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Anime rankingsTop anime of Fall 2023
The season’s highest-rated anime, ordered from tenth place to first using the latest scores.
#10Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai.
The Four Yuzuki Brothers
Two years after losing their parents, the four Yuzuki brothers have become a family that depends on itself for everything. Hayato, the eldest, works tirelessly to keep their home together; Mikoto is calm and capable but hopelessly protective of Minato; Minato is emotional, energetic, and prone to trouble despite his good intentions; and Gakuto, the youngest, is a first-grader who often seems wiser than everyone else. School, work, neighbors, and memories of their parents continually test the balance they have built. Their days still carry grief, but they are also filled with small moments that remind the brothers that family is not only who they lost—it is who keeps coming home for one another.
#9Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen
My New Boss Is a Total Airhead
Years of abuse from a former manager leave Kentarou Momose with health problems and the belief that any new boss might become another nightmare. At his new advertising job, his direct supervisor is Yuusei Shirosaki, a capable and calm man whose presence initially makes Momose nervous. It does not take long for him to discover that Shirosaki’s odd behavior is not threatening at all; it comes from a combination of genuine kindness and spectacular absent-mindedness.One small incident after another, from client visits to sick days, shows Momose that authority does not have to rely on fear. Slowly, he begins unlearning the reactions his old workplace left behind and discovers what it feels like to work without waiting for the next shout.
#8Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su
Shangri-La Frontier: Crappy-Game Hunter Challenges a God-Tier Game
Rakurou Hizutome loves terrible VR games so much that he has become an expert at beating broken mechanics, awful balance, and bugs that would make most players quit. After one bad game too many, he tries the hugely popular Shangri-La Frontier, a polished title with around 30 million players, expecting his unusual skills to make it a pleasant break.Logging in as Sunraku, he immediately sells most of his starting gear and begins adventuring in a bird mask with almost nothing else equipped. Yet this carefully built world offers genuine challenges and secrets that ordinary play will not reveal. The instincts forged by the worst games become his greatest advantage, leading him toward unique monsters, formidable players, and hidden paths that most of Shangri-La Frontier’s population has never seen.
#7Precure All Stars Movie F
Pretty Cure All Stars Movie F
Sora awakens in a strange world with Mashiro and the rest of her team nowhere to be found. Instead, she meets Yui, Manatsu, and a mysterious girl named Prim, who can transform into Cure Supreme. Elsewhere, Mashiro, Tsubasa, and Ageha each find themselves traveling with Pretty Cures from different eras, while their memories of how they arrived remain strangely unclear.The separated groups all learn of a distant castle that may hold the way home. As they cross islands, gardens, and unfamiliar lands, their paths begin to converge around Prim and the gentle Puka, revealing that the empty world around them hides a truth far more unsettling than a simple accidental separation.
#6Fanren 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.
#5Pluto
Pluto
Android detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate the murder of Montblanc, one of the world's most powerful robots and a former war hero. Soon after, a human robot-rights activist is killed in a similar manner, followed by another elite machine, convincing Gesicht that the murderer is choosing targets with a specific purpose.The robot victims were among seven extraordinary machines who took part in a devastating past war, and Gesicht himself is one of them. He turns to Atom, an advanced robot boy, for help understanding an enemy that may be able to violate society's most important rule: robots do not kill humans. As the name Pluto emerges, memories of war and buried guilt return, turning the hunt for a serial killer into a deeper question about hatred and whether machines can inherit it from the people who created them.
#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.
#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.