Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
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…
The black sheep of the family, and the only Dragon Ball series with no Toriyama manga behind it: GT is entirely anime original, which is why fans argue about whether any of it counts. The honest take: the first stretch…
The show that put anime on the map in the West. Goku is grown, his son Gohan is the audience’s surrogate, and the villains arrive in escalating order of apocalypse: Saiyans, then Frieza, then the androids and Cell, then Majin…
Before the energy blasts that could crack a planet, there was a weird little kid with a tail riding a cloud. The original Dragon Ball is Goku’s childhood: a loose, funny adventure series that slowly turns into the greatest tournament…
In a world where almost everyone has a superpower, a boy born without one inherits the greatest power of all and enrolls in hero school. The shonen formula executed at its highest level: tournaments, rivalries, villains with actual philosophies, and…
A boy searches for the father who abandoned him by taking the world’s deadliest licensing exam, and Yoshihiro Togashi’s masterpiece unfolds arc after arc of escalating genius: a tournament that isn’t, a video game that is real, a war between…
A Viking boy swears revenge for his father’s murder and gets raised by the man who killed him, and the revenge story becomes something no one expects: a meditation on violence, slavery, and whether a warrior can put down the…
Aliens are real, ghosts are real, and the boy who believes in ghosts meets the girl who believes in aliens. Science Saru’s animation makes every fight a jam session, and the leads’ bickering chemistry is instant. The turbo granny arc…
A boy saddled with debt merges with his chainsaw devil dog and becomes a weapon for the government’s devil hunters. MAPPA’s film grade production, the needle drops, and Denji’s simple dreams, real bread, a normal life, make this the coolest…
The demon king is dead, the hero party won, and the elf mage who will live a thousand more years finally notices how brief her human friends’ lives were. Frieren then walks back through the world collecting moments she missed…