After tallying up 156,909 votes for forty-seven nominees, up more than 50,000 votes from last year, the results are officially in for AnimeJapan’s 8th annual “Manga We Want to See Animated Ranking” poll!
Kota Kawae’s Nue’s Exorcist, which has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since May 2023, took first place, while Makoto Yoshimoto’s Usotsuki! Gokuo-kun and Oreco Tachibana’s Firefly Wedding took the next two podium spots.
The top 10 are rounded out, in order, by Neoshoco’s Phantom Busters, Yo Chiba’s Kindergarten WARS, Naru Kariya’s Ugly Duckling of the Entertainment District, Yuta Sano’s Gokurakugai, Nazuna Shiraume’s Akuyaku Reijo no Naka no Hito, Ikko Tanaka’s Junket Bank and inee’s LOVE-BULLET.
Kindergarten WARS and Ugly Duckling of the Entertainment District made last year’s ranking in 9th and 5th place, respectively.
AnimeJapan, the annual source of so many thrilling anime-related announcements, is back at Tokyo Big Sight for its twelfth show on March 22-23 in Japan, so stay tuned to Crunchyroll News for all the latest updates next weekend!
Source: Comic Natalie
