ReelBest anime
Ten series and films worth starting tonight — no long franchise to untangle first. One line each on why it's here.
Recent
The last two years, sorted by what's actually getting watched — not by nostalgia.
01Two teens betting on ghosts vs. aliens end up with powers, monsters, and maybe a crush.
02The classic gender-swapping martial arts comedy, back in a faithful new adaptation.
03A prequel-era street hero story, following an ordinary guy who trains under an unlicensed vigilante.
04Framed for a murder he didn't commit, an orphan thrown into 'the Pit' fights his way to the truth.
05A Japanese art student in 1900s London finds rivalry turning into something else.
06A cheerful girl falls for her stoic opposite, in a slow-burn built entirely on mismatched energy.
07A guarded girl finally lets three classmates chip away at the walls she's built.
08A hunter and his sister's quiet mountain life ends the moment a dragon's roar changes everything.
09A catgirl juggling rent, work, and a bad habit, trying to actually get her life together.
10An elite assassin hires a professional marriage swindler to find him a bride — the plan immediately gets complicated.
Best of All Time
The reputation-makers — high scores, high vote counts, still worth the runtime.
01The rare long-running shonen with a genuinely tight, fully finished story.
02Starts as a monster show, ends as one of anime's biggest political turns.
03Ghibli's best argument for why animation was never just "for kids."
04Jazz-scored bounty-hunting that made mixing genres look completely effortless.
05A revenge story that spends two seasons quietly interrogating revenge itself.
06Psychic action that's secretly one of the best-written coming-of-age shows around.
07A slow-burn time-travel plot that turns a scrappy chatroom into genuine tension.
08Shonen action with fight choreography built for the screen, not just the page.
09A boy hunts the demon who slaughtered his family while protecting the sister it turned into one.
10A hero so overpowered that his real struggle is finding a fight that's actually a challenge.