Mine:
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Violet Evergarden
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Spirited Away
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A Place Further Than The Universe
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Gintama
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Steins;Gate
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Frieren
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Fruits Basket (2019)
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Tsurune S2
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Your Name
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Your Lie in April
- Hunter X Hunter
- Ping Pong the Animation
- Hajime no Ippo
- Mob Psycho 100
- Kaguya-Sama: Love is War
- Attack on Titan
- Samurai Champloo
- Kill la kill
- Hinamatsuri
- Gintama
I considered more recent anime (like Frieren/Dungeon Meshi) but I am resisting the urge to succumb to recency bias.
It’s hard to pick a top 10. The top 5 on this list are pretty firmly my favorites but after that there are any number of great shows that could’ve filled the latter 5 slots.
- Redline - This movie showed me that an anime doesn’t need a complex plot to be awesome.
- LOOK BACK - Really emotional story about two artists.
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War - So far this is a perfect adaptation of my favorite romance manga, and my favorite comedy manga. I didn’t want to use the term “romcom” simply because I want to emphasize that it excels on both points individually. Here’s hoping they continue on to finish the second half of the story.
- Gurren Lagann - Much like Redline, this show is just awesome.
- Skip and Loafer - Extremely charming story about a girl from the countryside getting accustomed to Tokyo life. Season 2 airs later this year so it’s a good time to catch up if you haven’t seen it!
- Bang Brave Bang Bravern! - Big gay robots.
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Space opera. The worse modern US politics has gotten the more depressing this show has been to watch.
- Gundam Build Fighters - The most charming Gundam show. Unfortunately some of the jokes and references won’t land unless you’ve watched an ungodly amount of not-quite-as-good older Gundam shows.
- Eureka Seven - An excellent mech anime held back a little by a slow first several episodes.
- Mob Psycho 100 - A story about a boy trying to grow up into the best version of himself he can manage.
MOST BASIC LIST EVER
- Trigun
- Spirited Away
- Dandandan
- Solo Leveling
- Cowboy Bebop
- Nausica and the Valley of the Wind
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Trigun Stampede
- Bloom into You
- Gurran Lagan
MOST BASIC LIST EVER
If everyone else enjoy the anime that you enjoy, it just means that you’ve got great taste.
❤️
Indeed, I don’t need to stand out by having more unique tastes, I like what I like
In no particular order (maybe)
- Ghost in the Shell (all seasons, even if they had different names)
- Dragonball Z (you either wanted to be Goku or Vegeta, simple as is)
- Claymore (short, and holy fuck did it go hard at times)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (even if it went off-trial, I still loved it!)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (a more-true to the manga release - also dope!)
- Samurai Champloo (they had Dutch-speaking characters! Also made me learn a bunch of Dutch history and how we used to trade with the Japanese since 1609 because of an Englishman called William Adams (Miura Anjin)!)
- Alfred J. Kwak (Kwak the Duck - あひるのクワック- my childhood favorite)
- Ox Tales/Boes (a childhood classic)
- Dommel/Wowser/Bigger and Better: Dommel & Ron (another childhood classic)
- Moomins (a Finnish classic!)
I so rarely see other people rank FMA’03 over Brotherhood, but I really preferred it. The more serious tone, the origins of the homunculi, the much stronger ending (“better” is debatable, but it was definitely strong), and most of all, the Pride reveal. '03 revealing it like 2/3 of the way through the series made for a better twist. I’m so happy I was able to avoid that particular spoiler until I watched the show, because that blew my goddamn mind
An honorable mention to who actually killed Winry’s parents. Having us grow to like the guy for a while before revealing that particular sin was a stronger choice than just saying “yeah, the antagonist did it”
In no order whatsoever:
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Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
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Vinland Saga
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Jujutsu Kaisen
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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Apothecary Diaries
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Summertime Render
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Oshi no Ko
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Chainsaw Man
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My Hero Academia
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Dr. Stone
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(because I couldn’t decide what to ditch from the list above) Dungeon Meshi
I hesitated to put Orb very high on my own list due to worries about recency bias, but it really was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I started it because, I mean, look at my username. A show about astronomers studying heliocentrism in 15th century Poland sounds like it’s tailor made for me. But it’s even better, because it’s not actually about astronomy. It’s about the anonymous contributors to history, whose names and faces were never recorded, and yet were instrumental to building their era, and by extension every era afterward.
Near the end of the show, a certain character makes reference to the fact that “when the people of the past or future gaze across the span of time, they’ll merely see us all as people from the fifteenth century.” Indeed, he feels that “we, who happened to live in this day and age, even if we hated one another enough to kill, are comrades who built an era together.” Even if your name won’t survive over the next five centuries, you still have laid a brick in the foundation of history.
Idunno, I can write a three page essay about this show, and it still wouldn’t capture all of my thoughts and feelings. It’s the easiest 10/10 I’ve given a show since Standalone Complex. Truly the only valid criticism of it is that it is physically difficult to watch if your room isn’t pitch black. They gotta go back and turn the brightness up on some scenes.
There are many shows I have enjoyed watching, but very few I got literally addicted to. Orb is definitely one of those.
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Based on my MyAnimeList that I haven’t visited in a long while and evaluated how my scoring would have changed until now. Also I rarely watch anime as much as 15 years ago. Just based on those that I gave 8, 9 and 10/10 and reevaluated just now lol.
- Senki Zesshou Symphogear series
- Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (series)
- Made in Abyss
- Kakushigoto
- Psycho-Pass (first 1. haven’t watched the other seasons)
- Uchoten Kazoku
- Jinrui Wa Suitai Shimashita
- Kill La Kill
- Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Sousou no Frieren
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series
- Uchuu Patrol Luluco
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Steins;Gate
- Little Witch Academia
- Madoka Magica
- Girls Und Panzer
- Inferno Cop
- Afro Samurai
- Hunter x Hunter (2011)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Monogatari Series
- Welcome to the NHK
- Mob Psycho 100
- Fate/Zero
- Re:Zero
- Chainsaw Man
- Frieren
- Sonny Boy
Sonny Boy is such a mind fuck.
Hunter x Hunter is excellent
- Your Name
- Spy x Family
- My next life as a villainess
- Fruits Basket (2019)
- Suzume
- Shangri-la Frontier
- Ranma ½
- Zenshu
- Samurai Champloo
- So I’m a spider so what
I just started watching anime again recently after not watching much for over a decade, so a lot of mine are newer
- 100, 銀魂
- 100, 日常
- 95, らき☆すた
- 95, ひだまりスケッチ
- 92, のんのんびより
- 92, けいおん!
- 91, 苺ましまろ
- 91, きんいろモザイク
- 91, あずまんが大王
- 91, ゆゆ式
Honourable mention: こげぱん (very short). Copied from my little text file where I keep track. Ratings purely based on vibes and emotions nothing objective or weighted sum of categories.
If you can’t read Japanese, here is what (I am pretty sure, my Japanese is far from good) this list translates to:
- Gintama
- Nichijou
- Lucky Star
- Hidamari Sketch
- Non Non Biyori
- K-On
- Ichigo Mashimaro
- Kiniro Mosaic
- Azumanga Daioh
- Yuyushiki
HM: Kogepan
Lots of CGDCT!
Quintessential CGDCT list if I ever saw one. Yes, including Gintama.
Mine:
- Bocchi the Rock!
- Mushoku Tensei
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Attack on Titan
- Death note
- Fate/Zero
- Steins;Gate
- Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- Vinland Saga
- Sword Art Online
I especially love Bocchi the Rock! I’ve watched it many times.
Yay Bocchi! Best show ever. More soon!
From my AniList which I regurarly use-
- A Silent Voice
- Death Note
- DanDaDan
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Monster
- Spy X Family
- Mob Psycho 100
- Black Clover
- Stein Gate
- One Punch Man
I actually do top 15 so here 5 more.
- Parasyte
- Pluto
- Kaiju No 8
- Redline
- Tomo chan is a girl.
I have 24 anime on my list with a max score, used to watch a lot but haven’t watched in a long time. 10 of my favorites in alphabetical order, trying to also pick some lesser known ones:
- Chihayafuru
- Fuujin Monogatari (Windy Tales)
- Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight
- Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
- Katanagatari
- Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
- Ping Pong The Animation
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Uchouten Kazoku
- Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei (Tatami Galaxy)
Not enough Ping Pong the Animation on these lists
Based Chihayafuru, shame that it seems to have stopped like half way through the manga.
And the manga only has a digital release :( It has been severely mistreated.
Here are mine’s:
1.Chainsaw man
2.Cyberpunk Edgerunners
3.Jujutsu Kaisen
4.Undead Unluck
5.Transformers Armada
6.Jojo’s Buzzard Adventure
7.Mashle
8.Kill la kill
9.Fruits Basket
10.Ninja Kamui
Based Undead Unluck enjoyer
I just started watching anime in the last 6 months or so, before that I had mostly only seen Ghibli stuff and like DBZ on Toonami when I was 12. Since I started, though, I’ve been making pretty good progress through shows. Here’s my top 10 of what I’ve watched since I started this project:
- Bocchi The Rock!
- Dungeon Meshi
- Sousou no Frieren
- MakeIne: Too Many Losing Heroines!
- Dandadan
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You
- K-On!
- The Quintessential Quintuplets
- Chainsaw Man
- Gushing over Magical Girls 👀
I’m in the middle of Blue Box and Roshidere right now and they’re both pretty good, though I don’t think either will supplant anything in this list. I did not expect to like rom-com and slice-of-life stuff as much as I clearly do.
I should really pick up QQ. I heard that the protagonist is the only decent one in the harem subgenre aside from Rentarou.
Well my only real exposure to harem MCs are these two, lol. I liked QQ a lot, it’s a little slow at first but it’s very charming. Fuu-kun in QQ is a good guy, he’s not a saint like Rentaro but the show also isn’t batshit insane like 100 Girlfriends, so he’s more of a real person. You always like him though, at least I did, and you believe he cares about all of them. At the very least it’s a fun light watch.
I haven’t watched the show, but I read the QQ manga and liked it. I think the MC is definitely on the better side of the harem protagonist spectrum.
It’s hard to talk about QQ without also bringing up Bokuben. I think that I liked the MC better in QQ, but I liked the (manga) ending and the girls better in Bokuben. Bokuben in particular does an interesting thing with its ending (only in manga, I don’t think the anime finished the story) that I enjoyed a lot (but if I talk any more about it will definitely spoil).
Gushing over Magical Girls
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Look, I don’t like it either, lol. It’s surprisingly charming. Not my fault it’s good.
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Some of these I haven’t watched in a while, so the order could be different after rewatching them:
- March comes in like a lion
- Spirited Away
- Hunter x Hunter
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War
- Made in Abyss
- Oshi No Ko
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- The Dangers in My Heart
- Your Lie in April
I like drama and slice of life the most.
