Author: Yuki Harlan

A cute retro robot show made me ugly-cry three separate times, and I am not even a little sorry about it. The Pluto anime looks like a gentle Astro Boy throwback for about ten...

Some of us did not pick up this hobby. A single movie grabbed us by the collar, wrecked us emotionally, and never let go. That is exactly the kind of power we are ranking...

Some anime end when the credits roll, but a great supernatural anime follows you home, flicks the lights off, and whispers that the thing under your bed finally learned your name. That creeping, delicious...

Some of the fastest fighters, the sharpest dressers, and the biggest scene-stealers in anime happen to be Black, and they have been carrying whole shows on their backs for decades. If you have been...

Picture a kid who uses a secret superpower to cheat his way to the top of every class, then gets busted by a girl who drags him into a hidden war. That is how...

The dead are pouring over the school fence, your favorite character just got bitten, and you cannot look away. That is the sick, addictive magic of a great anime zombie story, and we are...

One gunshot, one betrayal, and one friend you trusted with your whole life squeezing the trigger. That is the promise every great gangsta anime makes, and the best shows on this list cash it...

The Elfen Lied anime opens with a naked girl calmly ripping the arms, legs, and heads off an entire squad of armed guards while a gentle Latin hymn plays over the carnage. That single...

A dying man shoves a mysterious vial into a teenage gang leader’s hand and gasps two words before he goes: “banana fish.” That single scene is how the Banana Fish anime opens, and from...

Picture the greatest samurai story ever drawn, a series so beautiful grown adults tear up over a single page, and then picture that not one frame of it has ever moved. That is the...