# The best animated movies of 2025

The year of Ne Zha 2 and the K-pop demon hunters: the best-rated animated films of 2025 by audiences and critics (Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes) and the biggest hits worldwide.

- 6 votes · 11 items
- Sep 22, 2026 · Santiago Ospina Quintero
- https://even.best/en/l/1878/the-best-animated-movies-of-2025

## Top 11

1. **Ne Zha 2** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Chinese sequel that became the highest-grossing animated film ever.
2. **KPop Demon Hunters** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Netflix's phenomenon about a K-pop group that hunts demons, with songs that topped the charts.
3. **Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The first chapter of Demon Slayer's finale, a worldwide hit in theatres.
4. **Arco** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ugo Bienvenu's French film about a boy from the future who travels on a rainbow.
5. **Zootopia 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde return in one of the year's biggest box-office hits.
6. **Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — MAPPA brings the Reze arc to cinemas, among the year's top-rated films on Letterboxd.
7. **Little Amélie or the Character of Rain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Adaptation of Amélie Nothomb's novel about her childhood in Japan.
8. **Elio** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pixar's space adventure about a boy mistaken for Earth's ambassador.
9. **The Bad Guys 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — DreamWorks' gang returns with new villains.
10. **The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The first fully animated Looney Tunes feature, starring Porky and Daffy.
11. **Dog Man** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Adaptation of Dav Pilkey's comics about a half-dog police officer.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.