Best Anime of 2025
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze ArcThe film fixes what the series got wrong: Fujimoto's comic timing is back, and a small summer romance builds to the best action MAPPA has animated.Read the review
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castleufotable's most spectacular work yet, a shifting fortress and three duels drawn at feature scale, stalled by flashbacks whenever a fight gets going.
GachiakutaBones Film hand an ordinary shonen plot to a graffiti artist, and the design does the rest.
Sakamoto DaysThe manga's timing survives the adaptation; the animation that has to carry it does not.