10 best anime to watch with your girlfriend in 2026

As an anime fan with a wife who refuses to watch pretty much anything animated, I sometimes lament how seldom I’m able to share the hobby with her. So often, she’ll hear me watching something like Jujutsu Kaisen from the other room, but all she perceives is loud voices screaming in Japanese. There’s a sort of stigma attached to anime: that it’s all just loud, flashy, and weird. While that’s true for a lot of series, anime is a sprawling art form that contains many genres within it.