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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.

Maomao is a clever young apothecary who solves medical mysteries inside the imperial palace. In Season 3, which premiered on Friday 2 October 2026, the story grows beyond the palace walls: after the Shi clan's rebellion shook the court, Maomao returns to her old life as a pharmacist in the pleasure district, but the court's secrets will not leave her alone, and Jinshi, now openly carrying the heavy duties of the emperor's brother, still needs her mind. The season is airing in two parts: the first cour runs through autumn 2026, and the second cour follows in April 2027. The production also shifts, studio OLM now animates the series on its own, with director Akinori Fudesaka returning from Season 2, while TOHO animation STUDIO steps back after co-producing the first two seasons. Expect the same slow, smart mysteries as ever: poisons, plagues and palace politics, solved by a heroine who would honestly rather be tasting toxins than attending banquets. A theatrical film with an original story by the author follows in Japanese cinemas in December 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.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 continues elf mage Frieren's slow journey north with her apprentice Fern and the young warrior Stark. Its 10 episodes aired from January to March 2026, bringing the anime to 38 episodes in total. The party is travelling toward Aureole, the land where souls rest, so that Frieren can speak once more with Himmel, the hero she never understood in time. Season 2 keeps the first season's gentle rhythm: quiet inns and small villages, spells collected for almost no reason, and memories of the old hero party surfacing at every stop. But the Northern Plateau is dangerous country. Demons still haunt the roads, and this season brings the party face to face with the divine warrior Revolte, and with two very different first-class mages, Methode and Genau. Made by Madhouse with Evan Call's score and a new director, Tomoya Kitagawa, Season 2 is a shorter, calmer cour than the first, ten episodes that trust silence, scenery and small kindnesses to do the heavy lifting, and land all the harder for it.

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.

Long after defeating the Demon King, elf mage Frieren realises how little she understood the human friends who travelled beside her. She sets out on a new journey to learn about people, memories and how short human lives really are. It is a gentle, beautiful fantasy that moves at its own peaceful pace. The Frieren anime is produced by Madhouse and adapted from the manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe. There are no chosen ones and no world-ending battles here, instead, small moments carry enormous weight: a spell that makes flowers bloom, a statue weathered by decades, a friend remembered too late. It is widely praised as one of the most beautiful and moving fantasy anime ever made, and a second season continues Frieren's journey north.

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.

Subaru Natsuki is suddenly sent to a fantasy world, where he discovers he returns to a fixed point in time whenever he dies. He uses this painful power again and again to protect Emilia and his new friends. It is a gripping isekai story about courage, love and never giving up. Subaru has no strength, no magic talent and no special weapon, only the memories of timelines nobody else remembers, bought with deaths nobody else sees. That makes Re:Zero one of the darkest and most emotional isekai series: every victory is earned through failed loops, and Subaru's mind bends under the weight of them. Around him, the royal selection for Lugunica's throne, the Witch Cult and the sins they serve keep raising the stakes. Animated by White Fox, the anime now spans four seasons (85 episodes) and two OVA films, with Season 4 finishing in September 2026.

A doctor is reborn as the child of his favourite idol, Ai Hoshino, and grows up inside Japan's entertainment industry. Dr Gorou Amamiya, a huge fan of the idol group B-Komachi, is murdered just before Ai gives birth in secret, and wakes up as her son, Aquamarine "Aqua" Hoshino, with all his memories intact. His twin sister Ruby is a reborn fan too. When Ai is murdered by a stalker years later, Aqua swears revenge and enters show business to hunt the person who leaked her secret. Behind the glitter, the series explores fame, lies and the dark side of show business: child actors, reality TV, online hate and an industry that sells love it cannot feel. Animated by Doga Kobo, it opened in 2023 with a famous 90-minute first episode and YOASOBI's hit song "Idol", and it now runs to 35 episodes across three seasons, with a final season announced. It is a drama full of twists that keeps you guessing.

Coco is a young girl in a small village who has dreamed of becoming a witch since childhood, but in her world, witches are born, not made, and the secrets of magic are hidden from ordinary people. Everything changes when the travelling witch Qifrey visits her mother's tailor shop and Coco secretly watches him work: magic is not cast from memory, it is drawn, with special ink and precise signs that anyone could use. Trying the spells from a mysterious picture book she was given as a child, Coco casts a forbidden spell that turns her mother to stone. Taken in as Qifrey's apprentice, she joins his atelier to learn real magic and search for a way to undo her mistake, alongside fellow apprentices Agott, Tetia and Richeh, under the eyes of the secretive witch society, its Knights Moralis enforcers and the outlawed Brimmed Caps who gave her the book. Animated by BUG FILMS and directed by Ayumu Watanabe, the 13-episode first season (spring 2026) brings Kamome Shirahama's award-winning manga to life in rich, storybook detail. A second season has been announced.

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.

Taiki Inomata is a badminton player at Eimei, a school famous for sports, and he has a hopeless crush on Chinatsu Kano, the girls' basketball ace a year above him. When Chinatsu's parents move abroad for work, she comes to live at the Inomata family home, and suddenly the girl Taiki admires from afar is at his breakfast table every morning. Season 2 premiered on 4 October 2026 on TBS, with Netflix streaming worldwide. It picks up exactly where Season 1 ended: Taiki on the edge of confessing his feelings, only for the moment to be cut short by the return of Yumeka Kido, Chinatsu's estranged former teammate. Behind the scenes there are changes too. Daisuke Sako takes over as director and Electric Circus replaces Telecom Animation Film as the animation studio, with planning still by UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS. The season is planned at 12 episodes. The romance stays gentle and the sports stay serious: every confession is earned through training montages, tournaments and the small daily courage of living under the same roof.

Ranma Saotome turns into a girl when splashed with cold water and back into a boy with hot water, thanks to a training accident at the cursed springs of Jusenkyo in China. Season 3 of MAPPA's remake premiered on 3 October 2026 on Nippon TV, with Netflix streaming each episode worldwide right after the Japanese broadcast. The remake keeps the formula that made Rumiko Takahashi's manga a classic: Ranma's engagement to the temperamental Akane Tendo, a growing crowd of rivals and fiancées, and martial arts applied to absolutely everything, cooking, gymnastics, tea ceremony, you name it. Season 3 opens with Ranma and Ryoga's rivalry front and centre, brings Happosai and Cologne's schemes back into play, and adds new faces, including Sentaro Daimonji of the martial-arts tea ceremony school. Most of the original 1989 voice cast is back in the same roles more than three decades later, which gives the remake a warmth no reboot could fake. If you like your comedy fast, physical and hopelessly romantic, this is the season to jump in, though the first two seasons are only 12 episodes each.

Ashito Aoi is a talented but selfish young footballer from a small town in Ehime who gets scouted by Tatsuya Fukuda, youth director of Tokyo City Esperion, one of Japan's best academies. Season 1 turned him from a ball-hogging forward into a full-back learning to see the whole pitch. Season 2, which premiered on 4 October 2026 on NHK Educational TV with streaming on Crunchyroll, promotes him to Esperion's A team. That promotion is the whole story: the A team plays in the youth Premier League, against the best young players in the country, and its senior stars, playmaker Haruhisa Kuribayashi and defender Nagisa Akutsu, set a standard Ashito is nowhere near yet. The season runs 24 episodes across two cours, with the first cour covering his brutal education at the higher level. Production has changed hands: TMS Entertainment replaces Production I.G, and Kazuki Yokoyama directs, while series composer Masahiro Yokotani and composer Masaru Yokoyama return. The thinking football that made Season 1 a cult favourite among real football fans is very much intact.

Kimihiko Kimizuka once worked as the assistant of the legendary detective Siesta, who has since passed away. Season 2 brings new cases, new partners and more answers about Siesta's past and the enemies she fought. It mixes mystery, action and a touch of romance. A year after learning the truth about Siesta's death, Kimihiko is drawn back into the world she left behind when Noches, an android who carries Siesta's memories, appears at his door. The secret organisation SPES is moving again, and two powerful Tuners (Mia Whitlock, the Priestess, and Scarlet, the Vampire) enter the fight. Animated by ENGI and directed by Manabu Kurihara, the season premiered on 7 October 2026, five years after Season 1, and it adapts the SPES arc of Nigojū's light novels. New episodes arrive on Crunchyroll every Wednesday, and the season is planned for 13 episodes. Koume performs the opening theme, and Nana Kagura sings the ending.

Sasaki is a tired office worker whose pet bird Peeps is secretly a powerful sage from another world. With Peeps' magic he hops between modern Japan and a fantasy world, but psychics and secret agents keep complicating his quiet life. Season 2 continues this unusual mix of fantasy and everyday comedy. Sasaki still dreams of a slow, peaceful life, trading goods between worlds, eating well at his otherworld restaurant and training in magic under Peeps, whose real name is Piercarlo, the Sage of the Stars. But his day job at the Cabinet Office's paranormal bureau, the magical girls and demons around his home, and new arrivals such as the demon Abaddon keep ruining his plans. Animated by SILVER LINK., the season premiered on 7 October 2026 with a one-hour special. New episodes stream on Crunchyroll every Wednesday, and the anything-goes mix (office comedy one week, magical battle or alien first contact the next) is exactly what made the first season a word-of-mouth hit.

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.

Top student Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. He decides to create a crime-free world, but the genius detective L begins hunting him down. Their cat-and-mouse battle of wits is one of the most famous thrillers in anime.

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.

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.

After a wasted life, a man is reborn as Rudeus Greyrat in a world of swords and sorcery, with all his memories intact. Determined not to repeat his mistakes, he trains in magic from childhood and sets out to live honestly this time. Mushoku Tensei is a rich, beautifully animated fantasy about second chances, family and growing up, and it helped shape the modern isekai genre. Unlike most reincarnation stories, it follows a whole lifetime: Rudeus grows from baby to schoolboy to traveller to student to family man, and the people around him grow, scatter and reunite across decades. Its world of magic schools, adventurer guilds, demon continents and warring gods is one of the deepest in light novels. Studio Bind was created largely to adapt it, and the care shows in every season. Three seasons have aired so far, with Season 3's second cour confirmed for 2027.

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.

Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane are the top students at the elite Shuchiin Academy, and both are in love with the other. But their pride makes them see love as a battle: the one who confesses first loses. Kaguya is the vice-president and heiress of the powerful Shinomiya family; Miyuki is the hard-working student council president who earned his place from outside the wealthy elite. Together with secretary Chika Fujiwara, treasurer Yu Ishigami and maid Ai Hayasaka, their meetings turn into clever mind games over the smallest things, a movie ticket, an umbrella, a lunchbox. Over three TV seasons (2019–2022), one OVA and the film The First Kiss That Never Ends, the 'war' slowly becomes a real romance, and the jokes often turn into some of the most moving scenes in modern anime. A TV special, The Stairway to Adulthood, aired in December 2025, and a concluding film has been announced to finish the main story on screen.

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.

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his mother's death left him unable to hear the music he plays. Your Lie in April is a 22-episode drama from A-1 Pictures, based on Naoshi Arakawa's award-winning manga. Kosei was famous as a child as the 'Human Metronome', playing every note exactly as written under his strict mother's teaching. Two years after her death he lives in a grey, quiet world, drifting through school with his friends Tsubaki and Watari and avoiding the piano completely. Then, under the cherry blossoms, he hears a violin played with total freedom, and meets Kaori Miyazono, a passionate, unpredictable musician who drags him back onto the stage as her accompanist, whether he is ready or not. Through competitions, rival pianists and Kaori's own secrets, Kosei has to face the memories he buried and learn to play, and live, with his heart open. The series aired in 2014–15 and has become one of the most beloved music dramas in anime, famous for its beautiful classical performances and its emotional final episodes.

Shoyo Hinata is short, fast and obsessed with volleyball, but his tiny middle-school team never stood a chance. Now at Karasuno High he must team up with Tobio Kageyama, the setter who once crushed him. Animated by Production I.G and adapted from Haruichi Furudate's manga, Haikyuu!! follows Karasuno (once called the 'flightless crows', a fallen powerhouse school) as a new generation rebuilds the team and claws its way back toward the national stage. Across four TV seasons (2014–2020) and now a run of cinema films, the series turns school volleyball into pure drama: no superpowers, no shortcuts, just real technique, teamwork and rivalries that grow over years. What makes it special is how much it loves everyone on the court. Rival schools like Nekoma, Aoba Johsai, Shiratorizawa and Inarizaki all get heroes, heartbreaks and reasons to win, so even Karasuno's defeats feel meaningful. The Hinata–Kageyama partnership, a lightning-fast quick attack built on total trust, drives the story, but this is an ensemble piece where bench players, managers and coaches all matter. Warm, funny and relentlessly exciting, it is widely loved as one of the finest sports anime ever made.

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.

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.

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?

Satoru Fujinuma has an unwanted gift: when something terrible is about to happen, his mind is thrown a few minutes back in time so he can stop it. He calls it Revival. Erased begins in 2006, where 29-year-old Satoru is a struggling manga artist delivering pizzas in Chiba. When his mother is murdered and he is framed for the crime, Revival does something it has never done before, it sends him back eighteen years, into his ten-year-old body in his snowy Hokkaido hometown in 1988. There, Satoru realises what he must do: stop the kidnapping case that shadowed his childhood, starting with his classmate Kayo Hinazuki, a lonely girl who was the killer's first known victim. Animated by A-1 Pictures in 2016, this 12-episode thriller is a complete, tightly told story about regret, friendship and a second chance to save the people who matter.

The Promised Neverland follows Emma, Norman and Ray, the brightest children at Grace Field House, a warm and loving orphanage run by their devoted caretaker, 'Mom' Isabella. The children eat well, study hard and play freely. The only rule is never to pass the gate or the fence around the grounds. One night, Emma and Norman follow a younger girl who has been 'adopted' to the gate, and discover the truth: the home is a farm, the children are its livestock, and demons are waiting on the other side. What follows in the first season is a masterclass in tension, a silent game of tag, codes and lies in which three eleven-year-olds plot an impossible escape against the one adult they trusted most. The second season takes the survivors beyond the wall, into a demon world of forests, shelters and uneasy allies, as Emma fights to keep a bigger promise: freedom for every child on every farm. Across 23 episodes, the series blends mystery, horror and heartfelt family drama, powered by Takahiro Obata's delicate score and CloverWorks' expressive animation. It remains one of the most gripping thriller anime of its era.

Kuroko's Basketball follows Tetsuya Kuroko, the near-invisible 'phantom sixth man' of Teiko Middle School's legendary Generation of Miracles. Now at Seirin High, he teams with fiery forward Taiga Kagami to beat his old teammates and prove teamwork wins. Animated by Production I.G from Tadatoshi Fujimaki's manga, the series ran for 75 episodes across three seasons (2012–2015) and finished in cinemas with the film Last Game in 2017. Kuroko's gift is being overlooked: coaches and crowds miss him completely, and he turns that lack of presence into laser-guided passes that thread entire defences. Kagami supplies what Kuroko lacks, height, power and a hunger to beat the five prodigies one by one. Around them, Seirin is an ordinary team with no history, built on trust by captain Hyuga, injured founder Kiyoshi and their tiny coach Riko. The result is a stylish, emotional take on basketball where every match asks the same question: can a team of friends outplay five geniuses who stopped believing in teams? Fast, funny and surprisingly moving, it remains one of the most popular sports anime of its generation.

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.

Firefly Wedding (Hotaru no Yomeiri) is a Meiji-era romance with a dangerous twist. Satoko Kirigaya, a noblewoman born with a weak heart and little time left, is kidnapped by men who want her dead. To survive, she makes a shocking offer to Shinpei Goto, the assassin hired to kill her: marry her, and her family's fortune will protect them both. The Firefly Wedding anime is produced by david production and directed by Takahiro Kamei, and it premiered on 9 October 2026 in Fuji TV's Noitamina block. It adapts Oreco Tachibana's manga, which ran in Shogakukan's MangaONE app from 2023. Beautiful, tense and surprisingly tender, it became one of the most talked-about romance anime of Fall 2026. Lynn voices Satoko and Kōki Uchiyama voices Shinpei, with iri performing the opening theme, Period, and TOOBOE the ending, Yumegokochi. The manga's main story is already complete, so the whole romance can be adapted from a finished work.

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.