History Main / AnimeFirst

* ''Anime/{{Pon no Michi}}''.

* ''Anime/HighCard'''

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is an unusual example of a single show's popularity lasting over a decade due to careful merchandising which is still regularly released. Various spinoff manga exist, including the [[ScheduleSlip intermittently produced]] one that ran alongside the ''original'' show (see below). The success of the anime would become a game-changer for the industry, as it would inspire the creation of other similarly ambitious original anime projects in the years to come.
** Even though the manga began publication before the anime began airing, it was made as a promotional tie-in for the anime series which was in production at the time, as with ''Nausicaa''. Amusingly, the manga ended up ''running for 18 years''...because of ScheduleSlip.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_no_Chikara Anime no Chikara]] project aimed to create entirely original anime, although it ultimately produced just three of them. All of them aired in 2010:
** ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''
** ''Anime/NightRaid1931''
** ''Anime/OccultAcademy''
* ''Anime/NinetyOneDays''

* ''Anime/EighthMan''

* ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'' (released in 1975; the manga was released in 2014)

* In a weird instance for the ''VideoGame/PrettySeries'', the anime adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/KirattoPriChan Kiratto Pri☆Chan]]'' is coming out first, with the game being released eleven days after it premieres.

* ''Anime/{{Scryed}}''. Despite what some people might claim, the manga came out ''second''.

* ''Anime/WanWanCelebSoreyukeTetsunoshi''

* ''Anime/ShinePost''

So naturally, anyone funding an anime is far more likely to cough up some cash if what's being created has already found success elsewhere; after all, you'll have a built-in fanbase and that preexisting material can serve as additional advertisement for the show and vice-versa, increasing revenue all around. The basic idea is certainly not ''unique'' to anime, as countless shows and films around the world - both {{animated|Adaptation}} and {{live|ActionAdaptation}}-action - are based on preexisting properties for all these same reasons. But this tends to be far more common with anime than anything else, with a good 90% of programs released every year originating in another medium.

Occasionally manga comes out ''after'' such an anime, but only as a limited run. Some manga run ''concurrently'' to a show, so divergences are common and accepted. You don't want them to be ''exactly'' alike or the audience will wonder why you're [[OvertookTheManga messing with the story]]. You also sometimes get a sort of DoubleSubversion where the manga comes out first, but the original project was conceived as an anime; the manga was primarily intended as advertisement. (The well-known example is ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.)

Not to be confused with the common gripe that all of the anime examples on a trope page come first. (Seriously, guys, it's ''alphabetical''. Either add in some examples from advertising, or let it go.) Compare with AllMusicalsAreAdaptations, a trope that exists for much the same reasons as this one.