Top 10 Anime: Shonen
The highest-graded shonen anime we have reviewed, best first.
Hunter x HunterThe rare shonen that treats its power system as a legal document and its villains as philosophers.Read the review
Attack on TitanA siege story that keeps widening its own frame until the walls are the least of it.
Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodSixty-four episodes with no fat on them, and a villain whose plan was in place before episode one.
Death NoteTwo clever people writing rules at each other, staged like a thriller and scored like an opera.
JoJo's Bizarre AdventureA serialised absurdity that reinvents its own rules every generation and commits absolutely to each one.
NarutoThe character writing is top tier and the episode-to-episode craft frequently is not, and it lands anyway.
One PieceThe best-plotted long-form adventure in the medium, delivered at a pace that tests your patience.
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.
Jujutsu KaisenMAPPA's fight craft at its peak, attached to a cursed-energy system with real rules and real casualties.
Haikyu!!The sports anime that makes the sport legible, which is why it works on people who dislike sport.
