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From beloved studio Trigger anime, Kill la Kill holds up even a decade after its premiere. The anime-original series focuses on transfer student Ryuuko Matoi at Honnouji Academy. The school is under the thumb of student council president Satsuki Kiryuin and her mother, Ragyo — the head of a fashion empire.

Ryuuko is hunting down her father’s killer, who wields the other half of her broken sword. Kill la Kill was one of the most praised anime originals of the 2010s, partly thanks to Trigger’s eye for visual flair. The over-the-top story, premise, and action were also well-received for how they gave the “magical girl anime” genre a high-octane spin.

Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto was a blockbuster in the shounen space. That popularity translated into the anime adaptation by studio Pierrot. The series focuses on young Naruto Uzumaki, a ninja from the Hidden Leaf Village, who’s treated as an outcast when a catastrophe from years ago led to a demon being sealed inside him.

Joined by Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno under Kakashi Hatake’s leadership, the team encounters many deadly foes on their missions. Naruto was beloved as a shounen juggernaut alongside One Piece and Bleach. The series garnered a massive fanbase thanks to its colorful cast of characters and a memorable fantasy world worth being immersed in. Like its contemporaries, it heavily features over-the-top action and an elaborate power system.

Writer and illustrator Yusei Matsui’s Assassination Classroom is one of the more bombastic action comedy series, and that applies to its anime adaptation. Animated by studio Lerche, the story focuses on a group of middle school delinquents and dropouts who have been looked down upon as lost causes.

However, events wildly change course for these kids as the government tasks them with defeating an octopus-like being — who’s also their teacher — threatening to destroy the planet within the year. Assassination Classroom satisfies when it embraces the sheer over-the-top nature of its premise and characters. If fans can get behind its brand of action and comedy, this series makes for an entertaining ride.

The Fate franchise is one of the most lucrative multimedia endeavors in Japan, with the Fate/Zero TV series being one of its highlights in the anime genre. Adapted from Gen Urobuchi and Takashi Takeuchi’s light novel of the same name, studio Ufotable’s anime chronicles the story of the tournament dubbed the Fourth Holy Grail War, where seven mages summon various heroes from across human history to represent them.

The winner earns the Holy Grail, a magic chalice capable of granting the owner’s wishes. Fate/Zero was widely praised for its deep worldbuilding and diverse cast of characters. As expected from a studio like Ufotable, the anime series also featured some exhilarating action sequences.

David Production, the animation studio behind the beloved JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure adaptation, has brought Yoshifumi Tozuka’s Undead Unluck to the screen. Cursed with a mysterious ability that causes tragic death to anyone who touches her, Fuuko Izumo welcomes her death.

But just as she’s about to die, a strange man touches her, causing him to fall in front of an oncoming train — but he begins to regenerate and is revealed to be immortal. Fuuko dubs him Andy and teams up with him to give his life one last hurrah, but the duo faces the threat of a shadowy group trying to exploit their powers.