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Anime rankingsTop Adventure anime of 2023
The map ends. The adventure begins. Discover the top adventure anime of 2023 and follow bold travelers into unfamiliar lands, unlikely friendships, and discoveries worth the danger. Your next favorite journey could start with a single episode.
#10Cang Yuan Tu
The Demon Hunter
Meng Chuan witnesses his mother fall to demons when he is still a child, and devotes himself to swordsmanship with the promise of avenging her. Years later, the apparent peace of Ning City collapses under invasion, political pressure, and the loss of places once considered secure.Armed with unusual talent and a will sharpened by grief, Meng Chuan steps beyond the protection of his family and enters the dangerous path of cultivation. Saving the people around him will require more than revenge, because the enemies threatening his home are part of a conflict stretching across the world.
#9Mushoku 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.
#8Tengoku Daimakyou
Heaven's Great Demon Realm
After a catastrophe destroys civilization, man-eating creatures roam the ruins of Japan. Through this broken world, Maru and Kiruko travel in search of a place called “Heaven,” guided by little more than a mysterious image and scattered promises while passing settlements that reveal different ways people have learned to survive.Elsewhere, children live inside an isolated facility that appears safe and almost perfect, surrounded by walls that keep the outside world completely hidden. Their curiosity grows as contradictions begin appearing in the life adults have designed for them. As the two journeys unfold, clues start connecting the ruined world to the sealed sanctuary, and the truth about what happened to humanity may prove more disturbing than the monsters wandering its remains.
#7Wu 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.
#6Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka IV: Shin Shou - Yakusai-hen
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV: Deep Chapter - Calamity
Bell Cranel and Ryuu Lion are cast into the Dungeon's deep floors, wounded, undersupplied, and hunted by the Juggernaut, a monster created to annihilate anything threatening the labyrinth. Reaching safety means descending farther into territory where almost every creature can kill them.Above them, Bell's separated companions battle the Amphisbaena after the floor boss reappears ahead of schedule. Cassandra's ignored prophecy becomes reality as both groups struggle against exhaustion, despair, and a Dungeon that seems determined to prevent their reunion.
#5Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan: Xinghai Feichi
A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Racing Through the Sea of Stars
After years of patient cultivation in the Scattered Star Seas, Han Li finally forms his Golden Core and emerges from seclusion with a new problem: obtaining materials worthy of the path ahead. His search for Golden Lightning Bamboo and other rare treasures soon entangles him with local powers whose offers are never as simple as they appear.Rumors of Xutian Hall, an ancient realm that opens only once in centuries, draw cultivators from across the seas. A map fragment in Han Li's possession gives him a path inside, but it also makes him valuable to dangerous people. Surrounded by old monsters, competing sects, and treasures capable of provoking murder at a glance, Han Li once again survives by revealing as little of his true strength as possible.
#4Xian Ni
Renegade Immortal
Wang Lin grows up in a modest family whose relatives look down on his parents, but they remain convinced their intelligent son will achieve something great. When he gains a rare chance to pursue cultivation, his poor natural aptitude appears to close the path almost as soon as it opens.A mysterious stone bead changes that fate. Through patience, calculation, and an increasingly ruthless will to survive, Wang Lin advances through a world of sects, powerful cultivators, ancient inheritances, and deadly betrayals. His journey is not built on effortless talent, but on refusing to accept the limits others place on him.
#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.
#2Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen - Ketsubetsu-tan
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation
The Soul Society has barely survived Yhwach's first invasion, and many captains have lost both comrades and their Bankai. While the surviving Soul Reapers train for a second assault, Ichigo Kurosaki is taken to the Royal Palace, where learning the truth of his heritage becomes essential to forging a power capable of facing the Quincy king.Yhwach moves first. The Wandenreich invades again, and Uryuu Ishida appears at the enemy's side as Yhwach's chosen successor. With old certainties shattered, the captains must reclaim their strength while Ichigo races back toward a battlefield where friend and enemy are no longer as simple to distinguish.
#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.