Vote for the 2027 Manga We Want to See Adapted into Anime
AnimeJapan is once again looking for nominations for what manga people worldwide want to see adapted into anime form.
On October 25, 2026, AnimeJapan released the voting form for “2027 Manga We Want to See Adapted into Anime” Ranking, with nominations chosen through online vote.
Notable popular picks include Girl Meets Rock (the 2024 Next Manga Award winner for the Online category) Ichi the Witch and Strikeout Pitch (the 2025 Next Manga Award winners), Someone Hertz and Home at the Horizon (the 2026 Next Manga Award winners), Mad, Centuria, Gokurakugai, Choujin X, Yotsuba&!, The Climber and Innocent (both by Shinichi Sakamoto) as well as other niche or difficult choices like Goodnight Punpun, Blood on the Tracks, WITCHRIV, Fire Punch, Goodbye Eri (both by Tatsuki Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man fame), Vagabond, Real (both by Takehiko Inoue), Billy Bat, 20th Century Boys (by Naoki Urasawa) and more.
The top 10 from last year include:
- Tonari no Seki no Yatsu ga Eroi me de Mitekuru Hanashi – mmk (Shogakukan, Sunday Webry)
- Strikeout Pitch – Kyuu Sumiyoshi (Shueisha, Jump+)
- Ketsu Battler – Naotake Takade (Shogakukan, Weekly CoroCoro)
- Utsuranain desu – Ruka Konoshima (Shogakukan, Weekly Shonen Sunday)
- #Gyaru to Gyaru no Yuri – Inoue (Shogakukan, Sunday Webry)
- On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance – Shinnosuke Kanazawa (Square Enix, Gangan Pixiv)
- Usotsuki Gokuo-kun – Makoto Yoshimoto (Shogakukan, Weekly CoroCoro)
- Dinosaur Sanctuary – Itaru Kinoshita (Shinchosha, Comic Bunch)
- Gokurakugai – Yuuto Sano (Shueisha, Jump SQ)
- Centuria – Toru Kuramori (Shueisha, Jump+)
The ranking voting will be scheduled for Tuesday, December 22, 2026 – Saturday, January 30, 2027.
Results Announcement & Awards Ceremony are Scheduled for March 2027.
Top 10 Exhibition is scheduled to take place at the AnimeJapan 2027 venue from Saturday, March 27, 2027, to Sunday, March 28, 2027.
[Nomination Criteria include:
- Manga volumes that have been published to date (web comics are also eligible)
- Works currently being serialized (not yet compiled into volumes) are also eligible.
- Limited to manga works that have not been adapted into anime (TV, theatrical films, OVAs, etc.)
- However, works that have been adapted into live-action but not into anime are eligible.
- Excludes works that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame
- Works with live-action adaptations but no anime adaptations include 20th Century Boys.
Hall of Fame Works are manga that have previously ranked 1st or have ranked in the TOP 10 a total of three times.
Komi Can’t Communicate, The Dangers in my Heart and the Apothecary Diaries are listed in spite already having acclaimed anime adaptations.
Senpai Is an Otokonoko: My Crossdressing Classmate is part of the Hall of Fame in this voting document in spite already having an anime adaptation.
Nue’s Exorcist is part of the Hall of Fame in spite having an upcoming anime adaptation set for 2027.
The rest include:
- 10DANCE
- Im: Great Priest Imhotep
- Tonari no Seki no Yatsu ga Eroi me de Mitekuru Hanashi
- Ikuru from Shinano’s House
- Hyperinflation
*Please note that this is not a voting event; submitting multiple entries will not increase your chances of being selected as a nominee.
Nominations end until 11:59 PM on Thursday, November 12, 2026 Japan Time.
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