This very depressing anime follows a piano prodigy that gains musician’s block and a violinist who helps (forces) him to perform again
Your Lie in April
This 1995 anime is about an reluctant teenager that is recruited by his father to pilot a giant biomechanical robot to defend humanity against alien monsters known as Angels.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
This story features a guy who reads a 3,149 chapter novel just for real life to become the novel he just read. Using his ability of knowing how the story ends to battle challenging scenarios and more with his companion.
Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (ORV)
Being a very controversial anime, this story follows a low e-ranked guy who was given a chance to become op after being on the brink of death in a dungeon. He was able to speedrun leveling up indefinitely without limits.
Solo Leveling
In this anime, high school boys foster their inner ego while aiming to be the best, highest scoring striker in the world.
Blue Lock
This anime follows a sparking romance between an intimidating "delinquent" guy and a bubbly girl that loves to eat. The story follows their bond and pure romance regardless of their opposing schools and their insane height difference.
The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
Set in the future (2071), a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters aboard a spaceship to catch criminals across the solar system. This 1998 anime was also given a live action in 2021.
Cowboy Bebop
This story follows an engineer who is reincarnated into an alternate Victorian-era world and navigates through a complex supernatural society to discover the mysteries behind his transmigration.
Lord of the Mysteries
This anime, having one of the worst fandoms in existence, is about a bullied green hair kid who eats hair from the #1 hero to gain their power and become their successor.
My Hero Academia
4 high school boys make a splash in this sports anime loosely based off the light novel, High Speed!
Free
This anime is pretty straightfoward. Two elite high school geniuses compete to see who will admit their love first.
Kaguya-sama: Love is War
A dystopian mecha anime where humanity is facing extinction. Adolescent pilots pair up in male-female pairs to operate giant mechs called Franxx.
Darling in the Franxx
This Chinese literature is made with a plot spanning over 800 years, as a crown prince ascends to heaven only to be sent back down. To pay off his divine debts he teams up with a powerful ghost king who just so happened to follow this prince for centuries as his unofficial protector (and lover).
Heavens Official Blessing
With a new season coming out in October of this year, 2 orphans fight to become the wizard king after both gaining powerful grimoires.
Black Clover
This anime features a skateboarder and a snowboarder who participate in illegal street races with other very zesty men.
Sk8 (the) Infinity
In this 2022 anime, a guy with a passion for fashion gets help from a extroverted classmate of his who helps him create cosplay costumes for her.
My Dress-Up Darling
In a world where the Britannian Empire conquers Japan, the exiled Britannia Prince gains the power of absolute obedience and leads a Japanese rebellion against his own homeland.
Code Geass
A martial arts action/comedy about a legendary swordsman who reincarnates 100 years later after dying to defeat the demon cult. He finds his sect in poverty and ruins, so he helps restore it while hiding the truth behind is actual identity.
Return of the Mount Hua Sect/Return of the Blossoming Blade
Curses? Sorcerers? Demons? The mc swallows a finger too?? There is a reason why this anime is in this category.
Jujutsu Kaisen
In this rural Japanese supernatural horror plot, a teenage boy discovers his best friend dead in the mountains, who later on comes back alive possessed by an unknown entity.
The Summer Hikaru Died
This anime, that received an anime adaption this year, features a high schooler who takes up at job as a housekeeper. Coincidentally for her favorite bipolar idol.
Tamon’s B-Side
A 14 year old girl enters a virtual reality network called “The Wired” later realizing she was created as a powerful software artifact designed to push the boundaries of physical and digital.
Serial Experiments Lain
Follows an F-rank hunter that goes back in time 5 years after his op younger brother dies. In this new timeline he is given a skill to basically tame op ranked hunters and uses this to protect his brother.
The S-Classes That I Raised/My S-Class Hunters
This action anime has a main character who has one main goal, women. He becomes a hybrid after merging with his pet to fight monsters for a government agency.
Chainsaw Man
In this 2018 Netflix original anime series, a sensitive teen merges with a demon to save humanity alongside his childhood friend who is the human persona of the fallen angel, Satan.
Devilman Crybaby