Top 10 Anime: School
The highest-graded school anime we have reviewed, best first.
Revolutionary Girl UtenaThirty nine episodes of sword duels on a staircase, all of them about who gets to decide what a girl is.Read the review
Slam DunkThe sports anime everything since has been copying, and it quits before the tournament it spent a hundred episodes building to.
Cardcaptor SakuraClamp's magical girl series, animated by Madhouse with a patience children's television rarely gets.
You and I Are Polar OppositesA school romance with no villain and no misunderstanding, and no need for either one.
Blue BoxA sports romance that takes both halves seriously and never manufactures a misunderstanding.
Assassination ClassroomAn absurd premise, a class trying to kill its teacher, becomes one of the warmest school stories in anime, and it earns its ending.
Kill la KillTrigger's debut is a loud, fast, deliberately vulgar cartoon about uniforms and power, and it never stops moving.
The Darwin IncidentA humanzee enrolls at a normal high school, and the show is more interested in the argument than the boy.
Sailor MoonThe magical girl show that set the rules for the genre, padded out across five years of monsters of the week.
Wind BreakerCloverWorks animate a street fight better than almost anyone, around a plot that barely exists.
