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Mob Psycho 100

Also known as Mob Psycho 100.

Studio: bones , BS Fuji , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The story revolves around "Mob," a boy who will explode if his emotional capacity reaches 100%. This boy with psychic powers earned his nickname "Mob" because he does not stand out among other people. He keeps his psychic powers bottled up so he can live normally, but if his emotional level reaches 100, something will overwhelm his entire body.

Tags: Super Power , Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Ghost , Primarily Teen Cast , Satire , Parody , Male Protagonist , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Exorcism , Shounen , Disability , Primarily Male Cast , Conspiracy , School , Slapstick , Demons , Delinquents , School Club , Bullying , Fitness , Gangs , Cult , Family Life , Dissociative Identities , Unrequited Love , Curses

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

Amazon Prime Video

Hulu

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man" — a man with a devil's heart.

Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Gore , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Urban , Henshin , Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Monster Girl , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Heterosexual , Anthropomorphism , Guns , Assassins , Found Family , CGI , Age Gap , Cannibalism , Yandere , POV , Homeless , Police , Amnesia , Revenge , Crime , Nudity , Zombie , Angels , Yakuza

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

Hulu

Bilibili TV

Disney Plus

Netflix

FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Studio: Gainax , Production I.G , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL.

Tags: Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Meta , Philosophy , Primarily Teen Cast , Robots , Slapstick , Denpa , Aliens , Love Triangle , Parody , Mopeds , Heterosexual , Vore , Amnesia , Guns , Kaiju , Urban , Gods , Super Robot , Body Horror , Real Robot , Nudity , Episodic , Baseball , CGI

Where to watch?

Hulu

Adult Swim

Kill la Kill

Also known as Kill la Kill.

Studio: Aniplex , TRIGGER , Dentsu , Kadokawa Shoten , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , Movic , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities.

Tags: Henshin , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Incest , Nudity , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Class Struggle , Psychosexual , Dystopian , Tomboy , Super Power , Aliens , Orphan , Age Gap , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Anti-Hero , Military , Cult , Bullying , Villainess , Tsundere , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents , Tokusatsu , Exhibitionism , School Club , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gore , Tragedy , CGI , Meta , Yandere , Cosplay , Cheerleading , Butler , Space

Where to watch?

Netflix

Hulu

Crunchyroll

DEVILMAN crybaby

Also known as Devilman Crybaby.

Studio: Science SARU , Aniplex , Netflix , Dynamic Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

New Devilman project marking Go Nagai's 50th anniversary as a creator.

The protagonist Akira Fudou learns from his best friend, Ryou Asuka, that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Ryou tells Akira that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their supernatural powers, and suggests that he unite with a demon himself. Akira succeeds in transforming into Devilman, who possesses both the powers of a demon and the soul of a human. The battle of Devilman and Akira Fudou begins.

Tags: Demons , Tragedy , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Cosmic Horror , Monster Boy , Curses , War , Angels , Henshin , Anti-Hero , Mythology , Coming of Age , Cannibalism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Post-Apocalyptic , Revenge , Boys' Love , Athletics , Hip-hop Music , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Guns , Conspiracy , Urban , Drugs , Meta , Masturbation , Public Sex , Bisexual , Politics , Afterlife , Motorcycles , Shounen

Where to watch?

Tengoku Daimakyou

Also known as Tengoku Daimakyo.

Studio: Production I.G , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Avex Pictures , Kodansha , NetEase Games , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Thriller

In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they can to survive. Kiruko, an odd-job girl in Nakano, accepts a mysterious woman's dying wish to take a boy named Maru to a place called Heaven.

Tags: Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Achronological Order , Tragedy , Seinen , Travel , Body Swapping , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Gender Bending , Orphan , Super Power , Gore , Denpa , Demons , Body Horror , Coming of Age , Artificial Intelligence , Unrequited Love , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Heterosexual , Pregnancy , Suicide , Cyberpunk , Female Protagonist , Kuudere

Where to watch?

Disney Plus

Star+

Hulu

Dorohedoro

Also known as Dorohedoro.

Studio: MAPPA , Netflix , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question... "What did the guy inside my head say?"

Tags: Monster Boy , Dystopian , Magic , Amnesia , CGI , Full CGI , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Anthropomorphism , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Curses , Demons , Revenge , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Restaurant , Body Swapping , Vore , Food , Post-Apocalyptic , Drugs , Zombie , Nudity , Baseball , Gangs

Where to watch?

Gachiakuta

Also known as Gachiakuta.

Studio: bones , Avex Pictures , bones film , Kodansha , DMM.com , CBC TV , Dentsu , Com2uS
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

A boy lives in a floating town, where the poor scrape by and the rich live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. When he’s falsely accused of murder, though, his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment—exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and to travel the path to vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, a boy will have to become a warrior…

Tags: Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Class Struggle , Super Power , Dystopian , Ensemble Cast , Survival , Revenge , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban , CGI , Surreal Comedy , Adoption , Cannibalism , Memory Manipulation , Denpa , Body Horror , Age Gap , Isekai

Where to watch?

YouTube

Crunchyroll

iQ

Bilibili TV

Jujutsu Kaisen

Also known as JUJUTSU KAISEN.

Studio: Toho , MAPPA , Shueisha , Sumzap , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Supernatural

A boy fights... for "the right death."

Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What's more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse.

Itadori Yuji is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a friend who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Gojou Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School of Sorcery, an organization that fights the Curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back.

Note: The first episode received an early web premiere on September 19th, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 3rd, 2020.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Youkai , Super Power , Curses , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Exorcism , Dissociative Identities , Demons , Orphan , Urban , Body Horror , Magic , Martial Arts , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Shapeshifting , Gore , Swordplay , School , Anthropomorphism , Rotoscoping , Slapstick , Mythology , Surreal Comedy , Twins , Boarding School , Baseball

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

iQ

Bilibili TV

YouTube

Hulu

Undead Unluck

Also known as Undead Unluck.

Studio: David Production , TMS Entertainment , Shueisha , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

All Fuuko wants is a passionate romance like the one in her favorite shoujo manga. Unfortunately, her Unluck ability makes that impossible. But just as Fuuko hits rock bottom, Andy sweeps her off her feet—literally! Now she's become Andy's unwilling test subject as he works to find a way to trigger a stroke of Unluck big enough to kill him for good. However, when the pair discovers a secret organization is hunting them, it puts Andy's burial plans on hold.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Shounen , Cosmic Horror , Time Loop , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Zombie , Nudity , Time Manipulation , Age Gap , Suicide , Meta , Martial Arts , Body Horror , Post-Apocalyptic , Ensemble Cast , Travel , Language Barrier , Aliens , Real Robot , Tsundere

Where to watch?

Hulu

Disney Plus

Star+

Hulu