Anime is one of the most followed genres by millions of people around the world. Japanese cartoons that are far from being children’s series. But if you want to introduce the little ones in the house to this art, there are many anime series to watch with children that we can find on Netflix and other platforms.
From classics like Pokémon or Detective Conan to other anime series suitable for boys and girls if we want to enjoy a session of Japanese drawings with the family that will please both young and old and that will not bore anyone.
Card Hunter Sakura
One of the great classics of the anime series. Released in 1998, it is one of the most popular by the followers of the CLAMP group (female group of manga cartoonists) and tells us the story of Sakura Kinomoto. Sakura Kinomoto, a school-age girl , accidentally releases a series of cards with magical powers After doing so , Kero appears Kero is an adorable and funny yellow lion, the guardian of the book that contained the letters and his new adventure partner.
With episodes of about 25 minutes, we will see throughout 70 chapters and three seasons, how Sakura and her friends try to collect all the cards in the “Clow” book. A mythical series, one of the great classics that you surely saw if you are from the 90s and that today you can see again on Netflix with the little ones in the house.
Watch Sakura the Card Hunter on Netflix
Beyblade Burst
We are talking about the third installment of the famous Beyblade series. Those toys that more than one child liked so much when they were little. It is a competition in which two opponents throw their beyblades (tops with various protrusions) on a ring , causing them to collide with each other until only one is left spinning.
Released in 2016, this anime tells the adventures of Valt Aoi, who will try to win the title of “Japan’s #1 Blader” along with his best friend Shu Kurenai and his classmates. With a total of 52 chapters lasting about 20 minutes, the Japanese series will delight the little ones in the house.
There are different sagas and trilogies in the spinning top series and the Burst Saga is the latest one, released in 2016 and with several seasons such as Burst Evolution, Burst Turbo, Burst Rise, Burst Surge, Burst QuadDrive… Many of them are available in Netflix to follow Valt Aoi and the others become champions.
Watch Beyblade Burst Turbo on Netflix
Watch Beyblade Burst Surge on Netflix
Watch Beyblade Burst Rise on Netflix
Pokemon
An anime that requires no introduction, who hasn’t heard of Pokémon? Who doesn’t know who Pikachu is? Who hasn’t played Pokémon hunting by throwing Pokeballs like Ash from the 90s to today ? This anime (created by Satoshi Tajiri, Junichi Masuda and Ken Sugimori) has become the fever of many since its release in 1997.
Although we all already know what Pokémon is about, the series follows Ash Ketchum and his inseparable friend Pikachu on their countless adventures to become a Pokémon master. A Japanese animated series that both children and not so children like and that consists of several series with more than a thousand chapters in total. In addition, it can not only be enjoyed on television: since 1997, countless board games, cards and video games have been released, as well as movies, specials and spin-offs that we can watch online and that expand the universe and are added to the many series of pokemon.
Detective Conan
Another of the classics that has been with us for decades is Detective Conan. An anime series adaptation of the manga with the same name that shows us, in its more than a thousand episodes, the adventures of Shinichi Kudo. Kudo is a young detective capable of solving any case… He is poisoned by an organization he was investigating. Still, he doesn’t die. But he ends up shrinking until he looks like a school boy. Under the pseudonym of Conan Edogawa , he will decipher the most difficult cases to solve in the purest style of Sherlock Holmes.
This anime series of suspense and mystery will test the ingenuity and sharpness of more than one with deductions and impossible puzzles.
Watch Detective Conan on Amazon Prime Video
Inazuma Eleven GO
For soccer lovers, this anime that is so popular among the youngest has 127 episodes of about 25 minutes and takes us with Mark Evans to look for partners to form a group and revive the school soccer team that is in low hours.
In addition to the anime, we can also enjoy the manga, video games, a movie, and an anime sequel called Inazuma Eleven GO, set 10 years later. One of the current successes among boys and girls and ideal to enjoy with the family. A perfect animation and comedy series for those who like sports, adventures and teamwork.
Watch Inazuma Eleven on Amazon Prime Video
Naruto
Another essential, another great classic. Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki is a young orphan who enters a ninja school with the dream of becoming Hokage (leader of his village). This famous anime takes place in a world dominated by ninja villages, each with its hidden powers, its schools and its ninja teachers. . Naruto, accompanied by his friends Sasuke, Sakura and his sensei Kakashi, must work hard to become a great ninja while mastering the powerful Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that has been entrusted to him since the death of his parents.
With more than seven hundred chapters in total, Naruto is one of the great classics that has hundreds of episodes available and that we can start watching on Amazon Prime Video to later see its many sequels.
Watch Naruto on Amazon Prime Video
Digimon Adventure
This famous anime series released in Spain in 2000 leads us to discover the adventures of eight children who are dragged into a parallel world, the Digital World, which is inhabited by beings called Digimon . These eight children and their Digimons will fight against the forces of darkness that threaten to take over the digital world and the real world.
The Digimon world is quite wide if we are looking for one of the best anime series to watch with children. With six sagas, hundreds of episodes, and the Digimon franchise, it has also released three movies, two sequels, and a new series released in 2020.
Digimon is not on any streaming platform for now, but we can see it on Crunchyroll, specialized in anime.
Watch Digimon Adventure on Crunchyroll
dinosaur king
Dinosaur King is an ideal anime series for Pokemon or Digimon lovers. Max, Rex and Zoe will use the stone tablets found in a meteorite to locate dinosaurs. They must prevent the Alpha gang from taking over the stone tablets that have been scattered around the world.
This series focused on the smallest of the house uses traditional drawings and 3D animation in its 79 episodes of about twenty-five minutes. Released in 2007 and based on the card game created by SEGA, this series of dinosaurs is perfect for the little ones in the house.
Watch Dinosaur King on Netflix
Yo Kai Watch
This anime focused on the little ones with 214 episodes that will tell us the story of Nathan, an eleven-year-old boy who gets a watch with powers that allows him to see and interact with the Yo-Kai, some mysterious beings that live with us and They try to annoy our day to day. It will be Nathan’s mission to find out why the Yo-Kai behave this way and try to stop them from doing so in all his exciting and fun adventures.
Based on the video game of the same name for Nintendo and with several anime adaptations, Dinosaur King also has several manga and three movies available.
My Hero Academia
With 81 episodes spread over its 4 seasons, My Hero Academia tells us the story of Izuku Midoriya, a boy without superpowers in a world where everyone, or almost everyone, has some kind of superpower. His main goal will be to join the UA to be a great hero like his idol, the legendary All-Might. Izuku, based on stubbornness and clinging to the idea of becoming a hero, will discover that being a hero is not what it seems or what he believed.
With short 25-minute chapters, this series has managed to position itself as one of the most popular today. That is why the franchise has managed to release 3 movies and 2 video games for all platforms based on the anime. Perfect series if what you are looking for is fun, emotion and a moment of disconnection.
Watch My Hero Academia on Netflix
