10 anime to watch after Solo Leveling
Dungeon survivors, rare skills and underestimated fighters: ten picks matched to what you enjoyed about Jinwoo’s rise.
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10 racing anime to watch
From Capeta's home-built kart to Redline's interplanetary spectacle, find a racing story for the team, the technique or the sheer invention.
A Place Further Than the Universe
Mari Tamaki wants to do something with her school years but keeps hesitating. She joins Shirase Kobuchizawa’s plan to reach Antarctica, where Shirase’s mother disappeared during an expedition. Two more girls join a journey that turns an unlikely ambition into a shared practical undertaking.
A Silent Voice
A Silent Voice's bullying, communication and uneasy reconciliation: the 2016 film's appeal, viewpoint, content guidance and viewing commitment.
A Silent Voice
Shoya seeks out Shoko, the deaf girl he bullied at school, hoping to address the harm he caused. Their attempt to reconnect involves classmates who also took part. The film follows awkward conversations, guilt and the difficulty of listening without making forgiveness a condition of an apology.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.
Jean Otus travels between thirteen autonomous districts to inspect the organisation that keeps their kingdom running. His unhurried manner makes him difficult to read. ACCA turns the duties of an auditor into a way of approaching a state whose political relationships are less settled than they first appear.
Angel’s Egg
A girl carries an egg through a city partly submerged in water, believing that an angel waits inside. A boy searching for a bird from his dreams joins her. As they explore the ruins, his curiosity about the egg puts their fragile new friendship under pressure.
Anime That Trust You to Figure Things Out
A household, a network and a taxi ride: three ways anime let you understand a scene before you understand its mystery.
ARIA The ANIMATION
Akari Mizunashi comes from Earth to the water-covered planet Aqua to train as an Undine, a gondolier and guide in Neo-Venezia. Her working days combine boat practice, new friendships and encounters around a city modelled on Venice. Small changes in its weather and routines become occasions to explore.
Attack on Titan
Humanity shelters behind enormous walls from Titans that eat people. Eren wants to explore outside, but a giant taller than the defences destroys that fragile safety. He joins Mikasa and Armin in military training, where learning to fight the creatures begins with meeting the demands of their instructors.
Azumanga Daioh
Ten-year-old Chiyo Mihama enters high school among classmates five years older than her. She joins a group whose very different habits make lessons, school events and ordinary conversations unpredictable. Their teacher Yukari is often as much a source of disorder as the pupils she is meant to manage.
Barakamon
Calligrapher Seishu Handa is sent to a remote island after punching an influential figure in his profession. He expects space to work, but the local children and their neighbours keep entering his life. His unfamiliar home becomes a place to reconsider both his writing and the way he treats people.
Black Clover
A guide to Black Clover's magic, social divisions and team battles, with reasons to try it, drawbacks and a practical starting point.
Black Clover
Asta wants to become Wizard King in a kingdom where magical ability and family background decide a person's opportunities. He cannot cast a spell, but gains a sword that cancels magic. His rivalry with Yuno and battles alongside the Black Bulls turn that unusual advantage into a team effort.
Black Clover 2nd Season: Japan’s October 2026 TV and streaming schedule
The continuation began on TV Tokyo on 3 October. BS TV Tokyo and Japanese streaming services follow separate timetables.
Black Clover watch order: episodes, skips and the movie
Optional episodes, what you miss, where to resume and when to watch the film.
Bleach
Meet Bleach’s world of ghosts and Soul Reapers, understand Ichigo and Rukia’s predicament, and find the route from the original anime to Thousand-Year Blood War.
Bleach
Ichigo can see ghosts, but protecting them becomes his job when the Soul Reaper Rukia lends him her powers. Her decision draws them into conflict with Soul Society, the authority governing the afterlife. Battles begin with threats to Ichigo's family and grow into disputes over the rules Rukia must obey.
Bleach watch order: the main story, filler and where to resume
A shorter route through the original anime, including the episodes broad filler lists can wrongly sweep away.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War releases THE LAST PV ahead of its final two episodes
The 16 October trailer looks towards the conclusion of Thousand-Year Blood War. TV Tokyo’s final two episodes are scheduled for 00:00 JST on 20 and 27 October 2026.
Bocchi the Rock!
Hitori practises guitar alone and longs to play in a band, but finds talking to other people painfully difficult. An encounter with drummer Nijika brings her into Kessoku Band. The skills she has developed in isolation now have to work in rehearsals and performances with strangers.
Carole & Tuesday
On a colonised Mars where artificial intelligence produces much of the culture, Carole and Tuesday want to make music themselves. Carole works to get by in the capital; Tuesday comes from a wealthy home where her ambition is not understood. Their chance meeting brings those different lives together.
Choosing between Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl
Compare three standalone Ghibli films by story, pace, intensity and time, from the sisters’ country home to the bathhouse and castle.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
Japan has become Area 11 under Britannian occupation. Lelouch obtains Geass, a mysterious power he intends to turn against the empire. His childhood friend Suzaku serves in its military and pilots the Lancelot combat machine, placing the two boys on different sides of a struggle over how the country should change.
Cross Game
Ko grows up close to the four Tsukishima sisters and becomes drawn into their family’s connection with baseball. A childhood dream of reaching Koshien stays with him as he enters high school. On the field, he has to turn ability into something a team can use.
Cyberpunk 2077 adds an Edgerunners 2 prequel quest in Update 2.5
The free update adds Clampdown, a King gear set and an Edgerunners radio station. Nintendo Switch 2 follows later.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Understand Night City, David and Lucy, the appeal of Edgerunners' action and its compressed storytelling, plus where to start and how long it takes.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
David cannot afford the future his school promises. A powerful implant gives him a way into Night City's mercenary crews, where he finds work, friends and Lucy. The action follows his increasingly dangerous upgrades, while the romance asks what he and Lucy actually want from a life together.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners review: the cost of being needed
A thrilling, uneven tragedy about borrowed dreams: why David and Lucy's romance gives the original ten episodes their force.
Cygames prepares travel reimbursements after cancelling Umamusume’s LA concerts
Attendees are asked to keep payment records while the process is finalised. Santa Anita lists a separate cosplay event for 24–25 October.
Death Note
Understand Death Note's notebook rules, Light and L's contest, and the starting point and commitment for the complete 37-episode TV anime.
Death Note
Light finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name and face he knows. When he begins using it, the detective L tries to uncover his identity while keeping his own hidden. Their contest turns surveillance, conversations and carefully staged traps into weapons in a talkative psychological thriller.
Death Note review: the thrill of a plan, and the people it leaves out
Why ingenious plans stay compelling even when their author is repellent, and where the supporting cast gets less room to matter.
Delicious in Dungeon
Laios returns to a dungeon to rescue his sister Falin after a dragon swallows her. With his party’s money and supplies lost, he proposes eating the monsters they encounter. The expedition turns survival into a question of what can be caught, prepared and shared on the way down.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro returns from selling charcoal to find his family killed and his surviving sister Nezuko transformed into a demon. He becomes a demon slayer to seek a way to restore her humanity. His duty to fight demons begins with the need to protect one.
Den-noh Coil
Den-noh Coil turns augmented-reality glasses into a children's playground, where finding a lost pet opens onto a deeper mystery.
Den-noh Coil
Yasako moves to a city where networked glasses add virtual pets and software tools to ordinary streets. When her digital dog disappears, a children's detective agency helps her search. Schoolyard rivalries and experiments with the glasses gradually reveal mysteries that the adults around them cannot always see.
Dorohedoro
Enter Dorohedoro's divided world of sorcerers, grotesque violence and stubborn friendships, with the current two-season route and separate bonus shorts.
Dorohedoro
Caiman has a lizard's head and no memory of who gave it to him. With his friend Nikaido, he hunts sorcerers who use the people of the Hole to practise their magic. The identity mystery mixes grotesque violence with friendships, local customs and arguments over food.
Dororo (2019)
Young thief Dororo travels through war-torn Japan with Hyakkimaru, a swordsman whose missing body parts were traded to demons by his father. Hyakkimaru fights those demons to recover what was taken. Their journey links violent supernatural encounters with the immediate problem of surviving as outsiders.
Ergo Proxy
Re-l Mayer investigates a murder in Romd, a domed city where humans live alongside robots under close government control. An encounter with a strange being unsettles that managed world. Her search for an explanation leads toward the unknown beyond the city’s boundaries.
Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells
Touka is summoned to another world with his classmates, then discarded when a goddess grades his abilities as the lowest rank. Left in ruins where survival is considered impossible, he tries to escape using the status-effect skills she rejected. Surviving gives his journey a target: revenge against the goddess.
Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
Haruka’s quiet high-school life changes when Rin, a childhood swimming teammate, returns and challenges him to a race. Haruka reunites with Makoto and Nagisa, and they recruit Rei to form Iwatobi High’s swimming club. Old friendships become entangled with the wish to compete again.
Frieren begins a season 3 illustration countdown for October 2027
Keisuke Kojima’s illustration of Frieren, Fern and Stark opens a staff-art campaign ahead of the previously announced Japanese broadcast month.
Frieren review: a strong travelling party, with two kinds of patience
What the quiet journeys accomplish, why the mage exam matters, and when looking back begins to crowd the present.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Meet Frieren's travelling party, understand its post-victory world, and find the order and time commitment for the first two seasons.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
After helping defeat the Demon King, the elf Frieren outlives companions whose ten-year adventure felt brief to her. She begins another journey with a new travelling party, revisiting places and memories she once passed over. Quiet conversations, everyday errands and dangerous magic make her pay closer attention to other people's lives.
From Up on Poppy Hill
In Yokohama in 1963, high-school students Umi and Shun develop a friendship against the backdrop of a changing Japan. A secret connected to their families threatens to pull them apart. Their personal uncertainty sits within a city preparing for a very public future.
Fruits Basket (2019 adaptation)
After her mother’s death, Tohru Honda lives in a tent until the Sohma family takes her in. Her new household has a secret: members of the family carry an animal transformation curse. Tohru becomes involved in relationships governed by rules that reach well beyond an unusual living arrangement.
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
Edward and Alphonse Elric attempt forbidden alchemy to restore their dead mother and lose parts of their own bodies instead. Alphonse's soul is bound to armour; Edward uses mechanical limbs. They travel in search of the Philosopher's Stone and a way to recover what was lost.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Edward and Alphonse Elric try to revive their mother through alchemy and lose parts of their own bodies instead. Edward uses mechanical limbs; Alphonse's soul inhabits armour. The brothers search for the Philosopher's Stone to restore themselves, while Edward's military work brings them into dangerous conflicts with other alchemists.
Ghibli food: who gets fed, and who does the work?
Breakfast, a packed lunch and an offered rice ball: three Ghibli films make care visible through the people preparing and sharing food.
Goku Is Suspiciously Superman-Shaped
Alien children, Earth families and dangerous survivors: how Superman's comics and Dragon Ball's manga developed an uncanny resemblance.
Goku vs Luffy: who wins under the same rules?
A clear verdict, a serious case for each fighter and the rules that keep this anime matchup honest.
Gurren Lagann
Simon and Kamina live beneath the surface, where digging is part of daily survival. A small machine and an unexpected attack open a route into the world above. Their journey brings them into conflict with giant machines and the powers that keep humanity underground.
Haibane Renmei
A girl with no remembered past learns the work and customs of a walled town in Haibane Renmei, a quiet fantasy about belonging and accepting care.
Haibane Renmei
Rakka emerges from a cocoon with grey wings and no memory of her past. The other Haibane help her settle into a home beside a walled town with unfamiliar rules. Shared work, meals and small acts of care matter as much as the questions surrounding their existence.
Hajime no Ippo
Ippo helps his mother run a fishing-boat business and is bullied at school. A professional boxer, Takamura, intervenes one day and introduces him to boxing. Ippo’s wish to become stronger gives him a reason to attempt the demanding training that follows.
Hellsing (2001 television series)
The Hellsing Organisation protects Britain from supernatural threats under Integra Hellsing's command. Its most formidable hunter, Alucard, is himself a vampire. The 2001 television adaptation places a monster in the service of an institution determined to destroy his kind.
Horimiya
Popular Kyoko Hori and unobtrusive Izumi Miyamura discover that their classmates’ impressions do not describe their whole lives. An accidental meeting makes them keepers of each other’s secrets. Their growing closeness draws Miyamura into a circle of friends whose own feelings are rarely straightforward.
House of Five Leaves
Masanosuke Akitsu is a skilled swordsman whose shyness keeps costing him work. In Edo, a relaxed stranger named Yaichi hires him as a bodyguard. The job draws him into Five Leaves, a group that earns its money through kidnapping.
How to start One Piece: your first route through the original anime
A manageable first stretch, optional detours and exact resume points, with the original anime kept separate from the remake.
Howl’s Moving Castle
Meet Sophie, Howl and their unusual household: the romance, war and tangled magic of Howl's Moving Castle, with runtime and family guidance.
Howl’s Moving Castle
A witch turns Sophie, a young hat-maker, into an elderly woman. Looking for a way to break the spell, she joins the wizard Howl's moving household, which includes an apprentice and a fire demon. Romance and domestic comedy develop as a war threatens the people living in the castle.
Insomniacs After School
Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami discovers that the school observatory offers a place to rest. Isaki Magari has found the same refuge for the same reason. The two start sharing the abandoned room and a problem they cannot easily explain to their classmates.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
After a deadly police operation, Kazuki Fuse is sent for re-evaluation in an alternate postwar Tokyo. He meets Kei Amemiya while struggling with what happened. Their growing connection unfolds amid rival police interests and a government crackdown, making personal loyalty difficult to separate from the demands of his armed unit.
Jujutsu Kaisen
Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger to save fellow students and becomes the vessel of Ryomen Sukuna. Sent to Tokyo Jujutsu High, he learns to fight curses born from human emotions. The dangerous force he has taken into himself is also why the jujutsu world considers him a threat.
Jujutsu Kaisen promises season 4 updates at December’s Jump Festa
Four cast members will appear on 19 December for a look back at season 3 and new information about the next part of the Culling Game.
Just Like Mona Lisa reveals its first main trailer and a 2027 broadcast
SHAFT’s coming-of-age anime adds seven cast members and previews imase’s ending theme, “Mayoi wa Hikari”.
Kaiju No. 8
Discover Kaiju No. 8: a monster-cleanup worker's second chance, unlikely friendships and the comedy of hiding tremendous power.
Kaiju No. 8
At 32, Kafka cleans up the monsters defeated by Japan's Defense Force while hoping to join it himself. A new chance to apply coincides with his ability to become a kaiju. Training, friendships and monster battles now depend on keeping that transformation hidden from the organisation he wants to serve.
Kids on the Slope
In 1966, reserved student Kaoru moves alone to relatives in Kyushu. His meeting with Sentaro, a classmate feared as a delinquent, introduces him to jazz and an unfamiliar kind of friendship. Music connects him with a group whose affections are not as straightforward as playing the same tune.
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki leaves home with her cat Jiji to train as a witch in a seaside town. She turns her ability to fly into a delivery business, but earning a living brings demands she has never faced. When self-doubt threatens her flying, she must find her footing in this unfamiliar place.
Laid-Back Camp
After moving to Yamanashi, Nadeshiko cycles out to see Mount Fuji and gets stranded when darkness and bad weather spoil the trip. Rin, who is camping by herself, helps her. Their meeting introduces different ways of enjoying the outdoors, alone and with other people.
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Maquia belongs to a people who live for centuries while retaining a youthful appearance. When an invasion destroys her home, she escapes and finds a human baby whose mother has died. Raising Ariel gives her a family whose relationship with time is very different from her own.
March Comes in Like a Lion
Rei Kiriyama is a teenage professional shogi player living alone after losing his family. The Kawamoto sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, draw him into a household very different from his solitary flat. Competition at the board sits alongside the slower task of accepting company and care.
MF Ghost
Kanata Rivington arrives in Japan from Britain to race in MFG and search for his father. In a near future dominated by self-driving electric cars, the competition brings petrol-powered machines onto public roads. Kanata chooses a Toyota 86GT, relying on his driving skills against more powerful cars.
Millennium Actress
A retired actress recounts her life as memories and movie roles flow together. Explore Satoshi Kon's film through pursuit, performance and the people listening.
Millennium Actress
Two documentary makers visit retired actress Chiyoko to record her life story. As she remembers, they appear inside scenes that shift between her experiences and her film roles. A search for a man she once helped carries the film through changing periods, genres and versions of her past.
Mob Psycho 100
Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, has psychic powers but struggles to express himself. He works part-time for Reigen, a supposed psychic who relies on Mob to handle real spirits. Mob wants an ordinary teenage life, including getting fitter and closer to his crush, while powerful emotions threaten his self-control.
Mononoke (2007 television series)
A travelling Medicine Seller confronts supernatural beings produced through human suffering and entanglement. His sword cannot simply cut down whatever appears. He must establish the being’s form, the truth of what happened and the human reason behind it before he can draw the weapon.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Balsa protects a hunted prince in Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, a fantasy about skilled work, competing histories and learning to care.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Balsa, a travelling bodyguard, is hired to protect a prince carrying the egg of a water spirit. His own empire wants him dead. Keeping him alive requires spear fights, shelter, food and help from people who understand the spirit, making protection a continuing responsibility rather than a single rescue.
MURCIÉLAGO reveals a new teaser and main cast ahead of January 2027
Hitomi Ueda, Minori Suzuki and Sumire Uesaka will voice Kuroko, Hinako and Chiyo in the action manga’s television adaptation.
Mushishi
Ginko travels between communities affected by mushi, forms of life that are neither plants nor animals. His work is to understand what happens when their existence crosses human lives. One visit brings him to an isolated boy whose drawings become real, turning a local mystery into an encounter with unfamiliar life.
My Neighbor Totoro
Meet Satsuki and Mei in My Neighbor Totoro: a quiet 86-minute film about childhood discoveries, with family guidance and what to expect.
My Neighbor Totoro
Satsuki and Mei move to the countryside near the hospital treating their mother. Exploring their new house and the woods brings them into contact with small creatures and the enormous forest spirit Totoro. The film follows the sisters' discoveries and family worries at an unhurried pace.
Naruto
Meet the original Naruto: a rejected child's bid for recognition, a rivalry that becomes a bond, and ninja battles built around trust and deception.
Naruto
Naruto wants to become Hokage so the village that rejects him will recognise him. Training and missions place him alongside teammates he competes with and must learn to trust. The original series builds its ninja battles around deception, coordinated attacks and a rivalry that becomes increasingly personal.
Naruto watch order: the original series, optional skips and what comes next
A 131-episode route through original Naruto, with the mixed episodes to keep and clear next steps for Shippuden and the films.
Natsume’s Book of Friends
Takashi Natsume can see spirits, an ability that has made ordinary friendships difficult. He inherits his grandmother Reiko’s Book of Friends, which binds the spirits whose names she collected. With Nyanko-sensei beside him, Natsume begins returning those names and meeting the people and spirits connected to them.
Netflix announces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 premiere for 20 October 2026
Netflix’s August announcement gives the standalone ten-episode series an October launch, with new characters in Night City.
Night City's real trap: the price of becoming useful
School, cyberware and mercenary work: three offers that make David valuable while leaving him to carry the risk.
Nodame Cantabile
Chiaki studies piano at a music university but wants to conduct. A fear of flying keeps him from pursuing the overseas training he imagines. Meeting Nodame, an unconventional pianist whose playing catches his ear, disrupts both his frustration with music and his orderly habits.
Ocean Waves
Taku and his friend Yutaka expect another ordinary school year until Rikako transfers from Tokyo. Her arrival changes their friendship, and a trip involving Taku and Rikako feeds rumours at school. The television film follows young people trying to understand relationships that have stopped feeling simple.
Only Yesterday
Taeko’s farming holiday brings childhood memories into her adult life. Explore Only Yesterday’s family comedy, rural work and changing visual textures.
Only Yesterday
Taeko leaves her Tokyo office job for a holiday helping with the safflower harvest in Yamagata. Memories of her fifth-grade self keep interrupting the visit: family disagreements, school embarrassments and a first crush. Rural work and childhood comedy prompt her to reconsider the adult life she wants.
Overgeared
An introduction to the ongoing Overgeared anime through episodes 1–2: Satisfy's money problem, Grid's crafting class and a short opening sample.
Overgeared
Grid hopes success in the virtual-reality game Satisfy will pay his debts. A legendary blacksmith class gives him the ability to make exceptional equipment, but he still lacks money, materials and experience. This profile covers only the opening two episodes, where a crafting advantage meets impatience and practical costs.
Overlord
Momonga stays inside his favourite online game as its service ends, only to find that he cannot log out. Still wearing his skeletal avatar, he now commands a fortress whose non-player characters have acquired lives of their own. The former player must work out what his authority means in an unfamiliar world.
Overtake!
A small F4 team connects a teenage driver’s ambition with a photographer’s recovery. Discover Overtake!'s people, racing and craft.
Overtake!
Photographer Kouya meets Haruka, a teenage driver racing for a small family-run Formula 4 team. He decides to help, though Haruka resists the encouragement. Getting the car onto the grid requires sponsorship, mechanical work and trust, giving both a reason to accept help from other people.
Paprika
Satoshi Kon's dream thriller turns a stolen therapy device into a battle over private imagination. Explore its characters, playful transformations and Susumu Hirasawa’s music.
Paprika
A device designed to let therapists enter patients' dreams is stolen. Dr Atsuko Chiba investigates through Paprika, her dream persona, as waking life becomes difficult to distinguish from fantasy. Satoshi Kon turns the investigation into a succession of shifting rooms, bodies and images whose rules can change without warning.
Patema Inverted
A girl who can fall into the sky meets a boy taught to fear her. Patema Inverted turns opposite gravities into a physical adventure about trust and perspective.
Patema Inverted
Patema leaves her underground home and discovers that the surface world's gravity pulls her towards the sky. Age, a boy whose feet stay on the ground, tries to help her. Their opposing gravities make holding on to each other a practical necessity in an adventure about trust and perspective.
Perfect Blue
Mima leaves her pop group to become an actress, taking roles that unsettle her fans and her own sense of who she is. A stalker follows her, people around her are murdered, and visions of her former idol self make it harder to separate her work from reality.
Ping Pong the Animation
Peco and Smile are friends in the same high-school table-tennis club, but they approach the game differently. Peco advertises his confidence; Smile rarely smiles. A Chinese exchange player and a coach determined to develop Smile’s ability disturb the balance between their friendship and their competitive ambitions.
Planetes
By 2075, passenger spacecraft regularly connect Earth, space stations and the Moon. Hachimaki collects orbital debris for a living while dreaming of owning a spacecraft. New recruit Tanabe joins his poorly regarded department, where everyday work brings her into conflict with colleagues whose attitudes differ sharply from hers.
Pom Poko
Magical tanuki live in wooded hills until the construction of a Tokyo suburb threatens their home. They turn their ability to transform into a defence against development. Their campaign brings Japanese folklore into direct conflict with the expansion of a human city.
Ponyo
A young boy named Sosuke befriends Ponyo, a small fish who wants to become human. Her determination carries a magical disturbance from the sea into his coastal home. A child's friendship becomes inseparable from the changing waters around the town.
Porco Rosso
In the Adriatic, a flying ace turned bounty hunter makes his living with the face of a pig. Porco Rosso's clashes with sky pirates bring him a rival in the American pilot Curtis. Aircraft, coastal towns and an unwanted reputation surround his uneasy independence.
Princess Mononoke
Enter Princess Mononoke’s forest and ironworks, where San, Ashitaka and Lady Eboshi defend lives that cannot easily coexist.
Princess Mononoke
Searching for a cure to his curse, Ashitaka reaches an ironworking town fighting the gods of a nearby forest. Lady Eboshi protects the town's people; San fights for the wolves who raised her. The conflict gives each side lives to defend, without making their interests easy to reconcile.
Princess Tutu
Ahiru is a struggling ballet student who wants to dance with Mytho, a boy whose heart has been lost. Transforming into Princess Tutu lets her search for its missing pieces. Ballet and fairy-tale magic become ways of approaching emotions that the prince can no longer feel.
Re:ZERO
Subaru arrives in a fantasy world and tries to help the silver-haired girl who first helps him. His unusual ability returns him to an earlier point after death. Repeating events gives him another chance to intervene, but leaves him carrying experiences that the people around him do not share.
Redline
JP drives a customised Trans-Am into an interplanetary race where rivals carry weapons and the host planet threatens military intervention. Distorted machinery, extreme angles and saturated colour make speed the main attraction in Takeshi Koike's standalone film, with a romance between races.
Run with the Wind
Kakeru is running through the city when Haiji approaches him on a bicycle and asks whether he likes to run. Haiji brings him to an old apartment building with nine residents. The apparently simple offer of a spare room carries an unexpected sporting plan.
Samurai Champloo
Fuu persuades two very different swordsmen to help her find a samurai who smells of sunflowers. Mugen’s unruly fighting and Jin’s formal training make them difficult travelling companions. Their journey takes a samurai road story into an explicitly hip-hop-inflected version of Edo-period Japan.
Shangri-La Frontier
Rakuro loves finishing badly designed games. For a change, he enters Shangri-La Frontier, a polished virtual-reality game with a huge player base. Using the bird-headed avatar Sunraku, he brings habits learned from unreliable games into a world whose monsters and rules reward a different kind of attention.
Shingo Natsume’s ghost adds Kenjiro Tsuda, Hiroki Yasumoto and Hiroshi Kamiya
Three new roles join the Madhouse film, with November festival screenings listed for Glasgow, London and Edinburgh.
Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū
Fresh out of prison, Yotaro seeks an apprenticeship with Yakumo, the rakugo storyteller whose performance he heard while incarcerated. Rakugo is solo storytelling, with a seated performer voicing the characters. The apprenticeship opens a history of artistic rivalry, loyalty and unfinished relationships around Yakumo.
SK8 the Infinity
Reki’s favourite place to skate is S, a secret race down an abandoned mine in Okinawa. Its dangerous head-to-head contests draw skaters with very different styles. His enthusiasm pulls newcomer Langa towards a world that operates well outside ordinary school sport.
Skip and Loafer
Mitsumi Iwakura moves from a small rural school to a demanding Tokyo high school with her future carefully planned. Studying comes more easily than navigating the city or reading her classmates. Her friendship with the easygoing Shima begins when the first day goes badly off schedule.
Slam Dunk
Hanamichi Sakuragi takes an interest in basketball after Haruko asks whether he likes it. Wanting to impress her, he answers yes despite his unhappy association with the sport. His attempt to enter the club quickly brings him into conflict with its captain, Haruko’s brother Akagi.
So I'm a Spider, So What?
A schoolgirl is reborn as a small spider monster in a dungeon full of creatures stronger than she is. Human ingenuity has to work with an unfamiliar body: webs, traps and acquired skills become tools for staying alive. Her first problem is surviving long enough to understand her surroundings.
Solo Leveling
Start Solo Leveling with its premise, two-season viewing order, time commitment and content guidance. Understand where ReAwakening fits.
Solo Leveling
Hunters earn a living fighting monsters inside dungeons, and their power usually stays fixed. After a disastrous raid, Sung Jinwoo gains a private system of quests that lets him grow stronger. Battles and dangerous upgrades follow his progress while other hunters continue to judge him by his old rank.
Solo Leveling review: the pleasure and cost of pulling ahead
A review of both seasons: why the growing power gap is exciting, and when it starts to narrow the drama.
Spirited Away
Explore Spirited Away's spirit bathhouse, Chihiro's rescue mission and frightening moments, with a 125-minute commitment and a clear starting point.
Spirited Away
Chihiro's parents are transformed after the family enters a place inhabited by spirits. She takes a job in Yubaba's bathhouse while trying to free them and return home. Strange customers, demanding work and unfamiliar rules make this a rescue adventure in which a frightened child has to act for herself.
Sword Art Online
Kirito enters a virtual-reality online game whose players discover that they cannot log out. Clearing the game is their route to escape, and dying inside it means dying outside it. The fantasy setting therefore becomes a place where ordinary play decisions carry physical consequences.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
A man is reborn in a fantasy world as a slime, a creature usually treated as weak. His new form brings unusual abilities and encounters with other inhabitants. As Rimuru, he begins building relationships that turn an individual second chance into a community’s story.
The Apothecary Diaries
Meet Maomao and the court that needs her medical knowledge: the appeal of The Apothecary Diaries, its adult themes and a clear season-by-season starting route.
The Apothecary Diaries
Maomao wants to finish her palace service without drawing attention. When the emperor's children fall ill, she looks for a physical cause while others blame a curse. Her medical knowledge draws her into investigations where rank shapes whose answer is heard. Medical puzzles and awkward comedy develop alongside court politics.
The Apothecary Diaries announces a film reveal programme for 22 October 2026
Maomao and Jinshi’s voice actors will join the anniversary special, which promises the main trailer, key visual and theme-song artist for December’s Japanese film release.
The Apothecary Diaries film reveals a new trailer and Kenshi Yonezu’s theme song
Kenshi Yonezu’s “Haru ga Tomori” is the film’s theme song. A new key visual brings Maomao, Jinshi and the treasure mystery into focus.
The Apothecary Diaries season 3: October 2026 and April 2027 in Japan
Maomao’s television story continues from episode 49. The first Japanese broadcast block began on 2 October; the second is scheduled for April 2027.
The Cat Returns
Haru rescues a cat and receives an unwanted royal marriage proposal. Meet the eccentric allies and everyday magic of Hiroyuki Morita’s comic fantasy.
The Cat Returns
Haru saves a cat prince from a truck. His father rewards her with unwanted gifts and decides she should marry his son. Escaping the Cat Kingdom requires eccentric allies and the confidence to refuse its demands, as royal ceremony turns the cats' idea of generosity into comedy.
The Rising of the Shield Hero
University student Naofumi is summoned to another world as its Shield Hero. His equipment is built around defence, and an early betrayal leaves him short of money, support and reputation. Protecting the world becomes entangled with finding a way to function in a society that rejects him.
The Secret World of Arrietty
Tiny Borrowers live beneath human floorboards, gathering the supplies they need without being seen. When Arrietty is discovered by a human boy, a friendship crosses the boundary on which her hidden life depends. Familiar domestic space becomes an environment scaled to very different inhabitants.
The Tatami Galaxy
An unnamed university student imagines that choosing a different club would have given him a better campus life. Parallel versions of his student years return him to the same troublesome acquaintances and elusive romance. His search for the right choice becomes a story about the opportunities he keeps overlooking.
The Twelve Kingdoms
Yoko Nakajima is carried into another world by a stranger who calls her his ruler. Separated from him and pursued by creatures she does not understand, she must first survive. The world she has entered is divided into twelve kingdoms, each ruled through a relationship between a monarch and a kirin.
The Wind Rises
Jiro dreams of flight but cannot become a pilot because of his eyesight. Inspired by aircraft designer Caproni, he turns towards designing aeroplanes. Hayao Miyazaki's film follows creative ambition through a turbulent historical world in which technical achievement cannot be separated from consequential choices.
Toradora!
Ryuuji Takasu’s intimidating appearance makes people assume he is a delinquent. Small, fierce Taiga Aisaka has a reputation of her own. A confession gone wrong draws them into an awkward alliance, with Ryuuji helping Taiga approach the friend she likes.
Violet Evergarden
After a war, Violet Evergarden takes a job turning other people’s feelings into letters. She is also searching for the meaning of words spoken to her by someone important during the fighting. Each assignment asks her to understand an experience she cannot simply reproduce as an instruction.
What is isekai? Transported, reborn or trapped
Transported, reincarnated or trapped: four anime premises explain what counts as another world.
What Overtake! understands about the cost of racing
Sponsorship, workshop bills and the chance to practise: how Overtake!'s small-team story compares with real Japanese Formula 4.
When Marnie Was There
Shy, artistic Anna arrives by the sea and discovers an old mansion across the marshes. Its mysterious resident, Marnie, becomes an unusually close friend. Their connection draws Anna back to the house while the boundary between the familiar and the inexplicable grows uncertain.
Where to watch anime in India: choose the service for the show
Six title-specific streaming leads, plus the episode, language and payment checks to make before subscribing in India.
Whisper of the Heart
Shizuku follows a mysterious cat and begins searching for a talent of her own. Seiji, a boy with a clear ambition, becomes part of that search. An antique cat figurine called the Baron opens a space where her everyday uncertainties and imagination can meet.
Why a Virtual World Feels Real: Den-noh Coil and Log Horizon
A display at arm’s reach, a dungeon under your feet and a dog worth finding: what makes an anime's digital world feel inhabited?
Why Frieren starts after the victory
A victory, a missed chance and an ordinary preference: how Frieren makes an ending the start of a different problem.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword
Will studies at a magic academy despite being unable to cast magic. In a society that treats magical ability as a measure of worth, he relies on his sword and physical skill. He wants to keep a promise to someone important to him, even when teachers and classmates dismiss his route.
Wolf Children
After their father dies, Hana raises two children who can turn into wolves. She moves from the city to a rural house, learning to farm while keeping their secret. As Yuki and Ame grow, each must find a way to live between the human and animal worlds.
Wolf’s Rain
Wolves are believed extinct, but some survive by deceiving human eyes and appearing as people. Kiba searches for a place called Paradise. His encounter with the isolated Tsume and the adaptable Hige brings different ways of surviving into a shared journey.
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
A summer romance about a shy poet, a self-conscious video maker and a missing record. Explore how poetry, colour and music bring their small town together.
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Cherry writes haiku but avoids conversation; Smile makes videos but feels self-conscious about her teeth. They meet during a summer spent around a shopping centre and help an older man find a missing record. Poetry, phone messages and music give the two teenagers ways to get to know each other.
Yona of the Dawn sequel names PIERROT FILMS for animation production
Hakusensha has confirmed Pierrot’s animation-production brand for Yona’s return, following the sequel announcement in December 2025.
Your Name
Your Name's two places, borrowed routines and growing romance, with spoiler-light guidance to the complete 2016 film and its 106-minute commitment.
Your Name
Mitsuha's mountain-town routines and Taki's Tokyo school and restaurant shifts become each other's problem when they begin swapping bodies. Notes and rules help them manage the lives they borrow, but their mistakes also bring them closer. Practical comedy grows into a romantic mystery, carried by pop songs and sudden emotional turns.
Your Name review: the romance is in the routine
Messages and everyday mistakes give the romance substance. Its leaps towards fate and spectacle also ask a lot of that foundation.
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