The Anime Order What should I watch next?
21,854 anime · 1,404,948 recommendation votes
Add the shows you have already finished. Every one you add pulls in what people who watched it recommend next, the votes are added up across your whole list, and anything you have already seen — or a sequel to it — drops out. Your list stays in this browser, and the share link carries it in the URL rather than uploading it anywhere.
What the answer looks like
Somebody who had finished Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, JUJUTSU KAISEN, My Hero Academia, ONE PIECE and Naruto would get this, and every figure on it is the same arithmetic the box above runs:
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) 3,696 votes, from 5 of those shows
- Vinland Saga 2,877 votes, from 1 of those show
- Bleach 2,248 votes, from 4 of those shows
- Dororo 1,947 votes, from 1 of those show sexual content
- Black Clover 1,822 votes, from 4 of those shows romance
- Chainsaw Man 1,188 votes, from 2 of those shows romance, sexual content
And this is what the filters are for. Ranking that list by votes alone puts Dororo and Black Clover and Chainsaw Man in the top 6 — all of them fail a request for no romance or no sexual content. Tick the boxes and they go, and the rest of the ranking closes up behind them.
How this ranks things
Every suggestion is an AniList recommendation — one person who watched the first show telling somebody else to watch the second. The number beside each row is how many people said it, added up across your list, and the count of your shows it came from is the more useful half: a title recommended off eleven of your favourites is a safer bet than one recommended hard off a single outlier.
Genres are not used for ranking. Matching on tags puts Precure in front of somebody whose favourites are Cowboy Bebop and Death Note, because genres describe what a show contains and say nothing about who likes it. They are only used by the two filters.
What the filters actually do. “Sexual content” goes on AniList's adult flag, the Ecchi and Hentai genres, and the Nudity and Psychosexual tags where enough voters applied them. It is not a certificate: it reliably catches shows built around fanservice, and it will miss one with a single scene that not many people tagged. “Romance” is deliberately narrow — the Romance genre, plus tags meaning the romance is the plot, like a harem or a love triangle. Being strict there is why Frieren and Vinland Saga survive it; a rule that flagged every romantic subplot would empty the results and flag half the list you just typed in.
Frequently asked
How do you decide what to recommend?
Every suggestion is an AniList recommendation — one person who watched the first show telling somebody else to watch the second. The votes are added up across everything on your list, and the count of your own shows a title came from is shown next to it, because a title recommended off six of your favourites is a safer bet than one recommended hard off a single outlier. Genres are not used for ranking.
Does it use my viewing history or need an account?
No. There is no account and no login. The list you tick is written to this browser's local storage and read back the next time you open the page; it is never sent anywhere, and clearing it removes it.
Will it suggest sequels of shows I have already seen?
No. Anything you add takes its whole franchise out of the results, matched by AniList's prequel and sequel links rather than by title — so adding Bakemonogatari also removes Nisemonogatari, which shares none of the same words.
Can I rule out romance or sexual content?
Yes, with the two filters. "Sexual content" goes on AniList's adult flag, the Ecchi and Hentai genres, and the Nudity and Psychosexual tags where enough voters applied them; it reliably catches shows built around fanservice and will miss one with a single scene few people tagged. "Romance" is deliberately narrower — the Romance genre plus tags meaning the romance is the plot — because a rule that flagged every romantic subplot would reject half the list you just typed in.
Can I share my list with someone?
Yes — "Copy share link" puts the whole list, and whichever filters you have on, into the URL itself. Anyone who opens that link sees the same shows and the same ranking, because their browser does the same arithmetic over the same data. Nothing is uploaded and no list is stored anywhere: the link is the list. Opening somebody else's link does not touch your own saved list either — it arrives as a preview, and you choose whether to keep it.
How many anime does it know about?
21,854, ranked over 1,404,948 recommendation votes. That is far wider than the 113 franchises with watch-order pages here, because a recommender that cannot recognise what you name is no use — the catalogue covers the franchises whose order is worth explaining, and this covers what people actually watch.