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Crunchyroll is one of the most important streaming services for anime fans. It was one of the first legitimate ways to watch new anime without piracy. Additionally, it’s the largest anime streaming site at this time. The service is relatively cheap and the free version lets you watch most things with ads. The entire service has a metric ton of excellent anime. However, there are some that stand above the rest. Here are the best Crunchyroll anime right now.
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My Hero Academia is one of the most popular super-series shows right now. It tells the story of Midoriya, a boy idolizes the world’s best hero, All Might. He eventually goes to the school where All Might teaches and learns how to become a hero himself. There is also a group of antagonists that try to do away with everybody. The show focuses on that good and evil paradigm. This one is super popular and surprisingly good. Many call it this generation’s Naruto. Its popularity and continuously running manga means this one should go for a good long time and there are plenty of seasons to binge so you can catch up.
Naruto is another exceptionally popular and good super-series. The show spans over 700 episodes in total between Naruto (220 episodes) and Naruto: Shippuden (500 episodes). Crunchyroll has every episode. The first is linked at the button and the other one is here. The show follows the story of Naruto and his friends Sasuka and Sakura, specifically Naruto and Sasuke as they deal with enemy organizations, corrupt family members, and other stuff. The show is notorious for its filler episodes, but you can find watch lists without filler if you don’t want to sit through 700+ episodes. This is easily one of the best of the best super-series anime on Crunchyroll. Those who want to keep going after they’re done can check out Boruto: Naruto Next Generations with its 150+ episodes at the time of this writing.
The Fate series is an ongoing action-adventure show about a Holy Grail war. Characters in the show summon old heroes and use those heroes as avatars to do battle on their behalf. We would list this as a super-series, but it’s actually rare for new entrants into the series to follow the stories of the ones that came prior. For instance, we recommend Fate/Zero before Fate/Stay Night (linked at the button). However, after that, you can watch the other shows in basically any order you want since they don’t really continue on a linear path. The latest show in the series is Fate/Grand Order. The only downside of the series are its confusing names and sheer number of separate shows. You may need to look around a bit to find everything.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is one of the seminal anime works. It’s one of those ones everybody should watch at least once. It’s insanely popular with a good story and surprisingly good art and animation for its age. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is actually the second iteration of the show. This one follows the manga and the adventures of Alphonse and Edward Elric as they hunt for the Philosopher Stone. The original version of the show (with a completely different ending) is currently available on Netflix.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica doesn’t feel like a thriller at first. However, it definitely makes its intentions known after the first few episodes. The show focuses around a group of magical girls who trade a lifetime of servitude for one wish. This presents a lot of obvious problems that very strongly bother the titular character Madoka. The series is actually quite old, but still definitely holds up by today’s standards. A second iteration of the show, Magia Record, launched in 2020 along with an accompanying mobile game of the same name. This is one of the seminal anime on Crunchyroll. It’s one of the must-watch shows on the platform.
The Perfect Insider is a mystery anime. The visual novel debuted in 1996 so this isn’t the newest property, but the anime is from 2015. The story revolves around two people who travel to an island and solve murders. There are some science fiction elements as well. The show starts a little slow, but ramps up considerably toward the end of the run. The show is only 11 episodes so it’s actually a quick watch overall.
