BEST ANIME EVER!
For me, it's 2x2 Shinobuden.
I just finished watching it. The last episode made be cry, but because of sadness so much, but just because I knew there was no more. Seriously, how can Genius things like this only go for 12 episodes and things like Naruto get HUNDREDS of episodes.
HARUHI
Cowboybebop
first gundam
evangelion
etc
boogie pop
This new version Kanon. OMG kawaii to the max.
Naruto
haibane
genshiken
and the first 4 episodes of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
I don't know, Genshiken got pretty silly when Saki got post-traumatic stress disorder from setting some paper on fire.
>>7
onikakushi was meh. tatarigoroshi is where it's at
green green! LOL
Fate/Stay Night eps. 14. GARRRRRR!!!
>>1
Some Anime run for 150,000 episodes either because they are written by Rumko Takahashi, or because the animation production company gets way ahead of the manga and has to run 100 filler episodes (ie Naruto.)
Some other really good ones:
Hellsing
./hack
Haibane Renmai
Escaflowne
Berserk
Shingami no Ballad
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
etc
elfen lied
I wish that elf would stop lying.
So would I be alone if I were to go with Last Exile on this one? I mean somthing about flying ships with buoyancy...
Kokoro Library
Haruhi. Duh.
i think you gay guy are really big nerds and need a life. i wont to help u smoke a blunt.
>>19 mailto:urmoms
comedy
i gotta say fate stay night it has everything. but thats only my opinion. but for hardcore people genshiken is funnie also i related to the character madarame alot!!!!!
>>16
Last Exile is truly amazing - great style, premise, story, characters, art and music. its amazing.
I really love
Paranoia Agent
Soultaker
Chobits
Gundam Wing
08th MS team
Jin-Roh
Voices of a Distant Star
Miyazaki's work
Ghost in the Shell('s)
Hellsing OVA
絶対だ。
SAINT SEIYA
What the hell? No one mentioned Macross yet? D:
MACROSS!
My fav is One Piece
Serial Experiments Lain
one anime has stood out through the power of courage and it's name is GAOGAIGAR the king of braves
Martian Successor Nadesico!!!!!!!!
It's so cool now! "Code Geass"
Death Note. I love seeing Ryuk laughing:D
There are so many choices. I would need catergories and even then there would be long lists.
Isn't that show, like, about a guy who gets magical powers from a little girl weapon? Also it has moe characters in a giant robot show and constant advertisements for Pizza Hut.
>>34
Don't forget CLAMP designs, the only reason anybody watches it.
Irresponsible Captain Tylor!
READ OR DIE!!!! is the best.....
GTO
Get Backers
Rurouni Kenshin
2X2
Yakitate Japan
Shonan Junaigumi......mad rare tho I only saw the trailers on youtube
Got to say Ninja scroll...or Millenium Actress.
Never mind what I just posted! Otaku no Video!!!!!
カノン!!!
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For me it's Rozen Maiden. I can't believe it took me so long to realise its awesomeness.
The best anime ever, without any doubt, is Neon Genesis Evangelion. Not only is the plot amazing, it delivers important themes about society and has a lot of symbols about religion. Pisses me off that people don't understand how beautiful this anime is and I just want to punch them in the face.
I don't have one favorite which really stands out. The animes which I do enjoy throughly are in my view equal in level. If I had to choose one it would be one my recent favorites Eureka Seven.
Because, you know. Everyone has to have your taste in anime.
>>37
GTO!GTO!GTO!
Uhm, I've recently watched Steamboy. It's preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty...
You know, I really like Wicked City, and Demon City Shinjuku. I miss that sort of stuff. Does anyone know where I can find more like it?
For me...
1st Noir
2nd GTO
3rd hack//SIGN
>>45
It's copypasta.
The best animes for me are Welcome to the NHK and Evangelion, im very into my psycological dramas and things with deep character development.
KANON and AIR
Learn what? That it's hip to hate Evangelion?
The best anime ever, without any doubt, is Neon Genesis Evangelion. Not only is the character development amazing, it delivers important themes about coming of age and has a lot of symbols about youthful romance. Pisses me off that people don't understand how beautiful this anime is and I just want to punch them in the face.
NGE impresses me a lot for the characterization, and the characters and their relationships got stuck in my head and stayed there long after I watched it, but it's not the best anime I ever saw.
Cowboy Bebop has better music, better animation, better voice acting in the English dub, and a real ending instead of one the scriptwriters phoned in. I don't like the characters as much but all in all I think it's a slightly better series than NGE.
NGE
Hayao Miyazaki's movies
Haibane Renmei
Azumanga Daioh
School Rumble :)
Oh, and I have just watched Rurouni Kenshin OAV. I still need to think about it, but I can understand why it's often considered best anime ever.
Guys who wrote GTO: Have you read the manga? I haven't seen anime, but I suppose it's not much more than anime-ization of manga (which is great).
I have 3 words....
Sakigake!! Cromartie Kouko.....
>Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou
>>49 its been a while, and I didn't like the anime very much. but what exactly do you mean by 'deep character development' ?
or maybe you're talking about the character developments that also occur in naruto?
>>57 well naturally but we're talking aout anime here except mechazawa's voice is better in the anime
Lupin III beats them all.
Crayon Shinchan and Death Note are pretty cool too....
Well I would definately say in my own opinion that Fist of the North Star (Hokuto No Ken in japan) is definately one of the best anime's period. Also I would have to say The original Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam Z, Gundam 0083, MS IGLOO, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Street Fighter II: The Animated movie are also some of the best animes I have seen.
>>61 I was laughing until I realized you were serious.
Then I laughed some more.
Seriously, Fist of the North Star and the original Gundam are eternal classics. As is Evangelion, although it hasn't had as much time to be a classic.
what
Seriously, these are facts any serious otaku would know. You've gotta know the classics of the field, man. Just try counting the number of references you see to those shows in other works.
>>67 Too much Gundam love; also, Neon Genesis Evangelion? Sure, it's something very different, but all-time-great? Not even.
I'm not talking subjective opinions here, I'm talking objective popularity and lasting appeal. It's ten years since Evangelion aired, and it's still as popular as ever. It's over thirty since Gundam, and people who weren't even born when it aired reference it all the time. Like them or not, they are indisputably classics of the field.
Well the Gundam franchise is one of my favorite anime franchises (except for its not so great installment Gundam SEED), but my favorite anime is the classic Hokuto no Ken and the Hokuto no Ken animated movie. But I don't think I should be called a troll for stating my own opinion about which animes are one the best.
Actually its around 12 years since Evangelion aired, but still the original Mobile Suit Gundam and NGE are classics, even some of the anime series of today parody or have references to both Gundam and NGE(like SGT. Frog or Excel Saga).
Anything good that once existed in the Gundam franchise has been undone by Gundam Seed and its sequels.
Agreed, Gundam SEED is like the Inuyasha of the Gundam franchise
Let's not turn this into a "I hate Gundam Seed thread" though I still think G Gundam is the worst out of all of them.
in terms of best, well there's the "best in my opinion" and best as in "most successfull/popular" the former being what most people say in this thread and the latter is what >>70 is pointing out, in a way.
Personally I don't really like NGE but let's look at some facts here, with NGE, well they're making a "remake" so to speak and the merchandize are still selling well and don't forget the range of NGE stuff they sell. Unlike gundam franchise they haven't made any spinoff series until recently (games and manga are not included), and gundam within 10 year wasn't as big as NGE in the same time frame, although this point is highly debatable.
NGE is the past, present and future!
I never enjoyed NGE so at least to me it will never be a great classic in the history of anime....
Personally I don't hold any particular series that I've watched as the 'best' or 'greatest' to me there are good and bad animes but nothing that stands out at the top.
"Great classic in the history of anime" are really not determined by personal opinion. You don't have to like them, but denying their influence is just silly.
Agreed with #76
I think that NGE was great for the silly way of representing the actual world, and besides the music was really cool!
Frank Sinatra songs and all that it's just classic and sexy also.
Actually, G Gundam is the best Gundam. This is a commonly misunderstood fact.
Naruto + (Fillers x infinite) = FAIL
What was that one spinoff called, something like 8th MS unit or something? I watched that in one sitdown and wow! You realize how and why Gundam has all these rabid fans.
>>79
It is thanks to MASTER ASIA.
I wouldn't call G Gundam the best Gundam, but it was unique and pretty good. But it was only really made to parody the 2D fighting game craze that was going on at the time.
>>82
Master Asia, definately one of the best Gundam characters though lol
>>81
Well the reason why I'm a Gundam fan (but not really a rabid fan), is because of the Mobile Suits, the storyline and plot is ok, but the Mobile Suits is what really attracted me, and no I'm not talking about all the "Big Bad" Gundam's and Mobile Armors like Big Zam or the Ez8, I mean the Mobile Suits like The Zaku II, GM Cannon (no not Gun Cannon, GM Cannon), The Jegan, the GM III, and so on. I'm still waiting for a Gundam installment that has what I truely want to see, a giant army of Balls kicking serious ass, in MS IGLOO you get close to that but still not what I wanted to see. Yes there are Mobile Suits called Balls if you didn't know, please make a joke about how weird what I typed looks like now.
Just anything by Hayao Miyazaki. Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle especially. ^-^
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anime sucks
>>86
and that is why you visited a bbs on the subject right
Hey, once you get anime fan enough you're required to think all his movies are the same. It's the law.
Yeah, I mean, Princess Mononoke totally has that Kiki's Delivery Service vibe all over again. What a hack.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVO7x6ubW8M
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ!!!
All these fucking kids. No respect for Evangelion and Gundam. What is with the people who don't like Evangelion. When you grew up with the older stuff its the best stuff in the whole world.
> What is with the people who don't like Evangelion.
It's cool to hate what's popular.
Monster, the best anime series ever, go watch it nowwwwwwwww :P
Gintama!!!
>>94 I have it on my comp, but i never watch it for some reason, I hated the visual style of first episode for some reason :/
Mobile Suit Gundam
>>92
nirvana had a lot of popularity and influence on the music that would come later in the 90s and on, but kurt cobains voice is shit.
point made by analogy.
I'm kinda disappointed by this thread. When I saw it's title i was hoping it would be full of people recommending obscure nonsense to show what hardcore recluses they were. Unfortunately I've seen most of whats been recommended, and I haven't seen much. I say unfortunately because I was hoping for some good recommendations of stuff I'd never find out about by myself.
As I'm just getting into anime It would be nice to hear some lesser known things, because I've learnt that what is best known within a genre is rarely considered the best by serious fans of a genre. Like >>98 I think a quite good analogy can be made with music; a lot of well known stuff is great (provided you like the genre it's in) such as Pink Floyd. But if you seriously spend time with music you'll eventually find stuff you appreciate far more than what first started you listening in the first place. For example from liking Pink Floyd (I still do) I found out about Gentle giant and Gong, who I like much more, but they aren't as well known. I'm assuming the same is true of anime. I really liked Eva, but am concious that there will be anime out there in the same genre that most fans of the genre would consider to be much better.
Favourites are hard to choose but I'd say Key the metal idol, kino's travels, Kodomo no Omocha and Akagi.
Also I thought Kurt Cobain's voice suited Nirvana really well.
gungrave!!!