Being in quarantine, while resting on a comfortable couch, having a bowl full of popcorn in your hand and coke at your side, watching some great anime series is not a bad idea. Japan nowadays is considered as the hub of anime series as most of the series are produced in Japan. These series are easily accessible on different sites such as Netflix, Funimation and Crunchyroll.
Right here we are compiling a list of 5 best anime series which you should not miss to watch in 2020:
5. Dr Stone
Release Date:
July to Dec 2019
Network:
Funimation, Crunchyroll
Genre:
Adventure, Science Fiction
Production:
TOHO animation, Shueisha
Writer:
Yuichiro Kido
Director:
Shinya Iino
Dr Stone shows an era in which the whole human race has vanished due to some mysterious beam of lights approximately 1300 years ago and now suddenly a 16 year old boy Senkū Ishigami is revived and finds there is no trace of the human population on planet earth.
To understand his revival he set up a camp and found out the chemical which made his revival possible. The story continues after his successful attempts to revive his friends and other people to create a civilization.
4. Castlevania
Release Date:
July 2017
Network:
Netflix
Genre:
Dark Fantasy, Horror
Production:
Adi Shankar Animation
Writer:
Warren Ellis
Director:
Sam Deats, Adam Deats, Spencer Wan
Castlevania is the well renowned American web TV series based on Japanese game Castlevania ll: Dracula’s Curse. It shows the relationship between vampire hunter, Trevor Belmont & half-human son of Dracula, Alucard, which along with Sypha Belnades protect Wallachia from Dracula.
3. Somali And The Forest Spirits
Release Date:
January to March 2020
Network:
Crunchyroll
Genre:
Fantasy
Writer:
Mariko Mochizuki
Director:
Kenji Yasuda
In Somali and the forest spirits, the world is full of Sorcery and Wizardry. Humankind is in peril due to evil spirits and goblins. On the other hand, Golem: The guardian spirit of forest who silently observes everything but does not involve himself into the cycles of nature.
The real story begins, when Golem meets a child tucked in a sack to whom he will name as Somali. The series shows a beautiful relationship of father and daughter between a forest spirit and a human and how they explore different parts of land together.
2. Yuri!!! on Ice
Release Year:
Oct to Dec 2016
Network:
Crunchyroll
Genre:
Sports
Production:
MAPPA
Writer:
Sayo Yamamoto, Mitsurō Kubo
Director:
Sayo Yamamoto, Jun Shishido
The story revolves around a Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsaki who looses badly in the Grand Prix Final. After this, he returns home with a heavy heart. One night while practising some people made his video which got viral. Victor Nikiforov, a Russian figure skater who lost his interest in skating after winning competitions saw his video, and decided to teach him. Yuri on ice shows the strong bond between Yuri Katsaki and Victor Nikiforov.
1. Mob Psycho 100
Release Year:
July 2016 (1st season)
April 2019 (2nd season)
Network:
Crunchyroll
Genre:
Supernatural
Production:
Kio Matsuda, Rotsugu Ogisu
Writer:
Hiroshi Seko
Director:
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Mob psycho is a story of middle school child Shigeo Kageyama, whose nickname is Mob. The Mob is blessed with psychic supernatural powers. In the show, he is not aware of his real strengths. He always tries to enchant one of his class fellows by using his psychic powers.
Arataka Reigen, another potential character of this series, tries to use the Mob’s powers to highlight his business, which ultimately results in exploitation of powers and its misuse.