Netflix is the biggest online streaming service in the world and Japanese anime is one of the most viewed contents across the globe. People want to see anime and Netflix has the reach to provide anime to every household.
Over the years, Netflix has heavily invested in procuring high-quality animes and added them to their catalog. And not just that, Netflix is actively creating Original Anime series to cater to their audiences.
More than 100 animes are currently streaming on Netflix and the number is increasing every month. Although all animes on Netflix are worth watching, the difference in quality is definitely present.
Two main reasons for creating this post are, first to showcase all animes streaming on Netflix and the second is to rank them according to their quality.
So, Here’s the list of All Animes on Netflix (RANKED). This post is updated on monthly basis and new animes are added and old ones are removed after examining the Netflix Anime Catalog. So make sure to bookmark this post for future references.
110. Cyborg 009: Call of Justice
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Action,
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
It is a 3 part anime movie that has been divided by Netflix into 12 episode series. Shimamura Joe belongs to a group of cyborgs. An elite group of nine individuals who possess superhuman-like powers. They live in the dark and step into the human world only when required.
109. Zoids Wild
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Mecha
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
Arashi aspires to become a Zoid hunter like his father. Zoids are Mecha animals that bond together with humans to achieve a common objective. Arashi with his Wild Liger sets for a treasure hunt called the Great Ancient Treasure Z.
108. Magmel of the Sea Blue
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Mystery, Dark
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Magmell is a new continent that appeared out of nowhere. It comes to light that it is home to newfound species of animals and plants. Rich with natural resources, Magmell attracts explorers and visitors like Zero, who then falls for the dark side of the continent. Inyou is a highly skilled and experienced survivor who knows the whereabouts of the continent and performs rescue and exploration operations with the Visitors.
107. Last Hope
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Sci-Fi
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
Last Hope follows the events caused by a quantum reactor explosion which leads to a mass human extinction. Lean Lau sits in the center of the plot and is one of the few humans left on Earth. To sustain humanity on the planet Leon Lau and his group of survivors must fight the destructive forces known as the B.R.A.I and M.O.E.V.
106. Drifting Dragons
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
People who live on the surface are threatened by the dragons. At the same time, dragons are a source of food and income for those who chose dragon hunting as a profession. This Netflix show talks about one such dragon hunting crew who travel the skies in their dragon-hunting ships known as the “Quin Zara”
105. Hero Mask
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Mystery, Dark
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Hero mark is a western anime that sets in a fictional version of city London. The protagonist James Bond is a reputable officer at the Special Service of Crime. James starts to suspect that crimes happening around leads to victims who have died years ago. He teams up with Sarah Sinclair to find out that some mysterious evil masks are circulating in the city that gives its wearers superhuman abilities.
104. Fate/Extra Last Encore
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Magic, Fantasy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Sukimihara Academy trains souls to become Masters. Masters are fighters who are selected to eliminate every other life form existing. Hakuno Kishinami is one such master who wakes in a holy war with no memory of his past. He is confused about the objective of winning but must fight to survive.
103. Levius
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Mecha, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
It is a story of a post-war scenario. A young man named Levius is devastated by his parent’s death. To get his aggression out, his uncle introduces him to the world on Mecha boxing. Levius had an innate ability to punch and doge. Within no time he grows us as a champion.
102. Ingress: The Animation
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Based on an AR game of the same name, Ingress is a modern age story of police investigator Makoto who has an mystic power to read memories of the objects and people he touches. While investigating the cause of the explosion in a research center he unwillingly touches a ring of the only survivor of the explosion and visualizes an unpredictable visual leaving him stunned.
101. Cagaster of an Insect Cage
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
Set in the future, Cagaster of an Insect Cage talks about the arrival of a terrifying disease called “Cagaster”. If someone gets infected from Cagaster his transformation into an insect is inevitable. The show starts 30 years after this disease takes over planet Earth. Kidou, a Cagaster Fighter aims to wipe out the spread of this disease and fight insects.
100. Kuromukuro
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Kuromukuro is an action and adventure anime highly praised by mecha anime lovers. It narrates an event that took place 450 years ago at the Kurobe Dam construction site. During construction, the engineers discovered an ancient artifact that stimulated interest among researchers nationwide. Litte did they had an idea that it will wake a lone samurai mecha warrior.
99. Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Mecha
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Hisone Amakasu is an innocent and introverted girl who chooses to join the air force to stay away from people and live by military rules. However, she is a rookie who underestimates herself by comparing herself with other cadets. Her life changes when the OTF Dragon chooses her as its pilot.
98. Children of the Whales
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Drama
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Released on Netflix in March 2018, Children of the Whales follows the tale of a young boy known as Chakuro. Chakuro lives in a fantasy world where seas and oceans aren’t made of water but sand. Living on a giant ship that floats above the sand, Chakuro is deprived of the outside world and haven’t ever gone out of his vessel.
97. Wolverine
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
It is a no-brainer to guess what this show is about. It is one of the four twelve-episode series, based on the Marvel characters. Other Netflix anime from the same series include X-Men, Blade, and my favorite Iron Man.
96. SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
Another Japanese-American anime on Netflix is SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac. Adapted from a classical manga series Saint Seiya this show is one of the few anime that was made possible with collaboration with Netflix. The show centers on a teenager Seiya who is on a two-sided mission to become a Goddess Athena warrior and at the same time find his missing sister.
95. SWORD GAI
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Sword Gai is one of few anime that got a release on Netflix worldwide in 2018. Jointly produced by LandQ Studios and Netflix, it is a story about a young swordsman who unintentionally becomes a host of an evil sword. With devil powers in hand, the lust for power can have disastrous consequences.
94. Granblue Fantasy: The Animation
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Fantasy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Granblue Fantasy is based on a popular fantasy mobile game of the same name where islands float in the sky. Gran plays the main lead who has a talking lizard friend called Vyrn. They live on an island known as Zinkenstill. The story follows accounts of their adventures with a mystery girl Lyria.
93. Pop Team Epic
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Popularly known as Poptepipic in Japan Pop Team Epic is a comical tragedy of two high school girls. Papuko being short and ill-tempered while Pimpi being tall and calm. Their opposite chemistry portrays an unthinkable adventure of drama, comedy, and chaos.
92. Sirius the Jaeger
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
It’s the year 1930 and Tokyo is threatened by the surge of Vampires in the city. To deal with this situation the local mayor decides to hire a vampire hunting squad, called the Jaggers. Jaggers are ruthless and skilled fighters who have the same level of piety for humans as they have for vampires.
91. Record of Grancrest War
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Released in the year 2018 Record of Grancrest War is a fantasy anime that was later published as a strategy game. Although the game became popular than the anime, it gained some viewership after Netflix took its streaming rights.
90. The Piano Forest
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Drama, Music
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
The Piano Forest s a story of contrasts. On one side is Kai, a kid born in a red light area who practice piano in this forest during late-night hours. On the other side, we have Syuhei, a rich offspring from a family of wealthy pianists. They stand divided by their family status yet share a common bond that eventually aligns their paths together.
89. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
It’s the year 2045, massive advancements have been made in the field of the internet and science. People can replace their limbs with steel robots, connect brains to the internet and modify genes. The world is facing an economic disaster termed the Simultaneous Global Default. Every form of currency that ever existed has now vanished. To deal with rampant internet terrorism Motoko is appointed as an offer of cybersecurity who herself is a cyborg woman with superhuman-like abilities.
88. Dinosaur King
- Year: 2007
- Genre: Drama, Kids
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Adapted from a Nintendo game Dinosaur king is a kids show that tells a story of a paleontologist and his son. Max is the son of Spike. One day he encounters dinosaurs falling from a meteor. Max and his friend Rex learn that the dinosaurs are being chased by an evil organization and therefore sets to save them from the “Alpha Gang”.
87. Fate/Apocrypha
- Year: 2017
- Genre: War, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Based on a Japanese light novel Fate/Apocrypha is an action anime that orbits around two rivalries in the Grail War.
86. Dragon’s Dogma
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Adventure
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
Dragon Dogma is another popular anime that Netflix added recently. It is adapted from a video game but still narrates a promising story and animation. The premise revolves around a dragon warrior called Ethan. His heart has been taken away by a devil dragon. He is on a mission to get his heart back.
85. Girls und Panzer
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Sports, Military
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Senshadou is a sport played by women during the second World War. Miho Nishizumi comes from a reputed Senshadou playing family but had to retire after facing a traumatic event during the game. She is persuaded to join the game when a worldwide championship is announced.
84. TIGER & BUNNY
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Sports, Military
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
In a fictional version of New York City, people with superhuman abilities start to appear. Soon people start calling them the NEXT. These people with special abilities act as protectors of the city. Soon there legendry acts are broadcasted on Tv as Hero TV. The plot revolves around a veteran superhero Kotetsu T. Kaburagi and his conflicts with his newly appointed partner Barnaby Brooks.
83. The Way of the Househusband
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
One of the most recent Netflix original anime releases is The Way Of the Household. The show recites the chronicles of a Tatsu. Tatsu was once a fearful gangster but now he chooses to quice a crime and lives his life as a househusband. It is a comical account of the challenges he faces while doing house chores.
82. High Score Girl
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Gaming
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
High School Girl features a modern-day story from the year 1991. A time when the technological revolution was hitting up kids through the advent of games and animation. It puts in the spotlight a sixth-grade high school student who wan to pursue gaming as a career.
81. X-Men
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
X-Men is a Marvel anime that first aired on Animax in 2011. It is one of the four-part original Marvel Animes available on Netflix, the rest are also discussed in this list. I don’t recommend you this unless you have an absolute fandom for Marvel and X-Men.
80. 7SEEDS
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
7SEEDS was one of the most overhyped Netflix releases. Its first season had a worldwide release on Netflix in 2019 followed by the second season in 2020. The story sets in a futuristic era where the Earth has been hit by a meteor. Before the apocalypse, the government had selected 5 groups of young people and put them under cryogenic sleep in the of preserving mankind.
79. God Eater
- Year: 2015
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
God Eater is an anime series dramatization of a story followed in the video game of the same name. Shoot in vibrant animation and realistic-looking characters the story narrates the scenes from a post-apocalyptic era from the year 2071. Humans are on the verge of extension as a new species invade. Human-made weapons are of no use against the invaders and the only weaponry capable of facing them is with the Fenrir.
78. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
- Year: 2015
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Also popular by the name Gundam IBO this show is the fourteenth successor of the Gundam franchise after Gundam Reconquista. Gundam dominates the Mecha genre and Mobile Suit Gundam is another attempt to keep the legacy intact.
77. Japan Sinks: 2020
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Thriller
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Adapted from a bestseller novel of the same name Japan Sinks is an adventurous story of four members of the Muto Family. As Japan sinks into chaos as a series of devastating earthquakes hit it, the Muto family must make their way out of this mayhem to survive.
76. Nagi no Asukara
- Year: 2013
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 3
The show sets in a fantasy world where humans have developed the ability to live underwater. Living on land is considered disquieting. Still, the desire for exploration took many humans to live on land creating a divide between the people who live in waters and newly set villages of the surface.
75. Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Romance, Drama
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
The story follows high school girl Chiyo Sakura and her crush Umetarou Nozaki. Nozaki is a creator of a shojo manga but he is far away from the matters of love and relationships in real life. A series of events bonds Sakura and Nozaki together the result of which leads to a shojo masterpiece called Lets Fall in Love.
74. Cannon Busters
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
Cannon Buster was revived from a fantasy comic book series to a living anime through a crowdfunding drive on Kickstarter. The first teaser episode was up in early 2016. After several backlashes, the creators subsequently were able to make it through and finally got it released on Netflix in August 2019.
73. Sonic X
- Year: 2003
- Genre: Kids, Adventure
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 3
Sonic The Hedgehog needs no introduction. The popularity of took western animation by a storm and it got more popular in the USA than Japan itself. Netflix procured its right long back when it just started. Sonic X and most of its successor series available on majority of streaming platforms.
72. March Comes in Like a Lion
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 4
17-year-old Rei has a tough time dealing with responsibilities and life conflicts. He is a brilliant shogi player but loneliness and insecurities have kept him under tremendous stress. The story progresses through narrating Rei’s struggle of developing himself through the phases of life and exceeding in his shogi career.
71. High-Rise Invasion
- Year: 2021
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
This latest anime on Netflix talks about a sixteen-year-old high school who is thrust into a chaotic world full of tall buildings interconnected by bridges. This realm is haunted by masked assassins. Yuri must get stronger and help herself out in this situation.
70. Vampire Knight
- Year: 2008
- Genre: Action Drama
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Based on a manga series, Vampire knight is a 26 episode anime and is praised for its freakish plot and intriguing vampire life depiction. It revolves around the Cross Academy and its odd working manner. Cross Academy houses two batches of classes. One for the humans in the day and the other for the vampires in the night. However, day class students have no idea about what happens in the school at night.
69. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Humans are hit by a dreadful wave of lethal creatures. Known as the Kabane, these beings feed on human flesh and their single bite can leave the victim to death. The only way to end this horrific situation is to kill them one by one. A tedious process that requires their heart to be pierced off. The story orbits around Ikona who is one such soldier battling against Kabane.
68. K-ON!
- Year: 2009
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
K-ON! is a short anime about five miserable high school girls who join the Light Music Club without prior knowledge of music. Once they decide to leave, the Club faces dismissal due to a lack of members. The club conveniences them back, and from thereon, Yui and her friends sat on their musical journey.
67. The Irregular at Magic High School
- Year: 2006
- Genre: Magic
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
For the lovers of magic, the genre presents an interesting setting where magic is influenced by the use of modern technology. Tatsuya Shiba and his sister belong to one of the magic gene clans in Japan. Following their dream to become the best magician, both siblings join the First High School. It is discovered that Tatsuya has unusual magical abilities for which the trainers consider him as an incompetent magician.
66. Cells at Work!
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Ever imagined if the building block of your body interact with each other or live a routine just like you do? Cells at work is a biological anime where the protagonists are white and red blood cells performing their duties inside a human body.
65. Megalobox
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Action, Fighting
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
Megaloboxing is a boxing sport in the futuristic society of japan. Boxers cover themself in steel armor, adding to the ruthlessness of the sport. Junk Dog is a boxer from the underground who disguises himself as Gearless Joe to join the international Meglaboxing Championship. The show is an account of Junk’s struggles through wins and losses in his way of becoming a champion.
64. Kakegurui
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Drama
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
Hyakkaou Private Academy teaches its student the power of manipulation and its application in gambling. Yumeko Jabami is a gambling prodigy who joins the academy to tray the special curriculum. Being aware of the special gift she has, she uses her cunning approach not to win but to thrill out of gamble.
63. Seis Manos
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Unlike popular Japanese anime trope, Seis Manos is a western adult anime made by Netflix itself. It orbits about the three orphan disciples of a martial artist Chie Lee Man. When Chie Lee gets assassinated, his disciples are burdened with the load to carry forward Chie’s legacy.
62. Teasing Master Takagi-san
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Nishikata and Takagi are bench mates. Teasing Nishikata with her pranks and witty jokes is part of the daily routine for Takagi. Nishikata plans to turn the tables around and make fun of Takagi, but he fails to find any weakness that may embarrass her.
61. Pacific Rim: The Black
- Year: 2021
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
One of the recent anime by Netflix on the list, Pacific Rim: The Black, is a modern age action and mecha story about Humans fighting with a race of gigantic monsters. The show centers on Taylor and his sibling Hayley. The teenage siblings are on the quest to find their parents that got lost during the alien invasion.
60. Magi
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Magic
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Magi are known to be the creators of mystical Dungeons, underground paths that lead to treasures. A magician of Magi class is very rare to find. Alladin is a young magician who has just discovered the concept of dangers and magic. Fascinated by the thoughts of Magis, he is ready to step forward on a journey that will change the world.
59. Blue Exorcist
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Magic
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Derived from a dark manga series Blue Exorcise is a series as well as a movie. Both manga and movie were released before the anime but the popularity was quite low till the anime came out.
58. Maid Sama!
- Year: 2014
- Genre: School, Drama
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Maid Sama is a manga series adapted into a 26 episode anime show. It takes us to a typical Japanese high school setting of the 90s. It is about what happens when an all-boys school gets converted into a co-ed. Misaki Ayuzawa is a newcomer at the Sekai High School. She becomes the first female president of the student council. This appreciation of a girl is difficult to digest by the rowdy boys, so they try to act as a hurdle in Misaki’s duties as a president.
57. Carole & Tuesday
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Music
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
Animated by the Bone studio, Carole and Tuesday are the two main protagonists of the show. It sets in a futuristic era on the planet Mars. Tuesday leaves behind her affluent lifestyle and runs away to pursue her dream of becoming a musician. Carole, on the other hand, is a poor orphan who loves playing the piano. Both cross paths and decide to jam together creating a duo called Carole & Tuesday.
56. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 1
An interesting title given to an interesting show. Also popular by the name Chu-2 in short, this anime show is highly appreciated for its illustrations and its take on social evils. Packed in just 12 episodes, the show follows a high school student Yuta Togashi who discarded himself as an evil being until he meets Rikka Takanashi.
55. Sword Art Online
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Drama
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
We all at some point in life have imagined a game we could control with just our thoughts. SOA is a role-playing game where a character can control the game avatar with just thoughts. Kazuto is one of the gaming enthusiasts who is lucky enough to have the first copy of the game. Login into the game opens up an entirely different arena of life for him.
54. Ajin
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
“Ajins” is a term used for immortal beings who live in isolation. Kei Nagai is a high school student who aims to become a doctor someday. One day he gets hit by a can but revives at the scene. The spectators are in shock and label Kei as an Ajin. Disturbed by the thought Kei’ life shook apart. As the buzz spreads, Kei is chased by the government as well as real Ajin.
53. Clannad
- Year: 2007
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Tomoya Okazaki’s life has been a struggle. He is demotivated and skips most of his classes at school. His life changes when he meets Nagisa Furukawa, a cheerful girl who had to repeat a year due to her illness.
52. Little Witch Academia
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Magic, Comedy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 2
Set in a magic school called Luna Nova Magical Academy, the show revolves around a petite structure girl Asuko Akko. Akko enrolls at the academy to learn the craft of magic. She doesn’t belong to a magic practicing family and is not the brightest student in her batch but her determination to not give up makes her a special student.
51. Durarara!!
- Year: 2010
- Genre: Magic, Comedy
- Status: Ended
- Seasons: 3
Mikado Ryugamine is bored of his mundale life. He gets a wake-up call from his friend in Tokyo who told him about the legend of “Black Rider” of Tokyo city. Looking for a change in life Mikado moves to Tokyo and to his surprise he witnesses the Black Rider on his first day in the city. The excitement is kept high by back-to-back supernatural events that follow him in the new city.
50. Cardcaptor Sakura
- Year: 1998
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 4
Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student accidentally frees magical cards from a book in which they were sealed. Fearing that these cards might cause devastation if fallen in the wrong hands, Sakura is tasked with retrieving those cards.
49. Blood of Zeus
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
The world is on a brink of war between the gods of Olympus and the might titans. Heron is a commoner living on the outskirts of Ancient Greece. But in reality, he’s no commoner at all and he is also unaware of it. He is mankind’s best hope of surviving an evil demon army.
48. B: The Beginning
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
In the highly advanced city of Cremona, a murder runs free and goes by the name Killer B. When the investigation agencies couldn’t nab him, they take the help of an expert named Keith Flick. As Keith continues to trace Killer B, he comes across a lot of corruption and bad things going on in the city.
47. BNA
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
In a world where humans live with beastmen- a species that has the power of animals and the mind of humans. Beastmen are persecuted by humans and they live in hiding. When one day Michiru Kagemori, an ordinary human girl turns into a Raccoon, she finds how difficult it is to live a beastmen. With the help of Shirou Ogami, a wolf, Michiru tries to solve the mystery of her turning into a raccoon.
46. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki are 8th-grade students and live an ordinary life. Until they meet Kyuubey, a cat-like magical familiar, and Homura Akemi, the new transfer student. Kyuukey offers the two girls to become magical girls but Homura who is already a magical girl requests them not to do so because everything’s not what it seems.
45. Angel Beats!
- Year: 2010
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Otonashi wakes up in the afterlife and he has no clue about his past life and how he died. He meets Yuri, an eccentric girl who enrolls him in the afterlife school and asks him to join her fight against student council president Tenshi. Otonashi joins in the fight but he finds himself oddly attracted by Tenshi.
44. Beastars
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
In a world where animals live like humans and both herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. Legoshi, a grey wolf is falling in love with Haru, a white dwarf rabbit. And at the same time news of carnivores attacking and killing herbivores is also increasing.
43. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
- Year: 2015
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 3
Gods have decided to come down from heaven and live with their believers. Also, they rose a dungeon as a gift to humans where they can fight monsters and become powerful. They have formed their own families that people can join. Hestia is a goddess that is not very popular so no one is joining her family until she meets Bell who is looking for a family.
42. Rilakkuma and Kaoru
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Kaoru is a young woman who lives quite a mundane life but everything changes when she gets a new roommate. Rilakkuma is a giant teddy bear who can walk and talk like humans and is very lazy.
41. Fate/stay night
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
The Holy Grail war is a battle royale between 7 mages who fight with high spirits controlled by them. The prize is the holy grail artifact that can grant any wish. Rin Tōsaka is a mage who enters the competition with her servant Archer. She forms a team with her classmate Emiya Shirō who has also entered the competition.
40. Saint Seiya
- Year: 1986
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 12
The goddess Athena is served by fighters also called Saints. These Saints channel within themselves the power of the cosmos. When a young fighter named Seiya earns himself the cloth of pegasus by training hard, he is ready to become a saint. He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fight for Athena.
39. Kengan Ashura
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Sports, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
Since ancient periods in japan, there are arenas where gladiators fight. People from rich backgrounds place bets on these gladiators and the winner takes all. The fights are brutal and there is no holding back. Toki Taouma, nicknamed “Ashura“, joins as a gladiator and obliterates every opponent, and makes a name for himself in the arenas.
38. Dorohedoro
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Kaiman used to be a human until he was transfigured by a magic user and now he has the head of a reptile. With the help of Nikaido, his female companion, Kaiman is in search of the magic-user who did this to him, and for that, he is ready to use every method possible.
37. No Game No Life
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Shora and his sibling sister Shibo are two of the best gamers in the world. Tora, a God from another realm, challenges the siblings for a game of chess. Maintaining their win streak Shora and Shibo come out victorious.
Tora then offers them to live in a fantasy world where everything is decided over a game. Mistaking it for a joke, the siblings agree without thinking about the consequences.
36. Black Butler
- Year: 2008
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 3
On his 10th birthday, Ciel loses both his parents in a house fire. Ciel makes a deal with the devil for revenge in return for his soul. The devil takes the form of a human and becomes Ceil’s butler and protects him till the deal is done.
35. Toradora!
- Year: 2008
- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Ryūji Takasu is a kind guy but looks like a delinquent and Taiga Aisaka looks small and cute but is actually really aggressive. Both have crushes on each other’s best friends. So they decide to help each other in winning their crush’s hearts. But fate has something else in store for them.
34. Kill la Kill
- Year: 2013
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
Ryuuko Matoi is searching for her father’s killer. The clues lead her to Honnouji Academy which is ruled by the cold-hearted student council president and her underlings. Ryuuko will do anything to find out what’s the relation of his father’s murder with the president.
33. Fate/Zero
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
Holy Grail is a powerful artifact that has the power to grant a miracle. Three great wars have been fought to acquire this power by no one was able to win. The fourth war starts, where seven strong wizards compete with each other, and the winner will get the power to perform a miracle.
32. Devilman: Crybaby
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
Devils need a host to live on earth. But if the human is strong enough, he can overpower the devil’s will and take control of their power and such people are called Devilman. Akira Fudo’s best friend Ryo Asuka told him that one day demons will revive and take over the world from humans. So Akira becomes a devilman and along with Ryo, he fights devils on earth.
31. Gurren Lagann
- Year: 2007
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Kamina and Simon live in a secluded village and haven’t ever explored the world past their home. One day an excavation drill leads them to a mysterious-looking object that turns out to be the key of an ancient war artifact. The curiosity leads them to the surface world where they fight with the war artifact to take back what once belonged to them.
30. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Yadomi Jinta is an otaku who lives a secluded life. The ghost of his childhood friend Meiko “Menma” Honma appears before him and asks him to meet her unfulfilled wish. But to do so, Jinta will have to catch up with his other childhood friends, who he hasn’t talked to in years.
29. Violet Evergarden
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
The Great war ended with both sides of the continent badly destroyed. Violet’s family was also a victim of the war. While recovering from this tragedy, Violet comes across an Auto Memory Doll whose work is to transcribe people’s thoughts and feelings into words on paper. Violet is impressed and decides to become an Auto Memory Doll.
28. Akame ga Kill!
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Tatsumi is a village boy who sets out for the Capitol to live a better life. The Capitol is filled with crime and corruption and Tatsumi almost becomes a victim of that corruption. He is then recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins who deals punishments on those who are part of bad things in the Capitol.
27. Yasuke
- Year: 2021
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 1
In Feudal Japan where war is a common occurrence, Mechs and Magic are powerful weapons. Yasuke is a great Samurai who is tired of fighting and wants to live in peace but his plans get ruined when he comes across a mysterious child who is being hunted down by different warlords.
26. Great Pretender
- Year: 2020
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Makoto Edamura considers himself Japan’s best swindler. But when he gets conned by Laurent Thierry, a world-class crook, Makoto’s ego gets hurt and he challenges Laurent to determine the better scammer.
25. Aggretsuko
- Year: 2018
- Genre: Comedy, Music
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 3
Retsuko is a kind-hearted red panda who is often mistreated by her co-workers and boss. She lives a frustrated life but still tries to remain calm and work diligently. Her way of releasing that built-up anger and aggression is by screaming death metal karaoke after work where she bashes her coworkers.
24. InuYasha
- Year: 2000
- Genre: Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 9
Kagome Higurashi is a modern-day Japanese girl who accidentally gets transported to feudal Japan where demons exist. There she meets InuYasha, a son of a demon and a human. He is stuck to a tree by an enchanted arrow and Kagome releases him.
23. Parasyte
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
When an extraterrestrial parasite enters the earth, it immediately starts attacking vulnerable humans by entering their brian and taking control of their bodies and transforming them according to their will. When Shinichi Izumi is attacked by one such parasite, it couldn’t take over Izumi’s brain and merges itself in his right arm.
22. Your Lie in April
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Melodrama, Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Kousei Arima is considered the prodigy of piano playing. But after his mother died, the trauma caused him to lose the ability to listen to his music while playing. So he leaves music and starts living a low life. Until he meets Kaori, an eccentric violin player who makes Arima face music again.
21. Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
- Year: 2015
- Genre: Comedy, Ecchi
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 5
Yukihira Souma dreams to become a great chef like his father and someday defeat him in a culinary battle. Souma’s dad sends him to a high-profile culinary school where Souma realizes there’s so much more to cooking and people around him are very talented. So Souma decides that he will become the best chef in his school.
20. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
- Year: 2006
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
The story sets in a futuristic parallel world where The Holy Britannian Empire has taken over the world. They are ruthless and treats Native Japanese people with disgrace. Lelouch Lamperouge is one unfortunate Britannian who had to witness his mother’s death and wants to take revenge. He vows to bring misfortune to the Britannia Empire. He gets his shot at redemption when he gets supernatural powers of ‘Geass’ which he receives from a mysterious girl.
19. The Seven Deadly Sins
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 5
The “Seven Deadly Sins” were a deadly group of knights believed to be eliminated by the Holy Knights for attempting to kill the King. But some believe that they are alive and live in hiding. Ten years later, the Holy Knights stage a Coup d’état and kill the king and take over the kingdom. The king’s only daughter Elizabeth, decides to search for the “Seven Deadly Sins”, to ask them to save the kingdom from the tyranny of Holy knights.
18. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Year: 2007
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 7
The anime follows the chronicles of the Joestar family as they fight evil forces. The series focuses on two generations of Joestar. First is Jonathan ‘Jo Jo’ Joestar and the second is of his grandson, Joseph Joestar.
17. Pokémon
- Year: 1997
- Genre: Adventure
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 23
It’s the story of a small town’s boy Ash Ketchum who wants to the biggest Pokemon trainer in the world. Pokemon are animal-like creatures with superpowers. Ash decides to go on a journey to find powerful pokemon and challenge strong opponents to realize his goals.
16. Sword Art Online
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 4
In near future, people can play games by entering into it consciously with the help of equipment called Nerve Gear. Sword Art Online is one such very popular game played by many people. One day when players of SAO find out that they can’t log out of the game and are ordered to kill the final boss if they get out of the game. But the catch is, if they die in the game, they die in real life.
15. ERASED
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Mystery
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Satoru Fujinuma is a middle-aged guy who gets the power to turn back time. When a person close to him dies, he decides to turn back time to solve the mystery. He is sent back to a time when he was in elementary school. He then remembers it is the same time his classmate Kayo got abducted. So he decides to save her too.
14. Fullmetal Alchemist
- Year: 2003
- Genre: Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
Edward and Alphonse are two young brothers who are gifted in alchemy. When their mother dies, Edward decides to do the unthinkable – bringing her back to life by performing Human Alchemy. But the spell goes wrong and Edward loses his arm and Alphonse loses his entire body and now his soul is trapped in armor. To get their bodies back to normal, both brothers decide to search for Philosopher’s Stone, a very powerful artifact that grants immense power to do any alchemy.
13. Bleach
- Year: 2004
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 17
Ichigo Kurosaki is a high school student who can see ghosts. Despite that, he lives a normal life until he meets Ruika. Ruika is a soul reaper who fights with evil spirits called Hollows. After the encounter with Rukia, Ichigo finds himself getting dragged into Ruika’s world and is forced to fight Hollows.
12. Soul Eater
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
Death Weapon Meister Academy is headed by the Shinigami (God of Death) himself. The aim is to produce ‘Death Scythes’ for the Shinigami to fight evil. These Death Scythes are not physical weapons; rather, they are born from human hybrids who can transform their bodies into Demon Weapons.
11. Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Year: 1995
- Genre: Mecha, Action
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
It is the year 2015, the Earthers are threatened by an attack from alien invaders. Humans ‘ only hope is the “Evangelion” giant robotic machinery capable of taking down enemies bigger than themselves. Although the military has the assets to fight, they are in hopelessness. The Evangelion can only be operated by children. In this situation, Shinji Ikari, a 14-year-old son of the commander-in-chief is selected as a pilot for Evangelion.
10. The Promised Neverland
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Horror
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 2
Grace Field House is an orphanage for small children set up in a secluded area. Kids there live a happy life under the care of Mama. Every few months a child gets adopted and no one hears from them again. This raises suspicion among three siblings in the orphanage and they discover the cruel fate that awaits the children living at Grace Field, including the twisted nature of their beloved Mama.
9. Kuroko’s Basketball
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Sports, Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 3
Taiga Kagami is a talented basketball player returning from US. Tetsuya Kuroko is a mysterious guy who used to be a part of the best ‘Junior High School Basketball team in Japan’. Both join the Seirin High School Basketball team and aims to become the best High school team in Japan but the challenge is tough.
8. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Year: 2009
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Edward and Alphonse are two young brothers who try to attempt a very difficult alchemy spell and fails. This accident causes Edward to lose his arm and Alphonse loses his entire body and now his soul is trapped in armor. To get their bodies back to normal, both brothers decide to search for Philosopher’s Stone, a very powerful artifact that grants immense power to do any alchemy. But they are not the only ones looking for it.
7. One-Punch Man
- Year: 2015
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
Saitama wanted to be a hero so he trained really hard and became very powerful. So much so that even the mightiest opponents get defeated by just one punch from him. This made Saitama lose interest in fighting and now he does hero stuff for fun, hoping someday he gets to face a great challenge.
6. Hunter x Hunter
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 6
Gon Freecss is a 12-year-old-kid who finds out that his father is alive and he decides to search for him. His only clue is that his father was a Hunter, a member of an elite group of people with the power to do anything. So Gon decides that he’ll become a hunter as well but it won’t be easy.
5. Death Note
- Year: 2006
- Genre: Thriller
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 1
Light Yagami is a brilliant high school student who is bored with his life. Until he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami (Death God). Any person whose name is written on the Death Note dies. Light decides to use this power to eradicate evil from the world. Will he be able to achieve his goal and things will take a turn for worse?
4. Haikyuu!!
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Sports, Comedy
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 4
Shouyou Hinata lacks a basic asset to play volleyball- a tall height. But he is determined to become the best striker. While playing a game against a school, Hinata’s team is smashed to defeat in no time by Tobio Kageyama‘s team. Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama’s skills. But an unpredictable future makes them forget the rivalry and team up for a common goal.
3. Naruto
- Year: 2002
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Seasons: 5
In a world where Ninjas are the ultimate power, there lived a little kid named Naruto. He is an orphan and inside him, a monstrous beast is sealed called the ‘Nine-Tailed Fox’. fearing the beast, the whole village treats Naruto as an outcast. It is the story of Naruto’s journey of becoming the strongest Ninja in the world and along the way making some friends.
2. One Piece
- Year: 1999
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 19
Monkey D Luffy is a young boy who has the power of the Devil Fruit. He dreams to become the Pirate King and to realize his goal, he set off on a journey to form a crew and then find the hidden treasures of the previous Pirate King, Gol D Roger.
1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Action, Adventure
- Status: Ongoing
- Seasons: 2
Tanjirō is a young boy who sells charcoal for a living. One day when he returns home from work, he finds out that his whole family is slaughtered by a demon. The sole survivor, his young sister Nezuko has been bitten by the demon and has transformed into one. In such tragedy, Tanjirō vows to turn back his sister into a human and kill the demon who destroyed his family.
