Best Anime of 2016
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
A Silent VoiceA film about a bully seeking forgiveness that refuses to let him have it cheaply.Read the review
Your NameShinkai finally wrote a plot strong enough to carry the prettiest skies in the medium.
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!The isekai power fantasy played entirely as farce, with a party too incompetent to be heroic.
Mob Psycho 100The best-animated television anime of its decade, arguing that psychic power is the least interesting thing about you.
Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another WorldThe isekai that makes its hero pay, then makes him pay again, and it does drag.
Berserk (2016)Miura's Conviction arc still grips through the stiff CG puppetry, which is a credit to the manga rather than to this adaptation.
ErasedA gripping eight episodes followed by four that give the whole thing away.
My Hero AcademiaA first season with real thematic clarity, then years of tournament rounds and shouted flashbacks.