History Main / TheAnimeOftheGame

* Before Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment shut Website/ShiftyLook down, it created three animated web-series based on its ''VideoGame/{{Bravoman}}'' and ''VideoGame/WonderMomo'' comics, as well as ''WebAnimation/{{Mappy}}'', which had no corresponding comic. The ''Bravoman'' series was perhaps the most notable of the three, as it had high production values and featured prolific voice actors such as Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/DeeBradleyBaker, and Creator/JenniferHale; ''Wonder Momo'' was a web anime with a Japanese voice cast, as part of a largely failed attempt to make the series a multimedia project; ''Mappy'' featured a low budget, extremely limited animation, and only two voice actors for most of the series, something which it regularly lampoons.

** ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'' is a SequelSeries to the 2017 series, set to be based off ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''.

* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', believe it or not, was actually envisioned as a game first, but ScheduleSlip caused [[VideoGame/SerialExperimentsLain the game]] to be released after the anime. [[AdaptationDisplacement Guess which one most people have heard of]].

* ''VideoGame/{{SIN}}''

* ''Anime/PaRappaTheRapper''

* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' is an adaptation of the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games. It is very unique because it's a standalone shoe that takes place in an AlternateUniverse loosely inspired by the whole series, rather than being created to promote a particular game; ''[[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land]]'' and ''VideoGame/KirbyAirRide'' were actually released to promote the anime, not the other way around. Most ''Kirby'' fans are also fans of the anime, in large part because the creator of the games, Creator/MasahiroSakurai, was heavily involved in its development.

* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' is an adaptation of the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games. It is very unique because it takes place in an AlternateUniverse loosely inspired by the series as a whole, rather than being based on any game in particular (though it draws most directly from ''[[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land]]'' and ''VideoGame/KirbyAirRide''). Despite this, most ''Kirby'' fans love the series, in part because series creator Creator/MasahiroSakurai was heavily involved in its development.

*** ''Anime/Pokemon2023''

** Creator/{{ufotable}} produced an [[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks 26 episode series]] based on ''Unlimited Blade Works'' in the style of their ''LightNovel/FateZero'' adaptation in 2014. uotable then produced a [[Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel trilogy of movies]] based on the ''Heaven's Feel'' route.

* ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}''

** ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'', a second adaptation by a different studio, Creator/A1Pictures (which was part of the team that animated the original game's cutscenes). It focuses on the new material added in the UpdatedRerelease of ''Persona 4'', ''Persona 4: Golden''.

** The [[Anime/SakuraWarsTV TV series]] is an AlternateContinuity set within the original 1996 game.[[/index]]

* ''Anime/{{Ace Attorney|Anime}}''

** There's also ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Last Order]]'', but those are sequels instead of spin-offs.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories: Ride On''

* ''VideoGame/KanColle'', also has a movie and an upcoming second season.

* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' has a ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' {{OVA}} series, a ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' {{OVA}} series and a TwelveEpisodeAnime of ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia''. ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' got a 26-episode series which aired in the fall of 2008. ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' got a {{prequel}} [[TheMovie movie]]. ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'' got both a 45 minute OVA to promote the game and a full anime series in the Spring2016Anime season.

* ''VideoGame/QuizMagicAcademy'' was adapted into two OVAs, the first being released in 2008 and the second in 2010.

In the same vein as TheFilmOfTheBook, this is when a VideoGame is adapted into a series, usually an {{Anime}}. It's extremely common in the case of {{Visual Novel}}s.

[[folder:Tabletop Game Examples]]
* ''Literature/RecordOfLodossWar'' was based on [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons several D&D campaigns]] and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen could have become]] an official Creator/{{TSR}} product, if they weren't turned down. Instead they [[StartMyOwn made their own]] super generic rules & setting combo that led to two more series (''Anime/LegendOfCrystania'' and ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'').
* ''Anime/NightWizard!'' is a Japanese [[TabletopRPG pen & paper RPG]] that got a 2007 anime based on a campaign replay, which was included on the [[DVDCommentary DVD as an alternate audio track]].
* ''Anime/ChaosDragon'' is a 2015 anime with an AllStarCast, adapted from a six-day TabletopRPG session of ''[[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]]''.
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* ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'' was based on [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen could have become]] an official Creator/{{TSR}} product, if they weren't turned down. Instead they [[StartMyOwn made their own]] super generic rules & setting combo that led to two more series (''Anime/LegendOfCrystania'' and ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'').

[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
* ''Series/Halo2022''
* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023''
* ''Series/ResidentEvil2022''
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* ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess''

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has five: ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', and ''WesternAnimation/SonicPrime''.