Japanese Programmes on Netflix

After both suffer physical damage -- brothers Edward and Alphonse battle nefarious forces to try to reclaim their bodies in this supernatural anime.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 9.1
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70204981 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a Japanese high schooler comes into possession of a mystical notebook, he finds he has the power to kill anybody whose name he enters in it.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 9
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70204970 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this post-TV-series special, Onizuka finds himself in over his head when he's hired as a substitute teacher at a private girls' school.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 9
Runtime: 01:31:29
Netflix ID: 80195635 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To fulfill his dreams of becoming a legendary Hunter like his dad, a young boy must pass a rigorous examination and find his missing father.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.9
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70300472 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With his hometown in ruins, young Eren Yeager becomes determined to fight back against the giant Titans that threaten to destroy the human race.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70299043 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A mad scientist and his friends invent a microwave phone that sends text messages into the past and allows them to travel through time.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80005874 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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 most powerful superhero in the world can kill anyone with one blow. But nothing can challenge him, so he struggles with ennui and depression.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Netflix ID: 80117291 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the 21st century, a devastating war has left only scattered islands of survivors, but a young boy and his sweetheart represent hope for the future.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80083476 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school delinquent Hanamichi Sakuragi joins the basketball team, discovering his talent for the sport while striving for the championship.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70024218 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a demon attack leaves his family slain and his sister cursed, Tanjiro embarks upon a perilous journey to find a cure and avenge those he's lost.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix ID: 81091393 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When three gifted kids learn that their isolated orphanage isn’t the haven they thought, they vow to lead the other children in a risky escape plan.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix ID: 81145640 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After Japan's Shogunate is occupied by an alien army, a samurai forced to work as a handyman forms a squad of swordsmen to fight back.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80018959 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After training abroad for more than two years, Naruto Uzumaki returns home and joins forces with Sakura Haruno to battle an evil organization.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80000603 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brothers Edward and Alphonse use alchemy to resurrect their mother, but they unleash a chemical reaction that tears apart their bodies.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70204980 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A high-schooler who's granted powers to make anyone instantly obedient dons a mask to lead Japan's rebellion against a long-invading Britannia.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80065146 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his mother's death, a piano prodigy's will to play disappears. But meeting a free-spirited girl who plays the violin turns his life around.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80041089 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage boys Peco and Smile grew up playing table tennis together and now face grueling competition, forcing them to grow as both athletes and men.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 80169477 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Maladjusted high school student Tomoya's life begins to change when he befriends his classmate Nagisa and several other eccentric girls.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 70204963 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kusuo and his gaggle of self-proclaimed friends are back for more psychic mishaps. If he didn't have enough problems before, he's got even more now.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 81054849 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the wake of the Saints' battle with Poseidon, Hades, the god of the underworld, rises again with plans to kill Athena and rule the world.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70299044 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One-time juvenile delinquent Onizuka finds his old tricks give him an edge when he starts teaching a class of unruly high school students.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80066010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Satoru Fujinuma can travel back in time to save others' lives. When he wakes up 18 years in the past, he has a chance to save his murdered classmates.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Netflix ID: 80114225 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After he saves a bully from a Villain, a normal student is granted a superpower that allows him to attend a high school training academy for Heroes.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80135674 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This manga-inspired anime follows the intrepid Section 9 security force in their ongoing efforts to battle crime and cyberterrorism.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70213091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle schooler Shigeo looks normal, but he's secretly a formidable psychic whose powers threaten to break free unless he represses his emotions.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80179798 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 70267476 · 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

There's an organization gathering espers for a nefarious purpose. Powerful psychic Mob, however, is just trying to be the protagonist of his own life.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80213536 · 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

Her life might be a little mundane, but Kaoru gets to go home to Rilakkuma, her endearingly lazy roommate who happens to be a fuzzy toy bear.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80196883 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fifteen years after the Second Impact, Shinji Ikari joins his father's group NERV as one of several teenage mecha pilots fighting the monstrous Angels.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 81033445 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ex-hoodlum Eikichi Onizuka decides to be Japan's best teacher. He's hired to supervise a class of hopeless cases; it's his chance to prove himself.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80124041 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young laborer escapes to the world aboveground, he discovers a violent land in which humans battle robots controlled by a power-hungry noble.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70213196 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two girls who share the same name -- one an ambitious punk rocker and the other a lovelorn follower -- arrive in Tokyo to for a new start.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70205010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A nameless college junior considers the different ways his university life could have gone, and whether he'll ever win the heart of his crush, Akashi.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Netflix ID: 80169679 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the Warring States period, young orphan Xin vows to aid King Zheng of Qin in his quest to unify China by becoming a general himself.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80172949 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Multiple generations of the Joestar family -- all with the same nickname -- confront supernatural villains through a series of time periods.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80179831 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Orphaned young, a reclusive 17-year-old professional shogi player starts to come out of his shell when three sisters take him under their wing.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80196657 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teenager battles an onslaught of parasites from space with help from Migi, a docile parasitic creature that's taken over his right hand.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80191008 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Eccentric Rintaro falls into a depression after failing to save Kurisu, but then a neuroscientist offers him the chance to interact with an AI copy.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80991654 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Figure skater Yuri Katsuki flops in his latest season. When five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov becomes his coach, he gets another chance.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80185797 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After dying to save a boy, delinquent tough guy Yusuke Urameshi is granted another chance at life by redeeming himself as a 'Spirit Detective.'

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81005375 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Together with her humanoid friend Reg, a young girl named Riko hopes to one day solve the mysteries surrounding the endless chasm known as the Abyss.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80193163 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Fab Five touch down in Tokyo to spread the joy, explore the culture, and help four Japanese men and women find the confidence to be themselves.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81075744 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Set on solitude after an accident changes his life, an architect reunites with an old classmate. She's determined to teach him how to love once more.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81248056 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Buddhist monk, a mischievous monkey, a pig spirit, a kappa and their horse embark on a long, adventure-filled journey to retrieve holy scriptures.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81382740 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This anime adventure follows the battle between a saint of Athena and an avatar of Hades who's working on a painting that could destroy the world.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70273371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After three unsettled battles for the mystical Holy Grail, an artifact that grants a miracle to those who hold it, a fourth war begins.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70304256 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One day, Madoka Kaname has a very magical encounter, one that can change her destiny. This is the beginning of the new story of magical witch girls.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70302572 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Guided by the spirit demon within him, orphaned Naruto learns to harness his powers as a ninja in this anime adventure series.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70205012 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An outlaw named Vash the Stampede, who has a massive price on his head, wanders from town to town on a deserted planet that resembles the Wild West.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 70202899 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A lonely bachelor practices single life like a religion, but one encounter triggers a search for his version of the ultimate happy ending.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80062012 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five middle school basketball stars went to separate high schools, and now Tetsuya Kuroko and Seirin High are making their play for glory.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80063153 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A mysterious man known only as the medicine seller wanders Edo Japan, seeking to exorcise evil spirits by understanding their Form, Truth and Reason.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80169676 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sworn to protect England from the supernatural, Sir Integra of the Hellsing Organization fights alongside her protector, the immortal vampire Alucard.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 80988066 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tohru Honda moves in with the reclusive Soma clan after her family dies, and learns their secret: they've been bound for centuries by a zodiac curse.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 80987063 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where beasts of all kinds coexist, a gentle wolf awakens to his own predatory urges as his school deals with a murder within its midst.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 81054847 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80006146 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A new set of six men and women start their lives together under one roof. All they get is a fabulous home and a car. As always, there is no script.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80067942 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teen haunted by the spirit of an old friend summons the other members of their childhood club to help fulfill the girl's final wish.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80075178 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Love blooms and personalities collide as six strangers navigate life under one roof in the first reality show of its kind in Japan.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80073651 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Love and marriage are the issues when one bickering couple can't quite split up, but another seemingly happy couple wonders if they really are.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80073771 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young girl enjoys everyday life at home with her parents, grandparents and older sister, and at elementary school with her many friends.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80083478 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the energy-scarce future, the paramilitary group Celestial Being wages a war to end war using Gundams, technologically advanced piloted robots.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80146384 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Amateur Gundam pilot Kamille Bidan fights with the Anti-Earth Union Group against the tyrannical Earth Federation and its elite Titans task force.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Netflix ID: 80146402 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An interstellar war has left humanity on the brink of extinction, its only hope a new technology from the benevolent ruler of an alien world.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80117264 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Gifted pitcher Aoba grows closer to her older sister Wakaba's friend Ko after Wakaba's death. Ko is secretly training to fulfill Wakaba's dream.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80161920 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young chef Soma enters the prestigious Totsuki Culinary Academy, where he must emerge victorious in over-the-top cooking battles or face expulsion.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80182054 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ridiculed at first, a determined high schooler leads her eclectic group of friends on an expedition to Antarctica in search of her mother.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80995912 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Six strangers share a fabulous house in Tokyo, looking for love while living under the same roof. With no script, what happens next is all up to them.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81077065 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Former ace runner Kakeru grudgingly returns to the sport when college senior Haiji recruits him to an unlikely team with one goal: the Hakoden relay.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81145654 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Amnesiac Caimain seeks to undo his lizard head curse by killing the sorcerer responsible, with his friend Nikaido's help. In the Hole, that's a threat.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80991903 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With guts and determination, high school student Chihaya works towards her childhood dream of becoming the top-ranked female karuta player in Japan.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81403566 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Asakusa’s a fountain of ideas, Kanamori’s a natural-born producer and Mizusaki’s an aspiring animator. Together, they’re making the best anime ever.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81416331 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After teenager Ichigo Kurosaki acquires superpowers from wounded soul reaper Rukia Kuchiki, the two of them join forces to round up lost souls.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70204957 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With help from space cat Meow and faithful robot QT, decked-out alien-hunter Dandy combs the galaxy in search of unregistered life forms.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 80001086 · 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

The first set in the epic tale of Twelve Kingdoms follows Youko, an ordinary girl from Japan who's escorted into a magical alternate universe. She must find her own way in this strange new world, armed with a mystical sword and her own wits.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 2.4/5
Netflix ID: 70302833 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A goodhearted teenager who has been abandoned by her deadbeat father accidentally becomes an earth deity with a wily fox spirit as her familiar.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80070071 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A dramatic series about friendship and conflict between two comedians who search for meaning in life and comedy. Based on the prize-winning book.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80095626 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Traumatized by the murder of her father by her beloved suitor, a young princess vows to protect her kingdom and reclaim the throne.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 80150601 · 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

The proudly privileged top two students of an elite school each makes it their mission to be the first to extract a confession of love from the other.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81061754 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Orphan Natsume has an inconvenient gift: he can see yokai. He just wants to be normal, but the spirits he encounters don't take no for an answer.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81032481 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Supposedly Japan's greatest swindler, Makoto Edamura gets more than he bargained for when he tries to con Laurent Thierry, a real world-class crook.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81220435 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two orphans raised as brothers become rivals as they vie for the title of Wizard King, the highest magical rank in the land.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 80238012 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When four young wizards team up to take jobs across the kingdom, they forge a bond more powerful than any magic and grow stronger with every mission.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70266998 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school students Rin and Shiro pair up as allies when they're chosen to compete in a secret tournament for possession of the Holy Grail.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80040330 · 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

A successful Japanese businessman, presumed dead after he's abducted by pirates, reinvigorates his life by joining his captors.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70308852 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When he stumbles upon Tora, a demon who's been impaled by a spear, young Ushio frees the beast and demands his help in fighting other agents of evil.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 70309073 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A destructive alien who is threatening Earth becomes a schoolteacher whose students are tasked with killing him, even though they adore his fun ways.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80045948 · 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

After a young girl breaks the seal of a magical book, releasing the spirits of the cards inside, she must become a 'Cardcaptor' and retrieve them.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Netflix ID: 70309056 · 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

Middle schooler Usagi Tsukino and her friends learn that they have the power to transform into Sailor Guardians, protecting the world from darkness.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80145747 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

New to rural Hinamizawa, Keiichi discovers a series of murders in its past. But his new friends refuse to speak of them and seem to be monitoring him.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 70308793 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Akko enrolls at the Luna Nova Academy for witches. She's not the best student, but her bright attitude is the key to her and her friends' success.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80156387 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an 8.0 earthquake strikes Tokyo, siblings Mirai and Yuki Onozawa team up with motorcycle courier Mari to reach their home across the city.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80150602 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb