>>101 Thanks for the link, and sorry for the rather pointlessly long post.

However I disagree entirely with you that just because an anime is not popular doesn't mean it cannot be a contender for best anime ever. Mainly because there is no proper definition of what the 'best' anime is, so this is really just a list of favourites, and something doesn't need to be well known to be your personal favourite. All I was saying is that I'm suprised that the majority of favourites mentioned are pretty well known, when usually a list of favourites is filled with unexpected and unusual things.