It's not hard to find anime online, but some shows are so good (or hard to come by) they deserve a place on your shelf. You get the certainty of a lifetime of rewatches, plus Blu-rays typically come packed with bonus features. Either way, if you’re in the market for any physical media, this year’s Amazon Prime Day sale has got you covered.
Some of the deepest discounts are exclusive to Prime members, but plenty of DVDs are included in Amazon’s ongoing Buy 2, Get 1 Free promotion, which is available to anyone. You can scroll through everything included in that sale here. Otherwise, here are the best anime deals I've found so far:
Anime Box Sets and DVDs on Sale
These Prime Day deals include both individual seasons as well as full series box sets. I’ve highlighted the first season of each series for simplicity’s sake, but you can definitely find later seasons if the series has 'em in the sale.
To kick things off, naturally, we have the original Big Three. Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach are all discounted. From the previous generation, we have deals on the equally massive Dragon Ball Z, as well as '90s classics like Cowboy Bebop.
Nana and Death Note are both up there for me as the greatest anime of all time. (Well, at least the first half of Death Note.) Neither of them will make you particularly happy, but that's not always what entertainment is for.
Then we get to the modern era. Frieren, which was IGN’s pick as the best anime of 2024, is certainly a standout here. I’d recommend checking out The Apothecary Diaries, which IGN's review highlights as having a "charming, iron-willed protagonist." On the shonen side, one of the biggest discounts I've seen is on the first season of Jujutsu Kaisen.
Honestly, I was able to find most of my favorite anime in the sale, with the unfortunate exception of the 1997 version of Berserk. You can still pick up the 2016 version on sale, but that’s far from the same thing. Anyhow, my point is I'd recommend doing some searching and scrolling for your top picks.
Anime Movie Deals
Things are a little lighter on the movie side. My top pick there is Akira. I mean, c’mon, can it get any better? You can also find Makoto Shinkai movies like Your Name, and because these are in fact the biggest franchises ever, plenty of Dragon Ball and One Piece movies. That includes the most recent release for the latter, One Piece Film: Red.
Plenty of Studio Ghibli movies are on sale, though not necessarily as part of the Prime Day discounts. Same goes for Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, one of my favorite movies of all time, in a limited edition steelbook that I've included above.
