2ch has discovered a ranking of the anime most well regarded by the hairy barbarians who dwell in foreign lands.
The exchange:
“The best anime tournament as selected by GAIJIN:”
“Looking at the top left I laughed.”
“Wait, Boku no Pico actually got quite far!?”
“Madoka lost to Eva!”
“What the hell is this tournament?”
“Looking at the whole thing it is full of quality anime. I’d have liked to have seen more recent ones though. Where’s it from?”
“I got it off 4chan.”
“4chan… looking at the results it seems some negative voting has been going on.”
“Naruto died early on.”
“This looks about right. That lot really likes Bebop.”
“Baccano is doing well…”
“I’m happy about that.”
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
“Madoka was never going to beat Eva but Madoka has done so well to get this far with only a single season.”
“Bible Black…”
“Foreigners like Baccano… maybe because it is set in a foreign country?”
“Madocchi had nasty opponents, going up against AB and then Eva…”
Few could question the overwhelming worthiness of Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion, but with Boku no Pico beating Toradora and Baccano crushing Bible Black and Ghost in the Shell there is much to ponder about the results… and about 2ch’s belief that the results neatly represent the tastes of all “foreigners.”
all those were either horrid or boring… atleast dragonballz didnt win or i’d call it a fix
i hate eva
single elimination, limited titles? phff..
Shao Kahn (after noticing Sailor Moon being absent in the tourney): It’s official 2ch, YOU SUCK!!
>Eva best anime as voted by foreigners
Actually no, it’s best anime as voted by 4chan. Which in itself explains why Boku no Pico got so far, and why Bible Black beat Dragon Crisis. It’s 4chan, whaddaya expect.
Baccano was great, but I didn’t like it BECAUSE it was set in a foreign country. I liked it because it had a great story, and the VA’s were pretty damn good too. I am disappointed that 4chan considered One Piece and DBZ “good” anime… K-On and Ghost Slide are far superior. Bebop is also great but really, I wouldn’t have let it get so far myself. FMA:B was much better. But this is all my opinion, it’s really not everyone’s.
I guess what really gets me is the fact that 2chan now thinks that this is what all foreigners like. I for one can’t STAND Eva. I mean sure, it’s an interesting story and mecha and epic and yadda-yadda-ya, but I really hate Shinji as a character and he completely ruined it for me. *sigh*
4chan, I am disappoint.
now this is some funny shit
2ch took this way too seriously it seems
I love how boku no pico and bible black are on there.
Anyway, meaningless since 4 chan sucks and eva sucks.
Getsuman heiki mina and dragon crises seem like pretty weak nominations for a possible “best anime”
Where is number 39???
The fuck is this atrocity.
Hey everyone, Superman here. I’m the one that did the tournament. On July 6 2011 I will start the nomination process for favorite male anime character. See you all soon.
Flcl.. lost to coyboy beepop?
Serial Experiments Lain Lost to FMA? Fucking FMA?! that action shounen crap… as well as Kara no Kyoukai?! 2chan is right we don’t know what we’re doing..
Lord help us Westerne- /In australia.. no the easten side not westerner.. hmm.. am I excluded?
Evangelion, Trigun and Gungrave are my faves at the mo
FUCK YEAH, I fuckin loved all the resuls, aside from madoka shit gettin that far.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS GOOD.
Eva was an alright series but really….
Cowboy Bebop or Ghost In The Shell should be #1!
Esto esta de locos quien xu… hizo ese ranking valen …. mejor no digo nada mas xD
Late, but I approve of Baccano completely. I have no regrets purchasing the complete box set.
I laughed when I saw Madoka in second place. Twelve episodes of badly paced logic fail can only compete with decent anime by mounding tons of mindless shock value at the viewers.
What the fuck is up with japanese asses? Seriously why the hell do they hate us so much? were like… they’re biggest customers in terms of buying anime and games. I’m sick and tired of being called a hairy barbarian just because I live in america… it’s fucking bullshit.
I’ve been lumped in with 4-chan…for some reason this depresses me. CLANNAD and Lucky Star didn’t even make it out of the round of 64 invalidates the ranking IMO. That and it’s from 4-chan.
It scares me they think 4chan is the majority foreigner opinion…
Well good to see the shit storm against Eva will never end.
Also, haters gonna hate and just because your favorite series didn’t win doesn’t mean you have to be massively butt hurt over it folks.
Eva won this, and that’s the truth. Now can you dig that, sucka?!
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
Cliche otaku xD
I like Railgun,it’s pretty good but men, GITS! 😀
Toradora! beaten by Pico xD
GAIJIN, kill yourself, this tournament is full shit
why there’s no Urotsukidoji?!
i disagree with so many of these results! Who are these foreignerssssss
Well, even if this list is generated by /a/, it still proves we have longer memories and better taste than domestic otaku.
Still I think this list was far too small. With some of the brand-new and/or terribly shitty titles included here, and some of the OBVIOUS joke votes – Boku no YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO for one – this ‘competition’ could have easily included double or triple this number of titles which would have been a far better overall picture.
K-On Sucks ass anyways lol~
but this is still pretty fake-looking XD
This “tournament” is a complete joke. Only the mainstream titles made it anywhere which is to be expected I suppose. I have to side with 2ch on this one, barbaric ignorant westerners heh.
Princess Tutu lost against boku? These are dark times my friends…
A prime example of why I say this entire hemisphere has horrible, horrible taste.
Boku no Pico beat Toradora?!? Something is wrong here >_<
this proves that westerners love trolling animes
Yeah honey and clover should be too and nana, seems this list its pretty weird too.
No Gantz, HOTD or Claymore???
bebop beating FMA? orz
I wouldn’t give it for granted, I agree with Evangelion beating everything else but some shows deserved more!…
Azumanga Daioh beating Death Note was a surprise, as well as other duels, there are a lot of shows I have not seen, Cowboy Bepop being one of them, I did watch the movie, I tried to watch the anime but couldn’t make it past the first chapter, I almost felt asleep, thing is, most shows are a hit when they are released but knowing them after a decade or so is just too much!…
Madoka losing to Evangelion is an honor, being second on that side is really great!…
I wonder if there will ever be an anime that dethrones Evangelion, I really doubt it, hail be to Evangelion!… ^_^
lol fail list.. but I would like to see more of 2ch comments. Artefact please? 🙂
Evangelion FTW.
Yea, this is truly invalid….I’m still a little happy Eva won though
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
i lol’d.
This is the best quote of the year.
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
i can imagine what kind of guy saying this
Baccano won against Gintama…..the HELL!
Well, at least there were some noteworthy titles, compared to the recent Japanese polls.
hahaha this is joke of this day. I mean that is imposible to chose beetwen 2-masterpieces like C.G.and C.B. But evangelion as a winner? I mean WTF woted this? some old,fat man? I didnt even watch it{I have seen movie and it was ordinary anime not like GITS,CG,or Spice and Wolf} But this prove somting…that most of ou are….weird
you are weird for not watching Evangelion O.o now that is a masterpiece.
I just wonder why Boku no Pico and Bibal Black even ARE in the list to begin with.
Neh… “Baccano!” should have won.
:-/
Jesus!!!
Eva beat TTGL? HA! In Eva’s dreams.
LOGH defeated by SZS? Madness!
Railgun losing to GITS… never mind, that is a close one.
Note Bible Black got into the second round.
Look at number 10. “Ghost Slide”. And they still believe it’s real.
Dragon Ball Z lost to Azumanga Daioh, and there is no Gundam.
its stuff like this that makes me dislike anime and manga.
I don’t agree with so many results in this tournament. At least i’m happy Madoka isn’t the best anime of all time.
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Evangelion Banzai!
Said by some hairy gaijins.
Boku no Pico is like YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!(;˚Д˚).
Eva, CB… nothing new in gaijinland…
Still waiting for something good.
Perhaps gaijin just aren’t brainless consumers, in fact. I’d like to say the same thing for everybody.
the reasons i love bebop: ed + the music but mainly ed
Gintama beats Haruhi! Happiest day in my life!!!!
Baccano is awesome.
Anyone who voted for Boku no Pico without trolling is either a yaoi fangirl, or a pederast.
lolz @ madoka 😀
but evangelion? I expected something like naruto or one piece to be on top…
2ch doesn’t like Boku no Pico? I thought Japanese were all a bunch of pansexual pedophiles.
Wooh boy, not enough Moe for 2ch and WeeabooCom
It lost all credibility when Dragonball z lost to some crap named azumanga Daioh
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
=_= K-ON is an annoying, plotless, eventless and boring compilation of hideously drawn moe wenches each harbouring a dim witted expression.
[namely Yui the dumbest of them all]
Personally I’m sick of hearing or reading the damn name and sick of it being held in such high reguard because 2chan find it good to masturbate to.
Although I concur with the last part, for that crap to even make it onto the list in the first place, many of us “foreigners” must have no sense.
Modoka can suck it! Angel beats kicks it’s ass
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
This line is hilarious
“Foreigners like Baccano… maybe because it is set in a foreign country?”
Kinda like Neon Genesis? Or Full Metal Alchemist?
Oh, they got it off 4chan. And here I was thinking it was something worth while.
F**K 2ch and/or 4ch, they don’t decide what anime I like according to them. This is just pure immaturity and incompetence on their end. Bunch of stupid trolls. (Stupid is such a generic word….)
Who said you should like what they liked?
I wouldn’t let K-On! and To aru Kagaku no Railgun lose in this ranking, and I’m german ._.
Lain lost to FMA? I’m not surprised given Lain is 13 years old, but still is sad.
Railgun beaten in the first round by GITS:SAC? Bullshit. I’d take mach 7 coins any day over boring Clancy-esque international intrigue with a hot cyborg lead.
Wait.
Completely inaccurate. Rurouni Kenshin is far superior to Haruhi. Haruhi is garbage.
“My opinion is fact and everything else is irrelevant.”
I like both, but fuck you for calling Haruhi garbage.
What is this I don’t even
lol isn’t this just one of the march madness match-ups from animefix.net? The reason there are only a few shows on there is because those guys/girls do this all the time with different shows going up against each other each every tournament.
I’m not surprised at the Bebop, but it was missing a lot of really good stuff that should have been there. Lupin III, GTO, etc.
lol boku no pico.And I never watch evangelion.It is realy that good
No Spice and Wolf? I hear it’s a best-selling manga, novel AND one of the few anime that North Americans buy.
And quite a few of these are series that are still helped by the fact that they’re “fresh” in the memories of young otaku. Give it a year and Madoka, Deadman, Gosick, etc won’t even appear on this ranking. It’s a bit ridiculous to even include them already.
You noob
Madoka is the most discussed anime on 2CH EVER,
the posts surrounding it was more than the 2nd and 3rd place combined
No one has seen such hype after EVA
No Major? No Eyeshield 21? This list is rubbish
someone should tell them 4chan threads are full of trolls and samefags.
another fail list…
Clannad defeated by Toradora?
What?
I prefer Toradora too, even though it’s not the same style.
Anyway, Kanon remake is better than both of them, by far.
All these rankings are a waste of time. There’s no such a thing as ‘best’ this and best that. Nice is just varied from people’s perspective.
ghost slide is know as the best ever made, i cant believe it lost on first round but it REALLY is the best
how bible black got in there is beyond me
no suprise there actually
the gaijin tournament quite accurately follow the taste of westerners gaijin
Bebop is an empty shell, how can it beat SZS and FLCL? WTF?
i cant read shit from that chart…..
Of course Sankaku polls are totally accurate and in no way biased.
what the hell no shigurui death frenzy no ninja scroll no samurai champloo. this list is bs. no Sword of Berserk comeon this list is voided out
Anon, TELS THE TRUTH!! the list is voided indeed, if these really didn’t make it =\
Absolute insanity!
I’d like to see a pair of legitimate polls done for 80s & 90s titles. You know, done by someone other that trollchan.
Who would do it then. This is a matter of opinion, so if you don’t accept results from the majority, then chances are you won’t accept anything from anyone other than yourself.
Bible Black should have made it to at least the semi-finals.
And it’s obvious that there’s a lot of 4chan trolling votes in this list.
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
Lmao
>“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
What kind of taste does THIS GUY have?
how the fuck did dragon ball lose to azumanga daioh? those stupid girls cant even fly
you’ve obviously never seen Azumanga Daioh. please refer to the opening, and try again.
LoL
yaoi genre can get that far ? are most of the voters the girls ? Or the foreigners like shota yaoi?
elfen lied lost to gintama, your argument is invalid, so is the world and evrething else
Can someone explain to me why they like Elfen Lame beside Nyuu?
No school Day’s ? Fail…
in fact i did not like nyuu XD, but elfen is epic and is also one of those *startes anime* kinda first gore anime you see and TADA now you like anime ( i hooked my younger cousin to anime with elfen)
The only place in the world with shittier taste than 4chan is 2ch anyways.
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
I hope thats irony. You cant be taken seriously saying that K-On or Railgun deserve respect.
railgun was quite fun, is like evreything cool from to aru majutsu without touma pointless rage ranting
while some may disagree with the ranking it pretty much represents foreign tastes, [AS] still airs an hour of cowboy bebop every saturday even though they showed it ages ago
though how the hell Boku no Pico was even on the list was just trolling plain and simple, its not our fault if we really dont like lolicon anime and moe crap
Lol, that’s the worst ranking list I’ve ever seen…
Ahahaha, Ghost Slide was on there…
belive it or not, Ghost slide is Hentai of 1985.
There is no way Boku no Pico beat the guitar ninjas that is Princess Tutu.
Ok…how the fuck did Madoka beat Darker than Black? And why the hell is Kanokon up there? And since when is Bible Black an anime? I’m just going to dismiss this list as trolling…
The only thing good about this list is that K-ON! and Naruto both lost first round, very appropriate.
TO be honest from the moment I saw Bible black and Boku, I thought “trolling” however no matter what list, how the fuck does madoko beat darker than black ?
Honestly I was hoping cowboy bebo wins
Okay, this is bullshit.
Where’s Monster?
Nice list if you ask me. Evangelion definitely deserves #1.
Bible Black? lmao
From that list I choose:
Elfen Lied, FMA Brotherhood, Angel Beats, Darker THAN black, Death Not and Lucky Star.
Fun fact: you should hear me scream “NOOO~!!!” You would piss yourself laughing.
But I don’t like this type of listing, people can misunderstand the meaning and sometimes someones 2nd or 3th will end up last.
Elfen lied is ok, but AB was shit
Elfen Lied was shit. I can guarantee that if you took out all the tits horny otaku would realize that the story was weak and stupid.
“someone” not some
Lol why is it every time someone even says they like Elfen Lied some throws a damn rage fit.
this is why sankaku’s userbase is shit
they don’t know the difference between 2ch (4ch) and 2chan (4chan)
12 year olds shitting up the internet
Ghost Slide was overrated anyways.
i agree man, though the beginning was COMPLETLY AWESOME, the ending was a bit too soul crashing and no believable
America: Type A
Japan: Type B
I greatly agree with this. At the very least the people on 2ch are moe-blob lovers and have no real taste for shows with substance.
They do love K-ON
But they love Madoka much more
LotGH, Tutu and Utena died in the first round. List is bullcrap.
That said, Bebop making it as far as it did is still a damn sight better than any other list I’ve seen on here.
Utena was ahead of it’s time then. And now it’s lost it’s context. It didn’t get a shot at mainstream popularity.
“Looking at the top left I laughed.”
I agree.
i cant fully agree on the final outcome of that tournament. the very thought of all the awesomeness that is Cowboy Bebop being beaten by a series whose main character spends so much time whining about everything is a travesty
At last… A list with so many GOOD animes @_@
kintama lost :O
Boku no Pico > Toradora??
Yeah… this is obviously a troll.
Hairy? Ummmm….have you seen Japanese porn? We’re not the hairy ones, the Japanese are! And on that issue, Japanese girls…..yuck…just yuck….mow the damn lawn regularly…
I’m surprised when they use those mosaics that they have enough blur to cover that shit.
Gintama would never lose this tournament… Unless gintoki got bored at the end and said fuck it :]
I find this funny, as the winner and runner up are over 12 years old, shows the time length needed to make an impression over seas. While japanese polls always favore what was in the last few seasons.
I am wondering how much actual exposer the voters actually have to anime. I have asked many people who say they love anime but have no clue about 80% of what I asked if they have seen.
There are very few people on /a/ who haven’t seen a truckload of anime.
Judging from your name and your display pic, that is because you say 80% generic retarded loli insertion anime drivel, and 20% actual quality anime.
*facepalm*
Boko No Pico only made it to the 3rd round?
Fuck Americans confirmed for shit taste.
the same reason why people read sankaku
from time to time it is fun being trolled or rofl/lol at stupidity
I’m a “Foreigner” and I think this is bull-shit! wuahwuahuhw *D
Evangelion over Gurren Lagann? No Gundam? Madness.
>no Planetes
planetes was too awesome for this
Boku no Pico? Never seen it. I’ll have to check it out.
Don’t do it, it’s for sick people.
I can’t believe that now so many people are homosexual-shotacon.
Anyway, this list should be done without any hentai, what were they thinking seriously…
Gaijin typu A desu.
lol boku no pico is on the list wahahahaha
>“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
“Japanese people have no sense at all!” is what I usually find myself thinking when I look at all the top 10 ratings posted here dominated by shows that came out within the last 5 years and all the older good anime totally forgotten. K-On and Railgun aren’t very good (though I do enjoy K-On) and appropriately lost to much better series. I am kind of sad that Princess Tutu lost to Boku no Pico though… They should have paired BnP up against Gosick or some other shit show.
“about 2ch’s belief that the results neatly represent the tastes of all “foreigners.”
Funny because sankaku tries VERY VERY VERY hard to make it’s readers believe that japanese rankings represent neatly the tastes of all “japanese.”
No, we pretty much always blame 2ch exclusively. Nice try though.
If only magipoka was on the list
Kaiji beat One Piece?! That’s crazy amazing!
Well, the turnout is not surprising. It seems most everyone around me has a hard on for eva and bebop.
This made my day, props to you artefact keep those crazy 2ch comments coming they have rarely kept me from laughing my ass off.
Hey do you see my gundam?
Noooooooo I agree with most of this list, but how did Gurren Lagan lose to Eva?
isn’t it obvious!!
if it were tengen toppa guren lagan, then,… its a different story!!
No El Hazard love? Original series of course, none of the shit that came after.
It’s not as good as either LOGH and UTENA, and there can only be so many nostalgia-fueled entries.
Just seeing what kind of sleazebags populate 4chan is enough to dismiss results. They don’t get over anything and as soon as the concept gets old is totally dismissed.
They didn’t even made a good starter selection to begin with.
It’s really sad that, evidently, many ‘foreigners’ can’t seem to enjoy anything unless it has a complex plot and drama.
Nothing wrong with that, but I just hope that people broaden their horizons.
brah don’t take the list seriously it is a troll.
Not to mention, the problem with these lists is that people might not have seen all the Anime in it, thus they would only vote for the ones that they know about.
This could explain the ‘popularity’ of Boku no Picco and the other ‘traditional’ Anime like Baccano. Let’s face it, there are many on the list that I highly doubt that ‘foreigners’ have watched.
Also, by ‘foreigners’, I’m saying the general Anime watching audience in the US.
well as a foreign european i use anime as a means to relax and not necessarily enjoy a breathtaking story. (although for a change i will not toss one aside)
Most everyone on /a/, the people who voted in this, have seen every anime on this chart.
WTF.. Boku no Pico over Princess Tutu
I’m surprised Afro Samurai or Samurai Champloo weren’t on the list. Niggaz can’t fuc w/ de genius(GZA)
Good to see a list that isn’t populated with moe anime, good job fellow foreigners IMO.
This is a example of how the foreig otakus have been transforming into the same type of the creepy anti-social otaku of the Dai-Nippon.
Fifteen years ago the anime was celebrated like a revolutionary and vanguard media. The power of their visual styles, the deepeness of their plots and even the ambiguous sexual element.
It´s a progressive and unstopable identification between the inner fans and the outer fans, today they have so many common things that there´s no point in the criticism of the 2ch denizens or the insults to them from the foreigners.
Just look the success of the hentai sites around the web, it past from an exotic and taboo theme to be the pillar of many fans communities.
Shit son, what are you talking about?
Did you even check the list? Do you notice the absence of your average otaku pandering anime or how shows like K-ON didn’t even pass the first round?
Lol, it is true that boku no pico is the #1 anime on 4chan though.
recommend me a good anime
Who chose what got nominated for this anyway? Barely any mech series, with Macross, Gundam, Nadesico, Bubblegum Crisis all absent. Several very long-running and well known shows like Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Pokémon and Oh My Goddess nowhere to be seen. Even shows that I somewhat associate with 4-chan’s mentality like Guu and Panty & Stocking aren’t on there.
If it wasn’t clear by now, the list was a joke from the beginning.
Traditional mecha shows go to the /m/ board and are not that popular on /a/.
4chan’s humour isn’t very transferable.
Hentai should never be included in a list of “best ever” anime. As much as I enjoy some of those titles, like porn, they have thin plots and 1 dimensional characters that exhibit little growth.
Bible black rammed deep and penetrating insights into me.
Talk for yourself, I found Boku no Piko’s plot with actual deep themes and complex characters.
well Bible Black was quite entertaining XD
Eva + Bebop = win *o*!
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
I LAUGHED SO HARD.
What a shitty brainless mainstream otaku, on the contrary this is one of the FEW good things about this list.
did you know where these haters come?
They’re good shows (or I assume, I haven’t watched Railgun) but definitely not top tier like Eva or Cowboy. Also, those are shows that don’t get a lot of foreign playtime I believe.
Oh, but K-ON, Strike Witches, Index/Railgun and similar are well known on /a/. Is just that we’re well aware of how shit they are.
>K-On
>Good
AHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
this tournament doesn’t make sense at all, anyway -_-
FMA beats Kara no Kyoukai?! HERESY!!!!!
That’s not really Western taste at all.
Most retards @ cons etc genuinely like naruto, one piece, bleach and other shit like that.
Pairing in the tournament was EPICUBERFAIL per se, probably designed by americans as they know shit about sports (they don’t have any). It would have made sense to group animes in groups based on overall rankings and do first couple of elimination rounds within those groups only.
NB. Railgun is shit compared to Index, that’s true. Too much watered down, no pantsushots and lost in meaningless subplots. So I agree 🙂
Both Railgun and Index are the same shit, only difference being that one happens to sell better than the other
fuck yeah Baccano actually made it far.
evangelion is a joke.
madoka most foreigners have probably not actually seen. a lot of them mainly base these things by licensed anime so as to not be bitched at by 2channers for “stealing”.
also the unlike 2chan which is slightly serious. nothing on 4 chan is serious…hence boku no pico and bible black actually making a run. half are serious and more than half are not. if people were serious clannad would have easily beat boku no pico. What makes it worse is that most of the people that vote for boku no pico are newfags and don’t even know what it is.fucking newfags.
well if i would actually just watch what is availiable in my country (germany) it would be pointless to take part in that “thing” as 3 out of 4 would be unknown titles to me. So i say: long live piracy XD (and the hentai would be of the known kind (when you are looking for anime it is often right beside real porn and half of it is hentai like Bible Black or some collection)
AM more annoyed Speed Racer didn’t win
being half british/half brazilian and living in germany i have to say that this tournament is rather unfair.
EVA vs Gurren Lagann for example is pretty much purely a matter of taste and personal philosophy.
and k-on vs one piece…you cant compare the two! the genres are totally different!
Are you aware that the pairings were totally random?
That’s how normal tournaments work, son.
No soup for you!
I had to double check a couple of times to be sure, but… where the heck is Higurashi?!
I suppose Higurashi is so awesome that it doesn’t even need to be included in these rankings. 🙂
You’re right, many awesome animes (way more awesome than shits like boku no pico at least) aren’t even here.
Higurashi is one of my favorite anime of all time, with Gurren-Lagann, Evangelion, Last Exile (not here too), Spice and Wolf, Kenshin OAVs (not at all like de tv series), Madoka, 12 Kingdoms (not here again, and it’s really a pity) and Kanon remake.
And some others.
Twelve Kingdoms was long, painful, and dreary with a few shining moments of brilliance. It’s not for everyone. It obviously won’t win any popularity contests.
Rather true but its background is awesome, brillant, unbelievable.
“I got it off 4chan.”
^Well, there’s your problem…
This cannot have come from 4-chan as there are no ponies in it!
The fact that any of them believed a list from 4chan could be in any way accurate……………
Baccano is one of the worst anime, how can that piece of crap even be in the option
wtf are you talking about???
its a really cool anime!!!
If K-On! is an option than Baccano certainly deserves to be..
Your taste is nonexistent! Now go and crawl in a hole!
These guys really do have terrible taste. All these supposedly deep anime are chosen over comedy, yet any ground breaking or truly deep anime lost in the first round.
If you’re deep only on the surface, you’re nothing.
“STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE”
lulz pretty much
Baccano beating GitS:SAC…WHAT. *sad face*
WTF? LOGH lost in the first round? And against Zetsubo Sensei? Come THE FUCK on!!! Well at least One Piece beat K-ON that kinda makes up for it! :]
K-ON! and Railgun
The first fails for moe abuse, the second it sucks hard because it shit on the original source in favor of moeblob mixed with not so serious plot but trying to sell it as a drama.
Some of these are odd. I’m glad K-on got eliminated so soon, it’s embarassing for something that shallow to rank very high like it often does in Japanese polls. This also shows that, unlike a lot of 2ch, us westerners seem to remember shows from before 2007 in our rankings.
Still, Boku no Pico beating the Tenori Tiger? Unforgiveable.
lol westerner, do you what kind of ‘place’ 4chan is?
its heaven,…
Ok this tournament styled setup really doesn’t define anything, A poll would have been a more accurate take on what we foreigners think are the best animes.
One of the quote says
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
I say, For K-ON! and Railgun to be so popular in japan, japanesse are really loosers and lolicons!!!!
Seriouslly japan doesn`t know a thing about what happen outside their island.
just like everybody else, like you and me
I applaud you, good sir.
Why do it in that stupid “tournament” fashion instead of a regular “top 10”, “top 20” schedule? ¬__¬
It wasn’t mean to appear on 2ch or Sankaku. Deal with it.
you’re quite conservative
Generalisations and prejudice galore folks, welcome to the simple minds of most human beings. Shit, I did just that, oh well.
Haha, K-On! lost in the first round. Poor butt-hurt 2ch fags.
If this is a gaijin anime poll I’m surprised one of the shounen series like Naruto or Dragonball didn’t take the honors.
I’m assuming by best they mean most popular
not artistically excellent.
Eva and Bebop were BOTH popular and artistically excellent.
@ Anon 04:09 I agree with you but I was likening the poll to the ones they sometimes have on TV news shows that are based on boxoffice reciepts and not whether the movie was artisically superior to some movie little kids drag their parents to 10 times.
I was just saying popular doesn’t mean good and vice versa.
bebop sucks big time, because it’s cowboy and dubbed into english doesn’t mean its good
It was done on 4chan we used a bunch of proxies I was in every thread. Anywhere else one piece bleach and naruto would have probably won.
code geass lose on bipbip cowboy? -w-
very 4chan indeed
gaijin anime or rather americunt gaijin anime= bebop
Are you kidding? Geass was ridiculous. Bebop is a way better anime.
Obviously. Cowboy Bebop>Everything else on this list.
Whats the point in takeing this list seriously? It was done on 4chan by /a/. /a/ is just a bunch of trolls and newfags, the fact Boku no Pico is even on the list is proof of that.
/a/ is never old, someone always new there
You all know that Dragonball Z is the true winner of it all, don’t deny it. It opened up the doors for most foreign countries to start grabbing more anime titles
If this list really reflected the tastes of foreigners, then Dragonball Z, Naruto, Bleach or Cowboy Bebop would have most certainly won, and crap like K-On! and Railgun wouldn’t even be considered.
didnt knew about Bleach until i watched it fansubbed from the internet (the others should be more or less known to frequent TV viewers)
LoL at Evangelion winning in front of Gurren Lagaan
I will never stop wondering how Japaneese are able to point out titles such as “k-on” and “[random] index/[random] railgun” as high quality.
They seem poppular only due to the fact that Japanesse are socially disabled, and the titles in mention provide a sweet-and-warm-fuzzy-wuzzy-friendship-nes-nes-nes-nesss. Probably also of their nice art and high moe blob concentration which never existed in the material world to begin with.
How come no one notices the lack of decent plot/concept WHATSOVER and the illogical actions of characters.
Then again – only in Japan you might have had a girldfriend for several years,whose hand you have never held, let alone kiss the girl.
Anyone who prefers Azumanga over Full Metal Panic is a tasteless idiot.
FMP is VASTLY over-rated.
I disagree. I prefer them both over 95% of the rest, esp. Evangelion. (I still can’t understand why people are hyped about the mind rape flick.)
I know I’ll get pounded for this but I think RahXephon was better than EVA. Similar in plot but a more coherent story in the end. At least it didn’t need a directors cut and a movie to try and explain what the ending was about. Plus no whiny Shinji angst! I think it’s Eva done the right way.
It may be in ones opinion; however, what will get animes voted above others is simply how much they are discussed and recommended. It may not be the best; but it is certainly probably one of the most discussed and recommended animes still.
my mind never been raped by anything
my virgin mind
It’s on the same level as Final Fantasy 7. It’s becoming a cult worth more than its actual worth.
I don’t dislike it but definitely not 1st place.
OMG Teh Rei
i agree
Christ Jesus on a Thursday afternoon!!
Are you so desperate for material that you would put THIS up? If I go make up a poll will you report on that too?
Can you even call this a poll? It was rigged from start!! Whoever had the most people with the most proxies was the winner! The whole purpose of the poll was tossed out of the window from the start!
If this is from 4chan , maximum trolling in the results!
and this particular mode tends to get far some meh entries , just as they are neither liked or disliked …
i’m surprised eva took the cake from bebop , it’s hugely popular in France … well 4chan is USA mostly
Boku no Pico won over Toradora!,
DBZ lost to Azumanga Daioh
and
Naruto lost to Eureka 7 in a foreign poll?
Am I missing something here? Is not like I’m complaining I just find it… Extremely weird.
/a/ aren’t normal american anime fans with shit taste.
nothing weird at all, just your ordinary poll
you see good or bad is matter of opinion
Boku no pico makes sense its better then Evangelion anyways
DBZ and azumanga daioh seriously DBZ is way better
Naruto is like care bears or barney its for babies
Hate to break it to ya, but DBZ is pure, unadulterated crap in this foreigner’s opinion. Poorly animated, lame story and design. One of the worst anime I ever struggled to sit through. I’d take Azumanga over DBZ any day, and I didn’t even particularly like Azumanga.
NO way, DBZ was and still is the best. I’ve watched and rewatched and will continue to watch this masterpiece.
This poll is flawed on so many levels. I’d be curious to see who they polled and where this poll was taken.
Disagree.
no flaw at all
this is a poll an people is free to poll what they want to
I just mean if your going to have a runoff, it would make more sense to have anime from similar categories (mecha vs mecha)(high school comedy vs high school comedy) run against each other than to have Princess TuTu vs Boku no Pico or Elfen Lied vs Gintama. Just doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
An Anime site
Lies. It was pulled straight out of someone’s ass
Some of the entries are clearly jokes. Like Musashi Gundoh.
K-On a Railgun losing is a good sign though. Even when we joke, we still never let shitty moe junk win.
Isn’t it more “4chans have no taste”? Not every foreigner goes to 4chan you know. And isn’t “gaijin” such a rude word for foreigner.
Of course it is. You expect them to be polite when talking about us? As much as I love anime and manga in general, the society that spawned it really looks down on the rest of the world in general.
If it would be a video game tournament call of duty
would of been there
yeah call of duty is just as overrated as evangelion
if you compare to the video game industry
I WANT Ikki Tousen its VERY Epic
An I Want Koihime Musou
Panty and Stocking with Gaterbelt should of been THERE !!!!!!!
This has got to be a troll list. But it’s awesome either way it goes, since Pico is in it. 😀 I can’t believe Bebop lost to Evangelion though… No way, Jose.
WTF !
This list is retarded!
How can you get slice and life againts shounen anime?
Both of those genres lost to angst filled mecha anime
Gosick should have at least gone to the semi-finals… kind of fix on the right
and i lol’d cause of the top left
Since its negative voting, does this make Evangelion the worse anime?
Non-Japanese confirmed for having shitty taste in anime, although it’s not anywhere near as shitty as Japanese tastes.
For a list that long, Mushishi should be in there somewhere 🙁
Mushishi is art.
Greatly under appreciated art.
And so is most other art. American Idol is far more interesting to the general public.
ARIA is art.
Amen to that!
What’s boku no pico? It’s the only one listed I’ve never heard of…
And why would Bible Black win at anything other than being fetish-bait? >_>;
Boku no pico is a shotacon yaoi ,
Young boys fall in love with young boys
thrusting their wand against each other.
Was really hoping TWGOK would get further. Keima-kun needs some recognition.
Well, the tournament does seem to be pretty decent. I will admit that I almost fainted when I saw Rakkyo beaten by FMA, and Baccano owning BOTH Gintama and GiTS. I mean, Baccano is pretty good, but it did leave me with kind of an empty feeling…
Who did this ?? I highly doubt the person who did it is a “foreigner”. Probably a japanese with a lot of free time , and with his own anime favorites.
Half list isn´t anime that made his way to america ( besides from internet ).
4chan /a/ did it and it proxied to hell and trolled hard.
Funny how they put Angel Beats and Madoka together to kill each other on early stages
Cause it was like DBZ’s Goku vs Kratos from GOW, they would of been to much chaos if those two would of been left with the others.
That’s because if their time of release were swapped, then we’d be witnessing a different story. 4chan works by Japanese rules; the newer overwhelms the older, even by a few months of difference.
For the entropy
They would all die to Eva anyways.
All become TANG.
Evangelion is a classic, but there are better animes out there really.
such as madoka
True that.
What is Dragon Crisis doing anywhere near this list?!
And Boku no Pico? Seriously?!
Oh yeah… They got it off 4chan. HAHAHAHA!
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.”
^- That anon speaks the truth. 🙁
Railgun lost to GitS.
There’s nothing wrong with losing to such a classic.
Though One Piece beating K-ON makes me sad…
I’m OK with K-On losing to One Piece. They’re two of my favorite series and I’d rather have K-On lose to One Piece (the highest selling manga in history) than something like Boku no Pico.
Though, I’m surprised that One Piece beat K-On. Even though there’s a ton of people who think that K-On is just another worthless moe-blob series, it seemed to me that there were more people who thought that One Piece was just another shounen-shit series.
One piece is shit. /a/ agrees.
One Piece got a lot more showtime outside of Japan than K-On! does.
No, actually most people think One Piece is awesome and Naruto is just another shounen-shit series.
my first reaction was…
“AGAINST ONE PIECE!?”
Wrong reaction!
So how did they choose their selection? Cause I can’t help but feel I’m being trolled when looking at this ridiculous “tournament”.
lol code gayass vs bebop…
BOKU NO PICO RULES ALLL Anime
Agreee go Boku no pico
Hidamari Sketch VS Ghost in the Shell? Are they fucking kidding me?
Wow, Kaiji got quite far.
And Evangelion FTFW
hate that Bog!!! wtf!??
I almost got a heart attack when i saw that FMA killed Kara no Kyoukai.
Which foreigners are they talking about? The one that doesn’t watch anime off the internet and only from Cartoon Network or “us”? Total bullcrap.
Everyone that voted in this pole follows anime religiously.
Being Canadian, I dont agree with this list IN THE SLIGHEST!!!!!
Who arranges a list of top anime in tournament format, anyway? That’s just idiotic. With this format, the only result that is in any way meaningful is the lone winner, and even that is questionable. Each ‘match’ only tells us that one particular anime is selected over another by a certain group of people. This isn’t something like a sport, where there are set rules to determine a winner, so the rules change in each match, making the results more or less meaningless. How does placing something like K-on vs. One Piece in the first round make any logical sense at all? They aren’t even in the same genre.
I’m latin american, and I don’t agree either… though I regognize that Evangelion wins over Gurren Lagann due to age (that ensures a bigger fandom)… but Azumanga Daioh defeating DBZ?! WTF?! I love Azumanga, but this is beyond my understanding… who the hell voted in this? Bieber tards?!
dirty mexican
Dirty american.
For that matter, Azumanga beating FUll Metal Panic makes this whole thing null and void. =P
Maybe they thought it was only the first FMP? It was shit compared to Fumoffu and TSR.
how the fuck did Azumanga beat FMP?!?!?
I’d disagreeing with that too.
we’re talking about 4chan here….
DBZ is amazing the rest i agree with
“Even to that fact, I’m surprised that DBZ, Bleach, Naruto and One Piece didn’t got far.”
Pfffffhahaha enjoy your shit taste.
What is there to know about anime? Those shows got that far because they were the best ones. As for thinking Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece would get far, LOL. Do you have any idea how much 4chan hates Naruto and Bleach?
who cares
true that.
this list is bull
I’m actually sad that none of the Key series got far. Well, Madoka going this far shows there is some taste in anime, but otherwise the list is too generic. This surely shows that the voters didn’t know too much about anime. Even to that fact, I’m surprised that DBZ, Bleach, Naruto and One Piece didn’t got far.
I don’t know what to think about this…
atleast naruto and bleach lost first round if they were to get further the list would of looked fake.
DBZ, Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece are all shit.
Much bigger BS is Azumanga beating Death Note!!!
4chan moeshit negative voting. Otherwise if people just voted on what they watched and liked it would be different.
Sorry Pyrolight but I couldn’t get past the three first episodes of Lucky Star.
Azumanga beating Death Note makes me so happy.
Not really Death note more or less killed itself in the second season.
The fact Lucky Star died in the first round is odd.
Azumanga should have got further…
I was saddened enough seeing Death Note make the competition but not a show like Monster 1:
Riot on you awesome Canadians.
Agree Boku no pico should of been first
4ch as the source invalidates the list, the vote, the result, and this story..
Moving on..
Sancom posting the results invaldiates this list
Moving on
Better than those countless japanese blogs
What the hell is that tournament voting anyway? Why can’t we have a common Top 10(0) voting?
this list is pretty much a fraud, but what amazes me is that i have 2 admit the 2 winners would have to be winners despite everything. after watching the last Evangelion movie i have to admit i am an Eva fan all over again.
Looks like a fun tourny but invalid as how did they come up with the top 64 and the seeding. Bebop seeded 61st? and Dragon Crisis was on the list at all? A bit random..
Dragon Crisis ain’t that bad, i have seen worst.
Actually I like this list much more than if it was the Japanese version. If the was the Jap the anime selection would be buried in shitty moe anime with Kon and Haruhi on top. I’m glad this list brings back some classics and other genres other than the generic moe shit these Japs watch nowadays.
I don’t even understand why that’s all they watch. Is it because they are all perverts that live off fan service and little school girls? Or is because they spent their entire life being a pussy so now they want to watch an anime to pretend to be the main character getting all the girls in the class?
Haruhi is not moe shit, don’t compare it to K-ON!
so fuck your shit anon 04:44.
Also, get off your high horse.
If it was a Jap poll, all the titles listed would be made in the last 3-5years. Any old work would not make the list cause Japan’s anime industry is driven by bandwagon jumpers.
I hear ya!
I still don’t get how the fuck Madoka got past Angel Beats…
Darker than black…
Well, because AngelBeats is a disgrace to the entire Key franchises and a piece of shit!
I still don’t know how you can say that Madoka was bad, because I personally find it to be a masterpiece. I like Angel beats as much as the next guy but I don’t know why anyone could think that it was bad.
VEN ESCUCHA HERMANO LA CANCION DE LA ALEGRIA, thats why evangelion won, and thats enough for me
madoka is shit
cause Angel Beats is shit, jun had drinking problems when writing it and is now on leave to sort himself out.
Sad that LotGH died so early :<
why did that overrated, mediocre Evangelion win 😐
u mad
haha ur mad
:P…. Japan has good taste! Slam Dunk is one of their all time favorite mangas!
BEST ANIME EVER TOO!
The mad is strong in this one
Same fags?
awww ur mad bro…
No, but apparently you are.
this guy is mad
No. Look at your post, sound like a child’s crying 🙂
Amen.
Amen? I thought they have better taste than the ordinary Japanese rankings.
they do
So 2ch and 4ch are trolling each other with the list? Boku no Pico is such a nice troll.
Well Eureka 7 is my all time favourite but.. since i tought it was a underdog to begin with it suprises me to see it beats naruto and were saddend but not suprised it was beaten by one piece.
Yea Eureka 7 is my all time fav too and One Piece is my 2nd so was sad to see E7 lose in the second round but even worse since One Piece went down right after it
> actually think Boku no Pico is a troll
It’s the good kind of troll since Boku no Pico (along with it’s 2 sequels) always leaves me spent and contented…
Now I can’t wait for that new Poju shota hentai video to come out…
Narutards are slowly disappearing, don’t you think? Local conventions used to be filled with people with metal plates on they’re forehead, now, they’re into a bit more variety of mainstream anime.
Its obviously not the top list we have going in the SanCom Forums,… So they didn’t lurk in our forum because the listing hasn’t been concluded yet.
Although the majority of users of the Sankaku Complex Forums ARE gaijin.
And we’re not as hairy as other hairy smelly foreigners with questionable tastes.
^_^
Where’s Black Lagoon, Canaan and Coyote Ragtime show? I think they will appreciate those anime if they like to watch Cowboy Bepop.
WTF? Dragonball Z defeated by Azumanga Daioh? Looks like foreigner do love High school girls!
I can see Eureka 7 beating naruto easily.
Looks like Not all Foreigner are Narutard beaten in the first round by Eureka 7?
@Altair,nice anime but some people only watch new animes or ecchi ones
nice boku you got there
bb is deep yo
Nice Bible Black Got In there too lol
Truer words have never been spoken. If people actually go to /a/ for honest opinions on anime that is popular in America, then I feel sorry for them.
Everybody has the right to their opinions.
It’s just that 4chan happens to have toxic opinions too much.
And I can’t understand Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion being so high other than boys just being into the viscera of the action and the high production values. Not to say they’re bad shows, but some of those shows’ worship is out of control.
Then again, so is 2ch’s version of extreme hype.
I don’t know about Cowboy Bebop, but Evas symbolism and dabbling in psychology is what makes it appealing to a wider audience outside the “visceral action” niche.
Or people who just want to say how much they care about symbolism and psychology…
As they said it’s full of quality anime but I don’t personally agree with the results nor the pairings. The list is good and while Eva and Bebop are both great anime I’d probably have gone for others as my favourite
Boku no Pico is one of the greatest works of art in human history, truly one of our species’ crowning achievements.
For it to be eliminated before the quarterfinals is just ridiculous, obvious trolling here.
I’m surprised something like Kino’s Journey got on the list. I haven’t met a single person that knows that it even exists, probably because their isn’t an English manga..
Anywho, Shakugan no Shana should of been on there and It should be more of a tie between Evangelion and Bebop// They’re too great to not win~
Kino’s Journey anime was released with an English dub, and even the novel was released in English.
Why does nobody ever tell me anything? Thankyou~ But, nowhere, and I’ve looked in MANY places, have I ever found a Kino no Tabi novel in English// But this marks a new destiny. TO THE AMAZON STORE, AWAY!!!
Oh shit, Bible Black lost to Baccano?!
Rurouni Kenshin lost to Haruhi. O_o
Death Note lost to Azumanga Daioh. O_O
Thanks for the mindfuck, SanCom!
WTF!! Bible Black was a good porno a decade ago but it SUCKS compare to all the others
Are you fucking kidding? Even today Bible Black beats most of the cheaply produced hentai crap that has been puked out on the market easily!
So Gintama lose to Baccano huh… no complain there since i like both, but would have like it more if more people prefer Gintama…
I prefer Gintama more then everything else on this list
same here!!
*brofist
Haruhi is ok
Bible black should of took evangelion’s place though
Death note should of been atleast 2nd
whats a big mindfuck through the eyes
Second season… so no.
death note sux
Holy One confirmed for shittiest taste ever.
Never watched Princess Tutu, but hated Boku No Pico
Enjoyed more Clannad than Toradora (but still liked it)
Enjoyed more Elfen Lied than Gintama
Enjoyed more GitS than Baccano (but still liked)
Enjoyed more Lucky Star and Spice and Wolf than Gurren Lagann (but stil liked it)
Enjoyed more Death Note than Azumanga (but still awesome)
Madoka is way too overrated
And I’m very happy with Evangelion’s place
Still, MUCH better than those fucking 2chan’s lists
Princess Tutu is an excellent show, but isn’t for everyone. <.<
I agree, it’s an excellent show with a bittersweet ending. Poor Duck 🙁
Thanks for noticing. She’s a great character and I love the whole series (anime and light novels). Plus I love books!
Nenene avatar?
I just finished watching Princess Tutu. It was mainly aimed at little girls audience, I watched it as such and it was completely fine for the genre it represented.
I liked the first half of the show up to ep 13 including better than the rest, though.
omg lol Boku no Pico.. “I got it off 4chan.” .. lol I think 4chan trolled 2ch
“For K-ON! and Railgun to lose in the first round – foreigners have no sense at all.” .. looks like the wrong people voted
edit: well, after watching the list little bit closer, it’s not that bad, but anyway I think it’s not the order of my taste
Yeah Boku no pico should of been the Winner !!! ARRGGHH
The layout was badly setup. You cant place anime and hentai in the same comparison. This also goes for OVA’s and shows that have 12+ episodes. Alot of anime are missing here also, What about Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, Dance in the Vampire Bund, To Love Ru, Lucky Star. Also placing certain things like K-on vs One Piece? that’s plain retarded. Toradora Vs Clannad would be a hard decision for me, so I don’t mind that but both are well made anime so it would be best to keep them separated to at least give them praise. But this is my opinion.
What kind of pairings are these? O_o
A reliable tournament would’ve at least paired fairly similar animes…sigh…
Oh well, 2ch quality indeed…lol
We suck.
I’m satisfied/not surprised with the results…except for madoka beating Death Note. Oh well, both lose against Eva, so all’s well that ends well.
What was wrong with baccano exactly? Anyway I’m more annoyed that evangelion beat Gurren Lagan. That, and that Rorouni kenshin was beat by Haruhi. Ah well.
SUGOOOOOOOOOOI~
SUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI~
SUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI
Eh, Kenshin the TV anime series wasn’t that great as the manga, you know…
I’m more annoyed this has turned into people listing their favourite animes…
we wouldn’t be satisfied to any of these list if it didn’t contain our favorites anime!
its human nature!! deal with it!!