About Watchordr

Watchordr is a guide to the order you should watch anime series in.

Plenty of franchises pile up sequels, films, recap movies and spin-offs until it’s genuinely unclear where to begin. For each series, this site lays out three orders — recommended, release, and chronological — so you can see at a glance which path makes sense for a first watch.

What you’ll find here

• A recommended order built for people starting the series from scratch
• The release order, as things originally aired or premiered
• The chronological order of events within the story
• Which entries — recaps, compilation films, side stories — you can safely skip on a first watch
• Where the manga or novel picks up if you want to keep going after the anime
• Air dates, episode counts, and synopses for every entry

How the orders are decided

Each series is worked out from how the titles relate to one another and when they came out, then arranged into the order that makes the most sense for someone watching it for the first time. Entries you don’t strictly need — recaps, side stories, and the like — are marked as such rather than quietly left out.

Where it matters, details are checked against Japanese-language sources: publisher announcements, official series pages, and Japanese coverage that doesn’t always make it into English write-ups. That’s especially true for the source material sections, since which volume the anime reaches is rarely stated in English anywhere.

Mistakes and differences of interpretation are still possible. If you spot something wrong, get in touch — corrections are genuinely welcome.

Who runs this

Watchordr is run by one person, with the straightforward goal of sorting out what order anime series should be watched in.