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Two brothers bearing the price of equivalent exchange — a weighty fantasy.
Chasing the truth beyond the walls, past despair — a weighty dark fantasy.
Family bonds and resolve carried on a blade — beautiful swordplay battle.
Fight curses with curses — modern supernatural action.
Pure youth poured onto the court — volleyball.
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Your anime taste profile
Your anime taste, estimated from your 8 answers.
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Violet Evergarden
2018
A girl closed off by war learns words — a tearful, moving work.
A girl learns emotion through her work writing letters, in this acclaimed 2018 Kyoto Animation series. Stunning art and a moving story, for deep emotion.
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Stunning, beautiful art
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Learning to feel
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Tear-jerking episodic structure
Your Lie in April
2014
A boy who lost the sound meets music again — a tearful music drama.
A boy who can no longer play piano and a free-spirited violinist, in this 2014 adaptation of Naoshi Arakawa's manga. Fresh youth and aching love, for tears.
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Performances full of motion
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A tender, single-minded love
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Lush, colorful direction
Sound! Euphonium
2015
A concert band's youth drawn with care — a delicate music anime.
The relationships of a concert band aiming for nationals, in this 2015 Kyoto Animation series from Ayano Takeda's novels. Beautiful art and delicate psychology, for fresh youth.
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Beautiful performance scenes
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Delicate club relationships
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Careful psychology
A Place Further Than the Universe
2018
Girls aiming for Antarctica — a fresh, moving youth tale.
High-school girls join an Antarctic expedition, in this 2018 original anime. Fresh friendship and moving turns, for breezy tears.
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A bid to reach Antarctica
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Fresh friendship
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Moving emotional scenes
The Heike Story
2022
A girl watching a clan fade — a beautiful, moving historical work.
The rise and fall of the Heike through a girl who sees the future, in this 2022 work directed by Naoko Yamada. Beautiful art and impermanence, for a mellow soak.
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Beautiful, delicate art
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A fading clan's story
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A view mirroring impermanence
Ping Pong the Animation
2014
The hearts of boys staking it on table tennis — a youth work of singular art.
Table-tennis boys carrying talent and setback, in this 2014 work directed by Masaaki Yuasa from Taiyo Matsumoto's manga. Rough, powerful art and deep drama, for sturdy youth.
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Rough, powerful art
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A tale of talent and setback
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A moving growth
Demon Slayer
2019
Family bonds and resolve carried on a blade — beautiful swordplay battle.
A boy whose family was killed by demons becomes a slayer to save his demon-turned sister, in this 2019 phenomenon from Koyoharu Gotouge's manga. For both feeling and action.
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Striking breath-and-blade animation
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Sorrow even in its villains
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A briskly paced slaying journey
Anohana
2011
Childhood friends' renewal around a lost friend — a tearful youth ensemble.
Young people gather to grant the wish of a ghost childhood friend, in this 2011 original anime. Aching regret and renewal, for deep tears.
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Regret around a lost friend
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A renewal of childhood bonds
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A finale sure to make you sob
Tsuki ga Kirei
2017
A middle-schoolers' tender first love drawn with care — a delicate pure romance.
The first love of a library-committee boy and a track-club girl, in this 2017 original anime. A true-to-life tender romance, for straightforward youth.
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A tender middle-school romance
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Careful emotion
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Fresh youth
Steins;Gate
2011
Defying tragedy caused by time leaps — a meticulous SF suspense.
A young man who accidentally builds a time machine leaps back again to save his friends, in this acclaimed 2011 game adaptation. Tight foreshadowing, for SF and theory.
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A tight time-leap logic
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A chain of aching choices
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A moving back half
Toradora!
2008
A mismatched pair in a love that keeps missing — a mainstream youth romcom.
A scary-looking boy and a small girl fall for each other while helping each other's crushes, in this 2008 adaptation of Yuyuko Takemiya's novels. For youthful romance.
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A distance that slowly closes
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Fresh emotional portraiture
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A moving back half
Clannad
2007
Family and renewal drawn with care — one of the great tearjerkers.
From a delinquent boy and a frail girl's meeting to a family story, in this acclaimed 2007 game adaptation. Renowned for its tearful later arc, for deep tears.
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Hearts that slowly heal
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A famously tearful later arc
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Careful human drama
Honey and Clover
2005
Unrequited love and dazzling young years — a bittersweet ensemble.
The wavering hearts of art-school youth, in this 2005 adaptation of Chica Umino's manga. Delicate crushes and creative struggle, for bittersweet afterglow.
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The ache of one-sided love
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Days of creative struggle
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An ensemble of art students
Vinland Saga
2019
Beyond revenge, asking what a true warrior is — a weighty historical action.
Violence and atonement in a Viking era, in this 2019 adaptation of Makoto Yukimura's manga. Sturdy history and deep themes, for a weighty tale.
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From revenge to renewal
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Sturdy historical detail
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A sweeping historical canvas
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023
Living on after the demon king is gone — a quietly affecting fantasy.
A long-lived elf mage reflects on time and loss, in this 2023 hit from Yamada and Abe's manga. Quiet and deeply moving, for savoring afterglow.
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A hushed take on time and memory
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Small feelings on the road
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Beautiful magic and a quiet quest
To Your Eternity
2021
An immortal being meeting and parting again — an aching, moving fantasy.
The journey of an immortal that can take any form, in this 2021 adaptation of Yoshitoki Oima's manga. Growing through repeated loss, for deep tears.
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Repeated meetings and partings
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An immortal's growth
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Heart-wrenching loss
Ranking of Kings
2021
The growth of a deaf prince — a warm yet aching fantasy.
A weak, deaf prince grows up, in this 2021 adaptation of Sosuke Toka's manga. Storybook art and aching turns, for warm tears.
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An earnest prince's growth
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A storybook world
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A warm yet aching tale
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
2007
Racing from underground to the heavens — over-the-top hot-blooded mecha.
An underground boy aims for the surface in a giant robot, in this exhilarating 2007 original anime. A hot soul and ever-expanding scale, for pure heat.
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Over-the-top heat
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Ever-inflating scale
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Moving growth and farewell
Girls' Last Tour
2017
Lazily roaming a ruined world — a quiet, deep post-apocalyptic slice-of-life.
Two girls travel a world after civilization's end, in this 2017 adaptation of Tsukumizu's manga. A leisurely journey and deep afterglow, for a quietly affecting tale.
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The hush of a ruined world
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A leisurely two-person journey
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A deeply affecting afterglow
Planetes
2003
Space told from debris collection — a grounded, moving SF.
Space development from the humble job of collecting debris, in this acclaimed 2003 adaptation of Makoto Yukimura's manga. A realistic vision and reflective story, for deeply affecting SF.
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A grounded vision of space
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Asking how to live
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A gently affecting afterglow
Angel Beats!
2010
Young people fighting in an afterlife — a school work to laugh and cry to.
Youths defy an unfair fate in an afterlife school, in this 2010 original anime written by Jun Maeda. Laughs and tears in turns, for emotion.
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An afterlife premise
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Laughs and tears in turns
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A moving later half
March Comes in Like a Lion
2016
A lonely shogi player renewed by human ties — a quietly affecting work.
An orphaned pro shogi player recovers through the game and human bonds, in this 2016 adaptation of Chica Umino's manga. Delicate psychology and warm ties, for a slow-affecting tale.
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Renewal from solitude
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Warm human ties
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The taut tension of matches
Shirobako
2014
Young people staking it on the anime production floor — a hot workplace youth.
Young people striving in the anime industry, in this 2014 original anime. The reality and passion of a creative floor, for workplace stories.
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The anime-making floor
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Young people chasing a dream
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The passion of creation
Laid-Back Camp
2018
Savoring winter solo camping — top-tier healing slice-of-life.
High-school girls camping, in this 2018 hit from Afro's manga. Beautiful scenery and a relaxed air, for pure comfort.
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Beautiful camp scenery
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A relaxed air
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The fun of camp know-how
Kimi ni Todoke
2009
Clumsy feelings reaching, little by little — a mainstream shojo romance.
The pure love of a misunderstood girl and a popular boy, in this 2009 adaptation of Karuho Shiina's manga. Careful emotion, for a sweet, warm read.
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A distance that slowly closes
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A warm circle of friends
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Carefully drawn emotions
Naruto Shippuden
2007
An underdog ninja's fight to be recognized — mainstream ninja battle.
A village outcast ninja faces friends and destiny, in this 2007 hit from Masashi Kishimoto's manga. Effort and bonds, for a big, hot growth story.
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Master-student and friend bonds
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Skills passed down a lineage
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Stirring duels of destiny
My Hero Academia
2016
A quirkless boy aims to be the greatest hero — mainstream hero battle.
In a world of superpowers, a quirkless boy aims to be a hero, in this 2016 hit from Kohei Horikoshi's manga. Earnest growth and hot battles, for the mainstream.
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Fights built around 'quirks'
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A will that gets passed on
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Compelling villains to clash with
Aoashi
2022
Breaking down pro tactics — a realistic soccer growth tale.
A boy blossoms in a youth team, in this 2022 adaptation of Yugo Kobayashi's manga. Realistic tactics and a rich ensemble, for watching like a real match.
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Realistic tactical depiction
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Growth as vision opens
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A rich ensemble
Haikyu!!
2014
Pure youth poured onto the court — volleyball.
A short boy aims for the top of high-school volleyball, in this 2014 sports anime from Haruichi Furudate's manga. For sweat and excitement.
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Nail-biting rally sequences
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A whole team's growth arc
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Vividly drawn rival schools
Bocchi the Rock!
2022
A shy girl dives into a band — a funny music slice-of-life.
An extremely shy girl takes on life in a band, in this 2022 hit from Aki Hamaji's manga. Relatable gags and fresh youth, for laughs and comfort.
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Relatable shy-kid portrayal
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Bursting gag direction
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Fresh band youth
Your anime taste profile
Your anime taste, estimated from your 8 answers.
Emotion
Action
Comedy
Mystery
Romance
Comfort
Fantasy & SF
Dark & deep
It's only a guide — it can shift with your mood.
Match ranking
Naruto Shippuden
2007
An underdog ninja's fight to be recognized — mainstream ninja battle.
A village outcast ninja faces friends and destiny, in this 2007 hit from Masashi Kishimoto's manga. Effort and bonds, for a big, hot growth story.
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Master-student and friend bonds
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Skills passed down a lineage
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Stirring duels of destiny
My Hero Academia
2016
A quirkless boy aims to be the greatest hero — mainstream hero battle.
In a world of superpowers, a quirkless boy aims to be a hero, in this 2016 hit from Kohei Horikoshi's manga. Earnest growth and hot battles, for the mainstream.
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Fights built around 'quirks'
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A will that gets passed on
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Compelling villains to clash with
Blue Lock
2022
Cultivating egoists where dropping out ends it — a tense soccer survival.
A brutal project to forge the world's best striker, in this 2022 hit from Kaneshiro and Nomura's manga. Ego and awakening talent, for fresh sports.
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Drop-out-ends-it survival
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Ego and awakening talent
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Gambits and mind games
Demon Slayer
2019
Family bonds and resolve carried on a blade — beautiful swordplay battle.
A boy whose family was killed by demons becomes a slayer to save his demon-turned sister, in this 2019 phenomenon from Koyoharu Gotouge's manga. For both feeling and action.
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Striking breath-and-blade animation
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Sorrow even in its villains
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A briskly paced slaying journey
Haikyu!!
2014
Pure youth poured onto the court — volleyball.
A short boy aims for the top of high-school volleyball, in this 2014 sports anime from Haruichi Furudate's manga. For sweat and excitement.
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Nail-biting rally sequences
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A whole team's growth arc
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Vividly drawn rival schools
Lycoris Recoil
2022
Skilled girls living between daily life and gunfire — an exhilarating action.
Girls who keep the peace, in this 2022 original anime. Stylish gun action and a friendship, for both thrills and comfort.
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Stylish gunfights
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Odd-couple banter
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Warmth and tension in turns
One Punch Man
2015
An overpowered hero who sinks foes in one punch — exhilarating deadpan action.
A hero who defeats anyone in a single blow, in this 2015 hit from ONE's manga. Stunning art and deadpan humor, for exhilarating action.
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The force of stunning art
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Singular deadpan humor
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One-punch catharsis
Kuroko's Basketball
2012
A shadow hero and prodigies — a passionate ability-style basketball drama.
A faint-presence boy and prodigies aim for the top of high-school basketball, in this 2012 hit from Tadatoshi Fujimaki's manga. Flashy moves and white-hot games, for ability-battle sports.
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Distinctive, flashy play
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White-hot match swings
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A firm light-and-shadow bond
Bleach
2004
A boy turned soul reaper fighting with his soul on the line — stylish battle.
A boy who gains a soul reaper's power, in this 2004 hit from Tite Kubo's manga. Stylish slashing and a singular aesthetic, for readers who prize cool.
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A roster of unique blade powers
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Striking key cuts
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A huge, detailed cast of foes
Kingdom
2012
A battlefield dream to become a great general — a hot Chinese war epic.
A war orphan aims to become a general in ancient China, in this 2012 hit from Yasuhisa Hara's manga. Massed battles and a rise to the top, for large-scale war epics.
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Massed-army battles
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A hero climbing toward his dream
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A roster of vivid generals
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009
Two brothers bearing the price of equivalent exchange — a weighty fantasy.
Brothers who lost their bodies trying to revive their mother seek the Philosopher's Stone, in this acclaimed 2009 adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga. For sturdy storytelling.
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Threads that converge tightly
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Themes that probe ethics
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A memorable cast
Attack on Titan
2013
Chasing the truth beyond the walls, past despair — a weighty dark fantasy.
Humanity's fight against Titans and the mystery hidden beyond the walls, in this talked-about 2013 adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga. For sturdy stories you can theorize about.
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A truth that keeps turning
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Thrilling ODM-gear action
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The terror and mystery of the Titans
Jujutsu Kaisen
2020
Fight curses with curses — modern supernatural action.
A boy who swallowed a finger of the curse king fights as a sorcerer, in this 2020 hit from Gege Akutami's manga. For tense, dark action.
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Rule-based technique fights
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Relentless momentum
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A cast of vivid sorcerers
Code Geass
2006
Mind games and giant robots cross in a tale of rebellion.
A young man granted the power of absolute obedience plots rebellion against an empire, in this 2006 original anime. Intricate schemes and mecha action, for tactical thrills.
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Meticulously built schemes
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Powerful robot battles
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Twisting turns
Chainsaw Man
2022
Impulse and violence laid bare — feral dark action.
A young man who contracts a devil to become the Chainsaw Devil, in this 2022 talked-about adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga. For readers who crave edge and surprise.
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Unpredictable storytelling
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Raw emotion and violence
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One-of-a-kind devil designs
Overlord
2015
Reigning as the strongest overlord — a sturdy isekai.
A man left in a game world as a skeletal overlord builds his rule, in this 2015 hit from Kugane Maruyama's novels. For an isekai from the strong side.
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The thrill of overwhelming power
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Intricate schemes and rule
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A cast of distinctive minions
Tokyo Revengers
2021
Change the past to save the ones you love — a hot time-leap ensemble.
A young man uses time leaps to change the fate of a gang war, in this 2021 hit from Ken Wakui's manga. For page-turning plots and hot bonds.
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Rewrites that spin new fates
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Resolve to protect friends
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Bonds that warm the heart
Sword Art Online
2012
A life-staked escape from a VR game — a popular SF action.
A young man trapped in a VRMMO he can't leave until cleared, in this 2012 hit from Reki Kawahara's novels. Death game, growth, and love, for immersive adventure.
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Death-game tension
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Sword action
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Growth and love
Fate/Zero
2011
Heroic Spirits' fight over the Grail — a weighty battle fantasy.
Mages and Heroic Spirits fight over a wish-granting Grail, in this 2011 hit written by Gen Urobuchi. A weighty ensemble and lavish art, for sturdy battles.
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A death match of Heroic Spirits
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A weighty ensemble
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Lavish art and direction
Mob Psycho 100
2016
A relatable boy's self-acceptance — a dynamic supernatural work.
The growth of an ordinary boy with immense psychic power, in this 2016 hit from ONE's manga. Singular psychic battles and moving self-acceptance, for exhilarating growth.
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Dynamic psychic battles
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Relatable self-acceptance
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A funny yet warm mentor bond
Vinland Saga
2019
Beyond revenge, asking what a true warrior is — a weighty historical action.
Violence and atonement in a Viking era, in this 2019 adaptation of Makoto Yukimura's manga. Sturdy history and deep themes, for a weighty tale.
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From revenge to renewal
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Sturdy historical detail
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A sweeping historical canvas
Golden Kamuy
2018
A survival hunt for gold in the north — an everything-at-once adventure.
An ex-soldier and a girl hunt for Ainu gold, in this 2018 hit from Satoru Noda's manga. Action, food, history, and humor fused, for a bit of everything.
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Tension and comedy in turns
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A portrait of Ainu culture
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A cast of wild characters
Dorohedoro
2020
Hunting memory in a squalid world — a dark, dense offbeat action.
A man whose head was changed by a sorcerer hunts his memory and the culprit, in this 2020 hit from Q Hayashida's manga. Grotesque meets deadpan, for dense darkness.
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A thick, chaotic world
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Grotesque beside gags
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Densely planted mysteries
86 Eighty-Six
2021
The fight of soldiers whose existence is denied — a weighty SF war tale.
A society that sends only the discriminated to war, in this 2021 adaptation of Asato Asato's novels. Weighty war and aching drama, for sturdy SF.
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Weighty war depiction
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An aching human drama
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A social question of discrimination
SSSS.Gridman
2018
A giant hero and kaiju in the present — a theory-friendly tokusatsu SF.
A boy who lost his memory fights kaiju as a giant hero, in this 2018 original anime. Homage to tokusatsu and laid mysteries, for theorizing.
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Homage to tokusatsu
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Powerful giant battles
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Carefully laid mysteries
Baccano!
2007
Prohibition-era lives across scrambled time — an exhilarating ensemble action.
Immortals and mafia tangle in a non-chronological tale, in this 2007 acclaimed adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's novels. Deft structure and momentum, for ensemble craft.
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A scrambled-time structure
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A vivid ensemble
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A racing plot
Hunter × Hunter
2011
Nen powers open intricate strategic battles — a tactical adventure.
A boy's adventure to become a Hunter, in this 2011 hit from Yoshihiro Togashi's manga. Rule-deep tactical fights in an unsparing world, for watching while you think.
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A meticulously built power system
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Psychological gambits
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Unpredictable story turns
Tokyo Ghoul
2014
A young man turned flesh-eater in anguish — a dark supernatural tale.
A half-ghoul agonizes between two worlds, in this 2014 hit from Sui Ishida's manga. Cruel reality and aching conflict, for a dark story.
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Anguish between human and ghoul
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Cruel, aching turns
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Stylish battles
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
2007
Racing from underground to the heavens — over-the-top hot-blooded mecha.
An underground boy aims for the surface in a giant robot, in this exhilarating 2007 original anime. A hot soul and ever-expanding scale, for pure heat.
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Over-the-top heat
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Ever-inflating scale
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Moving growth and farewell
Kill la Kill
2013
Bursting through on runaway momentum and power — an exhilarating offbeat action.
A school battle over mysterious uniforms, in this exhilarating 2013 original anime. Runaway momentum and all-out direction, for exhilarating action.
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Over-the-top momentum
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All-out direction
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Exhilarating battles
Who it's for
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How many questions is it?
Eight. You can answer in about two minutes on gut feel.
How many titles is it choosing from?
A pool of 100 anime since 2000 — talked-about hits and classics — ranked to give you the best-matching top 30.
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How is the match decided?
From your answers on 8 taste axes (emotion, action, comedy, mystery, romance, slice-of-life, fantasy/SF, dark), each title is scored and ranked highest-first.
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