioisin | novel | 160 |
| 2 | Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam | Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yuichi Hasegawa | manga | 114 |
| 3 | Pokémon Special | Hidenori Kusaka, Mato, Satoshi Yamamoto | manga | 108 |
| 4 | Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway) (timeline) | Yoshiyuki Tomino | novel | 98 |
| 5 | Self-Defense Forces Trilogy (Shio no Machi, Sora no Naka, Umi no Soko) | Hiro Arikawa (Library War) | novel | 92 |
| 6 | Saint Young Men | Hikaru Nakamura | manga | 88 |
| 7 | Kōkoku no Shugosha | Daisuke Satō, Yu Ito, | manga | 76 |
| 8 | Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (already has a manga) | Tomihiko Morimi | novel | 72 |
| 9 | Maoh: Juvenile Remix | Megumi Osuga, Kōtarō Isaka | manga | 60 |
| 10 | Cuticle Tantei Inaba | Mochi | manga | 64 |
| 11 | Magi (article) | Shinobu Ohtaka | manga | 62 |
| 12 | Satōgashi no Tandan wa Uchimekenai | Kazuki Sakuraba (Gosick) | novel | 60 |
| 13 | Shokubutsu Zukan | Hiro Arikawa (Library War) | novel | 54 |
| 14 | Barakamon | Satsuki Yoshino | manga | 52 |
| 15 | Yotsuba&! | Kiyohiko Azuma | manga | 50 |
| 16 | Karneval | Touya Mikanagi | manga | 49 |
| 17 | Karakuri Circus | Kazuhiro Fujita | manga | 48 |
| 18 | Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation | Yoshiyuki Nishi | manga | 46 |
| 19 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | manga | 42 |
| 20 | Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. | Sou Sagara | novel | 38 |
| 20 | DOLLS | naked ape (Otoh Saki + Tomomi Nakamura) | manga | 38 |
| 22 | Mugen Shinshi | Yousuke Takahashi | manga | 34 |
| 23 | The Twelve Kingdoms | Fuyumi Ono | novel | 32 |
| 24 | March comes in like a lion | Chika Umino | manga | 30 |
| 24 | Uchōten Kazoku | Tomihiko Morimi | novel | 30 |
| 26 | Hoshi no Samidare | Satoshi Mizukami | manga | 28 |
| 27 | Harmony (article) | Project Itoh | novel | 25 |
| 28 | Parasyte | Hitoshi Iwaaki | manga | 25 |
| 29 | Bara no Maria | Ao Juumonji | novel | 25 |
| 30 | Missing | Gakuto Kōta | novel | 20 |
Update: Links to introductions to several novels and manga added. Media Factory posted a footnote noting that the requested anime adaptations for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and The Twelve Kingdoms would be sequels to existing anime adaptations.
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