Have you ever thought about how life would look like after the world fell apart? With zombies, diseases, unknown creatures, and many more, along with intelligent and determined characters. That’s what Post-Apocalyptic anime offers you.
Here are The Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Anime that will either have you on the edge of your seat or rolling with laughter with the ridiculousness of it.
10Fist of the North Star
Fist of the North Star is set on Earth, which is a wasteland after the nuclear war. On the barren land, the strong prey on the weak. The only way to survive is through martial arts.
Two schools Hokuto and Nanto, compete for dominance. Kenshiro is the successor of the Hokuto school. He travels around the post-apocalyptic world in search of his fiancée Yuria, who was kidnapped by his rival. He faces new people and adventures during his journey.
9High School of the Dead
As the world you know slowly perishes before your eyes, the moral codes that humanity has lived on rot away into the perils of a post-apocalyptic zombie-infected world. This anime follows the life of Takashi Komura as he is faced with the “Outbreak”.
The classmates he used to study with have now been reduced to crooked existences, and he, along with some of his friends and the school nurse, have to navigate this new forsaken reality and avoid being bitten by the zombies.
But zombies aren’t the only enemies that they have to face. In a lawless world, the powerful and the evil try to extort the weak and ensure their survival.
8Heavenly Delusion
Heavenly Delusion focuses on Maru and Kiruko, who travel around the post-apocalyptic world in search of the place they call “heaven”. While in the same world, an institution called “heaven” protects children from the disaster-struck world around them.
Their lands are teemed by monsters that feed on humans. As the two young survivors, Maru and Kiruko, wander in search of their heaven, the children in the institution are curious about the world outside the walls. Both are searching for their answers.
7Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress follows the story of a young engineer, Ikoma, who invents an Anti-Kabane weapon that can be used in killing the monster Kabane. But in the process of making it, he gets infected and now lives as a Kabaneri, a Human-Kabane hybrid, as he can resist the virus.
He travels the world overrun with the Kabane along with another Kabaneri and the rest of the survivors of his station, in a fortified train (hayajirō) known as Kōtetsujō or the iron fortress, in search of other habitable stations and the resources for survival.
6Bubble
Tokyo has become the epicenter of mysterious, gravity-defying bubbles floating throughout the vast city or what’s left of it. In this post-apocalyptic Tokyo, intense parkour competitions occur, with athletes competing for survival supplies.
Hibiki, a highly accomplished parkour athlete whose exceptional skills have earned him the team’s ace, is one of these tracers. He keeps his distance from his comrades due to his hypersensitivity to sound.
This leads him to follow the voice of a woman singing and ultimately engages him in a meeting with Uta, who saved him from drowning when he fell into the water from the tower while searching for the voice. They try to overcome the obstacles and find the mysteries of their world as the story unfolds.
5Gurren Lagann
Simon finds a powerful mecha, Lagann, in a world where humanity is forced to live underground under the tyranny of the spiral king, Lord Genome. Moving forward, Simon, along with Kamina and Yoko, battles the beastmen and their gunmen.
Their goal is to defeat the Spiral King and take back the surface. With their mechas’ help, they beat him and take over the surface. But it seems that more dangers await them as enemies from space try to invade them.
4God Eater
A post-apocalyptic Japan is brought into shambles by mysterious creatures called aragami. Weapons made of aragami cells are made by an organization called Fenrir to take down these monsters.
Lenka Usugi is a new recruit with extraordinary fighting skills, and he uncovers the secrets behind these monsters. Lenka fights fearsome enemies, overcomes obstacles, and works to save humanity from extinction as he tries to find a way to retake the earth from these creatures alongside other God Eaters.
3Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Akira Tendo sighs in relief when he realizes that the world has become perilous due to a zombie apocalypse. He has been working under a suppressing and exploitative marketing firm and found himself in a cycle of endless suffering.
He decides to make a bucket list of what he wants to do before becoming a zombie and steads forth into a journey to cross out all of them. He is joined by some of his friends, who survived the infestation and, hence, embark on their journey together. They navigate their way through the swarms of zombies and, along the way, forge new relations and also strengthen their friendships and beliefs in the future together.
2Darling in the Franxx
Humanity has been brought to the brink of existence by large creatures called Klaxosaurs. They have been forced to live in mechanical moving fortresses and are protected by artificially created humans known as parasites. They defend the fortress with the help of giant mecha robots called Franxx, who can only be piloted by a male and female parasite together (stamen and pistil).
The story follows the life of Hiro and Zero as they pilot the Franxx Strelizia and embark on a mission to fight for humanity’s survival and to uncover secrets about their origins and the real struggle for independence that they have to strive on.
1Dr Stone
A bright light strikes Earth just when Taiju is about to confess his love, turning all the humans into stones. Somehow, Taiju awakens after millennia to find the world around him filled with human stones and flourished nature.
He finds his science lover friend, Senku, ready with a plan to save humanity. But the events further were challenges of his own kind, challenging his ideologies. But the secret of the petrification remains hidden.
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