| So, I have a feeling that most anime are either adaptations from manga or light novels (or games), that's because most anime I watch are that way. But in reality reality, what percentage of anime are original? Just curious. |
| I honestly don't know I searched on google but it's just a bunch of Reddit questions. |
| Way more than it seems but I don't have any hard numbers. |
| MEA·MENTVLA·INGENS·EST |
| Well, I don't think MAL has any place to check the database statistics, but AniDB does. Far as I know, AniDB's database is smaller than MAL's, but just for an idea, there's 1593 anime on there tagged original out of the database's 12864 total. That's around 12.4%. Just for reference though, there's 3230 anime tagged as manga adaptations, 1334 game adaptations and 1003 novel (including light novel) adaptations. Probably not concrete numbers considering the database could be missing some things, but I think it's fairly accurate for just an idea. |
| I’ll call you back once I count them all. |
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SunBro26 said: Well, I don't think MAL has any place to check the database statistics, but AniDB does. Far as I know, AniDB's database is smaller than MAL's, but just for an idea, there's 1593 anime on there tagged original out of the database's 12864 total. That's around 12.4%. Just for reference though, there's 3230 anime tagged as manga adaptations, 1334 game adaptations and 1003 novel (including light novel) adaptations. Probably not concrete numbers considering the database could be missing some things, but I think it's fairly accurate for just an idea. Nice, just curious because because I have a feeling also that most manga, light novels and games are original, only anime aren't. And movies also. |
| Not mine stats, you could see it here: https://github.com/NinjaNed/Search-Mal-By-Categories/tree/master/Anime%20By%20Source 4-koma: 295 titles Book: 192 Card Game: 60 Digital Manga: 15 Game: 980 (lol less than AniDB) LN: 772 Music: 364 Novel: 577 Picture Book: 157 Radio: 13 VN: 1001 Web Manga: 258 Other: 786 (kek MAL should reconsider some sources listed as "others" cuz they're more than most of the "known" sources here) Manga: 3872 Unknown: 3849 And finally Original: 7826 (you should note that most MVs/CMs are counted as original or unknown so the high number coming from this) I don't know actually how to count just the tv series on MAL but Anime-Planet listed 820 original shows there |
| i have no idea kinda wish myanimelist indicated which anime shows are originals |
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