We saw a wave of wild gachas take over mobile gaming in 2025, with everything from Umamusume to Persona 5: The Phantom X and Madoka Magica Magia Exedra, and the people have made themselves clear: we want moreanimegacha games to buy into.
There have been a surprising number of anime mobile games released so far, but with the genre showing no signs of stopping, developers have dozens of iconic IPs to call on if they need a new slew of characters for us to pull on! These are the ten series we wish would get a gacha game.
10Full Metal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist is one of the most classic anime for those of us who grew up in the 2000s. Debuting in the West in November 2004, FMA follows the Elric brothers Ed and Al as they sacrifice parts of their bodies to try to resurrect their deceased mother and gather the Philosopher’s Stone to reassemble themselves, too.
Between the original series and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, the later series that more closely follows the manga, you’d have tons of characters to pull on and countless source material for a story.
9Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop has long been one of the most-beloved anime, running for only a short time beginning in 2001 and staying on the minds of its fans for decades. Spike Spiegel is an interstellar bounty hunter in the year 2071, and he assembles a pretty interesting crew along the show’s 26-episode run.
You could easily adopt the sessions of the show into digestible gameplay story, with players pulling to obtain not only the characters they know and love, but plenty of tie-in upgrade materials as well.
8Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Mad had ahugemoment in the sun in the late 2010s, and there’s still plenty of love for it yet. With thousands of fans falling in love with Denji, a critically poor teenager taking odd jobs to get by, and a demon pet with a chainsaw on his head, Pochita, we watched as the pair join the Public Safety Division of Demon Hunters.
With so many unique appearances for the characters in Chainsaw Man (with multiple forms for several of them), you could easily make some of the more sought-after forms into five-star pulls. A Denji pull as a normal kid would be fine, and we all love Pochita, but getting the actual Chainsaw Man? We’d whale on it.
7The Apothecary Diaries
The Apothecary Diaries sees a young apothecary worker named Maomao kidnapped and brought to a palace in an Imperial China-inspired land, sentenced to two years of servitude. She has an amazing ability to heal, though, and she takes it upon herself to try and help the newborns and mistresses in the palace who keep falling ill.
It’d be really cool to see how Maomao’s abilities and skills would factor into her leveling up, and you could maybe make potions and tinctures for all your teammates for their materials as well. Plus, who wouldn’t want to pull for some of the precious characters in this show?
6Naruto
Another decades-long series on our list, it’s almost surprising that Naruto and its spinoff stories don’t have a gacha game anymore. Naruto Blazing came and went, but we’d love to see such a storied series flourish in the current market that’s ripe for more anime gacha games.
There have been rumors that we’ll see a renaissance for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Blazing yet, and we definitely think the time is now to strike. Just imaginehow big your character log will bein a series that long, and don’t even get us started on the fighting.
5Hunter X Hunter
If animals are more your style when it comes to anime, there may be no better series for your than Hunter x Hunter, following Gon Freecss as he works to become a hunter while searching for the father that abandoned him long ago.
We can’t stop thinking about how well a gacha game for Hunter x Hunter would likely be, and we’d need toConjure up the strengthnot to spend all of our hard-earned treasure whaling on the banners. Be they hunters, side characters, or even the rare animals themselves, we’d be all in.
4Demon Slayer
Demon Slayer is the story of a boy named Tanjiro and his mission to help his sister Nezuko become a human again after her barely surviving an attack that maimed their family turned her into a demon. To do this, Tanjiro needs to become a Demon Slayer himself, a journey that introduces you to dozens of fun characters just before hurting your feelings with their deaths.
Between Tanjiro’s crew, the Hashira, and the assortment of demons we see everyone battling along the way, this could easily make for a fun gacha. You could build each characterwith breathing techniqueor weaponry upgrades before taking on some demons of your own in a story mode.
3Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
One of perhaps the stranger series in our list, at least the name warns you up front that Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is going to get a little wacky. The story is told in segments, each following different members of the Joestar family as they deal with generational problems, family dramas,out-of-control fight scenes, and more.
And with the story so contained as it is, you’ve already got the trappings of world progression right there. Give us some of the characters to pull on and let us tinker with the canon events of the series.
2Dandadan
Dandadan skyrocketed to popularity in the early 2020s and is widely beloved for its quirky cast, supernatural horrors, and comedic storytelling. It follows Momo, a girl in tune with ghosts and spirits but who initially doesn’t believe in aliens, and Okarun, a boy wild about proving aliens exist though he seriously doubts that ghosts do.
The series is still pretty young, but withso many beloved charactersand truly wacky worlds from which you could take inspiration. The fight scenes are one of the best parts of the anime, so we bet that’d translate well into a gacha!
1One Piece
If you don’t already watch One Piece, we guarantee one of your friends who likes anime too will be flabbergasted by this revelation. The series has been running since 1999 and is still going today, having aired over 1,000 episodes in its staggering lifespan. You’ll follow Luffy and his crew of sailors as they take to the seas and work to find the titular One Piece.
With so much pervasive love for the legendary series after so many years in circulation, and hundreds of characters to integrate, and more sets than we’d know what to do with,a One Piece gamewould almost certainly do well.
