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In 2022, the reverse happened: The mainstream came to anime. At the end of 2020, I wrote about the anime industry’s surprising resilience in the throes of the pandemic.
- Roland Kelts
Dec 7, 2022 · The best anime shows in 2022 include Chainsaw Man, Pop Team Epic season 2, Mob Psycho 100 III, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.
- Chainsaw Man
- Mob Psycho 100, Season 3
- Spy X Family
- Golden Kamuy, Season 4
- One Piece Film: Red
- Jojo’S Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
- Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
- Bluelock
Before the anime adaptation was officially confirmed, Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man was garnering impressive acclaim as one of the best shounen manga in recent years. Animated by elite animation studio MAPPA (of Attack on Titan season 4 and Jujutsu Kaisen fame), the anime adaptation has already premiered and follows the downtrodden young man Denj...
Though better known for his manga One-Punch Man, writer ONE managed to put together another masterclass series in the form of Mob Psycho 100. The story revolves around Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who is a powerful psychic who is constantly suppressing the massive scope of his powers by being as calm, soft-spoken, and mundane as possible. Howeve...
Another shounen series making waves among the community is the animation co-effort of Wit Studio and CloverWorkds to adapt Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family, which has proven to be an anime sensation online. Taking a break from bombastic action and supernatural world-ending threats, Spy x Family accomplishes exactly what it set out to doas an espionage a...
Shounen anime expectedly dominates much of the mainstream attention, but there are also some compelling seinen series worth following. Golden Kamuy is a treasure-hunting drama originally written by Satoru Noda and animated by Geno Studio and Brain’s Base that creatively uses historical fiction in its premise. Taking place in the aftermath of the Ru...
Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece series is the most enduring shounen of Weekly Shounen Jump Magazine’s era of the “big three” alongside Naruto and Bleach. With over 1,000 chapters and episodes of the manga and anime and counting, One Piece has achieved a level of acclaim few others can compare to. It started in the late ’90s with protagonist Monkey D. Luff...
Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has become one of the topical anime adaptations of the last decade. The series has prided itself on its unabashedly campy and melodramatic atmosphere and eccentric sense of style. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has its story separated by generations of the Joestar family’s lineage, starting in 1800s England onwar...
One Piece might be the most critically and commercially successful shounen of the “big three” days, but Tite Kubo’s Bleach is getting one more shot at the limelight to close out its story on the small screen. The manga and anime started to take dips in popularity as the story was reaching its end, resulting in the manga managing to finish publicati...
Sports anime have become increasingly popular as of late, in part thanks to the legacy of manga/anime like the basketball series Slam Dunk and the boxing-themed Hajime no Ippo! In the more modern era of anime, though, Haikyuu!! has greatly helped the subgenre’s mainstream relevance. And conveniently timed with the 2022 FIFA World Cup less than two ...
- Mob Psycho 100 Season 3 (Speculation) Though writer One is primarily known for his thrilling and subversive One-Punch Man, he has another acclaimed manga under his belt with Mob Psycho 100.
- Spy x Family. Weekly Shonen Jump is regarded as the dominant shonen manga magazine, but their digital Jump+ publication has some inventive hits that deserve their share of the spotlight.
- Golden Kamuy Season 4 (Speculation) Amid all the shonen, it'll be great for fans to see the seinen Golden Kamuy anime return for season 4. The manga is gearing up for its climactic finale, and animators Geno Studio have done an admirable job adapting its first three seasons.
- Attack On Titan Season 4 (2nd Cour) Attack on Titan became one of the recent generation's breakout manga and anime series, as it became the go-to anime for audiences that have little to no prior knowledge or interest in the medium altogether.
Shiro Yoshioka, a lecturer in Japanese studies at Newcastle University, says streaming sites have "lowered the barrier to be a fan of anime significantly and has helped it become more...
Mar 26, 2022 · By Becky Padington & Ian Youngs. BBC News. Japanese animation Jujutsu Kaisen 0 has become a surprise box office hit, as anime enjoys a new global popularity in cinemas and on streaming services.
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Jul 3, 2024 · Some of the most anticipated anime of 2022 are sequels to shows that fans already love, such as Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, and To Your Eternity. There are also new shows that could become new favorites, such as Blue Lock, Spy x Family, and Uzumaki.