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: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:
- 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]
1 comment:
I think the lists are well founded. Since we both watched mostly the same anime (and pretty much have the same tastes), I agree with most of it. Of course, I cannot help but scold you for not watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni until the end. Also, I believe that Serial Experiments Lain might belong to the 'philosophical' category, along with Mind Game and other anime from the mind-fuck genre, though if you put it into that category, it hardly constitutes a recommendation for most people.
Post a Comment