Seriously how many animes out there are actually not based of any of the above? I know there are some but 99% of all anime are based off them. I cant even name a orignal anime off the top of my head.

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Kiba
Samurai Champloo
Eureka 7

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Wolf's Rain
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze
Samurai 7
Cowboy Bebop
Weiss Kruez
Gankutsuou (It's based on the (French) novel; Count of Monte Cristo...but that's not a light-novel, so I added it to my list.)
Summer Wars
Shinreigari: Another Side
Mononoke
Red Garden
Kurau: Phantom Memory
Code Geass , Darker Than Black (Not so sure about these)

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Blood+
Escaflowne

Almost certain you're right about Code Geass.

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Ghost Hound
Eve no Jikan
Cluster Edge
Project Blue Earth SOS
Petit Cossette
Genji Monogatari Sennenki (based on classic novel)
Voices of a Distant Star
Paranoia Agent

And I am sure Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Gundam 00, Gundam Seed (Destiny) are.

I remember there are a lot of anime based on Western classic/children's novels. An example is Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari.

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i saw most of the suggested anime as manga lol
nantsurio drops
welcome to the space show
mononoke-hme
spirited away
other movies by hayao miyazaki
senkou no night raid
mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha


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that may be because sometimes they make a manga from an original anime (Blood+ for example)

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Isn't Samurai 7 based on a film?
Kurosawa's, I think it was.

Edit:
There's First Squad.
I don't think it's based on anything.

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Most of Gainax (read gaynax ) stuff are original anime, thats, FLCL, evangelion, gurren lagaan etcetc
Gundam series
Macross series
Pretty Cure series
Mezzo
Vexille
Gun x Sword
Kiss Dum: Engage Planet
Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho
Ghibli stuff
The Karas (well it had a one-shot out half year before by Darkhorse but that shouldn't count since it was just proloque to the real story)
Dead Leaves
Ergo Proxy
Kite and Kite Liberator
Marie & Gali
Noir
.Hack//Sign....actually the whole series.
Photon
Tenchi (the manga came out after the ova had been started and before the anime series)
Princess Mononoke
Zettai Shounen
Samurai Champloo
Coyote Ragtime Show
Blood: The Last Vampire
Sora no Oto
Betterman
Angel Beats!
Crystal Blaze
Sword of the Stranger
Cencoroll
Zegapain
Solty Rei
Texhnolyze
Heroman (Concept started with Stan Lee from Marvel)
Madlax
RahXephon
Dragonaut: The Resonance
Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi
Basquash!
Wolf`s Rain
Kaleido Star
Nie 7 Under
Haibane Renmei
Sola

to mention a few...^^
Yes you may find out that some series got a manga but those case after so those mangas are based on the anime ^^

Hope it helps a little...

Samurai 7 is losely based on the movie, yes. Same with Gankutsuou...I think our OP wants original concepts, where it's not manga -> anime, game -> anime, novel-> anime or anything -> anime...

To OP; I'd say it's about 80% of anime stuff that's based on other stuff instead of 99% as you are saying. That's a given...it's hard to make up something new and make it a hit while on the other hand it's not that hard to take a famous novel, game, manga and make it to an anime and make it a hit...since you know there's a fanbase already existing.

yer it is and it's called seven samurai which inspired the magnificent 7.
samurai 7 is different, it's a steam punk and as historical as you would think. it has brilliant animation (well it couldn't be bad considering the budget they had for each episode.)

i'll recommend.
Ergo Proxy
Samurai Seven
Code Geass
GunxSword
Blood the last Vampire
Immortal Grang Prix
Samurai Champloo
Karas -highly recommended

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