Anime about music, bands and the stage

Anime about music has a hard job: making you hear something the screen cannot play. The good ones manage it with rehearsal rooms, nervous first gigs and the moment a group finally locks in. Some are about bands, some about idols, some about a single instrument and the person who practises it.

The list follows the music genre and tags such as bands, idols, classical, rock and jazz, plus dancing and acting, and puts the most popular matches first. Many of these have soundtracks worth listening to on their own.

Most popular matches