Read on for our recommendations, and the live-action titles that pair nicely with them, if you’re unfamiliar with the cartoons themselves, and find yourself something worth watching.

We’ve done our best to peregrinate through anime’s genre and age brackets in an attempt to create as broad a picture of collection as possible, while highlighting the merits of each title.

In our updated list below, we’ve evaluated and recommended the 30 best anime series on Netflix. The library’s simply grown too large to navigate for anyone who values their time - or hasn’t spent all their time watching anime. It’s become a major anime player, and whether you’re into action, romance, trippy fantasy, or cyberpunky sci-fi, its anime as a category isn’t diminishing in importance, even as individual titles shuffle on or off of the service. Netflix is heavily invested in the anime space, to the point where it’s gotten difficult to keep track of just how many anime titles it’s producing or licensing - especially when juggling between the long-running franchise hits like Pokémon and the single-season gems like Cowboy Bebop. Newly added titles are marked with an asterisk.* This article is regularly updated as more titles join or leave Netflix. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of Netflix Published With a Dead Space remake on the way, now is a great time for fans to dive into the expanded lore of the series found in comics and movies.

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