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Anime rankingsTop Drama anime of 2023
Some stories stay with you long after the credits. Explore the top drama anime of 2023, where difficult choices, fragile relationships, and hard-earned second chances put feelings at the center. Find the characters whose struggles you want to follow.
#10Mushoku Tensei II: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu
Jobless Reincarnation: I'll Get Serious in Another World - Season 2
Eris's sudden departure leaves Rudeus Greyrat devastated and convinced that what they shared meant far less to her than he believed. Carrying that pain into the Northern Territories, he continues searching for his missing mother while moving through each day with little feeling, trapped in memories of a relationship that ended without explanation. In a land this dangerous, however, despair is a weakness he cannot indulge forever.Joining new adventurers slowly pulls Rudeus back into the world, and a brush with death forces him to reconsider what he wants from his second life. His journey becomes about more than finding his family: he must recover the confidence to trust himself and others again, and learn how to truly live instead of merely continuing.
#9BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
Anon Chihaya transfers into Haneoka Girls' Academy and quickly decides that forming a band is the easiest way to fit in. Her first promising recruit is Tomori Takamatsu, a shy girl whose hesitation is tied to the painful collapse of her former band, CRYCHIC.Trying to build something new brings Anon into contact with former CRYCHIC members Taki Shiina and Soyo Nagasaki, as well as the guarded guitarist Raana Kaname. Old wounds, conflicting motives, and an obsession with recreating what was lost threaten the new group before it can even find its name. To stay together, the girls must stop pretending that music can erase the past and learn how to face one another honestly.
#8Wu Liuqi: Anying Suming
Scissor Seven: Shadow Fate
Seven returns to Xuanwu to confront the past his lost memories have kept from him, but his arrival turns him into prey for the kingdom's most dangerous assassins. After fighting Black Bird to protect Thirteen, he is left weakened while multiple Shadow Killers move with different motives around him.At the same time, Green Phoenix finally sets a long-prepared revenge plan in motion against the leader of the Killer League, and the danger spreads back toward Chicken Island and the people Seven wanted to protect by leaving. With his old identity, his friends, and rival assassins pulling him in different directions, Seven must decide what kind of person will define his fate now.
#7Seishun Buta Yarou wa Randoseru Girl no Yume wo Minai
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Girl
Mai Sakurajima’s high school graduation is approaching, and Sakuta Azusagawa is waiting for her on the beach when an elementary school girl appears who looks exactly like Mai did during her childhood acting career. The girl vanishes as soon as Mai arrives, but the mystery does not end there. Sakuta discovers unfamiliar wounds on his body, a sign he recognizes all too well from previous cases of Puberty Syndrome.At the same time, Kaede receives difficult news: their mother has finally left the hospital and wants to see her daughter again after years of separation and pain. Sakuta chooses to face that reunion alongside his sister, only to realize that he has emotions of his own that he has avoided for just as long. Between the child version of Mai and scars that appear without explanation, Sakuta must finally confront what his own heart has been hiding.
#6Blue Giant
Blue Giant
From the moment Dai Miyamoto truly hears jazz, he makes a decision: he will become the best jazz saxophonist in the world. He practices relentlessly despite having played for only a few years, then leaves Sendai for Tokyo, where confidence alone impresses nobody. He meets talented pianist Yukinori Sawabe, who initially dismisses Dai's enormous ambition until he hears the raw force in his playing. They are joined by Dai's friend Shunji Tamada, who begins learning drums almost from scratch, and the three form JASS. On small jazz stages around the city, they try to turn talent, practice, stubbornness, and sheer love of music into a sound strong enough to make audiences stop and listen.
#5[Oshi no Ko]
My Favorite Idol's Children
Doctor Gorou Amemiya is a devoted fan of idol Ai Hoshino, so he is stunned when she secretly arrives at his hospital pregnant with twins and asks for help giving birth away from the public eye. Before he can see the children born, Gorou is murdered under mysterious circumstances and awakens again as Aqua, one of Ai's newborn twins.Aqua and his sister Ruby grow up behind the glittering surface of the entertainment industry, seeing how the lies that protect celebrities can also destroy them. After a tragedy permanently reshapes their childhood, the siblings take different paths toward the spotlight: Ruby chases her dream of becoming an idol, while Aqua uses acting and industry connections to pursue the person he believes is tied to the crime he cannot forget.
#4Shiguang Dailiren II
Time Agents: Season 2
The hunt for the person capable of possessing others ends in disaster. Lu Guang is left fighting for his life, while Cheng Xiaoshi is taken into police custody under suspicion of a crime he did not willingly commit. Even with Qiao Ling and Chief Xiao trying to piece the case together, the enemy remains hidden behind borrowed bodies and carefully timed attacks.The investigation draws in Qian Jin, a ruthless former officer turned lawyer, and a pair of siblings whose connection to the possession ability begins to expose the tragedy behind the killings. Cheng Xiaoshi is forced to use his power more carefully than ever, knowing that one wrong leap into the past could cost another life, including Lu Guang's.
#3Tian Guan Cifu Er
Heaven Official's Blessing: Season 2
Heavenly Emperor Jun Wu sends Xie Lian to investigate a distress signal from Ghost City, a prosperous and lawless realm ruled by Hua Cheng. Other officials fear the Ghost King and suspect his connection to Xie Lian, but Xie Lian enters the city willingly and finds Hua Cheng already waiting in his true form.The search for the missing heavenly official draws them through gambling dens, hidden prisoners, and secrets linked to Xie Lian's distant past. Before the man feared by three realms, Hua Cheng's arrogance softens into devotion, deepening a bond neither heaven nor the ghost realm understands.
#2Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
The Apothecary's Monologue
Maomao grew up as an apothecary's daughter surrounded by herbs, medicines, and poisons, but kidnapping and sale into the imperial palace reduce her to a servant who wants nothing more than to avoid attention. Her plan is to finish her term quietly and return home, until the emperor's infant children develop mysterious symptoms everyone whispers about as a curse.Curiosity and medical knowledge lead Maomao to the real cause, and she tries to deliver the answer anonymously. The observant palace official Jinshi identifies her talent anyway and moves her into service under Consort Gyokuyou. From then on, Maomao becomes entangled in poisonings, illnesses, and court intrigues she cannot resist solving. The harder she tries to remain an insignificant maid, the more obvious it becomes that her mind is far too useful for the palace to ignore.
#1Sousou no Frieren
Frieren Who Bids the Dead Farewell
After 10 years of traveling together, hero Himmel and his companions defeat the Demon King and return home. To the elven mage Frieren, those years are only a small piece of a life already more than a thousand years long, so she parts from Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen assuming she can simply visit again when she feels like it.Humans do not possess her sense of time. When Frieren returns, her old friends have aged or died, and she realizes too late how little she learned about the people who mattered to her. She begins a new journey with the young mage Fern and warrior Stark, revisiting places from the old adventure and collecting spells as always. This time, however, she is also trying to understand humans and the brief moments they gave her before becoming memories.