15 Best Anime On HBO Max To Stream From Anywhere [Updated List 2023]

Whether you are an anime lover or are looking to try something new weekend, you can find a plethora of anime on HBO Max.

From heart-warming movies such as Ponyo and Howl’s Moving Castle to action-packed thriller shows like Jujutsu Kaisen and Tokyo Revengers below is a list of the 15 best anime available on HBO Max!

But HBO Max is only available in the United States, not everyone might be able to view and enjoy these animes. But there is a very easy solution to this problem. You just need a good-quality, reliable VPN, and you are set to watch Anime On HBO Max outside the US.

15 Best Anime on HBO Max to stream

We have prepared a list of some of the best anime movies and shows available on HBO Max for you! You will be able to enjoy all of these if you have an HBO Max subscription!

1. Whisper of the heart (1995)

1. Runtime:1h 51m
2. Genre: Drama, Family
3. Director: Yoshifumi Kondo
4. IMDb Rating: 7.9/10

This animated picture, which is adapted from the manga of the same name, follows Shizuku, a curious youngster and voracious reader who aspires to become a novelist when she grows older.

She discovers one day that Seiji Amasawa has already checked out all of her books in the library. Shizuku searches for this enigmatic boy who might be her soul mate while also pursuing a huge cat, making friends with an eccentric antique dealer, and penning her first book.

2. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

1. Runtime: 1h 59m
2. Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
3. Director: Hayao Miyazak
4. IMDb Rating: 8.2/10

Sophie has a normal life in her late father’s hat shop until she befriends a young wizard Howl, who lives in a spectacular flying castle.

However, the evil Witch of Waste disagrees to their growing relationship and casts a spell on young Sophie to make her grow older too quickly.

Howl must now utilize all of his magic to vanquish the spiteful hag and restore Sophie to her former youth and beauty.

3. Food Wars (2015)

1. Runtime: 5 seasons
2. Genre: Comedy, Cooking, Slice of life
3. Director: Yoshitomo Yonetani
4. IMDb Rating: 8.1/10

Meet Souma; he is the Japanese restaurant owner’s son. For someone his age, Souma has a lot of aptitude and is able to create new recipes with ease; occasionally these dishes involve incredibly bizarre combinations of ingredients that nobody would ever think to put together.

After some years, Souma’s father, the restaurant’s owner, joins his friend’s company instead of the family business. The restaurant owned by Souma is about to close.

Souma enrolls in Japan’s finest culinary school, Engetsu Teahouse Culinary Academy, in order to hone his cooking abilities and salvage the restaurant.

The issue is that only a select handful, who are among the top chefs in the world, are qualified to graduate from it.

4. Ponyo (2008)

1. Runtime: 1h 41m
2. Genre: Adventure, Comedy
3. Director: Hayao Miyazaki
4. IMDb Rating: 6.7/10

A goldfish princess meets a mortal boy called Sosuke while on a prohibited trip to the surface world, and he gives her the nickname Ponyo.

Ponyo yearns to be human, and then as her connection with Sosuke deepens, so does her resemblance to a human. Her father returns Ponyo to their aquatic kingdom.

Ponyo, however, has such a strong desire to be on the surface that she manages to break free and endanger Sosuke’s village by spilling a number of magical elixirs in the process.

5. Erased (2016)

1. Runtime: 1 season
2. Genre: Drama, Fantasy
3. Director: Tomohiko Ito
4. IMDb Rating: 8.5/10

When he begins to experience a peculiar occurrence he refers to as “Revival,” a 29-year-old man leads a serene and peaceful existence while working at a pizza joint.

Satoru Fujinuma is sent back in time during “Revival,” where he must stop an incident from taking place.

One day, he is wrongly charged with his mother’s murder, and the same thing happens, except this time he is sent back in time to when he was in elementary school, 18 years earlier.

He needs to figure out what needs to change in order to retract this accusation and return to the present with the intellect of a 29-year-old and the body of a toddler.

6. To Your eternity (2021)

1. Runtime: 2 seasons
2. Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural
3. Director: Masahiko Murata
4. IMDb Rating: 8.5/10

In an attempt to further transform and enhance as it discovers what it means to be fully human over the centuries and centuries, an immortal being named Fushi, can take on various forms and flexibly use each of their unique natural abilities, including those of an abandoned guy with white hair and his white wolf, is the subject of the story.

7. Weathering With you (2019)

1. Runtime: 1h 52m
2. Genre: Drama, Fantasy
3. Director: Makoto Shinka
4. IMDb Rating: 7.5/10

Hodaka Morishima, a high school student, flees from his troublesome rural area to Tokyo during a particularly wet period, where he encounters an orphan girl who has the ability to control the weather.

In a race against time, Hodaka and Hina try to save Tokyo (and ultimately Japan) from sinking due to the pouring rain.

8. the promised neverland (2019)

1. Runtime: 2 seasons
2. Genre: Dark-fantasy, Science fiction, Thriller
3. Director: Mamoru Kanbe
4. IMDb Rating: 8.3/10

We had to put The Promised Neverland on our list of the top anime on HBO Max because of its tragic but wonderful plot.

When they were very young, Emma and her siblings—all of whom were orphans—were put in a special institution.

The kids of Grace Field House lead happy lives despite having little freedom and occasionally tough rules. The lady they call “Mum” (actually named Isabella) looks after them and shows them all the affection a parent could.

However, one evening, after one of them has left, Emma and Norman learn that “Mom” has authorized the delivery of the orphanage’s children to demons. They’ll need to be resourceful and make an effort to flee in order to survive.

9. Dr. stone (2019-)

1. Runtime: 2 seasons and counting
2. Genre: Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
3. Director: Shinya Iino
4. IMDb Rating: 8.1/10

All of humankind was petrified (literally) by a bright burst of light one fateful day. High school student Taiju wakes up after several millennia and discovers himself adrift on a planet full of statues.

He is not, nonetheless, alone. His friend Senku, a scientific enthusiast, has been functioning for the past few months and has a big idea for using science to jump-start society.

The anime follows their journey of using science to restore humankind to its former state.

10. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

1. Runtime: 1h 43m
2. Genre: Adventure, Family
3. Director: Hayao Miyazaki
4. IMDb Rating: 7.8/10

The witches in Kiki’s Delivery Service have a custom that requires them to leave their parent’s home when they age thirteen in order to find a place wherein their services are needed and reside there for a year.

Kiki will then set off on the journey that will ultimately result in her becoming a witch permanently. She flies her broomstick on this journey with her good companion Jiji, a lovely black cat.

Her first adventure will lead her to a coastal city where she’ll settle and start to get to understand the world and herself. She will make some wonderful companions during her journey, including Tombo or Osono.

11. My Neighbour Totoro (1990)

1. Runtime: 1h 26m
2. Genre: Family, Fantasy
3. Director: Hayao Miyazaki
4. IMDb Rating: 8.1/10

The plot of My Neighbor Totoro takes place in the 1950s Tokyo suburbs. Satsuki and Mei, two little sisters, are relocating to the rural community of Tokorozawa with their father. To be nearer to their mom, who is in the hospital, the family is moving.

Mei discovers two beings with large ears, one small and blue in color, and the other larger and covered in white fur while exploring her new environment and following acorn trailings: She encounters Totoro, a nice spirit who resembles a combination of a mole, a bear, and a raccoon after pursuing them into the dominant camphor tree.

12. The tale of princess Kaguya (2013)

1. Runtime: 2h 17m
2. Genre: Drama, Family
3. Director: Isao Takahata
4. IMDb Rating: 8.0/10

Okina, an aged farmer, comes across a mysteriously illuminating bamboo stalk deep inside a fluttering and lush bamboo forest. From within, a tiny fairy-like creature dressed in a regal robe emerges before his astounded eyes.

The elderly guy hurries to his spouse Ona without hesitation, only to be shocked to see the small nymph change into a baby.

In the end, as the child matures into a lovely girl, the modest couple will bring her to Kyoto to raise her as an aristocratic and refined lady deserving of Japan’s most influential suitors.

But is Princess Kaguya’s destiny this?

13. Tokyo Revengers (2021-)

1. Runtime: 1 season and counting
2. Genre: Action, Science fiction, Thriller
3. Director: Koichi Hatsumi
4. IMDb Rating: 8.2/10

Takemichi Hanagaki is just another freelancer who has descended into the depths of hopelessness. He learns that the brutal Tokyo Manji Gang had murdered Hinata Tachibana, the one and only girl he had dated in middle school.

He is waiting on the train platform the day after learning of her passing when a crowd of people pushes him onto the rails.

When he regains consciousness again, he has mysteriously traveled into the past (12 years) while believing that he is about to pass away.

Takemichi makes the decision to take revenge on his life now that he is once again enjoying the happiest moments of his life.

14. Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-)

1. Runtime: 1 season and counting
2. Genre: Adventure, Dark Fantasy, Supernatural
3. Director: Sunghoon Park
4. IMDb Rating: 8.6/10

In the world of Jujutsu Kaisen’s story, diseases are produced by humans’ negative emotions.

Because we can only combat plagues with plagues that are more potent, infrastructures such as schools and hospitals include relics, and receptacles of a plague, to protect areas where there is a greater proportion of these emotions.

Except for a small group of people, such as exorcists, these are not visible to ordinary eyes. It is the exorcist’s responsibility to expel the plagues and therefore safeguard the populace, but doing so involves some risk due to the variable potency of the plagues.

The narrative centers on a student in high school Yuji Itadori as he enters a clandestine group of Jujutsu sorcerers to combat Ryomen Sukuna, a potent Curse of which Yuji becomes the host.

15. Spirited Away (2001)

1. Run time: 2h 5m
2. Genre: Drama, Fantasy
3. Director: Makoto Shinkai
4. IMDb Rating: 8.6/10

Spirited Away is the last anime in our list of the top HBO Max anime. The focus of Spirited Away is Chihiro. Chihiro’s parents are compelled to relocate to a different city.

His father tries to use a shortcut during the move to save time, but they get turned around and end up at a structure with an odd tunnel running through it. Chihiro is unwilling to go inside, but her folks insist on going through the tunnel.

The family decides to explore the area and eventually comes upon a diner where they choose to rest and eat. On the opposite side, they uncover what appears to be an abandoned village. Chihiro departs from them to carry on his investigation.

Haku, an enigmatic young man, commands Chihiro to flee the area before it gets entirely black as night sets. She realizes that her parents have somehow been turned into pigs and Haku explains to her that the abandoned village is an amusement park of sorts for the supernatural.

Chihiro must now work there to free herself and her parents, but that is going to be more challenging than she thinks. Will she save her family or will she succumb to the supernatural terrors?

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