Anime Based on Light Novels on Netflix

A blond transfer student desperate for social connection founds a club for people who have trouble making friends. Wacky (and awkward) hijinks ensue.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132156 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80182123 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 81010662 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80049275 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that they are going to hold a Christmas party, but a couple of days later, Haruhi goes missing.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:43:05
Netflix ID: 70223722 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81058649 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a peculiar homeless man makes him human again, ex-vampire Koyomi helps other high school students with their own supernatural predicaments.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80060347 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70205026 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80131659 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Mikami's boring life ends abruptly when he's reincarnated in another world as a slime monster. He then forms a party of monsters, changing everything.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81028712 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After experiencing 'puberty syndrome' himself, high school pariah Sakuta keeps meeting girls suffering from it, including his sister and actor Mai.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81228009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man looking for excitement moves to Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, where he finds a world of mystery in which the past and present mesh.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80040119 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Legendary gamer siblings Sora and Shiro are transported to a world where life is a series of games and humanity is in grave danger of extinction.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80052669 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage shut-in Kazuma dies ignominiously and the goddess Aqua offers him reincarnation in a game-like fantasy world. He accepts, taking her along.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80131674 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 2138, the last player of the online game Yggdrasil somehow stays logged in after its shutdown. Now he's on a quest to learn what happened and why.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132110 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Haruhi Suzumiya wants to live in a world where aliens, psychics and time travelers are real. To make it happen, she starts a club.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80132288 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forced to move to a dorm of strange yet extraordinary people, a high schooler takes care of a beautiful, famous painter and finds himself along the way.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81165091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Popular high school student Kaname Chidori possesses the powers of 'the Whispered,' making her a target of a deadly terror organization.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70204978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Thwarted in their attempt to take over the world of Ente Isla, Satan and his general Alciel land in modern-day Tokyo, where they take on human form.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80006149 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When thousands of players get stuck inside an online video game, a reclusive gamer and his pals form an alliance to navigate the game's perils.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80043524 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young Tanya is a ruthless military mage with ferocious powers. She's also a reincarnated salaryman trying to stay one step ahead of a godlike entity.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80169285 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Reborn as a child in a world where books are rare, devoted reader Maine vows to become a librarian and create the volumes herself!

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81194937 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Having vanquished a powerful demon at age six, precocious wizard Wang Ling must now navigate high school life as an ordinary teen.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81364944 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A video game whiz helps create a new technology that enables players to guide their online avatars with their own bodies -- but a dark twist emerges.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70302573 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young high school student is killed by a girl on his very first date, he's revived by a girl devil and made a devil himself.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80005873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Louise, a second-year student at the Tristain Academy of Magic, follows in her family's aristocratic footsteps to someday become a powerful mage.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 80193662 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Goddess Ristarte summons a hero from another world to fight the Demon Lord. She wants a champion, but Seiya's slow-paced style isn't what she expects.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81196818 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tanya and the 203rd deploy to the Russy Federation border, where a multinational army is stirring up trouble. Allied soldier Mary Sue wants revenge.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:38:26
Netflix ID: 81256683 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Haruhiro is one of a group of people who wake up in a fantasy world with no idea how they got there. Now, they have to learn how to survive.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80142717 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a portal to another world appears in Ginza, JSDF reservist Yoji Itami is sent to investigate the fantastical lands on the other side.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 80182163 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After going their separate ways, four childhood friends now in high school reunite to restore the Iwatobi Swim Club back to its former glory.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 80186018 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young priestess on her first quest throws in her lot with the Goblin Slayer, whose only concern is exterminating goblins. She's got a lot to learn.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 81021570 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In ancient Disboard, a young warrior befriends an ex machina and embarks on a harrowing mission to stop a global war and save humanity from extinction.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:46:19
Netflix ID: 81068687 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Lovable goof Bell Cranel wants an adventure, and when he meets the diminutive goddess Hestia, he gets much more than he bargained for.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80185873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kazuya Kujo transfers to a school in the Alps infested with spooky rumors. There he meets Victorique de Blois, and together, they solve mysteries.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80209888 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Yuta wants to leave his past as a delusional weirdo behind. But his classmate Rikka has her own delusions, and she's interested in his.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80239860 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ikki's lack of magic is a disappointment, but when Princess Stella duels him, she learns he's got other skills. Maybe serving him won't be a chore.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81092933 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman acts as a mediator between declining human society and the more civilized race of fairies taking its place, leading to strange adventures.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81463539 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle school freshmen Haruka and Makoto join the school swim team, and have to join forces with their new teammates to win.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:50:47
Netflix ID: 80187571 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Everyone is engrossed in a new 'augmented reality' game known as Ordinal Scale. But Kirito and his friends uncover a dark secret endangering them all.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:00:03
Netflix ID: 80180071 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki enroll at Magic High School, where Miyuki's honors status comes between her and her underachieving older brother.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80009361 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brought back to life as a zombie by a necromancer, Ayumu Aikawa searches for his killer while helping a magical girl and a vampire ninja battle demons.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80006166 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Lone mage Siluca wanders the land of Atlatan, disgusted by its greedy nobility. When she meets knight errant Theo, she sees a chance to create peace.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81086718 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two years after the release of the world's first fully immersive video game, a young man enters its realm of infinite possibilities and adventure.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80999041 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After target panic drives him from archery in middle school, Minato decides to return to the sport when his friends join the high school kyudo club.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81416630 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The 'Sword Princess' Aiz Wallenstein and her companions in the Loki Familia pursue their adventures in the city of Orario's famous dungeon.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80187572 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A jaded, lazy substitute teacher takes over a class at the Alzano Imperial Magic Academy. But Glenn Radars is nowhere near as incompetent as he seems.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80192978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where lewdness is outlawed, the son of a crude terrorist becomes a conflicted freedom fighter for the erotic insurgent group known as SOX.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80214725 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Suddenly, they’re all cute little high school students. For these adventurers drawn from multiple worlds, this might be the strangest otherworld yet.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81092447 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A decade after a virus forces people to live in confinement behind barium walls, two childhood friends with superpowers fight to save the human race.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80080317 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Zero, a child-like witch, rescues a half-man half-beast mercenary. She promises to return him to his human form if he accompanies her on her journey.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 80192979 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where humans and demons are sworn enemies, humanity's greatest hero forms an unlikely alliance with the Demon Queen in hopes of ending war.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 80220729 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A high school boy’s dating skills might be humanity’s best hope of keeping a mysterious spirit from triggering another horrific natural disaster.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 80220580 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a gamer is summoned into another world by two girls who accidentally enslave themselves to him, the trio departs on a journey to undo their bond.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 81004514 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Supernaturally gifted teen Tōma teams up with nun Index against evil forces seeking powerful magical texts that have been implanted in Index's mind.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 70308188 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

College student Karen takes up Gun Gale Online and gets a reputation as the Pink Demon. Then her gaming buddy Pitohui asks her to join the Squad Jam.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 80990612 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Vacationing in the islands, Miyuki, Tatsuya and their friends meet a girl who holds the key to an illegal conspiracy, and she needs their help.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:30:05
Netflix ID: 81029023 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two hot classmates ask him out -- to confess their love for his friend! Joro’s life goes from bad to worse when gloomy stalker Pansy fixates on him.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 81203219 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Basara hails from a clan of heroes, but when his father suddenly remarries, he finds himself living with a family of demons.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix ID: 80193356 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A 'Genestella' -- a new breed of powerful human -- named Ayato enrolls in a competitive school for people like him, hoping to find his missing sister.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix ID: 80213847 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Challenged to a duel after seeing Princess Lisesharte naked, ex-prince Lux finds himself attending the academy for aspiring Drag-Knight duelists.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix ID: 81022603 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Boogiepop isn't just a rumor. In the body of his friend Touka, the killer phantom tells high schooler Keiji that the world is in danger.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix ID: 81058629 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The goddess Artemis names Bell as her champion, pulling him, Hestia and the other adventurers of Orario into a quest that crosses the world.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:22:09
Netflix ID: 81101468 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Toma and Index meet a singer named Arisa whose powers are linked to a nearly-complete space elevator and a mysterious accident three years earlier.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:30:02
Netflix ID: 80193514 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This year-end special features a recap as well as new content. Yui wants to see a whale so Suguha must learn to swim. A surprise waits in the water.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:40:41
Netflix ID: 80081846 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage Toya is reborn into a fantasy world as an apology from God. Now he's off on an amazing journey through his new home, smartphone in hand.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix ID: 80196595 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Even after entering a fantasy world, Hajime remains weak. But when all hope is lost, he begins his journey to become the strongest of them all.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix ID: 81144534 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A high school girl suddenly reincarnated as a lowly spider in a dangerous fantasy world must use her human wiles and relentless positivity to survive.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix ID: 81392169 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where monsters and humans live together, a human doctor and his gorgeous sea-monster assistant dutifully treat the monsters in their town.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix ID: 81303873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Combining their impressive special powers, high schoolers Asai and Haruki perform missions for a powerful organization, the Kanrikyoku.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix ID: 80175495 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where aristocrats wield magic known as mana, Kufa tries to teach his powerless student to manifest her own mana — or he has to kill her.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 3.8
Netflix ID: 81424498 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this new director's cut, MITHRIL soldier Sousuke goes undercover as a high school student to protect young Whispered Kaname Chidori from terrorists.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:57:05
Netflix ID: 81210730 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A rebellious young sorcerer must combat his powerful teachers when he embarks on a dangerous quest to release a friend from a deadly curse.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 70213251 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Reincarnated into a magical world full of adventure, a formerly aimless and unemployed man decides to live his new life to the fullest.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 80987039 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Kiyotaka enters an elite government-sponsored high school, he finds out just how merit-based this education system is.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80193178 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kyon just wants to get through life as a normal high school student. But when Haruhi Suzumiya drags him into her club of weirdos, things get strange.

Year: 2006
Netflix ID: 81056036 · Watch on Netflix

A hopelessly single kid gets a love letter, and it upends his life. He wants to find the mystery girl, but the ladies around him are all … kinda weird.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81143739 · Watch on Netflix

With entrance exams looming, Rikka's sister wants her to move abroad. Yuta sets out to prove their love is real with a road trip through Japan.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:33:57
Netflix ID: 81212928 · Watch on Netflix

A retelling of the show from Rikka's point of view as she's caught between the delusions and realities of love, friendship and imagination.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 01:30:47
Netflix ID: 81212927 · Watch on Netflix

High schooler Sakuta's days with his girlfriend Mai are interrupted by his crush Shoko's double reappearance: she's a middle schooler, and an adult.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:29:57
Netflix ID: 81228006 · Watch on Netflix

A lonely young woman feels trapped at her all girls' school. But metal hands and heartfelt letters warm her heart when Violet becomes her tutor.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:30:58
Netflix ID: 81208936 · Watch on Netflix

When an heiress hits her head, memories of her past life as a Japanese gamer emerge. Now she's got what she needs to avoid a real-life bad ending.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81245851 · Watch on Netflix

Gamer Subaru returns to another world in this special edition that includes additional footage to retell his daring adventures in one-hour episodes.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81262169 · Watch on Netflix

When the popular online game Yggdrasil is shut down, a lonely player named Momonga decides to stay logged in and take over this digital frontier.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:42:11
Netflix ID: 81285994 · Watch on Netflix

Momonga's adventures continue as he comes face-to-face with zombies while in search of the talented pharmacist, Nfirea Bareare.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:33:45
Netflix ID: 81285995 · Watch on Netflix

Tired of endless war, Demon King Anos decides to be reincarnated into a peaceful future. Enrolling in school, he doesn’t get the welcome he hoped for.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81299326 · Watch on Netflix

Humanity's peaceful days are threatened once more after the appearance of mysterious orb and an even stranger girl. Shido's got to go on more dates.

Year: 2015
Runtime: 01:12:23
Netflix ID: 81165007 · Watch on Netflix

Goblin Slayer, Priestess and the others search for a novice party who disappeared on a quest to slay goblins. They find a new and growing threat.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:00:03
Netflix ID: 81333335 · Watch on Netflix

Middle-aged businessman Ryoma is reincarnated in a magical world by three gods. He's a child again, and he spends his days with his tamed slimes.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81341928 · Watch on Netflix

Their countries have been at war for generations, yet Aliceliese and Iska are drawn to each other after meeting as enemies on the battlefield.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81342524 · Watch on Netflix

A talented young witch embarks on a journey without end, finding new adventures in different places before she flies off to her next destination.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81333300 · Watch on Netflix

A loner gamer thinks life is a game he’d rather not play, until his popular classmate decides to teach him exploits to make the most of the real world.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81392165 · Watch on Netflix

Embedded as spies, a hapless combat agent and his girl android colleague plot to invade an alien planet on the orders of the evil Kisaragi Corporation.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81446291 · Watch on Netflix

Summoned to a lush, magical world, an exhausted office worker leaves the Saint's role to another woman and spends her days researching potions.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81442091 · Watch on Netflix

Hiro is tricked into playing an immersive RPG game that's way too realistic to be fun. He decides to stick it out, but this game’s out of control!

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81442072 · Watch on Netflix

When the Republic is attacked, a group of pilots considered subhuman by their own country go to war under the command of a sympathetic officer.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81442047 · Watch on Netflix

After leaving Yaojin Palace, Kong Hongjun arrives in Chang'an to battle demons and forms a bond with exorcism squad chief Li Jinglong.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81365011 · Watch on Netflix

It’s Haruka’s last summer in high school and he feels lost. With the help of his swim teammates, can he find the focus to dive into his future?

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:34:53
Netflix ID: 81446930 · Watch on Netflix

Despite their promise to pursue their swimming goals together, Rin’s ambitions and Sosuke’s hidden circumstances strain their unbreakable bond.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:38:35
Netflix ID: 81446931 · Watch on Netflix

A regular kid is sent to a magical alternate world to be a hero, but he’s swiftly banished to the far-off wastelands. Things never seem to go his way!

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81474718 · Watch on Netflix