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100 Best Anime Movies of All Time, Ranked by Tomatometer

The Tomatometer takes on the best anime movies of all time! That means we’re ranking everything from the feverishly dark 1980s/1990s films (Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll), to the Studio Ghibli golden era (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies), and into today’s mainstream renaissance (Your Name, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen 0).

Page 1: Movies #1-#100 | Page 2: Movies #101-#145

#101
#101
Adjusted Score: 40170%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The adventures of a modern family in Japan.... [More]
Starring: Hayato Isohata, Masako Araki, Naomi Uno, Toru Masuoka
Directed By: Isao Takahata

#102

Vampire Hunter D (1985)
78%

#102
Adjusted Score: 74378%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this animated film, the future is bleak for the world's remaining humans, who inhabit a vast wasteland and spend... [More]
Starring: Seizô Katô, Motomu Kiyokawa, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Kaneto Shiozawa
Directed By: Toyoo Ashida

#103

Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
77%

#103
Adjusted Score: 77007%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Two brothers wage an ongoing battle to protect their decaying city from villains.... [More]
Starring: Yû Aoi, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yusuke Iseya, Kankurô Kudô
Directed By: Michael Arias

#104
#104
Adjusted Score: 26941%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The Dark Knight (Kevin Conroy) battles Scarecrow, Killer Croc and Deadshot.... [More]
Starring: Kevin Conroy, Gary Dourdan, David McCallum, Parminder Nagra
Directed By: Yasuhiro Aoki, Futoshi Higashide, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Hiroshi Morioka

#105
#105
Adjusted Score: 75461%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High's volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the "Little... [More]
Starring: Ayumu Murase, Kaito Ishikawa, Fumiyoshi Shioya, Hiroshi Kamiya
Directed By: Susumu Mitsunaka

#106

Patema Inverted (2013)
73%

#106
Adjusted Score: 55095%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Patema and Age leave their community's tunnels to find out why gravity was reversed by an energy experiment.... [More]
Starring: Yukiyo Fujii, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shintarô Oohata, Shinya Fukumatsu
Directed By: Yasuhiro Yoshiura

#107

The Hobbit (1977)
71%

#107
Adjusted Score: 72045%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's tale of the adventures of a hobbit on a quest to regain a dwarf... [More]
Starring: Orson Bean, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritchard
Directed By: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

#108
#108
Adjusted Score: 22154%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Scarred by the Second Impact, the Fourth Angel attacks Tokyo III and humanity's fate is left in the hands of... [More]
Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Directed By: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno

#109
#109
Adjusted Score: 18807%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The feature film debut from Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed director of Weathering With You and Your Name., is a haunting... [More]
Starring: Chris Patton, Jessica Boone, Kalob Martinez, Illich Guardiola
Directed By: Makoto Shinkai

#110
#110
Adjusted Score: 29103%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Five strangers with nothing in common find themselves working together to save the people and Pokemon of Fula City.... [More]
Starring: Sarah Natochenny, Haven Paschall, Eddy Lee, Kathryn Cahill
Directed By: Tetsuo Yajima

#111

Vampire Hunter D (2000)
70%

#111
Adjusted Score: 70517%
Critics Consensus: Vampire Hunter D's gothic charms may be lost on those unfamiliar with the anime series that spawned it, but the crisp action and nightmarish style will satiate horror aficionados' bloodlust.
Synopsis: In a dark and distant future, when the undead have arisen from apocalyptic ashes, an original story unfolds. Ten thousand... [More]
Starring: Andrew Philpot, John Rafter Lee, Pamela Adlon, Wendee Lee
Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

#112

Redline (2009)
70%

#112
Adjusted Score: 31289%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A daredevil driver falls for an alluring woman as he tries to win a race that occurs only once every... [More]
Starring: Patrick Seitz, Michelle Ruff, Mark Allen Jr., Cutter Mitchell
Directed By: Takeshi Koike

#113

Drifting Home (2022)
69%

#113
Adjusted Score: 64706%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Kosuke and Natsume have been friends since childhood, but as time goes on the relationship between the two sixth graders... [More]
Starring: Mutsumi Tamura, Asami Seto, Daiki Yamashita, Kana Hanazawa
Directed By: Hiroyasu Ishida

#114

Napping Princess (2017)
68%

#114
Adjusted Score: 68114%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A young girl dreams of a world called Heartland, a place where she has magic powers. When her events in... [More]
Starring: Mitsuki Takahata, Yosuke Eguchi, Rie Kugimiya, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Directed By: Kenji Kamiyama

#115
#115
Adjusted Score: 70322%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A slacker (Koichi Yamadera) and a former policeman (Unshô Ishizuka) lead a gang of bounty hunters to find a terrorist... [More]
Starring: Koichi Yamadera, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara, Aoi Tada
Directed By: Tensai Okamura, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Shinichirô Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Takei

#116
#116
Adjusted Score: 21711%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks... [More]
Starring: Madeleine Morris, Risa Mei, Pam Dougherty, Casey Casper
Directed By: Shinya Kawatsura

#117
#117
Adjusted Score: 67763%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A Hobbit faces the powers of darkness as he tries to destroy the Ring of Doom. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's... [More]
Starring: William Conrad, Orson Bean, Theodore Bikel, Paul Frees
Directed By: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

#118
#118
Adjusted Score: 30865%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The Straw Hat Pirates take on Gild Tesoro, one of the richest and most ambitious men in the world.... [More]
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi
Directed By: Hiroaki Miyamoto

#119
#119
Adjusted Score: 18050%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Two soldiers (Alyson Court, Paul Mercier) battle a mutated monster while trying to eradicate a deadly virus.... [More]
Starring: Alyson Court, Paul Mercier, Laura Bailey, Roger Craig Smith
Directed By: Makoto Kamiya

#120
#120
Adjusted Score: 67784%
Critics Consensus: The animation is lovely, but the plot is complex to the point of inscrutability, leaving Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence both original and numbing.
Synopsis: A mostly mechanical cyborg and his human-looking partner track robotic sex dolls that have murdered their masters.... [More]
Starring: Akio Ôtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Koichi Yamadera, Tamio Ôki
Directed By: Mamoru Oshii

#121
#121
Adjusted Score: 62614%
Critics Consensus: An animated adventure perhaps best appreciated as a visual experience, Children of the Sea is strikingly lovely if less than satisfying on a narrative level.
Synopsis: When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she... [More]
Starring: Ashida Mana, Hiiro Ishibashi, Uragami Seishuu, Morisaki Win
Directed By: Ayumu Watanabe, Ken'ichi Konishi

#122

Steamboy (2004)
60%

#122
Adjusted Score: 62519%
Critics Consensus: The story isn't the greatest, but there's an abundance of sci-fi eye candy to compensate.
Synopsis: England of the 1860s receives a technological remake in this animated adventure. Ray (Anna Paquin) is a brilliant young inventor... [More]
Starring: Anna Paquin, Alfred Molina, Patrick Stewart, Robin Atkin Downes
Directed By: Katsuhiro Ohtomo

#123
#123
Adjusted Score: 18422%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Takeshi Kovacs protects a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss on the planet Latimer.... [More]
Starring: Ray Chase, Elizabeth Maxwell, Jamieson Price, Kaiji Tang
Directed By: Takeru Nakajima, Yoshiyuki Okada

#124

The Deer King (2021)
57%

#124
Adjusted Score: 58268%
Critics Consensus: The Deer King's lush animation is certainly striking, although it isn't quite enough to make up for the movie's dawdling, predictable story.
Synopsis: In the years following a vicious war, the Empire of Zol now controls the land and citizens of rival Aquafa... [More]
Starring: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ryoma Takeuchi, Anne Watanabe, Hisui Kimura
Directed By: Masashi Ando, Masayuki Miyaji

#125
#125
Adjusted Score: 56892%
Critics Consensus: Despite a creative team and source material that should be any animation fan's fantasy, uneven craft and an inert story keep Little Nemo from being a proper dream come true.
Synopsis: A boy goes to the kingdom of Slumberland and then, Nightmare Land.... [More]
Starring: Rene Auberjonois, Bever-Leigh Banfield, Michael Bell, Nancy Cartwright
Directed By: Masami Hata, Masanori Hata, William T. Hurtz

#126
#126
Adjusted Score: 52610%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The movie "Jin-Roh" is about those in society who are predators among prey. But these "beasts" never bother to change... [More]
Starring: Michael Dobson, Moneca Stori, Doug Abrahams, Colin Murdock
Directed By: Hiroyuki Okiura

#127

Bubble (2022)
50%

#127
Adjusted Score: 50289%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The story is set in Tokyo, after bubbles that broke the laws of gravity rained down upon the world. Cut... [More]
Starring: Jun Shison, Mamoru Miyano, Yuki Kaji, Marina Inoue
Directed By: Tetsuro Araki

#128
#128
Adjusted Score: 23453%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding school for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bedroom mirror. She reaches... [More]
Starring: Ami Toma, Takumi Kitamura, Sakura Kiryu, Rihito Itagaki
Directed By: Keiichi Hara

#129
#129
Adjusted Score: 15136%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A hero named Cloud (Takahiro Sakurai) must fight a new evil as a mysterious disease affects mankind in a devastated... [More]
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto
Directed By: Tetsuya Nomura

#130
#130
Adjusted Score: 41384%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Saya goes undercover just before Halloween and battles daemons.... [More]
Starring: Yûki Kudô, Saemi Nakamura, Joe Romersa, Rebecca Forstadt
Directed By: Hiroyuki Kitakubo

#131
#131
Adjusted Score: 22046%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ash and his friends try to thwart Mewtwo's evil plan to destroy the word.... [More]
Starring: Rica Matsumoto, Mayumi Iizuka, Yûji Ueda, Ikue Ōtani
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama

#132
#132
Adjusted Score: 29550%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Before there was Tohru and Kyo -- there was Katsuya and Kyoko. Discover the turbulent beginning of Tohru's mom's dark... [More]
Starring: Miyuki Sawashiro, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Manaka Iwami, Nobunaga Shimazaki
Directed By: Yoshihide Ibata

#133
#133
Adjusted Score: 29552%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The world's first VRMMORPG (Sword Art Online) became a game of death. Over a month has passed since 10,000 users... [More]
Starring: Haruka Tomatsu, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Inori Minase, Shiori Izawa
Directed By: Ayako Kouno

#134
#134
Adjusted Score: 10237%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Yugi Muto and Kaiba have a duel that transcends dimensions.... [More]
Starring: Shunsuke Kazama, Kenjiro Tsuda, Hiroki Takahashi, Maki Saitō
Directed By: Satoshi Kuwabara

#135
#135
Adjusted Score: 10801%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the early years of Japan's Meiji Restoration, a human Ronin must unite with an orc assassin to save an... [More]
Starring: Simu Liu, Fred Mancuso, Yuzu Harada
Directed By: Kyōhei Ishiguro

#136

MFKZ (2017)
39%

#136
Adjusted Score: 39055%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In Dark Meat City, a young man develops supernatural powers after an otherwise uneventful scooter accident.... [More]
Starring: Tay Lee, Mark Ryan Haltom, Ray Chung, Alp Altiner
Directed By: Shoujirou Nishimi, Guillaume Renard

#137
#137
Adjusted Score: 38923%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the land of Earthsea, a mysterious force threatens to plunge humanity into destruction and chaos. A powerful wizard named... [More]
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay, Cheech Marin
Directed By: Goro Miyazaki

#138
#138
Adjusted Score: 17412%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ash turns 10 years old and becomes a Pokémon trainer when Professor Oak gives him his first Pokémon.... [More]
Starring: Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ōtani, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama

#139
#139
Adjusted Score: 31236%
Critics Consensus: With a story as uninspired as its animation, Earwig and the Witch is a surprising -- and near-total -- misfire for Studio Ghibli.
Synopsis: Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her... [More]
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Kacey Musgraves, Dan Stevens, Taylor Henderson
Directed By: Goro Miyazaki

#140
#140
Adjusted Score: 24885%
Critics Consensus: Digimon is better than Pokemon, but it's still a predictable movie with mediocre animation.
Synopsis: The Internet becomes a battlefield for the DigiDestined and their Digimon companions, as they embark on their greatest adventure yet.... [More]
Starring: Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Philece Sampler
Directed By: Mamoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Jeff Nimoy, Bob Buchholz

#141
#141
Adjusted Score: 21326%
Critics Consensus: Critics say that the third Pokemon movie has a better plot than its two predecessors. This is not enough, however, to recommend it to those not already fans of the franchise.
Synopsis: Young Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum and his loyal friends journey to the beautiful mountain town of Greenfield, where they will... [More]
Starring: Kathleen McInerney, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Maddie Blaustein
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama

#142
#142
Adjusted Score: 21173%
Critics Consensus: Despite being somewhat more exciting than the previous film, this kiddy flick still lacks any real adventure or excitement. What is does contain is choppy animation and poor voice acting. Doesn't match up to virtually anything out there.
Synopsis: Ash's adventure begins when a powerful storm beaches him and his friends on Shamouti Island just as the islanders are... [More]
Starring: Kathleen McInerney, Rachael Lillis, Maddie Blaustein, Eric Stuart
Directed By: Michael Haigney

#143

Pokémon Heroes (2003)
19%

#143
Adjusted Score: 19670%
Critics Consensus: This series isn't getting any better.
Synopsis: Two thieves go to an island city to steal a giant jewel that was once used to defend the canal... [More]
Starring: Kathleen McInerney, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Ikue Ōtani
Directed By: Larry Juris

#144
#144
Adjusted Score: 21368%
Critics Consensus: Audiences other than children will find very little to entertain them.
Synopsis: Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu face Mewtwo, a bioengineered Pokémon, and the super-Pokémon it has created. With short "Pikachu's Vacation."... [More]
Starring: Kathleen McInerney, Jay Goede, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart
Directed By: Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama

#145

Pokémon 4Ever (2002)
16%

#145
Adjusted Score: 16478%
Critics Consensus: Only for diehard Pokemon fans.
Synopsis: Ash and his friends travel to an island to search for a rare species of Pokemon that has the power... [More]
Starring: Kathleen McInerney, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Maddie Blaustein
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama, Jim Malone

#146
#146
Adjusted Score: 10442%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An elite force of soldiers must protect the magical kingdom of Lucis from the invading empire Niflheim.... [More]
Starring: Sean Bean, Aaron Paul, Lena Headey, Adrian Bouchet
Directed By: Takeshi Nozue

#147

Yu-Gi-Oh! (2004)
6%

#147
Adjusted Score: 7497%
Critics Consensus: Don't watch the TV show or play the card game? Then this movie is not for you.
Synopsis: Young Yugi (Dan Green) must use his game skills to defeat his bitter rival (Eric Stuart) and an Egyptian mummy.... [More]
Starring: Dan Green, Eric Stuart, Scottie Ray, Wayne Grayson
Directed By: Hidetaka Ikuta

#148
#148
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The greed of a princess who wants control of a planet threatens Rainbow's mission to bring joy to the world.... [More]
Starring: Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Rhonda Aldrich, Bettina Bush
Directed By: Bernard Deyriès, Kimio Yabuki

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