Although it’s been around for decades, the broader influence of Japanese anime on Western styles of animation is a much more recent phenomenon. Anime still holds a reputation in some circles for being nerdy or crass, and it can certainly be those things, but so can any art form. Anime contains a broad range of styles and flavors, and that wide variety means that people from all walks of life can find something that they might enjoy in it.
If you want to get into anime, it’s important to start with series that are going to be worth your while. Thankfully, Netflix has some truly great anime series that you can look through. Unfortunately, the streamer also has plenty of less worthy titles that you would have to sort through to find the good step. That’s where we come in: We’ve done most of the hard work already, and pulled out the best anime on Netflix for you to watch whether you’re a long-time fan or just dipping your toes in.
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Telling the story of a fighter who is trained by his wealthy mother to follow in the footsteps of his father, BAKI is an anime that chronicles its central character’s battle against five violent death row inmates who descend on Tokyo to battle him. The bones of the series are all about the tortured relationship between a father and a son, but BAKI has plenty of action, even before the character does battle with his father.
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