Best Retro Anime on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Retro Anime on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 27 titles in category code 1408777. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Saint Seiya (1986)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 1986. A band of young warriors in magical armor vow to defend the reincarnation of Greek goddess Athena against evil forces and to return her to the throne.
2. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, from 1985. Amateur Gundam pilot Kamille Bidan fights with the Anti-Earth Union Group against the tyrannical Earth Federation and its elite Titans task force.
3. Touch (1985)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1985. Baseball ace Kazuya, his slacker twin brother and the girl next door have been always been inseparable, but as they grow older, new challenges arise.
4. Ranma 1/2 (1991)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 1991. After a dip in a cursed spring, the heir to a martial arts dojo turns into a girl whenever he is splashed with cold water.
5. Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1982, 2h 20m. With the conflict's end in sight, the Earth Federation prepares to take the war into the Duchy of Zeon's home territory.
6. Mazinger Z (1972)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1972. In order to avenge his inventor grandfather, teenager Koji Kabuto captains a super-robot to battle an evil mad scientist.
7. Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro: Special Edition (1979)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 1979, 1h 39m. Lupin, his sidekick, Jigen, and the samurai warrior Goemon set out to take over an evil counterfeit operation at Count Cagliostro's fortress.
8. Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981)
Rated 7.5/10 on IMDb, from 1981, 2h 13m. The Earth Federation warship White Base and its Gundam pilot Amuro Ray struggle to make it back through enemy territory, pursued by Zeon's warriors.
9. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 1988, 1h 59m. Thirteen years have passed since the events of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, and now peace is again threatened by a new Neo Zeon army.
10. Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 1979, 2h 08m. A destitute boy travels on an intergalactic train line with a mysterious woman named Maetel in hopes of fulfilling a promise to his slain mother.