With the long-awaited anime adaptation of The World Ends With You airing this season, we thought we’d take a look at our favorite anime that are based on video games. In some ways, this sort of adaptation is more difficult than those based on manga or light novels—gameplay elements must be integrated into the story or removed in a way that makes sense, branching paths and multiple endings can make it near impossible to tell a coherent story, and the experience an individual player has with a game is never going to match up exactly with how the anime chooses to portray it. So here’s to the video game adaptations that got it right, despite all of the obstacles that stood in their way!
