Best Anime Endings of 2024

42 million views for an anime ending is genuinely extraordinary, and Nobody earned every one. OneRepublic delivered what they always deliver when they're firing — anthemic pop-rock with emotional directness and production that gives the song room to breathe. The moments in Kaijuu 8-gou where this ending plays, as the camera holds on faces and sacrifices and the weight of what the characters are carrying, are some of the most affecting in the series. Nobody also became the entry point for a lot of people who hadn't been following the anime — they heard the song, looked it up, and found themselves watching a show about giant monsters and monster hunters. That's a remarkable piece of work for a 90-second ending.

Mori Calliope has built a dual identity as a Hololive EN VTuber and a genuine hip-hop artist with her own aesthetic, and Go-Getters for Isekai Suicide Squad was the moment both identities operated at full power simultaneously. 10 million views for a trap-pop ending that's irreverent and fun in exactly the ways the series needed. The fact that an English-speaking VTuber delivered the second-most-viewed ending of 2024 is its own kind of statement about where anime music is heading.

Hitsujibungaku have spent years as one of Japan's most critically respected indie rock acts, and Burning for Oshi no Ko Season 2 gave them a massive new audience without asking them to compromise anything. 8 million views for a song that matches the series' emotional intensity: guitars with real edge, a melody that aches, and a performance that sounds like it actually costs something to sing. The kind of ending that makes you sit still with the episode's emotional residue instead of immediately clicking to the next one.

Dungeon Meshi had two endings in the top 10 of 2024, and they're a perfect pair of opposites. Party!! is deceptively simple — cheerful, immediate, the kind of J-pop hook that sounds like it was always there. 7 million views for a song that functions as punctuation after each episode of a series that's genuinely funny and genuinely moving in alternating measures. Ryokuoushoku Shakai know exactly what they're doing when they make something sound effortless. It isn't.

ZUTOMAYO are one of the most distinctive acts in contemporary Japanese pop — ACAね's voice is immediately recognizable, and the band's compositions don't follow standard structural logic. TAIDADA for Dandadan is probably their most accessible song without being any less themselves. 6 million views for an ending that matches the anime's commitment to doing things its own way. If you don't know ZUTOMAYO yet, this is an excellent place to start.

City pop revivalism has been running through Japanese pop music for years, but LOVE 2000 does it with a specificity that goes beyond trend. Anna Yanami's voice has a quality that suits the warm, slightly woozy production — it sounds like a song from a late-90s Japanese drama that you somehow missed the first time around and are only now discovering. 5 million views and a song that many fans looped far outside the context of the anime. Genuinely excellent pop music.

Eve has a talent for reaching directly into a specific emotional frequency and tuning to it exactly. Teenage Blue for Blue Box finds the particular pitch of late adolescence — not dramatic heartbreak, but the everyday ache of feeling things too much and not knowing what to do with it. 4.5 million views and a perfect complement to the same series' opening by Official HIGE DANdism. Where Same Blue is harmonically intricate, Teenage Blue is emotionally direct. Together they map the same territory from different angles.

The second Dungeon Meshi ending in this ranking couldn't be more different from the first. Regal Lily makes indie rock with a rough-textured, slightly abrasive quality that is completely their own, and Kirakira no Hai has that personality in full. 4 million views for an ending that seems to be saying something more complicated than Party!! and is completely uninterested in being catchy in the conventional sense. Many Dungeon Meshi fans consider it the better of the two endings. The argument is interesting.

Yorushika have spent their career making music that sounds like emotions you can't quite name, and Shayou for My Heart Has a Secret is one of their best. 3.5 million views for a song about the melancholy of things not yet lost — the anticipatory sadness of loving something you know is temporary. In the context of a series about adolescent love that both participants are terrified to acknowledge, it's devastatingly appropriate. The kind of ending that turns a good anime into a complete artistic experience.

Blue Box's third entry in the 2024 rankings is TOMOO's Contrast, and it's a reminder of what makes TOMOO one of the more underrated artists in her lane. 3 million views for a song built on emotional clarity — no unnecessary ornamentation, no production tricks hiding anything. Just a well-written piece of music that understands its place in the series' emotional arc. A strong note to end the top 10 on.

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