The Best Anime Series to Stream in India, From Death Note to Frieren

A brilliant, bored student named Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it, and decides to use it to rid the world of criminals, while an eccentric detective known only as L hunts him. Thirty-seven episodes, adapted from the manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, and still the most common first anime for people who think they do not like anime.

Two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, try to bring their dead mother back with alchemy and pay for it with Edward's arm and leg and Alphonse's whole body. Brotherhood is the second adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga and the one that follows it to the end, in 64 episodes. It sits at or near the top of most all-time anime rankings.

Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss sets out to become a Hunter, an elite licensed adventurer, to find the father who left him. Yoshihiro Togashi's story starts as a bright adventure and turns much darker, especially in its long Chimera Ant arc. This 2011 version runs 148 episodes and ends with the Election arc; the manga has carried on, with long gaps, beyond it.

What is left of humanity lives inside enormous walls to keep out the Titans, giant creatures that eat people, until the day one breaks through. Hajime Isayama's story becomes something very different from what its first season suggests, and is best watched without reading about it. In India it streams through the Anime Times channel on Prime Video, a paid add-on.

Shoyo Hinata is too short for volleyball and plays it anyway, joining a fallen high-school team in Miyagi alongside a gifted setter he cannot stand. It is the best sports anime for people who do not follow the sport, and the four television seasons lead into the film Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle (2024).

Saitama trained so hard that he can now defeat any enemy with a single punch, and finds being a superhero unbearably boring as a result. A parody of the genre that also works as a straight action show, adapted from ONE and Yusuke Murata's manga. The first season, animated by Madhouse, is the one people remember.

In a world where most people are born with a superpower, Izuku Midoriya is born with none, and is chosen by the greatest hero of all to inherit his. Kohei Horikoshi's story follows Izuku through a school for heroes, and the series finished its eighth and final season in December 2025.

After his family is killed by demons and his sister Nezuko is turned into one, Tanjiro Kamado joins the Demon Slayer Corps to find a cure. Studio ufotable's fight animation set a new standard for television anime. The television series leads into the films Mugen Train and Infinity Castle, which became two of the highest-grossing anime films ever made.

A Viking saga set in 11th-century Europe, about Thorfinn, a boy who joins the band of the mercenary who killed his father in order to one day kill him. Makoto Yukimura's story turns its back on revenge in its second season, which is set almost entirely on a farm and is the stronger of the two.

A high-school student, Yuji Itadori, swallows a cursed finger to save his friends and ends up sharing his body with Sukuna, the most powerful curse in history. MAPPA's adaptation of Gege Akutami's manga is one of the most popular anime of the decade, and its second season, built around the Shibuya Incident, is its high point so far.

A spy who needs a family for a mission adopts a girl and marries a woman, not knowing that the girl can read minds and his wife is an assassin; only the girl knows everyone's secret. Tatsuya Endo's comedy is the friendliest series here and the easiest to watch with family.

A Netflix original made by Japan's Studio Trigger and set in Night City, the world of the video game Cyberpunk 2077. A street kid becomes a mercenary after his mother dies, and the ten episodes run fast and end hard. You do not need to know the game; it is a complete story on its own.

Denji is a poor teenager working off his dead father's debt by hunting devils, until he merges with his devil dog Pochita and becomes part chainsaw. Tatsuki Fujimoto's story is violent, strange and often very funny. The single television season leads into the 2025 film Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.

Frieren, an elf mage, helped a band of heroes defeat the Demon King, and then, because elves live for a thousand years, watched them grow old and die. The series follows her as she retraces their journey and tries to understand what they meant to her. It is quiet, sad and funny, and has been ranked among the best anime ever made by viewers since it aired. Its second season aired in early 2026.

Adapted from a South Korean web novel and webtoon, it follows Sung Jinwoo, the weakest of the hunters who clear monster-filled dungeons, who survives a massacre and finds he can grow stronger without limit. It is a straightforward power fantasy, and its two seasons were a large hit on Crunchyroll.

A girl who believes in ghosts and a boy who believes in aliens each set out to prove the other wrong, and both turn out to be right. Yukinobu Tatsu's series mixes horror, romance and slapstick at high speed, and Science SARU's animation makes it one of the most distinctive-looking shows on this list.