20+ Best Japanese shows to watch online (October 2024)
2019-11-11 | FlixCatalog Staff
Looking for some of the best Japanese show you can watch online in US? Fret not, we are here to help you. Here is a list of all the Japanese show you can watch on some of your favourite OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar. Amazon Prime Video has the most content in this language amongst all streaming platforms.
A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II.
9.2/1052 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Two brothers search for a Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their deceased mother goes awry and leaves them in damaged physical forms.
9.1/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Yeager vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
9/1024 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
Gon Freecss aspires to become a Hunter, an exceptional being capable of greatness. With his friends and his potential, he seeks for his father who left him when he was younger.
9/1024 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.
9/1024 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
The cast from the hit Japanese comedy "The Benza" returns in this outlandish, outrageous spin off series that will teach you all the English you never knew you needed to know.
8.9/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
The futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners.
8.9/1024 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
Thorfinn pursues a journey with his father's killer in order to take revenge and end his life in a duel as an honorable warrior and pay his father a homage.
8.8/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Yuichi Yamada works as a magazine editor. He has recently transferred to Kyoto from Tokyo. In Kyoto, he comes across a French couple who are lost. Yuichi Yamada doesn't speak French and ask...
8.8/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Hinata Shouyou, a short middle school student, gained a sudden love of volleyball after watching a national championship match on TV. Determined to become like the championship's star ...
8.8/1024 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
After discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans.
8.8/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Dramatized reconstruction of real-life air disasters, along with interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.
8.8/1046 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his ...
8.8/1020 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew in order to find the greatest treasure ever left by the legendary Pirate, Gold Roger. The famous mystery treasure named "One Piece".
8.8/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
The adventures of Earth's martial arts defender Son Goku continue with a new family and the revelation of his alien origin. Now Goku and his allies must defend the planet from an onslaught of new extraterrestrial enemies.
8.8/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A family is attacked by demons and only two members survive - Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko, who is turning into a demon slowly. Tanjiro sets out to become a demon slayer to avenge his family and cure his sister.
8.7/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
The extraordinary story of Earth and why it is special and uniquely brimming with life among a largely unknown but harsh cosmic arena; astronauts tell the story of Earth through a unique perspective.
8.7/1047 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A young boy who ends up in the U.S. after the 1871 Shinmiyangyo incident returns to Korea at a historical turning point and falls for a noblewoman.
8.7/1080 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The story of Saitama, a hero that does it just for fun & can defeat his enemies with a single punch.
8.7/1024 min
Available in 14 platform(s).
Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage, who is acknowledged as the leader and strongest of all ninja in the village.
8.7/1024 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
After being given a mysterious power to control others, an outcast prince becomes the masked leader of the rebellion against an all powerful empire
8.7/1024 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.
8.7/1025 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
About Sakuragi Hanamichi, a freshman of Shohoku High School who joins the basketball team because of the girl he has a crush on, Haruko. Although he is newbie in this sport, he is no ordinary basketball player.
8.7/1022 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
8.7/1022 min
Available in 14 platform(s).
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, 16 year old high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent. Unfortunately for her, she pitches her...
8.6/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A psychic middle school boy tries to live a normal life and keep his growing powers under control, even though he constantly gets into trouble.
8.6/1024 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Five ping pong prodigies learn to navigate the harsh climate of competitive sport and the even more frightening realm of self realization.
8.6/10\N min
Available in 4 platform(s).
A piano prodigy who lost his ability to play after suffering a traumatic event in his childhood is forced back into the spotlight by an eccentric girl with a secret of her own.
8.6/1023 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Fuu, a waitress who works in a teahouse, rescues two master swordsmen, Mugen and Jin, from their execution to help her find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers."
8.6/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Son Gokû, a fighter with a monkey tail, goes on a quest with an assortment of odd characters in search of the Dragon Balls, a set of crystals that can give its bearer anything they desire.
8.6/1024 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Shuchiin Academy is home to students from Japan's most successful and wealthy families, as well the nation's most brilliant young scholars. Among them, the Student Council President, Miyuki...
8.5/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
In the aftermath of a great war, Violet Evergarden, a young female ex-soldier, gets a job at a writers' agency and goes on assignments to create letters that can connect people.
8.5/1024 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
29 year old Satoru Fujinuma is sent back in time 18 years to prevent the events leading to his mother's death, which began with a series of kidnappings in his 5th grade year.
8.5/10264 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
They are neither plants nor animals. They differ from other forms of life such as the micro-organisms and the fungi. Instead they resemble the primeval body of life and are generally known ...
8.5/1025 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
When a failed alchemical ritual leaves brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric with severely damaged bodies, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.
8.5/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.
8.5/1024 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
About Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-gangster member and a virgin. He has one ambition that no one ever expected from him. His solely life purpose is to become the greatest high school teacher ever.
8.5/1024 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.
8.5/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development.
8.5/1025 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A teenage boy finds himself recruited as a member of an elite team of pilots by his father.
8.5/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
One day, 14-year-old Yusuke Urameshi suddenly finds himself dead, having died pushing a child out of the way of oncoming traffic. Since he has such a bad personality, even the Spirit World ...
8.5/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and her secrets lead to a desperate war against an alien enemy sent to retrieve the ship.
8.5/1025 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old ...
8.4/1023 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
An alternate ending to Steins;Gate that leads with the eccentric mad scientist Okabe, struggling to recover from a failed attempt at rescuing Kurisu. He decides to give up and abandons his ...
8.4/1030 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Saiki Kusuo is a powerful psychic who hates attracting attention, yet he is surrounded by colorful characters who always find a way to remove him from his everyday life.
8.4/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
A superhero-loving boy without any powers is determined to enroll in a prestigious hero academy and learn what it really means to be a hero.
8.4/1024 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
Six months after the defeat of Majin Buu, The mighty Saiyan Son Goku continues his quest on becoming stronger.
8.4/1024 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
The story of the Joestar family, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the adventures each member encounters throughout their lives.
8.4/1030 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
When a nameless student at Kyoto University encounters a demigod one night, he asks to relive the past three years in order to win the heart of Ms. Akashi, the object of his affection.
8.4/10253 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja.
8.4/1024 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
The story of a young delivery boy who becomes a drift-racing legend.
8.4/1025 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A 13-part documentary mini-series (directed by Chris Marker) on the significance of ancient Greek culture in the creation of the modern Western Civilization.
8.4/10340 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A group a young warriors known as 'Saints', each in possession of a 'cloth' guarded by a different constellation, must protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena as she attempts to keep the Earth from being destroyed by evil forces.
8.4/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
8.3/1023 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A father in pursuit of power gives parts of his new-born son to a host of demons. Years later, the son battles those demons to regain what is rightfully his.
8.3/1030 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark truth when they break a rule to never leave the orphanage grounds. Once the truth is discovered, they begin to plan an escape to save all of the children.
8.3/1023 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
The played chord made the rusty air and both our eardrums vibrate smoothly. From that moment - our music was born.
8.3/1023 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Chris and Kyle share a house in Tokyo, Japan. They lived in peace and happiness until the day their toilet seat broke. What happened? Where do you buy a toilet seat in Japan? How do you ...
8.3/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus.
8.3/1024 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
A girl and her robot companion search for her mother, who's lost within a vast chasm.
8.3/10325 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki faces a crushing defeat during the Grand Prix finals and heads home, unsure of whether or not he wishes to continue his skating career. After a video of ...
8.3/1020 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A 17 year old socially awkward orphaned shogi player, dealing with adult problems like financial difficulties, loneliness, and depression.
8.3/1025 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Yotarou is a former yakuza member fresh out of prison and fixated on just one thing: rather than return to a life of crime, the young man aspires to take to the stage of Rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling.
8.3/1026 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
The end of the saga of Araragi Koyomi. What are they fighting against? What will happen to them? And who- or what- is the darkness?
8.3/1024 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
17-year-old Shinichi Izumi is partially infected by a Parasyte; monsters that butcher and consume humans. He must learn to co-exist with the creature if he is to survive both the life of a Parasyte and human, as part monster, part person.
8.3/1022 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.
8.3/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
The Teiko Middle School Basketball Team. The school that produced three perfect seasons in a row, with five once-in-a generation players, called "The Generation of Miracles." There was ...
8.3/1024 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
A group of students lead normal lives and cope with normal predicaments, but all too often find themselves in abnormal situations.
8.3/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
A man adopts his six-year-old aunt and raises her as his own kid.
8.3/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
An HD and enhanced remaster of Dragon Ball Z.
8.3/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A mysterious man called the Medicine Seller travels along feudal Japan, uncovering and slaying evil spirits called "Mononoke".
8.3/1025 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
Two friends, Simon and Kamina, become the symbols of rebellion against the powerful Spiral King, who forced mankind into subterranean villages.
8.3/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
The vampire Alucard, his master Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, and his newly sired ward Seras Victoria, try to protect England from a war-crazed SS-Major who seeks to start an eternal war with his vampire army.
8.3/1050 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
This surreal dramedy follows Satou Tatsuhiro as he attempts to escape the evil machinations of the NHK.
8.3/1024 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Two Girls. One Dream. And the entire world for a stage. At 13 years old, Maya Kitajima seems destined to spend the rest of her life toiling in a crowded restaurant alongside her bitter and ...
8.3/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Koyuki meets the guitarist, Ryuske, and discovers a love and talent for music.
8.3/1025 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A shounen style anime based around the Japanese game of 'Go'.
8.3/1023 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A young boy named Yugi Muto defeats the world Champion, Seto Kaiba, in a duel with the help of the mysterious Millenium puzzle,the support of the friends and the heart of the cards. Yugi ...
8.3/1023 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A group of strangers come together to work on creating the greatest anime series ever.
8.2/1024 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
One fateful day, all of humanity was petrified by a blinding flash of light. After several millennia, high schooler Taiju awakens and finds himself lost in a world of statues. However, he's...
8.2/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
The adventures of Kaoru and her lovable roommate Rilakkuma, a bear who wants to spend each day just lazing around.
8.2/1012 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The team of Queer Eye take their gorgeous, uplifting make-over skills to the Land of the Rising Sun.
8.2/1050 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The story captures the war between a mafia boss named Dino and a young gang leader searching for redemption.
8.2/1022 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Mari Tamaki is in her second year of high school and wants to start something. It's then that she meets Shirase, a girl with few friends who's considered weirdo by the rest of the class and...
8.2/1023 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
In this series of shorts, a polite accountant deals with her annoying co-workers by chugging beer and singing death metal.
8.2/10\N min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Meet Souma, he is the son of the owner of a small eatery in Japan. For his age, Souma is a very talented person able to easily come up with new dishes; sometimes these dishes are some ...
8.2/1024 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
As a punishment for punching a famous calligrapher, young handsome calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled to a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to ...
8.2/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Follows the life of Eijun Sawamura, a gifted baseball player who have his own extraordinary pitcher's talent. His goal is one, to become the ace of Seidou High School.
8.2/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.
8.2/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
In the year 2199, the space battleship Yamato embarks on a voyage to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth.
8.2/10\N min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Believing in humanity and order, policewoman Akane Tsunemori obeys the ruling, computerized, precognitive Sibyl System. But when she faces a criminal mastermind who can elude this "perfect" system, she questions both Sibyl and herself.
8.2/1025 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
One evening two brothers see what appears to be a UFO in the sky. Whether or not that was the case becomes irrelevant, but it does spark an interest in space and the two brothers make a ...
8.2/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
A creature named Kyubey offers Madoka and Sayaka a wish if they agree to become 'magical girls' and fight abstract beings called 'witches'. However, a magical girl named Homura is, for uncertain reasons, determined to stop this agreement.
8.2/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Seven chosen mages and their summoned heroic spirits fight against each other to try and win the Holy Grail: a magical device that can grant any wish.
8.2/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
Five childhood companions reunite when the ghost of their dead friends appears, and demands they grant her final wish.
8.2/1023 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps-that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay ...
8.2/1023 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
The Second Empress hires a spear-wielding woman to save her son from the Mikado (emperor) who believes the young prince is possessed by a water demon foretold to bring a terrible drought upon the land should he live.
8.2/1025 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
At the ultra prestigious Ouran High School, Haruhi Fujioka looks for a quiet place to read and walks into an unused music room, and accidentally stumbles across the notorious Ouran High ...
8.2/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
High school student Kurosaki Ichigo is unlike any ordinary kid because he can see ghosts. After an accident with a hollow, he got a power.So begins Kurosaki Ichigo's training and duty as a Shinigami, Soul Reaper.
8.2/1024 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
Having himself telepathically linked to a mysterious stone belt, Godai Yusuke believes that he is fated to be the warrior Kuuga, who fights the Gurongi monsters that keeps murdering humans.
8.2/1030 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Vash the Stampede is the most infamous outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke and with a 60 billion double dollar price on his head the most sought after!
8.2/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
In the late 90's, a orbiting Earth space center run by the Earth Defense Force Sky Force has commissioned a ceremony on the "J-Project". Lead by Commander Aya Odagiri who has selected five ...
8.2/1025 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
In the year 199X, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. In an age where the strong rule over the weak, the survivors of the fallout struggle over the ...
8.2/1025 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
8.2/10\N min
Available in 1 platform(s).
In a sad town a clan of sorcerers use its people to experiment with the dark arts.
8.1/1025 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Stories of old tell of four otherworldly heroes - wielding the sword, spear, bow, and shield - who defended the land from wave after wave of calamity. With the fate of the world in balance,...
8.1/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Lonely thirty-seven-year-old Mikami Satoru is stuck in a dead-end job, unhappy with his mundane life, but after dying at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a fantasy ...
8.1/1025 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Puberty Syndrome-a rumored, mysterious syndrome that only affects those in their puberty. For example, a bunny girl suddenly appeared in front of Sakuta Azusagawa. The bunny girl's real ...
8.1/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Nadeshiko, a high school student who had moved from Shizuoka to Yamanashi, decides to see the famous, 1000 yen-bill-featured Mount Fuji. Even though she manages to bike all the way to ...
8.1/1024 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Dr James Fox examines the art and culture of Japan, exploring the links between culture, the countryside, urban landscapes and religion.
8.1/10177 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A 60 year old retired salary-man finds new purpose in exploring the food of his neighborhood. Aided by his fantasy companion, a samurai who inspires him to boldly experience this new chapter of his life.
8.1/1020 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Set in an Eastern fantasy setting, Dan Fei and her brother, guardians of a sword known as the Tian XÃng Jin, are pursued by the evil Xuan Gui Zong clan, who seek to obtain the sword for ...
8.1/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Shortly after being summoned to a new world, Subaru Natsuki and his new female companion are brutally murdered. But then he awakes to find himself in the same alley, with the same thugs, the same girl, and the day begins to repeat.
8.1/1024 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Six men and women who start as strangers live together under one roof for the summer. No script, new episode released each week.
8.1/1030 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
After being betrayed and run out of her home, the red-haired Princess Yona searches for four legendary dragons to take back her stolen kingdom.
8.1/1024 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
8.1/10\N min
Available in 3 platform(s).
The cosmic and comic adventures of Space Dandy, a handsome space explorer tasked to tour the universe and discover new alien beings.
8.1/1024 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Nanami Momozono's dad skips town, she is then visited by debt collectors and kicked out of her home. So when a man offers her his home, she immediately accepts. The place is a shrine, and ...
8.1/1023 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Many animals work at a local zoo. When they aren't working, they relax at a polar bear's cafe.
8.1/10\N min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Chihaya meets a boy named Arata, a talented karuta player. He thinks that she has a potential to become a great player. Then, Chihaya takes on a new dream of becoming Japan's best karuta player.
8.1/1022 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Story of the Holy War taking place in the 18th century, 250 years before the original Saint Seiya series. It centers on the fight between Tenma, one of the 88 Saints following Athena, and Alone, the reincarnation of the God Hades.
8.1/1024 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
In a futuristic dystopian world where memories are literally stored, bought and sold and rich have all the privileges, a young amnesiac is trying to find out who he is.
8.1/1024 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
The twelve Gold Saints sacrificed their lives to destroy the Wailing Wall. Our heroes, the Bronze Saints now face the deepest of Hades, Elysion, where they must face The Twin Gods before they can approach Hades himself.
8.1/1025 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
When Natsume Takashi inherits a book that belonged to his late grandmother he realizes the book is filled with the names of spirits she defeated and bound to her will. He then decides to return their names so they can be free once again.
8.1/1024 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
In the distant future, mankind has used up all of its fossil fuels, forcing them to turn to Solar Power as an alternate energy source. As a result, this causes a rift to form between richer...
8.1/1024 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
"Weak Legs" Kenichi Shirahama would rather spend his time reading self improvement books than fighting.
8.1/1025 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Earth, 2082, twenty-five years after the failed invasion of the Crog forces. Young Eva (15) is determined to be reunited with her father, race manager Don Wei, who sent her off to a tough ...
8.1/1025 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all ...
8.1/1025 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Sousuke Sagara and Kaname Chidori return in this hilarious to Full Metal Panic! as they try to navigate the hurtles of high school, stubborn classmates, and plain old everyday life.
8.1/10\N min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening.
8.1/10151 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of "The Wired".
8.1/10