Action is one of the most popular genres across anime, if not the most popular. Loved for the dynamic animation and sound design, action anime has been the center of attention for quite a long time.
Though there is not a lot of anime on Amazon Prime, within those, there are few action anime that is worth your time.
So, let’s begin with the list of top 10 action anime on Amazon Prime.
10Re:CREATORS
Re:CREATORS displays the battle between the creators and the ones created.
Re:CREATORS
Air Date: April 8, 2017 Status: Finished Studio: TROYCA No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 22Souta Mizushino wants to create his own unique world through a light novel. While watching anime, he suddenly gets transported into the fight scene he was watching.
But upon returning, he finds out that he is accompanied by the heroine of the anime, Selesia Yupitillia. Soon many other characters begin to arrive, but the one mysterious character arrives whose name is known by none.
Along with Selesia, Souta meets up with a librarian NPC named Meteora to uncover the truth behind this strange turn of events.
9Elfen Lied
Elfen Lied portrays the harsh reality of human psychology.
Elfen Lied
Air Date: July 25, 2004 Status: Finished Studio: Arms No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 13Lucy is a victim of inhumane scientific experimentation by the government as she is a special human breed called “Diclonius.”
Lucy, in the rage of being tormented for so long, unleashes bloodshed as she escapes but receives a crippling head injury leaving her with a split personality.
After that, she meets Kouta and Yuka, who take her in, not knowing of her murderous tendencies. Soon their lives get dragged into government conspiracies involving Lucy.
8Lupin the Third
Lupin the Third is the most classic detective story accompanied by the most cunning thief.
Lupin the Third
Air Date: October 24, 1971 Status: Airing Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha, TMS Entertainment, Telecom Animation Film No. of Seasons: 16 No. of Episodes: 276Arsene Lupin was a high-profile thief known across the world. His notoriety is being carried on by his grandson Arsene Lupin III.
Besides attracting the crime branches and other rival criminals, the one who persistently chases Lupin III is Inspector Zenigata of the ICPO.
Fujiko Mine is the only woman in Lupin III’s life, whom he can’t distinguish as an enemy or an ally. Accompanied by his partner in crime, Daisuke Jigen, Lupin III sets out to conquer the world.
7Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
Kenichi: The Mightiest disciple proves that anyone can surpass their limits to protect their loved ones through a magnificent story.
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
Air Date: October 7, 2006 Status: Finished Studio: TMS Entertainment No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 50Kenichi Shirahama has finally decided to join a Karate club to become strong. Soon after joining the club, he faces a bullying senior trying to kick Kenichi out of the club. Just on the verge of giving up, Kenichi falls for Miu Furinji, a new classmate.
And he begins his intense training at a dojo in Ryouzanpaku where she lives. Soon after beating the senior, the gang named Ragnarok has set their eyes upon him.
To protect his loved ones, Kenichi learns various martial arts like Karate, Muay Thai, Ju-Jitsu, and Chinese Martial Arts to find his own signature style of fighting.
6Inuyashiki: Last Hero
Inuyashiki: Last Hero proves that age is just a number through a mind-wrecking fiction.
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
Air Date: October 13, 2017 Status: Finished Studio: MAPPA No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 11Ichiro Inuyashiki is a 58-year-old man who is having a difficult time in life with indifference with his family and painful back problems.
Soon he is diagnosed with stomach cancer with only three months to live, and he breaks down emotionally.
While on a walk with his dog, he is suddenly covered in smoke from a strange figure. After coming back home, he discovers that he has been reborn as a mechanical weapon, and thus his new life begins.
5Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is an alternative version of Attack on Titan you never knew existed.
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Air Date: April 8, 2016 Status: Finished Studio: Wit Studio No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 12Kabane are human-eating monsters that emerged from a mysterious virus during the Industrial revolution. The only way to kill them is by destroying their steel-coated hearts.
Humanity has survived by building a wall around their habitation where the only way to enter is by a heavily armored train which can pierce their hearts.
Ikoma, a young man with a dream to fight those monsters using the trains, will come sooner than he expected.
4Blade of the Immortal
Humans annihilate each other to gain supremacy, that’s what Blade of Immortals displays.
Blade of the Immortal
Air Date: October 10, 2019 Status: Finished Studio: LIDENFILMS No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 24Manji is a swordsman cursed with immortality by a witch. After getting tired of all the death he has created, Manji decides to regain his mortality by killing a hundred evil men for each of the hundred good men he has killed.
On his journey, he meets a Rin who seeks vengeance against the sword school whose members slaughtered Rin’s family. Rin and Manji set out on their adventure, hoping to find some kind of peace.
3Land of the Lustrous
Land of the Lustrous is about finding a way to get over your weakness.
Land of the Lustrous
Air Date: October 7, 2017 Status: Finished Studio: Orange No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 12The six meteors have destroyed the world, which is currently inhabited by Gems, crystalline organisms. The gems are under continuous attacks by the Lunarians, who want to capture Gems to carve out decorations from their bodies.
Phos is such a gem who is incapable of fighting the war is asked to compile an encyclopedia. Soon Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem, who has been dismissed from the duties of war.
After seeing the struggles of the rejected Gems, Phos decides to find something that the gems similar to them can enjoy.
2Banana Fish
Banana Fish depicts the arduous life of an escapee.
Banana Fish
Air Date: July 6, 2018 Status: Finished Studio: MAPPA No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 24Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, is a runaway, raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine.
While Ash was investigating a mysterious drug called “Banana Fish” at his hideout bar with his friends Shunichi and Eiji, the bar was raided by Dino’s men, who kidnapped both of his friends.
Now he must find a way to rescue them and continue his investigation on “Banana Fish.”
1Dororo
Dororo is surprisingly emotional instead of the bloodsheds.
Dororo
Air Date: January 7, 2019 Status: Finished Studio: Tezuka Productions, MAPPA No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 24To gain power, greedy samurai Lord Daigo Kagemitsu makes a pact with 12 demons, for which he pays the price with his first newborn son’s organs and limbs.
The child still alive was disposed of in a river where he was saved by a medicine man who provides him with prosthetics and weapons to survive in this cruel era.
To get his body back to normal, Hyakkimaru must kill the demons with possession of those organs.
After wandering for several years, one day, he meets with an orphan, Dororo, and befriends him. They set off on a journey in a demon-infested world.
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