Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
An elf mage learns what a lifetime means after the adventure is already over.
Drama anime series around 24 episodes
Drama anime recommendations with enough room for a full arc while staying within a controlled two-cour commitment.
This guide is for drama anime that need more room than a one-cour run. The selection favors titles that use the extra episodes for character, stakes, or worldbuilding.
Drama Anime Series Around 24 Episodes
The Apothecary Diaries
Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she’s sold as a lowly servant to the emperor’s palace. But she wasn’t...
Cowboy Bebop
Enter a world in the distant future, where Bounty Hunters roam the solar system. Spike and Jet, bounty hunting partners, set out on journeys in an...
Vinland Saga
Thorfinn is son to one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, but when his father is killed in battle by the mercenary leader Askeladd, he swears to...
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
On August 10th of the year 2010 the Holy Empire of Britannia began a campaign of conquest, its sights set on Japan. Operations were completed in...
Gurren Lagann
In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars. In the small village of Jiha,...
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
The setting is 15th-century Europe. It was a time when heretical ideas lead those to who possessed such a mindset to being burned at the stake for...
BANANA FISH
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino...
Neon Genesis Evangelion
In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind's...
HAIKYU!!
Inspired after watching a volleyball ace nicknamed "Little Giant" in action, small-statured Shouyou Hinata revives the volleyball club at his...
To Be Hero X
This is a world where heroes are created by people's trust, and the hero who gains the most trust is known as X. In this world, people's trust can...
Berserk
Set during a time that very much resembles Europe during the Middle Ages, Berserk is a story of revenge set in the castle town of Midland....
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...
Ranking of Kings
Unable to hear, speak, or wield a sword, Prince Bojji doesn’t seem like a typical heir to the throne—and his kingdom agrees. But his fateful...
Summer Time Rendering
A sci-fi, summer story filled with suspense set on a small island with Shinpei Aijiro, whose childhood friend Ushio Kofune died. He returns to his...
March comes in like a lion
Rei Kiriyama is a 17 year old boy who recently started living alone, financed by his salary as a professional Shogi player. Despite his...
Fruits Basket (2019)
Tohru Honda thought her life was headed for misfortune when a family tragedy left her living in a tent. When her small home is discovered by the...
Parasyte -the maxim-
They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites,...
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