The Best TV Shows on Nagoya TV

Every Nagoya TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 20 shows from 1984 up until 2025, Nagoya TV stands as a beacon of television excellence. Icons of Nagoya TV, Heavy Metal L-Gaim and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam made their debut in 1984 and 1985, setting industry standards. Our curated list, current as of September 2025, showcases over 20 of Nagoya TV’s highest-rated series.

  • Fermat Kitchen
    Fermat Kitchen (2025)9.0

    The story centers on Gaku Kitada, a talented mathematics scholar, and Kai Asakura, a young but similarly talented chef. After Gaku suffers setbacks on his dream of becoming a mathematician, he meets Kai as he is running his own food business, and joins Kai in an attempt at something new.

  • The Dangers in My Heart
    The Dangers in My Heart (2023)8.5

    Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be…and it turns out Anna's a bit odd herself!

  • Medalist
    Medalist (2025)8.4

    Tsukasa Akeuraji, a frustrated skater, meets Inori Yuitsuka, a girl who yearns to be a figure skater. Motivated by Inori's obsession on the rink, Tsukasa begins coaching Inori. Inori's talent blossoms, and Tsukasa becomes a brilliant mentor. Together they aim to make her a glorious medalist!

  • BLUE LOCK
    BLUE LOCK (2022)8.2

    High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best — and most egoistic — striker in the world.

  • Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
    Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)8.0

    Universal Century 0087, 7 years have passed since the end of the One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon. The Earth Federation has created an elite task force, known as the Titans, who are responsible for hunting the remaining Zeon forces. However, the power-hungry Titans have spurred the creation of a rebellious faction called the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG).

  • Go! Princess PreCure
    Go! Princess PreCure (2015)7.9

    Go! Princess PreCure is set in a boarding junior high school, named Noble Academy. The protagonist Haruka Haruno is a 13-year-old first-year student. Her big dream is to be a princess someday because she admired a princess in the picture book she has kept since her childhood. One day, she transforms into Cure Flora with the "Dress Up Key" which Prince Kanata of Hope Kingdom gave her as a good luck charm when she was little. Then she also finds other Pretty Cure girls in her school, 14-year-old Minami Kaidou as Cure Mermaid and 13-year-old Kirara Amanogawa as Cure Twinkle. As the Princess Pretty Cure team, with two fairies Pafu and Aroma, they fight against the dark witch Dyspear, who hates all the dreams in the world and wants to turn them to despair.

  • Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie
    Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (2022)7.7

    Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be… but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right circumstances. And her boyfriend Izumi loves to be around when that happens!

  • From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
    From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (2025)7.6

    Beryl Gardenant, a middle-aged swordsman running a dojo in the backwaters, lives a quiet life, until Allucia, former student and Commander of the Royal Order of Knights, appears! Beryl’s life is about to change dramatically! City life. Old students. New friends and formidable foes. It’s all too much. But after years of training, he has mad skills, and he’s been dubbed “the backwater swordmaster.”

  • SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary
    SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary (2024)7.5

    Kobato decides to become an honest, humble citizen after enduring a bitter experience known as “wisdom work.” He forms a pact with Osanai, his classmate with the same goal, and they plan to enter high school leading quiet lives. But for some reason, inexplicable events and disasters keep happening around them. Will Kobato and Osanai ever manage to live ordinary, peaceful lives?

  • Glitter Force
    Glitter Force (2012)7.4

    Candy, a fairy from Märchenland follows the shining light that leads to the five legendary PreCure warriors in order to fight Bad End Kingdom villains who are trying to vanquish the entire world to the “Worst Ending.

  • Star☆Twinkle PreCure
    Star☆Twinkle PreCure (2019)7.4

    When Hikaru Hoshina transforms into Cure Star, she embarks on an outer space adventure to find the rest of the Star Twinkle Cures and save the universe!

  • Glitter Force Doki Doki
    Glitter Force Doki Doki (2013)7.3

    Thanks to Sharuru, a fairy from the Trump Kingdom, and the power of mysterious accessories called Cure Lovies, Mana transforms into Cure Heart! Mana, her close friend Rikka, her high-class childhood friend Alice, and the enigmatic, cool super idol singer Makoto all become legendary saviors. Together, they purify the Jikochu, who have forgotten about love!

  • With You and the Rain
    With You and the Rain (2025)7.3

    On a rainy day, Fuji meets a cute critter posing as a dog and offering an umbrella and a cue card that says, “Please take me home,” and she can’t resist. With this dog-poster’s quirky charm and mysterious ways, life together becomes a heartwarming adventure of friendship and shared seasons.

  • Soaring Sky! Precure
    Soaring Sky! Precure (2023)7.2

    A major incident has occurred in the peaceful Sky Land!? The young Princess Ellee has been kidnapped by the monsters of Underg Empire! A brave young girl, Sora, follows the princess through a mysterious hole. "TV"? "Cars"? Are those some kind of magic tools!?!? But there's no time to be surprised! She has to get the princess back to the castle...! Flying between two worlds! The adventure with the Pretty Cure begins now!

  • Heavy Metal L-Gaim
    Heavy Metal L-Gaim (1984)7.0

    Heavy Metal L-Gaim is an anime television series, begun in 1984, which was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Its characters and mecha were designed by Mamoru Nagano, who would later go on to create The Five Star Stories. Heavy Metal L-Gaim takes place in the Pentagona System, a solar system made up of five planets. Oldna Poseidal, the legendary emperor from the planet Gastogal leads his 24 Temple Knights from planet to planet until all have fallen under his control. His final victory is on the planet Mizum in 3975 when he defeats Kamon Walha V, ruler of the Yaman Clan. Kamon hides his heir, Kamon Myroad on the planet Mizum with the legendary white mecha, L-Gaim. Fifteen years later, now grown up and known as Daba Myroad, he leads a rebellion to free the planets of Pentagona from Poseidal's grasp.

  • A Couple of Cuckoos
    A Couple of Cuckoos (2022)7.0

    16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Megurogawa Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised...who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!

  • Witchy Precure!
    Witchy Precure! (2016)6.9

    Mirai Asahina, a thirteen-year-old girl who is excited by various things, goes with her stuffed bear, Mofurun, to investigate a mysterious object that fell from the sky. There, she meets a young magician named Liko who is searching for something known as the Linkle Stone Emerald. When dark servants of Dokuroxy come seeking the Linkle Stone Emerald, Mirai and Liko join hands with Mofurun and transform into the legendary magicians known as the Pretty Cures to fight against them. Thus, Mirai joins Liko in attending Magic School, where they must learn how to use magic while also fighting off Dokuroxy's minions.

  • The Gymnastics Samurai
    The Gymnastics Samurai (2020)6.4

    In the year 2002, the formerly powerful Japanese men's gymnastics team member Jotaro Aragaki is no longer able to compete. Even though he trained strenuously daily, he is asked about retiring by his coach Amakusa. However, a certain encounter alters Aragaki's fate.

  • Love That Begins on the Last Train
    Love That Begins on the Last Train (2023)6.0

    Haru, the protagonist, once fulfilled his dream, but fell into despair. After returning to his hometown of Nagoya, he lives a life of distrust, with no particular purpose. On the last train to his late-night part-time job, he is accidentally reunites with his childhood sweetheart, Mako, for the first time in 15 years. Haru is trying to live up to the ideals that Mako, who used to admire Haru, has portrayed to him in the past, by telling a series of small lies. As he meets Mako, Haru's feelings change, but how will this lie-laced love develop?

  • Wonderful Precure!
    Wonderful Precure! (2024)4.5

    In Animal Town where humans and animals live together, Iroha who loves animals is very close to her dog Komugi! One day, a mysterious creature called a GaruGaru goes berserk in her city. In order to protect Iroha, Komugi transforms into a human and even a Pretty Cure…!? We have to protect such berserk animals! Let's join forces and return the animals to the Niko Garden!