Best Anime of 2014
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Ping Pong the AnimationEleven episodes about table tennis that are really about talent, friendship and what a person owes their gift.Read the review
Haikyu!!The sports anime that makes the sport legible, which is why it works on people who dislike sport.
Your Lie in AprilThe most beautifully animated performances in any music anime, attached to a romance that reaches for tears a little too often.
Parasyte: The MaximIwaaki's body-horror parable survives the adaptation, but the score and the updates keep fighting it.
Tokyo GhoulOne good season, an opening theme everybody knows, and a franchise that fell apart afterwards.
The Seven Deadly SinsA likeable cast stranded in a plot that resets its own stakes, and a production that visibly collapsed.
PupaA body horror manga cut into four minute pieces and then censored until almost nothing is left on the screen.