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Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission ... Honestly, every new year feels like the best year in anime history. 2025 already promises a new Chainsaw ...

Without further ado, let’s run down the best anime of the year ... Yase capture these negation abilities through idiosyncratic editing and layouts that convey the strangeness of these ...

Toussaint Egan (he/him) is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics, and games. He has been writing professionally for over a decade. There’s no such thing as too ...

Toussaint Egan (he/him) is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics, and games. He has been writing professionally for over a decade. Opening title sequences in anime ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission ... These are the eight best anime of 2025 so far. I’m a sucker for sports anime. They’re often formulaic ...

This year was a decent one, mainly carried by some excellent series in the Fall 2024 season that make up the bulk of the best anime series of 2024. For most of the year, though, the seasons ...

It seems as though every year has at least one outstanding anime about the joy of artistic expression. So far, the top spot may belong to Mono. It begins with a pair of girls struggling to find a ...