Top 10 Anime: Seinen
The highest-graded seinen anime we have reviewed, best first.
Hellsing UltimateTen episodes with a feature budget each, spent entirely on a vampire enjoying himself.Read the review
MonsterSeventy-four episodes of moral thriller that never reach for a fight scene and never lose their grip.
Vinland SagaA revenge story that spends two seasons dismantling the appeal of revenge, and Askeladd is why it works.
Cowboy BebopTwenty-six sessions of jazz, bounty work and unfinished business, and not one of them is wasted.
BerserkA tragedy about ambition and friendship that survives an animation budget it plainly did not have.
Legend of the Galactic HeroesA hundred and ten episodes of politics, fleet tactics and rival ideologies, barely animated and brilliantly written.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is WarTwo student council officers refuse to confess first, and the standoff is staged like a war film.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexThe best version of this material, with fifty-two episodes and the time to actually argue the politics.
PlutoEight hour-long episodes that turn a robot murder mystery into the sharpest case against war anime makes.
Heavenly DelusionThe best looking television anime of its year, and it stops dead rather than answer one question it raised.
