10 Best Anime Shows for Beginners on Crunchyroll (and Elsewhere)

The anime streaming service Crunchyroll offers more than 45,000 episodes of content, so it’s all too understandable if an anime newbie wouldn’t know where to begin.

Helpfully, Crunchyroll recently polled its audience to find the top 10 anime series to start with, and the results are a greatest-hits list of anime (many of which feature teen heroes battling giants, demons, or curses).

Here’s the top 10 — including one show that’s no longer streaming on Crunchyroll but is streaming almost everywhere else.

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