best anime 2015

Best Anime of 2015 That Anime Fans Need to Watch

Been away from anime for awhile? We understand. You go out and have your life, anime will always be waiting for you when you come back. They always come back. If you are finally coming back and stopped watching sometime in or before 2015, here are all the best anime series that you missed and definitely should go back and watch.

If you are looking to watch the best anime of 2015, then you definitely need to check out there anime recommendations.

Best Anime of 2015

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Food Wars

Ever since he was a child, Souma Yukihira helped his father cook in his restaurant, constantly challenging him to cook-offs in anticipation for the day when he would finally win.

However, when his father suddenly decides to leave to go on a trip around the world, Souma is sent to the Totsuki Culinary Academy, an elite cooking school where only the top 10 percent graduate.

Here, Souma learns that not only are some of his classmates top-tier chefs, but they also engage in intense competitions called ”food wars”.

Who knew you could combine lewd visuals with food and be so successful. However, even if you aren’t into the ecchi scenes for comedy (or for the ecchi), Food War is actually really educational about food and cooking. It does in fact employ real cooking techniques and recipes.

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Seraph of the End

After a mysterious virus killed every human over 13 years old, the vampires rose up with a promise to protect the survivors. The only thing they asked in return is donations of blood.

For Yuuichirou and Mikaela, they have grown tired of being livestock and pose a daring escape plan. It ultimately fails with only Yuuichirou left alive. However, after joining up with a mercenary company, he swears vengeance on the vampires, no matter the cost.

Vampires are as overdone in anime as they are in any media. However, Seraph of the End does breathe some new life into vampire action anime plots by being about vampires taking over the world instead of lurking menacingly in the shadows.

Outside of that though, this is very much a shounen action anime. Big flashy battles, cool power-ups, yelling characters, ect.

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Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend

Tomoya Aki is your typical otaku who takes on part-time jobs to fund his anime and light novel obsession. However, one day when he was out riding his bike, he catches the beret of a girl and is so captivated by the scene before him that he sets out to create the ultimate dating sim.

While he struggles to do so, he eventually recruits three of the school’s most popular girls, who also happen to be good at drawing, writing, and music as well as are otakus themselves. After some debate, each agrees to help make his vision come to life.

In this new doujin circle, he also happens across the girl that inspired him, but she was not what he expected and certainly doesn’t stand up to his 2D expectations.

When it comes to harem anime, the main character is either too interested in his harem or not interested at all, Saekano is the latter where the main character is laser-focused on making his dating sim while his helpers – all conveniently women, pine for him.

What makes Saekano one of the best anime of 2015 is really what makes any harem anime pretty good. It isn’t ridiculously ecchi and the girls each have a story that is explored. None of the girls are defined wholly by their love of the main character, but they do explore how their romantic feelings came to be.

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Assassination Classroom

After the moon is mysteriously turned into a permanent crescent by an unknown calamity, the students of class 3-E at Kunogigaoka Middle School are presented with a daunting task – Assassinate the creature that blew up half the moon before the year’s end or die when the world is destroyed.

The creature in question, dubbed Koro-sensei by his class, is super fast, super strong, and by all respects, indestructible. However, while the students try and learn how to destroy him, they also learn that he is the best teacher that they have ever had.

Assassination Classroom was one of those anime series that took pretty standard plot tropes, and twisted them in a way to make it a lot of fun and very unique.

It takes the standard class full of misfits from usual competitive elite school anime, then trains them to be assassins in order to kill their teacher. Of course, that teacher is actually a very good teacher who helps them work through their emotional problems.

Assassination Classroom combines comedy, slice of school life, drama, and action into a memorable package.

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My Love Story

With his tall stature, bulky muscles, and mean face, Takeo Gouda is not exactly a hit with the ladies. Men and women alike find him terrifying, but he still tries to do the right thing.

One day he saves a cute girl from a molester on the train. When she reaches out to him again, he thinks she likes his handsome friend, but he is shocked to discover she actually likes him!

My Love Story is the most unlikely of love stories – one where a cute girl actually falls in love with the gorilla-faced man with a heart of gold instead of friend-zoning him. It is short, satisfying, and a nice change from the standard romantic comedy where the hottie always wins.

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Blood Blockade Battlefront

Vampires, fishmen, supersonic monkeys – They are all normal residents living alongside humans in Hellsalem’s Lot, formerly known as New York City.

When a gate between Earth and the Beyond popped up there three years ago, old NYC became dominated by monsters, and now Libra, a secret organization, is tasked with keeping it in order.

After hobbyist photographer Leonardo Watch obtains the All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods, he finds himself recruited into Libra.

While it is easy to overlook, Blood Blockade Battlefront has a fantastic array of powers and characters solving unique problems in a unique city full of problems.

While its overall plot isn’t exactly a an award-winner, people get invested in Blood Blockade Battlefront for its fun and weird characters.

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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

In the fantasy city of Orario, there is a massive labyrinth underneath it. For brave adventurers, glory and fortune can be found within. In order to tackle the challenging monsters inside, adventures join guilds of strong gods and goddesses.

However, for newbie adventurer Bell Cranel, no good guild will have him, except for Hestia, a goddess with no followers. Together they team up to grow strong and find glory.

When this series came out, Hestia and her boob-hoisting ribbons were the subject of many memes. However, underneath those boob ribbons – in the underboob, if you will – Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon boasted some great fantasy action and only keeps growing in scope.

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Overlord

As the final hour approaches in the life cycle of the MMO Yggdrasil, Momonga, a powerful wizard and leader of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, is there to see it off.

However, to his surprise, the servers don’t go down and even stranger is that all the NPC characters have come alive with their own unique personalities.

Unlike the mass of isekai that comes out today which is often just the same story with different hook, Overlord was from a time where an above average amount of thought and detail needed to go into the world building and the characters.

If you like your isekai anime with a large and complex world, Overlord grows to be just that. Furthermore, it is fun to watch what was a normal guy in a lich body slowly begin to loosen his morality.

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Gate – Thus The JSDF Fought There

Japanese Self-Defense Force solider and otaku Youji Itami is in the Ginza district of Tokyo feeding his hobby one afternoon when a gate to another world opens and medieval soldiers flood modern day Japan.

While Itami, in conjunction with the local police, manage to save many civilian lives, his hero status forces him to go beyond the gate with his fellow soldiers to explore a mysterious new world filled with swords, magic, elves, and dragons.

You don’t know how much you wanted to see mounted cavalry ripped apart by a machine gun nest until you watch it happen in Gate. It is medieval isekai meets modern military.

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Prison School

The Hachimitsu Private Academy has always been a prestigious all-girls school that is prized for its high quality education and rigid discipline. However, they are now accepting boys as well as girls.

With a mere five boys in the schools, these boys think they are the luckiest men in the world. That is, until they get caught peeping and have their personal freedoms taken away in the brutal prison below the school.

Prison School is a bit hard to quantify. On one end, it is a BSDM ecchi comedy and on the other end it actually gets really in-depth with its school hierarchy story. Mostly people watch it for the ecchi, though.

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Shimoneta: A World Where Dirty Jokes Don’t Exist

While Japan was once the pit of sexual depravity, new morality laws and the Peace-Making System used to monitor the populace have seen Japan rise to the peaks of public morality.

With all lewdness censored to the point that children do not know how babies are made, an infamous erotic terrorist named Blue Snow has risen.

One day, average high schooler and the son of another infamous erotic terrorist, Tanukichi Okuma, is saved by Blue Snow on his way to his new high morality high school, only to be drawn into her new erotic terrorist organization, SOX, instead.

Don’t let the title fool you, Shimoneta is nothing but dirty jokes. You would be hard pressed to find a scene without one in it. It is rapid-fire dirty jokes throughout, and it is glorious. Though, admittedly, not a good pick for people who hate that sort of sexual humor.

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Monster Musume

With his parents abroad, Kimihito Kurusu is living the quiet alone life. Or rather, he was until an incompetent interspecies exchange coordinator made him the caretakers of a Lamia named Miia.

With a supernatural creature now living in his house, it serves to not only break up his peace, but attract other supernatural beings as well.

While Monster Musume is a very ecchi harem anime, you have to respect them for trying to make otherwise icky creatures into sexy women without actually being too weird about it.

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Osomatsu-san

In the Matsuno household, there are six identical siblings – the self-centered Osomatsu, the manly Karamatsu, the reasonable Choromatsu, the cynical Ichimatsu, the hyper Juushimatsu, and the cute Todomatsu.

Despite all being adults, they all live as NEETS. This is their journey of trying to become proper adults.

If you are looking for a nice parody comedy, Osomatsu is one of the top-tier. It moves at a fast clip, but it name-drop tons of different series in its gags.

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One Punch Man

In order to pursue his childhood dream, the ordinary and unimpressive Saitama trained so hard that his hair fell out. However, his hard work paid off. Now it only takes one punch to defeat most villains in the city.

Unfortunately, beating opponents in one punch is actually pretty boring, but that all changes when a cyborg named Genos, wanting to be his disciple, suggests that they join the Hero Association together.

A hero that can beat people in one punch? Boring. Well, it turns out that it is boring for the hero too, which is actually what this series is about.

It is the way that One Punch Man manages to make such a good story out of the OP main character trope done to the extreme that made it one of the best anime of 2015 as well as probably one of the best shounen action anime of all time.

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Himouto! Umaru-Chan

Umaru Doma is, by all accounts, the perfect student. She is beautiful, smart, and respectful, at least until she gets home, anyway.

Once that door closes, Umaru dons her hamster hoodie and transforms into a bratty, lazy, junk food-gorging otaku that is fully dependent on her responsible older brother, Taihei.

Whether it is playing video games or eating the right snack combinations, Umaru knows how to live.

Umaru is both adorable and a huge dick to those around her. Yet, they still made her pretty easy to love since this series is filled with little winks to games and anime.

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School Live

Yuki Takeya is in love with school life. She loves it so much that she joined the School Living Club with three other girls, their supervising teacher, and the club dog Taroumaru. This club makes the most of living at school.

However, Yuki’s blissful school life is all a delusion.

The real purpose of the School Living Club is to prevent Yuki’s fragile reality from shattering. In reality, these girls are surviving the zombie apocalypse by barricading themselves within the school.

You know what a good use of moe is? Using it in horror. In School Live, not only does it have an interesting element of delusion, but the snap between cute slice of life and vicious zombie survival is quite nice. It is a good zombie survival anime alternative to the T&A-filled High School of the Dead at least.

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Snow White With The Red Hair

Shirayuki is an herbalist that lives a normal life in the country of Tanbarun. However, when her beautiful red hair is noticed by the Prince Raji, he tries to make her his concubine.

She then decides to cut her hair and flees into the forest. It is there she is rescued by the second Prince of neighboring country, Wistalia, named Zen.

In order to repay her life debt to him, she sets her hopes on becoming the court herbalist in the capital of Clarines.

It may have some fairy tale inspirations, but Snow White with the Red Hair is much better than the classic fairy tale. It is still very much a love story, but with a female protagonist that occasionally has motivations outside of landing herself a prince.

Do you have any more good series from 2015 that returning fans might enjoy? Let them know in the comments section below.

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