01 A surfer's drowned boyfriend keeps appearing in any body of water she sings near.
10 Best Anime Movies of the 2010s and 2020s
By Vlad Zakh · November 10, 2025
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Anime movies stopped being a niche import sometime in the last decade, and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train briefly became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history. This list covers the run that got it there.
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02 Three vignettes about a childhood connection slowly drifting out of reach.
03 A shy teenager becomes a virtual pop star, and the story goes stranger than the premise implies.
04 A wheelchair-using woman and the student who starts caring for her, tender without being precious.
05 A rain-soaked, almost wordless romance between a shoemaking student and an older woman.
06 An ageless woman raises a human child, and the years pass unevenly for each of them.
07 A door-closing quest across Japan that turns into a real reckoning with disaster and loss.
08 A prequel following a cursed teenager, tighter and more focused than most franchise tie-ins.
09 A quiet domestic drama set in Hiroshima right up to the day the bomb fell.
10 A single train-set arc expanded into a feature, and it still escalates constantly.
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