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A manga by Eiichiro Oda serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997. It follows Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew as they sail the world in search of the legendary treasure "One Piece," which would make its finder King of the Pirates. With over 500 million copies in circulation worldwide, it holds the Guinness World Record for the most copies published for a single manga series by one author.

A manga by Masashi Kishimoto serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1999 to 2014 (72 volumes). It follows Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja of Konohagakure who aspires to become Hokage, the village's strongest leader, while navigating war, fate, and the bonds between comrades.

Set in Taisho-era Japan, a boy named Tanjiro Kamado joins the Demon Slayer Corps to find a cure for his sister, who was turned into a demon after their family was slaughtered by the demon lord Muzan Kibutsuji.

Manga by Hajime Isayama (2009–2021). Set in a world threatened by giants called Titans, the story follows humanity's struggle for survival and the gradual revelation of the world's hidden history.

Akira Toriyama's manga series following Son Goku's adventures as he searches for the seven Dragon Balls and battles increasingly powerful opponents. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984 to 1995.

Set in the fictional country of Amestris, brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric seek the Philosopher's Stone to reclaim the bodies they lost in a failed human transmutation. Based on the original manga by Hiromu Arakawa (Monthly Shonen Gangan, 2001–2010). The 2009 anime (Brotherhood) follows the manga's ending.

A story in which Takemichi Hanagaki, a part-time worker, leaps back to his middle school days and repeatedly alters the past to prevent the deaths of his friends and former girlfriend. The narrative revolves around intervention in the conflicts of the delinquent gang Tokyo Manji Gang across multiple timelines.

Set in Japan (Area 11), occupied by the Holy Britannian Empire, the story follows Lelouch Lamperouge, a former prince, who assumes the identity of Zero and leads the Black Knights in rebellion against the Empire. An original anime series using the fictional A.T.B. (Ascension Throne Britannia) calendar. Two TV seasons total.

A multigenerational saga by Hirohiko Araki following the Joestar bloodline and its centuries-long conflict with DIO. The series shifts from Hamon (Ripple) energy in Parts 1–2 to Stand abilities from Part 3 onward. Spanning eight parts across different eras and countries, it is internationally acclaimed for its distinctive poses, dramatic dialogue, and inventive Stand battles.

Set in a society where roughly 80% of the population possesses superpowers called Quirks, the story follows quirkless boy Izuku Midoriya as he inherits the power of the No.1 hero and strives to become the greatest hero. Manga by Kohei Horikoshi, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2014–2024. Eight anime seasons.

A dark fantasy manga by Gege Akutami serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2018 to 2024 (27 volumes). It follows Yuji Itadori, who becomes the host of the legendary cursed spirit Ryomen Sukuna after consuming one of his fingers, and enrolls in Tokyo Jujutsu High to battle curses born from human negative emotions.

High-school detective Shinichi Kudo is shrunk into a child's body by the Black Organization's experimental drug APTX 4869. Living undercover as Conan Edogawa, he works to dismantle the organization. Story time advances almost imperceptibly ('Sazae-san time'), so in-story dates are expressed in narrative order rather than calendar years.

Set in the fictional Cold War-inspired nations of Ostania and Westalis, spy Twilight creates a fake family to carry out Operation Strix. Manga by Tatsuya Endo, serialized in Shonen Jump+ since 2019. Two anime seasons aired; third season announced.

Set in early 11th-century Northern Europe and England, Vinland Saga follows Thorfinn, a boy consumed by revenge against the mercenary who killed his father, on an epic journey through war, slavery, and exploration that ultimately leads him toward founding a peaceful settlement in North America.

Set in late Meiji-era Hokkaido and Sakhalin, Golden Kamuy follows Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto and Ainu girl Asirpa as they chase a hidden Ainu gold fortune worth 20,000 kan. Multiple factions — including 7th Division officer Lieutenant Tsurumi and the legendary Hijikata Toshizo — compete to collect the tattooed skins of 24 escaped convicts whose markings form an encoded map to the treasure. A manga by Satoru Noda rich in Ainu culture, Hokkaido wilderness survival, and Meiji military history.

Junior high student Kagome Higurashi falls through a well at her family shrine and is transported to the Sengoku period, where she releases the half-demon Inuyasha from his fifty-year seal. The two set out to recover the shattered shards of the sacred Shikon Jewel while battling the malevolent half-demon Naraku. A manga by Rumiko Takahashi serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1996 to 2008.

Manga by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu (2016–2020). In a world split between humans and demons, children raised as livestock discover the truth of their existence and fight for freedom. 20 volumes, complete.

After the hero Himmel's party defeats the Demon King, the thousand-year-old elf mage Frieren sets out with her apprentice Fern and warrior Stark toward the world's northern edge, Ende—seeking to understand the humans she never truly knew during her lifetime.

A dark fantasy manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Part 1 (97 chapters) ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2018 to 2020; Part 2 began serialization in Jump+ in 2022. Set in a world where devils exist and are managed by Public Safety Devil Hunters, the story follows Denji, a boy merged with the Chainsaw Devil Pochita. The story is set in an alternate late-1990s history — Part 1 in 1997, Part 2 in 1998.

A manga by Tite Kubo, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2001 to 2016 (74 volumes). High school student Ichigo Kurosaki gains Soul Reaper powers and fights across Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the Royal Realm.

A manga by Yoshihiro Togashi serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1998 (37+ volumes, with frequent hiatuses). It follows Gon Freecss, a boy from Whale Island who takes the Hunter Exam to find his father Gin, and unfolds across diverse arcs featuring Nen abilities, the Phantom Troupe, Chimera Ants, and a vast uncharted world.

High-school student Natsuki Subaru is summoned to another world and gains the power of 'Return by Death,' which resets him to a checkpoint upon dying. The timeline records confirmed historical milestones across each arc, not the details of loops.

Set against the backdrop of the Bakumatsu and early Meiji era, Rurouni Kenshin follows Himura Kenshin — once feared as the legendary assassin Hitokiri Battosai — who now wanders Japan armed only with a reverse-bladed sword and a vow never to kill again. Beginning in Tokyo in 1878 (Meiji 11), the story spans the Tokyo, Kyoto, and Jinchu arcs. A manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1994 to 1999.

A manga by Yoshihiro Togashi serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1994 (19 volumes). Middle-schooler Yusuke Urameshi dies in a traffic accident and is revived as a Spirit Detective, embarking on escalating battles spanning the human world, Spirit World, and Demon World.

Manga by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara. Set in a post-nuclear wasteland in the year 199X, it follows Kenshiro, successor of the deadly Hokuto Shinken martial art, as he protects the weak, battles rivals and warlords, and grows into the savior of a devastated world. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1983 to 1988.

The mainline continuity of the Gundam franchise, set in the fictional Universal Century (U.C.) calendar. Spanning from the first year of space colonization to the 0150s, the series follows humanity's wars across the One Year War, the Gryps Conflict, and multiple Neo Zeon uprisings. Originated with the 1979 TV series and expanded through numerous TV, OVA, and film productions.

Set in Tokyo-3 in 2015, fifteen years after the global catastrophe known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari pilots a giant biomechanical mecha called an Evangelion to fight mysterious beings called Angels. Behind the battles, the Human Instrumentality Project — pursued by the secret organization SEELE and NERV commander Gendo Ikari — drives the series toward its apocalyptic conclusion. Covers the TV series (26 episodes) and the original theatrical films (1997).

Set in an alternate-history Edo where the Amanto — extraterrestrial beings — have forced the country open, Gintoki Sakata runs the jack-of-all-trades 'Yorozuya' with Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura, taking on odd jobs while confronting the scars of his past. A manga by Hideaki Sorachi blending sci-fi, gag comedy, action, and human drama, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2004 to 2019 (77 volumes).

Set in a dark medieval fantasy world, Berserk follows Guts, a lone swordsman branded as a sacrifice, as he battles apostles and the God Hand in pursuit of revenge against his former comrade Griffith and seeks to restore his companion Casca's shattered mind. Created by Kentaro Miura.

Manga by Naoko Takeuchi. Middle-schooler Usagi Tsukino transforms into Sailor Moon and fights evil organizations threatening the Earth alongside fellow Sailor Guardians. The story spans three epochs: the ancient Moon Kingdom, 1990s present-day Tokyo, and 30th-century Crystal Tokyo. Serialized in Nakayoshi from 1992 to 1997.

Manga by Sui Ishida (2011–2018). Set in a contemporary Tokyo where humans and ghouls coexist in secret, it follows Ken Kaneki, a young man who becomes a half-ghoul and struggles to survive between two worlds. The original series ran for 14 volumes; the sequel Tokyo Ghoul:re added 16 more, for a total of 30 volumes.

A manga by Nakaba Suzuki serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine from 2012 to 2020 (41 volumes). Set in a medieval European-styled realm of Britannia, it follows the legendary knight order the Seven Deadly Sins, falsely accused of killing the Holy Knight Commander, as they reunite with Princess Elizabeth to fight the revival of the Demon Clan, the Ten Commandments, and ultimately break the eternal curse binding Meliodas and Elizabeth.

Manga by Yusei Matsui (2012–2016, 21 volumes). A mysterious supernatural creature called Koro-sensei, who destroyed 70% of the Moon, becomes homeroom teacher of Class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Students have one year to assassinate him or Earth will be destroyed.

Set in 3rd-century BC China at the close of the Warring States period, Kingdom follows orphan Xin (Shin) and Qin King Ying Zheng — the future First Emperor — on their quest to unify China. The story weaves real historical figures such as Wang Jian, Lian Po, and Li Mu into the Qin conquest of the Six Kingdoms. Original work by Yasuhisa Hara.

Based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Miyamoto Musashi, Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue follows Musashi Miyamoto as he wanders feudal Japan seeking to become the greatest swordsman. His path leads inevitably toward a fated duel with Sasaki Kojiro, reimagined in this manga as a man born deaf. Serialized in Weekly Morning since 1998; on extended hiatus since 2015.

Set in late Edo-period Japan, former top assassin Gabimaru is offered a pardon if he retrieves an immortality elixir from a mysterious island called Shinsenkyō. Accompanied by executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri, he joins other condemned criminals on an expedition into a paradise-turned-nightmare ruled by immortal beings called Tensen, who wield a power rooted in Taoist five-element theory called Tao.

Set in a fictional Chinese-inspired empire, orphaned apothecary's daughter Maomao is sold into the imperial harem and uses her knowledge of medicine and poison to solve a series of mysteries. The story interweaves court intrigue, the secrets of Maomao's own birth, and her complicated relationship with the eunuch official Jinshi.

Set on a fictional continent in the aftermath of the Great War, Violet Evergarden — a girl raised as a weapon — becomes an Auto Memory Doll, writing letters for others as she searches for the meaning of the last words spoken to her by Major Gilbert: 'I love you.' Produced by Kyoto Animation, the series comprises 13 TV episodes (2018), a theatrical side story (2019), and a feature film (2020).

Roughly 3,700 years after a mysterious petrification ray turns all of humanity to stone, teenage genius Senku Ishigami awakens and sets out to rebuild civilization from scratch using science. Written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2017–2022 (26 volumes).

In a 22nd-century Japan governed by the Sibyl System — which quantifies human psychological states and criminality as a numerical 'Crime Coefficient' — new Inspector Akane Tsunemori of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division 1 hunts the elusive criminal Shogo Makishima alongside Enforcer Shinya Kougami. The franchise spans TV anime Season 1 (22 episodes, 2012–2013), Season 2 (11 episodes, 2014), a theatrical film (2015), and further entries.

Set in Akihabara in 2010, self-styled mad scientist Rintaro Okabe accidentally invents a time machine (the Phone Microwave) and traverses world lines through D-Mails and time leaps. He struggles to escape a loop in which his childhood friend Mayuri dies, ultimately seeking the Steins Gate world line.

Set in 2071, when humanity has spread across the solar system following the catastrophic Gate accident on the Moon in 2022, Cowboy Bebop follows bounty hunters aboard the dilapidated spaceship Bebop. Led by the laconic Spike Spiegel, the crew chases criminals across the solar system while Spike's past with the Red Dragon crime syndicate—and his unresolved ties to Vicious and Julia—loom over every session. Covers the TV series (26 episodes, 1998) and the theatrical film Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001).

Written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. High school student Light Yagami acquires a Death Note — a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it — and begins eliminating criminals as 'Kira' in a bid for godhood. Part I follows his cat-and-mouse battle with genius detective L; Part II pits him against L's successors Near and Mello. Serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump (2003–2006), 12 volumes. In-story dates follow the official databook Death Note 13: How to Read (manga version).

Set in the near future, the story follows a boy named Kirito trapped in a full-dive VRMMORPG called Sword Art Online, where death in the game means death in reality. Beginning with the Aincrad death-game arc, it expands through ALO, GGO, and the Alicization arc.

A story of Saitama, a hero so powerful he defeats any enemy with one punch, who seeks true excitement while battling formidable foes. Based on ONE's webcomic, with the remake manga drawn by Yusuke Murata (serialized in Tonari no Young Jump) and three anime seasons. Set in fictional modern cities, centered on the conflict between the Hero Association and monsters.

A manga by Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari. Obstetrician Gorou Amemiya is reincarnated as the son of his idol, Ai Hoshino, and together with his twin sister Ruby, enters the entertainment industry while pursuing the truth behind their mother's death. Serialized in Weekly Young Jump 2020–2024, 166 chapters, 16 volumes.

A manga by Yukinobu Tatsu serialized in Jump+ since 2021. Momo Ayase, granddaughter of a spirit medium, and Okarun, a devout believer in extraterrestrials, simultaneously encounter both a ghost and aliens, launching them into a series of battles against supernatural entities and invaders from space.

Under the Holy Grail War system created by three magus families, seven Masters and their Heroic Spirit Servants fight for the Holy Grail in Fuyuki City. Ordinary teenager Shirou Emiya is drawn into the Fifth Holy Grail War and joins forces with Saber. The story branches across three routes: Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel.

Set in the far future of a universe dating from Universal Century 1 (A.D. 2801), this space opera follows the parallel stories of Galactic Empire genius Reinhard von Lohengramm and Free Planets Alliance genius Yang Wen-li, exploring the recurring cycles of war, politics, and history on a grand scale.

Based on a novel series by Nisio Isin, set in an early 21st-century Japanese provincial city. High school student Koyomi Araragi encounters girls entangled with supernatural phenomena known as 'oddities.' The series spans numerous works including Kizumonogatari, Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, and Owarimonogatari.

A manga by Naoya Matsumoto. Set in a modern Japan plagued by kaiju attacks, it follows Hibino Kafka, a kaiju-cleanup worker who gains the ability to transform into Kaiju No. 8 after being parasitized by a mysterious creature, and his battles as a Defense Force member. Serialized in Shonen Jump+ from 2020 to 2025 (16 volumes). Two anime seasons aired.

Set in the Karasuno High School volleyball club in Miyagi, small-statured wing spiker Shoyo Hinata and genius setter Tobio Kageyama chase the national title together. Manga by Haruichi Furudate, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2012–2020. Four anime seasons and a theatrical film released.

Set in a fictionalized Yokohama, ability users named after modern Japanese and Western literary figures wage war across rival factions — the Armed Detective Agency, the Port Mafia, the Guild, the Rats in the House of the Dead, and the Decay of the Angels. Atsushi Nakajima, expelled from an orphanage, is drawn into this conflict as the wielder of the ability 'Beast Beneath the Moonlight.'

Set in the fictional city of Mitakihara, the story follows girls who contract with the enigmatic entity Kyubey to become magical girls and fight witches. It portrays the dark truth behind the system that turns magical girls into witches, and the journey that leads protagonist Madoka Kaname to make a wish powerful enough to rewrite the laws of the universe. Homura Akemi's repeated time loops form a key structural element.

Set in late Muromachi-period Japan, young Emishi warrior Ashitaka travels west after receiving a curse, becoming entangled in the conflict between the ironworks settlement of Irontown and the gods of the ancient forest. A Studio Ghibli film directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1997) that confronts head-on the question of whether humans and nature can coexist.

A shonen manga by Kazuki Takahashi (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1996–2004). Game-loving high schooler Yugi Mutou completes the ancient 'Millennium Puzzle' passed down from his grandfather, awakening a second personality with lost memories of ancient Egypt. The series follows card-game duels ('Magic & Wizards') and the mystery of the seven Millennium Items rooted in ancient Egyptian history. This timeline covers only the original manga's main story (School arc through the Pharaoh's Memory arc) and does not include the GX spin-off or later.

In the summer of 1999, seven children are pulled into the Digital World during summer camp and must face threats to both worlds alongside their partner Digimon. The saga begins with the original Digimon Adventure (1999-2000), continues three years later in Digimon Adventure 02 (2000-2001), follows the now-teenage cast in Digimon Adventure tri. (2015-2018), and concludes their coming-of-age arc in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020) — a long-running series in which the protagonists age in step with real-world time.

An action-adventure game series published by Sega. Set primarily in the fictional entertainment district of Kamurocho (modeled on Tokyo's Kabukicho), the series follows Kazuma Kiryu and, later, Ichiban Kasuga as they navigate the criminal underworld, depicting a hidden history of Japanese society through conflicts involving fictional organizations such as the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance, spanning the bubble-era year of 1988 through the 2020s. This timeline covers the mainline series from 'Yakuza 0' (1988) to 'Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth' (2023–2024); all criminal organizations depicted are fictional.

Set in late 19th-century Victorian England, the young Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his demon butler Sebastian Michaelis—bound by a Faustian contract—serve as the Queen's Watchdog, investigating dark conspiracies. A manga by Yana Toboso serialized in Monthly GFantasy.

Set in the island city of Orth beside a vast chasm called the Abyss, young orphan Riko — daughter of the legendary White Whistle Lyza — descends with Reg, an amnesiac robot boy, toward the bottom of the Abyss. As they go deeper, the ascending curse grows more severe, and they gather companions while uncovering the chasm's darkest truths.

Satoru Mikami is killed by a street criminal and reincarnates as a slime in another world. Armed with the skills 'Great Sage' and 'Predator,' he builds the nation of Tempest — a country where monsters, humans, and demon lords coexist.

Set in Neo-Tokyo in 2019 — thirty-one years after the 1988 explosion that triggered World War III — the story follows a biker gang caught between the military, anti-government guerrillas, and their friend's uncontrolled awakening of psychic powers. Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's manga (serialised 1982–1990); the anime film was released in 1988.

Set in a highly networked post-war Japan following the Third and Fourth World Wars, the story follows Major Motoko Kusanagi — a full-body cyborg agent of Public Security Section 9 — as she battles cybercrime and political conspiracies. A landmark SF work questioning consciousness, identity, and what it means to be human.

Mysterious parasitic organisms appear on Earth, taking over human brains and controlling their hosts. High school student Shinichi Izumi is nearly taken over but the parasite, stopped from reaching his brain, settles in his right arm — and the two are forced into an unlikely symbiosis, naming the parasite 'Migi.' A manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki serialized in Monthly Afternoon from 1990 to 1995.

When an MMORPG shuts down, the supreme undead mage Ainz Ooal Gown is transported to another world together with the entirety of Nazarick's Great Tomb. With his NPC guardians now fully sentient, Ainz pursues world domination from his underground fortress.

A story centered on Cloud Strife, an ex-SOLDIER who joins the anti-Shinra group AVALANCHE, and his confrontation with Sephiroth over the fate of the planet. Alongside the original 1997 game, the 'Compilation of Final Fantasy VII' expanded the story through the prequels Before Crisis and Crisis Core and the sequels Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus.

Shinpei Ajiro returns to Hitogashima for the funeral of his childhood friend Ushio Kofune and confronts the island's doppelganger phenomenon. Repeated returns to July 22 become the key to tracing the full mystery.

A prequel to Fate/stay night depicting the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. Seven Masters and Servants, including Kiritsugu Emiya, Saber, and Kirei Kotomine, clash over the Grail.

In the Ad Stella era, where space corporations hold enormous power, transfer student Suletta Mercury arrives from Mercury and meets Miorine Rembran at Asticassia School of Technology. Through duels, corporate conflict, and the divide between Earth and space, they confront the past surrounding Gundams and the GUND Format.

Behind the Republic of San Magnolia's claim of an unmanned war, the Eighty-Six are forced to pilot its weapons while Lena serves as their Handler. This timeline follows the special reconnaissance mission, the Giad Federacy, and the operation against the Morpho.

On a far-future Earth after humanity retreats to the Moon, YoRHa units 2B and 9S enter the war against machine lifeforms. This timeline follows the 243rd Descent Operation, YoRHa's collapse, and the paths of A2 and 9S toward the Tower.

After a Red Dragon takes his sister Falin, Laios returns to the dungeon with Marcille, Chilchuck, and Senshi, surviving by cooking monsters as they attempt a rescue. This timeline follows their route through the dungeon toward the Mad Mage and the Golden Country.

A quiet taxi driver named Odokawa becomes the center of a mystery when a missing high-school girl connects the lives of his passengers.

Students whose school drifts into another dimension search for a place to belong amid new powers and unfamiliar rules.

In a distant future where gem-bodied beings fight the Lunarians, Phosphophyllite searches for a role and the truth of the world.

A fantasy story in which Bojji, the deaf and nonverbal first prince, meets Kage and gains his own strength amid a crisis over his kingdom's succession.

In a society of telekinetic humans, Saki and her friends uncover forbidden history and the secrets of their community.

In a Kyoto shared by humans, tengu, and tanuki, the four Shimogamo brothers face their father’s death and their family’s fate.

In a kingdom of thirteen territories, inspector Jean Otus travels through the districts while a rumor about the succession grows into a political mystery.

An ensemble story set in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, where the lives of Mikado Ryugamine, the Headless Rider, color gangs, and many others intersect.

Three students who want to make anime form Eizouken and complete projects while balancing imagination with real-world constraints.

Girls bound for Antarctica face their losses and themselves while preparing for and sharing an extraordinary journey.

Insomniacs Ganta Nakami and Isaki Magari make the school observatory their secret refuge and gradually grow closer.

Mitsumi Iwakura moves from the countryside to a Tokyo high school and builds new relationships in a gentle coming-of-age ensemble.

Miyo Saimori, mistreated despite her lineage of supernatural abilities, regains her strength and happiness through her engagement to Kiyoka Kudō.

Raven Consort Liu Shouxue, who practices special arts, faces palace mysteries and the emperor’s past in a nocturnal court fantasy.

In a mountain realm inhabited by yatagarasu, Yukiya, attendant to a young prince, is drawn into palace incidents and factional struggles.

After the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, Hōjō Tokiyuki uses an uncanny talent for escape to seek its restoration with Suwa Yorishige’s aid.

In a fifteenth-century-inspired world, people who inherit the study of heliocentrism resist repression by faith and power.

Konoha Akisato, dreaming of making visual novels, moves between past and future while exploring the industry and her own possibilities.

This historical animation portrays the rise and fall of the Taira clan through Biwa, a girl who can see the future.

Using Mizuhanome, a system that enters murderers’ subconscious minds, detectives investigate a series of killings through fragmented dream worlds.

In a world where memories can be bought and sold as data, an amnesiac young man named Kaiba travels through exchanged bodies and identities.

At a small aquarium in Okinawa, girls who have lost their dreams rethink work and belonging in this original anime.

Detective Gesicht investigates attacks on advanced robots and uncovers a past that threatens the world.

Students stranded during a planetary camp search for a way home across unknown worlds.

Lonely shogi player Rei Kiriyama rediscovers human connection through the Kawamoto family.

Stories of a train, mafia groups, and immortal alchemists collide in Prohibition-era America.

A lonely guitarist starts a band with new friends at a live house.

A science-fiction mystery following two travelers in post-disaster Japan and children in a sealed facility.

Chito and Yuuri travel through a ruined world on a Kettenkrad in a quiet post-apocalyptic journey.

In a city where body modification is common, David becomes an outlaw mercenary in a ten-episode story.

A light novel series by Kazuma Kamachi. Set in Academy City, a technologically advanced district west of Tokyo where science-based espers and magic-based sorcerers coexist in an uneasy balance, the story follows high schooler Touma Kamijou — whose right hand, the Imagine Breaker, negates all supernatural powers — after he takes in the amnesiac nun Index and is repeatedly drawn into incidents where the scientific and magical sides of the world collide.

A story of Shoya Ishida and Shoko Nishimiya, a deaf classmate he hurt in childhood, reconnecting and rebuilding relationships in high school.

A dark fantasy in which Tatsumi, a village youth who travels to the corrupt Capital, joins the assassin group Night Raid and fights the Empire's tyranny alongside Akame and her comrades.

A science-fiction war drama set fifteen years after the Earth–Mars ceasefire, following Earth student Inaho Kaizuka and Earth-born Martian subject Slaine Troyard as Princess Asseylum's goodwill visit becomes the flashpoint for renewed war.

A fantasy about Chise Hatori, a girl who had lost hope, finding a home and a way to live after the inhuman mage Elias welcomes her into a world of magic and fae.

A drama about amnesiac Otonashi awakening in an afterlife school and helping the Battlefront members and Kanade confront the regrets that keep them there.

A summer drama about childhood friends who drifted apart after Menma's accidental death, then reunite when she reappears and forces them to confront their grief and regrets.

A school horror mystery set in 1998, following transfer student Koichi Sakakibara and Mei Misaki as they investigate a calamity caused by a dead person joining Yomiyama North Middle School's Class 3-3.

A story in which New York street-gang leader Ash Lynx and Eiji Okumura pursue the mystery of Banana Fish and the conspiracy behind it.

An ensemble coming-of-age drama in which gray wolf Legoshi, red deer Louis, dwarf rabbit Haru, and others confront instinct, discrimination, and love in a society where carnivores and herbivores coexist.

In the magic-centered Clover Kingdom, magicless Asta and gifted wind mage Yuno pursue their shared goal of becoming the Wizard King.

Abandoned by his company, salaryman Rokuro Okajima takes the name Rock and joins the outlaw couriers of the Lagoon Company. Based in the corrupt city of Roanapur, he and Revy navigate jobs involving criminal syndicates, mercenaries, and assassins across both television seasons and the OVA.

A high-school coming-of-age story centered on Yuu Koito, who does not understand romantic love, and student-council candidate Touko Nanami.

A dark fantasy about Rin Okumura, the son of Satan, choosing the path of an exorcist after his foster father's death and confronting demons and hidden truths alongside his classmates and twin brother Yukio.

A soccer survival story in which 300 high-school forwards are confined in Blue Lock to create the world's greatest striker, with Yoichi Isagi and his rivals facing elimination-based selections and a decisive match against Japan's U-20 national team.

A fantasy about book-loving Urano Motosu reincarnating as the sickly Myne in a world where books are scarce, then using knowledge and cooperation to create paper, books, and printing while navigating its class-bound society.

Sleepless second-year middle-school student Ko Yamori meets the vampire Nazuna Nanakusa in the city at night and decides to fall in love with her so he can become a vampire. Their playful nights gradually uncover vampire secrets and detective Anko Uguisu's past.

An anthropomorphic science comedy portraying the human body as an enormous workplace where some 37 trillion cells—including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets—transport oxygen, repair injuries, and fight infection and cancer.

A youth drama set in a world where imperfect powers emerge during adolescence, following Yu Otosaka, who can possess another person for five seconds, as he works with Nao Tomori and the Hoshinoumi Academy student council to protect ability users.

A coming-of-age story in which Chihaya Ayase and her friends devote themselves to competitive karuta as she pursues the title of Queen.

A story of listless student Tomoya Okazaki, whose meeting with Nagisa Furukawa gives him friends and a place to belong. Beyond graduation, joy and devastating loss as husband and father lead him toward the town's lights and a family miracle.

A school psychological drama about Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, who enters the strictly meritocratic Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School and navigates special exams and class rivalry while concealing his abilities and past.

Makoto Naegi enters Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Lucky Student, only to be sealed inside with fourteen classmates. In the 2013 television anime, he resists Monokuma's rule that graduation requires murder and deception at a class trial, pursuing the truth behind each case and the despair surrounding the school.

A school romantic comedy about troubled middle-schooler Kyotaro Ichikawa and popular model Anna Yamada, whose encounters in the library gradually grow into mutual understanding and love.

A science-fiction ensemble drama about children raised to pilot FRANXX weapons in a ruined future, centered on Hiro and the horned Zero Two as they seek their own way of life and uncover humanity's hidden history.

At Quindecim, a bar receiving the dead, arbiter Decim judges souls through life-or-death games and begins approaching human emotion after meeting a black-haired woman with no memory of her identity.

In Japan's age of war, Hyakkimaru journeys to reclaim the body his father offered to demons, traveling with the young thief Dororo as they choose how to live amid monsters, family, and a realm at war.

Satoru Fujinuma, who involuntarily travels back to moments before disasters, returns eighteen years into the past to prevent his mother's death and a child-abduction murder case.

A fantasy adventure centered on fire Dragon Slayer Natsu and Celestial Spirit Mage Lucy as the wizards of the Fairy Tail guild take on jobs, rival guilds, and threats to the world.

A dark fantasy about Shinra joining the Special Fire Force to put Infernals to rest, then uncovering the truth behind the fire that took his family and a Cataclysm meant to remake the world.

A culinary school battle story about diner-raised chef Soma Yukihira, who enters the elite Totsuki Culinary Academy and aims for its summit through competitions with friends and formidable rivals.

After losing her mother, high-school student Tohru Honda discovers the Soma family secret: possessed members transform into zodiac animals when embraced by the opposite sex. Living with Yuki and Kyo, she confronts the curse and the family wounds it has sustained.

A workplace drama about Mitsuya Majime, an awkward salesman with a keen sensitivity to language, who joins a dictionary department and spends more than a decade compiling The Great Passage with his colleagues.

A coming-of-age band story about guitarist Ritsuka Uenoyama, whose fading passion for music returns after meeting Mafuyu Sato, a boy carrying his late lover's guitar, as they and their bandmates transform grief and love into songs.

College freshman Iori Kitahara moves into an Izu diving shop and is swept into a raucous campus life with the members of diving club Peek a Boo. This anime chronology covers all of Seasons 1 and 2 plus Season 3 episodes 1–5 aired by August 6, 2026.

A wartime drama about Seita and his little sister Setsuko, who lose their home and mother in the 1945 Kobe air raids, leave their relatives, and try to survive hunger and isolation together in an abandoned shelter.

A crime story in which con artist Makoto Edamura joins Laurent Thierry's crew and stages confidence games against criminals around the world.

A robot adventure in which Simon, a young digger from the underground village of Giha, reaches the surface with Kamina and Yoko and carries his comrades' will into a battle spanning the cosmos.

In the walled town of Glie, Rakka—a girl born from a cocoon with gray wings and a halo—lives among the residents of Old Home while confronting loss, guilt, and the meaning of the Day of Flight.

A light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa. At a high school in a provincial Japanese city, the eccentric student Haruhi Suzumiya forms the 'SOS Brigade' in her restless search for the extraordinary, unaware that an alien, a time traveler, and an esper are quietly watching over her activities — because she may unknowingly possess the power to reshape reality itself.

In 1983, Keiichi Maebara moves to the small mountain village of Hinamizawa and settles into daily life with new friends — until he begins to confront a string of local legends tied to the village's annual Watanagashi Festival. A mystery-horror work told across multiple branching 'chapters' that replay the same starting point from different angles.

A school romance about Kyoko Hori and Izumi Miyamura, whose bond grows after they discover the private selves each hides at school.

A fantasy about hatter Sophie, transformed into an old woman by the Witch of the Waste, living in wizard Howl's moving castle and uncovering the secret binding him to the fire demon Calcifer.

A school mystery about energy-saving high-school student Houtarou Oreki, who joins the Classics Club and investigates everyday mysteries with Eru Chitanda, Satoshi Fukube, and Mayaka Ibara.

A coming-of-age drama about an isolated high-school reader who learns that his classmate Sakura Yamauchi has little time left because of pancreatic disease and changes as they spend her remaining days together.

A fantasy adventure about Bell Cranel, the sole adventurer of the goddess Hestia's Familia in Orario, who grows toward heroism through friendships, encounters with the Xenos, and deadly expeditions into the Dungeon.

A school music story about novice guitarist Yui Hirasawa, who joins the Light Music Club and builds a band with Ritsu Tainaka, Mio Akiyama, Tsumugi Kotobuki, and their friends.

A school romantic comedy in which Shuchiin Academy student council leaders Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane scheme to make the other confess, before gradually learning to face their own feelings honestly.

A high-stakes gambling story about Kaiji Ito, who uses ingenuity and resolve to survive deadly contests after being burdened with enormous debt.

A school gambling thriller in which transfer student Yumeko Jabami disrupts the wagers and power structure ruling Hyakkaou Private Academy.

A period adventure in which Shichika Yasuri, head of the swordless Kyotoryu school, travels with strategist Togame to seek Shikizaki Kiki's twelve completed Deviant Blades.

Ryuko Matoi, seeking the truth behind her father's death, bonds with the living Kamui Senketsu and confronts Satsuki Kiryuin's rule over Honnouji Academy and the Life Fibers' plan to clothe humanity.

A youth ensemble drama about pain-insensitive high schooler Katsuhira Agata and classmates who would not normally associate, linked through the Kizna System for a summer experiment in shared pain.

After an untimely death, Kazuma Satou reincarnates in another world with the goddess Aqua and forms a deeply dysfunctional party with Megumin and Darkness, stumbling through debt, quests, and battles with the Demon King's generals.

After the Catastrophe traps them in a world resembling the MMORPG Elder Tale, Shiroe and his allies build a society through governance, economics, diplomacy, and battle while seeking a shared future for Adventurers and the People of the Land and a connection to Earth.

Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue, teenage agents of the secret crime-prevention organization DA, become partners at Café LycoReco. While handling local requests, the opposites confront Majima's campaign against the Lycoris system and a crisis surrounding Chisato's artificial heart.

An adventure following the mysterious Magi Aladdin and would-be king Alibaba from their first dungeon conquest through journeys across nations, where they confront political conflict and Al-Thamen's scheme to drive the world into depravity.

A mystery drama about brothers Kanba and Shoma Takakura, who search for the Penguindrum to save their ill sister Himari and confront a fate bound to their family and a past tragedy.

Spanning from the Cold War year 1964 to the near future of 2014, the Metal Gear series follows the legendary soldier Big Boss and the genetically engineered children who inherit his legacy. Beginning with a duel against his mentor The Boss, the saga traces the rise and fall of private military organizations and a decades-long struggle against the shadowy 'Patriots' who secretly govern the world — a fictional chronicle built atop real Cold War history. Created by Hideo Kojima, the series is renowned for pioneering stealth-action gameplay.

A coming-of-age story about middle-school psychic Shigeo Kageyama learning to face his emotions and powers through relationships and supernatural crises.

A suspense story following neurosurgeon Kenzo Tenma across Europe as he tries to stop the crimes of Johan, the boy whose life he once saved in Germany.

A school comedy about Chiyo Sakura, who discovers that her crush Umetarou Nozaki is a popular shojo manga artist and begins assisting him alongside an eccentric circle of friends.

An atmospheric tale about Ginko, a traveling mushi master who investigates phenomena caused by primitive lifeforms called mushi and seeks ways for humans and mushi to coexist.

An otherworld fantasy about a jobless man burdened by regret who is reborn as Rudeus and tries to live fully through magic, travel, and new relationships.

A school romance about Wakana Gojo, an aspiring hina-doll craftsman who begins making costumes for cosplay-loving classmate Marin Kitagawa, building skill, confidence, friendships, and growing feelings through their creative work.

A high-school youth drama in which cynical Hachiman Hikigaya is forced into the Service Club and, alongside Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama, handles students' requests while searching for something genuine in human relationships.

A music and relationship drama about two twenty-year-old women named Nana—punk vocalist Nana Osaki and romantic Nana Komatsu—who meet on a train to Tokyo, share Apartment 707, and become inseparable as their ambitions and complicated relationships intertwine.

Takashi Natsume, who can see yokai, inherits the Book of Friends left by his grandmother Reiko and returns the names within it alongside his bodyguard Nyanko-sensei, gradually building a home among both humans and yokai.

Unbeaten gamer siblings Sora and Shiro are summoned to Disboard, a world where everything is decided by games, and become rulers of the weakest race, Imanity, beginning a challenge against all sixteen races and the One True God Tet. The Great War of the film Zero is integrated chronologically.

A modern mythic fantasy about Yato, a nameless god without a shrine, who meets the half-phantom Hiyori Iki and his Regalia Yukine and begins confronting his past while building a place to belong.

Second-year student Naho Takamiya and her friends use letters from their regretful selves ten years in the future to try to save Kakeru Naruse. The letters do not erase the future that sent them; they create a new parallel branch in which Kakeru may survive.

A psychological thriller about former pop idol Mima Kirigoe, whose move into acting exposes her to disturbing roles, a stalker, and murders around her until performance, delusion, and reality become dangerously intertwined.

A coming-of-age sports anime centered on childhood friends Peco and Smile, tracing the talent, defeat, and renewal of high-school players who stake their lives on table tennis.

Set in 2075, this science-fiction drama follows Hachimaki and the debris-collection crew as routine spaceflight forces them to confront work, ambition, love, and social inequality.

A multigenerational drama set in the rakugo world from the Showa era into Heisei, tracing Yakumo and Sukeroku's bond and the lives of Yotaro, Konatsu, and those who inherit their names.

A youth story in which high-school student Sakuta Azusagawa meets Mai Sakurajima, who can no longer be perceived by others, and confronts the strange manifestations of emotional turmoil known as Adolescence Syndrome.

Twenty-seven-year-old Arata Kaizaki, struggling after leaving his first job, enters a rehabilitation experiment that makes him look like a high-school student for one year. Across the 13 television episodes and four-part Final Arc, he confronts his past, forms bonds with classmates, and grows close to Chizuru Hishiro, who carries a similar secret.

A historical romance in which the fate of Oscar, a fictional officer raised as a man, intersects with the lives of the real queen Marie Antoinette and others on the road to the French Revolution. The 1979 TV series and 2025 film are integrated into one chronology.

A rationalist Japanese salaryman rejects the deity Being X and is reincarnated as Tanya, a girl in a war-torn alternate world. Seeking safe rear duty, her exceptional ability instead keeps sending her to the Imperial Army's most dangerous fronts.

A period road story set in the mid-Edo era, following Fuu and her two swordsman bodyguards, Mugen and Jin, as they search for a samurai who smells of sunflowers.

A psychological science-fiction story about 14-year-old Lain Iwakura, whose email from a deceased classmate draws her into the collapsing boundary between the real world and the Wired.

An ensemble workplace drama about Aoi Miyamori and four friends who pledged in high school to make animation together, then struggle and grow in different production roles. The full 24-episode TV series and the film set four years later are integrated.

An action fantasy about E-rank hunter Shun Mizushino, once derided as humanity's weakest weapon, who gains a private leveling system and grows into the commander of a shadow army.

A dark-fantasy school adventure about meister Maka, weapon Soul, and three student teams who use soul resonance to confront witches, madness, and a resurrected Kishin.

A three-year coming-of-age story following Kumiko Oumae in Kitauji High School's concert band as she faces conflicts, competitions, and the pursuit of national gold.

A human drama about brothers Mutta and Hibito Nanba, who promise as children to become astronauts and pursue their dream of standing together on the Moon through setbacks and rigorous training.

A space comedy in which alien hunter Dandy travels with the robot QT and Betelgeusian Meow, searching for undiscovered aliens across strange planets, parallel universes, and even the afterlife.

A journey in which traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and wolf deity Holo navigate commercial crises while heading north toward Holo's homeland of Yoitsu.

Ten-year-old Chihiro strays into a world of countless gods while moving house. Working at the bathhouse Aburaya, she learns to survive, protects her true name, and seeks to return to the human world with her parents, who have been turned into pigs.

A parallel-world campus story in which a third-year student repeatedly regrets the club he chose at matriculation. Episodes 1–9, including the nested alternatives of episodes 6–8, are alternate versions of the same two years, not consecutive events. Episodes 10–11 gather their traces into the Tatami Galaxy and converge on a choice in the present.

In nineteenth-century Paris, the young vampire Noe joins Vanitas, a human who calls himself a vampire doctor, to investigate curse-bearers and the mystery of Charlatan with the Book of Vanitas, a grimoire used to save vampires from their curses. This timeline covers both cours of the 24-episode TV anime.

A fantasy comedy about the defeated Demon King Satan fleeing to modern Japan, working as Sadao Maou, and confronting conflicts across two worlds alongside his former enemies and new companions.

A supernatural survival thriller about Yukiteru Amano and Yuno Gasai, whose future-predicting diaries draw them into a deadly contest for godhood and a cycle of repeating worlds.

An isekai fantasy about Naofumi Iwatani, the Shield Hero who loses everything to a false accusation and rises again by building trust with Raphtalia and confronting the Waves and threats to multiple worlds.

A time-travel comedy about Lucius, a bathhouse architect in ancient Rome who repeatedly visits modern Japan and the Edo period, adapting their bathing culture into innovative Roman thermae.

A fantasy drama about Fushi, an immortal being able to copy other forms, who gains humanity through repeated meetings and losses while battling the Nokkers across generations.

In the spring of their second high-school year, kind Ryuuji Takasu and fearsome Taiga Aisaka discover each other's unrequited crushes. They form an alliance to help one another, but school events and family troubles gradually force them to confront their feelings for the person closest to them.

On the desert planet No Man's Land, pacifist wanderer Vash the Stampede travels with reporters Meryl and Roberto and undertaker Nicholas D. Wolfwood. The 2023 television series follows their journey toward Vash's past and his conflict with twin brother Millions Knives over the Plants that sustain humanity.

In October 1986, the wealthy Ushiromiya family gathers for its annual conference on their private island of Rokkenjima as patriarch Kinzo lies gravely ill. Amid the question of his vast inheritance and the family's own legend of the 'Golden Witch Beatrice,' rivalries among the family play out on the isolated island in this mystery work built around reader-solvable puzzles.

A post-apocalyptic journey about Kiba and other wolves who disguise themselves as humans and travel with the flower maiden Cheza in search of the legendary Paradise.

A workplace romantic comedy centered on closeted fujoshi Narumi Momose and her childhood friend Hirotaka Nifuji, a devoted gamer, as awkward otaku couples navigate love and everyday office life.

After losing her father and fleeing the castle with bodyguard Hak, Princess Yona of Kouka follows a priest's prophecy to seek the White, Blue, Green, and Yellow Dragons. The 24 television episodes and original anime DVDs follow her awakening to her kingdom's reality and the history carried by the Dragon Warriors.

A coming-of-age music drama about pianist Kosei Arima, who loses the sound of his piano after his mother's death and begins returning to music and life after meeting violinist Kaori Miyazono.

A romantic fantasy about Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high-school girl in rural Itomori, and Tokyo student Taki Tachibana, whose body-swapping bond crosses a three-year gap and compels them to change both a comet disaster and each other's fate.