10 Manga Whose Creators Helped Make Their Anime

Mangaka are usually uninvolved with the production of their anime, but there are a rare handful of manga whose creators were heavily involved in making their anime. When a manga gets adapted into an anime, the original mangaka tends to have no part in its production outside some very minor areas. Fullmetal Alchemist’s Hiromu Arakawa, for example, permitted Bones to deviate from the manga with the first adaptation, and mangaka will often design original characters for movies and filler arcs, but it’s rare for a creator to be fully involved with making their anime.