"Most Wanted Anime Adaptations" Ranking 2025 Announced – Nue's Exorcist Takes the Top Spot!

🎖 4th – Phantom Busters (ファントムバスターズ)

📖 Synopsis:
Yuto Koreshiki, a high school freshman, is a top student with zero belief in ghosts! However, his ordinary school life takes an unexpected turn when he meets Mogari Shishigino, a reckless boy who exorcises spirits by consuming them.

Set in Kamakura, this is the story of high school boys battling evil spirits in a supernatural exorcism comedy!

🎖 5th – Kindergarten WARS (幼稚園WARS)

📖 Synopsis:
"It's time for playtime!"

Prisoner No. 999—Rita, a former legendary assassin, now works at an elite kindergarten where the children of the world’s most powerful leaders are enrolled.

Her job? Protecting the kids from daily assassination attempts!

While she dominates her enemies with overwhelming strength, she has one major weakness—she’s incredibly weak to handsome men!?

This violence × romantic comedy unfolds in the "safest kindergarten in the world!"

🎖 6th – The Ugly Child of the Red-Light District (みにくい遊郭の子)

📖 Synopsis:
Esola, a high school girl who has lost her place in the world, suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar red-light district.

Sold into human trafficking, she arrives at "Sagamiya," a brothel where the master declares:
"You will become the No.1 courtesan here."

A fantasy courtesan story set in a beautifully haunting, otherworldly red-light district.

🎖 7th – Gokurakugai (極楽街)

📖 Synopsis:
In the chaotic downtown district of Gokurakugai, where glamorous liveliness meets deep darkness, Tao and Alma run a problem-solving agency.

One day, a young boy seeking his missing beastman friend arrives at their doorstep.

With a growing number of disappearances and mysteriously dead animals, an ominous shadow looms over the city.

As nightfall brings out the town’s darkest secrets, the "fixers" reveal their true faces…

🎖 8th – Inside the Villainess: I Will Take Revenge on the Lying Heroine for the Condemned Reincarnator (悪役令嬢の中の人～断罪された転生者のため嘘つきヒロインに復讐いたします～)

📖 Synopsis:
Inside the Villainess: I Will Take Revenge on the Lying Heroine for the Condemned Reincarnator
Reincarnated as Remilia, the villainess of an otome game, "Emi" is wrongfully condemned.

However, just when everything seems lost, the real Remilia awakens from within—and the ultimate revenge story begins!

🎖 9th – Junket Bank (ジャンケットバンク)

📖 Synopsis:
Karasu Bank's Central Branch—an ordinary bank by all appearances.

New recruit Hikaru Mitarai is suddenly taken to the underground floors by his enigmatic boss, Zenimaru Usami, from a mysterious "Special Operations Department."

There, he discovers a hidden gambling den run by the bank itself!

Mesmerized by the brilliant and ruthless gambler, Shin Makatotsu, Hikaru can't shake the thrill of high-stakes battles.

🔥 Bankers × Gamblers—A new era of gambling battles begins! 🔥

🎖 10th – Love Bullet (ラブ・バレット)

📖 Synopsis:
A romantic gun-action story starring high school Cupid girls!

When a love triangle dispute escalates, the Cupids go from arguing… to full-on gunfights!?

Witness a wild, action-packed love battle as uniquely talented high school Cupids pull the trigger in the ultimate romantic showdown!

These top-ranked manga have captivated fans with their unique worlds, unforgettable characters, and thrilling stories. Will they become the next big anime adaptations?

Source : ORICON NEWS