Hands down, one of the best anime ever created, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a one-of-a-kind series that really stands out from the rest of the anime known to mankind. If you’re on the hunt for something that you’d want to binge-watch within a weekend, Death Note is the perfect series to give a shot at, since it’ll make you want more and more afterwards. The story follows Light Yagami, a teen genius who stumbles across a mysterious otherworldly notebook: the “Death Note”, which belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages.Ī thriller/action-based story, the series centers around Light’s subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems morally unworthy of life to change the world into a utopian society without crime, using the alias of a god-like vigilante named “Kira” and the subsequent efforts of an elite task-force of law enforcement officers, consisting of members of the Japanese police force, led by L, an enigmatic internationally detective whose past is shrouded in mystery, to apprehend him and end his reign of terror.Īs short as the series may be, consisting of only 37 episodes, Death Note takes the spot of the best anime due to its hard-hitting action, fast-paced storyline, and an anime that doesn’t expand into other spin-offs to stay true to its main plot (we’re not going to discuss Netflix’s live-action adaptation), making it a one-of-a-kind anime on our list. If you were given a notebook that could kill anyone in the world the moment you wrote their name in, what would you write in it? Trick question, we hope it’s no one and you would just throw the book into the trash, but that’s what Death Note’s premise is all about. Nevertheless, get yourself set in to see the best anime ever made. If you’re interested in some more gritty features, check out our latest review of the best fighting anime.

Many of these shows have been produced within the past two decades, so you’ll get some nostalgia if you were the one tuning in on a Saturday morning to watch some of these.

In this list, we at CBR have reviewed the best anime that has aired since the debut of the genre. While the newest anime still serve a great purpose in leaving people wanting more, the anime made 10, 20, or even 30 years ago are still incredible to this day. For the genre being alive since the early 1970s, it has been capturing viewers and long-time fans ever since, and it continues to do so with newly-produced anime. For every anime, there is a generation that is sparked with a connection to it.

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