There are countless new anime in the works right now as Japanese studios produce shows for each new anime season. Despite this massive output, there are still some incredible shojo stories in particular that have never had the chance to hit television screens.
While some series are incredibly popular, having sold an incredible amount of copies and having been reviewed extremely positively, they still haven't had their chance to shine in animated form. Perhaps we'll get to see them have their shot one day, but for now, these manga and their artists are still waiting a bit longer.
10 Dengeki Daisy
Dengeki Daisy is one of those manga that when someone is done reading, they feel as though they've known the characters their entire lives. The story follows Teru after the death of her brother who keeps getting encouragement from a mysterious person on a cell phone said brother left her from a mysterious "Daisy." During this, she's being forced to work for the school janitor Tasuku after she accidentally breaks a window.
Despite its massive popularity during its run from 2007 to 2013, as well as being printed in Shojo Jump, the manga has still not seen an adaptation of any kind.
9 Love So Life
Shiharu Nakamura is the kind of character that no reasonable person can help but love. She loves children, lives in an orphanage, and has a dream of one day becoming a babysitter. Her dreams end up coming true when the little Matsunaga twins she helps take care of at nursery school love her so much that they don't want to leave when their father comes to pick them up. He offers her double pay to babysit, which she accepts as it helps her pay her living and school expenses much better.
Love So Life has not only inspired the release of a sequel, Life So Happy, it even managed to inspire a light novel for the series focusing on the young twins titled Shousetsu Love So Life: Sakura no Hana no Saku Koro ni. Yet, it's never been adapted into a proper anime.
8 Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty
Readers who aren't ready to have their heartstrings pulled should not pick up Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty. It's a gripping romance where Tetsu Misato slowly falls for Shizu, a woman that has been confined to a small building and not had any other serious human contact in years.
Part of the reason for her isolation comes from a supernatural affliction that seems to give her multiple personalities. With this, Tetsu still has the patience and caring disposition to learn and love every part of her. This story contains none of the typical clichés found in anime or manga and it's a shame that the six-volume series hasn't been adapted for a single season of anime.
7 A Sign Of Affection
With the incredible success in storytelling found in the movie A Silent Voice where bullying and deafness is the main topic, it's wild to be living in a world where A Sign of Affection has yet to receive an anime adaption. The story focuses on a hearing-impaired Yuki whose life has been surrounded by silence since her birth, leading her to be quite isolated socially outside her best friend Rin. This changes when she meets Itsuomi who doesn't lose any interest in her even after learning about her disability.
Considering it was also written and drawn by Suu Morishita of Hibi Chochou fame, it's a story that deserves to be seen animated by a proper studio.
6 Hana To Akuma
With just how popular supernatural anime are, it's confusing that Hana to Akuma hasn't seen an adaptation despite its popularity. The story is fully completed with ten volumes, making it particularly easy to adapt into a twelve-episode season as well.
The story is focused on Vivi, a high-ranking demon who takes in a small child he names Hana on a whim, assuming that he'll get rid of her if she ever becomes a problem. However, he finds her still with him fourteen years later and with plenty of feelings of confusion about just how loyal she is to him.
5 Mars
Not to be mistaken for the sci-fi action manga of the same name released back in the sixties, Mars was a smash hit slice of life romance that kept readers hooked across fifteen volumes. The romance between Kira and Rei was even so popular that it was adapted into a live-action series in Taiwan that spanned twenty-one episodes. Despite all of this, it's still never gotten an anime adaptation, which simply makes no sense.
4 The World Of Machida-Kun
The World of Machida-kun is the kind of manga that heals the soul to read it and reminds everyone just how much small acts of kindness can mean so much in the world. The story is quite simple, following Hajime Machida and the general high jinks he gets into as he tries to help out those around him each day.
The story would make for an excellent iyashikei anime making it quite a shame that it's never been adapted. It's also Yuki Andou's most popular work, which is saying something as she has written and drawn quite a few other wonderful manga over the years.
3 Red River
Despite it being available to adapt since 1995, no one has picked up Red River to turn into an anime. This timeless classic follows a modern-day teenager named Yuki who is suddenly stolen away to the Hittite empire in ancient Anatolia to be used as a blood sacrifice for an overly ambitious queen. After being saved at the last minute by Prince Kail, the two work together to try and help her find a way back to her time and home. A healthy mix of shojo and isekai, Red River is certainly worth a read even if it never gets animated into a full series.
2 Ask The Stars For Help!
Despite many boys love stories showing that queer stories can make for amazing anime, one of the most popular manga in the genre still hasn't gotten adapted. Ask the Stars for Help! shows Fujishima Takara's blooming relationship with Kosaka Kyomine after the former has lost all of his family except for his father and is forced to move into a dorm. While the introvert and extrovert collide due to their different personalities, the two slowly become close and comedy and drama ensues.
1 From Far Away
Another classic shojo isekai story, From Far Away was so popular that despite originally being released in the nineties, it was picked up for a digital re-release by VIZ Media in 2004 due to tons of people wanting to read it. The tense romance between Noriko, a girl prophesied to unleash a great evil, and Izark, a handsome boy who contains a great evil within him, would still hold up if adapted into an anime today.