Highlights
- Silver Link is known for producing anime featuring cute girls and slice-of-life stories, with popular titles like "WataMote" and "Mitsuboshi Colors."
- "Masamune-kun's Revenge" is a romantic comedy with a unique premise, while "Strike The Blood" offers a supernatural take on the vampire mythos.
- "Restaurant To Another World" combines slice of life with fantasy, showcasing real-world dishes being enjoyed in a fantasy world, and "Non Non Biyori" is a soothing slice-of-life anime set in the countryside of Japan.
When it comes to prominent anime studios, Silver Linkisn't normally as renowned as top-tier studios such as MAPPA or Trigger. The studio started producing anime in 2009, generally focusing on making adaptations of popular light novels and manga.
Silver Link is generally known for anime featuring cute girls and slice-of-life stories. While the studio has yet to release a critically acclaimed series like Bones's Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or Wit Studio's Attack on Titan, it has plenty of popular titles that have established its reputation. Here are some of the best anime Silver Link has put out.
10 WataMote
Otaku and otome game master Tomoko Kuroki believed that she would be popular once she entered high school, but finds that reality is quite different from expectations. Unable to make friends due to her abhorrent social skills, Tomoko struggles to make friends as she goes about her high school life.
WataMote is a slice-of-life comedy series where the humor is mostly based on cringe. Because of that, it can put some people off, but it can be incredibly funny for those that enjoy that type of humor.
9 Strike The Blood
Kojo Akatsuki, seemingly a normal high school boy, is suspected of being the Fourth Progenitor, a powerful vampire that could disrupt the balance of Itogami Island, a manmade sanctuary for demons and monsters. Yukina Himeragi is a Sword Shaman sent to observe him as he bonds with others and encounters various threats.
Strike the Blood is a supernatural action series that originated as a light novel series. The series is a unique take on the vampire mythos, with some classic rom-com tropes on the side.
8 Masamune-kun's Revenge
Masamune Makabe has one goal: to get revenge on his former childhood friend Aki Adagaki for cruelly rejecting him. To accomplish this, he transforms himself into a handsome man with the intention of getting her to fall for him and reject her as cruelly as she did him. Masamune quickly begins wooing Aki as soon as they meet, but it turns out the game of romance is harder than he realizes.
Masamune-kun's Revenge is a romantic comedy with a rather interesting premise. It isn't the most unique romance anime out there, but fans of the genre won't be dissatisfied with this series.
7 Mitsuboshi Colors
Three elementary school girls in Ueno named Yui, Satchan, and Kotoha form a group called the Colors, meant to be a peacekeeping group that engages in good deeds around town. The girls get into all kinds of trouble, but the townspeople are happy to let them do as they please.
Mitsuboshi Colors is a slice-of-life story that follows the Colors as they get into a variety of hijinks around town. Fans of comedic slice-of-life stories will surely enjoy this light-hearted and silly series.
6 Restaurant To Another World
While drifting from village to village, a demon girl named Aletta discovers a magical door that leads to Nekoya, a Western restaurant in Tokyo that inexplicably opens its doors to another world on Saturdays. There, all kinds of people come to eat the restaurant's food, and Aletta is offered a position there as a waitress.
Restaurant to Another Worldis an isekai cooking anime that often features real-world dishes being experienced by denizens of a fantasy world. The series is slice of life mixed with fantasy, and fans of those genres will definitely enjoy this anime.
5 Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless
Tanaka has one desire: to live a peaceful, uneventful life where he has to do nothing. He does his best to make sure he does and gets involved with as little as possible, with his best friend Ohta there to help out with stuff he can't avoid.
Tanaka-kun Is Always Listlessis a slice-of-life school comedy that focuses on a rather lethargic lifestyle. While the series is quite uneventful, it is great for those who want something calming and quiet.
4 My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom!
A high school otaku just realizes that she has been reincarnated as Catarina Claes, the villain of one of her favorite otome games, Fortune Lover. Realizing that her fate is either to be killed or exiled, Catarina immediately begins changing her way of life, making sure to mend her relationships with other characters as best as possible.
My Next Life as a Villainess is a classic isekai anime and the creator of the villainess subgenre. Its formula has been redone repeatedly since its debut, proving its innate popularity.
3 Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya
Illyasviel von Eizenbern is just a normal elementary school girl who encounters the magical Kaleidostick Ruby, which chooses her as its master over Rin Tohsaka. With no choice left to her, Rin decides to train Illya into a magical girl to collect the Class Cards that are going rampant around town.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya is a magical girl spin-off of the Fate franchise, featuring the characters and concepts of the original series in a new context. Despite being a spin-off, the series has quite a bit of its own lore, making it a worthy watch for hardcore fans of the main series.
2 Non Non Biyori
Fifth grader Hotaru Ichijo moves from Tokyo to Asahigaoka, a small village deep in the countryside of Japan. The local school has only a few students, each one of them in a different grade. Hotaru quickly adjusts to life in Asahigaoka as she slowly makes friends with her fellow friends.
Non Non Biyori is an incredibly popular slice-of-life anime featuring a cast of cute girls going around town. While the series seems quaint at best, it has a soothing energy great for someone tired after a rough day at work.
1 Kokoro Connect
Five normal high school students suddenly experience a supernatural phenomenon where their bodies get switched. While it seems random at first, the five soon learn about the existence of Heartseed, and that the strange occurrences happening to them are not as random as they believe.
Kokoro Connect is a romantic comedy with a mix of supernatural elements. While it does have a slice-of-life feel to it, there are certainly dramatic elements that focus more on character development.