There have been a lot of anime adaptations of good manga. And a lot of them have not been good. We came up with our top 5 (or bottom 5?) list of failed anime adaptations - whether they failed to live up to our expectations or didn’t capture the essence of the source materials - with some familiar choices and more niche ones where our tastes differ from the general consensus.

Timecodes:

0:00 Introduction - Our own rules and method for our choices

2:27 Popular choices we won’t pick: Tokyo Ghoul and The Flowers of Evil

4:28 Non-manga with a failed anime adaptation

14:30 What makes a good/bad adaptation?

16:35 The Promised Neverland

20:18 Ooku: The Inner Chambers

24:03 March Comes in Like a Lion

27:52 World Trigger

32:24 Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

36:20 Karneval

38:56 Horimiya

45:22 Berserk

48:49 Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer

54:26 Sakamoto Days

58:53 Return of the Kaijuu Wall