As the most-awaited holiday, Christmas, is just a couple of weeks away, the list of binge-watches for Christmas should also be kept ready. Christmas is about enjoying yourself, spending family time, or binge-watching with your loved ones.
Along with your loved ones and the holiday spirit, people love to watch movies and series, especially the ones that hold the essence of Christmas, to have a more relatable bond of connection with it. Recently, a lot of movies and series have come up with a Christmas theme for holiday lovers and brought them a list of “Christmas binge-watches.”
Anime has also made a rise in this list of Christmas binge-watches by bringing up a list of anime that are Christmas-themed. The high demand for anime seems to be a suitable choice, as it can be watched with family and friends as well. Since anime is popular with all age groups, especially teenagers and kids, they will be good to go without any clash of choices.
Anime’s to watch this Christmas
There is a long list of Christmas-themed anime that have a beautiful storyline and embody the essence of Christmas. Whether you want to watch it with your family and friends or with your loved ones, Christmas anime has all of it on the list.
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003) It is a great movie to watch with your family and is available on Amazon Prime Video. The storyline starts with an accidentally found newborn child by Hana, Miyuki, and Jin, who themselves are homeless, but they decide to be the parents of the baby.
Furthermore, this baby brings all three of them closer and makes them realize the love of their real family. Later on, they connect with their respective families on Christmas and also rebound among themselves.
All three of them live together and happily with each other. It’s a definite choice to watch with your family or kids as it shares the importance of family and friends, who always stick around us when we need them.
Santa Company: The Secret of Christmas (2019)
Santa Company: The Secret of Christmas (2019) Christmas never comes alone but brings Santa Claus with itself. It’s a Christmas-themed movie with the Santa Claus Company, where a girl joins the Santa Claus Company because she does not want to stay home alone on Christmas.
This movie is great to watch with friends, as the movie’s main lead, Neol, is a lonely person whose mother passed away long ago and whose father stays busy. To escape her loneliness, she joins Santa Company and distributes gifts on the whole Christmas Eve to others.
While working in the company to overcome her loneliness, she feels lost in the humongous factory, during which she makes friends and celebrates her Christmas with her friends. This makes Neol realize the value of family and friendship.
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010): Mystery and detective storyline lovers should watch this anime movie during their Christmas holiday, it is an adaption of the fourth Haruhi novel. The main character, Haruhi Suzumiya, who leads the SOS Brigade, a club with other scholars, but then Suzumiya disappears.
The strangest thing is that after she disappears, her memories start getting hazy, and people start forgetting her existence. Later, Kyon discovers that he’s not in the same world as he knew before and also comes across Yuki Nagato and Mikuru Asahina (members of the SOS Brigade). They let him know that they’re from a world where Haruhi never existed.
Then the trio decided to solve this strange phenomenon. Also, they solve the mystery of Haruhi’s disappearance and also find a way back to the original world. It is available to stream on Crunchyroll.
Itsudatte My Santa! (2000)
Itsudatte My Santa! (2000) is one of the popular anime of the 2000s that follows the story of a boy, who was born on Christmas Eve; therefore, his parents named him Santa. He hates his Christmas because his parents never celebrate Christmas with him.
Eventually, he crosses paths with a girl named May. She claims to be Santa Claus and wants him to believe in her. In the movie, May helps Santa to overcome his childhood trauma and brings immense change to his life which makes him see the beauty of life.
Does May become successful in convincing Santa to believe in Christmas? Find out by watching it this holiday season.
5 centimeters per second (2007)
5 centimeters per second (2007) Watching a romance on this holiday of the season is unskippable, and this movie is a must-go for the event. It has a melancholic storyline that follows the main protagonists, Tohno Takako and Akari.
They were childhood friends who had gotten separated due to the placement of Akari’s parents’ employment, and Takaki decided to visit Akari for the last time on a long winter day as he might be moving even further away. They cross paths with each other at different points in their lives.
The thought of “what could have been” in their respective minds continued till the end. This masterpiece has stuck in our hearts. It was created by Makoto, who deserves all the praise for this phenomenal movie with a realistic love theme and characters with complexities.
Winter Sonata (2009–2010)
Winter Sonata (2009–2010) is an anime adapted from a Korean drama that has an unbelievably beautiful storyline. Since most of the scenes are of a wintery place, it makes the holiday season feel more relatable. The storyline explores love among the characters and also the sorrow of losing a loved one.
It follows the story of Yoo Jin and Joo Sang, who love each other, but unfortunately, Joo Sang dies in a car accident. While trying to move on, she marries her childhood friend. When things seemed to be falling into the right places, and she was in a healing process, she came across someone who was like a reincarnation of Joo Sang.
To unveil what Yoo Jin does after seeing the reincarnation of Joo Sang. Watch it now, available on IMDb.
