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The season’s highest-rated anime, ordered from tenth place to first using the latest scores.
#10Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta
I Became Friends with the Second Cutest Girl in My Class
Maki Maehara enters high school convinced that making a genuine friend may be the hardest thing he will have to do there. Then Umi Asanagi, the girl classmates quietly call the “second cutest girl in class,” begins spending Friday evenings at his home instead of staying with her far more famous best friend Yuu Amami.Away from school, Umi cares little about the image everyone else sees. She plays games, watches movies, eats junk food, and jokes with Maki without restraint. Their Fridays become a small secret belonging only to them, but the closer they grow, the harder it becomes to call the relationship ordinary friendship. Maki, who feared he might never connect with anyone, learns that finding one person who understands him can make life both more complicated and much better.
#9Yomi no Tsugai
The Pair of the Underworld
Yuru lives in an isolated mountain village believing that his twin sister Asa is kept apart from everyone because of a mysterious sacred duty. Everything he knows collapses when armed outsiders descend on the village, the girl he thought was Asa is found dead, and one of the attackers claims to be his real twin sister.Rescued by the outsider Dera, Yuru is cornered into summoning a paired set of supernatural beings known as Tsugai. From that moment, he is pulled into a conflict far larger than his village. The truth about his birth, his sister, and the secret the adults around him worked so hard to hide begins to surface one dangerous piece at a time.
#8Akane-banashi
Akane's Tales
Since childhood, Akane Osaki has watched her father Shinta turn one voice and one body into an entire world through rakugo. At his crucial promotion test for the master rank of shin’uchi, he gives the performance of his life—only for head judge Issho Arakawa to fail him and effectively drive him away from the art he loved.Six years later, Akane is a high-school student secretly training under Shiguma, her father’s former teacher. When she earns a chance to perform before an audience, she is not simply trying to prove her talent. She intends to reach shin’uchi herself, understand why her father was denied it, and force the rakugo world to hear her story in her own voice.
#7Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana
Botan Kamiina Blooms Like a Lily When Drunk
Botan Kamiina begins university life in a new dormitory and soon notices the quiet resident assistant, Ibuki Tonami, drinking alone. Botan has never tried alcohol before, but curiosity leads to her first sip and reveals a far more assertive, openly flirtatious side than anyone would expect from the polite first-year student.Different drinks become memories the two share, from shochu to whisky, while Ibuki, who has long preferred solitude, slowly allows other people closer. For Botan, the joy of discovering a new drink becomes inseparable from the people sitting beside her, and each glass brings both women a little farther out of the shells they arrived with.
#6Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!
Go, Nakamura!!
Okuto Nakamura falls for his classmate Aiki Hirose the instant he sees him at the school entrance ceremony. Unfortunately, Nakamura is so painfully shy that starting an ordinary conversation feels harder than confessing his feelings. He therefore chooses a goal that seems slightly more achievable: become Hirose's friend first.Every carefully imagined attempt somehow ends more awkwardly than the one before it, and Nakamura's own fantasies turn every glance or casual word into an elaborate romantic scenario. Yet little by little, he does manage to make an impression on Hirose. With an entire school year ahead of him, Nakamura may actually have a chance at getting closer to the boy he loves, provided his imagination stops sabotaging him before reality can.
#5Fangkai Nage Nuwu
Release That Witch
Cheng Yan dies in his own world and awakens on a medieval European-like continent as Roland, the fourth prince of Graycastle. After saving the witch Anna from execution and witnessing real magic, he realizes that the witches’ abilities can replace technologies this world has never developed.In a frontier town where witches are feared and persecuted, Roland begins sheltering them and applying their powers to industry, defense, and everyday life. As the town prospers and his influence grows, he is drawn into conflict with the Church, powerful nobles, and rival heirs to the throne, while the mysteries behind magic point toward threats far older than his political struggle.
#4Koori no Jouheki
The Ramparts of Ice
Koyuki Hikawa appears cold and intimidating to her classmates, but the distance she keeps from others hides an old fear of getting attached and being hurt. She is content with her friend Miki and a quiet school life until Minato Amamiya begins approaching her without much concern for the walls she has built around herself.With kindhearted Youta Hino joining them, four teenagers with very different insecurities form an unlikely circle. The closer they become, the more Koyuki must choose between the safety of isolation and the risk of letting other people see who she really is.
#3Tongari Boushi no Atelier
Pointed Hat Atelier
Coco has dreamed of magic since childhood, but she was born outside the world of witches and has always been told that magic belongs only to people born with a special gift. Everything changes when she secretly watches the witch Qifrey cast a spell and discovers that magic does not come from blood at all, but from symbols drawn with tools and inks whose true nature is hidden from ordinary people.Coco tries to imitate what she saw, uses a mysterious book, and accidentally turns her mother to stone. Qifrey takes her into his atelier so she can learn magic and search for a way to save her mother, while suspecting the book is connected to a group that uses forbidden spells. Every lesson gives Coco new hope and reveals another secret the witching world would rather keep buried.
#2Nippon Sangoku
The Three Kingdoms of Japan
After modern civilization collapses, Japan fractures into three rival states: Yamato, Buo, and Seii. In a society that has fallen back toward a Meiji-like level of life, fifteen-year-old literature enthusiast Aoteru Misumi carries an impossible dream: reunify the country and restore the knowledge and culture that were lost.A personal tragedy finally forces Aoteru to turn theory into action and head for Osaka, where he meets Yoshitsune Asama, a gifted swordsman with the same ambition. While Yoshitsune has the blade, Aoteru fights with history, rhetoric, and strategy. Starting from the bottom of a dangerous city, the two begin a campaign that could redraw the map of Japan.
#1Steel Ball Run: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
In 1890, America turns its attention to the Steel Ball Run, a race spanning thousands of kilometers from San Diego to the East Coast for an enormous prize. Johnny Joestar, a former genius jockey who can no longer walk, watches the start without much purpose until he witnesses the mysterious technique used by Gyro Zeppeli.A brief encounter with Gyro's Spin lets Johnny feel movement in his legs for the first time since his injury, convincing him to enter the race and uncover the secret behind that power. The journey soon becomes far more than a contest for money, as killers, conspiracies, and sacred relics with strange abilities pull Johnny and Gyro into a struggle capable of reshaping the nation.
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