What is the best MAPPA anime?

One studio, and a catalogue that runs from figure skating to cannibal ninjas. The argument starts as soon as you try to put them in order.

1

Attack on Titan: The Final Season

MAPPA's four-part conclusion to the Titan saga, taken over from Wit Studio and aired between 2020 and 2023.

2

Jujutsu Kaisen

A sorcery-and-curses action series whose fight animation made MAPPA a household name in 2020.

3

Chainsaw Man

A cinematic 2022 adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's devil-hunting manga, styled like a film rather than a TV show.

4

Yuri!!! on Ice

A 2016 figure-skating series that became a global phenomenon and won a shelf of awards.

5

Vinland Saga Season 2

The farmland arc of the Viking epic, which MAPPA inherited from Wit Studio in 2023.

6

Hell's Paradise

A 2023 adaptation of Yuji Kaku's death-row ninja manga, set on an island of monstrous flora.

7

Dorohedoro

A 2020 CG-and-hand-drawn hybrid about a lizard-headed man hunting the sorcerer who cursed him.

8

Zombie Land Saga

A 2018 idol comedy in which the idols are undead, and the tonal whiplash is the point.

9

Kakegurui

A 2017 series set in a school where social rank is decided by high-stakes gambling.

10

Banana Fish

A 2018 adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's 1980s crime manga, relocated to contemporary New York.

11

Kids on the Slope

MAPPA's 1960s jazz coming-of-age debut TV series from 2012, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe.

12

In This Corner of the World

A 2016 feature film about a young woman's daily life in Hiroshima before and after the bombing.

13

Terror in Resonance

A 2014 original thriller from Shinichiro Watanabe about two teenagers staging attacks on Tokyo.

14

Ranma 1/2 (2024)

MAPPA's 2024 remake of Rumiko Takahashi's gender-swapping martial-arts comedy.