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1. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2005)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Crime
The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.
Stars: Shirô Saitô, Atsuko Tanaka, Osamu Saka, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Votes: 20,957
2. Dororo (2019)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Sightless Hyakkimaru wields fearsome prosthetics in place of the limbs his father traded to 12 demons. When he encounters the young thief Dororo, the pair sets out to reclaim Hyakkimaru's body parts and survive the demon-infested world.
Stars: Jason Douglas, Rio Suzuki, Mugihito, Chaney Moore
Votes: 20,117
3. Rurouni Kenshin (1996–1998)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.
Stars: Mayo Suzukaze, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, Richard Cansino, Rebecca Forstadt
Votes: 20,566
4. Future Boy Conan (1978)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Long after a devastating war almost destroyed the entire world, a boy with superhuman strength fights to save his friends from those who seek to conquer what is left of civilization.
Stars: Noriko Ohara, Sabrina Pitre, Erin Mathews, Masatô Ibu
Votes: 4,994
5. The Twelve Kingdoms (2002–2003)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
When high school student Youko Nakajima finds out she is the rightful heir of a mysterious kingdom, she sets off on a fantasy voyage of danger and magic.
Stars: Mari Devon, Kate Higgins, Houko Kuwashima, Aya Hisakawa
Votes: 2,202
6. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (2007)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Second Empress hires a spear-wielding woman to save her son from the Mikado (emperor) who believes the young prince is possessed by a water demon foretold to bring a terrible drought upon the land should he live.
Stars: Mabuki Andô, Naoto Adachi, Kôji Tsujitani, Hirofumi Nojima
Votes: 2,943
7. Charcoal Feather Federation (2002)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A young girl is reborn as an angel-like creature called a haibane, with no memory of who she once was.
Stars: Ryô Hirohashi, Junko Noda, Eri Miyajima, Fumiko Orikasa
Votes: 4,149
8. Initial D: First Stage (1998)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
The story of a young delivery boy who becomes a drift-racing legend.
Stars: Shin'ichirô Miki, Steve Blum, Todd Haberkorn, Scott Menville
Votes: 4,075
9. Akira (1988)
R | 124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 205,412 | Gross: $0.55M
10. Dennou Coil (2007)
TV-14 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected, augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yuuko Okonogi moves with her family to Daikoku City, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world.
Stars: Hilary Haag, Monica Rial, Tiffany Grant, Brittney Karbowski
Votes: 1,003
11. Gurren Lagann (2007)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Two friends, Simon and Kamina, become the symbols of rebellion against the powerful Spiral King, who forced mankind into subterranean villages.
Stars: Tetsuya Kakihara, Shizuka Itou, Yuri Lowenthal, Marina Inoue
Votes: 21,055
12. Invincible (2021– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An adult animated series based on the Skybound/Image comic about a teenager whose father is the most powerful superhero on the planet.
Stars: Steven Yeun, J.K. Simmons, Sandra Oh, Grey Griffin
Votes: 204,772
13. The Tatami Galaxy (2010)
TV-14 | 253 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
When a nameless student at Kyoto University encounters a demigod one night, he asks to relive the past three years in order to win the heart of Ms. Akashi, the object of his affection.
Stars: Shintarô Asanuma, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Rin Mizuhara, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 4,945
14. Planetes (2003–2004)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Ai Tanabe joins the Debris Section of the Technora Corporation as they work to remove the debris left around Earth. As Ai tries to accommodate to space life, she learns more about her crew on the dilapidated 'Toy Box'.
Stars: Kazunari Tanaka, Satsuki Yukino, Ai Orikasa, Kirk Thornton
Votes: 3,931
15. Vinland Saga (2019–2023)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Following a tragedy, Thorfinn embarks on a journey with the man responsible for it to take his life in a duel as a true and honorable warrior to pay homage.
Stars: Yûto Uemura, Mike Haimoto, Shin'ya Takahashi, Alejandro Saab
Votes: 71,963
16. Heavenly Delusion (2023)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Mystery
A boy grows up behind the safe walls of an apocalyptic Japan full of monsters. Tokyo flourishes as a paradise, while outside the walls of hell dangers lurk. However, a small group searches for heaven.
Stars: Gen Satô, Sayaka Senbongi, Hibiku Yamamura, Nick Martineau
Votes: 6,628
17. 【Oshi No Ko】 (2023– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A doctor and his recently-deceased patient are reborn as twins to a famous Japanese musical idol and navigate the highs and lows of the Japanese entertainment industry as they grow up together through their lives.
Stars: Takeo Otsuka, Yurie Igoma, Megumi Han, Jack Stansbury
Votes: 8,582
18. Dark Gathering (2023– )
TV-MA | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Keitarô Gentôga takes a part-time job tutoring the child prodigy, Yayoi Hôzuki. Little does he know she's a gifted medium hell-bent on finding the spirit behind her mother's vanishing and she's gravely determined to drag Keitarô into it.
Stars: Yû Sasahara, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kana Hanazawa, Yoshihiro Nakamura
Votes: 492
19. Land of the Lustrous (2017)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
The Houseki fight against the Moon Dwellers, beings who attack them and use their shattered bodies as decorations. Each Houseki is assigned a role, and Phos, the youngest, is assigned to create an encyclopedia of natural history.
Stars: Tomoyo Kurosawa, Sarah Wiedenheft, Ai Kayano, Yumi Uchiyama
Votes: 2,069
20. Steamboy (2004)
PG-13 | 126 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.
Directors: Shinji Takagi, Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina, Anne Suzuki
Votes: 18,728 | Gross: $0.41M
21. A Certain Scientific Railgun (2009–2020)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
In Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T Mikoto Misaka and her friends prepare for the Daihasei Festival, a seven-day sports competition between different Esper schools, which, of course, also include the Tokiwadai middle school.
Stars: Rina Satô, Brittney Karbowski, Satomi Arai, Aki Toyosaki
Votes: 1,893
22. Sonny Boy (2021)
TV-14 | Animation, Drama, Mystery
A group of students on summer vacation find themselves transported to another dimension and granted superpowers to survive there.
Stars: Aoi Yûki, Christopher Wehkamp, Siddhartha Minhas, Kristen McGuire
Votes: 1,883
23. Hinamatsuri (2018)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The comfortable life of committed bachelor and efficient yakuza Nitta is interrupted when a strange girl with psychic powers comes to live with him.
Stars: Yoshiki Nakajima, Brina Palencia, Jarrod Greene, Takako Tanaka
Votes: 2,431
24. NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (2023– )
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Animated adaptation of NieR: Automata (2017), where a long-running war on post-apocalyptic Earth between androids and machines soon unveils the truth of the world.
Stars: Yui Ishikawa, Natsuki Hanae, Kaoru Akiyama, Hiroki Yasumoto
Votes: 1,687
25. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022–2023)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In an era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system, Suletta Mercury, from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of ... See full summary »
Stars: E.A. Castillo, Lynn, Kana Ichinose, Yôhei Azakami
Votes: 1,295
26. Lycoris Recoil (2022– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
In a downtown Tokyo café, a group of girls will help sort out any problems to help the local customers.
Stars: Lizzie Freeman, Xanthe Huynh, Ami Koshimizu, Jennifer Losi
Votes: 2,926
27. Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (2021)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The female looking and first autonomous AI named Diva is created for one mission to make everyone happy by singing. Shortly Diva is confronted by an unknown "program" from the future with objective to make Diva join him and destroy AIs.
Stars: Atsumi Tanezaki, Jun Fukuyama, Cristina Valenzuela, Max Mittelman
Votes: 4,084
28. Space Brothers (2012–2014)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One evening two brothers see what appears to be a UFO in the sky. Whether or not that was the case becomes irrelevant, but it does spark an interest in space and the two brothers make a ... See full summary »
Stars: Miyuki Sawashiro, Hiroaki Hirata, Kenichiro Ohashi, Yûko Sanpei
Votes: 557
29. Barakamon (2014)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
Stars: Daisuke Ono, Suzuko Hara, Nozomi Furuki, Rina Endô
Votes: 4,194
30. Bungo Stray Dogs (2016– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Follows Atsushi Nakajima as he joins the Armed Detective Agency in battling the Port Mafia and other superhuman threats to public safety.
Stars: Mamoru Miyano, Yûto Uemura, Kaiji Tang, Yoshimasa Hosoya
Votes: 9,771
31. Given (2019)
23 min | Animation, Drama, Music
Ritsuka was ready to give up on music until he met Mafuyu Satou; now Mafuyu is taking guitar lessons from Ritsuka, who, after hearing Mafuyu's strikingly beautiful voice, hopes to make him the lead singer of his band.
Stars: Jonah Scott, Jessie James Grelle, Takuya Eguchi, Yuma Uchida
Votes: 4,892
32. Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2016)
26 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
The life and career of Eighth Generation Yakumo Yurakutei, a legendary 20th century rakugo artist whose journey is greatly influenced by his incredibly gifted but hot-headed best friend.
Stars: Akira Ishida, Tomokazu Seki, Kôichi Yamadera, Megumi Hayashibara
Votes: 1,439
33. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A Street Kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an Edgerunner, a Mercenary outlaw also known as a Cyberpunk.
Stars: Zach Aguilar, Kenichiro Ohashi, Kagga Jayson, Emi Lo
Votes: 79,077
34. Drifting Home (2022)
PG | 119 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Follows two childhood friends who drift into a mysterious sea with an entire housing complex.
Directors: Hiroyasu Ishida, Yô Watanabe | Stars: Mutsumi Tamura, Asami Seto, Ayumu Murase, Daiki Yamashita
Votes: 4,118
35. Summer Time Rendering (2022)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Due to the death of her childhood friend, Shinpei returns to her native home, but beneath the surface this island seems to hold some secrets.
Stars: Natsuki Hanae, Stephen Fu, John Choi, Merk Nguyen
Votes: 5,845
36. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023)
TV-MA | 28 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, only to find out her seven evil exes stand in the way of their love.
Stars: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Satya Bhabha, Kieran Culkin
Votes: 16,940
37. Insomniacs After School (2023)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Two insomniac students meet and start to spend their nights in an observatory together.
Stars: Gen Satô, Konomi Tamura, Seiichiro Yamashita, Lynn
Votes: 1,033
38. Pluto (2023)
TV-14 | 62 min | Animation, Action, Drama
When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
Stars: Shinshû Fuji, Yôko Hikasa, Rachel Slotky, Kirk Thornton
Votes: 12,465
39. Scavengers Reign (2023)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The crew of a damaged deep space freighter strands on a beautiful but dangerous planet.
Stars: Sunita Mani, Wunmi Mosaku, Bob Stephenson, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 15,892
40. Pantheon (2022–2023)
TV-14 | 41 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A young woman starts to get messages from an unknown number that claims to be her deceased father. Trying to uncover the truth, she stumbles upon a larger conspiracy involving the singularity.
Stars: Katie Chang, Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Rosemarie DeWitt
Votes: 6,598
41. Yuki Yuna Is a Hero (2014–2021)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Yuna Yuki is an ordinary middle school student. But there is one extraordinary thing about Yuki-she belongs to the "Brave Hero Club." What does this club do? Who is "Vertex?"
Stars: Haruka Terui, Suzuko Mimori, Yumi Uchiyama, Tomoyo Kurosawa
Votes: 260
42. Sand Land: The Series (2024– )
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, water is controlled by a greedy ruler. Sheriff Rao enlists the king of demons' son Beelzebub and assistant Thief to find a lost lake, facing dangers across the desert.
Stars: Jonathan Lipow, Owen Thomas, Alan Adelberg, Risa Mei
Votes: 474
43. Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
TV-14 | 316 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
Stars: Kaori Shimizu, Bridget Hoffman, Dan Lorge, Randy McPherson
Votes: 17,228
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