Best Anime Based on Light Novels on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Anime Based on Light Novels on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 2867325. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. I Do Not Have Many Friends (2011)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2011. A blond transfer student desperate for social connection founds a club for people who have trouble making friends.
2. Violet Evergarden (2018)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2018. The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job.
3. Violet Evergarden: Special (2018)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2018. Auto Memory Doll Violet Evergarden writes letters for people who can’t, learning about her war-torn country and her own hardened heart along the way.
4. Toradora! (2008)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2008. Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, Ryuji forms an unlikely friendship with Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.
5. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2010, 2h 43m. SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that they are going to hold a Christmas party, but a couple of days later, Haruhi goes missing.
6. The Rising of the Shield Hero (2019)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2019. A gamer is magically summoned into a parallel universe, where he is chosen as one of four heroes destined to save the world from its prophesied doom.
7. Bakemonogatari (2009)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2009. After a peculiar homeless man makes him human again, ex-vampire Koyomi helps other high school students with their own supernatural predicaments.
8. Spice and Wolf (2008)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2008. When wolf-goddess Holo turns up in the cart of nomadic trader Kraft Lawrence, the quirky duo sets off on a lively journey to return her to her home.
9. Re: Life in a different world from zero (2016)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2016. On his way home from the convenience store, teenager Subaru Natsuki is transported to another world, where he gains the power to reverse time by dying.
10. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (2018)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2018. Mikami's boring life ends abruptly when he's reincarnated in another world as a slime monster.