Best post-apocalyptic anime
356 anime about post-apocalyptic, ranked by community score. Tags come from AniList voters; the percentage on each title page says how strongly the tag applies.
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3.4Aquarion
TV · 2005 · 26 ep
AquarionSousei no AquarionTV · 2005 · 26 ep3.4When the Shadow Angels invade after 12,000 years of slumber, humanity is held captive by fear and sheer alien dominance. Eleven years after the Great Catastrophe decimated the world, most of those left alive are scavengers, dirty and…
3.4SNOWBALL EARTH
TV · 2026 · 13 ep
SNOWBALL EARTHSnowball EarthTV · 2026 · 13 ep3.4"Yukio... I'm going to make a friend." A shy boy named Tetsuo. The only thing he had was a giant robot named Yukio. They became "saviors" in the fight against the galactic monsters coming from outer space. After the final battle, Tetsuo…
3.4Sand Land
Movie · 2023 · 1 ep
Sand LandMovie · 2023 · 1 ep3.4In a desert world where both demons and humans suffer from an extreme water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag-team and set off on an adventure in search of the Phantom Lake somewhere in…
3.4Legend of Basara
TV · 1998 · 13 ep
Legend of BasaraTV · 1998 · 13 ep3.4In a small village, twins are born: a boy, Tatara, and a girl, Sarasa. The prophet Nagi declares that Tatara is the chosen one who will free Japan from the tyrannical rule of the King and his four sons. But when the ruthless Red King slays…
3.4RahXephon: The Motion Picture
Movie · 2003 · 1 ep
RahXephon: The Motion PictureRahXephon: Tagen HensoukyokuMovie · 2003 · 1 ep3.4Ayato Kamina was separated from the girl he loved, Haruka Mishima, when an event occurred that was thought to have killed everyone outside of Tokyo. But one day three years later, invaders suddenly attacked the city. It was then that he…
3.4Sakura Nagashi
Special · 2016 · 1 ep
Sakura NagashiSpecial · 2016 · 1 ep3.4Singer Hikaru Utada's YouTube channel began streaming a music video for their song "Sakura Nagashi," the theme song for Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo, set to scenes from the film. The music video features cuts that were not used in…
3.3VAMPIRE HUNTER D
Movie · 1985 · 1 ep
VAMPIRE HUNTER DVampire Hunter DMovie · 1985 · 1 ep3.310,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equiped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story…
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3.3The Grimm Variations
ONA · 2024 · 6 ep
The Grimm VariationsGrimm KumikyokuONA · 2024 · 6 ep3.3Once upon a time, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm collected fairy tales from across the land and made them into a book. They also had a much younger sister, the innocent and curious Charlotte, who they loved very much. One day, while the…
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3.3Blue Gender
TV · 1999 · 26 ep
Blue GenderTV · 1999 · 26 ep3.3Imagine waking after spending more than two decades in suspended animation. You awaken to a world more terrifying than your worst nightmare. A world where human beings are hunted down by giant insect-like creatures called the Blue. Welcome…
3.3Blue Submarine No. 6
OVA · 1998 · 4 ep
Blue Submarine No. 6Ao no 6-gouOVA · 1998 · 4 ep3.3The once famous and well respected scientist Zorndyke has bred a new genre of living being, one that thrives on the oceans and lives to destroy humans. Zorndyke believes it is time that the humans were relieved of their rule of the earth…
3.3Shangri-la
TV · 2009 · 24 ep
Shangri-laShangri-LaTV · 2009 · 24 ep3.3In the distant future, earthquakes and the effects of global warming have splintered Japanese society. Some struggle hand-to-mouth in the jungle-tangled ruins of civilization. Some live comfortably within the closed-off city of Atlas…
3.3Touring After the Apocalypse
TV · 2025 · 12 ep
Touring After the ApocalypseShuumatsu TouringTV · 2025 · 12 ep3.3Two young girls, Youko and Airi, travel through an empty post-apocalyptic world. They photograph the scenery of famous places all to themselves and camp out in towns full of nature. The two of them ride and travel on a Serow off-road…
3.3Shirobako Specials
Special · 2015 · 2 ep
Shirobako SpecialsSpecial · 2015 · 2 ep3.3Specials included with third and seventh volumes of the SHIROBAKO Blu-ray/DVD. Episodes: #1) Episode 1 of Musashino Animation's Exodus! #2) Episode 1 of Musashino Animation's Daisan Hikou Shoujo-Tai
3.3Sky Girls
TV · 2007 · 26 ep
Sky GirlsTV · 2007 · 26 ep3.3In the near future, Earth is at war with aliens called Worms. The war leaves the population of Earth decimated, with young men the main casualties. The Worms were beaten back but their re-emergence heralds the creation of a mecha unit…
3.3Inazuma Eleven Go vs. Danball Senki W Movie
Movie · 2012 · 1 ep
Inazuma Eleven Go vs. Danball Senki W MovieMovie · 2012 · 1 ep3.3The "Inazuma Legend Japan" that won the FFI one day and the "New Inazuma Eleven", that played through the Holy Road Tournament are having an exhibition match. But suddenly a lot of little objects appear and start attacking the stadium…
3.3Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story
TV · 2008 · 13 ep
Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star StoryHokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden Ten no HaohTV · 2008 · 13 ep3.3In the wastelands following the great nuclear war, a legend grew of a man. “Hokuto No Ken.” The Fist of the North Star. Master of a legendary fighting technique. A man of impossible strength and endurance. Yet before Ken…
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3.3Fantascope Tylostoma
OVA · 2006 · 1 ep
Fantascope TylostomaFantascope: TylostomaOVA · 2006 · 1 ep3.3A man who appears every 700 years. Stretching before the man's eyes the world rusted away to monochrome and gray. Once before the town flourished that is now in ruins. The man now, has a chance meeting with a person, a prositute. A story…
3.3Fist of the North Star: The Legend of the True Savior: Legend of Yuria
OVA · 2007 · 1 ep
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of the True Savior: Legend of YuriaHokuto no Ken: Yuria-denOVA · 2007 · 1 ep3.3The second part of the new Hokuto no Ken pentalogy. The story of this OVA centers around Yuria. (Source: Wikipedia)
3.3ALDNOAH.ZERO Season 2
TV · 2015 · 12 ep
ALDNOAH.ZERO Season 2Aldnoah.Zero Part 2TV · 2015 · 12 ep3.3Seeking for revenge, Count Saazbaum, a Martian, attacked the Earth. Later on, the war between the Terrans and Martians ended with Earth's Terrans gaining the victory. However, nineteen months later, the battle between them continues…
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3.3ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!
TV · 2026 · 12 ep
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!"Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omouna" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni KurashitaiTV · 2026 · 12 ep3.3Flum has been chosen by God to be in the hero's party despite having stats of zero across the board. All she has is the "Reversal" ability that she still doesn't fully understand. Predictably, she proves useless in battle, but she refuses…
3.3Origin: Spirits of the Past
Movie · 2006 · 1 ep
Origin: Spirits of the PastGiniro no Kami no AgitoMovie · 2006 · 1 ep3.3Long ago, the Forest was awakened and the Moon unleashed a ravenous Beast upon the Earth. Centuries later, as humanity struggle to coexist with the Forest, Agito revives slumbering Toola, who calls forth ancient technology to reshape the…
3.3The Magnificent KOTOBUKI
TV · 2019 · 12 ep
The Magnificent KOTOBUKIKouya no Kotobuki HikoutaiTV · 2019 · 12 ep3.3The story takes place in a barren frontier where people trade goods with each other in order to help each other survive. The Kotobuki Squadron are bodyguards for hire, led by a strict but beautiful squadron leader, an unreliable commanding…
3.3kemurikusa.
TV · 2019 · 12 ep
kemurikusa.Kemurikusa (TV)TV · 2019 · 12 ep3.3The science-fiction action story follows girls who fight with weird entities nicknamed "mushi" (bugs) and survive in a world of red fog. (Source: Anime News Network) Based on Tatsuki's winning entry from the '24th 3D Anime Contest' in 2012…
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3.3Appleseed (Movie)
Movie · 2004 · 1 ep
Appleseed (Movie)Movie · 2004 · 1 ep3.3Growing out of the chaos of a global war, the city of Utopia is populated by humans and bioroids (artificial humans). On the surface, everything is harmonious, but tensions lurk. Into this seemingly perfect society comes a survivor of the…
3.3Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi: Kioku
Special · 2014 · 1 ep
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi: KiokuSpecial · 2014 · 1 ep3.3Unaired episode 13 of Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi.
3.3Shinzo
TV · 2000 · 32 ep
ShinzoMushramboTV · 2000 · 32 ep3.3Humanity is exterminated by a genetic race they created to fight a deadly virus. One of the scientists brings his young daughter into a cryogenic sleep, hoping that she will awaken one day and find surviving humans, so that she can bring…
3.3Phoenix: Eden17
ONA · 2023 · 4 ep
Phoenix: Eden17Hi no Tori: Eden no SoraONA · 2023 · 4 ep3.3The anime follows a woman named Romi and her partner as they depart from the devastated Earth and head for a new life on the planet Eden17. However, life has already been made extinct on the new world, so Romi finds herself eking out an…
3.2THE NEW GATE
TV · 2024 · 12 ep
THE NEW GATEThe New GateTV · 2024 · 12 ep3.2When an online game turns real, trapping its players in its virtual space, the strongest of them, Shin, rises up to put a stop to the madness. But just moments after defeating the game’s final boss, Origin, and freeing everyone, Shin is…
3.2Otherside Picnic
TV · 2021 · 12 ep
Otherside PicnicUrasekai PicnicTV · 2021 · 12 ep3.2Moments from death, Sorawo is saved by the mysterious Toriko in the Otherside. Attracted to its beauty, she soon discovers that this dimension is inhabited by monsters once thought imaginary. Joining with Toriko in her search for a missing…
3.2Dusk Beyond the End of the World
TV · 2025 · 13 ep
Dusk Beyond the End of the WorldTowa no YuugureTV · 2025 · 13 ep3.2When growing tensions around AI spark civil unrest, Akira is caught in the crossfire when he protects his girlfriend from an assassin’s bullet. Hundreds of years later, he awakens from cryogenic sleep to an unfamiliar world. As he…
3.2Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas
OVA · 2012 · 1 ep
Guilty Crown: Lost ChristmasGuilty Crown: Lost Christmas - An Episode of Port TownOVA · 2012 · 1 ep3.2A DVD with an animated short bundled with the limited edition of the PC game "Guilty Crown Lost Christmas". In 2029, Scrooge escapes from a research facility where he had been confined as an experimental subject. His body was remodeled by…
3.2Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
TV · 2023 · 11 ep
Kaina of the Great Snow SeaOoyukiumi no KainaTV · 2023 · 11 ep3.2A world blanketed in an endless and ever-growing ocean of snow. The people eke out a living, either huddled around the roots of enormous trees dotting the surface, or high in the canopy, which spreads over the planet's atmosphere. A chance…
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3.2Kurozuka
TV · 2008 · 12 ep
KurozukaTV · 2008 · 12 ep3.2Adaptation of Takashi Noguchi’s manga, which itself adapts Baku Yumemakura’s supernatural romance novel. The original novel is about a 12th-century man named Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Kurou). Kurou flees into the mountains after…
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3.2King of Thorn
Movie · 2009 · 1 ep
King of ThornIbara no OuMovie · 2009 · 1 ep3.2Panic spreads worldwide as the Medousa Virus threatens to wipe out the human race. Kasumi is one of 160 people chosen to be cryogenically frozen while a cure is found. When she awakens to find the facility overrun with thorny vines and…
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3.2Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance
TV · 2026 · 12 ep
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze VengeanceMahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze VengeanceTV · 2026 · 12 ep3.2Thirty years ago, the world was nearly destroyed by the sudden appearance of unknown "invasive alien species." Humans and these “invasive species” continue to vie for living space, and while humanity’s safety is currently barely secured…
3.2Monster Rancher
TV · 1999 · 48 ep
Monster RancherMonster Farm: Enbanseki no HimitsuTV · 1999 · 48 ep3.2Genki is a boy who loves playing video games. One day he's zapped into the world of Monster Rancher and meets the girl Holly and the monsters Mochi, Suezo, Golem, Tiger and Hare. Together, they are searching for a way to revive the…