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My Top Anime

List of series rated from 5 to 3.5 stars
1 Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop

What doesn't Bebop excel at? Episodic and not one bad episode to boot.

Back when I opened myself up to trying anime with Naruto, Bleach, and FMA: Brotherhood, and when the latter two would finish airing on adult swims anime block I would immediately switch the channel thinking something called Cowboy Bebop would be lame. This series would become my absolute favorite as one night I accidently found myself watching the episode 'Toys in the Attic' and ended up falling in love with it right away and couldn't believe what I had had been missing out on.

2 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)

I was introduced to Jojo through the abridged and memes and just loved how different it was in 2012. If only we could get more older series adapted into stylish and energetic new anime, because lots of good stories can be hindered by their dated art compared to some shows currently, with some series even just being pretty to look at with no substance in the story. I can say that I'm glad this didn't get adapted in the 80's or 90's because it may not have been as relevant as it is today otherwise, certainly wouldn't have been as good looking to watch.

3 Baccano!

Baccano!

4 Welcome to the NHK!

Welcome to the NHK!

5 Blue Submarine No. 6

Blue Submarine No. 6

This probably sticks out like a sore thumb to most people in the top 5 of a favorite anime list, but I've always been extremely impressed with this OVA series. It has the best character animation I've seen from the 90's with an amazing world, story, and a bitter conclusion that most people just cant appreciate. Every episode left me with a great cliffhanger and I just had see the next one even though I went in with low expectations, and figured I would drop it. In fact, directly after viewing this series I hopped on Amazon and just had to snag me a copy, which is something I don't normally do. I forgive it's CG for it's a product of the 90's and everything else about this series was just so far ahead of its time. I have also been fascinated by oceanic settings ever since this show.

6 Shiki

Shiki

Didn't think this series would have the potential to enter my top 10 anime back when I was going into it. I wasn't much into horror animes but this captivated me all throughout, and even has a killer mid series twist.

7 Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen

Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen

This adaption of Kenshin's origins as the Battousai did it better than the source material.

8 Great Teacher Onizuka

Great Teacher Onizuka

I was pretty skeptical about watching a series that featured a perverted teacher gawking over students, but I immediately found the series charm as Onizuka is both hilarious and inspirational to his students and the viewer. He's a badass teacher with street smarts that puts his students in place all while bonding with them at the same time.

9 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

10 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

One of the first of three shows that made me want to actually dive into anime, with Bleach, and Naruto being the other two. FMA: Brotherhood is certainly the best of the aforementioned and still sits in my top 10 all these years later.

11 Redline

Redline

4.5 star begins here

Redline has to have some of the most amazing visuals and fun characters i've ever seen in an anime. Really wish it had a sequel or spin off series. (Not counting Trava Fist Planet.) So many characters could make it work whether it was about The Super Boins (Boiboi and Bosbos), Miki and Todoroki, or Sweet JP himself and Sonoshee, hell even more Trava. I dont care, I just want more.

12 Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo

13 Durarara!!

Durarara!!

This entry counts for all seasons.

14 Eureka Seven

Eureka Seven

Renton and Eureka are one of the only examples of young love that I have seen in a series and actually thought it was genuine.

15 Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

This movie is perfect all except for literally the last minute of the film. Howl's Moving Castle is vastly superior to other ghibli films imo and one of the best anime films of all time.

16 Rurouni Kenshin

Rurouni Kenshin

Best animated sword fight goes to Kenshin vs. Saito. The entire Kyoto arc is great. I dont remember just how awful the fillers in season 3 were, because I watched this way back when I was still new to anime and pretty easy to please. Either way I don't usually judge a long shonen series to harshly by its fillers, but by its source material adapted.

17 Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen

Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen

18 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

This entry counts for Season 2 as well

19 Berserk: Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King

Berserk: Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King

This entry counts for the entire Golden Age arc trilogy.

I wish I could place the new Berserk anime series somewhere on this list but it's just so hard to look at that I had to drop it.

20 Trigun

Trigun

21 Akira

Akira

22 Gintama'

Gintama'

The second series of the Gintama anime. This one starts out alot stronger than the first series and stays consistently funny all the way to the end.

Gintama as a series is hard for me to rate with an overall rating since it is split into so many separate seasons with different titles, so it will be one of the only shows scattered throughout my list.

23 Gintama°

Gintama°

Once again extremely funny and has some of the better serious arcs of Gintama later in the series.

24 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

25 One Piece

One Piece

One Piece had a rocky start but the Alabasta arc and onwards is pretty much gold.

26 Tiger & Bunny

Tiger & Bunny

27 Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue

28 Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate

29 Gintama.

Gintama.

30 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

This entry counts for 2nd Gig as well.

31 Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

32 Gungrave

Gungrave

Probably the best thing based on an action video game. Has some of my favorite dramatic moments and twists in a single series. Would be higher on my list if it wasn't for some stale melodrama. So I praise Gungrave for its drama and criticize it for its drama... ehh whatever, hit and misses here and there but still love it alot regardless.

33 Last Exile

Last Exile

Blue Submarine No 6 but in the sky? well maybe not quite that but I'll Take It! Very similar feel to one of my top 5 but it's own thing completely and a very good show as well.

34 One-Punch Man

One-Punch Man

35 Terror in Resonance

Terror in Resonance

36 Desert Punk

Desert Punk

4 star begins here

Extremely funny show with a despicable lead but for some reason you just love him anyway. Great supporting characters such as Kosuna (My personal Fave), Junko Asagiri, and Rainspider.

37 BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad

38 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt

39 Hellsing Ultimate

Hellsing Ultimate

The only major drawbacks of Hellsing Ultimate is that it tries to be funny and fails at it, pretty hard too. The 'comedy' scenes just come across as awkward and misplaced. All the toothy grinning 'I'm so cool' type characters can get on your nerves sometimes as well but Hellsing Ultimate is really a great show regardless.

40 The Heroic Legend of Arslan

The Heroic Legend of Arslan

41 Rage of Bahamut: Genesis

Rage of Bahamut: Genesis

42 Space Dandy 2

Space Dandy 2

While season 1 was good, this one was significantly better.

43 Death Note

Death Note

Great show somehow even though it definitely crashed and burned towards the end. Spoiler Territory: (if this can even be considered a spoiler anymore) Why get rid of the character L if you're going to replace him with a smaller white haired rip off version of him anyways? Dumb. That proved the creators didn't think they could carry the series with out L, but somehow it managed anyway and I like it quite a bit despite this major blunder.

44 Naruto

Naruto

I've rated each arc individually with the exception of the fillers in the final seasons.

Land of Waves Arc = 4 star

Chunin Exams Arc = 5 star

Search for Tsunade Arc = 4 star

Sasuke Retrieval Arc = 4 star           

Episodes 136-220 (Fillers) = Ranges from 2 - 3.5 stars at best 

Series overall = 4 star

Hardly any of the filler distracts from the main story but once the main story ends there's like an extra 90 episodes or so of fillers. This doesn't really affect my rating though, seeing as it's easily avoidable and wasn't placed in between the canon material.

45 Bleach

Bleach

Each season/arc rated individually.

Season 1 Substitute Arc = 4 stars    

Season 2-3 Soul Society Arc = 5 stars

Season 4-5 Bount (Filler) = 2.5 stars      

Season 6-8 Arrancar Arc = 4.5 stars

Season 9 Amagai (Filler) = 2.5 stars      

Season 10 = 4 stars

Season 11 The Past Arc = 4.5 stars          

Season 12 = 3.5 - 4 stars

Season 13 Zanpakuto (Filler) = 3.5 stars    

Season 14 = 3-4 stars

Season 15 (Filler) = 4 stars                  

Season 16 Lost Substitute Arc = 4 stars

Series overall = 4 star

Awkward filler placement but I find Bleach fillers to mostly be on the better side of the scale when it comes to non canon arcs. The zanpakuto rebellion and mod soul filler were actually pretty good. Also as much as I love the arrancar arc there is some stand out bad choices made during it, such as the 0 espada reveal and underwhelming mostly off screen fight, or Aizen choosing to slowly chase Ichigo's friends around instead of actually doing what he was there to do in Karakura town, and maybe the fact that Izuru never got to confront Gin or interact with him in the least.

46 Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball Z

Vegeta Saga = 3.5 star

Ginyu Saga = 4 star

Frieza Saga = 4.5 star

Trunks Saga = 4 star

Android Saga = 4 star

Imperfect Cell Saga = 3.5 star

Perfect Cell Saga = 4 star

Cell Games Saga = 4.5 star

Babidi Saga = 3 star

Majin Buu Saga = 3.5 star

Fusion Saga = 4.5 star

Kid Buu Saga = 4 star

47 Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

This entry counts for Season 2 as well.

48 Claymore

Claymore

49 Knights of Sidonia

Knights of Sidonia

This entry counts for season 2 as well.

50 InuYasha

InuYasha

Inuyasha has been part of my life since childhood, being the series that stuck with me the longest. Im still extremely fond of it.

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