Genre Adventure

Star Trek

The Original Series. Where every bit of it started: William Shatner’s Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, and a five year mission that only ran three seasons but changed television forever. Gene Roddenberry’s optimism, a multiracial crew in the middle of…

Doctor Who

A box that is bigger on the inside, a two hearted alien with a police box, and six decades of reinvention. Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction show on Earth for a reason: every few years the Doctor…

Pokemon

Ash, Pikachu, and 25 plus years of the adventure that defined a generation’s childhood. The Indigo League run is comfort viewing royalty: the nostalgia is load bearing, and the show knows it. The honest take: this is not a prestige…

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Generations of the Joestar family, each fighting a bizarre battle against an escalating rogues gallery of vampires, Stand users, and men named Dio. No anime has more range: every part swaps protagonist, tone, setting, and art style, and somehow it…

One Piece

The greatest long form story in anime, and after more than 1,100 episodes it is still going. Monkey D. Luffy wants to be King of the Pirates, and the journey to that dream is an ocean sized saga that has…

Fullmetal Alchemist

The 2003 original, and the question every new fan asks: which Fullmetal do I watch first? The honest answer: they are two different shows that share a first act. The 2003 series ran while the manga was still being written,…

Naruto: Shippuden

The series that turned Naruto from a popular shonen into a generational one. Shippuden picks up two and a half years later: the kids are older, the stakes are real, and the story builds toward a war that engulfs every…

Dragon Ball Kai

The answer to the question every new fan asks: do I really have to watch 291 episodes of Z? Dragon Ball Kai is the official recut, trimming the original series down to about 159 episodes by removing the filler arcs…

Dragon Ball Super

The official continuation, picking up after Buu with Goku and Vegeta training under gods. Super starts rough: the animation in the first arc wobbles and the retellings of the Battle of Gods and Resurrection F movies are the weakest stretch…