# The best animated series of 2025

Common Side Effects, Long Story Short and the year's best anime: the animated shows critics loved in 2025 (Collider, ComicBook, IndieWire).

- 79 votes · 11 items
- Sep 7, 2026 · couchpotato_sheffield
- https://even.best/en/l/1943/the-best-animated-series-of-2025

## Top 11

1. **The Summer Hikaru Died** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — A boy realises his best friend has been replaced by something else.
2. **Common Side Effects** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Adult Swim's conspiracy thriller about a miracle mushroom and Big Pharma.
3. **Win or Lose** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Pixar's first series: a softball team's week, one point of view per episode.
4. **The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The revival keeps the original's spirit, with fresh ideas.
5. **City the Animation** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Kyoto Animation's absurd comedy from Keiichi Arawi.
6. **Long Story Short** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg's family saga across decades.
7. **Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Peter Parker's early days, styled after the classic comics.
8. **Dan Da Dan** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Aliens, ghosts and teenage romance, in its second season.
9. **The Apothecary Diaries** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — Maomao solves palace mysteries with her knowledge of medicine.
10. **Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The irreverent angel sisters return after more than a decade.
11. **Anne Shirley** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — A new anime adaptation of Anne of Green Gables.

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