TVScience fiction
Cowboy Bebop
A small crew of bounty hunters crosses the solar system aboard the Bebop, carrying unfinished pasts into stylish stand-alone cases and a larger story about consequence.
- Studio
- Sunrise
- Status
- Complete
Genre guide
Action anime
Conflict, movement and tactical spectacle across fantasy, science fiction and supernatural stories.
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Related and contrasting genres
Related routes often share storytelling tools. Contrast routes deliberately change the dominant viewing experience; they are discovery prompts, not claims that two genres cannot overlap.
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TVAction
Mob Psycho 100
Quiet middle-schooler Shigeo Kageyama has immense psychic power but wants to build an ordinary, emotionally honest life rather than let ability define him.
- Studio
- Bones
- Status
- Complete
TVAction
Bleach
Teenager Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a substitute Soul Reaper and is drawn into conflicts connecting the human world, Soul Society and powerful spiritual factions.
- Studio
- Studio Pierrot; later Pierrot Films
- Status
- The original 366-episode series is complete; Thousand-Year Blood War continues the adaptation
TVFantasy
Fairy Tail
Lucy Heartfilia joins the Fairy Tail wizard guild and builds a found family through missions, rivalries and conflicts that test the guild's loyalty.
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures with Satelight, Bridge and CloverWorks across the main adaptation
- Status
- The main television adaptation is complete; 100 Years Quest continues the story
TVFantasy
Inuyasha
Kagome Higurashi travels between modern Japan and the Sengoku period, where she joins the half-demon Inuyasha in recovering the fragments of a dangerous jewel.
- Studio
- Sunrise
- Status
- Complete with The Final Act
TVAction
Jujutsu Kaisen
Yuji Itadori enters the world of jujutsu sorcerers after a dangerous encounter with a cursed object links his fate to Ryomen Sukuna.
- Studio
- MAPPA
- Status
- Season 3 completed in March 2026; the anime adaptation remains ongoing
MovieScience fiction
Ghost in the Shell
Cyborg public-security officer Motoko Kusanagi investigates a hacker known as the Puppet Master while questioning identity in a networked society.
- Studio
- Production I.G
- Status
- Complete film
TVScience fiction
Parasyte -the maxim-
High-school student Shinichi Izumi survives an alien parasite's attempt to take his brain and must coexist with the creature occupying his right hand.
- Studio
- Madhouse
- Status
- Complete
ONAScience Fiction
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
After personal tragedy closes off David Martinez's expected future, he enters Night City's mercenary underworld and tests how much of himself ambition and cybernetic power can consume.
- Studio
- TRIGGER
- Status
- The original 10-episode story is complete; Edgerunners 2 is a separate standalone instalment announced for Fall 2026
TVMagical Girl
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.
Job-seeker Kana Sakuragi turns her preparation skills and exceptional memory into a new career at a small company where magical girls, engineers and sales staff manage dangerous supernatural incidents.
- Studio
- Moe and J.C.STAFF for season one; J.C.STAFF for season two
- Status
- The 12-episode first season is complete; the second season has been airing weekly since 4 July 2026
TVSports
IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix
After Team Satomi earns promotion from the lower IG-2 league, Takeshi Jin and his teammates enter IG-1, a futuristic championship where three-pilot teams race high-speed humanoid machines and physically contest position.
- Studio
- Production I.G
- Status
- The complete television production contains 26 episodes