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Anime: Ranked

All the anime I've watched, ranked favorite to least favorite, including movies. All series have been stacked according to franchise except Gundam, Fate, JoJo, and Spinoffs, because I feel like it. Otherwise, their placements are determined by the score of my highest rated entry in the series.
1 Durarara!!

Durarara!!

Assholes in a city have an unspoken competition to find out who the biggest asshole is.

2 One Piece

One Piece

A group of greedy international terrorists fight tyrants and violent criminals.

3 To Your Eternity

To Your Eternity

A shapeshifting alien befriends people to absorb their souls.

4 Assassination Classroom

Assassination Classroom

A powerful supervillain upsets the status quo by teaching outcasts how to commit murder.

5 Dororo (2019)

Dororo (2019)

A guy makes a deal with hell, and his cursed son tries to make it fall through.

6 Space Dandy

Space Dandy

Who cares, baby? We're all gonna die someday, so let's just live!

7 Megalo Box

Megalo Box

Illegal immigrants fight big tech and punch their way to happiness.

8 Kino's Journey

Kino's Journey

A tourist experiences cultures and overthrows regimes.

9 Migi&Dali

Migi&Dali

RIP, Nami Sano. You created a masterpiece.

10 Call of the Night

Call of the Night

Finally, an anime people can actually relate to as individuals instead of as a demographic.

11 Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

Making your plot out of words on a dartboard has never been so good.

12 Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

This political drama teaches us that heroes, intentionally or not, are made, not born, and that history repeats itself. And that Germans will always try to start another empire.

13 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

There's just no arguing that this isn't a timeless classic, and the 'Lord of the Rings' of anime. It even has an unnaturally short main character.

14 Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

A personal display of passion for animation and wacky poses.

15 Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate

College students abuse save states to get the ending they want.

16 Trigun Stampede

Trigun Stampede

Japan finally evolves its anime CGI into its next form: being not awful. Also, revamps the story of Trigun to be better than the original anime.

17 Great Pretender

Great Pretender

Ripping off evil millionaires has never been so much fun.

18 Vinland Saga

Vinland Saga

This historical epic explores what the 11th century would have been like if everyone was goddamn awesome.

19 Promare

Promare

Whatever, there's multi-dimensional fire and stuff.

20 Planetes

Planetes

In space, janitors are still underpaid.

21 Pluto

Pluto

Robot decides all robots must die.

22 Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

23 Made in Abyss

Made in Abyss

Some kids try to find out how deep a hole goes.

24 Mob Psycho 100

Mob Psycho 100

The human condition is explored through an unstable child with the psychic power to bend the entire world's supply of spoons.

25 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Whatever, there's galaxy-sized mechs and stuff.

26 The Boy and the Beast

The Boy and the Beast

It has both anthropomorphic characters and isekai, and is somehow not the most cringeworthy depraved thing ever. 

27 your name.

your name.

The only thing powerful enough to defeat an astroid barreling toward earth is a body swapping gag.

28 The Garden of Sinners Movie 1: Thanatos. (Overlooking View)

The Garden of Sinners Movie 1: Thanatos. (Overlooking View)

I can see where to cut you in order to inflict the most psychological damage.

29 Kotaro Lives Alone

Kotaro Lives Alone

I hate kids.

So why don't I hate this one?

30 FLCL

FLCL

Somewhere among the clubbing people with guitars and wacky outerspace explosion robot missile fights, there's a message about growing up.

31 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

When unbound by reason and logic, and flooded with imagination, even a sitcom can feel like the most exciting story of all time.

32 Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku

Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku

Annihilation meets battle royale.

33 ID:INVADED

ID:INVADED

Some shows are like getting a good job. You have to pay attention and put in effort to understand things, but the payoff and benefits are great.

34 Fruits Basket 1st Season

Fruits Basket 1st Season

Romance about shapeshifting zodiac animal people is a better character study than most Dramas.

35 Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden

Girl learns you don't need arms or an untraumetized childhood to be happy.

36 Akudama Drive

Akudama Drive

The cyberpunk anime we deserve.

37 The Eccentric Family

The Eccentric Family

Adorable, heartfelt, and weird always make a good anime. Although, how could they go and omit the scrotal element of Tanuki lore?

38 Princess Jellyfish

Princess Jellyfish

Brain empty, boy pretty.

39 Mushishi

Mushishi

Pest control specialist gets high and makes bank.

40 The Heroic Legend of Arslan

The Heroic Legend of Arslan

You have to love a good war epic.

41 Dr. Stone

Dr. Stone

The joke is that they get stoned and do science. Now laugh.

42 The Heike Story

The Heike Story

A girl plays background music from the peanut gallery of a civil war as she watches the end of an era before it happens.

43 Millennium Actress

Millennium Actress

The acting is really good in this movie. So good in fact, that sometimes I can't tell when they're acting.

44 Mononoke

Mononoke

Charismatic witch doctor turns ghosts into the past tense.

45 Oshi no Ko

Oshi no Ko

Sometimes God sends his stupidest premises to become his best anime.

46 Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas would have wanted his classic to be set in outer space, trust me.

47 Romeo no Aoi Sora

Romeo no Aoi Sora

Just think of the poor chimney sweep children. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

48 Gintama

Gintama

Proof that anime can do sitcoms better too.

49 Arakawa Under the Bridge

Arakawa Under the Bridge

Businessman lands himself a position babysitting a troupe of homeless people with strange afflictions and hilarity ensues.

50 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!

An anime that reminds you why imagination is important.

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Qplayer Sep 30, 2021

Also POURING ONE OUT FOR ELAINA :(

Qplayer Sep 30, 2021

Not sure how long you've had this list but it's pretty sick.