Old School (1980s-2000s)
This 1996 anime is based off of the video game franchise whose most recent mainline game sold 24.92 million copies worldwide.
What is Pokémon?
This 2022 anime adaption follows a spy, an assassin, and a psychic.
What is Spy X Family?
This shonen franchise is incredibly popular to this day, even after the recent death of its creator, Akira Toriyama.
What is Dragon Ball Z?
This shojo anime has 10 seasons and 2 movies, popularizing the “magical girl” genre worldwide.
What is Sailor Moon?
This character, from the series My Hero Academia, starts this action-packed superhero anime with no powers whatsoever.
Who is Izuku Midoriya?
This 2000 anime ran for 167 episodes and follows a middle school girl who finds herself trapped in another world with a half dog demon.
What is Inuyasha?
This 2015 superhero anime follows a seemingly plain looking man who is extremely overpowered.
What is One Punch Man?
This 2004 anime follows Ichigo who’s life forever changes when he’s given a sword.
Hint: no one knows why it’s named after a cleaning fluid.
What is Bleach?
This 2001 shojo anime received a successful reboot in 2019 because wow that art was ROUGH.
What is Fruits Basket?
This character from Jujustu Kaisen is technically both the protagonist (hero) and antagonist (villain), and garners most of his abilities from said villain.
Who is Yuji Itadori?
This 2003 anime adaptation follows a gentleman who has a strange ability - he fights with his nose hair.
Hint: it has a strange name.
What is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo?
This 2012 anime adaption has garnered respect worldwide for mixing real world military tactics from the 13th century with supernatural drama.
What is Attack on Titan?
This is the name of the jutsu titular character Naruto Uzumaki uses to temporarily clone himself.
What is “Shadow Clone Jutsu”?
This 2019 anime comedy follows two high school students who both like each other but don’t want to confess.
What is Kagusama: Love is War?
This character is a pop idol in her anime who gets tricked by a notorious serial killer.
Who is Misa Aname?
This 1992 anime received a recent Netflix adaptation and was created by Yoshihiro Togashi, the creator of Hunter X Hunter.
What is YuYu Hakusho?
This 2019 anime follows a scientist trying to discover why he turned to stone.
What is Dr. Stone?
This is the name of the power system in Blue Exorcist.
What is Magic?
This classic 1998 anime follows Sakura, as she corrects a major mistake with her new found magical abilities.
What is Cardcaptor Sakura?
Ash Ketchum had a lot of companions over his three decade term as a 10-year-old boy. But these two gym leaders are the first two that he chooses to travel with.
Who are Misty and Brock?
This 1998 anime is considered by many to have one of the greatest English dubs of all time, anime or otherwise.
What is Cowboy Bebop?
This anime may have had an adaption in 2004 but the more faithful reboot in 2010 made what many Western audiences consider the greatest anime of all time.
What is Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
These swords are used to slay demons.
What are Nichirin Swords?
This 2006 anime follows student Haruhi and their rise to fame in their school’s most popular club.
What is Ouran High School Host Club?
In the anime One Piece, this is the group Monkey D. Luffy steals the devil fruit from in the first episode.
Who are the “Red Hair” Shanks?