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You wanna be the very best? This anime has been running in one form or another since 1997 and is notable for being a video game adaptation as well as having movies and trading cards.
Pokémon
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Cowboy Bebop
The writer and director of such films as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Moving Castle.
Hayao Miyazaki
This Rooster Teeth originating series focuses on 4 female protagonists fighting monsters knows as Grimm.
RWBY
The name of the latest Dragon Ball series that ran from October 2024 to February 2025.
Dragon Ball Daima
At over 1100 episodes of anime and 113 volumes of manga, this swashbuckling series is notable for having an actually good Netflix adaptation in 2023.
One Piece
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My Hero Academia
Released in 1988 this hugely influential cyberpunk film set in a 2019 Neo Tokyo featured cool motorcycle scenes, telekinetic powers and a giant gross blob of flesh consuming a stadium.
Akira
This Nickelodeon Animation Studios production focused on special individuals who could wield the elements of water, earth, fire, and most notably air.
Avatar
When gathering all 7 Dragon Balls on Earth you summon Shenron. When gathering the Dragon Balls on Namek you summon this Dragon.
Porunga
Primarily a spinoff video game series of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise, this property branched off into musicals and anime adaptations that were usually subtitled as ”The Animation.”
Persona
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Jushin Liger
As of 2025, this film adaptation continuing the story of a popular series became the highest grossing anime movie of all time with a worldwide gross of $780 million dollars.
Demon Slayer: Kimestsu No Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle
Animated in South Korea for Netflix from 2016-2018 this reboot of a classic anime featured people piloting large feline robots that would combine into one large robo warrior.
Voltron: Legendary Defender
The rival martial arts school to Master Roshi’s Turtle School. Led by Master Shen and trained Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu.
The Crane School
Super Mario‘s first movie was not the 1993 film starring Bob Hoskins but this anime adaptation in 1986 under this title.
Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!
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Sand Land
One of the films that made Makoto Shinkai a household name, this movie revolves around Taki and Mitsuha as they wake up periodically having switched bodies.
Your Name
This South Korean web novel and anime features Sung Jin-woo, the weakest weapon of humanity and lowest ranked Hunter who suddenly gains the ability to “level up” without help.
Solo Leveling
A technique primarily used by Gods of Destruction, Beerus used it to kill Zamasu in the present timeline.
Hakai
This 1968 manga about fictional professional wrestler Naoto Date would be adapted into multiple anime films, series, and most notably as an actual professional wrestling character still being used in New Japan Pro Wrestling to this day.
Tiger Mask
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Skeleton Knight in Another World
This 2003 Satoshi Kon directed film focuses on 3 vagabonds, a middle aged drunk, a trans woman, and a teenage runaway and their struggle to take care of baby they find in a trash can.
Tokyo Godfathers
Based on the manga-style comic by Aaron McGruder, this animated sitcom focuses on Huey, Riley and Grandad and their experiences living in a white suburb.
The Boondocks
In GT, the scientist that created Baby and Hell Fighter 17.
Dr. Myuu