In the recent past, Amazon has decided to invest in anime, knowing how much money is in the industry, and stream some of it onto their streaming platform.
Amazon has a number of great anime that many people are unaware they have licensed over the years. You can stream any anime for free with a Prime membership. The following are the top 20 best anime shows on Amazon Prime.
1. VINLAND SAGA
Anime Series - 2019
IMDb RATING - 8.8
A young man named Thorfinn finds himself in a quest for revenge against his father's killer. Firstly indulged in the apparent greatness of war and honor, Thorfinn quickly changes as he endures having to survive alone and then alongside the man he vows to kill, developing conflicting emotions towards the causality of his past and present life.
Genres: Action, Adventure
Episode: 24
2. After the Rain
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 7.4
Akira Tachibana used to be a part of the track and field club until an injury effectively cut short her sports career. Working part-time at a family restaurant as a recourse, she finds herself falling in love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man with a young son. Despite the age gap, Akira wholeheartedly embraces his mannerisms and kind nature, and little by little the two begin to understand each other.
Genres: Action, Adventure
Episode: 12
3. Altair: A Record of Battles
Anime Series - 2017
IMDb RATING - 8.2
For the first cour, the opening theme is "Rasen no Yume" by rock band SID, who created the song specifically for the anime television. The ending theme is "Taiyō no Elegy" by the pop girl group FLOWER. For the second half, the opening theme song is "赫色 -Takahiro-" by three-piece band CIVILIAN, and the ending theme is "Windy" by R&B duo CHEMISTRY.
Genres: Historical fantasy
Episode: 1
4. Kemurikusa
Anime Series - 2019
IMDb RATING - 7.1
Mysterious sisters and a boy go on a journey around the world of red fog to find a place for a peaceful life with water while they fight against weird lives called Akamushi.
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi
Episode: 12
5. MAGICAL GIRL SITE
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 5.6
Aya Asagiri is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying and at home from physical abuse by her brother. While browsing online, a website pops up on her computer featuring a creepy-looking person. This person appears to take pity on her and announces that she has granted Asagiri magical powers.
Genres: Action, Drama
Episode: 12
6. Dropkick on My Devil!
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 6.6
Yurine is delusional gothic lolita who summons a demon girl with the tail of a cobra, Jashin-chan. They'll have to live together - until Yurine finds a way to send Jashin-chan back to hell, or until Jashin-chan kills Yurine.
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy
Episode: 24
7. Re: CREATORS
Anime Series - 2017
IMDb RATING - 7.1
People have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, deep emotion. Stories stir up emotion and captivate. However, those emotions are nothing more than the feelings of a spectator. What if the characters in the stories had their own will. In their eyes, are we, the creators of the stories, like gods? Revolution for our world.Punishment for the land of the gods. Re: CREATORS. Everyone becomes a Creator.
Genres: Action, Fantasy
Episode: 22
8. Seven Senses of the Re’Union
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 4.6
In the popular MMORPG world 'Union' there existed a legendary party named Subaru. This party, made up of a group of childhood friends and elementary schoolers, exceeded the limits of the game with their various senses. However, due to an incident that resulted in a death, 'Union' ended its service and the group of childhood friends went separate ways. Six years later, high schooler Haruto logged into the new 'Reunion' and reunited with a single girl. Asahi-one of old 'Subaru' party members, and his childhood friend who should have died six years ago. Is she a digital ghost, or...?
Genres: Action, Adventure
Episode: 12
9. PSYCHO-PASS 3
Anime Series - 2020
IMDb RATING - 7.5
After the events of Psycho-Pass 3, Inspector Kei Mikhail Ignatov finds himself involved with an organization named Bifrost. First Inspector Koichi Azusawa coordinates an assault on the Public Safety Bureau tower.
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 2h 15min
10. Killing Bites
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 6.3
People have been created that are human-animal hybrids, and powerful businesses bet on the outcome of their duels. College student Nomoto Yuuya's casual friends ask him to drive them around to pick up girls one day, which he soon finds out means kidnapping. Little did they know the girl they kidnapped as a human-animal hybrid.
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi
Episode: 12
11. Karakuri Circus
Anime Series - 2018-2019
IMDb RATING - 7.1
The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helps Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting strange figures. He finds out that they're not humans, but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi is forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he starts to think that Masaru will be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here begins the story of Karakuri Circus.
Genres: Action, Fantasy
Episode: 36
12. BABYLON
Anime Series - 2019
IMDb RATING - 6.5
Seiki Zen is a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for an autonomous "new zone" established in western Tokyo.
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Episode: 12
13. Happy Sugar Life
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 6.5
This is a shivering pure love psycho horror story of a girl named Satou Matsuzaka, who has someone she likes. She experiences a sweet feeling when she sleeps with her and thought it must be love. Everything will be forgiven as long as she protects this feeling, even if she tricks, commits crimes, steals, or even kills, she thought.
Genres: Crime, Drama
Episode: 12
14. KOKKOKU
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 7.0
Having failed 19 job interviews in one day, Juri Yukawa's dreams of moving out of her parents' home are utterly dashed. Stuck living with her working mother Nobuko, NEET brother Tsubasa, laid-off father Takafumi, and single-parent sister Sanae, the only hope for this family to raise a decent adult is her little cousin Makoto. However, this struggling family's life takes a turn for the worse when Makoto and Tsubasa are violently kidnapped by a mysterious organization and held for ransom. With only 30 minutes to deliver five million yen to the criminals, Juri's grandfather reveals a dangerously powerful secret to her and Takafumi.
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Episode: 12
15. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Anime Series - 2016
IMDb RATING - 7.2
As the world is in the middle of an industrial revolution, a monster appears that cannot be defeated unless its heart, which is protected by a layer of iron, is pierced. By infecting humans with its bite, the monster can create aggressive and undead creatures known as Kabane. On the island Hinomoto, located in the far east, people have built stations to shelter themselves from these creatures. People access the station, as well as transport wares between them, with the help of a locomotive running on steam, called Hayajiro. Ikoma, a boy who lives in the Aragane station and helps to build Hayajiro, creates his own weapon called Tsuranukizutsu to defeat the creatures. One day, as he waits for an opportunity to use his weapon, he meets a girl named Mumei, who is excused from the mandatory Kabane inspection. During the night, Ikuma meets Mumei again as he sees Hayajiro going out of control. The staff on the locomotive has turned into the creatures. The station, now under attack by Kabane, is the opportunity Ikoma has been looking for.
Genres: Action, Adventure
Episode: 12
16. BANANA FISH
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 8.2
Based on an action shoujo manga by Yoshida Akimi. 1973, Vietnam - an American soldier goes mad and guns down his buddies. Since then, the only words he has uttered are "Banana Fish"... Nowadays, in New York City, police investigate a series of puzzling suicides and a dying man gives a charismatic young gang leader named Ash Lynx a vial of a mysterious substance.
Genres: Action, Adventure
Episode: 24
17. Grand Blue Dreaming
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 7.9
Grand Blue is a Japanese manga series written by Kenji Inoue and illustrated by Kimitake Yoshioka. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine good! Afternoon since April 2014 and has been collected in fifteen tankōbon volumes as of May 2020. A college student spends his year at the seaside town of Izu, having fun on the beach with his school friends.
Genres: Adventure, Comedy
Episode: 12
18. Boarding School Juliet
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 7.1
"To Love, or not to Love" Juliet Percia and Inuzuka Romeo are archenemies. They lead two high-school dormitories the "Black Dogs" and the "White Cats" from two rivaling countries. Both factions are dead set on defeating the other to gain control over the island they have to share. Beneath the feuding exterior, however, Persia and Inuzuka long for love and peace for their budding relationship.
Genres: Action, Comedy
Episode: 12
19. BEATLESS
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 5.6
With the introduction of an ultra-advanced AI that surpasses human intelligence, beings that mankind is yet to fully comprehend made from materials far too advanced for human technology to begin coming into being. Lascia, an hIE equipped with a black coffin-shaped device, is one of these. In boy-meets-girl fashion, 17-year-old Arato Endo has a fateful encounter with the artificial Lacia. For what purpose were these artificial beings created? Amid questions regarding the coexistence of these artificial beings and humans, a 17-year-old boy makes a decision.
Genres: Action, Drama
Episode: 29
20. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
Anime Series - 2018-2021
IMDb RATING - 7.6
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Fujita. It was first posted on Pixiv on April 17, 2014. It began serialization in Comic Pool on November 6, 2015. A gaming otaku and a fujoshi reunite for the first time since middle school at work.
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Episode: 13
21. IRODUKU: The World in Colors
Anime Series - 2018
IMDb RATING - 7.4
Set in the city of Nagasaki, the story takes place in a world where a minuscule amount of magic remains in everyday life. Hitomi Tsukishiro is a 17-year-old descendant of a witch family who grew up with stale emotions, as she lost her sense of color at a very young age. Feeling sorry for her granddaughter's future, Kohaku, a great witch, sends Hitomi to the past, the year 2018. Through exchanges with her 17-year-old grandmother and her club members, the story follows Hitomi's growth as a person.
Genres: DramaFantasy
Episode: 13
22. INUYASHIKI THE LAST HERO Dororo
Anime Series - 2017
IMDb RATING - 7.7
Inuyashiki Ichirou is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he's constantly ignored and disrespected by his family despite all that he's done to support them. On top of everything else, his doctor has revealed that he has cancer and it appears that he has little time left in this world. But just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, a blinding light in the night sky strikes the earth where Ichirou stands. He later wakes up to find himself unscathed, but he soon starts to notice that there's something... different about himself. However, it turns out that these strange, new changes are just what Ichirou needs to take a new lease on life and now it seems like there's nothing to stop him from being a hero worthy of the respect that he never had before... unless, that is, there was someone else out there with these same changes.
Genres: Action, Drama
Episode: 11
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