These anime are a decade old but still well worth a watch.

Here’s a look back at the shows that made the anime industry a cultural behemoth.

Here are the best Pokemon anime series!

Pokemon Sun and Moon, Pokemon Indigo League and Pokémon XY The Series.

Although Naruto finally concluded in the late 2010s, it will remain in the anime community’s consciousness forever.

Sailor Moon was empowering and provided its fanbase with more relatable plot points.

Having a catchy opening and stellar animation in the early episodes helped it catch on, too.

Split image of All Might, Goku and the Attack Titan.

Yet even in this supposedly butchered form, the show caught on.

You cannot hold down a good story: One Piece offered a rich world and a diverse cast.

2Cowboy Bebop

1998-1999

To this day, anime dubs struggle to be taken seriously.

Spike Spiegal, Goku, Jonathan Joestar

No matter how nonexistent their knowledge of Japanese is, fans prefer to tune in with subtitles alone.

1Death Note

2006-2007

Death Note is the gateway anime of online culture.

Split image of characters from Death Note, Naruto and Cowboy Bebop.

Various characters from One Punch Man, Food Wars!, and School Live.

Turles from Dragon Ball Z: Tree of Might, looking like Goku with a scouter.

Ash holds Pikachu in the Pokemon anime.

Naruto smiling in the anime Naruto.

Sailor Moon is in her Eternal transformation sequence.

Shinji’s Eva goes Berserk in Neon Genesis Evangelion and stands menacingly in the dark.

One Piece image showing Luffy eating a Devil Fruit.

An injured Spike forms a finger gun in the final scene of the show in Cowboy Bebop.

Light Yagami holds the Death Note in Death Note.