01 A powerful psychic middle schooler who just wants a normal, unremarkable life.
15 Best Anime Series
By Vlad Zakh · March 26, 2026
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Attack on Titan are the best entry points, both great and both proof of how far a single ongoing story can stretch. Death Note and Cowboy Bebop show the format works just as well in a tighter run.
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02 A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a way to send messages into the past.
03 A Viking raised for vengeance who slowly begins to question the violence that defined his life.
04 A boy chasing his absent father into the world of licensed Hunters and its increasingly strange trials.
05 A spy, an assassin, and a telepath form a fake family, each hiding their true identity from each other.
06 Teenagers piloting giant biomechanical mechs against mysterious, godlike beings.
07 A student swallows a cursed object and becomes host to a powerful, ancient curse.
08 A boy born without powers in a world of superheroes, determined to become one anyway.
09 A rubber-bodied pirate assembling a crew to find the greatest treasure in the world.
10 An outcast ninja determined to earn his village's respect and become its leader.
11 A boy becomes a demon slayer to save his sister and avenge his family.
12 A crew of bounty hunters drifting through a jazzy, melancholy vision of the future.
13 A brilliant student who finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
14 Humanity confined behind massive walls, fighting for survival against giant, mindless titans.
15 Two brothers seeking a legendary artifact to undo a forbidden alchemy experiment gone wrong.