Animation is for everyone. Featuring wooden puppets, K-pop demon hunters, and more than one visit to the moon, here are the best animated films on Netflix for all ages.

When discussing the best animated movie from each of the last 5 decades, it's inevitable to mention classics like Akira and Spirited Away.

That brings us to this list’s guiding sentiment, because while good animation is plentiful, vital selections meet a different bar. Vital, by Merriam-Webster’s definition, implies a work that is “tending to renew or refresh the living,

Discover the record-shattering Chinese animated hit of 2025. Ne Zha 2 delivers stunning visuals and surprising emotional depth.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, Zootopia 2, Moana, and Raya and the Last Dragon are among the best Disney animated movies of the last 10 years.

The audience for animated dark fantasy movies is even smaller than that for live-action, since these aren't always for kids and not every adult likes cartoons. Plenty of Japanese animated films have taken on the concept of dark fantasy,

The directors of this year’s best animated feature hopefuls talk inspiration, originality and why emotional truth comes before technique.

As great as Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters is, we think animated movies like Spirited Away, Coco, and How to Train Your Dragon are far superior.

Julián F.L. is a Video Game & Anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He knows every single Pokémon by memory, and he even wrote a thesis about Video Game ...