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Vinland Saga (TV series)Vinland Saga, the Japanese anime television series adapted from Makoto Yukimura's manga of the same name, turns on a single declaration: "I have no enemies." Polygon called that line the biggest highlight of the entire anime. It hits hard…
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)In a 2020 poll, Japanese schoolchildren admired a fictional demon slayer more than their own mothers.
Jujutsu Kaisen (TV series)In 2024, Guinness World Records and the data-science firm Parrot Analytics named Jujutsu Kaisen the most in-demand animated television show, taking the title from Attack on Titan. Jujutsu Kaisen is a Japanese anime series produced by the…
One Piece (1999 TV series)One Piece, the Japanese anime television series made by Toei Animation, first aired on Fuji Television in October 1999. Since then, more than 1,100 episodes have gone out, and they were later exported to over 80 countries. The series…
Satoru GojoSatoru Gojo, often called The Honored One, is a fictional sorcerer from Gege Akutami's manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. In August 2024, Shueisha held its fourth Jujutsu Kaisen character popularity poll, and Gojo came first with…
Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan was the first non-English show to become the world's most in-demand TV program.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen TrainDemon Slayer: Mugen Train topped the 2020 worldwide box office. It was the first non-American film to do so.
Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
Wit StudioWit Studio made Attack on Titan from its first season in 2013 through its third.
YoasobiYoasobi played a White House state dinner in April 2024. The Japanese duo began as a story-to-song project.
Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersCyberpunk: Edgerunners pulled in 14.88 million hours of viewing during its first week on Netflix, and that was enough to put it in the service's top ten. The animated miniseries premiered on the 13th of September 2022. It follows David…
Solo LevelingSolo Leveling, a South Korean fantasy web novel by Chugong, follows a hunter named Sung Jin-woo. Everyone in his line of work knows him as notoriously weak. One day he enters a rare and overwhelmingly powerful double dungeon, and it nearly…
Monkey D. LuffyMonkey D. Luffy is the rubber-bodied hero of the manga One Piece, created by Eiichiro Oda, and his story starts with a promise made by a small boy. In Windmill Village, in the Goa kingdom, young Luffy befriends a pirate called Red-Haired…
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (film)Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a 2021 Japanese animated dark fantasy film, and its first audience came at midnight. About 15,000 people watched it at the earliest public screenings on opening day, spread across 58 screens. Theaters had planned to…
Bones (studio)The anime studio Bones got its name from its eight-person starting team.
Idol (Yoasobi song)Yoasobi's song "Idol" grew from a shelved demo about an unbeatable girl. Ayase reworked it for the anime Oshi no Ko.
Yuri on IceDuring the autumn 2016 anime season, Yuri on Ice collected 1,440,596 tweets, according to the trend-analytics company Kadokawa Ascii Research Laboratories. Its closest rival, the volleyball series Haikyu!!, drew 348,109. That gap of more…
Lazarus (Japanese TV series)Lazarus is an anime series that begins with a video posted online in October 2052 by a man the world believed it had lost. He is Dr. Skinner, a celebrated neuroscientist who vanished three years earlier. His message is short and chilling.…