Best Anime on Netflix: Top 50+ Anime on Netflix
This is the list of top 50 anime shows on Netflix for you to watch. As new anime shows are popping up on Netflix frequently, be sure to check also the bottom of the list as those shows might not have been voted on yet. You can also vote on your own favourite anime show on Netflix. So far Netflix has been adding over 50 great anime series in their selection, so there is plenty of good shows for all anime appetites. Their selection includes shows from mecha, vampire, adventure, comedy and many more fascinating genres. If you haven't watched anime from Netflix before, it is recommended to start from the top of the list to make sure you spend your time watching the very best shows Netflix has made available for you!
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Ouran High School Host Club
Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at the prestigious Ouran Academy, a fictitious high school for rich kids located in Bunkyo, Tokyo. Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the abandoned Third Music Room, a…
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Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online (Japanese: ソードアート・オンライン Hepburn: Sōdo Āto Onrain) is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec. The series takes place in…
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Naruto
A powerful fox known as the Nine-Tails attacks Konoha, the hidden leaf village in the Land of Fire, one of the Five Great Shinobi Countries in the Ninja World. In response, the leader of Konoha, the Fourth Hokage, seals the fox inside…
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Death Note
Death Note (Japanese: デスノート Hepburn: Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The story follows Light Yagami, a high school…
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Fairy Tail
Fairy Tail is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into…
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Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人 Hepburn: Shingeki no Kyojin, lit. “Advancing Giant”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. The series began…
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Kill la Kill
Honnouji Academy (本能字学園 Honnōji Gakuen) is a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan on the island of Honnō City. The school is dominated by its fearsome student council led by Satsuki Kiryuin. Its…
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Your Lie in April
Piano prodigy Kōsei Arima dominates various music competitions and becomes famous among child musicians, but also controversial. When his mother Saki dies suddenly, he has a mental breakdown while performing at a piano recital which resulted in him…
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One-Punch Man
One-Punch Man (Japanese: ワンパンマン Hepburn: Wanpanman) is an ongoing Japanese superhero webcomic created by ONE[5] which began publication in early 2009.[6] The series quickly…
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Blue Exorcist
Blue Exorcist (Japanese: 青の祓魔師エクソシスト Hepburn: Ao no Ekusoshisuto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Katō. The manga has been serialized in Jump…
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Bleach
Bleach (Japanese: ブリーチ Hepburn: Burīchi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of the hotheaded teenager Ichigo…
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Tiger & Bunny
The series takes place in “NC 1978” in a fictional, re-imagined version of New York City called Stern Bild City, where 45 years before, superpowered individuals known as “NEXT” (an acronym standing for Noted Entities with…
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Sword Art Online II
In 2022, a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online (SAO) is released. With the NerveGear, a helmet that stimulates the user’s five senses via their brain, players…
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The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
The Demon Lord Satan seeks to conquer the world of Ente Isla by annexing its four continents with the help of his demon generals Alciel, Lucifer, Malacoda, and Adramelech. After being confronted by the hero Emilia and her companions after…
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Berserk
Guts (ガッツ Gattsu) is a wandering mercenary who has known war and death since he was born from a hanged corpse and saved by his adopted mother, who died from the plague when he was only three years old. He was raised and trained…
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Durarara!!
Mikado Ryūgamine, a young boy who longs for the exciting life of the big city, moves to Ikebukuro to attend Raira Academy with his childhood friend Masaomi Kida, whom he has not seen since he was young. After the two meet at the train…
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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
After being secluded for his entire life, a boy called Aladdin travels the world with his “friend” Ugo, the Djinn contained within Aladin’s flute, until he meets Alibaba Saluja, a young man aiming to one day explore the nearby…
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Fate/Zero
The story of Fate/Zero takes place ten years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City.[5] The Holy Grail War is a contest, founded by the Einzbern, Matou, and…
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica
In the fictional city of Mitakihara, Japan, a middle school student named Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka Miki encounter a small, cat-like creature named Kyubey. It offers a contract in which a girl may have any wish…
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Gurren Lagann
Gurren Lagann takes place in a future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages. These villages have no contact with the surface world or other villages and are under…
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
Kusuo Saiki is a high school student who was born with all manner of psychic abilities, including telepathy, psychokinesis, teleportation, and more. Despite having all these powers, Saiki faces all kinds of hardships and tries to avoid attention as…
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InuYasha
In modern-day Tokyo, Kagome Higurashi lives on the grounds of her family’s Shinto shrine with her mother, grandfather and little brother, Sota. On her fifteenth birthday, when she goes to retrieve her cat, Kagome is dragged into the…
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Rurouni Kenshin
In the early Meiji era, after participating in the Bakumatsu war as the assassin “Hitokiri Battōsai“, Himura Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan with a reverse blade katana, offering protection and aid to…
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Violet Evergarden
The story revolves around Auto Memory Dolls (Jidō Shuki Ningyō): people initially employed by a scientist named Dr. Orland to assist his blind wife Mollie in writing her novels, and later rented out to other people who needed their services. In…
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Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
Rikuo Nura is 3/4 human and 1/4 yōkai, in which he has a human form in the day but transforms into his yōkai form at night. He lives in a house full of yōkai along with his yōkai grandfather. Trying to escape his fate, he does good deeds in…
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The Irregular at Magic High School
The series is set in a world with an alternate history, where magic exists and has been polished through modern technology. However, the ability to use magic is determined by genetics, limiting the number of magicians in existence. Following…
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Durarara!!x2
The second season of the Durarara!! anime series, titled Durarara!!×2, was directed by Takahiro Omori and produced by Shuka. The episodes are adapted from the light novel series Durarara!! by Ryōgo…
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Ajin: Demi-Human
Ajin: Demi-human presents the story of a student named Kei Nagai (永井 圭 Nagai Kei), who discovers he is an “Ajin” when he is fatally wounded in a traffic accident. In the world of Ajin, a small number of humans (termed…
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Knights of Sidonia
The story follows the adventures of Garde pilot Nagate Tanikaze, who lived in the underground layer of Sidonia since birth and was raised by his grandfather. Never having met anyone else, he trains himself in an old Guardian pilot simulator every…
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Pokémon: Indigo League
Ash Ketchum turns 10 years old and is able to start on a new journey as a Pokémon trainer. The night before Ash is to meet Professor Oak, he has a dream and breaks his alarm clock. The next day he oversleeps, which causes him to miss his chance at…
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
In the distant future, humankind has taken to the stars and formed the Galactic Alliance of Humankind. The Galactic Alliance is engaged in a perpetual war with a tentacled alien species known as the Hideauze. Sixteen-year-old Ensign Ledo is a…
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Devilman Crybaby
In the series, Akira Fudo is informed by his best friend, Ryo Asuka, that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Believing that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their powers, Ryo suggests to…
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Aggretsuko
Retsuko is an anthropomorphic red panda, 25 years old and single, who works in the accounting department of a Japanese trading firm. Facing constant frustration every day from pushy superiors and annoying co-workers, Retsuko lets out her emotions by…
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B: the Beginning
In a world powered by advanced technology, crime and action sweep through the archipelagic nation of Cremona. Chief among the major players is “Killer B”, a serial killer who has thrown the city into chaos. The stories of Koku, the…
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Kuromukuro
450 years prior to the present, an extraterrestrial force called Efy Dolgh invades Earth; the people of Sengoku era Japan dub their mecha and robotic drones as oni. The Washiba Clan falls victim to them, but clan heir Yukihime and her samurai…
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Little Witch Academia
Little Witch Academia takes place at Luna Nova Magical Academy (Rūna Nova Mahō Gakkō), a prestigious school for young girls training to become witches. Having been inspired by a witch named Shiny Chariot, a girl named Atsuko (“Akko”)…
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Children of the Whales
The story focuses on a boy called Chakuro, who lives on a giant vessel called a Mud Whale that drifts over the sea of sand. In the Mud Whale, society is divided into two kinds of people: the Marked, who can move objects with their minds using a…
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Pokémon: XY
The seventeenth season of the long running Pokémon animated series is known as Pocket Monsters: XY (Poketto Monsutā Ekkusu Wai) in Japan and internationally as Pokémon: XY (advertised as Pokémon the Series: XY). The season follows the continuing…
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Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan: Demon Capital
Rikuo Nura is 3/4 human and 1/4 yōkai, in which he has a human form in the day but transforms into his yōkai form at night. He lives in a house full of yōkai along with his yōkai grandfather. Trying to escape his fate, he does good deeds in…
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Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey
For three years, Guts believed his mission was to pursue Griffith’s dream together with him. But after coming to understand Griffith’s outlook as well as fighting 100 men (and winning), Guts realises that he would need to leave the Band…
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Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the King
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc (Hepburn: Beruseruku Ōgon Jidai-hen) is a series of films, an effort to adapt the Golden Age Arc of Kentaro Miura‘s Berserk manga series.[3] The project was first announced as a new anime project in September 2010…
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Gunslinger Girl
Set in Italy, Gunslinger Girl follows the exploits of the Social Welfare Agency (often referred to as simply “the Agency”), ostensibly a charitable institution sponsored by the Italian government. While the Agency professes to aid the…
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A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-
In 2035, a biological research project to create an Artificial and Intelligent Cellular Organism (A.I.C.O.) went awry, resulting in an incident called the “Burst” which transformed Kurobe Gorge into a quarantine area infested by a…
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Sword Gai: The Animation
Sword Gai (Sōdo Gai) is a Japanese manga series written by Toshiki Inoue with original character design by Keita Amemiya and scenario by Wosamu Kine. The first twelve episodes (“Part I”) of an anime adaption titled Swordgai: The…
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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
This manga tells the story of the previous Holy War, taking place in the 18th century, 250 years before the original series, in the Saint Seiya universe. The story centers on the fight between Tenma, one of the 88 Saints following Athena, and Alone,…
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Digimon Fusion
Mikey Kudo is a 7th grade boy with a need to help others. Mikey hears a mysterious voice and finds a dying Digimon named Shoutmon in a nearby alley. Mikey’s desire to save Shoutmon causes a mysterious legendary Digivice called the Fusion…
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Lost Song
Rin an energetic countryside girl who is on a journey to the Capital to sing. In the Capital, Songstress Finis is spending time alone and preparing to help the war front. Rin and Finis have the power of songs. Both are having a hard journey with…
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Case Closed/Detective Conan
Jimmy Kudo (Japanese: Shinichi Kudo) is a high school detective who sometimes works with the police to solve cases.[2] During an investigation, he is attacked by members of a crime syndicate known as the Black Organization. They force…
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Castlevania: Dracula X
Taking place in 1792, Rondo of Blood is set in the fictional universe of the Castlevania series. The premise of the series is the eternal conflict between the vampire hunters of the Belmont clan and the immortal vampire…
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Aldnoah.Zero
In 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission, an ancient alien artifact named the “Hypergate” was discovered on the surface of the Moon, allowing for near-instantaneous travel to and from Mars and the colonisation…
