Suicide Squad, One Piece, & Solo Leveling: 2024's 10 Most Anticipated Anime (2024)

While 2023 has marked yet another successful year for the anime industry, with series like Oshi No Ko breaking world records, the most anticipated anime of 2024 promise to top that success. With the medium growing in popularity every year, so comes an increased number of entertaining series worthy of viewer's attention. Moments of intense action with fluid animation, hilarious situational comedies, and heartbreaking dramas are set to entertain fans of every anime genre in 2024.

As great anime continue to be released, the public's open-mindedness towards the medium grows. New series like Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead provided a gateway for horror comedy fans into anime, and long-running series like One Piece consistently spoiled fans caught up with the series, with an epic and incredibly well-produced conclusion of the Wano arc. Still, those great series may be surpassed by what 2024 has in store.

10 Joker & Harley Quinn Go To Another World In Suicide Squad Isekai

The release date for Suicide Squad Isekai is currently TBD in 2024

DC's Suicide Squad has had its share of stories adapted in the past decade, but Suicide Squad Isekai presents the unlikely heroes like never before. First announced by Crunchyroll during Anime Expo 2023, the new series will follow Harley Quinn and The Joker as they are somehow sent to a fantasy world with Suicide Squad members like Clayface, King Shark, Peacemaker, and more. While the ever-popular isekai genre often sends the main protagonists to a strange new world, few stories feature such chaotic – and iconic – pre-established characters being thrust into a fantasy setting, making Suicide Squad Isekai a project that'll likely entertain fans of both DC and anime alike.

9 The Devil May Cry Anime Can Be The Next Great Video Game Adaptation

The current release date for the Netflix Devil May Cry anime is TBD in 2024

The incredibly stylish and over-the-top Devil May Cry series is filled with larger-than-life creatures, cool weapons, and a cocky protagonist in Dante. Such ingredients would make a fun action anime, which producer Adi Shankar (of Netflix's Castlevania and Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix series fame) is setting out to accomplish. While not much information on the Netflix Devil May Cry anime has been released, Shankar has ensured excited fans that they can expect the half-demon/half-human brothers Dante and Vergil in an adaptation that will likely honor the beloved Capcom series much like the Castlevania anime did for its source material.

8 The Egghead Arc Is One Of One Piece's Most Satisfying Arcs

One Piece's Egghead Arc will begin airing on January 7, 2024

While 2023 was the One Piece franchise's biggest year yet, with events like Gear 5 Luffy's debut bringing about the conclusion of the stunningly animated Wano arc, the next arc might surpass it. Manga readers have been delighted by Eiichiro Oda's Egghead Arc, and without spoiling things for anime-only fans, it's been one of the franchise's most satisfying thanks to shocking revelations and surprising battles that quickly begin to top one another until the series' ultimate villains finally reveal themselves. Time will tell if the high bar set by the anime's Wano finale will be able to be topped by One Piece's Egghead Arc.

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7 Dandadan's Offbeat Style Is Set To Defy Anime Fan Expectations

The release date for Dandadan is currently TBD in 2024

Dandadan is a manga series that's risen in popularity at an impressive rate since it debuted in June 2021. The offbeat and stylish series follows two high school students who make a bet on whether aliens or ghosts are real, a bet that would take them both on a larger-than-life adventure. Hot off the incredibly fun Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime, Science Saru is working on an anime adaptation that will take viewers out of this world with its completely wild story and outrageous visuals.

Known for its impressive art, high-octane action, and great character development, Dandadan is surely a sleeper hit manga that will be catapulted to notoriety thanks to this anime adaptation.

6 Bleach's Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 Will Reach Godly Levels

The current release date for Bleach: TYBW Part 3 is TBD in 2024

The resurrected Bleach anime continues to dazzle audiences with its stylish and well-directed adaptation of the epic final arc, The Thousand-Year Blood War. While the manga's original ending was considered rushed, Bleach's anime has confirmed it's different with improvements to the story. Bankai action that was never shown before and an added focus on beloved characters have helped breathe new life into the franchise. Unfortunately, the arc's ultimate antagonist, The Quincy King Yhwach, aims to reshape all life in his image, and the events of Part 3 of Bleach: TYBW might see him do it.

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5 Kaiju No. 8 Has Everything It Needs To Be The Next Big Thing

The current release date for Kaiju No. 8 is April 2024

In the world of Kaiju No. 8, cities being attacked by giant monsters are an everyday occurrence, and to compensate, Japan has established a defense force and clean-up crews that have the unfortunate job of cleaning up the blood and guts of defeated monsters. The hit manga follows a likable cast of characters led by a man who'd previously given up on his dreams, Kafka Hibino. When he suddenly gains incredible kaiju-like powers, Kafka decides to use them to accomplish his dream of being in the defense force. Things quickly take a turn for the chaotic, and new fans can find out why when the Kajiu No. 8 anime releases in April 2024.

4 My Hero Academia Season 7 Will Be The Beginning Of The End

The release date for My Hero Academia Season 7 is currently May 4, 2024

The previous season of My Hero Academia's anime adaptation concluded the anticipated and emotional Vigilante Deku arc, which was a mere appetizer for the events that are to follow. Manga readers have been spoiled by the following arc that season 7 of the My Hero Academia anime is preparing to adapt. With All For One free and Shigaraki continuing to grow even more powerful – Deku, Bakugo, and the rest of Class 1A have a lot to contend with in the beginning of what seems likely to be the final battles in the super-powered shonen series.

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3 Solo Leveling's Anime Adaptation Is One of 2024's Most Anticipated Series

Solo Leveling will begin airing on January 6, 2024

Solo Leveling, much like One-Punch Man, began as a webcomic and grew to such high acclaim that further adaptations became inevitable. Now, the same anime studio that adapted Sword Art Online and Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, A-1 Pictures, is creating what will likely be the first hit anime of 2024. Solo Leveling follows the world's weakest hunter as he works to get stronger in order to provide for his family. However, after a near-death experience, Jinwoo is granted a power that allows him to level up like no other and become a fighter determined to become the best in the world.

2 Demon Slayer's Fourth Season Adapts One Of Its Best Arcs

The current release date for Demon Slayer season 4 is Spring 2024

The Demon Slayer anime adaptation has made waves worldwide with its three previous seasons and feature-length films. The incredibly dramatic and action-packed series tells the tale of Tanjiro and his quest to find a way to revert his demon sister into the human girl she once was. Season 3's shocking ending left many questions unanswered and teased a massive threat that Tanjiro, his sister Nezuko, and the surviving Demon Slayers will need to prepare for in season 4 of Demon Slayer when it begins in Spring 2024.

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1 Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Is Heavily Involved In The New Anime

The release date for Dragon Ball Daima is currently slated for Fall 2024

Dragon Ball Daima is an entirely new anime and story featuring Goku, Vegeta, and many other beloved characters from the franchise. It's been reported that creator Akira Toriyama is more heavily involved in Daima than he was with Dragon Ball Super. Everything fans know about Dragon Ball Daima is still limited, but it seems likely to be released sometime in the Fall of 2024. While the first trailer showed Goku and his friends transforming into their younger selves, the new anime will indeed include epic animation and fun battles. While fans anxiously await the continuation of Dragon Ball Super's story, the franchise has made a habit of exceeding fan's expectations in the past.

Trailers sources: DC, MBSアニメ&ドラマ, Toei, TOHO animation, Crunchyroll Collection (1, 2, 3), Aniplex USA , vizmedia, Netflix /YouTube