# Which anime has the best animation?

> Every fandom claims its show looks the best. Here the claim gets tested against seventeen others.

*By YPB Team · Published September 5, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/which-anime-has-the-best-animation*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Demon Slayer** — score 1000/1000
   Ufotable's Taisho-era swordsmanship series, famous for compositing hand-drawn effects over digital camera work.
2. **Land of the Lustrous** — score 704/1000
   Orange's fully CG gem-people series, the show that made 3DCG anime respectable.
3. **Dorohedoro** — score 678/1000
   MAPPA's CG-led dark comedy, whose stylised grime made its 3D look intentional.
4. **Violet Evergarden** — score 657/1000
   Kyoto Animation's postwar drama, celebrated for its lighting, backgrounds and small character gestures.
5. **Made in Abyss** — score 635/1000
   Kinema Citrus' descent story, carried by painted backgrounds of the Abyss itself.
6. **Jujutsu Kaisen** — score 469/1000
   MAPPA's modern shonen about cursed spirits, known for its fluid, weighty fight choreography.
7. **Cowboy Bebop** — score 397/1000
   Sunrise's 1998 space-western, hand-drawn on cels and still cited for its staging and gunplay.
8. **Mob Psycho 100** — score 397/1000
   Bones' adaptation of ONE's manga, using paint-on-glass and shifting art styles inside its fights.
9. **Fate/Zero** — score 397/1000
   Ufotable's prequel to Fate/stay night, an early showcase for its digital camera and effects work.
10. **Frieren: Beyond Journey's End** — score 313/1000
   Madhouse's post-quest fantasy, praised for restraint, acting and its magic-duel choreography.
11. **Attack on Titan** — score 313/1000
   Wit Studio and MAPPA's adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga, built around vertical-manoeuvre chase animation.
12. **Cyberpunk: Edgerunners** — score 313/1000
   Studio Trigger's Netflix series, all smear frames, neon and deliberate frame-rate play.
13. **One Punch Man** — score 313/1000
   The 2015 Madhouse season, whose freelance animator showcase set a benchmark for TV action.
14. **Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood** — score 213/1000
   Bones' complete adaptation of the manga, consistent in quality across 64 episodes.
15. **Chainsaw Man** — score 213/1000
   MAPPA's devil-hunter adaptation, shot with film-style camerawork and cinematic lighting.
16. **Ping Pong the Animation** — score 213/1000
   Masaaki Yuasa's table-tennis series, deliberately rough-lined and elastic in motion.
17. **Bocchi the Rock!** — score 213/1000
   CloverWorks' band comedy, mixing stop-motion, collage and photo-real inserts into a sitcom.
18. **Vinland Saga** — score 94/1000
   A Viking-era historical series whose combat leans on grounded weight rather than spectacle.

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