The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime
Megan Tomos CultureAug 9, 2026 6:00 AMThe 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate AnimeJapan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch.Photograph: Jon Hicks/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyDespite its ferocious popularity, people still tend to swear off anime entirely. Start with self-contained films you can knock out in a single evening before graduating to series worth committing wholly to.
- ▪Megan Tomos CultureAug 9, 2026 6:00 AMThe 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate AnimeJapan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span.
- ▪Here’s what to watch.Photograph: Jon Hicks/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyDespite its ferocious popularity, people still tend to swear off anime entirely.
- ▪Start with self-contained films you can knock out in a single evening before graduating to series worth committing wholly to.
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Megan Tomos CultureAug 9, 2026 6:00 AMThe 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate AnimeJapan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch.Photograph: Jon Hicks/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyDespite its ferocious popularity, people still tend to swear off anime entirely. These are usually the people whose reference of the medium pertains to a certain stereotype or to the few seconds of anime they once saw on a computer somewhere in the early 2000s.But Japan has been producing some of the most emotionally resonant and visually audacious storytelling in contemporary media for half a century, and a great deal of it looks nothing at all like the stereotype it holds.So here’s a case for…
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