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Top 10 Anime For Adults Only
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2/6/2025
Join us as we count down the top anime for adults only, featuring shows with graphic violence, mature themes, and explicit content that's best left to grown-ups.
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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we're counting down great anime that for one reason or another,
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you should keep far away from the eyes of children.
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Number 10 – Youmungand
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Anime violence comes in many flavors, and while kids love nothing more than to see animated
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characters get to blasting, we're not sure an in-depth look at the inner workings of
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armed dealerships would be up their alley.
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Coco's Trade of Death covers everything from arms races, casualties by the thousands,
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and even has a former child soldier acting as her ward.
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With blood and bullets aplenty, this action-fest is for those who enjoy their anime carnage
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with a bit more grit.
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Number 9 – Ghost in the Shell – Stand Alone Complex
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While the original flick featured an abundance of nudity and minor body horror, and admittedly
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its series spin-off is far tamer, there's still enough here to ensure SAC gets slapped
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with that big R-rating.
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Cyberterrorism, actual terrorism, limbs getting blown off, Major Kusanagi in the tightest-fitting
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leotard you'll ever see…
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This anime is very much for daddy's eyes only.
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Look, if you wouldn't dream about showing your kids the movie, just take the series
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out of the equation as well.
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Now excuse us while we watch Magoto shoot down that armored tank again.
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Number 8 – Golden Kamuy
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Everyone loves a good treasure hunt, though rarely do they contain a bunch of wanted criminals
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with a treasure map inked onto their skin.
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Sugimoto's journey to uncover a hidden stash of ancient gold leaps between bizarre and
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bloody at a moment's notice.
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With so many sadists waiting in the winds, the violence is the furthest thing from campy,
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even if it does have some crazy comedic chops on it.
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An underrated gem by any standards, you just have to get past that horrendously animated
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CG bear at the beginning.
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Number 7 – Kaiji
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While this anime will do wonders about teaching the importance of financial responsibility,
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it certainly isn't the kind of PSA young fans of the medium should be casually watching.
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After losing every bit of cash he has to his name, Kaiji is thrown from one hair-raising
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situation to the next that almost always ends in some manner of torture or death.
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Those without wealth are used as playthings by the elite before being tossed aside to
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often dismal fates.
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And while Kaiji certainly makes for a compelling lead, he is hardly what you'd call a role
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model given the non-stop gambling.
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Number 6 – Psycho-Pass
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The future is here, and it's a bleak sight.
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While adored for its meditation on humanity's obsession with security and the sacrifices
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made in pursuit of it, this sci-fi slam-dunk is about as adult as it gets, especially when
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it comes to the violence, even if you forgo the bleak and unsettling Orwellian commentary.
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Kogami and Akane's investigations against those rebelling against the all-controlling,
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all-problematic civil system leads them from one bloodied crime scene to the next.
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And if that's not visceral enough, their assigned weapons cause limbs to expand and
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eventually explode.
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Doraemon, this is not.
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Number 5 – Hellsing Ultimate
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You know an anime is hardcore when the blood-sucking vampire with two hand cannons isn't even
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the most salacious part of the series.
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In service to an organisation that slays what goes bump in the night, Alucard is a menace
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to all who get in his way, tearing limbs and blasting body parts with little interest in
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who is guilty or innocent.
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The fact he's taking on both zealot Catholics with a mission of murder in mind, along with
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the resurrected Third Reich, now turned into vampires themselves, is just the edgy icing
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on top that makes this show a delight.
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Though again, it is the strictest of R ratings.
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Even adults can barely handle some of the nightmarish content that befalls our cast
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along the way.
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Number 4 – Black Lagoon
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They don't make them like these anymore.
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Following a small group of smugglers living on an island where crime is the main export,
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this series holds nothing back.
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There's the usual suspects such as guns, murder, torture, blackmail, and everyone cursing
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a mile a minute, but then you're introduced to the identical twin-child serial killers
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pretending to be vampires, as well as Nazis showing up again.
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Black Lagoon is a must-see for those who pride themselves on being an action anime fan.
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Just be warned that it has zero filter.
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Number 3 – Vinland Saga
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You can't paint a somewhat historically accurate picture of the life and times of
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Vikings without alluding to a hell of a lot of violence and brutality.
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And Vinland Saga does not hold back.
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Torfinn's epic tale of revenge and eventual redemption has plenty of bright spots that
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display the value of hope and peace, but it's also surrounded by a sea of bodies.
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Between the invasions, sword fights, decapitations, depictions of slavery and abuse, both the
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best and worst of humanity are put on display here.
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Make no mistake, as soon as your child turns 18, you show them this anime.
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Number 2 – Monster
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It may not be the bloodiest anime out there, but thanks to its villain and his sinister
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antics, this explanation of the darkness in the hearts of man is one that requires both
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maturity and experience to be fully appreciated.
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Also, there's Nazis.
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Again, sort of a running theme.
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Following a conscientious decision to save a child over a political figure, Dr. Tenma
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unwittingly unleashes the likes of Johann Liebert onto the world.
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A psychopath with zero empathy and extreme intellect who can cause a person to end themselves
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after a single conversation, the series battles with questions of morality and the nature
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of killing like few can.
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And while the experience will take you to some dark places, it is well worth the venture.
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Number 1 – Berserk
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Whether you're a connoisseur of the medium or a partial partaker, everyone should watch
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this adaptation of one of dark fantasy's greatest entries at least once in their life.
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Because Berserk is unrelenting in its portrayal of sorts and savagery.
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Going from battlefield to battlefield ever since he was a child, the series follows Guts
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as he finds himself joining the mercenary group known as the Band of the Hawk, leading
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to a whirlwind of combat, camaraderie, love and devastating loss.
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The writing is as sublime as the content is unnerving.
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And while every vicious act of it is earned and plays a crucial part in the overarching,
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endlessly bleak narrative, just know that nothing is shied away from here.
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Which anime would you recommend to adults only?
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Interspecies reviewers maybe?
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Let us know in those comments below.
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