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…
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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…
Dragon Ball GT
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…
Dragon Ball Z
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…
Dragon Ball
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…
Survivor
The blueprint for everything reality television became, and still the best pure strategy game ever put on screen. Outwit, outplay, outlast is not a slogan, it is a complete philosophy of social manipulation, and forty plus seasons in, a well…
My Hero Academia
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…
Hunter x Hunter
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…
Vinland Saga
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…