🏆 All-time Top 6 · 6

• #1The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber

  Jin Yong · 1961

  Zhang Wuji and the fight over the Heaven Sword and the Dragon Saber. The third book of the Condor Trilogy.

• 

  #2The Legend of the Condor Heroes

  Jin Yong · 1957

  Guo Jing, raised on the Mongolian steppe, and the clever Huang Rong. The first book of the Condor Trilogy.

• #3The Return of the Condor Heroes

  Jin Yong · 1959

  Yang Guo and his teacher Xiaolongnü. The second book of the Condor Trilogy.

• #4The Book and the Sword

  Jin Yong · 1955

  Chen Jialuo and the Red Flower Society in the Qianlong era. Jin Yong’s first novel.

• #5Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

  Jin Yong · 1963

  Three sworn brothers, Qiao Feng, Duan Yu, and Xuzhu, in the Northern Song era.

• #6Twin Dragons of the Tang

  Huang Yi · 1996

  At the fall of the Sui, two street kids from Yangzhou, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, rise to shape the empire.

Wuxia · 13

• Kunlun

  Feng Ge · 2006

  In the last years of the Southern Song, Liang Xiao builds martial arts on mathematics and is swept into the war between Song and Yuan.

• Sword Snow Stride

  Fenghuo Xi Zhuhou · 2012

  Xu Fengnian, heir of the Prince of Beiliang, and his journey through the jianghu and the empire.

• The Smiling, Proud Wanderer

  Jin Yong · 1967

  The free-spirited swordsman Linghu Chong amid rivalries among the martial schools.

• The Deer and the Cauldron

  Jin Yong · 1969

  Wei Xiaobao, a streetwise boy who rises in the Kangxi Emperor’s court. Jin Yong’s last full-length novel.

• Sword Stained with Royal Blood

  Jin Yong · 1956

  Yuan Chengzhi at the end of the Ming dynasty.

• Ode to Gallantry

  Jin Yong · 1965

  Shi Potian, a guileless young man who is mistaken for someone else.

• A Deadly Secret

  Jin Yong · 1963

  Di Yun, a country boy betrayed and imprisoned, and the secret of a hidden treasure.

• The Young Flying Fox

  Jin Yong · 1960

  The youth of Hu Fei, before Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain.

• Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain

  Jin Yong · 1959

  An old feud between the Hu and Miao families, told over a single day.

• White Horse Neighs in the Western Wind

  Jin Yong · 1961

  Li Wenxiu, a Han girl who grows up among the Kazakhs.

• Blade-dance of the Two Lovers

  Jin Yong · 1961

  A lighthearted novella about the pair of Mandarin Duck Blades.

• Sword of the Yue Maiden

  Jin Yong · 1970

  A short story set in the Spring and Autumn period, about the swordswoman Aqing.

• Ever Night

  Mao Ni · 2011

  Ning Que, a young soldier from the frontier, enters the Academy with his maid Sang Sang and begins to cultivate.

Cultivation · 2

• A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality

  Wang Yu · 2008

  Han Li, a village boy of ordinary talent, climbs the path of cultivation through caution and grit.

• Battle Through the Heavens

  Tian Can Tu Dou · 2009

  Xiao Yan, a fallen prodigy who lost his power, rises again with the help of the spirit Yao Lao.

Sci-fi & fantasy · 2

• Versatile Mage

  Luan · 2014

  Mo Fan wakes up in a world where magic has replaced science, and finds he can master more than one element.

• The Necromancer

Political intrigue · 3

• Nirvana in Fire

  Hai Yan · 2007

  Mei Changsu returns to the capital under a new name to clear the names of those wronged twelve years before.

• Nirvana in Fire II: The Wind Blows in Chang Lin

  Hai Yan · 2017

  The sequel to Nirvana in Fire, following the Changlin Army’s Xiao Pingjing and his brother Xiao Pingzhang.

• Joy of Life

  Mao Ni · 2007

  Fan Xian, reborn with memories of the modern world, finds his own way through palace intrigue.

Light novel · 1

• 

  Classroom of the Elite

  Shōgo Kinugasa · 2015

  Kiyotaka Ayanokōji at an elite school where students are ranked purely on merit. A light novel series.

🏆 All-time Top 5 · 5

• 

  #186 —Eighty-Six—

  A-1 Pictures · 2021

  Lena and the Spearhead squadron of the Eighty-Six fight a war the Republic claims is fought by drones. Based on the light novel by Asato Asato.

• 

  #2Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

  J.C.Staff · 2015

  Sōma Yukihira cooks his way through the elite Tōtsuki culinary academy, one food duel at a time. Based on the manga by Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki.

• 

  #3Naruto

  Studio Pierrot · 2002

  Naruto Uzumaki, an outcast ninja kid, sets out to become Hokage, the leader of his village.

• 

  #4Your lie in April

  A-1 Pictures · 2014

  Piano prodigy Kōsei Arima, who can no longer hear his own playing, meets the free-spirited violinist Kaori Miyazono.

• 

  #5ONE PIECE

  Toei Animation · 1999

  Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates sail the Grand Line in search of the legendary treasure, the One Piece.

Romance · 5

• 

  My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

  Brain's Base · 2013

  Loner Hachiman Hikigaya is made to join the Service Club with Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama, helping classmates with their problems.

• 

  Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

  CloverWorks · 2018

  Sakuta Azusagawa meets Mai Sakurajima, a senpai in a bunny suit whom no one else can see, and runs into one case of “Adolescence Syndrome” after another.

• 

  My Dress-Up Darling

  CloverWorks · 2022

  Wakana Gojō, who wants to craft hina dolls, and Marin Kitagawa, a cheerful girl who loves cosplay.

• 

  Horimiya

  CloverWorks · 2021

  Popular Kyōko Hori and quiet Izumi Miyamura discover each other’s hidden sides outside school.

• 

  Blue Box

  Telecom Animation Film · 2024

  Badminton player Taiki Inomata has a crush on Chinatsu Kano, a basketball star a year above him, and then she comes to live at his house.

School · 3

• 

  Assassination Classroom

  Lerche · 2015

  Class 3-E has one school year to assassinate their teacher, a super-creature called Koro-sensei.

• 

  Classroom of the Elite

  Lerche · 2017

  Kiyotaka Ayanokōji hides his true ability at a school where merit decides everything.

• 

  Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life

  Platinum Vision · 2019

  Delinquent Chika Kudō joins a koto club with only one member left, Takezō Kurata, and helps bring it back to life.

Isekai · 3

• 

  Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

  Studio Bind · 2021

  A man who wasted his life is reborn in another world as Rudeus Greyrat, and resolves to live this one properly.

• 

  That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

  8-bit · 2018

  Office worker Satoru Mikami is killed and reborn in another world as a slime named Rimuru.

• 

  Dr. STONE

  TMS Entertainment · 2019

  Thousands of years after all humans were turned to stone, science-loving Senku sets out to rebuild civilization.

Battle · 3

• 

  Hunter x Hunter (2011)

  MADHOUSE · 2011

  Gon sets out to become a Hunter and find his father, who is one.

• 

  Attack on Titan

  WIT STUDIO · 2013

  After the Titans break through the walls, Eren swears to wipe out every last one.

• 

  Black Clover

  Studio Pierrot · 2017

  Asta, born without magic in a world where everyone has it, aims to become the Wizard King.

Sports · 2

• 

  Aoashi

  Production I.G · 2022

  Ashito Aoi from Ehime joins a J-League youth team in Tokyo and is moved from striker to fullback.

• 

  HAIKYU!!

  Production I.G · 2014

  Short but fearless Shōyō Hinata teams up with genius setter Tobio Kageyama on Karasuno High’s volleyball team.

Slice of life · 3

• 

  SPY x FAMILY

  CloverWorks, WIT STUDIO · 2022

  Spy Twilight builds a fake family for a mission, not knowing his wife is an assassin and his daughter reads minds.

• 

  Teasing Master Takagi-san

  Shin-Ei Animation · 2018

  Nishikata keeps trying to get back at Takagi, the girl next to him who loves to tease him.

• 

  Ya Boy Kongming!

  P.A.WORKS · 2022

  Zhuge Kongming, the Three Kingdoms strategist, is reborn in modern Shibuya and becomes the tactician for singer Eiko.

Other · 4

• 

  Run with the Wind

  Production I.G · 2018

  Haiji Kiyose rallies the ten residents of his dorm to run the Hakone Ekiden.

• 

  Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You

  Asahi Production · 2026

  Tired office worker Sasaki unwinds after work by smoking and chatting with Yamada, a clerk, behind the supermarket.

• 

  The Apothecary Diaries

  OLM, TOHO animation STUDIO · 2023

  Maomao, an apothecary sold into the imperial palace, solves the court’s mysteries with her knowledge of medicine.

• 

  Detective Conan

  TMS Entertainment · 1996

  High-school detective Shinichi Kudo is poisoned and shrunk into a child, and keeps solving cases as Conan Edogawa.

US series · 7

• 

  Friends

  NBC · 1994

  Six friends in New York City, their jobs, and their love lives.

• 

  The Big Bang Theory

  CBS · 2007

  Caltech physicists Leonard and Sheldon, their friends, and Penny from across the hall.

• 

  Lucifer

  Fox · Netflix · 2016

  Bored of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar opens a nightclub in Los Angeles and starts consulting for the LAPD.

• 

  Designated Survivor

  ABC · Netflix · 2016

  After an attack destroys the Capitol, low-ranking cabinet member Tom Kirkman suddenly becomes President.

• 

  Money Heist (La Casa de Papel)

  Antena 3 · Netflix · 2017

  “The Professor” leads a crew code-named after cities in a heist on Spain’s Royal Mint.

• 

  The Queen’s Gambit

  Netflix · 2020

  Beth Harmon, raised in an orphanage, becomes a chess prodigy.

• 

  Young Sheldon

  CBS · 2017

  Nine-year-old genius Sheldon Cooper starts high school in East Texas.

Korean dramas · 5

• 

  Dr. Romantic

  SBS · 2016

  At a small hospital far from the city, genius surgeon “Teacher Kim” trains young doctors.

• 

  Hospital Playlist

  tvN · 2020

  Five friends from medical school work at the same hospital, and play in a band together.

• 

  Crash Landing on You

  tvN · 2019

  A paragliding accident lands South Korean heiress Yoon Se-ri in North Korea, where she meets officer Ri Jeong-hyeok.

• 

  Extraordinary Attorney Woo

  ENA · 2022

  Woo Young-woo, a brilliant rookie lawyer on the autism spectrum, takes on case after case.

• 

  Queen of Tears

  tvN · 2024

  Chaebol heiress Hong Hae-in and her husband Baek Hyun-woo, a boy from the countryside, in a marriage in crisis.

Chinese dramas · 7

• 

  Joy of Life

  Tencent Video · iQIYI · 2019

  Based on Mao Ni’s novel: Fan Xian grows up in an ancient kingdom with the memories of a modern man.

• 

  Nirvana in Fire

  Beijing TV · Dragon TV · 2015

  Based on Hai Yan’s novel: Mei Changsu returns to the capital under a new name to right an old injustice.

• 

  The Story of Rose

  Tencent Video · 2024

  Liu Yifei as Huang Yimei, through love and life from university to middle age.

• 

  Three Kingdoms

  Jiangsu TV · 2010

  An adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from the end of the Han to the unification under Jin.

• 

  King’s War

  Hunan TV · 2012

  The struggle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu after the fall of the Qin.

• 

  Mobius

  iQIYI · 2025

  A detective who can relive the same day five times races to solve a case.

• 

  Love Like the Galaxy

  Tencent Video · 2022

  Cheng Shaoshang and General Ling Buyi, a love story set in an ancient court.

Japanese dramas · 1

• 

  Grand Maison Tokyo

  TBS · 2019

  After a fall from grace in Paris, chef Natsuki Obana (Takuya Kimura) sets out to build a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Tokyo with Rinko Hayami.

🏆 All-time Top 6 · 6

• 

  #1The Shawshank Redemption

  Frank Darabont · 1994

  Andy Dufresne, a banker wrongly jailed for murder, never gives up hope inside Shawshank prison.

• 

  #2Lost on Journey

  Raymond Yip · 2010

  A businessman and a milk-factory worker share one disaster after another on the Chinese New Year trip home.

• 

  #33 Idiots

  Rajkumar Hirani · 2009

  Three friends at an engineering college, and Rancho’s rebellion against learning by rote.

• 

  #4Green Book

  Peter Farrelly · 2018

  In 1962, driver Tony Lip takes pianist Don Shirley on a concert tour of the Deep South.

• 

  #5Oppenheimer

  Christopher Nolan · 2023

  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.

• 

  #6Star Wars

  George Lucas · 1977

  Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo take on the Galactic Empire.

• 

  Honolulu

  Hawaii · 2025-01

• 

  Canada

  Canada · 2025-01

• 

  Portland

  Oregon · 2025-01

• 

  San Francisco

  California · 2025-01

• 

  Seattle

  Home · Washington

• 

  Los Angeles

  California · 2025-01

• 

  San Diego

  California · 2025-01

• 

  Las Vegas

  Nevada · 2025-01

• 

  Page

  Arizona · 2025-01

• 

  Toronto

  Canada · 2025-01

• 

  New York

  New York · 2025-01

• 

  Boston

  Massachusetts · 2025-01

• 

  Portugal

  Portugal · 2025-01

• 

  Spain

  Spain · 2019-03

• 

  Belgium

  Belgium · 2025-01

• 

  Netherlands

  Netherlands · 2025-01

• 

  Switzerland

  Switzerland · 2025-01

• 

  Germany

  Germany · 2025-01

• 

  Norway

  Norway · 2025-01

• 

  Denmark

  Denmark · 2025-01

• 

  Czech Republic

  Czech Republic · 2025-01

• 

  Vienna

  Austria · 2025-01

• 

  Sweden

  Sweden · 2025-01

• 

  Finland

  Finland · 2025-01

• 

  Turkey

  Turkey · 2025-01

• 

  Russia

  Russia · 2025-01

• 

  Dubai

  United Arab Emirates · 2025-01

• 

  Thailand

  Thailand · 2025-01

• 

  Malaysia

  Malaysia · 2025-01

• 

  Singapore

  Singapore · 2025-01

• 

  Xi'an

  China · 2025-01

• 

  Macau

  Macau · 2025-01

• 

  Hong Kong

  Hong Kong · 2025-01

• 

  Beijing

  China · 2025-01

• 

  Shandong

  China · 2025-01

• 

  Hsinchu & Zhubei

  Home · Taiwan

• 

  Shanghai

  China · 2025-01

• 

  Taipei

  Taiwan · 2025-01

• 

  Seoul

  South Korea · 2025-01

• 

  Okinawa

  Japan · 2025-01

• 

  Busan

  South Korea · 2025-01

• 

  Osaka

  Japan · 2025-01

• 

  Kyoto

  Japan · 2025-01

• 

  Tokyo

  Japan · 2025-01

• 

  Hokkaido

  Japan · 2025-01

• 

  Australia

  Australia · 2025-01

• 

  New Zealand

  New Zealand · 2025-01

• 

  Lionel Messi

  Football · Argentina

  Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner and captain of Argentina’s 2022 FIFA World Cup–winning team.

• 

  Novak Djokovic

  Tennis · Serbia

  Holds the record for the most Grand Slam men’s singles titles, and won Olympic gold at Paris 2024.

• 

  LeBron James

  Basketball · United States

  Four-time NBA champion and the league’s all-time leading scorer.

• 

  Xu Xin

  Table tennis · China

  Left-handed penhold star nicknamed the “Cloud Walker,” and Olympic team gold medalist at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.