The weekend feels miles away. Your watchlist is full of shows everyone else already finished. Here are five anime that never got their moment, and Tuesday night is the perfect time to fix that.
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Tuesday is a strange day. The weekend is far enough away that you need something to look forward to. Not every midweek night calls for a 200-episode commitment or a show everyone and their colleague is already talking about. Sometimes you want something good that flew under the radar. Here are five underrated anime from 2024 and 2025 worth sitting down with.
Set in 15th-century Europe, Church tightly controls information. Dissent from its doctrine is considered heresy, punishable by death. Rafal, a child prodigy with a passion for astronomy, is coerced by a heretic scholar named Hubert into assisting with forbidden research on the Earth’s movements. What follows is a story that passes from character to character across generations, tracing the dangerous relay of a single idea.
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A 25-episode anime produced by Madhouse aired from October 2024 to March 2025. The music was composed by Kensuke Ushio, who also scored Chainsaw Man. The series won the 26th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize Manga Grand Prize in 2022 and the 54th Seiun Award in the Comics category in 2023. It streams on Netflix.
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It is not an easy watch. The torture scenes are not gratuitous, but they are there. What the show does well is make you understand why people died for an idea. That alone is rare in any genre of television.
This one got buried under bigger Spring 2024 releases and never quite recovered. A 12-episode reboot anime produced by Liber aired on TV Tokyo from April to June 2024. It follows Ryuu Sasakura, a bartending prodigy who studied in France and now works at his own bar, the Eden Hall, hidden in a corner of the Ginza district in Tokyo.
Rumor holds that potential patrons cannot simply find and enter Eden Hall; they must be invited in by the host. Sasakura is known to serve the “Glass of the Gods,” a way of saying he knows just the right drink to serve in a particular situation.
The show is episodic by nature. Each guest walks in with a problem. Sasakura listens, makes a drink, and the episode quietly resolves. Suntory Holdings Limited joined the project in the role of production cooperation, supervising the liquor depicted in the series. The cocktail preparation sequences are genuinely detailed. It is available on Crunchyroll. Perfect for a Tuesday when your brain wants something slow and human.
The series aired from January 12 to April 5, 2024, on TBS, BS11, and other networks, and Crunchyroll streamed it outside Asia. It is based on a manga by Kousuke Satake that began in 2016.
Ashaf is a soft-spoken man with a coffin strapped to his back and an entourage of black crows. Guideau is a feral, violent girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast. They share one creed: wherever a witch goes, only curses and disasters follow. Guideau was cursed by a witch and is trying to find the one who did it. Ashaf knows more than he lets on.
The Witch and the Beast is one of the lesser-known anime of Winter 2024. Despite its well-written story and carefully detailed artwork, the series failed to appear in weekly top-10 polls and never gained much online momentum. That is partly a marketing problem and partly bad timing. The dark fantasy genre does not always travel well on social media. The show is 12 episodes, rated R-17+, and does not waste time explaining itself to you.
Moonrise is a Japanese original net animation series directed by Masashi Koizuka and produced by Wit Studio, based on a concept by Tow Ubukata. It premiered on Netflix on April 10, 2025, with all 18 episodes released at once.
The story is set in a not-so-distant future where Earth and the Moon are in deep political and military conflict. A loosely organized world government is managed by an international AI network called Sapientia. It sends pollutants and criminals to the moon, where they are forced to live in poverty. The protagonist, Jack Shadow, loses his family to a rebel bombing and joins the Earth army to infiltrate the Moon.
The pedigree is significant. Character designs are by Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist. The director also helmed Attack on Titan Seasons 2 and 3. Netflix promoted it poorly. The producer publicly posted on social media asking for help promoting the series. Many viewers only found it through Wit Studio’s existing fanbase. The lunar city of Copernicus is rendered in rich detail, and the zero-gravity action sequences are among the show’s strongest moments. The writing is uneven, but the visuals alone earn its place on a quiet evening.
The Fable follows Akira, a legendary hitman who, after killing too many people, is ordered to lie low for a year and live as an ordinary citizen. What follows is a comedy-drama about a man spectacularly failing to be normal.
The show aired in 2024 and was largely overlooked. Many fans dropped it or gave it poor reviews due to its animation quality, which was seen as below average, but the quality of the writing is what carries the show. The character work is surprisingly layered for what appears on the surface to be a hitman comedy. Akira is genuinely funny without the show ever trying too hard. He follows rules, takes instructions literally, and has no framework for how ordinary people live. That tension is the engine of the entire series.
It streams on Crunchyroll with a dub available. If you skipped it because of the animation discourse, go back. Tuesday night has seen worse.
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