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Set in 1890s America, Steel Ball Run follows Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli in a huge horse race across the continent, the first transcontinental race in history, from San Diego to New York, with 50 million dollars waiting for the winner. Johnny, a former racing prodigy, lost the use of his legs in a shooting; he enters the race after Gyro's steel balls briefly let him stand again, desperate to learn the secret of the Spin. Behind the race is a secret hunt for powerful holy relics, the scattered parts of a saint's corpse, so every stage brings strange Stand battles, hired killers and new rivals, while race organiser Steven Steel and even the President of the United States watch from the shadows. It is the seventh part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, retold in a fresh timeline with a Western setting, and for many readers the most loved part of Hirohiko Araki's manga. David Production's anime opened with a 47-minute first stage on Netflix in March 2026, then settled into a weekly run for the second and third stages from September 2026.

Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game Part 1 is the first half of the anime's third season, made by MAPPA. Its 12 episodes aired from January to March 2026, taking the overall series to 59 episodes. After the Shibuya Incident, Yuji Itadori is a wanted man: his death sentence is back, and special grade sorcerer Yuta Okkotsu has been sent to carry it out. Behind the chaos stands Kenjaku, the ancient sorcerer wearing Suguru Geto's body, who has forced thousands of people into the Culling Game, a battle royale fought inside barriers across Japan, where players kill for points under strict, changing rules. With Satoru Gojo still sealed away, Yuji, Megumi, Maki, Panda and Yuta enter the colonies to find a way to bend the rules, free Gojo and stop Kenjaku's plan. Part 1 is wall-to-wall battles with brains behind them: a gambler whose technique runs on pure luck, a lawyer who puts sorcerers on trial, and an ancient warrior hunting Sukuna himself. It ends mid-game, with Part 2 still to come.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity is the fourth and final part of the Thousand-Year Blood War anime, and the last chapter of the Bleach story on television. It premiered on 25 July 2026 in the Summer 2026 season and has now finished airing, with the finale broadcast on 26 October 2026. The season brings the war between the Soul Reapers and Yhwach's Quincy army, the Wandenreich, to its climax. Ichigo Kurosaki and his allies fight to protect the Soul King and the balance between the worlds, while captains reveal bankai that fans waited years to see animated. It adapts the final stretch of Tite Kubo's manga, so every battle carries the weight of the whole series behind it. Because The Calamity completes the final manga arc, this is the season long-time viewers have been building towards since the anime returned in 2022. If you have followed Bleach from the beginning, this is the ending. New viewers should start much earlier, the watch order below shows the full path, but for everyone else, The Calamity is Bleach at its biggest and most emotional.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 returns to Night City with a brand-new crew chasing money, fame and survival, and this time the city itself, in 2078, is the only returning character that matters. The standalone ten-episode story weaves together four lives: Weak Kingsley, a washed-up edgerunner once called 'the King', now living without the chrome that made him a legend; D, a Snake Nation netrunner hunting the killer who wiped out his clan; Talia Yang, a corpo-born fighter hardened inside the Maelstrom gang; and Roman Carax, a young filmmaker who still believes a camera can capture the truth. An Arasaka data chip carrying an AI called Capri drags all four into the same deadly job. Like the first Edgerunners, it is a story about what the city takes from the people who try to beat it, family, obsession and legacy. Studio TRIGGER returns with director Kai Ikarashi, a reimagined look, Tsuneo Imahori's score and songs written for the series. All ten episodes arrived on Netflix on 20 October 2026.

Monkey D. Luffy sails the Grand Line with his Straw Hat crew to find the legendary One Piece treasure and become King of the Pirates. Along the way they explore wild islands, fight powerful enemies and protect their friends at any cost. It is one of the longest and most loved adventure stories in anime. The One Piece anime began in 1999, animated by Toei Animation, and it is still going strong with well over a thousand episodes. What makes it special is the world-building: every island has its own culture, history and problems, and small details from early episodes can matter hundreds of episodes later. Under the wild comedy and huge battles, it is a story about freedom, friendship and chasing your dreams no matter what the world says. Whether you are starting from episode 1 or catching up with the newest arc, this is the definitive pirate adventure in anime.

High school student Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger and becomes the host of the powerful curse Ryomen Sukuna. He joins Tokyo Jujutsu High, where sorcerers train to fight the curses that threaten people every day. The series mixes dark horror, humour and some of the best fight scenes in modern anime. The Jujutsu Kaisen anime is produced by MAPPA and adapted from Gege Akutami's manga. A prequel movie, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, tells the story of Yuta Okkotsu, and the later seasons raise the stakes into the devastating Shibuya Incident and beyond. What sets the series apart is its balance: brutal, beautifully animated fights on one side, and quiet questions about what a proper death really means on the other. Few modern anime have matched its mix of style, dread and heart.

Sung Jinwoo starts as the weakest hunter in a world where gates to monster-filled dungeons open everywhere. After a near-death experience he gains a mysterious system that lets him level up without limit. His rise from weakest to strongest is fast, stylish and very satisfying to watch. The Solo Leveling anime is produced by A-1 Pictures, adapted from the hit Korean web novel and webtoon. It became a global phenomenon, one of Crunchyroll's most talked-about series, and winner of Anime of the Year at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Its appeal is pure momentum: every episode leaves Jinwoo stronger, cooler and closer to the truth behind the System that chose him, while the world of hunters, guilds and gates grows more dangerous around him.

Tanjiro Kamado's family is killed by demons, and his sister Nezuko is turned into one. He joins the Demon Slayer Corps to hunt demons and search for a way to make Nezuko human again. The show is famous for its stunning sword fights and its warm, emotional story. The Demon Slayer anime is made by studio ufotable, whose movie-quality animation turns its sword techniques into flowing works of art. It became a phenomenon in Japan and around the world, its first movie, Mugen Train, broke box-office records. At heart, though, Demon Slayer stays simple and sincere: a gentle boy who refuses to hate even the demons he must kill, and a little sister worth saving at any cost.

Denji is a poor teenager who hunts devils to pay off his father's debt, helped by his pet devil Pochita. When Pochita saves his life by merging with him, Denji becomes Chainsaw Man, a devil-human hybrid with chainsaws for arms. It is wild, funny, sad and completely unpredictable. The Chainsaw Man anime is produced by MAPPA and adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga, and it looks and sounds like nothing else. Every episode of Season 1 even ended with a different ending song and its own animation. Under the gore and chaos is a strangely touching story about a boy who never had a normal life (a warm bed, good food, people who care) and would kill devils just to keep a small piece of it.

Master spy Twilight must build a fake family for a secret mission, so he adopts a little girl and 'marries' a city worker. What he does not know is that his daughter Anya can read minds and his wife Yor is a deadly assassin. The result is a warm, funny family comedy full of secrets. The Spy x Family anime is produced by Wit Studio and CloverWorks, adapted from Tatsuya Endo's manga. Anya's telepathy means the audience always knows what everyone is hiding, which turns ordinary school days and shopping trips into comedy gold. But Spy x Family is loved most for its warmth: three lonely people, each pretending, slowly build something real. It is one of the easiest anime to recommend to anyone, including people who have never watched anime before.

Momo believes in ghosts but not aliens, while her classmate Okarun believes in aliens but not ghosts. After daring each other to test their beliefs, both turn out to be real, and their lives become a crazy mix of spirits, aliens and teenage feelings. Momo Ayase comes from a family of spirit mediums; Ken Takakura, nicknamed Okarun, is a shy occult fanatic. One night in a haunted tunnel and an alien abduction later, Okarun is cursed by Turbo Granny and Momo awakens psychic powers. Together with Momo's grandmother Seiko, a famous medium, and friends like Aira and Jiji, they fight yokai, aliens and cryptids to recover what the curse stole. Animated by Science SARU with wild, colourful energy, Dandadan has 24 episodes across two seasons (2024–2025), and a third season is set for 2027. It is fast, weird and full of energy. A monster battle show with a sweet, awkward romance beating at its centre.

Asta, a boy born without magic in a world where magic is everything, keeps chasing his dream of becoming the Wizard King. Season 2 continues the Magic Knights' battles against new threats to the Clover Kingdom. Expect loud, cheerful energy and big team fights.

Shiki Ichinose learns he carries the blood of the Oni, the demons hunted by the Momotaro Agency. In the Nikko Kegon Falls arc he trains with other Oni while the war between the two bloodlines grows hotter. It is a dark, stylish action series about identity and family. After the Kyoto and Nerima battles, Shiki and his Rasetsu Academy classmates have grown stronger, but their classmate Ikari Yaoroshi has left the academy to join the Oni Brigade, a rogue Oni force bent on wiping out the Momotaro completely, civilians included. Shiki sets out to bring him back, and the trail leads to Nikko, where the Momotaro Agency runs a research facility above Kegon Falls that hides horrific experiments. Animated by Studio Hibari, the arc premiered on 2 October 2026 and is planned as a split two-cour run. It adapts the Nikko chapters of Yura Urushibara's manga, and new episodes stream worldwide every Friday on Crunchyroll, Netflix and Prime Video.

Desir Herrman survived the end of the world and was sent back in time to his first days at magic academy. Using his memories of the future, he trains his friends to face the disaster that is coming again. Season 2 continues his plan to change fate with teamwork and sharp tactics. In his first life, Desir fought for ten years inside the Shadow Labyrinth and watched humanity lose. Now, at Hebrion Academy, he has rebuilt his party (wind mage Romantica Eru, swordsman Pram Schnaizer and the icy prodigy Azest Kingscrown) and beaten the Shadow Worlds once. But a nightmare of Romantica's death, and the return of the demon who killed her in the future he remembers, tell him the war is only beginning. Animated by Arvo Animation, Season 2 premiered on 7 October 2026. New episodes stream on Crunchyroll every Wednesday, this time with a same-day English dub, as Desir's plan moves from saving one academy to saving the whole world.

Humanity hides behind giant walls to escape the Titans, huge man-eating giants that roam the land. When the wall is breached, young Eren Yeager joins the Survey Corps to fight back and learn the truth about the Titans. It is a dark, intense story full of shocking twists. Based on Hajime Isayama's manga, the Attack on Titan anime ran from 2013 to 2023 and grew from a survival action series into one of the most discussed stories in anime history. Every season peels back another layer of the mystery, what the Titans really are, what lies beyond the walls, and what freedom truly costs. It is emotional, relentless television, full of moments that completely change how you see everything that came before them.

Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric lose their bodies in a failed attempt to bring their mother back with alchemy. Edward, the older brother, loses an arm and a leg; Alphonse loses his whole body, and his soul is bound to a suit of armour. They travel the country searching for the Philosopher's Stone to make things right. Animated by Bones in 2009, Brotherhood is the second anime adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga, and this time it follows her story faithfully, from the first chapter to the true ending. Across 64 episodes, the brothers join the military as State Alchemists, uncover a conspiracy that reaches the very top of their country, Amestris, and face the Homunculi, artificial humans built around fragments of the Stone itself. It is a complete, satisfying adventure with action, humour and a lot of heart, built on one simple rule: equivalent exchange, to gain something, something of equal value must be lost. Few anime balance comedy, war drama and genuine emotion this well, and because the manga was nearly finished when production began, every early clue pays off. There is no filler and no unfinished ending: this is the whole story, told exactly as its creator planned it.

Naruto Uzumaki is a loud young ninja who dreams of becoming Hokage, the leader of his village, even though a dangerous fox spirit is sealed inside him. With his teammates Sasuke and Sakura he trains, fights and slowly earns everyone's respect. It is a classic coming-of-age action series. Created by Masashi Kishimoto and animated by Studio Pierrot, the Naruto anime became one of the most famous series in the world, running from 2002 to 2007 before continuing as Naruto Shippuden. Its mix of hand-to-hand combat, clever jutsu battles and raw emotion (loneliness, rivalry, forgiveness) made it a gateway anime for millions of fans. If you want to understand modern shonen, this is where much of it started. Its opening episodes are gentle, but the story's scale keeps growing, rival villages, legendary tailed beasts and a war that tests everything Naruto believes in.

Goku and his friends defend Earth against ever stronger enemies, from the Saiyan warriors to Frieza, Cell and Majin Buu. Dragon Ball Z is the 1989 sequel to Dragon Ball, made by Toei Animation, and it picks up five years after Goku's childhood adventures, when he is married with a young son, Gohan. The peaceful years end in a single day: a warrior from space arrives, reveals that Goku himself was born on another planet, and turns the whole story toward the stars. From there the scale keeps climbing, an interstellar tyrant on the planet Namek, time-travelling androids, a shape-shifting monster built from the cells of the greatest fighters, and an ancient magical being who can destroy planets. Alongside the battles, the series is about family and growth: Gohan grows from a frightened child into a warrior, old enemies become friends and fathers, and Goku's friendly rivalry with the proud Saiyan prince Vegeta drives much of the story. First aired in Japan from 1989 to 1996 across 291 episodes, Dragon Ball Z became the face of anime for a generation worldwide and remains the most famous action anime ever made.

In a world where most people are born with superpowers called Quirks, Izuku Midoriya is born with none. After meeting his hero All Might, he gets his chance to train at U.A. High School and become a real hero. It is an inspiring school-and-superhero adventure. The My Hero Academia anime is produced by studio Bones and adapted from Kohei Horikoshi's manga. What makes it stand out is its heart: Deku cries, doubts himself and keeps going anyway, and the enormous cast (classmates, teachers and villains alike) all get their moments to shine. Across its seasons the series grows up with its characters, from cheerful school tournaments to an all-out war for the future of hero society. It is one of the defining superhero anime of the modern era.

Gon Freecss leaves home to become a Hunter, an elite adventurer, and to find the father who left him as a baby. The Hunter Exam is only the start of a journey full of clever battles, dangerous enemies and true friendship. It is loved for its smart fights and creative powers.

Ichigo Kurosaki can see ghosts, and one night he gains the powers of a Soul Reaper and is pulled into a hidden world of spirits, hollows and sword-wielding guardians. Bleach is Studio Pierrot's 2004 adaptation of Tite Kubo's manga, and it begins in the ordinary town of Karakura, where 15-year-old Ichigo meets Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper who lends him her powers to protect his family. From that night he takes her place: guiding lost souls to the Soul Society and fighting the corrupted spirits called Hollows. The story quickly grows far beyond one town, a rescue mission into the Soul Society itself, the betrayal of the captain Sosuke Aizen, an army of evolved Hollows called Arrancar, and wars that threaten every world at once. Bleach is known for its stylish sword fights, where each Soul Reaper's blade has a name, a spirit and a hidden final form, and for Kubo's fashion-influenced character designs. The original series ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012, and the story's final arc was completed a decade later by the Thousand-Year Blood War series, which finished in 2026.

In 2071, bounty hunters Spike Spiegel and Jet Black travel the solar system in their ship, the Bebop. Cowboy Bebop is a 26-episode series from Sunrise, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, and it mixes space western, film noir and jazz into something entirely its own. Humanity has left a ruined Earth behind for colonies on Mars, Venus and the moons of Jupiter, and work is scarce between the planets. Spike and Jet chase bounties to keep the ship fuelled and themselves fed, and along the way their crew grows: the con artist Faye Valentine, the child hacker Edward and a genetically engineered corgi named Ein. Each episode, called a 'session', is a self-contained job, but a darker story runs underneath: Spike's past in the Red Dragon crime syndicate, and his unfinished business with his old partner Vicious and the woman they both loved. First aired in Japan in 1998–99, Bebop became one of the most respected anime ever made, famous for Yoko Kanno's jazz score and an ending people still talk about.

Sung Jinwoo is no longer the weakest hunter. He is growing stronger with every gate he clears, and the world is starting to notice. Season 2, Arise from the Shadow, follows his rise across 13 episodes: a training exercise turns into the deadly Red Gate, a climb through the Demon Castle in search of a cure for his sick mother, and a public re-evaluation that reveals an unheard-of result, Korea's newest S-rank hunter. As new threats pour out of the gates and the hunter associations scramble to keep up, Jinwoo's growing army of shadows makes him a power nobody can ignore. Everything builds to the Jeju Island crisis: an island swallowed by monstrous ants, a joint Korean-Japanese raid of S-rank hunters, and a battle that pushes Jinwoo further than ever before, and introduces the shadow who will change his army forever. Animated by A-1 Pictures with Hiroyuki Sawano's thunderous score, Season 2 aired from January to March 2025 and cemented Solo Leveling as one of the defining action anime of its decade.

Thorfinn grows up in Iceland dreaming of Vinland, a warm land across the sea with no war and no slaves. When his father Thors is killed by the mercenary Askeladd, the boy joins the very band he hates, sharpening his knives and waiting for the duel that will let him avenge his father. Season 1 (WIT Studio, 2019) follows that revenge quest through the Danish invasion of England, where Thorfinn crosses paths with Prince Canute and the giant warrior Thorkell. Season 2 (MAPPA, 2023) is a complete change of pace: Thorfinn, now an enslaved farmhand with nothing left to fight for, slowly rebuilds his life alongside fellow slave Einar and swears off violence for good. Across 48 episodes, Vinland Saga grows from a brutal revenge story into one of anime's most respected tales about escaping the cycle of hatred, adapted from Makoto Yukimura's award-winning manga, which ran from 2005 to 2025.

Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, can bend spoons, exorcise spirits and level buildings with his psychic power. The strongest esper alive is somehow just an awkward middle-schooler who wants to be liked, get fit and maybe impress his crush. He works part-time for Arataka Reigen, a cheerful con artist with zero psychic powers who sells Mob's talent as a real exorcism business while teaching him that powers do not make a person special. Animated by Bones across three seasons (2016–2022), Mob Psycho 100 balances wild, experimental action with a warm story about growing up: Mob joins the Body Improvement Club, clashes with rival esper Teruki Hanazawa and the esper-supremacist organisation Claw, and slowly learns to express the feelings he has bottled up, because when his emotions hit 100%, his power explodes. The anime adapts ONE's complete 16-volume manga in full, so the story has a proper, satisfying ending.

In 2022, the virtual-reality game Sword Art Online traps 10,000 players inside: logging out is impossible, and dying in the game means dying in real life. Solo player Kirito fights to clear all 100 floors and free everyone. Animated by A-1 Pictures from Reki Kawahara's light novels, Sword Art Online became the defining VR anime of its era, running across four major TV arcs from 2012 to 2020, plus the hit film Ordinal Scale and the retelling films of the Progressive series. The concept is instantly gripping, a beautiful game world with real death, where guilds, friendships, romance and betrayal all carry mortal weight. Kirito and Asuna, one of anime's most famous couples, stand at its centre: two of the game's strongest players who find love inside a death trap. Later arcs widen the idea beyond one game: a flying world in ALfheim, a shooter in Gun Gale Online, and finally Underworld, a virtual civilisation where artificial minds raise the hardest question of all, what makes a soul real? Add Yuki Kajiura's sweeping score and some landmark action scenes, and you have a franchise that shaped a whole genre of trapped-in-a-game stories.

Ken Kaneki is a quiet student who loves books, until a date ends in disaster and he wakes up with a ghoul's organs inside him. Now half-human, half-ghoul, he is hunted by the ghoul investigators of the CCG, feared by humans, and unable to eat anything but human flesh. The staff of the Anteiku coffee shop take him in and teach him to survive in both worlds. Pierrot's anime (2014–2018) runs for 48 episodes across Tokyo Ghoul, the anime-original sequel √A, and the two cours of Tokyo Ghoul:re, plus the Jack and Pinto OVAs. It adapts Sui Ishida's dark manga, 30 volumes across Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:re, though the anime compresses and, in √A's case, rewrites major parts of the story. What never changes is the core: a kind boy forced to eat to live, a city split between hunters and hunted, and operatic battles between ghouls and the doves who exterminate them.

Peace after the fight with Majin Buu does not last long. When Beerus, the God of Destruction, wakes from a long sleep looking for the Super Saiyan God of his dreams, Goku's world opens up to a whole multiverse. Dragon Ball Super is the 2015 sequel series from Toei Animation, set in the ten quiet years between Majin Buu's defeat and the final episodes of Dragon Ball Z. After retelling the films Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' with new detail, the series moves into fully new stories: a tournament against the fighters of Universe 6, the return of Future Trunks and his battle with the rogue god Zamasu, and the Tournament of Power, where eight universes fight and the losers are erased from existence. Goku reaches godly new forms, Vegeta keeps pace as his proud rival, and old friends like Krillin, Android 18 and Master Roshi return to the battlefield. Aired from 2015 to 2018 across 131 episodes, Super brought Dragon Ball back as a weekly global event and set up the films Broly and Super Hero.

In the kingdom of Fiore, wizard guilds take on jobs across the land, and none is rowdier than Fairy Tail. The 2009 anime, from A-1 Pictures and Satelight, follows Lucy Heartfilia, a young Celestial Wizard who runs away from her wealthy family to join the guild of her dreams. On her first day she meets Natsu Dragneel, a Fire Dragon Slayer raised by an actual dragon, and his flying cat partner Happy. Together with the ice wizard Gray, the armoured swordswoman Erza and a whole guild of lovable troublemakers, Lucy takes jobs that keep growing in scale, from dark guilds and cursed islands to a war against the Alvarez Empire. Fairy Tail is built on friendship: its wizards fight hardest when one of their own is in danger, and nearly every battle turns on loyalty rather than power alone. The anime ran in three productions between 2009 and 2019, covering all 328 episodes of Hiro Mashima's manga story, and the sequel Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest began in 2024.

Bam has spent his whole life in the dark beneath the Tower, with only his friend Rachel for company. When she leaves to climb it, he follows, into a brutal system of tests set by floor guardians and rival climbers, all chasing the promise that the top grants any wish. Tower of God, adapted from the hit Korean webtoon, is a mysterious, strategy-filled climb where alliances shift on every floor. Its world is enormous: each floor is the size of a continent, ruled through tests, noble families and the immortal King Jahad's empire, and Bam, an Irregular who opened the door himself, breaks rules the Tower's people treat as laws of nature. Season 1 (2020) made it one of the first big webtoon adaptations; Season 2 (2024) jumps years ahead to a masked Bam serving the criminal group FUG, and the team-based tests are as much about trust and betrayal as raw power.

Naofumi Iwatani is summoned to a fantasy kingdom as one of four legendary heroes, the Shield Hero, armed with a shield and nothing else. Betrayed and falsely accused within days, he loses his money, his name and his trust in people. With the demi-human Raphtalia at his side, he has to grow strong enough to stop the Waves of monsters threatening the world. A gritty underdog isekai about rebuilding from zero. Because his shield cannot attack, Naofumi wins differently: he cooks, crafts, trades, heals and builds a party and a village that fight for him, while the kingdom that framed him slowly learns it needs its most hated hero. The story keeps widening, from Waves and rival heroes to other worlds with their own heroes and rules. Animated by Kinema Citrus, it now runs four seasons (62 episodes), with a fifth season announced for 2027.

In a world where people can suddenly combust into living infernos, special fire brigades of pyrokinetic soldiers fight the flames and search for the cause. Shinra Kusakabe, a third-generation pyrokinetic who can ignite his feet, joins Company 8 hoping to become a hero, and to learn the truth about the fire that took his family. From the creator of Soul Eater, Fire Force is stylish, loud and full of blazing battles. Animated by david production, the series ran for 73 episodes across three seasons (2019–2026), adapting Atsushi Ohkubo's complete manga. Its world is rich and strange: a solar-era Tokyo ruled by the Holy Sol Temple, where the Fire Force's eight companies mix firefighters, soldiers and priests, and where the pyrokinetic generations can conjure, control or weaponise flame. Shinra, nicknamed the Devil for the grin fear puts on his face, fights alongside the knight-obsessed Arthur, the unlucky Tamaki, sniper-engineer Maki and the rest of Company 8, the brigade formed to watch the other companies. Behind the fires stands the Evangelist and her White-Clad cult, hunting children with the Adolla Burst. Few shonen anime look or sound like this: soul, funk and cathedral bells over some of the wildest fire animation ever drawn.

Office worker Satoru Mikami dies and wakes in a fantasy world as a small blue slime with the power to absorb and copy almost anything. Naming himself Rimuru, he befriends a sealed dragon, rescues goblins and slowly builds a town where monsters and humans can live together. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is a cosy, clever nation-building isekai with plenty of action when diplomacy fails. What makes it special is how Rimuru solves problems: he would rather trade, negotiate and throw a festival than fight, so his tiny monster village grows step by step into the Jura Tempest Federation, a real nation with roads, baths, schools and allies. The politics, economics and everyday life of that growing country sit beside big battles against demon lords, holy knights and human kingdoms that fear what Tempest represents. Animated by Eight Bit, the series has run since 2018 across four seasons and two films, and its light novel source finished in 2025, so the whole journey is now mapped out.

When the game YGGDRASIL shuts down, player Momonga stays logged in until the last second, and wakes up inside his character, the undead sorcerer Ainz Ooal Gown, in a world that is suddenly real. His NPC servants now think for themselves and worship him as a god. Overlord is a dark power fantasy told from the villain's side of the story, as Ainz builds his legend one kingdom at a time. What makes it gripping is the gap between the two Ainz: inside, he is an ordinary, lonely office worker improvising desperately to keep up appearances; outside, his loyal guardians read world-conquering genius into his every stumble. Around Nazarick, human kingdoms scheme, heroes rise and armies march, never grasping how hopelessly outmatched they are. Animated by Madhouse, the anime runs four seasons of thirteen episodes each, plus recap films and the 2024 feature film The Sacred Kingdom, which fills in the war the fourth season skipped.

Saitama is a hero for fun who trained so hard he can end any fight with a single punch, and now the strongest man alive is bored out of his mind, hunting for a worthy opponent and a good supermarket sale. With his eager cyborg disciple Genos at his side, he drifts into the Hero Association, a professional league where heroes are ranked from C to S and monsters keep escalating. One Punch Man began as ONE's rough webcomic in 2009 before Yusuke Murata's spectacular manga remake made it a global hit. Madhouse animated Season 1 in 2015; J.C.Staff took over for Season 2 (2019) and Season 3, whose first cour aired in late 2025, with Part 2 announced for January 2027. Between the comedy (King, the 'strongest man on Earth' who is actually a terrified gamer) and the rising threat of the hero hunter Garou and the Monster Association, the series keeps asking what being a hero is even for.

At the edge of human awareness lives Yato, a forgotten god who will grant any wish for five yen. Noragami begins when schoolgirl Hiyori Iki pushes a stranger out of the path of a bus and wakes up able to slip out of her body and see the world of gods and spirits. The stranger is Yato, a broke, tracksuit-wearing minor god of calamity with no shrine, who dreams of fame and takes odd jobs while fighting phantoms with his shinki, the spirits who serve gods as living weapons. Together with the teenage shinki Yukine, the three form a strange family as Yato's violent past catches up with him: the war god Bishamon hunts him for an old tragedy, and the god Ebisu's dangerous plans drag everyone toward Yomi, the land of the dead. The anime by studio Bones has two seasons, Noragami (2014) and Noragami Aragoto (2015), plus four OVAs, mixing action, comedy and real emotion.

A tentacled super-creature blows up most of the moon, then makes a deal: he will teach the worst class in school for a year, and if his students cannot assassinate him by graduation, he will destroy the Earth. So begins Class 3-E's strange school year, where the homework is marksmanship, the field trips are ambushes, and the teacher, nicknamed Koro-sensei, is the kindest, fastest and most encouraging educator any of them has ever had. Lerche animated Yusei Matsui's complete manga across two seasons (2015–2016, 47 episodes plus the Episode 0 OVA), and unusually, the anime adapts the manga's ending in full. The compilation film 365 Days (2016), the Koro Sensei Quest spin-off and a brand-new film, Everybody's Time (March 2026), animating chapters the TV series skipped for the 10th anniversary, round out the franchise. Under the comedy sits a story about written-off kids learning their own worth.

One night, small alien parasites rain down on Earth and burrow into human brains, taking over the bodies and feeding on other humans. One of them fails: it ends up in the right hand of 17-year-old Shinichi Izumi instead. The parasite, which Shinichi names Migi, can reshape his hand into blades and eyes, and the two are forced into an uneasy partnership, if either dies, so does the other. As more parasites hide among people, some hunting in secret and others trying to live quietly, Shinichi is pulled into a hidden war where anyone's face could hide a monster. Made by Madhouse in 2014–2015, Parasyte: The Maxim adapts Hitoshi Iwaaki's classic manga in one complete 24-episode run. It is a tense horror-action story that keeps asking a hard question: when Shinichi starts changing, and the parasites start learning feelings, which side is really more human?

Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen opens in 2006 with the Hidden Inventory arc: Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto are carefree second-year students, the strongest duo at Tokyo Jujutsu High, ordered to escort a schoolgirl, Riko Amanai, to her fate as the Star Plasma Vessel. The mission's brutal end, and the assassin Toji Fushiguro, splits the friends' paths forever: Gojo awakens as the strongest, while Geto begins his fall toward the villain of Jujutsu Kaisen 0. The season then returns to the present for the Shibuya Incident, the manga's most famous arc: on Halloween night, 31 October 2018, a curtain traps thousands in Shibuya, Gojo is sealed away, and curses and curse users launch a coordinated attack that changes every surviving character. Running 23 episodes from July to December 2023, Season 2 pairs MAPPA's most ambitious action with the story's emotional core, how the strongest sorcerer was made, and what the world looks like without him.

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an enhanced edition of Dragon Ball Super, made by Toei Animation for its 70th anniversary and the Dragon Ball franchise's 40th. Instead of a simple re-release, the team rebuilt the opening of the 2015 series with large amounts of newly drawn animation, re-recorded voices and a reconstructed story that follows Akira Toriyama's original manga more closely. The remake tells the Battle of Gods, Resurrection 'F' and Universe 6 arcs in a planned run of just 19 episodes, cutting the filler that slowed the original down. It premiered on 11 October 2026, and for new fans it is now the fastest, cleanest way to start the Dragon Ball Super story, while long-time fans get to see famous scenes, including Goku's first fight with Beerus, the way they were meant to look.

Tokyo Revengers: War of the Three Titans Arc is Season 4 of Tokyo Revengers, and it adapts the final arc of Ken Wakui's hit manga. Produced by LIDENFILMS, the season premiered on 2 October 2026 and runs for 13 episodes. Tokyo has entered the Three Titans era, where the gangs Brahman, Rokuhara Tandai and the Kanto Manji Gang fight for control of the city. Takemichi Hanagaki, who can leap twelve years into the past, returns to the fight one more time to stop Mikey's fall into darkness and save the people he loves. If you have followed the Tokyo Revengers anime from the start, this is the closing chapter everything has been building towards. Maki Kodaira directs the new season, JO1 performs the opening theme IGNITE, and Disney+ streams the season worldwide outside mainland China, with Hulu carrying it in the United States. It is the final season of the anime, closing a run that began in 2021.

Black Clover is the original 170-episode anime series from Studio Pierrot, based on Yuki Tabata's manga. It follows Asta and Yuno, two orphans raised together in a small village church, who both dream of becoming the Wizard King, the strongest mage in the Clover Kingdom. The catch: Yuno is a magic prodigy, while Asta was born with no magic at all, until a mysterious five-leaf grimoire gives him the power of anti-magic. The Black Clover anime ran from October 2017 to March 2021 and became one of the defining shonen series of its generation, famous for its loud energy, huge team battles and a hero who simply never gives up. The story continues in Black Clover Season 2. With 170 episodes of escalating magic battles, it is a big commitment, and one of the most rewarding in modern shonen anime.