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Anime Like What If...?

If you loved What If...?'s Animation and Action & Adventure storytelling, these anime deliver a similar experience — selected for art style, narrative depth, and emotional impact. Each includes where to stream it now.

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Eyes of Wakanda
6.2

Eyes of Wakanda

2025

Follow the adventures of brave Wakandan warriors throughout history in this globe-trotting adventure, where they must carry out dangerous missions to retrieve Vibranium artifacts from the enemies of Wakanda. They are the Hatut Zaraze and this is their story.

X-Men '97
8.5

X-Men '97

2024

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold
7.6

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

2008

The Caped Crusader is teamed up with Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Aquaman and countless others in his quest to uphold justice.

Iron Man
6.6

Iron Man

1994

Industrialist Tony Stark leads a private team of superheroes as Iron Man against the forces of evil.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
7.8

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

2025

Peter Parker is on his way to becoming a hero, but his path to get there is anything but ordinary.

Justice League Unlimited
8.3

Justice League Unlimited

2004

The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe.

Spidey and His Amazing Friends
7.1

Spidey and His Amazing Friends

2021

Follow Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales and their adventures as the young heroes team up with Hulk, Ms. Marvel and Black Panther to defeat foes like Rhino, Doc Ock and Green Goblin and learn that teamwork is the best way to save the day.

Marvel's Avengers
7.6

Marvel's Avengers

2013

The further adventures of the Marvel Universe's mightiest general membership superhero team. With an all-star roster consisting of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Falcon and, occasionally--when she feels like it and only when she feels like it--Black Widow, the Avengers are a team in the truest sense. The Avengers save the world from the biggest threats imaginable--threats no single super hero could withstand.

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Justice League Action
7.1

Justice League Action

2016

Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman lead the DC Super Heroes against their most infamous foes.

Young Justice
8.4

Young Justice

2010

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

Star Wars: Visions
7.1

Star Wars: Visions

2021

This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the mythos of Star Wars through unique cultural lenses.

Teen Titans
8.4

Teen Titans

2003

Fighting for truth, justice and the last slice of pizza, these five superheroes are living proof you're never too young to save the planet. Protecting Earth and beyond, the Teen Titans use martial arts and gadgetry to battle villains.

Super Friends
7.6

Super Friends

1973

The most powerful heroes ever--Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman and Robin--join forces with teenagers Wendy and Marvin and their dog, Marvel the Wonderdog, to defend justice and guard the innocent.

Spider-Man
7.3

Spider-Man

1981

The web-slinging superhero battles crime in New York City.

Star Wars: Tales of the Empire
7.4

Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

2024

A journey into the fearsome Galactic Empire through the eyes of two warriors on divergent paths.

Superman
6.8

Superman

1988

One of the greatest superheroes of all time, Superman, takes to the air in this action-packed animated series. Disguised as Clark Kent, Superman uses his powers to overcome the forces of evil in a tireless crusade against crime and injustice.

X-Men: Evolution
8.0

X-Men: Evolution

2000

Teenagers Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike fight for a world that fears and hates them.

X-Men
8.2

X-Men

1992

The X-Men are an elite team of mutants, genetically gifted human beings with superpowers, sworn to fight for mutant rights against hostile Government agencies, whilst at the same time protecting mankind from mutant supremacist Magneto who seeks to destroy the human race in return for the atrocities committed against mutant kind.

Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
6.1

Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.

2013

Joined by the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., a humorously dysfunctional group of teammates who double as family, Hulk tackles threats that are too enormous for any other heroes to handle.

Why These Anime Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with What If...? (2021): Animation and Action & Adventure themes, comparable animation style, and similar narrative pacing. NoBadPicks uses TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface anime most likely to resonate with fans of What If...?.

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