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.
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Overlord
A complete watch and reading order for the Overlord franchise — Kugane Maruyama's light novel series, the four-season Madhouse anime (2015–2022), the 2024 theatrical film Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom covering the Holy Kingdom Arc, and the manga adaptations. Covers all sixteen published light novel volumes, both 2017 recap compilation films, and the ongoing Overlord New World manga sequel.5 sections
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Robin Hobb — Realm of the Elderlings
A complete reading order for Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings — the interconnected saga spanning the Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Rain Wild Chronicles, and Fitz and the Fool trilogies, plus two short works set in the same world. Covers all 16 novels and 2 shorter works in both publication order and Hobb's own recommended reading path.1 sections
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Trails / The Legend of Heroes
A complete play order for the Trails series (known in Japan as the Kiseki series), Nihon Falcom's interconnected RPG saga set on the continent of Zemuria. Covers all 13 mainline entries from Trails in the Sky through Trails Beyond the Horizon across the Sky, Crossbell, Erebonia, and Calvard story arcs, played strictly in release order.1 sections
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Twin Peaks
A complete viewing and reading order for Twin Peaks — David Lynch and Mark Frost's landmark mystery drama spanning two original ABC seasons (1990–91), the 1992 prequel film Fire Walk with Me, the 2014 deleted-scenes compilation The Missing Pieces, and the 2017 Showtime continuation The Return. Includes both release order and Lynch's recommended viewing sequence, plus all five tie-in novels published between 1990 and 2017.2 sections
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Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-
A complete watch and reading order for Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-, Tappei Nagatsuki's isekai anime franchise following Subaru Natsuki, a young man transported to a fantasy world who discovers he can reverse time by dying. Covers all anime seasons, the theatrical OVAs (Memory Snow and The Frozen Bond), and the manga adaptations — with insertion points for the OVAs answered.3 sections
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The Purge
A complete watch order for The Purge franchise — James DeMonaco's dystopian horror series spanning five films and two TV seasons, all set in a near-future America where all crime is legal for twelve hours each year. Covers both release order and in-universe chronological order, including the prequel The First Purge and the USA Network television series.1 sections
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The King of Fighters
A complete play order for SNK's King of Fighters series — every mainline numbered entry from '94 through XV, the Dream Match editions, spinoffs, and crossovers with Capcom. Covers the Orochi Saga, NESTS Chronicles, Tales of Ash, and the post-XIII new continuity, with saga tags so you can follow any arc start to finish.4 sections
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Patlabor
A complete watch and reading order for Mobile Police Patlabor — the mecha franchise created by the Headgear collective, spanning two separate animated continuities, a live-action series and film, the original manga, and the 2026 sequel anime Patlabor EZY. Sections are organized by continuity: the OVA/film timeline, the TV timeline, live-action, and the original manga.6 sections
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Studio Ghibli
A complete viewing order for all 24 Studio Ghibli theatrical films, from the pre-Ghibli Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) through The Boy and the Heron (2023). Each film is a standalone story; this page covers every feature the studio has produced or co-produced, sorted by release date with director tags for filtering by filmmaker.1 sections
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Pretty Cure
A complete viewing order for the Pretty Cure (PreCure) magical-girl anime franchise produced by Toei Animation — all 23 annual TV series from Futari wa Pretty Cure (2004) through Star Detective Precure! (2026), plus every per-series theatrical film and the full run of Pretty Cure All Stars crossover films. Each TV series is a standalone story with a new cast; this page covers both series order and films.2 sections
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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
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DC Animated Universe (Bruce Timm)
A complete viewing order for the DC Animated Universe — Bruce Timm and Paul Dini's shared-continuity animated franchise covering Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: TAS, The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, The Zeta Project, Static Shock, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and the four DCAU films from 1992 through 2006. Includes release order, the widely-cited recommended hybrid watch order, and an in-universe chronological order.1 sections
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A Quiet Place
A complete viewing order for the A Quiet Place franchise, covering all three theatrical films, the video game The Road Ahead, and the comic series Storm Warning. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order, since Day One is a prequel set on the first day of the alien invasion — before the Abbott family storyline of the original films.3 sections
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Final Fantasy
A complete play and watch order for the Final Fantasy franchise, covering every mainline numbered entry from I through XVI, the Tactics line, the Final Fantasy XI and XIV MMOs (including all XIV expansions), selected spinoffs, and the films and anime. Includes a dedicated section for the films and anime, and a pointer to the separate Final Fantasy VII Compilation franchise page for FFVII-specific content.2 sections
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Once Upon a Time
A complete viewing and reading order for Once Upon a Time, the ABC fantasy drama series (2011–2018) in which fairy-tale characters live under a curse in the town of Storybrooke, Maine. Covers all seven seasons of the main series, the one-season spinoff Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and the four official tie-in novels.2 sections
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Joe Abercrombie — The First Law
A complete reading order for Joe Abercrombie's First Law universe — the grimdark fantasy series spanning the original First Law Trilogy, three standalone novels, the Age of Madness trilogy, and the Sharp Ends short story collection. Covers all nine novels and both short fiction volumes, with publication order and an in-universe chronological path for the short stories.2 sections
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Paper Mario & Mario & Luigi (Mario RPGs)
A complete play order for the Mario RPG family of games — Super Mario RPG (1996 SNES) and its 2023 Switch remake, every Paper Mario title from the 2000 Nintendo 64 original through Sticker Star, Color Splash, The Origami King, and the 2024 Switch remake of The Thousand-Year Door, and every Mario & Luigi title from Superstar Saga (2003) through Bowser's Inside Story, Dream Team, the Paper Jam crossover, and the 2024 Switch revival Brothership. Includes release order and a play-by-series order that groups each sub-series for users who want to tackle one line at a time.1 sections
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Firefly / Serenity
A complete viewing, reading, and watching order for the Firefly / Serenity franchise — Joss Whedon's space-western universe spanning the 2002 Fox television series, the 2005 Universal film Serenity, six Dark Horse Comics miniseries, six Boom! Studios story arcs, and nine Titan Books tie-in novels. Covers both the creator-intended DVD order and the original Fox broadcast sequence for the TV series.5 sections
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Heroes
A complete viewing and reading order for Heroes — NBC's superhero drama following ordinary people who discover extraordinary abilities. Covers all four original seasons (2006–2010), the Heroes Reborn miniseries (2015), the official webisode series, online graphic novels, and the single tie-in novel.4 sections
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Gamera
A complete viewing order for the Gamera franchise — all 12 theatrical films and the 2023 Netflix anime, spanning four distinct continuity eras from Daiei's 1965 original through the Showa series, Shusuke Kaneko's acclaimed Heisei trilogy, the 2006 standalone reboot, and the animated Rebirth series. Includes era-by-era variants so you can follow each continuity line from start to finish.2 sections
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