The best anime sequels of 2024, ranked

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• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 is a masterpiece, with amazing battles and visuals.
• Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 3 excels as high quality Shonen.
• My Hero Academia Season 7 offers an emotional journey and great quality.

Anime 2024 With series like Freyren: Beyond the Journey's End and Bleach, the thousand-year blood war Leading the race to become the season's top scorer. Every anime season has its ups and downs, and this season was certainly full of pleasant surprises. So, let's take a look at the series sequels that topped the rest of the series in terms of animation quality, post-production, audience and critic scores, but most importantly, dedication to improving their show and presentation. A pleasant experience for fans

8 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Part 2)

A masterpiece full of emotions, action, drama, and attractive images

Part 2 of Freyren: Beyond the Journey's End It has proven to be the best of the best this year, with incredibly good animations, epic battle scenes and action-packed adventure scenes. The climax of the first-class Mage exam in episode 26, The height of magic It has the highest rating (9.4 according to IMDb) The episode featured an incredible battle between the candidates and the Freyren clone, which was one of the most interesting battle scenes of the season.

The producers' dedication to this season showcases the series' full potential as one of the best animated fantasy films of all time. Analyzing this chapter in particular, there is a notorious increase in overall quality. Both its animation, VFX, and character design are second to none. The production team may be perfectionists, but in this second season, they took off their hats.

7 Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (Season 3)

Proof that Ichigo's story still holds the title of best shounen

The third chapter of Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War It's been going strong for a long time, but in the last episode, Don't Chase A Shadow (which aired on November 30, 2024), the quality of the series reached its peak. Highly rated by both audiences and critics, this season epitomizes shounen with incredible battle scenes and quality narrative content. Shunsui unleashed the full power of his bankai and nearly broke the screen with a stunning visual effect.

The flagship series of Tite Kubo was always among the most popular of the audience, but with A thousand-year bloody war It has reached new heights. Since this release window includes other heavyweight Shonen titles such as My Hero Academia S7 and Arifureta S3It's good to see bleach It still has the highest rank among that population.

6 My Hero Academia (Chapter 7)

Heartbreaking, action-packed, best season yet

Chapter 7 of My hero academy It has proven that the series is still strong among all its competitors, although it did not do as well as other seasons, the quality is still at a high level. The battle against Tomura Shigaraki and All for One is depicted as brutal and costly for Deku and his allies, and as the story progresses, the action turns to tragedy as the heroes fall during the fight.

From episode 19 – I Am Here to episode 21 – Battle Without a Quirk, the series reaches its definitive climax, with new friendships formed on the battlefield, heartbreaking tragedy as Ochako finally reaches Toga, and the second Finally it comes to Toga. Able to express his feelings for the last time before death. In this season, both the quality of the animation and the quality of the narration have increased significantly. Despite the inevitable ending, fans are quite satisfied with the show.

5 Re:Zero (Chapter 3)

One of the best fantasy series so far

Answer: Zero Season 3 isn't over yet, with a break from episode 8 (The One I'll Fall in Love With) on February 4, 2025. But before that, let's talk about the overall quality of the series so far. With incredible panoramic views of the devastation wreaked on the city by the witch cult, Subaru and crew desperately try to keep their hopes up and devise a plan to confront Archbishop Sin and stop them in their tracks.

This episode brings out the full narrative power of this Isekai fantasy series with the main character quickly maturing despite all the odds and proving that he is indeed a great hero. The first episode of season 3 has been very interesting for the fans of this series and it promises to be even better next year.

4 Oshi no Ko (chapter 2)

Glitter and darkness, like saffron with rice

Oshi no Ko It's never been about Idols and the glitzy, glitzy entertainment industry, it's about the darkness that lies beneath the stage. In Season 2, the series takes a darker turn and finally becomes the dramatic tragedy it was meant to be. For those who followed the story through the manga and LN, the impact wasn't as drastic, but for anime fans to see it really up close and personal has caused quite a stir.

The use of color contrasts with the eerie dark scenes, soundtrack, scenario designs, and eerie background designs. The quality of the show has been nothing but improving since its initial release in April 2023. Oshi no Ko Season 2 has exceeded audience (and critics) expectations: if the quality improves in subsequent seasons, this bat-drama/reincarnation story will become one of the best expressions of the genre for years to come.

3 Monogatari series – silent and monster season

Beautiful and heartwarming, though a little annoying

Monogatari series It has always been about visual impact and in Silent season and monsters, Aniplex/Kôdansha took this to a whole new level. With beautiful scenery, great use of color and incredible designs. The story of the young Araragi sisters and how their relationship with the mystical world (starting around Koyomi) changes is excellent.

The focus of the narrative in this chapter reveals some very interesting details about Yotsugi Ononoki, one of the most mysterious characters that divides fans between love and hate. This has been one of the best seasons monogamy, Maybe even better than Chizomonogatary, But the world created by Nishio Ishin still has a lot to offer, so we'll see how the power rankings pan out when the producers get to grips with it. Eicosamonogatari For the happiness of their fans

2 DanMachi – Freya Saga (Chapter 5)

Visually polished, but fan service heavy

There's been a lot of fuss surrounding DanMachi Season 5, especially regarding the ending theme (and the animations involved in its production), but more so regarding its overall quality. While there haven't been many dissenting voices regarding the adaptation of the saga of Freya, because many points (cuts) had to be given to see it animated.

Although many believe that Bell Cronnell is a badass main character, the emotional drama depicted in Season 5 has created a stir among his fans, dividing those who are happy with the story's ultimately more mature tone. takes over, and those who consider this change a change. An excuse for extreme fan service, however, the overall production quality is undeniable, and this sequel ranks among the best of 2024.

1 Arifureta: From Commonplace to Strongest World (Chapter 3)

A leap in quality from last season, but watch out for the CGI

Ariforta Chapter 3 Despite all the odds (and too much fanservice) it has surprised fans and delivered a neat and decent story flow, without cutting too much from the novels and manga. Needless to say, it's not the best of the best, but it's pretty average among all the sequels this season. It has improved significantly since Season 2 in both animation and visual effects, but it still relies heavily on CGI, which can be a problem (remember The frame brokefailure).

Before this, the fans expressed distrust towards the production of this series, and considering the strong competition with other shounen series, it performs very well. With that in mind, the producers have finalized the release window (late 2024), and given that other shows have already closed for the season, Ariforta It still has plenty of time to prove its worth.