Adventure anime and manga
The guide lists 1,029 titles tagged adventure. The genre peaked in the 2000s (273 titles). Studios with the most adventure titles: Toei Animation (70), TMS Entertainment (34) and Sunrise (32). It often comes paired with fantasy, action and science fiction.
Best-known adventure anime
- One Piece 1999
- Digimon Frontier 2002
- Digimon Adventure 02 2000
- Digimon Adventure 1999
- Digimon Tamers 2001
- Dragon Ball Super 2015
- Dragon Ball Z 1989
- Fairy Tail 2009
- Naruto: Shippūden 2007
- Naruto 2002
- Frieren 2023
- Dragon Ball 1986
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 2009
- Jujutsu Kaisen 2020
- Transformers: The Headmasters 1987
- Pokémon 1997
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX 2004
- Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 2024
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 2000
- Fullmetal Alchemist 2003
- KonoSuba 2016
- Attack on Titan 2013
- Shaman King 2001
- Space Battleship Yamato 1974
- Last Exile 2003
- Hunter × Hunter 2011
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water 1990
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross 1982
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 2019
- Vicky the Viking 1974
Best-known adventure anime films
- One Piece: Stampede 2019
- One Piece Film: Red 2022
- One Piece Film: Gold 2016
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
- KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson 2019
- Howl's Moving Castle 2004
- Castle in the Sky 1986
- Dōbutsu no Mori 2005
- Porco Rosso 1992
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light 2004
- Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva 2009
- Ponyo 2008
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond 2022
- Suzume 2022
- The Cat Returns 2002
- The Boy and the Heron 2023
- Whisper of the Heart 1995
- Stand by Me Doraemon 2014
- Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom 2024
- Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions 2018
- Pokémon The Movie 2000 1999
- Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale 2017
- Pokémon: The First Movie 1998
- Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew 2005
- Pokémon 3: The Movie 2000
- Tokyo Godfathers 2003
- Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction 2014
- Pokémon Heroes 2002
- Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone 1989
- Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys 2004
Best-known adventure manga
- One Piece 1997
- Naruto 1999
- Fairy Tail 2006
- Doraemon 1969
- Attack on Titan 2009
- Fullmetal Alchemist 2001
- Inuyasha 1996
- Ranma ½ 1987
- Frieren 2020
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Jujutsu Kaisen 2018
- Shaman King 1998
- My Hero Academia 2014
- Delicious in Dungeon 2014
- Dragon Ball 1984
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi 2003
- Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 2018
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 2016
- Hunter × Hunter 1998
- Zatch Bell! 2001
- Saiyuki 1999
- Claymore 2007
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Yu Yu Hakusho 1990
- Black Clover 2015
- Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai 1989
- Made in Abyss 2012
- The Seven Deadly Sins 2012
- D.Gray-man 2004
- GetBackers 1999