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Nov 3, 2023 · Michael B. Jordan. Photo: Naruto: Shippûden / flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0. Michael B. Jordan is very vocal about his love for anime. He even launched a collection inspired by his favorite anime - Naruto: Shippuden - for a collaboration with Coach. Jordan also produced and starred in gen:LOCK on Rooster Teeth.
- 10 A Little Princess
- 9 Pollyanna
- 8 Lottie and Lisa
- 7 Little Women
- 6 Daddy-Long-Legs
- 5 Peter Pan
- 4 Les Miserables
- 3 Anne of Green Gables
- 2 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- 1 Ovid's Metamorphoses
A wealthy young heiress, Sarah Crewe, finds herself a scullery maid at the mercy of her cruel headmistress, Miss Minchin, after the death of her beloved father leaves her penniless. After much struggle, she is eventually rescued by her dead father's business partner whose been searching for her all along. The classic story was eventually adapted in...
In this classic novel, a plucky young orphan is taken in by her spinster aunt in New England. Along the way, her sunny personality rubs off on the people around her, eventually spawning a series of books. In the 1980s, the book was made into an anime by Nippon Animation, lasting 51 episodes, later incorporating elements from the sequel, Pollyanna G...
In this classic German children's novel, two identical girls, raised in Vienna and Munich, meet each other at a summer camp and, after a bad start, realize they are twins each being raised by their divorced, single parents. The girls switch identities to meet the parents they never knew and hatch a scheme to get them back together, 0nly to learn th...
Following the lives of the four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy), this classic novel was loosely based on the life of its author, Louisa May Alcott. It later inspired Little Men and Jo's Boys. Before you ask, nobody says, "And then they realized, they were no longer little girls: they were little women" During the 1980s, the book saw not just...
In this classic American novel, a young orphan is granted an education by a mysterious benefactor on the condition that she must write him a monthly letter, without ever knowing his identity, dubbing him the mysterious "Daddy Long Legs." During her studies, she falls in love with the relatives of one of her classmates but realizes he might never be...
The little boy who would never grow up actually originated in J. M. Barrie's The Little White Bird, before being given his own book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. However, Barrie would later popularize the character through a stage play. Throw in Sandy Duncan and the rest is history. In 1989, the character became the star of Peter Pan no Bōken. ...
Victor Hugo's classic story of redemption revolves around the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his orphaned ward, Cosette, with the eventual Paris Uprising looming in the background. There have been quite a few anime versions of the book over the years: the 1979 special, Jean Valjean Monogatari, and episodes of Manga Sekai Mukashibanashi. O...
In this classic Canadian novel, a plucky young orphan girl...anyone noticing a trend here...comes to Prince Edward Island after she is accidentally adopted by the elderly Cuthbert siblings, who actually wanted a boy to help with the farm chores. In the late 1970s, an anime adaptation was released, with future anime legend Hayao Miyazaki on the crew...
L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale has inspired so many films and stage shows, people might forget the story was originally a book. It's also had quite a few anime adaptations over the years. In 1982, the first book was adapted into a theatrical anime film. A few years later, the series was adapted into another, unrelated anime series, las...
Ovid's Metamorphoses, which recounts many classic Greco-Roman myths, is one of the most influential works in Western literature, so it only makes sense it would get an anime film. Produced by Sanrio, of Hello Kitty fame, Winds of Change, also known as Metamorphoses or Orpheus of the Stars, casts a little boy and girl in the stories of "Actaeon," "O...
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Oct 13, 2022 · Premiere Date: January 4, 2023. Network: Netflix. Based On: Elena Ferrate’s 2019 novel. The Fanbase: Ferrate adaptations are having a moment, so chances are anyone who loved the HBO series My Brilliant Friend or the Netflix movie The Lost Daughter will be into this YA-tinged series.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃, Kimetsu no Yaiba, rgh. "Blade of Demon Destruction") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes.
Cursed Clash (2024) Anime and manga portal. Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦, rgh. "Sorcery Battle") [b] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. It has been serialized in Shueisha 's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 2018, with its chapters collected in 26 tankōbon volumes as of April 2024.
- 24 (List of volumes)
Video games. Anime and manga portal. Sailor Moon ( Japanese: 美少女戦士セーラームーン, Hepburn: Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn, originally translated as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon [1] and later as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon [2] [3]) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in ...
Deltora Quest: With Victor Atelevich, Cole Howard, Laura Rushfeldt, Tom Edwards. Leif must restore the seven gems and the belt of Deltora to save his homeland. Along with his companions Barda and Jasmine, Lief must face devious enemies and dangerous beasts to oust the Shadow Lord and return peace to Deltora.
