10 Best Survival Anime That You Should Watch Now

1. God Eater

After a one-week delay, it premiered on July 12, 2015, thanks to Ufotable’s animation. MVM Films later bought it in December 2017 with the intention of releasing it that same year. In the year 2071, a group known as Fenrir, based in the post-apocalyptic nation of the New Asian Union, uses supernatural weapons known as “God Arcs” to aid mankind to defend itself against Aragami monsters. God Arcs are made of biological material known as “Oracle Cells” and are wielded by a troop of warriors known as “God Eaters.” The original Arcs could only switch between melee and ranged attacks, but a new sort of God Arc was created soon.

God Eater

2. Terra Formars

Terra Formars is a manga series written by Y Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana published in Japan. Since 2011, it has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine. Scientists from the twenty-first century have been charged with terraforming Mars in order to populate the planet. Their objective is to seed the Earth with modified algae that absorb sunlight and purify the air, as well as cockroaches whose bodies spread the algae as they feed. After being assaulted by huge mutant humanoid cockroaches with extraordinary physical power, subsequently named “Terraformars,” the very first crew ship to Mars arrives, and its six members of the crew are wiped off after transmitting a warning back to Earth.

Terra Formars

Two years later, BUGS II, a multinational mission of genetically modified people, is dispatched to gather ten samples of both sexes of roaches and eradicate the altered insects in order to seize control of Mars. Only two survivors make it back to Earth, one vowing to seek vengeance for their slain comrades.

Most of the crew members die on the third trip, either battling the Terraformars or fighting between themselves in a multi-sided struggle between the many groups aboard the ship, each with their own competing goals. Despite this, the few victims manage to gather enough samples for A.E. Virus research and return home. However, when it is discovered that the Terraformars have been on Earth for a long time, they begin ake over the globe after proliferating at an alarming pace and adapting considerably better to their new surroundings than they did on their homeworld.

3. Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online is a Reki Kawahara-written and ABEC-illustrated Japanese light novel series. According to the story, Sword Art Online, a hugely multiplayer virtual reality online role-playing game, was released in 2022. Players may experience and control their in-game characters using their brains via the NerveGear, a helmet that activates the user’s five senses via their brain. On November 6, 10,000 players logged in for the first time to SAO’s mainframe cyberspace, only to find that they were unable to log out. Kayaba enters and informs the players that if they want to be free, they must defeat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel fortress that serves as the setting for SAO. He further claims that people who die in-game or evict the NerveGear outside of the game will die in real life.

Sword Art Online

Kazuto “Kirito” Kirigaya, one of the gamers, was one of 1,000 testers in the game’s prior closed beta. He isolates himself from the larger groups and plays the game alone, assuming the moniker “beater,” a combination of “beta tester” and “cheater,” as a result of his past VR gaming experience and a desire to shield other beta testers from discrimination. As the game progresses, Kirito befriends a young woman named Asuna Yuuki, with whom he ultimately forms a connection and subsequently marries in-game. When the duo discovers Kayaba’s hidden ID, who was operating as the guild’s leader when Asuna got in, they approach and destroy him, allowing them and the other players to exit the game.

4. Deadman Wonderland

Deadman Wonderland is a Japanese manga series published in Shōnen Ace since 2008, written by Jinsei Kataoka and drawn by Kazuma Kondou, who previously authored and created the Eureka Seven manga. Before closing down its North American Publishing branch in 2011, Tokyopop obtained the license rights to market the manga in English as well as released the first five volumes of the manga. On July 7, 2013, Viz Media announced that the series had been licensed for English publication in North America, and on February 11, 2014, the first book was released. Fresh volumes were subsequently published every two months following.

Deadman Wonderland

A gigantic anomaly triggered a catastrophic earthquake that wreaked havoc on Japan’s mainland and devastated much of Tokyo, submerging three-quarters of the city under the Pacific Ocean. The tale turns ten years later to Ganta Igarashi, a fairly average middle school student in Nagano Prefecture. Ganta, as an earthquake escapee and survivor, has no recollection of the catastrophe and has led a regular life. When a mysterious creature dressed in crimson armor glides through his classroom windows, everything changes. The “Red Man” murders Ganta’s whole class while grinning maniacally. Rather than murdering Ganta, the “Red Man” places a red crystal shard inside his chest. Ganta is brought to trial as a suspect just days after the tragedy.

5. 7 Seeds

Yumi Tamura’s manga series 7 Seeds is a Japanese manga series authored and drawn by her. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic era, soon enough after a meteorite strikes Earth for new species to emerge, and it chronicles the efforts of five groups of young people to live after being recovered from cryonic storage. The term stems from the Japanese government’s requirement that five groups of people be kept in cryogenic chambers with supplies known as “seeds.”

7 Seeds

When scientists warn that perhaps the Earth will be struck by a meteorite, world leaders gather to devise the Seven Seeds project, a strategy for human survival. Each country decides to use cryogenics to save a large number of healthy young individuals, allowing many to survive the impact’s destruction. Each group will be revived after a computer has determined that Earth is once again safe for human life. The Japanese government divides the season into five categories: Winter, Spring, Summer A, Summer B, and Fall. Each group comprises seven people who are kept in the dark about what could happen before being cryonically-preserved, as well as one adult guide who has been educated in wilderness survival.

The Summer groups are found in southern and northern Kyūshū, the Fall groups in western Honshū, the Spring groups in central Honshū in Tokyo, and the Winter groups in Hokkaidō. Several years later, the young men and women awaken from their cryogenic slumber to find themselves in a hostile environment devoid of any human life. Their old homeland, Japan, has altered dramatically. They are completely alone in the new world and must rely only on themselves to live.

6. Mirai Nikki

Sakae Esuno wrote and drew Future Diary, a Japanese manga series. During January 2006 and December 2010, it was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s Shōnen Ace, and it was compiled into 12 tankōbon volumes. The Diary Game is a violent battle royale between 12 separate individuals who are granted “Future Diaries,” extraordinary diaries that can foretell the future, by Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space, with the final survivor becoming his successor. The God of Space and Time, Yukiteru Amano, and his helper Muru Muru. Yukiteru’s phone is transformed into a Future Diary by Deus, which can forecast the future for up to ninety days.

Mirai Nikki

Yukiteru learns that he and eleven others are participants in a Deus-organized survival game. The goal of this game is for the victor to succeed Deus as god and avoid the Apocalypse by eliminating the other diary holders. Yukiteru is guarded by Yuno Gasai, a lovely but sociopathic classmate who hunts him compulsively a year after they pledged to go stargazing together. Minene Uryu, a terrorist who wants to kill all religions since her parents perished in a faith-fueled conflict, and Keigo Kurusu, a policeman who wants to terminate the game, are two significant actors they encounter. Kurusu later deserts Yukiteru and Yuno after learning that his bedridden son has a fatal disease.

7. Highschool of the Dead

Apocalyptic Academy: Highschool of the Dead, also known as Highschool of the Dead in Japan, is a manga series written by Daisuke Sat and drawn by Shji Sat. It was published in Fujimi Shobo’s Monthly Dragon Age from September 2006 to May 2013, but Daisuke Sat died in March 2017, therefore it was never completed. Highschool of the Dead is set in modern-day Japan, and it begins when the world is stricken by a fatal disease that converts humans into zombies, which the main protagonists euphemistically refer to as “Them.”

Highschool of the Dead

The series involves a group of high school kids and the school nurse as they deal with the “Outbreak,” a worldwide catastrophic catastrophe. As the ensemble strives to withstand the zombie apocalypse, they should also contend with the prospect of social collapse, which comes in the shape of deadly fellow survivors and the potential for moral deterioration. The pupils flee from high school into town, where they must cope with a dishonest instructor and his classmates.

8. Eden of the East

Eden of the East is a Japanese anime tv series that first aired on Fuji TV’s noitaminA channel on April 9, 2009. Kenji Kamiyama created, directed, and wrote the film, which also incorporates Chika Umino’s character designs and Production I.G.’s animation. It is the first unique animation series shown in noitaminA premised on an original tale by Kamiyama. Ten rockets attack Japan on November 22, 2010, but no one was killed.

Eden of the East

“Careless Monday” is the moniker given to the alleged terrorist incident, although no one has claimed credit. Saki Morimi, a university graduate, travels to New York City and subsequently Washington, D.C. for her graduation trip three months later. Saki comes into a nude Japanese person suffering from amnesia outside the White House. Following the advice of a concierge, Juiz, on his strange cell phone, to a residence where he discovers numerous phony passports, the guy chooses the name of Akira Takizawa. Saki reappears with her passport, and the two of them head to Japan, where a new missile has struck.

9. Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Phantom of Inferno, a video game released in 2000, inspired the anime. After directly witnessing an assassination whilst visiting the United States, a Japanese national is abducted by an assassin syndicate known as Inferno. Inferno is a criminal organization that is seeking to amalgamate all known underground crime groups into a single entity. Inferno sends out its assassin agents, nicknamed Phantom, to help them achieve their aim. Ein, an amnesiac female, and Zwei, a Japanese national who was indoctrinated of his former memories and given the moniker Zwei.

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

10. Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan is one of the finest survival anime of all time. Attack on Titan features protagonist Eren Jaeger and his pals Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert in a post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of mankind dwell behind walls defending them from huge humanoid Titans. Titans demolish the city and murder Eren’s mother when a Colossal Titan penetrates the city’s wall. Eren gets recruited into the elite Survey Corps, a squad of warriors that combat Titans, vowing vengeance.

Attack On Titan

Eren’s adventure with the Survey Corps as they confront the Titans while exploring their origins and history is chronicled in Attack on Titan. Walls are regularly patrolled and maintained to resist attacks with the surviving people imprisoned within the bounds of a city. And these aren’t your typical assaults from foreign countries. Instead, mankind is up against a whole new foe. Titans are entities that tower over mankind and appear to delight in torture and slaughter. They are the ones that hold humanity in its doldrums.