Anime Animation Quality Tier List: From Masterpieces to Total Disasters 🎨🔥❌

🔥 Top Notch (Masterpiece-Level Animation)

  1. Fate/Series (e.g., Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel, Fate/Zero) – Ufotable’s insane fight animation.
  2. Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) – Ufotable’s smooth animation and vibrant colors.
  3. Jujutsu Kaisen – MAPPA’s peak animation quality.
  4. Attack on Titan (Final Season) – High-detail action scenes.
  5. Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) – Beautiful Makoto Shinkai visuals.
  6. Violet Evergarden – Kyoto Animation’s masterpiece in character emotions and scenery.
  7. Akira – Legendary movie with fluid hand-drawn animation.
  8. Weathering With You – Makoto Shinkai’s god-tier visuals.
  9. The Garden of Words – One of the most visually stunning anime movies.
  10. Chainsaw Man – MAPPA’s dynamic action animation.

âś… Good (Solid Animation, Not Peak)

  1. My Hero Academia (MHA) – Good but inconsistent animation.
  2. Sword Art Online – Good fight scenes but sometimes dips in quality.
  3. Tokyo Revengers – Decent but inconsistent animation.
  4. One Piece (Wano Arc) – Improved greatly, but old episodes had rough animation.
  5. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – High-quality comeback.
  6. Fire Force – Unique fire animation, very fluid.
  7. Mob Psycho 100 – Experimental but smooth animation.
  8. Noragami – Clean action sequences.
  9. Black Clover – Some epic fights but inconsistent overall.
  10. Re:Zero – Good character animation and lighting effects.

❌ Bad (Choppy, Lazy, or Unfinished Animation)

  1. Ex-Arm – Worst CGI anime ever.
  2. Berserk (2016 & 2017) – Horrible CGI ruins the legacy.
  3. Dragon Ball Super (Early Episodes) – Some meme-worthy bad animation.
  4. Arifureta (Season 1) – Terrible CGI and lazy animation.
  5. Hand Shakers – Unwatchable due to its awful shaky CGI.
  6. Pupa – Horribly animated horror.
  7. Woke Up as a Beast (Hensuki Anime Adaptation) – Weird art and bad animation.
  8. The Seven Deadly Sins (Season 3) – Ruined fights with lazy animation.
  9. King’s Game (Ousama Game) – Low-budget, stiff movements.
  10. God of High School (Later Episodes) – Started strong, but rushed fights killed it.