A lot of anime series have come to an abrupt end while their manga counterparts go on to tell the full story. When this happens, fans come together to voice their desires, but without enough support, many get left in the dust and fade into obscurity.
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Luckily, some of these anime are able to get a film or include OVAs bundled with manga in an attempt to tie up all the loose ends. Some anime would do well with full-blown reboots, but this list plans to highlight anime that really just really need to pick up where they left off in some way or form to give fans their final fix.
This is not for everyone; in fact, back in the day, this was for a very niche few before elements of this anime became more acceptable. This anime follows a Japanese High School student who is killed when he is hit by a train along with another student from his school. Then, they suddenly appear in a room with other people who all met an early death.
A sphere in the room gives them an arsenal of otherworldly powerful weapons and special suits, as well as a target they need to kill. With lots of dark moments and explicit scenes, this is not for younger viewers or the faint of heart. The anime failed to find its audience, but there is still interest in a reboot.
After a cataclysmic event that decimated most of Japan, a landmark known as The Black Spot causes people who live close by to acquire incredible abilities. It features some of the best, most up-close, and intense fight scenes out of any anime, as expected from Madhouse, who is responsible for works such as Hunter X Hunter and the first season of One Punch Man. This anime is a high-octane rush to watch and is the closest thing Guilty Gear fans could have hoped for from an anime.
Able to gain enough attention to get it a second season, Noragami could not keep enough interest for its anime to reach the end of its story. Set in a world of gods, each having their roles and purposes, the protagonist is a self-proclaimed delivery God named Yato. Yato lacks followers and, without a shrine of his own for people to pray at, needs word of mouth to find them by doing odd jobs for 5 yen, which is around $0.03 at the time of writing this.
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A lot of the lore is explored in the second season, making it even harder for fans to face the fact there is no season to explore this lore further.
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Throughout the 1990s, this anime wasone of the most popular sports anime around, with it having a large cultural impact on the sport of basketball and generating a lot of popularity around it. Despite its large fan base and popularity, it was canceled before it got to the Nationals Arc of the manga. This was because the creator of the manga chose to have the anime canceled, with a lot of speculation as to why, with the most likely theory that they wanted to sever ties with the studio that was handling the anime.
Like many anime, Watamote is the short version of saying the incredibly long actual title of, “No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys' Fault I’m Not Popular!”. The sad tale of why Watamote never got a second season is that it was not popular and had low ratings, but since its cancelation, the manga built up quite a sizable fan base and is significantly more popular now.
The story is unlike any of the usualtop-rated slice-of-life comedies, as its protagonist does not fit the norm. Tomoko is a very awkward and socially inept high school girl that applies logic from video games and other media to make friends, but the things that come out her mouth and her actions have been said to be borderline irredeemable by some.
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There is no shortage of shonen anime like Dragon Ball and Naruto, but this shonen masqueraded as a sports anime. As the anime progresses, more and more players join the team, each adding essential skills that make it a stronger team for defeating an ever-increasingly difficult array of opponent teams.
Even though the characters don’t have special abilities, the series overly emphasis their movements and plays in supernatural or over-the-top ways, such as a dramatic change in running stride, turning the runner into an ethereal ghost that passes through the blocker. This anime ended before reaching the final arcs of the manga, and fans are desperate to see the end of the manga animated.
Out of every anime on this list, Baccano! Has the most toe-tapping soundtrack. This anime failed to gather the popularity it deserved due to not fitting in with what is popular.
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With a focus on several mafia families, a very large recurring cast of memorable and likable characters, and the story being told through multiple timelines simultaneously, this anime will have many viewers confused and wondering if they skipped an episode by mistake. This will not disappoint fans of anime such as Agami Ga Kill and those looking for a more Western world setting.
3Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran High School Host Club is a reverse harem story that follows a girl named Haruhi who is attending a school for the obscenely rich purely on a scholarship. She accidentally breaks an expensive piece of decor in one of the clubrooms and needs to work it off by taking part in the club’s central activity of entertaining girls as a desirable male trope.
This reverse harem anime has an overwhelming hoard of fans to this day that still let out cheers at convention halls when some random attendee mentions it in a question. It came out when a lot of anime only got 1 season and just ran its course without getting a proper ending, while the manga continued the story.
2No Game No Life
Saying the isekai market is over-saturated is a massive understatement, but in that haystack are a few really unique concepts of the genre, and No Game No Life is one such gem. A brother and sister are whisked away by a god to another world where every dispute is settled by playing games. The story follows their rise by winning game after game and gathering a high enough stake to challenge the god that brought them to this world to one more game. This series' only fault was its release window, going up against giant names with established fan bases, such as Naruto Shippuden and Haikyuu, which garnered the public eye away from No Game No Life.
1Hunter X Hunter
Praised by many as the greatest shonen of all time, the premise here is about special adventurers known as Hunters. These hunters need to pass a rigorous exam that happens early on in the series, and once completed, have access to a global collection of resources to accomplish all manner of quests and jobs for the people of the world, a form of multipurpose Mercenaries. This is why so many of the fans sayit would make a great fighting gamewith such a large roster of interesting fighters.
The protagonist of the series, Gon, is on a journey to find his father, another Hunter. Most shonen has arcs that follow the same formula, just on a larger scale, while Hunter X Hunter shakes up each arc into its own subgenre, with each story arc feeling completely different in tone and scope. This anime only ended because it caught up with the Manga, and out of its 148 episodes, only 2 of them were filler.
