Top 10 Anime: Dark Fantasy
The highest-graded dark fantasy anime we have reviewed, best first.
Puella Magi Madoka MagicaThe magical girl show that reads the contract's small print, and turns a bright genre into the defining anime tragedy of its decade.Read the review
BerserkA tragedy about ambition and friendship that survives an animation budget it plainly did not have.
Attack on Titan: The Last AttackThe finale plays better as one continuous film than as two specials, though a remaster cannot settle the argument over how it ends.
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.
Vampire Hunter D: BloodlustA gothic chase drawn at a level anime rarely reaches, with a vampire story sad enough to deserve it.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3MAPPA animate the manga's most argued over arc, and the animation is not the part anyone argues about.
GachiakutaBones Film hand an ordinary shonen plot to a graffiti artist, and the design does the rest.
Hell's Paradise: JigokurakuMAPPA build a beautiful, wrong island and then run a fairly ordinary tournament on it.
DorohedoroA cheerful splatter comedy about amnesia, gyoza and dismemberment, and the computer graphics mostly earn their place.
The Promised NeverlandA first season near the top of its decade, and a second that undoes the work in eleven episodes.
