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Short Action anime series around 12 episodes
Short action anime recommendations for viewers who want a focused one-cour watch without a long commitment.
This guide narrows action anime to compact series. The picks favor titles with a focused arc, strong early direction, and enough payoff for a short watch plan.
Short Action Anime Series Around 12 Episodes
DAN DA DAN
This is a story about Momo, a high school girl who comes from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult fanatic. After Momo...
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
One night, 14-year-old Madoka Kaname has a terrible nightmare - against the backdrop of a devastated city, she witnesses a girl fight a losing...
Lord of Mysteries
In a Victorian world of steam, dreadnoughts, and occult horrors, Zhou Mingrui awakens as Klein Moretti. He walks a razor’s edge between light and...
86 EIGHTY-SIX
Child soldiers fight a remote war under a system that treats them as disposable.
Chainsaw Man
Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life...
SPY x FAMILY
Everyone has a part of themselves they cannot show to anyone else. At a time when all nations of the world were involved in a fierce war of...
PLUTO
A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans. The robotic Europol investigator Gesicht takes the case, but the...
Land of the Lustrous
In the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in...
Solo Leveling
They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Seong Jin-U. After being brutally...
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-
An AI singer tries to rewrite a century of history before a human-AI war begins.
Fate/Zero
With the promise of granting any wish, the omnipotent Holy Grail triggered three wars in the past, each too cruel and fierce to leave a victor. In...
Kaiju No. 8
With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military...
Lycoris Recoil
“LycoReco” is a café with a traditional Japanese twist located in downtown Tokyo. But the delicious coffee and sugary sweets are not the only...
Baccano!
During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of...
Hell’s Paradise
The Edo period is nearing its end. Gabimaru, a shinobi formerly known as the strongest in Iwagakure who is now a death row convict, is told that...
NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
A revolution sparked by nuclear war, natural disaster, and misrule leads to the collapse of Japanese society. The country splits into three...
SK8 the Infinity
Reki, a high school sophomore and skater, is addicted to “S,” a highly secret and dangerous downhill skateboarding race that takes place in an...
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