Netflix’s 2025 Year-End Report Charts Top Anime of Current Times

• DAN DA DAN Season 2, My Melody & Kuromi: Season 1, SAKAMOTO DAYS led Netflix’s anime viewership, underscoring the pull of newer IPs.
• Demon Slayer continued to dominate with multiple arcs ranking across H2 2025.
• Anime remained a key engagement driver for Netflix, accounting for 4% of cumulative viewing hours.

Netflix's position as a global hub for anime streaming continues to strengthen, with viewership in the second half of 2025 (H2) indicating a rising hunger for new, daring programming alongside existing franchises. According to the streaming platform’s What We Watched viewership report, anime accounted for more than 4% of total viewing hours in the July-Dec 2025 period, with new releases taking the lead. Breaking down the viewership numbers, here is the official ranking of the top ten anime that ruled Netflix in H2 2025.

Top 10 Netflix’s Most-Watched Anime in H2 2025

10. Tougen Anki — 6.3M views, 61.3M hours

Tougen Anki rounds out the top ten of the Netflix anime in H2 2025 rankings with 6.3M views, 61.3M hours viewed. In 2025, the anime ranked No. 1 on Netflix in Japan. It also ranked in the top 5 non-English TV lists globally, alongside Squid Game at No. 1, Under a Dark Sun at No. 2, DAN DA DAN at No. 3, and Ángela at No. 4.

9. DAN DA DAN: Season 1 — 6.7M views, 33.1M hours

DAN DA DAN Season 1 is placed at the ninth position with 6.7M views and 33.1 hours watched in Netflix’s H2 2025 report. The anime also became one of Netflix's most-watched shows during the second half of 2024. 

DAN DA DAN Season 1 surpassed major titles like Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Training Arc and Jujutsu Kaisen in the 2024 July-Dec window. It logged 96.5M hours viewed in 2024, which is about 19.6M full-series watches.

8. Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Arc — 9.7M views, 27.5M hours

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train ranks eighth in this list. Its movie, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train, became one of the world's highest-grossing anime movies while breaking many box-office records. The film earned approximately ¥40.75 billion in Japan and a total of $500 million USD globally. Its continued popularity shows how theatrical anime experiences may successfully transition to streaming services, even years after their initial release.

7. Record of Ragnarok: Season 3 — 10.7M views, 67.6M hours

The third season of Record of Ragnarok, which debuted on Netflix in Dec 2025, expands on the franchise's previous impressive success. Previous seasons, notably Season 2 in 2023, was among Netflix's top-viewed Original anime, with millions of views and strong engagement, the series was one of the platform's more prominent action titles. Season 3's steady popularity also pushed it on Netflix's official second-half-2025 most-watched shows list with 10.7M views.

6. Demon Slayer: Tanjiro Kamado, Unwavering Resolve Arc — 11.1M views, 113.8M hours

The Unwavering Resolve Arc’s current metric of 11.1M views on Netflix demonstrates Demon Slayer's longevity. Since 2023, it has constantly placed among the most-watched anime on Netflix, indicating the franchise's continued global success. The arc reportedly received 15.5M and 6.4M views in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

5. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Entertainment District Arc — 11.4M views, 55.9M hours

Netflix's anime engagement stats show the Entertainment District Arc as one of the most-watched parts in recent reporting periods (July to Dec 2025). Also, the anime reportedly received 14.9M views in 2023 and 14.5M in 2024. Its recurring inclusion alongside other arcs demonstrates how serialized anime can retain high attention on streaming platforms across many narratives.

4. SAKAMOTO DAYS: Season 1 — 12.1M views, 105.7M hours

SAKAMOTO DAYS continued to be popular on Netflix in 2025. As per Netflix's Engagement Report for the First Half of the Year, its first season was the most-watched anime on the streaming service. It had around 24.4M total views and was streamed over 106M hours. The anime's remarkable performance during that period showed its wide appeal across diverse audiences. 

SAKAMOTO DAYS, notably, is a combination of action humor and unorthodox family drama, enabling it to stand out even under heavy competition from other high-profile series. It experienced a surge in its manga circulation from 7M copies in Dec 2024 to 15M by Aug 2025, boosted by the anime’s global reach. The manga originally debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in Nov 2020, serializing 22 volumes by June 2025.

Top 3 Netflix’s Most-Watched Anime in H2 2025

3. My Melody & Kuromi: Season 1 — 12.9M views, 35.6M hours

My Melody & Kuromi, a stop-motion Netflix series based on Sanrio's renowned characters, launched on July 24, 2025, and swiftly ascended into the platform's global Top-10 Non-English shows, logging in about 4.3M views and more than 11.8M hours watched in its first week. 

Netflix's second-half 2025 engagement data shows it ranks among anime titles with double-digit millions of views, indicating considerable audience interest. Its popularity alongside classic shonen and fantasy titles indicates that animated content having a lighter tone can find significant appeal on Netflix.

2. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Training Arc — 14.4M views, 57.3M hours

Netflix's biannual What We Watched report stated that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Training Arc received over 14.7M views in the second half of 2025, indicating a constant presence of the franchise in their anime engagement metrics. Various Demon Slayer arcs have consistently ranked in the last few years. The popularity confirms a vast global appeal even in the past year, where an engagement report from July to Dec 2024, revealed the anime recorded 51.1M hours seen or 12.9M equivalent views.

1. DAN DA DAN: Season 2 — 17.2M views, 85.5M hours

As per Netflix's second-half 2025 engagement report, DAN DA DAN Season 2 topped the anime category with about 17 million views, making it the most-watched Netflix anime from July to Dec 2025. The anime, based on Yukinobu Tatsu's manga, combines supernatural action with romantic and comic themes, which helped keep viewers interested after its initial run. 

As noted earlier as well, during the July to Dec 2024 period, DAN DA DAN Season 1 was Netflix's most-watched anime with a recorded watch time of 96.5M hours straight on the streaming platform. With a runtime of 4 hours and 55 minutes, this equates to approximately 19.6M full-series watch time views. The current rankings show that genre-blending productions may perform well on global streaming charts, even alongside renowned IPs.

Other Anime Rankings on Netflix H2 2025 Engagement Report

• One-Punch Man: Season 3 — 6.1M views; 29.1M hours viewed.
• Kaiju No. 8: Season 2 — 5.5M views; 25.8M hours viewed.
• The Apothecary Diaries: Season 1 — 4.9M views; 44.6M hours viewed.
• Ranma 1/2: Season 2 — 3.7M views; 17.1M hours viewed
• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End: Season 1 — 2.8M views; 32.8M hours viewed.
• Delicious in Dungeon: Season 1 — 2.3M views; 23.6M hours viewed.
• Vinland Saga: Season 1 — 2.3M views; 22.8M hours viewed.

• Blue Box: Season 1 — 1.8M views; 18.1M hours viewed.
• The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity — 11.1M views; 57.6M hours viewed.
• The Summer Hikaru Died: Season 1 — 5.3M views; 24.2M hours viewed.
• Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: Season 1 — 3.4M views; 11.1M hours viewed.
• Gachiakuta: Season 1 — 3.0M views; 28.0M hours viewed.
• WITCH WATCH: Season 1 — 1.9M views; 19.3M hours viewed.

Legacy Franchises Registering Success on Netflix

Legacy franchises such as Naruto (including Naruto Shippuden and Boruto), One Piece, and Pokémon, held their places, showcasing the sustained popularity of the IPs. Naruto registered 51 entries across seasons and arcs, with the classic Naruto Season 1 having the best ranking amongst the franchise, of 2.4M views and 24.6M hours watched. 

Like Naruto, Season 1 of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece had the best rankings amongst 45 of its entries with 5.7M views and 42.9 hours watched. And, as for the Pokémon franchise, Pokémon Concierge: Season 1 had topped amongst its 33 entries, having 2.7M views with 3.2M hours watched.

Why Do These Rankings Matter?

At Anime Expo 2025, Netflix announced that more than half of its subscribers watch anime. With the platform already exceeding 300M members worldwide which suggests that around 150M viewers are engaging with anime content.

This growth follows years of purposeful investment in global licensing and original productions, which have elevated anime from a niche category on the platform. Titles ranging from action-packed franchises to character-driven comedies have regularly attracted large viewers.

By late 2025, such trends have solidified anime as Netflix's primary engagement driver, highlighting a catalog approach that combines legacy IP, serialized storytelling, and culturally relevant originals.