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Postby Kura Ookami » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:33 am

What are your top ten animes or top five if you cant think of ten. I'm curious about whether there's any animes that most people here like. If you want add a little description of the animes. That is all. ^_^
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Postby EKmisao » Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:39 am

I'm in no condition to be writing summaries, but here are the ten that I can think of:

Rurouni Kenshin above everything, You're Under Arrest, Texhnolyze, Samurai 7, Cowboy Bebop, Chobits, GetBackers, Vandread (yeah, despite what people said in the other thread), Gundam Wing, MS Zeta Gundam

I like anime with great character development. I tend to forgive problems with story and animation, if the anime manages to have characters I get to really like. Second major criteria is a good story. Then, as you could see, I have quite a thing for sci-fi. There are lots more that I liked, but those are the ones I liked the best.

Now, I do grant that things like Naruto and YuYu Hakusho and Inuyasha do have great characters and an okay story. But tournament type anime and monsters and the undead don't fare well with me. I also like watching romantic comedies and slice-of-life shows.

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Postby Mangafanatic » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:00 am

1. Honey and Clover
2. Air.
3. Fullmetal Alchemists
4.Fruits Basket.
5. Azumanga Daioh.
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Postby Fantasy Dreamer » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:04 am

Full Metal Alchemist, InuYasha, sCRYed, Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing.

I feel like I'm forgetting one, but its escaping me at the moment. They're not in any particular order, I kind of like them equally, but I do love some a little more than others.
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Postby RedMage » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:42 am

How about four?

In no particular order...

Cowboy Bebop
Last Exile
R.O.D.
(OVA and TV series)
Big O
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Postby Rev. Doc » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:00 am

10. Oh! My Goddess
9. Figure 17
8. Kimagure Orange Road
7. Planetes
6. Fruits Basket
5. Victorian Romance Emma
4. Ranma 1/2
3. Azumanga Daioh
2. ROD TV
1. Maison Ikkoku
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Postby Cedahlia » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:05 am

Not in any order...

Arc the Lad, Fruits Basket, Full Metal Alchemist, Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Princess Tutu, Crest of the Stars...there has got to be one more, but I can't think of it at the moment. ^^;
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Postby heero yuy 95 » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:55 am

1. Robotech The Macross Saga. It's been my favorite anime since I first saw it and it still is. Despite its dated animation, as stated above, I also look for likeable characters in anime and this is where the series is flawless.

2.Martian Successor Nadesico. As with Robotech, it has a cast of likeable characters. It's also one of the few anime that really make me laugh. With its cool mecha and slick oldschool references and spoofs, it's hard not to like something about this series, especially if you're a mecha fan.

3. G Gundam. It may be corny, but it's still really fun to watch. It has likeable characters and plenty of giant robot action. Fun show.

Well, these are the ones that really come to mind at the moment.
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Postby Arnobius » Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:53 pm

TV series
  1. Azumanga Daioh
  2. Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
  3. Sailor Moon (Season 1)
  4. Excel Saga
  5. Cowboy Bebop

Movies/OVA
  1. Millenium Actress
  2. Tokyo Godfathers
  3. Green Legend Ran
  4. Wings of Honneamise
  5. Perfect Blue (not for minors)


I have others I like, but as I consider eBaying my anime collection, these were the priority stuff NOT to be sold.
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Postby Godly Paladin » Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:51 pm

I guess I'll post since it hasn't gotten flooded yet. :grin: No particular order:

Gundam Wing, Trigun, Rurouni Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo/Universe/Tokyo, Outlaw Star, Big O, er...that's not ten, but who cares?
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Postby Rocketshipper » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:22 pm

top 4:
1. Cardcaptor Sakura
2. Pokemon
3. Tenchi (I include ALL the tenchi series and movies together here)
4. Sailor Moon

the remaining 6 (in no particular order)
Yugioh, Slayers, Kare Kano, CLAMP School Detectives, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Magic Knight Rayearth
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Postby Roy Mustang » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:09 pm

TV series

1. Escaflowne
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
3. Ghost in the Shell: SAC
4. Wolf's Rain
5. Witch Hunter Robin

Other animes that I like but are not in order are: Tenchi Universe, Cowboy Bebop,


OVA's/Movies

1. Gundam 0080
2. Read or Die (OAV)
3. 08th MS Team
4. Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
4. Macross Zero (I still need to see the last ep and it may move up to a few places)

5. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (movie)

6. Blue Sub No.6

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Postby Kaori » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:10 pm

Movies/ OVAs:

Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
Spirited Away
Millennium Actress

Series:

Haibane-Renmei
Otigizoushi
Gunslinger Girl
Evangelion
Nadesico
Hellsing
Cowboy Bebop
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:02 pm

Top Ten All Time:
10.Betterman:Keita's world is flipped upside down the day his old childhood friend
Hinoki transfers to his school and then he stumbles into an underground amusement
part and discovers that she is part of a secret private organization investigating
the mysterious virus code named Algernon.

9.Boogiepop Phantom:It's been several months since a mysterious light was seen
flashing across Tokyo and changing the lives of several young people.Now high
school seniors Toka and Nagi are both caught up in the strange events that have
resulted and Toka has a secret connected to a certain mysterious figure nicknamed
Boogiepop.

8.Case Closed:High schooler Jimmy Kudo is an up and coming Sherlock Holmes until the night he takes his girlfriend Rachel Moore to the amusement park and
he tries to stop some mysterious men in black who feed him an untested drug,
so that when he awakes he is the size of a six year old.Now living with Rachel and
her father he prusues the men in black while solving mysteries as pint sized
detective Conan Edogawa.

7.Cowboy Bebop:In the 2070s Spike,Jet,Faye,Ed and their data dog Ein try to
earn enough Woloongs chasing down crooks to keep body and soul together..
a task that not always works!

6.Serial Experiments Lain:Lain is an ordinary shy schoolgirl.Nothing important happens to her until the day she recieves an e-mail from a classmate who everyone knows committed suicide the day before and from that point her life and the life of her best friend Alice is never the same.

5.Banner of the Stars(I):Continues the adventures of Jinto and Lafiel around
five years after Crest.Now the War between the Abh and the rest of Mankind
as escalated and the crew of the Bosroil find themselves at the frontlines with
a new minted Captain named Lafiel and an equally green Ship's Scretary named
Jinto.

4.Crest of the Stars:When the Abh invade his homeworld of Martine young Jinto's
life is turned upside down and then he meets a young Abh Princess named
Lafiel...

3.Dual!Parallel Trouble Adventure:Kazuki is the boy least likely to be attracting
attention of Mituski Sanada the most popular girl at school until one day she stops
by to tell him she loves his stories about a parallel world and takes him home to meet her father who turns out to have invented a way to travel to the said
parallel universe but when Mituski accidentally activates the process sending
herself and Kazuki to the parallel world they both find themselves in more than
they expect,especially Kazuki who NOT only has to do his homework AND
pilot one of the Earth Defense Core Robots But also must fend off the interests
of NOT only Mitsuki but her counterpart from the parallel world,also Mitsuki PLUS
Yayoi and D!What's a guy to do?

2.Inuyasha:On her 15th birthday Kagome Higarusi is attacked and dragged down
the well at the family shrine by a creature out of Japanese mythology.Climbing out of the well she discovers she is no longer in contemporary Japan but in an
alternate version of the Feudal Era.Now she must search for the shards of the
sacred Shikon Jewel along with the half demon Inuyasha,the orphaned Fox demon
Shippo,the lecehrous monk Miroku and the beautiful Demon Slayer Sango and
Sango's pet demon cat Kirara before the Evil Naraku can put all the shards
together.
and my number one favorite:
1.Silent Mobius:It's the 2020s and Earth is under attack from creatures code
named Lucifer Hawks.Tokyo has become the flashpoint for these attacks and
a special all female police force has been set up to deal with the Lucifer Hawk
problem.The police force is given the title Attacked Mystical Police department
or AMP.Now both sides fight for the soul and allegiance of the latest addition
to the AMP a young secretary from Hawaii named Katsumi Liqueur because
Katsumi holds the key to the outcome of the war.
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Postby Ichigo_89 » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:24 pm

My Top Ten in random order:

Cowboy Bebop+movie
Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust
Giant Robo
Akira
Ghost in the Shell movies+series
Jin-Roh:The Wolf Brigade
Trigun
Samurai Champloo
Memories
The Animatrix
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Postby Debitt » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:27 pm

In no particular order except Tactics is the bestest:

Tactics
Matantei Loki Ragnarok
Kyou Kara Maou
Get Backers
Cowboy Bebop

Not saying that those are the best or anything, just the ones I enjoyed the most. ^^; I tend to read more manga...
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Postby Momo-P » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:41 pm

In no particular order~

Full Moon wo Sagashite
Kodomo no Omocha
Tenchi Muyo
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
Shaman King (Japanese vr. only plz. =x)
Detective Conan
Gakuen Alice
FLCL
Duel Masters (it's too hilarious not to love)

I also have to add Pocket Monsters/Pocket Monsters Advance Generation to that list as well. Pokemon is an anime that I've loved since I pretty much started school...not to mention I loved it before the craze even begun. It's just one of those things I will always put on my list no matter what. ^^
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Postby Wakarimashta! » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:19 pm

Top Five:

Azumanga Daioh
Last Exile
Noir
Lain
Betterman
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Postby heero yuy 95 » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:40 am

I forget to mention Macross 2, the movie. Its storyline isn't all that deep, and while it may not be as good as the original series, but I still like it.
Synopsis: 80 years have since the events in the original Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. up until now, U.N. Spacey has had little difficulty repelling renegade Zentreadi attacks by use of the minmay defense System, however, when a new enemy shows up, with its own music to control the zentreadi, the Earth is once again in peril. Filled with killer robot fights and hot anime girls. :thumb:
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:55 pm

A few of my other favorites:
*Geneshaft:In the 22nd century people are genetically engineered to
fit a role within society.Mika Seido is a White,a genetic throw back
and because of this has a large brick on her shoulders.Now the fate of
the ship Bilkis and the whole of humanity rests on her skills in piloting the
experimental mecha called Shaft.

*Gatekeepers 21:It's a new century and the Invaders who threatened Earth during the original Gatekeepers have adopted a new tactic.Now any human
who exhibits total lack of human emotion is in danger of becoming a new
Invader and the only people standing in their way are what remains of
AEGIS especially two high school girls named Ayane and the ditzy Miu.

The Soultaker:Kyosuke Date wakes up to a nightmare after his mother
has stabbed him to death,only to discover that the real nightmare is
beginning as he searches for the truth behind his identity and for his
missing sister Runa with the aid of Shiro and the mutant nurse Komugi.

Ravemaster:50 years have passed since the Rave Stones were scattered now a new Ravemaster named Haru as arisen to collect all the Rave Stones
and prevent disaster.Accompaning him are the amnesiac Elie,a young
Silversmith named Musica and a strange looking dog named Plue.

Dragonball GT:After Emperor Pilaf accidentally wishes Goku to
chidl size again Goku,Pan and Trunks are sent on a mission to collect the
Black Star Dragonballs that have now scattered through the cosmos.
The problem is they have only a year to do so or else the Earth and eveyrone on it is doomed. :thumb:
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:06 am

1:FMA
2:rahxeephone
3:fruits basket
4: big o
5: records of lodoss war:chronicals of the heroic night

movies
1:spriggen
2:cowboy bebop
3:jin-roh


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Postby TrigunX89 » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:59 am

Oh man, this is hard... I haven't seen as many as most people here. Let's see what I can think up...

1. Trigun
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Outlaw Star
4. FLCL
5. Noir

That's what I could think of anyway. I usually only get to watch anime series' on tv, but there are some exceptions. I've just gotten into fansubs, and I slowly collect DVD's, so my list is most likely to change sometime. But for now, that's it.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:06 am

Series:

1. Last Exile
2. Noir


Movies:

3. Spirited Away
4. Metropolis
5. Nausicaa
6. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
7. Kiki's Delivery Service
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Postby Yojimbo » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:02 am

Series:
1. Cowboy Bebop
2. Ghost in the Shell SAC
3. 08th MS Team
4. Noir
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion
6. Last Exile
7. Robotech: Macross Saga
8. Trigun
9. FLCL
10. ROD TV

OVA's/Movies:
1. Ghost in the Shell
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Princess Monoke
4. Jin-Roh
5. Grave of the Fireflies
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Postby Splitter 2.0 » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:17 pm

1. Air
2. Full Moon wo Sagashite
3. Elfen Lied

4. Kaleido Star
5. Azumanga Daioh
6. Mahoromatic
7. Bleach
8. Super Gals!
9. Fullmetal Alchemist
10. Kannazuki no Miko
11. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha / A’s
12. Fruits Basket
13. Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
14. Kare Kano (His And Her Circumstances)
15. FLCL
16. Trigun
17. Pani Poni Dash!
18. Paranoia Agent
19. Naruto
20. Midori no Hibi
21. Kiddy Grade
22. Beck
23. Chrno Crusade
24. Karin
25. The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya
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Postby jon_jinn » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:41 pm

(not in any particular order)
Samurai 7
Cowboy Bebop
Yu Yu Hakusho
Naruto
Bleach
Black Cat
Eyeshield 21
Prince of Tennis
Slam Dunk
Hajime no Ippo
Flame of Recca
Getbackers
Fullmetal Alchemist
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Postby jon0 » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:00 pm

Ghost in the shell sac
Cowboy bebop
FLCL-all time favorite anime!
Samurai Champloo
Fullmetal Alchemist
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Postby MomoAdachi » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:06 pm

Series:
-Sailor Moon
-Wedding Peach
-Fancy Lala
-Chance Pop Session
-Revolutionary Girl Utena*

*I realize this one is on the DND list, so I hope mentioning it in passing as part of a list is OK. If not, I'll gladly edit my post. :)
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Postby kyume-chan » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:36 am

No order =P
- Full Moon wo Sagashite
- Naruto
- Fruits Basket
- Scrapped Princess
- Angelic Layer

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They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.
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Postby skyblue » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:37 am

I like anime with good atmosphere, drama, story, characters, and depth.

1. Wolf's Rain
2. Trigun
3. Paranoia Agent
4. Fullmetal Alchemist
5. Big O (or maybe something else like FLCL or Cowboy Bebop)
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