Best anime of 2025
The best-rated anime of 2025, in order. Tap any of them to open its page and save it to your list.
How it works: the 60 most popular anime of 2025 on AniList, sorted by average score. Only titles rated 7 or higher make the list. Updated on
Number 1: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
2025rated 9.0 out of 10
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
Denji became “Chainsaw Man”, a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café.
Number 2: The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
2025rated 8.8 out of 10
- Drama
- Mystery
Using her wit and vast knowledge of medicines and poisons alike, Maomao played a pivotal role in solving a series of mysteries and conspiracies that plagued the imperial court. Having recently come to terms with the secrets of her parents, she returns to fulfill her normal duties on behalf of the emperor's highest-ranking consorts. Maomao also works alongside the eunuch Jinshi to better the consorts' many ladies-in-waiting, including helping them learn to read.
Number 3: My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON
2025rated 8.7 out of 10
- Action
- Adventure
Deku and the heroes are plunged into a final battle against villains across Japan. Deku, by fully unleashing One For All Quirks, faces off against Shigaraki. A young and refreshed All For One faces Armored All Might, Quirkless in his powered armor suit. Will Deku be able to bring the story of how they all became the greatest heroes to its finale? Or will everything be destroyed?!
Number 4: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
2025rated 8.6 out of 10
Tanjiro Kamado – a boy who joined an organization dedicated to hunting down demons called the Demon Slayer Corps after his younger sister Nezuko was turned into a demon.
Save Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleNumber 5: Takopi's Original Sin
2025rated 8.6 out of 10
A Happy alien, Takopi, lands on Earth with one mission: to spread happiness! When he meets Shizuka, a lonely fourth grader, he vows to bring back her smile using his magical Happy Gadgets. But as he uncovers the pain in her life, Takopi learns that true happiness may require more than gadgets.
Save Takopi's Original SinNumber 6: To Be Hero X
2025rated 8.5 out of 10
This is a world where heroes are created by people's trust, and the hero who gains the most trust is known as X. In this world, people's trust can be quantified through data, and these values are reflected on everyone's wrist. As long as one gains enough trust points, an ordinary person can possess superpowers and become a superhero who saves the world. However, the constantly changing trust values make the path of a hero full of uncertainties...
Save To Be Hero XNumber 7: Lord of Mysteries
2025rated 8.5 out of 10
In a Victorian world of steam, dreadnoughts, and occult horrors, Zhou Mingrui awakens as Klein Moretti. He walks a razor’s edge between light and darkness, entangled with warring Churches. This is the legend of unlimited potential…and unspeakable danger.
Save Lord of MysteriesNumber 8: Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2
2025rated 8.5 out of 10
After a strategic maneuver, Senkuu Ishigami's team stalls Dr. Xeno's more scientifically advanced forces. A ceasefire between the two factions allows for the establishment of Corn City in North America, a hope for a future thriving population. Meanwhile, Senkuu and some of his teammates rush toward the Amazon in South America—the epicenter of the petrification beam's impact—to create Superalloy City and progress their spaceship project.
Save Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2Number 9: Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-
2025rated 8.4 out of 10
Mastering his new abilities in secret, Jin-U must battle humanity's toughest foes to save his mother.
Save Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-Number 10: The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
2025rated 8.4 out of 10
Chidori High is a boys’ school that takes in the dregs of society with the lowest grades. Next door stands Kikyo Girls’ High, where the wealthy, high-class families send their precious daughters. Chidori second-year Rintarou, who has a fierce face but a gentle heart, is helping at his family’s patisserie when he meets a girl named Kaoruko.
Save The Fragrant Flower Blooms With DignityNumber 11: Call of the Night Season 2
2025rated 8.4 out of 10
Kou overcomes his confusion about becoming a vampire and decides to "like" Nazuna, while Nazuna resolves to make Kou "fall in love" with her. Without understanding what "love" even is, the two of them spend their nights together in a frenzy. Meanwhile, Detective Uguisu Anko is closing in with her plot to kill vampires, not just Nazuna.
Save Call of the Night Season 2Number 12: Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2
2025rated 8.4 out of 10
University is back in session for Iori, and so are the booze-fueled parties! Between diving club shenanigans, a surprise from his sister, and wild tests of courage, normal college life is anything but. Dive back into the madness with Iori and his beloved crew of lively splash artists.
Save Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2Number 13: DAN DA DAN Season 2
2025rated 8.3 out of 10
While the mission to exorcise Jin "Jiji" Enjouji's family home is underway, things are not going as expected. Momo Ayase narrowly evades an attempted abduction while Ken "Okarun" Takakura and Jiji are ambushed by the Kitou family—the unsettling landlords of the cursed estate. The trio's efforts threaten the foundation of this enigmatic town shrouded in legends and mysteries.
Save DAN DA DAN Season 2Number 14: Gachiakuta
2025rated 8.2 out of 10
A boy lives in a floating town, where the poor scrape by and the rich live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. When he’s falsely accused of murder, though, his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment—exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash.
Save GachiakutaNumber 15: My Dress-Up Darling Season 2
2025rated 8.2 out of 10
When Marin Kitagawa and Wakana Gojo met, they grew close over their love for cosplay. Through interacting with classmates and making new cosplay friends, Marin and Wakana’s world keeps growing. New developments arise as Marin’s love for Wakana continues to be filled with endless excitement. In their ever-expanding world, Marin and Wakana’s story of cosplay and thrills continues!
Save My Dress-Up Darling Season 2Number 16: SPY x FAMILY Season 3
2025rated 8.2 out of 10
World peace is at stake and secret agent Twilight must undergo his most difficult mission yet—pretend to be a family man. Posing as a loving husband and father, he’ll infiltrate an elite school to get close to a high-profile politician. He has the perfect cover, except his wife’s a deadly assassin and neither knows each other’s identity. But someone does, his adopted daughter who’s a telepath!
Save SPY x FAMILY Season 3Number 17: Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE
2025rated 8.2 out of 10
Senkuu and the Kingdom of Science revive Tsukasa and build a spaceship to reach 'Why Man' on the Moon!
Save Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURENumber 18: Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus
2025rated 8.2 out of 10
After encountering various girls going through Puberty Syndrome, Sakuta Azusagawa's high school days have come to a close, and he is now a university student. He enrolls at a university in Kanazawa-hakkei alongside his girlfriend Mai Sakurajima, a nationally famed actress. Off campus, he stumbles upon an out-of-season miniskirt Santa. Precognitive dreams, an anonymous online singer, poltergeists buzzing on social media...
Save Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa ClausNumber 19: The Summer Hikaru Died
2025rated 8.1 out of 10
Two best friends living in a rural Japanese village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. Growing up together, they were inseparable… until the day Hikaru came back from the mountains, and was no longer himself. “Something” has taken over Hikaru’s body, memories, feelings… and everything they know begins to unravel.
Save The Summer Hikaru DiedNumber 20: Secrets of the Silent Witch
2025rated 8.1 out of 10
Monica Everett, the Silent Witch, is the world’s only practitioner of Voiceless Magic, a veritable heroine who single-handedly fended off the Black Dragon of legend. However, the young prodigy is actually…super-duper shy! Yup, turns out she only learned Voiceless Magic to avoid speaking in public. Ignorant of this, the Seven Sages have placed her on a top-secret mission to guard the Second Prince.
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