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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.

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.

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.

Appare-Ranman!

An engineer and a samurai are stranded in America at the end of the nineteenth century. With no money for the journey home, Appare and Kosame enter a transcontinental race from Los Angeles to New York, using a steam-powered vehicle they build themselves.

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

An introduction to Black Clover’s magic, social divisions and team battles, with its appeal, limitations and a practical starting point.

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 film

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 watch order: the main story, filler and where to resume

A shorter route through the original anime, with mixed episodes to keep and exact points to resume.

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.

Boogiepop Phantom

Girls trade stories about Boogiepop, a mysterious figure said to kill people before their beauty fades. Around that urban legend, an ordinary-looking school world becomes a place where a familiar face may be connected to a danger nobody fully understands.

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Campfire Cooking in Another World turns a magical grocery order into dinner, companionship and a wandering fantasy adventure.

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.

Castle in the Sky

A young miner, Pazu, meets Sheeta after she falls from the sky carrying a mysterious crystal. Pursued by pirates and the military, they search for Laputa, a floating city. Their escape becomes an adventure in which an old legend attracts people with very different intentions.

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.

Cowboy Bebop

In a solar system linked by warp gates, bounty hunters Spike and Jet travel aboard the Bebop looking for paying work. Faye, young hacker Ed and an unusually intelligent dog join their unsettled household. The crew’s jobs take them between planets while their own histories remain difficult to leave behind.

Crest of the Stars

Jinto becomes an aristocrat of the spacefaring Abh because of his father's political bargain. Travelling towards the imperial capital, he meets Lafiel, an Abh princess serving as a military trainee. An enemy attack turns their journey into an escape through wartime danger.

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 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 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.

Dirty Pair (1985 television series)

Kei and Yuri are the Lovely Angels, trouble consultants employed by the WWWA to solve problems across the galaxy. Their assignments turn difficult disputes into spacefaring action. The 1985 television anime follows their professional partnership, separate from later Dirty Pair adaptations and films.

Dorohedoro

Enter Dorohedoro's divided world of sorcerers, grotesque violence and stubborn friendships, with the current two-season route and separate bonus shorts.

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.

Eureka Seven

Renton longs for a life beyond his provincial home. When Eureka arrives with the machine Nirvash needing repairs from his grandfather, a distant ideal becomes someone standing in front of him. The military pursuit following her draws his household into a much larger conflict.

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: companionship, magic and the limits of looking back

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.

From the New World

In a future society where humans possess telekinetic powers called Cantus, Saki and her friends enter the school that teaches them to use those abilities. Their education opens onto a hidden history, other intelligent beings and dangers that unsettle their understanding of the world.

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.

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

Young aristocrat Albert travels with his friend Franz to escape a dull life in Paris. On the Moon he meets the wealthy, charismatic Count of Monte Cristo and invites him into Parisian society. Albert's admiration gives a dangerous stranger access to the world of his family.

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?

Goku and Luffy compared under the same conditions, with a verdict and a case for each fighter.

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.

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.

HIGHSPEED Étoile

Rin Rindo enters NEX Race, a competition whose machines can exceed 500 kilometres per hour. Established teams are trying to defeat its dominant champion when the new Buzen Racing entrant arrives. Rin has to find her place in a sport already organised around experienced rivals.

Higurashi: When They Cry (original television anime)

Keiichi moves to rural Hinamizawa in the summer of 1983 and quickly finds friends at school. Their games and everyday company give the village an inviting surface. The annual Watanagashi festival brings a different discovery: a recurring pattern of deaths and disappearances.

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.

Infinite Ryvius

After a disaster at the Liebe Delta training station, 487 young people escape aboard the mysterious spacecraft Ryvius. With the adults gone, they wait for rescue. Attacks keep following the ship, forcing a stranded student population to fight for survival.

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”.

Kaiba

In a world where memories can be stored, traded and moved between bodies, Kaiba wakes without any memory of his own. A pendant containing a woman's photograph is his only personal clue. Forced to flee, he travels between planets while trying to discover who he is.

Kaiju No. 8

Discover Kaiju No. 8: a monster-cleanup worker's second chance, unlikely friendships and the comedy of hiding tremendous power.

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.

Last Exile

Claus and Lavie work as aerial couriers aboard a small flying craft inherited from Claus's father. They dream of crossing the vast storm known as the Grand Stream. A delivery involving a mysterious girl and the battleship Silvana pulls them into the struggle between their world's powers.

Log Horizon

Log Horizon follows players trapped in an online fantasy world as Shiroe turns party tactics, trade and trust into the foundations of a society.

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.

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.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 television series)

During the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, an attack on Side 7 turns civilian Amuro Ray into the pilot of the Gundam. The original television series begins its military conflict through a young person caught in a colony raid.

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.

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.

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 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.

Now and Then, Here and There

Shu meets a quiet girl named Lala-Ru during an otherwise ordinary day. A strange machine interrupts their encounter and carries them into a distant future where war has become everyday life. Helping a stranger places him inside a world organised around violence.

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.

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.

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.

Paprika

Enter Paprika through Chiba’s dream persona, Konakawa’s nightmares, Tokita’s invention and an animated city where advertising images become places to travel.

Paranoia Agent

An assault in Tokyo's Musashino district is initially suspected to be an invention by its victim, Tsukiko. When similar attacks follow, the unidentified assailant becomes known as Shonen Bat. Finding him means confronting the pressures surrounding the people he attacks.

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.

Patlabor: The TV Series

Industrial robots called Labors have become part of ordinary work, bringing a new category of crime with them. Tokyo's police establish a special vehicle division to respond. Young officer Noa Izumi enters this world alongside the new Ingram police machine.

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 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.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Madoka Kaname is an ordinary middle-school student whose life changes when she encounters the world of magical girls. Kyubey offers the possibility of a wish, while an experienced magical girl introduces Madoka and her friend Sayaka to the work that accompanies that offer.

RahXephon

Ayato Kamina is on his way to an exam when an attack transforms his familiar Tokyo. A girl resembling someone in his drawings leads him towards the enormous RahXephon. Escaping the city means discovering that the place he called home has been sealed away from the outside world.

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.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Utena Tenjou becomes involved in a duel with student-council member Saionji and enters an extraordinary arena. There she meets Anthy Himemiya, the girl called the Rose Bride. School authority, ritual combat and the promise of revolution become entangled around their encounter.

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.

Serial Experiments Lain

An email from a dead schoolmate draws the reserved Lain Iwakura towards NAVI computers and the networked world beyond them. As strange incidents accumulate around her, the boundary between an ordinary school life and a digital existence becomes increasingly difficult to locate.

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.

Shiki

Sotoba is an isolated village connected to the outside by a single main road. After three bodies are found, doctor Toshio Ozaki doubts that the deaths are ordinary. More villagers begin to die, leaving the community facing a possible epidemic and an increasingly disturbing mystery.

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 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.

Steins;Gate

Rintaro Okabe runs a makeshift invention laboratory in Akihabara. An accidental device lets the group send messages into the past. Their experiments begin as curiosity, then force them to confront what changes when a message can alter the circumstances in which it was sent.

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.

Texhnolyze

Ichise survives through prizefighting in a city governed by violence and competing forms of power. His encounter with a girl named Ran becomes a turning point for a place in which force seems to decide who gets to keep living.

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 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 Boy and the Heron

After his mother dies during the war, Mahito moves to the countryside and is drawn towards an old tower and a troublesome grey heron. When his stepmother disappears, he follows the bird into a world shared by the living and the dead. The search confronts him with unfamiliar rules and his own longing.

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 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 Super Dimension Fortress Macross

A refurbished alien battleship becomes the centre of humanity's fight against the giant Zentradi. Young pilot Hikaru Ichijo joins its forces, while singer Lynn Minmay and officer Misa Hayase become central to his life. Military survival and civilian life occupy the same enormous ship.

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 Vision of Escaflowne

Hitomi Kanzaki's school-day plans are interrupted when a boy and a dragon appear in a column of light. Caught in their battle, she is transported to another world. Her personal concerns about a departing school crush give way to a fantasy conflict she could not have anticipated.

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.

Trigun (1998 television series)

On a desert planet settled by people from Earth, the red-coated gunman Vash the Stampede carries an enormous bounty and a reputation for catastrophe. Outlaws and bounty hunters roam settlements dependent on artificial life forms called Plants for their energy.

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.

Wangan Midnight

Akio becomes attached to a heavily tuned Nissan Z with a dangerous reputation. On Tokyo’s expressways, the car draws him towards drivers who are equally absorbed by their machines, including a surgeon whose Porsche is known as the Blackbird.

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

Why defeating the Demon King leaves Frieren with more to learn about her companions, through the opening four episodes.

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.

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.