A Decade of Anime Source Material Charted

Joseph Luster February 10, 2014

Anime series can be based on a wide variety of source material—from manga to light novels, visual novels, games, and more—or they might be entirely original. The amount of series that debut as adaptations of something else varies from year to year, and now we have some handy charts to show how much anime originated from various types of media over the past decade.