anime top 6

some time ago my brother asked me about my top 5 anime. that's quite a difficult question to answer. it gets easier if one breaks it down by genre. so, here is my anime top 6 by genre.(because 5 is just plain boring)

i didn't rate the titles in a certain category as best or worst, i've just arranged them in random order (meaning I didn’t arrange them at all); it was difficult enough to decide which anime to keep and which to drop, let alone think about ranking them.

i have only considered anime i have seen from start to finish (that's why higurashi and mnemosyne didn't make the list). many of these titles fit in more than one category, however i have included them in the category i've felt mostly represented it. i have deliberately left out the hentai category because i don't want to turn my blog into a /d/ thread. so there you have it:

action:

- ninja scroll

- ghost in the shell (1995)

- cowboy beebop

- planetes

- black lagoon

- mononoke hime
[princess mononoke]



drama/thriller/psychological:

- shin seiki evangelion
[neon genesis evangelion]

- perfect blue

- serial experiments lain

- haibane renmei

- kostsu hyaku monogatari
[hundred stories]

- ima, sokoni iru boku
[now and then, here and there]



light/slice of life/social:

- toki wo kakeru shoujo
[the girl who leapt through time]

- genshiken

- nhk ni youkoso!
[welcome to the nhk]

- spice and wolf

- juuni kokki
[the twelve kingdoms]

- kumo no mukou, yakusoku no basho
[the place promised in our early days]



comedy:

- flcl

- azumanga daioh

- manabi straight!

- golden boy

- ippatsu kiki musume
[miss critical moment]

- suzumiya haruhi no yuutsu
[the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya]



short:

- blood: the last vampire

- kanojo to kanojo no neko
[she and her cat]

- memories (part 3: cannon fodder)

- animatrix (part: beyond)

- umi ga kikoeru
[ocean waves]

- hoshi no koe
[voices of a distant star]

Towel Day

the 25^th of may was is the international towel day, it commemorates the late douglas adams, the author of the hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy. on this day, his fans all over the world carry around a towel wherever they go. why a towel, you ask, well, a towel is probably the most important item a galactic hitchhiker can carry:

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

in the above images i'm brandishing my blue towel next to the solfar, the sun voyager - a steel sculpture by jon gunnar arnason, resembling a viking ship, close to reykjavik's city center.