CATDOLL: Foreign media selected the most popular animation adapted from boys' comics, and Dragon Ball ranked last

Boys' manga has always been an important part of Japanese comics, and it is also the largest component of comic-adapted animations. So far, there are a lot of excellent boys' manga that have been adapted into animations, and many of them have become classic animations. Recently, a foreign media conducted a selection of the "Top 10 Most Popular Boys' Manga-Adapted Animations". Let's take a look at which boys' manga-adapted animations European and American otakus think are classics in their hearts.

10. Dragon Ball

"Dragon Ball" is a fighting adventure manga by Japanese cartoonist Akira Toriyama. Toei Animation adapted the early manga (chaps. 1-194) into a 153-episode animation, which premiered on Fuji TV in Japan on February 26, 1986. The "Dragon Ball" series of TV animation was born.

There are seven dragon balls on the earth, each with one to seven stars. The seven dragon balls are scattered all over the world. As long as you collect them, you can summon the dragon, and the dragon can fulfill any wish of the summoner. One day, the young boy Sun Wukong, who has a four-star dragon ball, was brought out of the mountains by a girl named "Bulma" and embarked on a new path of practice.

9. Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga by Hajime Isayama. It was adapted into an anime in 2013 and aired on April 6 of the same year. The series is widely popular in East Asia and Europe and America, and is one of the representative works of Japanese anime in the 2010s. The second season of the anime is scheduled to start airing in April 2017.

Suddenly, "giants" appeared in the world whose only behavior was to prey on humans. Because "giants" were powerful and had the ability to regenerate, humans could not compete with them and faced extinction. The surviving humans who faced the survival crisis fled to a place and built three huge walls to surround the place, so that the giants outside the wall could not invade. When the protagonist Allen was 10 years old, he saw people and his mother being swallowed by giants, and luckily escaped into the second wall - Wall Rose. Two years later, Allen joined the 104th Training Corps to learn the skills to fight giants. Just before the training of the training corps, the "Colossal Titan" appeared again and destroyed the second wall - Wall Rose. Allen fought against the Titans with the training corps. At this time, Allen discovered that he had the ability to become a "giant"...

8. One Punch Man

"One Punch Man" is a humorous fighting manga by Japanese webtoon artist ONE. The TV animation premiered on October 4, 2015, with a total of 12 episodes. The story tells the story of the protagonist Saitama, who can't find a way out in the process of employment. After encountering a crab mutant who wants to take the life of a boy, he bursts out with the idea of ​​"wanting to be a hero" in his childhood, so he fights against the opponent and saves the boy. After regaining his ambition to become a hero, Saitama finally gained the strongest power through hard training, but it caused his hair to fall out and become bald. After that, he joined the Hero Association with his apprentice Genos and began a life of fighting various monsters with many heroes.

7. The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins is a fantasy manga and shonen manga by Japanese manga artist Suzuki Osamu. The TV animation was broadcast on TBS TV network and outside of Japan from October 5, 2014.

In the country "Lionness Kingdom" on the fictional continent "Brittania", the kingdom's paladins are strengthening their armaments in preparation for the legendary holy war. However, the many atrocities committed by the Paladins have made the entire country miserable, and they even launched a coup and imprisoned the king. Worried about the current situation of the country, the third princess Elizabeth Lionness places her hope of saving the country on the knights "Seven Deadly Sins" who were wanted ten years ago for suspected subversion of the kingdom, and embarks on a journey alone to find them...

6. Food Wars!

Shokugeki no Soma is a Japanese manga written by Yuto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. The TV animation was launched in April 2015, and in February 2016, it was announced that the second season would be broadcast in the summer of the same year.

The stage of the work is a famous cooking school "Totsuki Gakuen" in Tokyo. After graduating from junior high school, the protagonist Soma Yukihira came here as a special transfer student because of his father's instructions to inherit the family business "Yukihira Restaurant". In the "Totsuki Gakuen" with a graduation rate of less than 10%, young people with excellent cooking skills from all over the country compete with each other, and it is a battlefield for each other to compete for the top of cooking. In this world where cooking is everything, all enemies must be conquered with cooking. In order to defeat the opponent, the bets are equal, and the one-on-one duel with cooking is the traditional cooking duel "Food Wars" of Totsuki.

5. Gintama

"Gintama" is a boys' manga created by Japanese manga artist Sorachi Hideaki. Starting from April 4, 2006, the TV animation of the same name adapted by Sunrise Animation began broadcasting on Tokyo TV.

At the end of the Edo period, aliens called "Amanto" attacked. As a result, the war between the earthlings and the Amanto broke out instantly, and many samurai and anti-foreign activists participated in the battle with the Amanto. After seeing the powerful strength of the Amanto, the shogunate finally bowed to the Amanto and signed an unequal treaty with them without authorization, allowing them to enter the country. Later, the "Sword Ban Order" was issued, taking away the swords of the samurai, making them unable to resist. Since then, the Amanto has been rampant, and the shogunate has been influenced by the Amanto and even controlled, becoming a "puppet regime." In such an era, there was a samurai who lived a whimsical life happily with his companions.

4. Naruto

"Naruto" is a boys' comic created by Japanese cartoonist Masashi Kishimoto. In 2002, the TV animation "Naruto" adapted from the original comic by Japanese animation studio Studio Pierrot began to be broadcast on Japan's Tokyo TV.

The story successfully depicts the ninja, who originally hid in the darkness and used the world's strongest willpower and the most arduous efforts to do the most secretive and cruel things, as the most proud and bright profession under the sun. In the ninja world written by Masashi Kishimoto, every young ninja is pioneering his own ninja way.

3. One Piece

One Piece is a manga series written by Eiichiro Oda and serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997. The TV animation premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999. Before his death, the legendary pirate Gol D. Roger left a message about his life's wealth "One Piece", which attracted many heroes to fight for the legendary huge wealth. Various forces and regimes kept changing, and the whole world entered the turbulent and chaotic "Great Pirate Age".

Luffy, who grew up in a small village in the East China Sea, was inspired by the spirit of the pirate Shanks and decided to become an outstanding pirate. In order to achieve this goal and find the much-anticipated One Piece, Luffy embarked on a difficult journey. Along the way, he encountered countless hardships and made friends with different personalities, including Zoro, Nami, Sanji, Usopp, Robin, etc. They joined hands to embark on a legendary adventure.

2. Hunter x Hunter

Hunter x Hunter is a manga series written by Yoshihiro Tomiga, which was serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump in issue 14 in 1998. The first TV animation was produced by Nippon ANIMATION and aired on Fuji TV in 1999, ending with the Greed Island chapter. The second TV animation was produced by MADHOUSE and aired in 2011.

The protagonist Jay Frees grew up on Whale Island, living with Aunt Mitt and Grandma. He has a cheerful personality and a spiritual ability to communicate with animals. Because he has no father or mother, Jay loves Aunt Mitt as his biological mother. Until he was 9 years old, Jay was rescued by a young man in the forest. From him, Jay learned that his father was still alive and was a hunter. After persuading Aunt Mitt, Jay embarked on a journey to find his father alone. So, Jay decided to become a hunter and start looking for his father's traces from here. With such a belief, he started his adventure, made friends during the journey, and continued to grow, which triggered all the subsequent stories and led to the wonderful world of hunters.

1. Fullmetal Alchemist

"Fullmetal Alchemist" is a Japanese manga created by Hiromu Arakawa. "Fullmetal Alchemist" has been adapted into anime twice, both produced by BONES. The brothers lost everything because they missed their deceased mother and violated the biggest taboo in alchemy, "human transformation". The elder brother Edward Elric, who was equipped with mechanical armor and was called "Fullmetal Alchemist", and the younger brother Alphonse, whose soul was fixed in the armor. In order to get back what they lost, they embarked on a journey to find the Philosopher's Stone.

As they approach the truth of the Philosopher's Stone, they move forward in the midst of a huge conspiracy. The non-humans active in the dark, the military state of Amestorius that reveals its true nature, the immense hatred and revenge of the abused people, and the various tragedies brought about by alchemy will eventually be revealed, and the people and even the country will be involved. Even in the narrow gap between despair and hope, the Eric brothers continue to move forward.