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Manga has an amazing score (top 100) and is pretty popular. The studio is pretty new, but their first Anime (Zom 100) had a pretty high production value and the trailer looked pretty good as well so this looks really promising.
Mangaka also created several covers for Marvel, DC and Star Wars Comics.

(Some of the Marvel+SW ones:
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Kamome_Shirahama/Cover_Artist_Images)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5OOeFZRqwc

One of the best Romance-Drama Mangas which will be animated by CloverWorks.

Has a high possibility to become one of the best Romance Anime of all time.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2YvvntQTls

New ufotable movie adapting the acclaimed Visual Novel from Type-Moon/Kinoko Nasu.
Most likely a must watch for Type-Moon and especially Kara no Kyoukai fans.
I doubt one movie will be enough to adapt a whole Visual Novel, so it might be a movie series similar to Heaven's Feel or Kara no Kyoukai.
The light novel adaptation has already been received pretty well.

The trailer has phenomenal animation and might surpass Heaven's Feel as the best animated Anime.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGSJUm6Eq2M

(you don't have to watch anything else in the franchise for this)

Newest entry in the Gundam franchise and by far the most promising looking one so far.
First time a studio assists Sunrise with a Gundam show and it's none other than Khara, who's most prominent members all seem to be working on this one.

Kazuya Tsurumaki is the director (Evangelion director, FLCL creator + director) and Hideaki Anno is a script and storyboard writer (Evangelion creator + director, Kareshi Kanojo and Gunbuster Director).

Original character designs are by Take, the artist of NISIO ISIN's Zaregoto Series and Katanagatari as well as Pokemon Sword and Shield (Pokemon Journey's)
The announced (and unannounced) voice actors are also incredible (aside from the male MC, who is new)

These are just some of the announced staff members, that hopefully make it clear, that this is one of the most promising Anime that got announced.


Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMIaFV4q6M

Remake of one of the most popular Anime of all time and adaptation of one of the best Manga of all time.
The original Anime had horrible pacing (1 episode adapted 1 chapter, while the norm is 2-3) and it also had lackluster animation due to it's weekly schedule (and bad studio) until around 1000 episodes, where it started getting great animation.

Assuming the'll adapt everything, this could half the amount of episodes you need to watch to watch all of One Piece.

The Remake is by one of the best studios with Wit and most of the already known staff has worked on some of the best Anime you can watch.

*This is a Donghua, not an Anime*

Adaptation of one of the 10 highest rated entries on MAL by the best Donghua studio with B.CMAY PICTURES. The trailers also looked phenomenal so this is for sure one of the most promising shows in the list.
It was confirmed to get at least 5 seasons and the author "felt good about it" after watching the first 8 episodes.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcLYom0bLFc
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M9PRUrmpo0

Adapts a popular and very good Light Novel by popular author Ryohgo Narita in the Fate universe.

A-1 Pictures as animators and Hiroyuki Sawano as the composer are also a big plus

a 55 min special episode of it has already aired and was received very well

Teaser 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE9CkWGZ32c
Teaser 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1HBflk_E1M

Adaptation of one of the highest rated Novels and most popular Manwhas. We don't know anything about the Anime adaptation, but this could be a phenomenal show.
Seems to adapting the Webtoon adaptation, not the novel.

Adaptation of one of the most popular Weekly Shounen Jump Manga. Manga has a good score and will be adapted by a good studio with TMS Entertainment.
Trailer looked also pretty good and a protagonist voiced by Tomokazu Sugita will never be boring.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA4jmyg3rhY

Very well received Manga about ice dancing. Manga also won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category in 2023.
Anime won't be made by a good studio with ENGI sadly, but it's series composition is by a veteran and the unique setting and the amazing score of the Manga make this an extremely promising show nevertheless.
The trailers seemed pretty good, even with its animation and CGI.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3hyRR3_q1E
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wn4DhzPS-I

A long awaited horror Anime. Manga is very new and has a pretty good score.

Not much is known about the Anime yet, but there are so few horror Anime that this will instantly become one of the most anticipated Anime.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAfcm5Cydvs

New sci-fi anime by Shinichirou Watanabe and animated by MAPPA.

That is more than enough to be one of the most promising anime in production.
Music seems to be very unique in typical Shinichirou Watanabe fashion.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0QUbIzu8ek
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZZ9Ci-gzs

Adapts one of the best Josei Manga out there. It is getting animated by a pretty good studio with Shuka and has a great composer with Kensuke Ushio. The rest of the announced staff is pretty new though and the teaser does not show enough to guess the quality of the adaptation.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz2ULgHFMlo

Adaptation of one of the most popular battle shounen, that started in the last 3 years. It is getting animated by Bones (like Soul Eater) and has its Series Composition done by one of the best in the industry for battle shounen (Shingeki no Kyojin, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mob Psycho 100, Vinland Saga).
Definitely one of the most promising action anime to come out.

Mangaka is a big fan of Soul Eater by Atsushi Ookubo and became his assistant for Fire Force, as well as his successor.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjGJJ23BCE

Original movie by a studio which MAPPA created for director Sunao Katabuchi, who is also the creator of this movie. Manabu Ootsuka, the CEO of MAPPA, will produce it and the animation director is a movie veteran and has worked on many of the best/most popular anime movies, including Ghibli and Satoshi Kon movies.

Composer Akira Senju comes back to the Anime industry for this movie after many years. He is most well known for composing the music for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

The trailer looks very similar to the great movie "Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni", which Katabuchi also directed.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3A9K2PbP3Y

New original sci-fi/space anime by Wit Studio.

It will be animated by several people that worked on Shingeki no Kyojin and has character design by Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist and the new Arslan Senki. So it does sound pretty promising so far.


Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgyYprxL5vE

Adaptation of a very new light novel. Almost nothing is known about the anime and the novel is to new and not yet popular enough to guess how good it is.

However, it was announced at an Aniplex x Kadokawa event and was considered to be the big announcement of the event. While many were disappointed that no news about sequels of popular Anime were released, Silent Witch will most likely be pretty good considering it was their main announcement.

Trailer: -

Original Anime from Yasuomi Umetsu, who got famous for creating the infamous Hentai "A Kite", after which he made a lot of Openings and Endings.
It will by animated by a great studio with Shaft.
The Trailer looked extremely good and highlighted Umetsu's unique style.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXS_K_H5q9s

Original Anime by Kinema Citrus with a very unique style about a former mermaid.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJSna-vMATY

Detective Sci-Fi from a lot of people that previously made ID:Invaded.
Creator won multiple awards for multiple novels. One of which is even considered to be the Fifth Great Mystery of Japanese literature.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHOtyBy6JOc

Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi story adapting a light novel. While the novel does not have enough votes for a proper score, it's Manga adaptation was already received very well which usually is an indicator for a good Anime since they tend to be better than the Manga adaptation.

Neither studio nor staff is known so far so we can't guess it's quality yet.

Trailer: -

Very new RomCom by a really good studio with P.A. Works. Manga was received pretty well and the plot seems pretty unique considering it's one if the most common genres. Likely to become pretty popular, but definitely not the best Romance Anime in this list.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unnNHEWuCQ

Original Anime by MAPPA about the creation of an Anime.
Co-created and directed by one of the main directors of Doga Kobo and music by the composer which Doga Koba uses the most.
Since it is an Anime original, it is unknown whether it will be good or not.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lEkMojnYyw
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AFhH9WIFeI (seems to be only scenes from an Anime in this Anime)

Girls love anime have not received good adaptations in a while and much more promising shows than this ended up being forgettable.
However, this Seinen has a pretty unique concept and will probably at least not be forgettable, which is why I included it.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ljk5QVa5MA

Another Girls Love Anime, but it's source material has a pretty good score, making it really promising.
However, since nothing is known about the adaptation yet, this could still be another bad Girls Love Anime adaptation.

Manga has a pretty good score and will be adapted by Madhouse, one of the best studios.

(No news about this for years, so who knows if this still exists)

Movie animated by A-1 Pictures adapting Gen Urobuchi's (one of the best Light/Visual Novel writer) Light Novel. Music by Yuki Kajiura, another big selling point
The movie in general has a pretty insane staff list.
Seiji Mizushima has been announced as the director. He was the Director of OG Fullmetal Alchemist and Shaman King as well as Gundam 00.
He will be assisted by an assistant director of the Evangelion remakes
Original character design was by the designer of the Type/Moon franchise, Takashi Takeuchi

The movie has in addition to the normal character designer (known for several A-1 shows) 3 mechanical designers. 1 worked on Gundam, 1 on Gundam and Full Metal Panic, and 1 on Princess Principal

All in all a very stacked team, but that was also the case with Bubble, which was also created by him.


Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk7v4MdUh4M (teaser)

Adaptation of a very popular Webtoon, however the studio adapting it is not particularly good. The director is more of a mixed bag, since he used to make great shows with White Fox (Katanagatari, Jormungand) but also made a ton of (mostly bad) romance shows like one of the lowest rated shows on MAL with Conception.

Great source material but unlikely to get a good adaptation.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7PXtCthCAk

*might remove this if this is too similar to the existing entries in the franchise*
Seems to be a new adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell Manga and from the looks of it, the first proper adaptation because the movie from 1995 changed a lot of things and Stand alone Complex is its own thing.

Animated by one of the best and most unique studios with Science SARU.

Remake of one of the most prestigious Anime and Manga. Nothing is known about the remake yet, but this could be really good.

Became quickly one of the most popular trash romance ecchi's out there. Don't expect anything great, but the popularity speaks for itself so this will likely be at least very interesting for it's targeted audience.

Studio is not the greatest with LIDENFILMS, but the censorship in the trailers make it seem like there will be an uncensored version, meaning the adaptation looks pretty good so far.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJTvW77rc3w
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDVZo9JJSUQ

Long-awaited adaptation of a revenge Manga classic, which, however, was received with mixed responses. It will be animated by Satelight and a newish studio, so the good animation part is not looking that promising, which is especially important for an action Anime.
Still a noteworthy show considering it's popularity.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtdgj0FKoKE
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ7OcnDoEbs

Seems to be a separate show from an established franchise (Sousei no Aquarion), so you should be able to watch this without having to watch the other shows in it's franchise.

Original Mecha Anime by Shouji Kawamori, the most famous Mecha designer in the world (Transformers, Ghost in the Shell, Eureka Seven, Macross, Escaflowne,...).
However, the previous parts in it's franchise have not particularly good scores and the studio making it (Satelight) is also not great.

So overall this will most likely not be too good, but I wanted to at least mention it thanks to it's prestigious creator.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eosPHXiNLUk

New CloverWorks original by one of the main people behind former studio Gainax.

Almost nothing is known about this yet.

Trailer: - (only an announcement video)

Most likely a remake of one of the most influential Anime of all time. Will also be directed by it's creator like the movie, but might adapt the whole Manga this time or even adds additional scenes to it.

This however has been announced years ago and no further update was given yet. Another Anime by the same person was also announced at that time (Orbital), that one however was already canceled.
So don't expect this to release any time soon if at all.
(also the reason why it's so far down in the list)

Trailer: -

CLAMP story for Shounen Ai enjoyer. Manga has a pretty good score.

* A lot of plagiarism was discovered in its costume design causing the series to be postponed from 2021 to an unknown date. It is getting animated by a completely new team (formerly GoHands) and the year in its name will most likely change too

Trailer: -

*technically already aired, but only in Japan*

Movie by the creators of Koe no Katachi and K-On! and animated by Science Saru with music by Kensuke Ushio (Koe no Katachi, Devilman: Crybaby, Chainsaw Man, Ping Pong the Animation). Seems to be a Music-Drama, something the the main staff is experienced in so this is a very promising movie.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POJL0ZQJDvg
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FN0-p-sxI

*technically already aired, but only in Japan*

Original Anime Movie by the team behind Anohana and The Anthem of the Heart. Mari Okada continued to deliver high quality drama shows so this is definitely promising, especially considering the combination with her and director Tatsuyuki Nagai hasn't missed yet.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSKhxo5L9Lw
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JEvGpBR1Y

*technically already aired, but only in Japan*

Movie about a young girl that that wants to become an Idol. Many actual/former Idols are involved in this movie and it is getting animated by a really good studio witch CloverWorks. One of the Directors will also be the new Director for ReZero season 3, so this does look pretty promising so far.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmS7wEpUpV8
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wk1bVGNE3I

*currently "airing"*

Adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's highly acclaimed Manga. The studio adapting it is new, so the animation quality is not known yet.

*Many people that watched the Movie believe it to be on of the best Movies of all time. Movie connoisseur Hideo Kojima for example made like a dozen tweets about it and watched it several times, because it was that good.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKt9OsxwWc
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH6zVJVHEaM

*currently airing*
Original description:

Manga has a very good score, is really popular and has a unique plot. The author was an assistant to Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man), similar to the authors of Spy x Family and Jigokuraku, making it very promising.
It will be animated by Science Saru, a studio with usually high production value, which also seems to nail the unique style.
Music is by a great composer with Kensuke Ushio.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_SnV_SdO4k
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYpIHZ3kXE
Trailer 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LI_sR-2NkY
Trailer 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJo1MnsuxyY

*currently airing*
Original description:

Very well rated Sports/Romance Manga and one of the most popular ongoing Shounen Jump Manga. All 3 Main Characters are in different Sport Clubs (Badminton, Basketball, Rhythmic Gymnastics) so this is definitely something for everyone.
The trailer looked really good.

Teaser 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL3S8v0n3lc
Teaser 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iX6uodwBnw
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBm4JwAPz3o

*currently airing*
Original description:

Madhouse Anime adapting an award winning Manga set in 15th century Poland. It seems to have a big focus on theology and heresy, which gives it an extremely unique setting.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ayoR06DO4

*currently airing*
had massive production issues and only ended up having a single high quality episode, the rest looks awful.

Original description:

Highest rated and most popular Manga by Junji Itou, the most popular horror Manga author. Anime got delayed several times and now, with years more time to animate, it probably will look really good and unique. The new studio has proven to be pretty good and it is directed by a director, that made one of the best Anime with Mushishi.
*Was delayed again to after 2023. Literally the Silksong of Anime. It just won't release.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDEQyK5ZH-E (2019)
Trailer 2: https://youtu.be/hnQOO8Y1Ck0?t=89 (2021, starts at 1:29 and is only a few seconds long)
Trailer 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrqvjjKlOs (2023)
Trailer 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RapL7_C4MzY (2024)

*currently airing*
- seems to have massive production issues
Original description:

Pretty well rated Shoujo Ai Manga, but it will be adapted by 2 very new studios.
The first trailer seemed pretty good so far.
*But the show itself apparently not. Current score is significantly lower than the Manga score, so I'd suggest to read the Manga instead.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNkXrs3siQ