The 50 Best Supernatural Anime of All Time, Ranked (2026)
Last updated: 2026-05-03 · Entries are ranked by MyAnimeList community score, pulled once and cached so the list stays stable between manual refreshes. Each season is treated as its own entry, matching MAL's catalog. Top-10 blurbs are written by the Anime Facts 101 team and reflect editorial perspective, not raw score order. Last refreshed 2026-05-03. Score data sourced from MyAnimeList community ratings via the Jikan API.
Supernatural anime is built on the premise that the world contains more than we can see — spirits, curses, psychic powers, beings that operate by rules humans don't fully understand. The genre uses that premise to explore human experience sideways: grief becomes a ghost, repressed emotion becomes a curse, the need to be seen becomes something that manifests visibly.
The best supernatural anime don't just use the uncanny as a plot device. They treat the supernatural elements as a genuine extension of the emotional world of their characters — something that is real within the story's logic and earns its presence by illuminating something true about the people it touches. The monster or power or spirit isn't there for spectacle; it's there because the story needs it.
This list is ranked by MyAnimeList community score across every supernatural-tagged anime on the site, with editorial blurbs on the top 10 explaining why each one earns its spot. Seasons are treated separately per MAL's catalog.
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Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
2026 · ? eps · Score: 9.15
Steel Ball Run tops this list at 9.15 with Stands that function as supernatural extensions of character will rather than arbitrary powers. Valentine's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap — the ability to summon parallel-world versions of events — is one of the most philosophically interesting supernatural powers in the JoJo franchise, and the show builds its climax around a question of what version of history is worth protecting.
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
2022 · 13 eps · Score: 8.98
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War earns 8.98 as a return to the franchise's supernatural core with an animation budget that finally matches Kubo's visual ambition. The Quincy abilities and their counters expand the supernatural system in satisfying ways, and the Bankai reveals are handled with the weight that longtime fans were owed. It's the definitive Bleach season.
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Fruits Basket: The Final Season
2021 · 13 eps · Score: 8.93
Fruits Basket: The Final Season (8.93) treats its zodiac curse — a genuinely strange premise — as the emotional engine it was always meant to be. The supernatural elements are always metaphors for the thing they're literalizing, and the resolution of the curse works dramatically because the show spent two seasons making it feel like a real weight on real people.
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Owarimonogatari Second Season
2017 · 7 eps · Score: 8.86
Owarimonogatari Second Season (8.86) brings the Monogatari franchise's supernatural mythology to its most direct confrontation with Araragi's past. The supernatural entities here — Darkness, Gaen's schemes, Oshino's legacy — are revealed to have coherent histories, and the season's willingness to explain them fully is as satisfying as any reveal the franchise has produced.
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Mob Psycho 100 II
2019 · 13 eps · Score: 8.78
Mob Psycho 100 II earns 8.78 as the season where Mob's psychic powers and his emotional development finally come into full alignment. The ???% sequences hit harder because the show has spent the season establishing what Mob is trying not to feel. Superhero supernatural anime doesn't usually do this kind of emotional precision work.
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Kizumonogatari Part 3: Cold-Blooded
2017 · 1 ep · Score: 8.78
Kizumonogatari Part 3 (8.78) closes the Araragi origin story with a supernatural confrontation that is also a test of his values. Kiss-shot's arc reaches its conclusion here, and the film commits to an ending that is cruel and correct in equal measure. The supernatural elements — vampire physiology and its costs — are used with unusual specificity.
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Monogatari Series: Second Season
2013 · 26 eps · Score: 8.76
Monogatari Series: Second Season (8.76) is the franchise arc where the supernatural mythology starts to cohere into a system. Multiple character arcs intersect through shared supernatural phenomena, and the show's dialogue-heavy style is at its sharpest here. Shinobu's Time is the best single extended arc the franchise produced.
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Mob Psycho 100 III
2022 · 12 eps · Score: 8.72
Mob Psycho 100 III (8.72) is the season where Mob's psychic abilities become almost secondary to his social development — and the show earns that shift by making his mundane goals (joining a club, making friends, being ordinary) feel as high-stakes as any supernatural battle. The season's climax, when both threads converge, is among the best single-episode payoffs in recent anime.
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Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 2
2014 · 10 eps · Score: 8.72
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 2 (8.72) treats the supernatural as ecological rather than dramatic — mushi are creatures that exist alongside humans, following their own logic, causing harm or wonder as a side effect of their nature. Ginko's approach to them is observational rather than confrontational, and the show's supernatural worldview is one of the most original in the genre.
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation
2023 · 13 eps · Score: 8.70
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation (8.70) continues the arc with additional revelations about Quincy history and the nature of the Soul King. The pacing in this cours is tighter than the first, and the fights between named Sternritter and Soul Reapers are animated at a level the original series never reached.
