Written by David Roberts
Reviewed by Lucas Walter
Updated
The top anime YouTubers in 2026 are TheAnimeMen, Trash Taste, Mother’s Basement, GrandLineReview, and Totally Not Mark. This list ranks 25 anime YouTubers by median views across their recent videos, not by subscriber count. Each one was found by searching across hundreds of thousands of top-performing videos in the anime niche.
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All 25 are listed in rank order. Select a row to jump to the write-up.
| Rank | Creator | Subscribers | Median views | Engagement | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TheAnimeMen @TheAnimeMen | 4.9M | 604K | 4.1% | Anime meme sketches |
| 2 | Trash Taste @TrashTaste | 1.6M | 405K | 2.1% | Three-host anime podcast |
| 3 | Mother’s Basement @mothersbasement | 1.4M | 360K | 4.3% | Anime openings and seasonal picks |
| 4 | GrandLineReview @GrandLineReview | 1.3M | 281K | 2.1% | One Piece every few days |
| 5 | Totally Not Mark @TotallyNotMark | 1.1M | 242K | 4% | Dragon Ball essays and blind reviews |
| 6 | NewWorldReview @NewWorldReview | 559K | 213K | 2.9% | Hunter x Hunter chapter analysis |
| 7 | TeamFourStar @TeamFourStar | 4.5M | 202K | 4.3% | Abridged anime parodies |
| 8 | AniNews @AniNews | 722K | 194K | 2.5% | Isekai cut content |
| 9 | Ohara @Ohara-the-Fox | 1.5M | 181K | 1.3% | One Piece lore theories |
| 10 | MADEinKOREA @MadeinkoreazZz | 282K | 163K | 3.9% | Comedic anime hot takes |
| 11 | Omai @Omai | 1.2M | 133K | 3.4% | Anime fan skits |
| 12 | Anime DUCK Art @animeduckartist | 251K | 102K | 2.7% | Anime drawing lessons |
| 13 | DygoKnight @DygoKnight | 273K | 93.4K | 2% | Naruto lore questions |
| 14 | Nucha @NuchaReviews | 34K | 87.5K | 2.7% | Character-writing essays |
| 15 | AnimeUproar @AnimeUproar | 2M | 85.8K | 2.7% | One Piece chapter breakdowns |
| 16 | Teniz @teniz | 105K | 79.2K | 3% | Manga shopping and box sets |
| 17 | Mastar @MaSTARMedia | 3.8M | 69.6K | 3.5% | One Punch Man and Dragon Ball reviews |
| 18 | Anime Balls Deep @animeballsdeep | 2.4M | 69.6K | 1.6% | Shonen manga breakdowns |
| 19 | Tekking101 @Tekking101 | 741K | 62.4K | 3% | One Piece chapter reviews |
| 20 | WholeWheatPete @WholeWheatPete | 4.1M | 60.5K | 4.1% | Cosplay skits |
| 21 | Yacine @YacineScales | 48.7K | 59K | 3% | One Punch Man power scaling |
| 22 | FLEXIEJAYANIME @FlexiejayAnime | 317K | 58.2K | 3.1% | First-watch reactions |
| 23 | Nicholas Dark TV @NicholasDarkTV | 335K | 58K | 3% | Episode and anime-song reactions |
| 24 | Carlie & Ange @CarlieAndAnge | 316K | 57K | 2.7% | Episode reactions |
| 25 | B.D.A. Law @bdalaw | 435K | 50.6K | 3% | Short One Piece chapter reviews |
The best anime YouTubers aren’t simply the channels with the most subscribers. YouTube shows videos to people based on how the video performs individually, not just based on who subscribes to the channel. As a result, a small or midsized channel can reach more people than one several times its size.
That’s why we rank anime YouTubers by median views of their videos (the average number of people a typical video reaches). As of November 2026, the five most watched are TheAnimeMen, Trash Taste, Mother’s Basement, GrandLineReview, and Totally Not Mark.
Grouped by the kind of video each channel makes, from single-series coverage to sketches. The number beside each name is the creator’s overall rank.
Channels built on one story, mostly One Piece. Each new chapter brings a review, a theory, or a ranking.
Liam’s One Piece channel, three or four uploads a week: chapter reviews, character breakdowns, power debates, and a running encyclopedia of devil fruits. Mostly narrated over manga panels and anime stills.
17 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in AI chat apps, mobile games, smoking alternatives, and earbuds.
Hunter x Hunter and nothing else: chapter-by-chapter analysis and theories about the Succession Contest, narrated over manga panels and anime clips. No face on camera.
11 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in AI chat apps, mobile games, smoking alternatives, and VPNs.
Sam’s weekly explainers on what the isekai adaptations left out of the light novels, from Mushoku Tensei to Re:Zero and Tensura. Narrated over the episode with side-by-side stills, plus seasonal rankings.
11 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in anime figures, mobile games, VPNs, and gaming PCs.
Manu’s long One Piece essays on lore, symbolism, and where the Elbaph arc is heading, built on manga panels and anime stills. Weekly chapter reviews in between.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in mobile games and rewards apps.
Almost daily Naruto videos of 20 to 30 minutes, each answering one question about the story or ranking its strongest fighters. Narrated over manga panels and clips, with Boruto as the frequent target.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Weekly One Piece chapter breakdowns under all-caps titles, recapping each new chapter beat by beat and reading power-ups out of the manga panels. Narrated in a voice-over studio, with no lifestyle footage.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in mobile games.
Matt’s One Piece chapter reviews and theory videos, 20 to 50 minutes each, one topic an episode, plus a weekly chapter breakdown stream. A Hunter x Hunter book club, quizzes, and reader mailbags fill the gaps.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Long power-scaling essays that set One Punch Man’s heroes and monsters against other universes, argued point by point over clips and stills. Two or three uploads a month.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
BragoDace’s One Piece chapter reviews and power debates, one to five minutes each, to camera with manga panels. Guest narrators fill in some weeks.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in mobile games and rewards apps.
Longer videos on how anime is written and animated, plus manga breakdowns and hot takes across many shows.
Geoff Thew’s chaptered breakdowns of anime openings, fight scenes, and adaptations, plus season-by-season best and worst lists. Shot to camera and cut with clips, 20 to 45 minutes each.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in language learning, gaming PCs, energy drinks, and mobile games.
Mark Fitzpatrick’s scripted essays on how anime stories are built, this fall mostly an episode-by-episode watch of the remastered Dragon Ball Super. Blind Review episodes take on other animation, Avatar included.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in VPNs.
Fast comedic rants about anime, 8 to 20 minutes each, on the corniest scenes, the worst teams, and filler that turned out funny. One topic a video, three or so a month.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in mobile games.
Essays on how anime characters are written, mostly from Death Note and Re:Zero, with tropes like the tsundere taken apart. A Japanese-Australian creator with 34,000 subscribers and far more viewers.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Desk-side reviews of new manga chapters and trailers, with One Punch Man and Dragon Ball Super at the center. The channel’s creator also writes a manga and a card game.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in mobile games.
Adil and Yusuf breaking down each new chapter of Black Clover, One Piece, Baki, and Boruto, 8 to 25 minutes a video, plus power-scaling Shorts and live chapter reactions. Narrated over panels and clips.
6 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in mobile games, gaming browsers, and energy drinks.
Comedy built on anime scenes and characters, from cosplay skits to abridged dubs, almost all of it as Shorts.
Six friends (Gianni, Kaide, Jeremy, Aidan, Sam, and Ethan) filming fast sketches about anime fans, mangaka, and favorite scenes, several a day. Longer challenge videos take them to conventions and bookstores.
6 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in AR glasses, wall art, manga, and trading cards.
A parody group of 18 years, now cutting Yu Yu Hakusho into abridged Shorts and full episodes with new scripts and its own voice cast. Edited anime footage, with no one on camera.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in snack boxes.
Omai Jan’s daily Shorts about being an anime fan: POV skits, Gojo jokes, and trend clips set to anime scenes. Nothing long-form; more than one Short most days.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Pete’s cosplay skits as Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, and Chainsaw Man characters, one gag a clip, filmed indoors and at conventions. Two uploads a day.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in anime pop-up stores.
Watching along with the audience: first-time episode reactions and a weekly three-host podcast.
A weekly podcast, one and a half to two hours long, from three anime YouTubers who live in Japan, mixing seasonal anime and manga talk with games and life there. Travel specials come between the episodes.
11 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in online store software, shipping software, and footwear.
First-time watch-alongs of One Piece, Bleach, Black Clover, and the new season’s shows, episode by episode with a discussion after. More than one upload most days.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Nicholas Light’s anime channel: episode reactions to Bleach, Black Clover, and JoJo, plus reactions to anime openings and songs. Several uploads a day.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
A married couple reacting to One Piece, Naruto Shippuden, and JoJo two or three episodes at a time, with a quiz or a chat after. About one upload a day.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
A drawing teacher and a manga collector, for brands that sell art supplies, books, or shelves.
Narrated drawing lessons under a minute long, each on one step of drawing anime-style characters: eyes, hair color, shading, poses. Marker and pencil on paper.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Manga shopping challenges filmed in bookstores, collection tours, and box-set unboxings, with superhero comics and games now and then. Each upload runs long and lands every week or two.
4 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in VPNs, manga, and office furniture.
We analyzed the 465 videos these 25 creators published on YouTube in the last 30 days. Of those, 53 beat their creator’s usual views by 3× or more.
Here is how this month’s breakouts open, read from what each video says in its first seconds, or from its caption when nobody speaks.
“Hey, Mr. Gege, what’re you working on?”
The sketch channels never introduce the joke. The first line is already a character talking to another character, often the manga’s own creator, and the premise lands within a few seconds. Most of the month’s breakouts open this way.
TheAnimeMen 6.3M views · 10.5× their usualIt is also how these channels open their usual Shorts, only less often. What lifted the breakouts was a premise every fan already knew from the news or the season: a mangaka at the drawing desk, a Halloween costume, a character from this fall’s episodes.
“Welcome to day seven.”
Two long videos broke out with a rule stated up front: a manga budget that doubles every day for a week, and ten drive-thrus in Tokyo in one day. The next sentence names the stakes, here “I am trying to speedrun going broke.”
Teniz 322K views · 4.1× their usualNone of the usual uploads we read opened this way. A challenge gives a collector or a podcast a reason to watch to the end that a review does not have, and it suits a brand whose product can be part of the rules.
“The winds are changing within the Naruto franchise.”
Breakdown and lore channels open almost every upload with what just happened, so the opening alone did not make these videos break out. The story did: five breakouts from three channels were about Masashi Kishimoto’s new Naruto manga.
DygoKnight 751K views · 8× their usualFor these channels the news calendar sets the views. A sponsor slot on a chapter-release or announcement day reaches more people than the same slot a week later.
Anime Balls Deep: “BAKI'S NEW EVIL POWER! He Can Destroy an ENTIRE COUNTRY Like YUJIRO! BAKI RAHEN FULL FIGHT Explained” reached 1M views, 14.8× their usual.
WholeWheatPete: “YAGAMI BACKWARDS 🤓👆” reached 850K views, 14.1× their usual.
Omai: “Anime Wish Gone Wrong” reached 1.5M views, 11× their usual.
This table shows what the anime channels on this list do at each size on YouTube. Use it to judge whether a creator’s numbers are strong for their tier.
| Tier | Subscribers | Median views | Engagement | Videos a week | Sponsored videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | 10K to 100K | 73.2K | 2.8% | 1.1 | 0% |
| Mid | 100K to 500K | 68.7K | 3% | 4.5 | 2% |
| Macro | 500K to 2M | 213K | 2.9% | 1.9 | 18% |
| Mega | Over 2M | 77.7K | 3.8% | 5.6 | 3% |
The figures are medians across these 25 channels, from each channel’s recent videos. “Sponsored videos” is the share of videos in the 90 days to Nov 6, 2026, that carry a paid-promotion label or a stated sponsor, or are part of a brand campaign.
If you sell to anime fans, whether a streaming service, a manga publisher, a figure shop, or a game, these are the checks that matter before you pick a channel.
Many of these audiences follow one story. A One Piece channel’s viewers come back for each chapter, and a Naruto or Hunter x Hunter channel’s viewers do the same for theirs. A product tied to one series belongs on that series’ channel; a general product fits the essayists and reactors who cover the whole season.
Several large channels never show the creator. The voice talks over manga panels, clips, or a drawing. A read on such a channel is audio over the channel’s usual footage, so ask how they show your product before you plan a demo.
Mobile games, VPNs, AI chat apps, and energy drinks recur across this list, and some channels carry a sponsor in most uploads. Look in those descriptions for a competitor, and for a category you would not want next to your brand.
Sponsored videos have to say so. The FTC’s Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers sets out what that means in practice.
Views here follow chapter days, season premieres, and big announcements. Ask a channel which upload falls on the day that matters to you, and expect a weekly reviewer to post within hours of a new chapter.
We identified and ranked these creators by searching hundreds of thousands of top-performing anime videos across YouTube with Klint.
We rank by median views across each channel’s recent videos, so one viral video can’t lift a channel up the list. Channels from any country qualify if they post in English, if a named person or group is behind them, and if at least half of their newest 30 uploads are about anime or manga; animated avatars are left out.
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As of November 2026 the top five anime YouTubers by median views are TheAnimeMen, Trash Taste, Mother’s Basement, GrandLineReview, and Totally Not Mark.
TheAnimeMen, with 4.9M subscribers and a median of 604K views a video. The group films anime sketches, mostly as Shorts.
Gigguk posted twice in the last 90 days, short of the list’s minimum of six uploads. The Anime Man and CDawgVA now post mostly about life in Japan rather than anime. All three host Trash Taste, which is on the list.
No. The list covers channels with a real person or a named group behind them, so VTubers and other animated-avatar channels are left out, however large they are.
By hand, search YouTube for the series your product fits and note who posts after every chapter or episode, then read their recent descriptions for sponsors. Klint does it in one search, for example “One Piece YouTubers under 500K subscribers with no VPN sponsor.”
It depends on the channel’s usual views, whether the read is a short mention or a whole video, and how many uploads it covers. Most deals on this list are a sponsor read inside a regular upload; a game or a show can also ask for a dedicated video around a launch or a premiere.
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