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Viewing and reading orders for film, book, game, and TV franchises. Pick a franchise, choose a section, then an order — release, chronological, or recommended — and check items off as you go.

219 franchises

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181
The Dark Tower
A complete reading and viewing order for Stephen King's Dark Tower cycle — the eight novels following Roland Deschain's quest across a decaying multiverse, the nineteen Marvel Comics arcs Robin Furth and Peter David published from 2007 to 2017, and the 2017 Nikolaj Arcel feature film. Covers both publication and internal-chronological orders for the novels.
3 sections
28 items
— / 28
182
Danganronpa
A complete play, watch, and read order for Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa franchise, created by Kazutaka Kodaka — covering the main trilogy of visual novels, the action spinoff Ultra Despair Girls, the DR3 anime that concludes the Hope's Peak arc, the 2013 anime adaptation, and the canonical manga and light novels. Includes both release order and Kodaka's recommended cross-medium viewing order.
4 sections
12 items
— / 12
183
CSI
A complete viewing order for the CSI franchise — all five CBS series from the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015) through the revival CSI: Vegas (2021–2024), broken down season by season. Covers all 39 seasons across CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, CSI: Cyber, and CSI: Vegas, with crossover episodes noted in context.
5 sections
39 items
— / 39
184
Crash Bandicoot
A complete play order for the Crash Bandicoot franchise — every mainline platform game, racing title, and party game from the 1996 PlayStation original through Crash Team Rumble (2023). Covers the Naughty Dog originals, all third-party console entries, the N. Sane Trilogy remakes, and the Toys for Bob revival.
1 sections
17 items
— / 17
185
Cowboy Bebop
A complete watch and reading order for the Cowboy Bebop franchise — Shinichirō Watanabe's seminal 1998 anime series, the 2001 theatrical film Knockin' on Heaven's Door, the 2021 Netflix live-action adaptation, and both manga series. Includes release order and a chronological variant that places the film in its in-universe position between episodes 22 and 23.
3 sections
5 items
— / 5
186
Brandon Sanderson — Cosmere
A complete reading order for Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere — the interconnected shared universe spanning Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, and the 2023 Secret Projects. Covers all published novels, novellas, and the White Sand graphic novels, with both publication order and Sanderson's own recommended reading path.
3 sections
29 items
— / 29
187
The Conjuring Universe
A complete viewing order for The Conjuring Universe, covering all nine mainline theatrical films across the Conjuring, Annabelle, and The Nun sub-series. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order, which spans from 1952 Romania to 1986 Pennsylvania.
1 sections
10 items
— / 10
188
Conan the Barbarian
A complete reading and viewing order for Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian — Howard's twenty-one canonical stories from Weird Tales (1932-36), the Del Rey reprint trilogy that restored Howard's original typescripts, the iconic Marvel Roy Thomas comics era and its successors at Dark Horse, Marvel and Titan, the 1982 John Milius / Arnold Schwarzenegger film and its 1984 sequel, the 2011 Jason Momoa reboot, three Conan television series, and Funcom's Conan Exiles. Includes both a story-by-story Howard reading order and a Del Rey omnibus order for readers buying the modern definitive editions.
5 sections
41 items
— / 41
189
Code Geass
A complete watch and read order for the Code Geass franchise, covering the original two-season TV series, the three-part recap film trilogy that establishes an alternate continuity, the sequel film Lelouch of the Re;surrection, the 2024 continuation Rozé of the Recapture, the spinoff OVA series Akito the Exiled, and all major manga adaptations. Two animation variants help newcomers choose between the TV series path and the recap-film alternate continuity.
3 sections
20 items
— / 20
190
Cloverfield
A complete viewing order for the Cloverfield franchise, a Bad Robot anthology of three theatrical films connected by a shared universe of monster attacks and dimensional rifts. Covers Cloverfield (2008), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), with context on how each entry fits into the franchise's unusual multiverse structure.
1 sections
3 items
— / 3
191
Child's Play / Chucky
A complete viewing order for the Child's Play franchise — all seven mainline films from the 1988 original through Cult of Chucky (2017), plus all three seasons of the Chucky TV series (2021–2024) created by Don Mancini. Also covers the standalone 2019 MGM/Orion reboot as a separate continuity.
2 sections
11 items
— / 11
192
Castlevania
A complete play and watch order for the Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) franchise — Konami's classic 1986–2008 action-platformer timeline defined by Koji Igarashi, MercurySteam's Lords of Shadow reboot trilogy, and the two Netflix animated series (Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne). Includes both release and Konami's officially-published chronological canon order for the classic games.
3 sections
33 items
— / 33
193
Buffyverse
A complete viewing and reading order for the Buffyverse — Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, covering the original 1992 film, seven seasons of Buffy (1997–2003), five seasons of Angel (1999–2004), and the canonical Dark Horse comic continuation through Season 12 (2018). Includes a combined chronological variant that interleaves Buffy and Angel by their concurrent broadcast seasons for viewers who want to follow the crossover storylines in the order they aired.
5 sections
24 items
— / 24
194
Breaking Bad Universe
A complete viewing order for the Breaking Bad universe — all five seasons of Breaking Bad, all six seasons of Better Call Saul, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, created by Vince Gilligan and set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for watching Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad together.
3 sections
13 items
— / 13
195
Bobiverse
A complete reading order for the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor — five novels following Bob Johansen, a software engineer whose mind is uploaded into a von Neumann probe and tasked with finding humanity a new home among the stars. The series is strictly linear: each novel continues directly from the last, so publication order and in-universe chronological order are identical.
1 sections
5 items
— / 5
196
Bleach
A complete watch and reading order for the Bleach franchise — Tite Kubo's 74-volume manga, the original 2004 anime (366 episodes), the 2022 Thousand-Year Blood War reboot, four theatrical films, and the 2018 live-action adaptation. Filler arcs are tagged so you can skip straight from the Fullbring arc to TYBW without missing any manga content.
5 sections
25 items
— / 25
197
BlazBlue
A complete play and story order for the BlazBlue franchise by Arc System Works — covering the main story tetralogy (Calamity Trigger through Central Fiction), the XBlaze prequel visual novels, and the non-canon spinoffs Cross Tag Battle and Entropy Effect. The four C-Series fighting games form a single linear narrative, so newcomers can follow release order directly for the full story.
2 sections
8 items
— / 8
198
Blade Runner
A complete viewing order for the Blade Runner franchise, covering Ridley Scott's 1982 original, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the three official prequel short films, and the anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order, which differs substantially from release order across a thirty-year in-universe span.
3 sections
6 items
— / 6
199
Black Lagoon
A complete watch and reading order for Black Lagoon — Rei Hiroe's ongoing manga and the Madhouse anime adaptation. Covers both television seasons (2006), the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA (2010–2011), and the manga that continues well past where the anime ends.
2 sections
4 items
— / 4
200
The Black Company
A complete reading order for Glen Cook's The Black Company — the dark-fantasy mercenary chronicle spanning twelve novels from 1984 to 2025. Covers all published novels across the Books of the North, Books of the South, Books of the Glittering Stone, and the 2025 A Pitiless Rain arc, with both release order and documented in-universe chronological order.
1 sections
12 items
— / 12

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franchises

Viewing and reading orders for film, book, game, and TV franchises. Pick a franchise, choose a section, then an order — release, chronological, or recommended — and check items off as you go.

219 franchises

sort:recent·a–z·items·progressfilter:all·in-progress·unstarted·complete

181
The Dark Tower
A complete reading and viewing order for Stephen King's Dark Tower cycle — the eight novels following Roland Deschain's quest across a decaying multiverse, the nineteen Marvel Comics arcs Robin Furth and Peter David published from 2007 to 2017, and the 2017 Nikolaj Arcel feature film. Covers both publication and internal-chronological orders for the novels.
3 sections
28 items
— / 28
182
Danganronpa
A complete play, watch, and read order for Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa franchise, created by Kazutaka Kodaka — covering the main trilogy of visual novels, the action spinoff Ultra Despair Girls, the DR3 anime that concludes the Hope's Peak arc, the 2013 anime adaptation, and the canonical manga and light novels. Includes both release order and Kodaka's recommended cross-medium viewing order.
4 sections
12 items
— / 12
183
CSI
A complete viewing order for the CSI franchise — all five CBS series from the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015) through the revival CSI: Vegas (2021–2024), broken down season by season. Covers all 39 seasons across CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, CSI: Cyber, and CSI: Vegas, with crossover episodes noted in context.
5 sections
39 items
— / 39
184
Crash Bandicoot
A complete play order for the Crash Bandicoot franchise — every mainline platform game, racing title, and party game from the 1996 PlayStation original through Crash Team Rumble (2023). Covers the Naughty Dog originals, all third-party console entries, the N. Sane Trilogy remakes, and the Toys for Bob revival.
1 sections
17 items
— / 17
185
Cowboy Bebop
A complete watch and reading order for the Cowboy Bebop franchise — Shinichirō Watanabe's seminal 1998 anime series, the 2001 theatrical film Knockin' on Heaven's Door, the 2021 Netflix live-action adaptation, and both manga series. Includes release order and a chronological variant that places the film in its in-universe position between episodes 22 and 23.
3 sections
5 items
— / 5
186
Brandon Sanderson — Cosmere
A complete reading order for Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere — the interconnected shared universe spanning Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, and the 2023 Secret Projects. Covers all published novels, novellas, and the White Sand graphic novels, with both publication order and Sanderson's own recommended reading path.
3 sections
29 items
— / 29
187
The Conjuring Universe
A complete viewing order for The Conjuring Universe, covering all nine mainline theatrical films across the Conjuring, Annabelle, and The Nun sub-series. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order, which spans from 1952 Romania to 1986 Pennsylvania.
1 sections
10 items
— / 10
188
Conan the Barbarian
A complete reading and viewing order for Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian — Howard's twenty-one canonical stories from Weird Tales (1932-36), the Del Rey reprint trilogy that restored Howard's original typescripts, the iconic Marvel Roy Thomas comics era and its successors at Dark Horse, Marvel and Titan, the 1982 John Milius / Arnold Schwarzenegger film and its 1984 sequel, the 2011 Jason Momoa reboot, three Conan television series, and Funcom's Conan Exiles. Includes both a story-by-story Howard reading order and a Del Rey omnibus order for readers buying the modern definitive editions.
5 sections
41 items
— / 41
189
Code Geass
A complete watch and read order for the Code Geass franchise, covering the original two-season TV series, the three-part recap film trilogy that establishes an alternate continuity, the sequel film Lelouch of the Re;surrection, the 2024 continuation Rozé of the Recapture, the spinoff OVA series Akito the Exiled, and all major manga adaptations. Two animation variants help newcomers choose between the TV series path and the recap-film alternate continuity.
3 sections
20 items
— / 20
190
Cloverfield
A complete viewing order for the Cloverfield franchise, a Bad Robot anthology of three theatrical films connected by a shared universe of monster attacks and dimensional rifts. Covers Cloverfield (2008), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), with context on how each entry fits into the franchise's unusual multiverse structure.
1 sections
3 items
— / 3
191
Child's Play / Chucky
A complete viewing order for the Child's Play franchise — all seven mainline films from the 1988 original through Cult of Chucky (2017), plus all three seasons of the Chucky TV series (2021–2024) created by Don Mancini. Also covers the standalone 2019 MGM/Orion reboot as a separate continuity.
2 sections
11 items
— / 11
192
Castlevania
A complete play and watch order for the Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) franchise — Konami's classic 1986–2008 action-platformer timeline defined by Koji Igarashi, MercurySteam's Lords of Shadow reboot trilogy, and the two Netflix animated series (Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne). Includes both release and Konami's officially-published chronological canon order for the classic games.
3 sections
33 items
— / 33
193
Buffyverse
A complete viewing and reading order for the Buffyverse — Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, covering the original 1992 film, seven seasons of Buffy (1997–2003), five seasons of Angel (1999–2004), and the canonical Dark Horse comic continuation through Season 12 (2018). Includes a combined chronological variant that interleaves Buffy and Angel by their concurrent broadcast seasons for viewers who want to follow the crossover storylines in the order they aired.
5 sections
24 items
— / 24
194
Breaking Bad Universe
A complete viewing order for the Breaking Bad universe — all five seasons of Breaking Bad, all six seasons of Better Call Saul, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, created by Vince Gilligan and set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for watching Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad together.
3 sections
13 items
— / 13
195
Bobiverse
A complete reading order for the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor — five novels following Bob Johansen, a software engineer whose mind is uploaded into a von Neumann probe and tasked with finding humanity a new home among the stars. The series is strictly linear: each novel continues directly from the last, so publication order and in-universe chronological order are identical.
1 sections
5 items
— / 5
196
Bleach
A complete watch and reading order for the Bleach franchise — Tite Kubo's 74-volume manga, the original 2004 anime (366 episodes), the 2022 Thousand-Year Blood War reboot, four theatrical films, and the 2018 live-action adaptation. Filler arcs are tagged so you can skip straight from the Fullbring arc to TYBW without missing any manga content.
5 sections
25 items
— / 25
197
BlazBlue
A complete play and story order for the BlazBlue franchise by Arc System Works — covering the main story tetralogy (Calamity Trigger through Central Fiction), the XBlaze prequel visual novels, and the non-canon spinoffs Cross Tag Battle and Entropy Effect. The four C-Series fighting games form a single linear narrative, so newcomers can follow release order directly for the full story.
2 sections
8 items
— / 8
198
Blade Runner
A complete viewing order for the Blade Runner franchise, covering Ridley Scott's 1982 original, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the three official prequel short films, and the anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order, which differs substantially from release order across a thirty-year in-universe span.
3 sections
6 items
— / 6
199
Black Lagoon
A complete watch and reading order for Black Lagoon — Rei Hiroe's ongoing manga and the Madhouse anime adaptation. Covers both television seasons (2006), the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA (2010–2011), and the manga that continues well past where the anime ends.
2 sections
4 items
— / 4
200
The Black Company
A complete reading order for Glen Cook's The Black Company — the dark-fantasy mercenary chronicle spanning twelve novels from 1984 to 2025. Covers all published novels across the Books of the North, Books of the South, Books of the Glittering Stone, and the 2025 A Pitiless Rain arc, with both release order and documented in-universe chronological order.
1 sections
12 items
— / 12

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