Best Anime of 2012
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
JoJo's Bizarre AdventureA serialised absurdity that reinvents its own rules every generation and commits absolutely to each one.Read the review
Wolf ChildrenA student falls in love with a wolf man, is widowed early, and raises two children who are both.
Berserk: The Golden Age ArcIt tells the Golden Age complete, through the Eclipse and out the other side, and its stiff CG battles dent the spectacle but never the tragedy.
Psycho-PassA first season that is one of the best science fiction thrillers in the medium, and sequels that keep diluting it.
Sword Art OnlineThe series that made the trapped in a game genre enormous, and then spent its second half undoing its own good work.