All Series
Recommended, release, and chronological watch orders for every series we cover.
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Kaiju No. 8
A man who cleans up dead kaiju for a living turns into one himself, and has to hide it while chasing the job he gave up on: fighting them from inside the Defense Force.
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Spice and Wolf
A traveling merchant takes on a wolf deity as a business partner and heads north through a medieval world where the real weapons are currency, debt and rumour.
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Trigun
A gunslinger with a 60 billion double-dollar bounty on his head wanders a desert planet, trying to avoid killing anyone despite a reputation for leaving cities in ruins.
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Clannad
Tomoya Okazaki is a delinquent in his last year of high school, coasting through days he has no interest in, until he meets a girl standing at the bottom of the hill to school, unable to make herself climb it. What starts as a school comedy about helping people with their problems turns, over two s…
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BLUE LOCK
After Japan crashes out of the World Cup, the football association hires an eccentric coach who locks 300 high school strikers in a facility and has them eliminate each other. Only one will walk out, and everyone else's career ends there. Yoichi Isagi is not the most talented player in the building.
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Hellsing
A secret British organization defends the country from vampires using a weapon of its own: Alucard, a vampire bound to serve the Hellsing family. Alongside him is Seras Victoria, a police officer he turns rather than lets die, and a butler who kills with wire.
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Rurouni Kenshin
A former assassin wanders Meiji-era Japan, vowing never to kill again while protecting those around him.
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Oshi no Ko
A doctor is murdered and wakes up as the newborn son of the idol he adored, growing up inside an entertainment industry that looks very different from the outside.
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
A withdrawn 34-year-old dies and wakes up as a newborn in a world of swords and magic, determined to use the second life he was given rather than waste it like the first.
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Higurashi: When They Cry
A mystery-horror series set in the rural village of Hinamizawa, where a group of friends live the same summer over and over as paranoia, murder, and something older than either close in around them.
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Fullmetal Alchemist
Two brothers break the one rule of alchemy trying to bring their mother back, and pay for it with Edward's arm and leg and Alphonse's entire body. Their search for the Philosopher's Stone pulls them into the machinery of a military state built on things nobody was meant to find out.
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
A thirty-seven-year-old office worker is stabbed to death and wakes up in a fantasy world as a slime. Naming himself Rimuru Tempest, he absorbs the abilities of the monsters around him and gradually turns a scattered goblin village into a nation — a story as interested in diplomacy and infrastructu…
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Evangelion
A teenager is pulled into piloting a giant bio-mechanical machine against mysterious beings called Angels, in a story that turns steadily inward and became one of the most argued-over works in anime.
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Kyon has given up on aliens, time travellers and espers by the time he starts high school. The girl sitting behind him has not, and she turns out to be able to rewrite reality whenever she gets bored. Twenty-eight TV episodes and a film, from Kyoto Animation.
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (Oregairu)
Hachiman Hikigaya is a high schooler who has decided that youth is a lie people tell each other, and he gets drafted into a club that solves other students' problems. Three TV seasons, 38 episodes, and a story that starts as a dry comedy and slowly stops being one.
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Rascal Does Not Dream (Bunny Girl Senpai)
Sakuta Azusagawa keeps running into girls affected by Adolescence Syndrome, a phenomenon that turns private emotional turmoil into something physically impossible. The story runs from his second year of high school through university across two 13-episode TV seasons and a run of films.
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The Quintessential Quintuplets
A broke honour student takes a tutoring job and finds his five students are identical quintuplets who all hate studying — and the story opens by telling you one of them ends up his bride, without saying which. The anime runs to 24 TV episodes, a feature-length finale and two pairs of specials, and …
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Overlord
A veteran player logs in for the last night of a dying MMO and never logs out, waking as his max-level undead avatar in a world that has stopped being a game. The anime runs to 52 TV episodes across four seasons plus one theatrical film, and it has not caught up to the light novels.
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Attack on Titan
Humanity lives walled in against giant man-eating Titans, and the fight to survive slowly turns into the discovery of what the world outside the walls really is. The anime runs to 87 TV episodes across four seasons, plus two feature-length specials that close the story and eight optional side-story…
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War
Two student council officers at Japan's most prestigious academy are hopelessly in love and far too proud to say so. Convinced that confessing first means losing, they turn an ordinary school year into a campaign of psychological warfare — and gradually stop being able to pretend it's only a game.