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Anime rankingsTop anime of Spring 2023
The season’s highest-rated anime, ordered from tenth place to first using the latest scores.
#10IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - Beyond the Period
IDOLiSH7, TRIGGER, Re:vale, and ŹOOĻ gather before one immense audience for a performance that crosses the boundaries separating their distinct styles. Seven colors of youthful sincerity, fierce precision, mature elegance, and rebellious energy share the same stage without losing what makes each group unique.As songs pass from one act to the next, rivalry gives way to a celebration created by sixteen idols and the people supporting them. Their voices carry beyond the period each group has already defined and toward a future none of them could reach alone.
#9Gridman Universe
Gridman Universe
A year has passed since the battle that restored the world, and almost no one remembers Gridman, the kaiju, or Akane Shinjou. Rikka and Utsumi alone retain those memories, while Yuuta Hibiki lives normally despite once being the host who merged with Gridman.When a new kaiju appears, cracks return to reality and Yuuta is given a chance to understand the missing part of his own past. The crisis soon expands beyond his world as people and events connected to Dynazenon begin crossing into the same struggle and the boundaries between memories and worlds start to fail. This battle is not only about recovering what happened, but protecting the relationships born from those impossible events even if the world itself has forgotten them.
#8Jigokuraku
Hell's Paradise
Gabimaru the Hollow is a professional assassin sentenced to death, yet his body refuses to surrender to every execution attempt. He claims he no longer wants to live, but swordswoman Yamada Asaemon Sagiri recognizes what he is hiding: a wife he wants to return to and a peaceful life he never truly abandoned. The shogunate offers him a pardon in exchange for retrieving the Elixir of Life from a mysterious island described as paradise. Gabimaru arrives with other condemned criminals, each watched by an executioner and willing to kill rivals for freedom. The island is worse than all of them, hiding lethal creatures and seemingly immortal beings beneath breathtaking beauty. Survival depends on deciding who can be trusted in a paradise built from death.
#7Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia
Insomniacs After School
Ganta Nakami spends most nights unable to sleep and most school days exhausted, irritable, and searching for somewhere quiet to close his eyes. He discovers the perfect hiding place in the abandoned astronomy-club observatory, only to find classmate Isaki Magari already using it for exactly the same reason. She also lives with insomnia, though almost no one at school knows.Rather than compete for the room, they begin sharing it. When their secret refuge is threatened, reviving the astronomy club gives them a legitimate reason to stay and turns sleepless nights into photography trips, stargazing, and conversations that come more easily in darkness. Their insomnia does not disappear, but loneliness begins to. As Ganta and Isaki grow closer, the observatory becomes a place where two people who cannot rest anywhere else finally feel safe enough to breathe.
#6Skip to Loafer
Skip and Loafer
Mitsumi Iwakura arrives in Tokyo from a small rural town with her future carefully planned: excel in school, enter a top university, and eventually do work that improves society. What she did not plan for was getting lost on her first morning and learning that city life refuses to follow schedules. Classmate Sousuke Shima helps her, a relaxed and sociable boy who seems able to move through any situation with ease. Mitsumi enters a classroom full of people very different from her, and her direct sincerity creates embarrassing moments just as often as it makes others feel comfortable. Through new friendships and first impressions that keep changing, she learns that success is not only reaching a destination, and that the people met along the way can reshape the plan itself.
#5Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen
Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc
After his sword is damaged yet again, Tanjiro travels with Nezuko to the hidden Swordsmith Village in search of a replacement. There he crosses paths with Mist Hashira Muichiro Tokito and Love Hashira Mitsuri Kanroji while trying to persuade a smith to restore the weapon he needs for battle. The secluded village, however, is about to lose the secrecy that has protected it for generations.The death of an Upper Rank has forced Muzan to move his strongest demons, and Hantengu and Gyokko soon descend on the settlement. As the villagers fight to protect their forges and their lives, Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira are drawn into a battle with no safe retreat. If the village falls, the Demon Slayer Corps may lose one of the foundations of its war against demons.
#4Dr. Stone: New World
Dr. Stone: New World
Senkuu and the Kingdom of Science prepare to sail beyond Japan in search of the origin of the petrification beam. Ryuusui solves the problem of command, but an ocean crossing also needs preserved food, precise navigation, and tools that can see beyond human sight, leading them to revive a gifted chef and reinvent radar. As the Perseus nears launch, an impossible radio signal arrives from someone who understands their technology and repeats a single question: Why? The unknown observer changes the purpose of the journey. Their search points toward Treasure Island, where a society lives close to the power of petrification itself, turning the mission into a race to reach the device that ended civilization before someone else can use it against them.
#3Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu
The Dangers in My Heart
Kyoutarou Ichikawa is a withdrawn middle schooler who fills his mind with dark fantasies about murder, especially convincing himself that he wants to kill Anna Yamada, the beautiful and popular girl in his class. Repeated encounters in the school library, however, expose someone completely different from the image he created of her.Yamada may work as a model, but in everyday life she is odd, constantly hungry, terrible at reading the room, and surprisingly foolish. Instead of making Ichikawa want to hurt her, these discoveries make him worry about her and quietly protect her from embarrassment. The more he knows her, the harder it becomes to pretend the “dangerous” feeling in his heart is murderous at all. It may simply be a confused boy experiencing affection he does not yet know how to name.
#2Tengoku 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.
#1[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.