Summer 2019 Anime

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.

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.

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.