The Best Animes of All Time by Genre

Action

• Attack on Titan. The story is deep, and the action scenes are super powerful.

• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is also very classic. The story is complete, and the fight scenes are made with great care.
• Demon Slayer is a super popular anime in the past few years. The pictures are so beautiful.
• Jujutsu Kaisen mixes modern feeling with old-style magic. The action scenes are very well-paced.
• One Punch Man uses funny ways to change the normal hero idea, and it is also very great.

Adventure

• One Piece is a super long anime, but its world is very big, with many characters. Every part of the journey is very exciting.
• Hunter x Hunter is also a classic. It is slow, but the story is very deep. Each part is different.
• Made in Abyss looks cute, but the story is very dark. The feeling of adventure is very strong.
• Magi is a world full of magic and desert kingdoms. The story is rich, and the characters grow a lot.
• Sword Art Online gives the feeling of "living inside a game." It is great for people who like tech stories.

Sci-Fi

• Steins; Gate tells a time travel story, with many detailed settings. The ending is super shocking.
• Cowboy Bebop is an old anime, but the music, art style, and feeling are very strong. It is a classic of classics.
• Psycho-Pass talks about a future where AI checks if people will commit crimes. The idea is close to real life and makes people think about freedom and control.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion is a bit hard to understand, but the feelings are very strong. It has influenced many later anime.
• Parasyte also mixes sci-fi with aan ction story. It is very exciting.

Fantasy

• Attack on Titan also has action, but its world and setting are very fantasy-like. It is really worth watching.
• Re: Zero tells the story of a main character who keeps “dying and restarting” in another world. The story is full of tension and strong emotions.
• Fate/Zero has very detailed fight scenes, with battles between spirit heroes and mages. The feeling is very strong.
• No Game No Life has a super new idea. The main characters win games with their brain, and it is fun and light.

• The Rising of the Shield Hero is about a hero who was betrayed but becomes strong again. His growth is very interesting to watch.

Romance

• Your Lie in April is a story that mixes music and first love. The art is beautiful, and the emotions are very soft. It is easy to cry after watching it.
• Toradora is about two high school students who seem not to match, but slowly fall in love. It is a super classic school romance.

• Kimi ni Todoke has a warm feeling. The girl slowly opens her heart, and that is very healing.
• CLANNAD After Story is deeper. It talks not only about love, but also about family and life. The feelings are very strong.
• Horimiya is a lighter and happier school love story. It is very sweet, and the characters are all cute.

School Life

• My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU is a very special school anime. The main character is a bit sharp-tongued, but what he says makes people think.
• K-On! is a healing type of anime. It shows the daily life of girls starting a band. It is gentle and funny.
• Assassination Classroom has a strange setting (students try to kill the teacher?), but inside, it is really about education and growing up. It is very touching.
• Great Teacher Onizuka is about a crazy teacher who changes his students' lives. It is funny but also warm.
• Ouran High School Host Club is a funny school anime. The feeling is light and full of surprises.

Mystery/Thriller

• Death Note is almost the starter masterpiece for all mystery anime. It shows a battle between geniuses, talks about right and wrong, and has a very strong feeling of pressure. You can’t forget it after watching it once.
• Monster is very solid. It tells the story of a doctor who chases a serial killer. It feels very real and heavy.
• Erased mixes time travel with crime. It is about a man trying to stop a tragedy from his childhood. The emotions in it are also touching.

• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni looks like a cute daily life at first, but the story is super dark. It is good for people who like strong and shocking plots.
• Paranoia Agent is more of a psychological thriller. It is full of symbols and talks about problems in society.

Horror

• Another is the first horror anime for many people. It has a strange school feeling, and sudden accidents keep happening. The story is full of twists.
• Tokyo Ghoul shows a world where people eat people in modern society. The main character’s change is painful but feels very real.

• Shiki tells the story of a village slowly taken over by vampires. The feeling is heavy but also very interesting.
• Elfen Lied is very bloody, but deep inside, it is about being lonely and not accepted. The emotions are very strong.
• The Promised Neverland (season one) has fast pacing. The children try to escape from a “happy” orphanage, and the journey is full of danger.

Comedy

• Gintama is the king of comedy anime. It has all kinds of jokes, parodies, and silly moments. It even has action and touching parts. You really should not miss it.
• KonoSuba is about another world, but the story breaks all the normal rules. Every character is strange in a funny way, and the jokes come fast.
• Nichijou really is about “daily life,” but the way it is shown is super over-the-top. Every episode feels like a funny art show, and it’s full of good jokes.
• The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. tells about a boy with powers who wants a quiet life, but silly classmates always bring him trouble. It’s very funny.
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is a love comedy, but it turns normal boy-girl ideas upside down. The jokes feel fresh and light.

Slice of Life

• March Comes in Like a Lion is a soft and gentle anime. The main character is a young boy who plays shogi. The story has a lot of emotion and talks about family and human relationships.
• Barakamon is about a calligrapher who is sent to a small island. He lives a slow life with his kids there. It is funny and healing.

• Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is a slice-of-life anime, too, but it can make you cry. It talks about friendship, growing up, and letting go.
• Natsume’s Book of Friends is slow and calm. Every episode feels like a soft little fairy tale. It is great for watching with a quiet heart.
• Laid-Back Camp is even simpler. You just watch girls go camping and cook food. The pictures are beautiful, and the mood is very light.

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