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Anime rankingsTop anime of Winter 2023
The season’s highest-rated anime, ordered from tenth place to first using the latest scores.
#10Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
Mahiru Shiina is admired at school as the "Angel": beautiful, capable, kind, and seemingly perfect. Amane Fujimiya lives in the apartment next door and has almost nothing to do with her until he finds Mahiru sitting alone in the rain and lends her his umbrella. When Amane falls ill afterward, she repays the favor by caring for him.That should have ended their connection, but Mahiru cannot ignore the disastrous state of Amane's meals and apartment. Cooking for him becomes a routine, then shared dinners become comfortable evenings where neither has to perform the version of themselves everyone else expects. Behind closed doors, the perfect Angel and the careless loner slowly become simply Mahiru and Amane, and the distance between neighbors grows smaller without either noticing exactly when it changed.
#9Aikatsu! 10th Story: Mirai e no Starway (2023)
Idol Activities! 10th Story: Starway to the Future
Ichigo Hoshimiya, Aoi Kiriya, and Ran Shibuki have reached their final months at Starlight Academy. Their idol careers are still moving forward, but graduation is now close enough that the future can no longer be treated as a distant idea.As each girl continues performing and considering the path ahead, the friends begin putting their hopes into words. The approaching graduation stage becomes more than another show: it is a chance to look back on the years that shaped them and decide what kind of stars they want to become after leaving the school that brought them together.
#8Buddy Daddies
Buddy Daddies
Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa are professional assassins who live together while keeping emotional attachments safely out of their lives. During a Christmas Eve job, four-year-old Miri Unasaka wanders into the middle of their operation while searching for her father, and the chaos ends with the two killers bringing the child home.What is meant to be a temporary arrangement becomes a routine of daycare, meals, clothes, and preschool meetings, challenges unlike anything their work prepared them for. Miri knows nothing about their profession and gradually treats both men as family. As Kazuki and Rei try to protect her from the violent world they inhabit, she forces them to confront their own childhoods and whether two people accustomed to taking lives can build a real home.
#7Tsurune: Tsunagari no Issha
Tsurune: The Linking Shot
After Kazemai wins the prefectural tournament, Minato Narumiya and his teammates have little time to celebrate. Nationals are approaching, and everyone wants to prove their victory was more than luck. Minato returns to practice with renewed passion, but kyudo cannot be mastered through individual talent alone.New matches place the team against archers connected to Minato’s past and reveal how much a shot depends on breathing, rhythm, and trust between teammates as much as technique. Arrow by arrow, the boys of Kazemai learn that the “tsurune,” the sound of the bowstring after release, becomes most beautiful when the archer is honest with himself and in harmony with the people standing beside him.
#6Wu 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.
#5Dungeon 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.
#4Sasaki to Miyano Movie: Sotsugyou-hen
Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
Shuumei Sasaki's graduation is approaching, and with it the day when he will no longer see Yoshikazu Miyano at school every morning. Now that they have finally become a couple, Sasaki wants to enjoy the time they have left, but university entrance exams and the future beyond high school give him little room to avoid reality.Miyano is also thinking about what their daily separation will mean and how friends and family may see a relationship they have finally stopped hiding from themselves. There is no grand crisis between them, only a small but important transition: learning how to carry a new, still-awkward love into a life that will continue after graduation.
#3Blue 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.
#2The First Slam Dunk
The First Slam Dunk
Ryota Miyagi, Shohoku's lightning-fast point guard, carries far more onto the court than his calm expression reveals. Growing up in Okinawa, he followed the example of his older brother, a gifted local basketball player, while later loss and family strain shaped the way he approached both the game and his life. Now Ryota stands beside Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui at the national high school championship, where powerhouse Sannoh Kogyo awaits them. As the match becomes an exhausting test of skill, nerve, and teamwork, Ryota's memories intertwine with the present, turning every drive and pass into part of a struggle that reaches well beyond the scoreboard.
#1Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai
Kaguya-sama Wants Him to Confess: The First Kiss Never Ends
After the kiss they spent so long circling around, Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane expect their relationship to become clearer. Instead, the absence of an actual confession leaves them closer than ever while still unsure whether they can truly call themselves a couple.As Christmas approaches, every romantic moment becomes another test of their pride and fear of vulnerability. Shirogane wants to present the most perfect version of himself, while Kaguya longs for a relationship in which she can see his flaws and still stay close. Their old battle to force a confession may be over, but reaching an honest kind of love means confronting the parts of themselves they have always tried to hide.