[Watch List] 15 Best Blu-ray Anime to Watch Right Now

Zachary Nelson YOLO - You Only Live Once

April 3, 2020

Anime has gathered a large number of fans all around the world. For many people, anime means a lot to him. He can find imagination, laughter as well as tears, friendship from them and he can gain power and positive attitudes through anime. And many people love to collect anime discs. It's a great way to enjoy an anime when you are free, and if you can choose, the Blu-ray anime may be the best choice to choose. In this passage, we will introduce the top 15 best Blu-ray anime you can never miss! All of them have been loved for tremendous people.

Best Blu-ray Anime

CONTENTS

1. Spirited Away 2. Avatar - The Last Airbender: The Complete Series 3. Your Name 4. Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series 5. Summer Wars 6. Dragon Ball Super: Broly 7. Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series 8. Wolf Children 9. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes 10. Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance 11. The Secret World of Arrietty 12. Grave of the Fireflies 13. Despicable Me 14. Osamu Tezeka's Metropolis 15. Paprika

No 1. Spirited Away

Country/Language: Japan/ Japanese

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release Date: 20 July 2001

Running time: 125 minutes

Focusing on a 10-year-old girl, named Chihiro, Spirited Away tells a story happening in the world of spirits, "Kami" in Japanese. To save her parents from witch Yubaba, Chihiro tries to find a way to return to the human world in Yubaba's bathhouse. During this journey, Chihiro gets much help from her friends in this magical world, and she learns to become independent and brave.

Spirited Away

No 2. Avatar - The Last Airbender: The Complete Series

Country/Language: America/English
Director: Lauren MacMullan, Anthony Lioi, Dave Filoni, Giancarlo Volpe, Ethan Spaulding, Joaquim Dos Santos
Release Date: 21 February 2005
Running time: 24minutes per episodes/61 in total
This story happens in an imaginary Eastern country. In this magical world, people are controlled by four kinds of extraordinary power, and the only man that can own all these four power is the "Avatar". Only Avatar can save people out of the cruel regime of Country of Fire, but he disappears somehow. Does the mysterious boy found in a ice hole have any connection with the Avatar? And how will he save the world?

No 3. Your Name

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Release Date: 3 July 2016
Running time: 107 minutes
In this story about love, friendship and searching, besides feeling the pure emotions and being deeply touched, you will also see the amazing Spirits World of Japan. All things begin at the swapping bodies between two young high students growing up in completely different environments. Following the day meant-to-be-separated approaching, will all the words reaching each others' heart?

Your Name

No 4. Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese
Director: Shinichirō Watanabe
Release Date: 3 April 1998
Running time: 26 episodes in total
Designed under the background of an accident caused by highly developed technology which makes the Earth uninhabitable, the anime series tells about the journey of a group of lovely people. On the way of catching the escaped prisoner, they are trying to find their past. At the same time, they have built a deep friendship with each other.

Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series

No 5. Summer Wars

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Release Date: 1 August 2009
Running time: 115 minutes
In this imaginary world, a worldwide popular game, the ‘OZ' has occupied everyone's life. A young student who is talented in mathematics, Kenji Koiso, accidentally become the Hacker to OZ because of a mysterious email. Will he prove his innocence and save the people from a great conspiracy of the "Love Machine"?

Summer Wars

No 6. Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese
Director: Tatsuya Nagamine, Naohiro Shintani (animation director), Kazuo Ogura (art director)
Release Date: 14 December 2018
Running time: 100 minutes
Following the story of the Universe Survival Saga depicted in Dragon Ball Super described in the last film of this series, Broly is a villain of this film. But completely different from the past three films, this film retells about the stories between "Frieza" and "Saiyan".

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

No 7. Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese
Director: Shinichirō Watanabe
Release Date: 20 May 2005
Running time: 26 episodes in total
"The samurai who smells of sunflowers" is very important to Fuu, a 15-year-old girl born in a samurai family. To pay back that Fuu helping them out of a execution, Mugen, a mysterious rogue, and Jin, a young rōnin, decide to help Fuu to find "the samurai who smells of sunflowers". A journey of these three guys hence begins...

Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series

No 8. Wolf Children

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Release Date:25 June 2012 (France), 21 July 2012 (Japan)

Running time: 117 minutes

Falling in love with a wolf-man, Hana has two wolf children who cannot control their transforming from human forms and wolf forms freely. After her husband is killed accidentally, Hana has to raise and protect her two children alone. In the end, thanks to Hana's carefully loving and protecting, both Yuki and Ame, the two children of Hana, have found their own way of life.

Wolf Children

No 9. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese

Director: Kenji Nagasaki

Release Date: 5 July 2018

Running time: 96 minutes

My Hero Academia is adapted from the manga of the same name. It tells a story happening on a man-made-island, the "I-Island". This magical island has concentrated all human's intelligence. After examinations, All Might is invited to this super human city. But during visiting this high-technology island, he found that his guest, Izuku Midoriya, is planning something thrilling...

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

No 10. Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese

Director: Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki

Release Date: 27 June 2009

Running time: 108 minutes

This film continues the story talked in the last film in this series, the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone which was released in 2007. In the imaginary world, only the one who can match with the Eva can launch the great human-shape machine and defend Angels. Can the three selected young man protect people from all these continuous attacks of the "Angels"?

Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance

No 11. The Secret World of Arrietty

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Release Date: 17 July 2010

Running time: 95 minutes

Once Shō arrives at hid aunt's house in the countryside, he finds a girl who is only around 10 centimeters' high. And generally, he finds that these dwarfs will "borrow" things from the human world to make a living. During the following days staying in the countryside, Shō makes a precious friendship with this little girl.

The Secret World of Arrietty

No 12. Grave of the Fireflies

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese

Director: Isao Takahata

Release Date: 16 April 1988

Running time: 89 minutes

Adapted from the novel of the same name, Grave of te Fireflies tells a sorrowful story happening shortly after World War II. At that time, too many people was starved to death, and 14-year-old boy Seita, the hero of this anime, leaving his aunt’s house with his younger sister for their bad treat. But finally, since lacking food, they are starved to death. This film describes the hard days during that period in Japan.

Grave of the Fireflies

No 13. Despicable Me

Country/Language: America/English
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Release Date: 19 June 2010
Running time: 95 minutes
Although he is a thief, Gru is childlike and, deeply in his mind, kind. Try to steal the moon but Gru does not have enough money for the racket. On his way trying to find means to steal the moon, Gru meets with three lovely girls and he adopted them. Together with laughter, you can enjoy the pure emotions in this anime. Also, the design of lovely cute minions is also an element attracting a great number of audience.

Despicable Me

No 14. Osamu Tezeka's Metropolis

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese
Director: Rintaro
Release Date: 26 May 2001
Running time: 113 minutes
Metropolis is a city where humans and robots live together. However, the relationship between robots and humans becomes worse and worse. Many people discriminate robots and many robots make people lose jobs. All these contradictions burn out when a crazy scientist trying to invent a robot with great power, trying to control the whole human world. Will a lovely new world where humans and robots live peacefully become true?

Osamu Tezeka's Metropolis

No 15. Paprika

Country/Language: Japan/Japanese

Director: Satoshi Kon

Release Date: September 2, 2006 (Venice), November 25, 2006 (Japan)

Running time: 90 minutes

Have you ever thought about treating mental illnesses through dreams? In the near future, a team working on the treatment to mental illness invented a device named "DC Mini" by which doctors can get into patient's dream and find the reason behind to cure their problems. However, in bad guys' hand, this great device can become the lethal weapon to control others through his or her dream...

Paprika

After viewing so many excellent anime, do you find you falling in love with one or more? Do not hesitate and watch them now! These great Blu-ray anime can be gotten easily through internet, and you can also choose to watch it after downloading or you may prefer to watch anime online.

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