Best Anime of 2022
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersTrigger took a broken video game's setting and made the best thing to carry the Cyberpunk name.Read the review
Bocchi the Rock!A show about crippling social anxiety that is also one of the funniest and most inventively animated comedies of its decade.
Spy x FamilyA sitcom about a fake family, executed close to perfectly, and it is still a sitcom.
SuzumeShinkai's most direct film about the 2011 disaster, dazzling to look at and crowded with more plot than it can comfortably hold.
Blue LockA football anime that treats a striker's ego as a superpower, thrilling in its first season and visibly short of animators in its second.
Chainsaw ManMAPPA made it cinematic when what it needed was funny, and the tone never recovers from the choice.