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2023 has been a year of engaging anime series. The release of numerous exciting and fascinating animes series, from the release of some anime series continuation, to the release of new anime series. 2023 built up an engaging and modifying spirit for anime enthusiast. Hopefully the year 2024 will also continue to to fill us with more fascinating and mind blowing series. Below are the list of some of the best anime series of 2023, Each has been summarized so dig in.
10. Undead Unluck
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| Undead Unluck |
Fuuko Izumo is a young girl who has been living in isolation for ten years since an incident that left more than 200 people dead, including her parents, when she was eight years old. Following the completion of her favorite long-running girls' manga series, Fuuko decides to commit suicide. She is tormented by the fact that she cannot be touched by anyone due to her "unluck" ability, which brings bad luck to anyone she comes into contact with in the flesh. She meets an "undead" man who has amazing regenerative abilities and who desires to die the best death possible, disliking his immortal life. For the sake of convenience, Fuuko names him Andy because he is undead, and they begin to work together. However, they soon see themselves chased by the Union, a mysterious organization.
Eventually, an assassin of the Union called Shen tells them that the organization has a special team consisting of ten people with special abilities, and that by joining the team, they will no longer be hunted, so the two decide to join in order to attain Andy's wish for "the best death", and face numerous enemies and the mysteries of the world.
The missions of the team are proposed by a book called Apocalypse, which has supernatural powers. There are people with the ability to negate the rules of the world called Negators. The Union is an organization of Negators specialized in the hunting of Unidentified Mysterious Animals (UMA), creatures that are the embodiment of the Earth's rules (like thirst and decay) and are created by God as both the objectives for the quests provided by Apocalypse, as well as punishment for failing them. They also must defeat a group of Negators that opposes the Union called Under and Regulators, beings chosen to do God's bidding.
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09. Dead Mount Death Play
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| Dead Mount Death Play |
In another world, a hero named Sir Shagrua Edith Lugrid is about to finish off a powerful necromancer known as the Corpse God. However, the Corpse God uses a unique magic skill to reincarnate themself into another world, and ends up in modern-day Shinjuku, in the body of a boy named Polka Shinoyama who has just had his throat slit by an assassin. Thinking that this new world could provide the peaceful life he wished in the last one,In the process of trying to adapt to his new physical body, he gets targeted by various groups that deal with the supernatural.
Among them is Misaki Sakimiya, a high school girl who can see spirits and is out for his blood from the very moment they meet. The Corpses God takes on Polka's identity, and soon captivates himself with the Shinjuku underworld under a woman named Clarissa and her underlings. Polka eventually meets Takumi Kuruya, a contractor skilled in surveillance and hacking, and Lisa Kuraki, a crime boss operating out of Shinjuku. Alongside these and other unanticipated allies, Polka braves danger to reveal the truth of his reincarnation and the fate awaiting the world he now lives in.
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08. High Card
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| High Card |
The royal family of the Kingdom of Fourland holds a secret deck of 52 "X-Playing cards", each of which bestow a superhuman power or ability to whoever uses them. However, the cards were nearly stolen one month ago, and then scattered across the land. In the present, a thief named Finn is struggling to raise funds for his orphanage before the landlord clears it out. After hitching a ride to a casino, Finn soon finds himself inducted into High Card, a special group tasked by the King to recover all 52 cards, while working undercover as salesmen for the Pinochle car company. However, High Card must deal with threats from rival car company "Who's Who" seeking to crush Pinochle, and the Klondike mafia family who wants the X-Playing cards for their own nefarious ends.
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07. Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
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| Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku |
Captured during an assassination mission, Gabimaru the Hollow is sentenced to be executed, but nothing seems to kill him due to his superhuman body. Believing his love for his wife to be subconsciously keeping him alive, executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri offers him the chance to be pardoned of all crimes by the Shogunate if he finds the decoction of life on Shinsenkyo, a legendary realm recently discovered southwest of the Ryukyu Kingdom. After losing five expedition teams sent to the island, this time the Shogunate sends a group of death row convicts. The convicts are each given a Yamada Asaemon executioner, who they must return with in order to obtain the pardon.
A squad of prisoners and elite guards who are to watch over them are sent to investigate a strange island. They get stranded admist a host of monsters and their creators also a group of immortal beings.there and must rely on each other to survive the island's mysterious and monstrous residents.
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06. Oshi No Ko
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| Oshi No Ko |
Obstetrician-gynecologist Gorou Amamiya is tasked with helping deliver the children of Ai Hoshino, a famous pop idol whom he admires, without the knowledge of the general public. However, the night of Ai's delivery, Gorou is murdered by an obsessive fan of Ai's, and is reincarnated as Aquamarine "Aqua" Hoshino, Ai's son, retaining his memories of his previous life. Unknown to him, Aqua's fraternal twin, Ruby Hoshino, is the reincarnation of Sarina Tendōji, one of Gorou's patients who was a fan of Ai's. Four years later, Ai is murdered by the same fan who had killed Gorou. The fan later commits suicide, but Aqua deduces that the murderer may have had his and Ruby's father as an accomplice and resolves to infiltrate the entertainment industry to find and kill him.
Twelve years later, Aqua and Ruby have become high school students and have been adopted by Ichigo and Miyako Saito, the owners of Ai's talent agency, Strawberry Productions. Ruby dreams of becoming an idol singer herself and becomes employed by their family's agency. She forms an idol group with actress Kana Arima and YouTuber Mem-cho, named "B-Komachi" after Ai's former group, while Aqua returns to acting. Both Aqua and Ruby begin building their careers in entertainment, with Aqua using his newfound friendship with actress Akane Kurokawa as a means to locate his father.
During a stage production, Aqua discovers that he shares the same father with his co-star, Taiki Himekawa, and that he had died by suicide before Ai's murder. However, Aqua learns through Akane that their father may be actor Hikaru Kamiki, who is still alive. At the same time, during a shooting for B-Komachi's music video, Ruby finds Gorou's corpse and learns about the culprit behind his and Ai's murders. Both incidents fuel Aqua and Ruby's grudges respectively and motivate them to find their father. However, as they both become increasingly manipulative, Aqua and Ruby find each other at odds throughout their attempts to reach their father, eventually losing trust in each other after Aqua leaks their connection to Ai to the media.
With the help of Gotanda, Aqua creates a screenplay for an autobiographical film based on Ai, titled 15 Years of Lies, in hopes of drawing Hikaru's attention. Ruby aggressively and successfully lands the starring role. She is also forced to confront her past when her mother from her previous life ends up being one of the film's sponsors, but this causes her and Aqua to realize each other's true incarnation.
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05. Frieren; Beyond Journey's End
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| Frieren; Beyond Journey's End |
The story follows elven mage Frieren, a former member of the party of adventurers who defeated the Demon King and restored harmony to the world after a ten-year quest. In the past, the heroic group included Frieren, human hero Himmel, dwarven warrior Eisen and human priest Heiter. Before they part, they observe the Era Meteors together, a meteor shower that occurs once in fifty years. Frieren agrees to see them again and offers them a better view the next time the celestial event occurs. Frieren then departs and travels the world in pursuit of magical knowledge.
Frieren returns to the capital fifty years later; however, humanity has changed, and her former companions have distinctly aged. After one last adventure to see the meteor shower, Himmel dies of old age. During the funeral, Frieren expressed guilt for not attempting to learn more about him. Frieren then pays a visit to her other former comrades. She accepts an offer to teach and care for Fern, an orphaned child adopted by Heiter. She also receives an invitation to travel far north, to the resting place of souls, and see Himmel again to bid the hero a fitting farewell and express her feelings. To fulfill those requests, Frieren embarks on a journey together with Fern while still pursuing her passion for learning magic.
Frieren's elven nature grants her an extremely long lifespan, causing her to view periods of years or decades as ephemeral (this perception of time makes her consider the ten-year adventure with Himmel's party a fleeting experience). The story thus takes place across a long time, with periodic flashbacks accompanied by the physical and mental development of characters apart from Frieren herself.
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04. Vinland Saga
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| Vinland Saga |
Thorfinn is far from being the only person on Ketil’s farm who’s suffered. His fellow slaves Einar (who’s also his best friend) and Arnheid have endured just as much if not more than Thorfinn, because violent men like him are the reason why they’re slaves in the first place. Both Einar and Arnheid have witnessed their loved ones murdered at the hands of bloodthirsty vikings.
Despite bloodshed functioning as a reason why Einar and Arnheid despise warfare, such cruelty for vikings like Thorfinn was never a bad thing at all. Alternatively, war for Norsemen serves as a testing ground where victors reap the spoils on the merit of how many people they slaughtered and sold, or also for a warrior’s death that would grant them entry into Valhalla.
Thorfinn, however, realizes that, just because he’s done terrible things, that doesn’t mean he’s incapable of change.We have seen many replica of anime characters who have had the same resolve. It was at Ketil’s farm that Thorfinn constructs a new life plan: rid the world of war and slavery. Upon revealing his insights to Einar. However, Thorfinn believes that trekking out to find Vinland, a prosperous land his father once pointed for having no need for weapons or slavery, w ere others who wish to live in such a paradise, will usher in positive change for the world. In his realization of change, he believes he must give back more to the world than he’s taken away by making Vinland a reality.
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03. Attack On Titan (The Final Movie)
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| Attack On Titan (The Final Movie) |
The Battle of Heaven and Earth: The Scouts and Warriors lands on Eren's rib cage, and incapacitate the Beast Titan realizing that it is just a shell with Zeke nowhere to be found. Before Armin has a chance to transform, he is captured in a Titan's mouth. Suddenly, countless versions of the Nine Titans of the past appear on Eren's back, created by Ymir Fritz to defend him. Just as the Scouts and Warriors are nearly defeated, Annie and Gabi appear on the back of Falco's new flying Jaw Titan. Meanwhile, Armin discovers Zeke in the Palace
Armin and Zeke have a conversation about the meaning of life and Armin convinces Zeke to share his viewpoint and the two call on the deceased Titan shifters throughout the series to help the alliance. Zeke then materializes on Eren's Titan and allows Levi to kill him, which stops the Rumbling. After Armin is rescued, he uses the power of his Colossal Titan to destroy Eren's Founding Titan, releasing the centipede-like organism, the source of all Titan power, from Eren's nape. Falco flies down to the Liberio refugees, but the reunion between the Warriors and their families is cut short when the source turns the nearby Eldians, including Jean, Connie, and Gabi, into Titans to help defend it. Reiner, Annie, and Pieck engage the Titans and the source to prevent it from reconnecting with Eren while he transforms into the Founding Titan once again to fight Armin, leaving Mikasa and Levi the only ones left who can take Eren down. Jumping off of Falco's back, Levi uses a Thunder Spear to destroy Eren's Titan's mouth exposing his human form within and Mikasa beheads Eren. Ymir is thus freed from the Paths allowing her to pass on, and the Titan powers, along with the source, disappear from the world, turning all the Eldians permanently back into humans.
Toward the Tree on That Hill: After Eren's death, Armin (and the others) recall a conversation with him prior to his death where he reveals his true motive was to ensure his friends’ statuses were elevated to the saviors of humanity to the rest of the world, alongside giving them the long, fulfilling lives he wanted them to have in a world free of Titans. After mourning their friend, Armin decides to take credit for killing Eren, Mikasa leaves to lay Eren to rest on Paradis, and the Scouts and Warriors are hailed as heroes by the survivors of the Rumbling.
Three years later, with eighty percent of humanity decimated, the Jaegerists strengthen Paradis' military to prepare for a potential future attack from the rest of the world, while the remaining Scouts and Warriors become the world's ambassadors for peace negotiations with Paradis. Mikasa buries Eren's head under a tree that he would frequently rest under as a child and continues to visit his grave throughout the rest of her life. Many generations later, a futuristic Paradis is bombed from above and destroyed in a war. Over time, Paradis is reclaimed by the wilderness, and within this wilderness a lone boy and his dog approach the tree Eren is buried at, which has since grown to resemble the original tree that contained the source of the Titans' power.
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02. Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc
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| Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc |
Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and Inosuke Hashibira assist the Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui against the sibling demons Gyutaro and Daki, holders of Upper Six of the Twelve Kizuki, they realize that the only way to kill the siblings is to behead them simultaneously. The trio coordinates their attacks to behead Daki but Tengen is critically injured by Gyutaro, who then stabs Inosuke from behind with a poisoned sickle to retrieve his sister's head. Zenitsu pushes Tanjiro off a roof to save him from Daki's slashes, after which Gyutaro arrives to mock Tanjiro for his inability to save his friends and protect his demonic younger sister, Nezuko.
Gyutaro attempts to persuade Tanjiro to turn into a demon but Tanjiro head-butts him, secretly stabbing the demon with a poisoned kunai. Gyutaro is immobilized and Tanjiro attempts to behead him. Before Daki can intervene, she is attacked by Zenitsu, using the last of his strength to reach her neck as Inosuke joins him, having survived by moving his internal organs upon being stabbed. Gyutaro removes the kunai and recovers; he almost kills Tanjiro but Tengen intervenes and battles Gyutaro. Tanjiro summons his remaining strength, causing a strange mark to appear on his forehead and slashes Gyutaro's neck while Zenitsu and Inosuke cut through Daki's.
Together, the Demon Slayers behead the siblings, whose heads roll close to each other. Tengen warns a heavily-poisoned Tanjiro to run away just as Gyutaro's body explodes into waves of blood blades that destroy the entire city. However, Nezuko uses her Blood Demon Art to burn the blades and save her brother from the poison. She also burns away Gyutaro's poison from Inosuke and Tengen, saving their lives. Tanjiro finds a dying Gyutaro and Daki arguing about their defeat and insulting their relationship.
Tanjiro intervenes, pressing for them to make amends with each other as all they will have left after all the horrors they committed will be each other just as Daki disintegrates first, while Gyutaro remembers their human lives before being transformed into demons as he disintegrates as well. In the afterlife, Gyutaro and Daki reconcile upon remembering the promise they made to never be apart again before they walk together into Hell. Serpent Hashira Obanai Iguro arrives and commends Tengen for killing Upper Six of the Twelve Kizuki but Tengen informs him about his retirement from the Demon Slayers as well as Tanjiro's potential to become a Hashira.
Meanwhile, demon king Muzan Kibutsuji summons the remaining five Upper Rank demons – Akaza, Gyokko, Hantengu, Doma and Kokushibo – to inform them about Gyutaro's death. He admonishes them for their failures and lack of purpose, before sending Gyokko and Hantengu on a joint mission to cripple the Demon Slayer Corps.
Two months later, Tanjiro has a dream about his ancestor's encounter with a Demon Slayer from the past that saved their family and wore the same earrings as Tanjiro, before waking up from a coma, still recovering from his injuries while Zenitsu and Inosuke are summoned to individual missions. Because his swordsmith Hotaru Haganezuka had refused to forge him a new sword due to Tanjiro breaking his previous ones, Tanjiro is told to meet him at the Swordsmith Village to discuss the matter with him in person. He arrives with Nezuko and meets the Love Hashira Mitsuri Kanroji and the village's chief Tecchin Tecchikawahara, who assures Tanjiro he will bring Hotaru back to build the sword.
While relaxing in hot springs, Tanjiro and Nezuko encounter Genya, Wind Hashira Sanemi Shinazugawa's younger brother and fellow Demon Slayer, who angrily strikes Tanjiro and storms off. Back at the village, Mitsuri hints at Tanjiro about a "secret weapon" hidden in the village that can make him stronger and bids farewell to the siblings. The next day, while searching for the secret weapon, Tanjiro meets with Mist Hashira Muichiro Tokito and sees that seemingly with him is the same figure from his dream.
The season was completely exciting, from the battle scenes against the upper six, to the the battle against Gyokko and Hantengu, each scene has its wonderful play out, thar we won't get tired of.
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01. Jujutsu Kaisen season 2
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| Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 |
Looking at this thriving season which was first released in 2020. Jujutsu Kaisen has been able to put their fans off the edge with their enticing show ever since then
Now in 2023 we were hit with another lite season with numerous exciting moments. It focuses on Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto during their time as students at Jujutsu High, and how they became enemies. "Shibuya Incident" takes place in the present as the Sorcerers and Curses engage in an all-out war in Shibuya on Halloween.
It's the year 2006 when Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were just second-year students at Tokyo Jujutsu High. The two "strongest" have been given a mission to escort the Star Plasma Vessel to Master Tengen.Riko Amanai introduces herself to Satoru and Suguru as the Star Plasma Vessel. They escort her back to school to see her friends one last time but trouble manages to find them. A large bounty has been placed on Riko and several curse users are after it.
Once Misato Kuroi's kidnapping is dealt with, the escort mission is nearly resolved without major conflict in three days. Riko is given her last days to reflect on her future as a Star Plasma Vessel before the merger. Disaster strikes when an invisible assassin strikes and challenges even the mighty Six Eyes. As it goes on she is killed by Toji and there was a wonderful scenario of between Gojo and Toji
Going through the episodes Yuji reawakens with grievous resolve as he bears witness to the aftermath Sukuna has wrought upon Shibuya. Meanwhile, Nanami continues to fight through packs of transfigured humans in an exhausted haze until Mahito appears before him.Yuji launches into a back-and-forth battle against Mahito, but he struggles against Mahito's ploy of using average people against him. Meanwhile, Nobara encounters one of Mahito's separated bodies as she returns to the battlefield.
Yuji stands in a daze at the disaster before his eyes, his mind already well past its limit. As a curse, Mahito is elated at seeing his ideal sequence of events play out before him, and he prepares to further finish off Yuji.
After rescuing Yuji from his predicament, Aoi bolsters his morale and encourages him to stand back up. As Mahito kicks things into higher gear, he begins using Soul Multiplicity and Body Repel to unleash omnidirectional attacks.
The moment it appeared Yuji and Mahito's battle to the death was resolved, the being wearing Suguru's body asked, "Shall I save you, Mahito?" Yuji immediately recognizes the man before him as the very same one who sealed away Gojo and leaps to attack.
As the Shibuya Incident finally comes to an end, Pseudo-Geto and Yuki Tsukumo disagree on the role cursed energy will play in the evolution of humanity. Pseudo-Geto explains his plans for the world of the future, a return to an era that reflects the Heian and the height of cursed techniques.
Next up is the "Culling Game Arc" which the released date hasn't been announced yet.
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Where To Watch
All these anime are available to be streamed on Crunchyrol and Netflix
Conclusion:
There are many other anime series that was released last year, each with there own fascinating storyline. Happy New Year guys. We hope to provide you with more engaging posts in this New Year, as we wait for other anime series to be released.