The Best TV Shows on ABEMA

Every ABEMA Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Check out the most acclaimed shows on ABEMA, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for January 2026. New Japan Pro Wrestling and Freestyle Dungeon represent the pinnacle of ABEMA’s programming, launching in 1972 and 2015. ABEMA has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1972 all the way to 2026.

  • Freestyle Dungeon
    Freestyle Dungeon (2015)9.3

  • Takopi's Original Sin
    Takopi's Original Sin (2025)8.9

    A Happy alien, Takopi, lands on Earth with one mission: to spread happiness! When he meets Shizuka, a lonely fourth grader, he vows to bring back her smile using his magical Happy Gadgets. But as he uncovers the pain in her life, Takopi learns that true happiness may require more than gadgets.

  • Cells at Work! CODE BLACK
    Cells at Work! CODE BLACK (2021)8.2

    Alcohol, smoking, and stress—in the body subjected to these irritants, the cells responsible for maintaining life seem to fight a war that never ends. Due to a severe shortage of workers, Red Blood Cell AA2153 has to quickly learn to deliver oxygen and collect carbon dioxide, even in dangerous conditions. Meanwhile, White Blood Cell U-1196 has to do her part by dealing with germs and viruses during life-threatening situations. In the midst of these crises, they have to work together to keep the body healthy, despite not knowing if their sacrifices will be worthwhile. Cells at Work! Code Black takes a different approach by showing the grittier side of the jobs our cells perform.

  • Gleipnir
    Gleipnir (2020)8.1

    Shuichi Kagaya is an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his back. He saves the girl’s life, sharing his secret with her. But she’s searching for the sister who killed her family, and she doesn’t care how degrading it gets: she will use Shuichi to accomplish her mission…

  • New Japan Pro Wrestling
    New Japan Pro Wrestling (1972)8.0

    New Japan Pro Wrestling is a Japanese promotion founded by Antonio Inoki in 1972. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it is the largest wrestling promotion in Japan and one of the largest in the world.

  • SING "YESTERDAY" FOR ME
    SING "YESTERDAY" FOR ME (2020)8.0

    After college, Rikuo Uozumi, a boy without much ambition in life, takes on a job at a convenience store. The days pass by uneventfully for Rikuo until he meets his former girlfriend and classmate, but especially thanks to the unusual Haru Nonaka, and her pet raven...

  • Today's Menu for the Emiya Family
    Today's Menu for the Emiya Family (2017)7.6

    Fate and food meet in a delicious and gentle world. It's nothing but ordinary meal scenes... Delicious meals are served at the Emiya's dinner table every day, through spring, summer, fall and winter. -- Let's see... what's for dinner today?

  • Darwin's Game
    Darwin's Game (2020)7.6

    Sudou Kaname, an ordinary high school student, receives an invitation email to try a mysterious app called "Darwin's Game." Kaname, upon launching the app, is drawn into a game where players fight one another using superpowers called Sigils. Without knowing the reason for all this, can Kaname survive furious battles against the powerful players who attack him?

  • Informa
    Informa (2023)7.6

    A Japanese tabloid reporter tired of working simply as a celebrity scandals writer accepts a new challenge when he is assigned to make contact with a former Yakuza informant.

  • I Like You.mp4
    I Like You.mp4 (2023)7.0

    One-sided love is always a series of choices. I secretly think about you, but an invisible wall called "friend" stands in my way. I wanted to break down that wall, but I couldn't... A manager chasing his dream, and the regulars who lost their dreams. All sorts of human dramas take place in this restaurant. Why do sweet-sounding things like love and dreams hurt so much? A short drama series set in a peculiar café, each depicting a step forward and growing up.

  • Isekai Quartet
    Isekai Quartet (2019)6.8

    A mysterious switch appeared one day. Upon pressing it, they were sent to a different alternative world!! There are also characters from other alternative worlds gathered together...!?

  • Princess Connect! Re:Dive
    Princess Connect! Re:Dive (2020)6.8

    In the beautiful land of Astraea where a gentle breeze blows, a young man named Yuuki awakens with no memory of his past. There he encounters a guide who has sworn to care for him—Kokkoro, a lovely swordswoman who's always feeling peckish—Pecorine, and a cat-eared sorceress with a prickly attitude—Karyl. Led by fate, these four come together to form the "Gourmet Guild." And so their adventure begins...

  • Dolls' Frontline
    Dolls' Frontline (2022)6.7

    In the fallout of nuclear war, the last of humanity survives with the help of life-like androids known as Dolls. Built to serve, some fight in wars as Tactical Dolls or T-Dolls. Now, an elite team comprised of T-Dolls are sent to face a new rogue threat, Sangvis Ferri. Leading them into battle is their new human commander, M4A1.

  • Tawawa on Monday
    Tawawa on Monday (2016)6.3

    The anime follows a salaryman who has a chance meeting with a girl named Ai on the train. They begin to meet every Monday on the train, with the man serving as her bodyguard on the crowded commute while they chat.

  • Dies Irae
    Dies Irae (2017)6.1

    On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to pass away as the decades passed. Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. Every night he sees the same dream: A guillotine. Murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears his friend Shirō's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds."

  • Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God
    Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God (2020)6.0

    Welcome to the world of the Egyptian gods. This is where the famous gods of Ancient Egypt, from Anubis to Thoth, live their lives freely. How freely, you ask? Bastet appears out of nowhere, singing and dancing. Medjed is always stone-faced. Horus works a part-time job. Set is devoted to pulling pranks. Ra's off traveling and rarely comes home... All the Gods basically just do whatever they want! These cute mascot Egyptian deities make the most of their unrestrained divine lives. The extremely popular characters of "Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God" now have their own anime!

  • The Night I Became an Animal
    The Night I Became an Animal (2021)5.6

    Sometimes in a woman’s life, passions boil over and lead them to do things that – in ordinary circumstances – they would never dream of doing. And sometimes this manifests itself in a desire for intimacy. This omnibus-style drama series focuses on a different woman in each episode, focusing on the series of events that led up to a single instance of “transforming into an animal.”

  • Vlad Love
    Vlad Love (2021)5.6

    Mitsugu Bamba is a high school girl who is crazy about donating her blood, to the point that she feels compelled to visit a local blood bank despite the unfriendly nurse. One day, Mitsugu encounters a beautiful girl there who looks like she has come from overseas. The girl is so pale that she appears ready to faint. Instead, she suddenly starts trashing the blood bank. The girl then loses consciousness and so Mitsugu takes her home...

  • Who Is the Wolf?
    Who Is the Wolf? (2017)5.4

    They're all here to look for true romance — but hidden among the women is at least one "wolf," a saboteur who's only pretending to be falling in love.

  • I'll Live a Long Life to Dote on My Favorite Stepbrother!
    I'll Live a Long Life to Dote on My Favorite Stepbrother! (2026)N/A

    Alba has been reincarnated as the son of an impoverished noble family. When his mother remarried into a dukedom, he was introduced to his stepbrother, Orsis, his "favorite person" from his previous life. “Does this mean my favorite is now my stepbrother?” he thought joyfully, But he suddenly remembers that he was the reason his beloved stepbrother lost his smile… To avoid his impending fate, and continue loving his favorite, Alba will do everything in his power to twist fate! This popular series, which has sold over 170,000 copies, brings you a warm and touching story story of a boy's reincarnated life in another world!