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Yu Kobayashi has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014
Animation · Science Fiction

Kamisama Kiss
2012 · Series · Voice
Top 6%Netflix · Included

Steins;Gate
2011 · Series · Voice
Top 10%Crunchyroll · Included

Maid Sama!
2010 · Series · Voice
Top 13%HIDIVE · Included

Dorohedoro
2020 · Series · Voice
Top 18%Netflix · Included

Bakugan Battle Brawlers
2007 · Series · Voice
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

Kiss Him, Not Me
2016 · Series · Voice
Top 26%Crunchyroll · Included

as Ayame Sarutobi (voice) · Voice
What would have happened if the Shiroyasha never existed? Edo is thrown to chaos by a mysterious cause. Sakata Gintoki, now lives in a world where the future has changed, without him. What has happened to the Yorozuya? Gintoki, who is now a ghost of the past, must once again carry the burden in order to save his friends. He must finish the biggest job ever, which may be the final job of Yorozuya.
Dir. Youichi Fujita · With Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Rie Kugimiya

Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss. The new responsibilities—and boys—are a lot to handle, like the crow demon masquerading as a gorgeous pop idol and the adorable snake spirit who’s chosen the newly minted god to be his bride. As the headstrong Tomoe tries to whip her into shape, Nanami finds that love just might have cute, pointed fox ears. With romance in the air, will the human deity be able to prove herself worthy of her new title?
With Yui Horie, Suzuko Mimori, Daisuke Namikawa

as Ruka Urushibara (voice) · Voice
One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
Dir. Takuya Sato, Hiroshi Hamasaki, Kanji Wakabayashi · With Mamoru Miyano, Asami Imai, Tomokazu Seki

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
With Mamoru Miyano, Asami Imai, Kana Hanazawa

Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret, she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the popular A-student and notorious heart breaker Takumi Usui finds out her secret and makes a deal with her to keep it hush from the school in exchange for spending some time with him.
With Ayumi Fujimura, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kazuyoshi Shiibashi

Amnesiac Caiman seeks to undo his lizard head curse by killing the sorcerer responsible, with his friend Nikaido's help. In the Hole, that's a threat.
With Reina Kondo, Wataru Takagi, Yu Kobayashi

Centers on the lives of creatures called Bakugan and the battle brawlers who possess them.
Dir. Atsushi Maekawa · With Yu Kobayashi, Keiji Fujiwara, Ryo Hirohashi

Kae Serinuma is a second year high school student and an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her classmates, Igarashi and Nanashima. The death of her favorite anime character causes her to become stressed and lose weight rapidly. Now that Serinuma has become an attractive girl to her classmates, snarky junior Shinomiya and senior Mutsumi, how is she going to deal with them with her constant BL-filled fujoshi mind?
With Yu Kobayashi, Keisuke Komoto, Nobunaga Shimazaki

Alchemists, swindlers, thieves, and gangsters cross paths on The Flying Pussyfoot, a 1930s American transcontinental train, as it embarks on a legendary voyage that leaves a trail of blood all over the country.
With Masaya Onosaka, Sayaka Aoki, Daisuke Sakaguchi

Eccentric Rintaro falls into a depression after failing to save Kurisu, but then a neuroscientist offers him the chance to interact with an AI copy.
With Mamoru Miyano, Sayuri Yahagi, Asami Imai

Mamoru Endou is a cheerful goalkeeper in Raimon Jr High, with six other players in the team. But there was a day when the team was almost lead to disbandment by Natsumi unless they are able to win the match against the Teikoku Gakuen, currently the best team in Japan. He tried to save the club by gathering four more players to join the team.
With Yuka Terasaki, Takashi Ohara, Mitsuki Saiga

as Elkidu (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Following the success in the Camelot Singularity, Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight are assigned to the last Singularity in the Grand Order initiative. In Ancient Babylonia, 2500 BCE, they embark on a mission to secure humanity's survival. Upon arrival, they learn that three gods have threatened Uruk, the Babylonian city ruled by King Gilgamesh. Ritsuka and Mash must work together to fend off the invasion of mysterious beasts in Uruk under Gilgamesh's orders while investigating the true nature of the three gods' actions against humanity; but unknown to Ritsuka, an ancient entity is slowly rising from its slumber.
With Rie Takahashi, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Tetsu Inada

Your favorite characters from Attack on Titan are back in…junior high school? Adapted from the hit spinoff manga series—Attack on Titan: Junior High (written by Saki Nakagawa), this parody reimagines Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and other characters from the original manga as students and teachers at Titan Junior High School.
With Yuki Kaji, Yui Ishikawa, Marina Inoue

Yamada is the cutest girl in the entire school, and she wants to have her way with 100 different boys before the final bell rings. There’s just one problem: she’s never even been kissed! Lucky for her, class geek Kosuda is ready to serve as her own personal Sex Ed dummy! Can these wannabe lovebirds master the art of seduction before the sun sets on high school forever?
With Yukari Tamura, Atsushi Abe, Yui Horie

as Peko (voice) · Voice
Nobita is followed by a stray dog on his way home and decides to help it find its original owner with the help of Doraemon. They find out that the dog is actually a prince in its homeland in Africa.
Dir. Shinnosuke Yakuwa · With Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Yumi Kakazu

Magic Knights are modern magic-users who fight with weapons converted from their souls. Ikki Kurogane goes to a school for these Magic Knights, but he is the "Failed Knight" or "Worst One" who is failing because he has no magical skills. However, one day, he is challenged to a duel by Stella, a foreign princess and the "Number One" student. In this duel, "the loser must be obedient for life."
With Ryota Osaka, Shizuka Ishigami, Nao Toyama

One day, New York City as we know it vanished overnight into a mysterious fog. Now known as Hellsalem's Lot, it has become a place where another world beyond imagining is connected to our reality. The balance within this new world is protected by a secret society known as Libra. Leo, a journalist and photographer who arrives in the city, is unexpectedly recruited to join their ranks.
With Kazuya Nakai, Rikiya Koyama, Daisuke Sakaguchi

as Smith (voice) · Voice
HIDIVE · Included
Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood - not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the "Cultural Exchange Between Species Act," these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they're trying. When a hapless human teenager named Kurusu Kimihito is inducted as a "volunteer" into the government exchange program, his world is turned upside down. A snake-like lamia named Miia comes to live with him, and it is Kurusu's job to take care of her and make sure she integrates into his everyday life.
With Junji Majima, Ari Ozawa, Sora Amamiya