These anime feature characters, places and things that have been inspired by real-world history. This might include characters with famous names but have little connection to their real-world counterpart, characters with the...
These anime are a part of the Nasuverse: a term used to describe anime and manga that are a part of the same universe created by, or heavily influenced by, Kinoko Nasu or his work with TYPE-MOON. Titles in the Nasuverse can be...
The Fate/Series comprises of different iterations of the same story, parallel worlds with different timelines, same worlds at different times (centuries or millennia apart), spinoffs, and some are barely related by the series...
If you're curious what some TV series are about, but don't feel like investing too much time on them, you can check out these movies instead.
This list compiles, in no particular order, anime based on other pre-existing media like movies, video-games, visual-novels, non-asian comic-books, books, etc. I'm not including here animes based on asian comics or light...