How the Anime Series bracket works
Anime tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Attack on Titan or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood? Death Note or Naruto Shippuden? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 32 shows in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 shows in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same show can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Death Note and Naruto Shippuden.
Attack on Titan
2013-2023
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009-2010
Death Note
2006-2007
Naruto Shippuden
2007-2017
One Piece
1999-present
Demon Slayer
2019-present
Dragon Ball Z
1989-1996
Hunter x Hunter
2011-2014
Jujutsu Kaisen
2020-present
My Hero Academia
2016-present
One Punch Man
2015-present
Cowboy Bebop
1998-1999
Neon Genesis Evangelion
1995-1996
Steins;Gate
2011
Mob Psycho 100
2016-2023
SPY x FAMILY
2022-present
Chainsaw Man
2022-present
Vinland Saga
2019-present
Code Geass
2006-2008
Made in Abyss
2017-present
Violet Evergarden
2018
Fruits Basket
2019-2021
Your Lie in April
2014-2015
Haikyuu!!
2014-2020
Tokyo Ghoul
2014-2018
Bleach
2004-present
Naruto
2002-2007
Sword Art Online
2012-present
Re:Zero
2016-present
The Promised Neverland
2019-2021
Erased
2016
Parasyte: The Maxim
2014-2015
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 22 completed Anime Series brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Attack on Titan
35W - 19L · won 2 brackets
65%
win rate
- 2
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
35W - 19L · won 2 brackets
65%
win rate
- 3
Death Note
36W - 21L
63%
win rate
- 4
Dragon Ball Z
28W - 18L · won 3 brackets
61%
win rate
- 5
Jujutsu Kaisen
31W - 20L · won 2 brackets
61%
win rate
- 6
Chainsaw Man
32W - 21L
60%
win rate
- 7
My Hero Academia
29W - 20L
59%
win rate
- 8
One Piece
30W - 21L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 9
Hunter x Hunter
27W - 19L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 10
Demon Slayer
28W - 20L · won 1 bracket
58%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 32 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Anime Series bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the Anime Series bracket?
The pool holds 32 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which shows are included?
Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Death Note, Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Demon Slayer, Dragon Ball Z, Hunter x Hunter, Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, One Punch Man and Cowboy Bebop, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the anime tier list take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a anime series tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community anime series ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Anime Series community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which shows are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.