Sci-Fi Anime

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.

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.

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.

Rintaro Okabe and his friends run a tiny lab in Akihabara, inventing silly gadgets, until one of them accidentally sends messages into the past, and a text that changes yesterday quietly rewrites today. Okabe, a self-proclaimed mad scientist who calls himself Hououin Kyouma, discovers he alone remembers the old timelines, and every attempt to fix things pulls him deeper into the sights of the shadowy organisation SERN. White Fox's 2011 adaptation of the 5pb. and Nitroplus visual novel starts as a quirky comedy about lab banter and conspiracy jokes, then tightens into one of the most acclaimed time-travel thrillers in anime. A film, Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013), and a second series, Steins;Gate 0 (2018), set on a darker timeline where Okabe fails, complete the saga. With genius hacker Daru, childhood friend Mayuri and the brilliant, prickly Kurisu Makise at its heart, this is a story about how far one man will loop through time to save the people he loves.

A mysterious light turns every human on Earth to stone. Thousands of years later, science-obsessed Senku Ishigami breaks free and sets an impossible goal: revive everyone and rebuild civilisation from scratch, one invention at a time. Dr. Stone turns real science into adventure (soap, glass, electricity and antibiotics become boss battles) with a huge heart and a tonne of energy. Ten billion percent exhilarating. Animated by TMS Entertainment from the manga by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi, the series ran from 2019 to 2026 across four seasons and 94 episodes, adapting the complete manga story. Senku's method is always the same and always thrilling: identify the problem, remember the science, and build the impossible with whatever the stone world provides, stone tools, iron, gunpowder, telephones, ships, and eventually a rocket aimed at the mystery itself. Around him gathers the Kingdom of Science: Taiju's endless stamina, Chrome's reinvented discoveries, Gen's silver tongue, Kohaku's strength and the whole village of Ishigami. It is a rare adventure that makes knowledge itself the superpower, celebrating curiosity, teamwork and the 3,700 years of human progress Senku is determined to win back.

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?

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.