Dengeki Top 2009 Spring Anime Rankings
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 9, 2009 00:38 JST
- Tags: Dengeki, Eden of the East, K-ON!, Rankings, Saki, Statistics
The latest ranking for the most interesting anime of Spring 2009, brings with it some upsets, though obviously the number one title is a given…
The results come by way of Dengeki Online, web portal of the massive ASCII Media Works publishing company, including the likes of Dengeki Daioh, Dengeki Moeoh and Dengeki Bunko among its otaku-oriented magazine lineup, where it held a poll for the “Most Interesting” anime of the recently concluded 2009 Spring season.
The results are none too surprising, with the #1 spot easily being taken by what was unquestionably the choice series of the season by otaku:
- The results are from an online poll at Dengeki Online taken from June 19 to July 1 that asked which newly aired 2009 Spring Anime was most おもしろかった, which translates to “most interesting /amusing”.
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#1 K-ON! #2 Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden) #3 Saki #4 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST #5 Sengoku Basara #6 Dragonball Kai #7 Valkyria Chronicles #8 Basquash! #9 Asura Crying #10 Cross Game
K-ON! taking the throne should not be a surprise to anyone, given the KyoAni show’s great popularity and with the quality of the later episodes still fresh in people’s minds.
Saki or the Fullmetal Alchemist remake might have seemed a more likely candidate for the next two spots, making Eden of the East’s position the closest thing to a surprise on the rankings. Certainly, Eden’s higher than average production quality, among other things, must have aided.
Fullmetal Alchemist’s spot may be lower than expected by some, but given that the show is currently covering subject matter that was handled by the original series’s 30 initial episodes in around half that amount, fans are likely awaiting divergence of the new series from the old.
In any case, rankings for this year’s Spring season will probably come out to be harder fought than this Summer season, given the relative slow pace of the new season, yielding only the new Haruhi season, Spice and Wolf II and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei as obvious candidates for popular late-night anime.
Via Dengeki Online.
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pretty much reflects my feelings, most of the stuff I dropped is on the bottom of the list, while most of the stuff I'm watching again is on the top.
I watch Saki, FMA, Basara, DBK, Asura Crying, the rest junk animes...
Saki is junk anime. Why it got above fma is disappointing. Not that k-on was that great either.
Saki is a good anime actually. It just gives impossible abilities to characters like Prince of Tennis, and that is why some people hate it. Also, people who have no clue about mahjong and hate yuri would not like Saki either.
@Char
No, it's the other way around, people who understand mahjong laugh at it's shit improbabilities and people who don't know anything about it just look at the pretty effects and go ''oooh :o'' at the moves while enjoying the yuri.
I'm part of the latter for one.
wat about eden?
it actually had substance given that almost everything in that list was generic shit, well maybe not senba or dbk
Eden... =( I can't understand why ppl like that contrived bs sold under the pretense of being "innovative" or whatever the shit it is that ppl rave on about.
You will never understand because of your lack of mental capabilities to process it. If you did and actually finish the show, you will see it for its worth, unless you are bias and insist on it being contrive.
Yeah, I just called you stupid, or did you not get that too?
I didn't watch K-ON!,Eden of the East,Dragonball Kai (because its a remake of Z,Cross Game.
I am glad that some of the Animes I watch are on the list.
Hooray for Eden of the East being that high up. Also, no mention of Umineko for the Summer season Quen? I'm ashamed. Even if it'll suck compared to the sound novel, it should still be pretty decent.
Seconded. Maybe Artefact just isn't a fan of Umineko, but it should do really well even if it's not that good.
Are you both idiots? Those shows JUST STARTED.
Bastille was clearly replying to my mentioning of the 3 series for the Summer season I wrote in the post...
I'm aware of Umineko, but I was thinking of the shows that are likely to become especially popular, not necessarily the best ones of the season.
read the fucking article till the end..
They're talking about the [candidates] for most popular shows in the SUMMER
Oh, I guess I mixed up the writers. I just assumed Artefact writes every article on the site since I usually see his name thrown around.
Canaan also looks to be very good if its first episode is any indicator. Keep up the good work Quen/Artefact/anyotherwriter.
canaan seems to be made of good/high quality, but the plot feels a little cliche...
Why the hell isn't Queen's Blade near the top?
Maybe because the people partaking in the poll had at least something resembling taste instead of just going "OMG BOOBS BOOBS LARGE BOOBS THIS IS THE GREATEST!!!!!"?
"resembling" here is the key word.
Because Queen's Blade is shit and has no real worthy 'plot'...
Yeah, and I am sure K-On was overflowing with it.
The chart does not reflect quality period. It reflects what is popular.
Still pretty accurate then, since Queen's Blade had neither.
Yay Basquash!
A giant robot basketball show is usually something I wouldn't even look at, but I was completely drawn in and it's my unexpected favourite show this season, followed by Natsu no Arashi. Then Mazinger and Hayate S2 - Hinagiku arc Yay!
K-on was of course very enjoyable but had most of the funniest parts in the first four eps and, for a show about a band, hardly any music. They always cut to just the last few notes of practice. Lots of still shots too. I still listen to the songs though.
Spring had like a few good shows, summer is like crap. I can't think of anything to watch besides haruhi.
Since you have "ninja~" in you, it makes sense that you can enjoy haruhi. Being that you can be in one place like a sniper, barely moving for days on end. Watching haruhi repeat itself -over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over&over again- might be nostalgic for you.
I might start watching basquash, It has music part's sewn into the show just like Macross F. Makes sense cuz they were both made by Satelite.
Yeah for Cross Game! It should be higher up there, but I guess people don't care so much for boring, non flashy baseball. I don't like baseball much, but the series is really solid.
Absolutely right!
huzzah for that! Not as epic as 'Princess Nine', but a wonderful show no less.
HIGASHI NO EDEN
"君。。大丈夫？”
200% epicness
K-on that high? Unfortunately Otakus are attracted to that of low quality
YOUR FACE IS ATTRACTED TO THAT OF LOW QUALITY!
K-On is definitely the most amusing anime on that list, but not the most interesting one.
Amusing? Any of those other shows made me laugh more than K-on ever did.
That's a filthy lie and you know it, mister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trollan trollan
low quality?? you never watch it haven't you??
even though it was lower in quality than any other kyoani's works, it has a better story and graphics comparing to the other anime that season
the only matching rivals is Eden of the East....
better graphics, more complicated story which is better than K-On
meaning Eden of the East should be no 1 and K-On is no 2
because Prod IG >>> KyoAni
I'd switch K-ON and Higashi no Eden around.
everyone would, sir.
They KILL someone near the end. You see him draw his LAST BREATH.
Suddenly at the last episode.. you all can breath a sigh of relief. HE's Not DEAD!!!
that show shouldn't even be on the list for having that lame ass "surprise".
Another Japanese company trying for a 'Dallas' moment... The dude wasn't even important!
so do i
wow wtf how come kon is "interesting"?its a show that you watch for its moemoekyun which is totally overrated. just an ok anime, entertaining but not great such as others of its genre(haruhi, lucky star). 2ch faggots should burn in hell with their fanboyness.
I didn't expect Asura Crying on there lol
Maybe it was because of the beginning of episode 12?
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq183/Rigaldo/1245363990457.gif
Epicness
Is she getting attacked by a robot dildo!?
Actually, I'm not surprised Eden of the East scored this high, it's story, characters, background, voice acting, they all seem to press the right buttons.
The first "season" of FMA Brotherhood is basically what most have seen, so perhaps that contributed to it being knocked out of the top three. Now that FMA:B is completely following the manga, it'll hopefully pick up in rankings from now on.
agree!
i can't wait for the movie adaptation!
er i mean sequel
no,, your fist comment was almost right
Eden of the East will only have movie sequel at year end this year and another movie sequel nex year
and i'm also looking forward to it ^^
If only Pandora Hearts animation wasn't produced by that tight budget Xebec.. :(
Also boo to Xebec for rarely doing second seasons.
PH should be up there :( my favorite for spring
No hatsukoi in the list :(
Most amusing show of last season imo.
Wow, my three favorite series this season are the top three! Who would have guessed?Although I would have switched K-ON! with Eden only because of Eden's better story. Summer isn't looking too great so far, I may find myself rewatching Spring's list again. Although I am looking forward to watching Weiss Schwartz.
Fuck this shit.
Where's Phantom? Pandora? Shangri-la? Natsu no Arashi?
K-ON is the shittiest moeblob anime of the year, Basara is one of the worst game adaptations I've ever watched, and even Nike-advertisement Shitsquash and DBKai made it to the list? Seriously, Dragon Ball Kai?!
At least Eden (though it still feels incomplete on me) and Cross Game got there.
Eden has two movies coming along towards the end of the year so obviously it's incomplete.
Also >>Shangri-la (lol)
That was clearly the shittiest show of the season.
I'm surprised Asura Cryin' is on there though. While slightly entertaining it has flaws left and right.
Eden was pretty enjoyable, I meant it as in I won't say it's good 'till it's complete. The movie can go wrong in so many ways.
I haven't watched shangri-la for the past few episodes, but it's beginning was amazing. What's the matter not moe or GAR enough for you? The plot is too complicated? Don't like Murata's designs?
I didn't even watch Asura Cryin', saw it was shit from the premise and the raw. Only Chihiro subbed it too, so I guess I was right.
No, Shangri-la was essentially boring and absolutely ridiculous. Gonzo should stick to churning out fanservice (like with Saki) instead of trying to produce "lol deep" plot oriented shows. They tried it with Dragonaut and Blassreiter too. Look how those turned out.
Basically they haven't released anything good with an engaging plot since Welcome to the NHK.
http://news.is-fabulo.us/?search=asura%20cryin [http://news.is-fabulo.us/?search=asura cryin]
Right, "only Chihiro".
Well, when it started releasing it was only Chihiro. My bad then, I didn't check for other subbers.
Anyways, you're entitled to your opinion on Shangri-la. I can understand why people don't like it.
An anonymous owned Howling cause of his ignorance LOL
An anonymous owned Howling cause of his ignorance LOL
Shangri-La isn't done yet so there is no way anyone can make any definitive comment. People might shit on Gonzo for many reasons, including its shit CG but so far Shangri-La has been a pretty interesting show.
besides shangri-la = karin MOEMOEMOE>>>>>>k-on
Cross Game adaption is crap. Tears to Tiara was better, and it wasn't even in the list.
Bit your keyboard-ed words! 'Cross Game' is just another retelling/retooling of 'Touch' by the artist and I loved it anyways. Way better than the retooled 'star dreck' movie at least! A worthless emaciated captain of the new millennium who could'nt do a goddamn thing in the entire show except throwing around smirks. He was like Captain Taylor, only more useless.
'Tears to Tiara' is the '300' of anime -in filming at least- and I love it all the more for it.
if you're suprised at seeing Dragon Ball Kai in the ranking then u must not know much about Japan
Where’s Phantom?
Not enough moe.
Pandora?
It got emo-shotan more than moe.
Shangri-la? Or as I like to call it: Shangri-lalalala-laa....hug a tree!!!!!
Its got moe, but is confusing. the sixth episode had a lot of discussions dealing with stock markets, no otaku worth his grain would be near a ticker. It has a person who look like a woman, but isn't.. why the Fuck would someone have his Entire body changed but not his fucking voice?! A classed up dike I guess. And in my personal disgust, one of the most asinine stories about lady GAIA revenging on mankind for something like polluting her with evil CO2!!! They made a lame ass movie around this idea too! See all those fucking trees in that anime? CO2 did that you gonzo motherFucker!
Natsu no Arashi?
tried to outdo 'Zetsubo Sensei~' with obvious results.. as in nothing at all. Though I've read that there will be a second season.
No Tears to Tiara but Asura Cryin'? What the hell...
Indeed! those Japanese otakus are all sick stupid for ignoring that great show. The girl index must be the cause and they all feel de-manned by the cool of the Dark Lord!
Yeay for K-on! And I need to watch Saki...
And for the new season, SZS and Umineko all the way! :)
And Aoi Hana... how can I forget the yuri... bad me! bad me!
Who wouldn't miss scissoring girls eh? Legs wrapped around each in passions unknown (they hope) to all.
emo eyes btw boy and girl is thick as always, so a little of the G on G is infused to slightly balance it all out... bleh.
Pass on this one.
Saw an G on G OVA series and got sick of the tons of yacking and kwacking by all them girls and it all ended with soft porn. Nothing more and I pass on that junk too.
+1
What about CANAAN? (Only new anime I'm watching.)
Before some retard misunderstands, yes, I'm talking about the new season, which was mentioned in the last paragraph of the article. Besides, most of the anime in the list above suck. Higashi no Eden startet a little interesting but continued in pure fail and FMA 2009,.. well,.. it's FMA. I won't say anything bad about it. K-ON has nothing but moe, DB KAI is bad remastered and freaking censored and I never heard from any other anime of the list.
What about CANAAN?
oh, what indeed about CANAAN.. let's see.
...it blows big chunks of moe crap?
...it is a pandering pile of emo-fied scenes that pay off never?
...it has a butt ton load of glistering oversized eyeballs?
Whoops. Sorry, sorry. Went into rant mode too quick. Jumped in reacting to 'Clannad' rather than 'CANAAN'.
First episode was.. interesting. I don't think since its new that this show is a summer show.
I dropped K-On on the third episode. Sure they were cute, but it wasn't interesting at all. That and Tsumugi's eyebrows constantly making me puke.
K-On is the best show I've seen so far this year (unless Kanamemo beats that). Loving Saki as well. Hatsukoi Limited was a show I enjoyed but was kinda average at the end.
The Hatsukoi Limited anime sucked. They erased all the fanservice that was present in the manga.
They'll be adding in the fan servicing when the DVDs come out. Cocky bastards...
Higashi no Eden > K-on
No
anything than K-on > K-on
Yes
agreed... epic no...
Yes indeed.
*Looks at list* Heh, no surprise here. *Finds out there is an Index-tan episode 2. Watches it and promptly laughs his balls off.*
Best fourth wall busting from the actors I've ever seen!
Ok, I'm going to blab a bit, so please dont read the following under any circumstance:
K-ON was OK but still kinda stupid, I havent recieved any satisfaction after wathcing it.
I dunno.... Higashi no Eden started promisingly, but turned out to be a boring shit in the end....
Saki is ok, but I hate mahjong. Why there's no anime about checkers?
Next, Fullmetal Alchemist.. gee, what's so appealing about thoose alchemist guys and this walking armor? I hate them.
Sengoku Basara. Man, what a piece of shit. A disgrace to any Sengoku Jidai anime.
Dragonball Kai. Good, worthy piece of.. ok, it's great anime, but I never been into dragon ball...
Overall = worst season this year
What other Sengoku Judai shows have you been watching? Outside of Koei, I've not stumbled across one.
And Dragonballs kaka? That kiddyfied pile of shit threw me for a- I stopped when Toei lost its balls and hollyweirded it.. for the Children! >sob<
A Japanese company is bowing down to the international council of screeching bitches now.
their should be more animes with male nudity in it. but only without a tsundere character knocking his lights out screaming hentai
K-on! and Eden's popularity in Japan aren't surprising to me at all.
Although Eden might prove to be even more popular in western nations.
Poor old unloved Basquash. Best animation of anything on that list, easily. Eden deserves a top spot regardless though.
'Basquash' with its lovable retard of a main character warms my heart and I've been watching it when I can. Perhaps because of it being a overt sell-out to nike might be the cause of disinterest for it?
heh.... XD I knew it that K-On is a winner by default this season...
SEACATS IS COMING
But... k-on is moeshit
Moe shit > shonen shit > pretentious shit
You have it backwards there bro
I don't think so, pal.
you do, pal.
K-On was only a popular moe shit no more no less only that.
No Tears to Tiara...
go play the original pc eroge, fuck the remake and fuck the anime. nothing beats the original
Screw you mr/iss. anon flippant boytoy-girl! That anime is the first one to employ a little taste of '300' during one of the battle sequences. The third episode if you all are slightly interested.
The sword battle animation is bar none the best I've seen since the movie 'The Stranger'. It rarely has the typical still shots of characters screaming, striking whatever way, with action lines flying behind them and then cutting to the two fighter slamming into each other. 'Guin Saga' is a recent show to prove that, but I like that one too for other reasons. The animators actually gave a fuck and showed two individual dual without that crap!
Perhaps the stories a bit feather weight, but for this. I don't give a fuck. Ever since watching 'The Stranger', I thirsted for more fluid sword fights and 'Tears to Tiara' fills that bill.
Anyways, the situation involving that duke being condemned to possible death by the governing body of old farts is fascinating and the battles to come will be epic for it!
No One Piece?!? Wow I'm shocked!
*sarcasm*
Where is Natsu no Arashi?
They tried some 'Zetsubo~' infusing that felt shallow and I did like the actual manga, so that show is a loss.
A lot of manga to anime fall into junk like this. 'Resurrection Princess' is a prime example of great read to absolute pile of Dung.
Eden of the East deserves some recognition, it’s really outstanding and Akira constantly flashing his ass is a plus.
FMA will rise higher now that the Xingese people are about to be introduced. Ling is what everyone has been waiting for.
so true
Hajime no ippo.
Fuck yeah, thank you good sir.
cant wait till the next season.
fuck the rest of these shitty animes
HNI is so underrated its not funny.
Actually it isn't underrated, it's pretty popular in Japan only.
Takamura vs Brian hawk hell yeah
K-on and Saki is totally a win for me although Saki should be higher than K-on :3 Well Saki is not an anime for those who doesn't play or know mahjong but for me its a great thing (Its moe compared to Akagi):3
For this summer season I'm looking forward to Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou. Very funny and a little ecchi from what I've seen in the episode 00.
That and the seiyuus are my favorite, Ai Nonaka and Haruka Tomatsu!
Eew Saki Got 3rd!? And Asura Crying Got 9th!? Thats CRAZY. Saki's Not Bad But Really Just Not That Appealing...
Phantom and Hajime no Ippo should have been there and high. And Valkyria Chronicles is definitely better than Saki.
Seeing how the FMA manga series is coming to an end, I am guessing that the animation company won't be diverging too far from the original story. In fact I'm a bit jaded by the beginning, but I will have no doubt greater interest on how they handle much of what is happening now.
The new haruhi show has completely filled me with disgust now. FOUR episodes and possibly more surrounding an interesting idea that could of been done in TWO was enough to disgust a fan subtitler to drop it! You understand? A fan dropped this series for something else and that shows me that I'm not the only one who is sick of that shit.
kyo-twits dropped it Hard on this sequel after the wonderful show K-ON.
HARD.
Can we say jaded? These are television shows, not lovers. You can't get mad when the getting isn't so good.
I just started watching K-On (as in I just watched the first episode) and it was funny, so I intend to watch the rest. I will not fill my diaper (after first actually getting a diaper so as not to be silly) with obviousfagtrollpoo if it's not that good. Seriously people. Seriousleh.
Fullmetal Alchemist is pretty good so far, even though it's been a retread. The new material should start showing up soon. Over all anything Fullmetal is awesome (unless it's on something called a "Pee-Ess-Too").
Dragon Ball Kai? If I were interested in Dragon Ball, I might actually care to watch it. But I don't, so meh. Besides, it got butchered. At least no more filler crap.
I haven't watched any of the other shows so I'm can't say anything about them. I eat trolls for breakfast.
I almost forgot. The first two episodes of new Haruhi weren't that bad.
REPEATING IS BAD
>.<
I really want to fuck these girls
k-on was "interesting"??? i dont know if i would say that....
Nobody mention Guin saga oh well
Valkyria Chronicles : ISARAAAaaaa
No Phantom of Requiem?? Its definitely underrated. I demand a recount. Its No.1 to me along with Valkyrie as No.2