Those anime all anime fans should know, as judged by anime fans, have been subject to rankification – and not surprisingly it emerges that all should know of the power of moe…
1. K-ON!
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion
3. Haruhi
4. Gintama
5. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
6. Hyouka
7. Bakemonogatari
8. To Aru Majutsu no Index
9. Code Geass
10. Gundam
11. Anything by Key!
12. Lucky Star
13. Natsume’s Book of Friends
14. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
15. Detective Conan
16. Dragon Ball
17. Toradora!
18. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
19. Macross
20. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
21. Pocket Monsters
22. Doraemon
23. Genesis of Aquarion
24. Fate
25. Sengoku Basara
Fails for absence of:
1) Tetsuwan Atom (Astroboy). Tezuka’s masterpiece. Re-imagined twice. Both brilliantly.
2) Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers). As popular in Japan as Star Trek is in the US and currently having its original series completely remade 40 years on, and brilliantly so. Three TV seasons and five movies from 1974 to 1983, and more recently an animated continuation movie (Resurrection, 2009) a live-action movie (2010), and now the aforementioned remake of the original series (first released as movies and now being broadcast on prime-time television).
Out of the list above, I would only consider Doraemon, Gundam, Macross, Evangelion, Detective Conan and Dragon Ball to be seminal anime. Scratching my head at some of those being mentioned, clearly nothing more than a popularity contest rather than any
lol mate, don’t hate the anime, hate the post and the person compiling it.
Bullshit. What kind of idiot doesn’t include Fullmetal Alchemist or Cowboy Bebop on a list like this?! And how the fuck is K-ON! more of a must watch than Evangelion, Dragon Ball, Gundam and Code Geass?! Idiots!
What a bullshit list, I’d add Fist of the North Star, Akagi, Golgo 13, Crest of the Stars trilogy, Martian Successor Nadesico and Trigun just to name a few.
Hmm for some reason i’m failling to see tengen toppa gurren lagann up there
Umm, Sailor Moon? I may be in the minority here but wouldn’t an anime “history lesson” be better for a fan?
Yes!! Nanoha is on the list! XD I don’t know WHY americans just refuse to watch that show~ its really good O_O
What a bunch of shit..
Not really worth knowing at all: #6, #7, #12, #14, #18, #23, #25
Only worth it to learn about their fandoms, for better or worse: #1, #7, #11, #24
Decent anime I guess, but what makes them so important that they’re “must sees” compared to all the classics? #13, #17, #20
Decent enough I guess, but only really worth it to know the memes they spawned: #3, #9
The rest are mostly only worth knowing if you want to know what anime have had some influence on anime as a medium, or on Japanese culture.
14????
6????
I like them, but still!!!
No Elfen lied = failed list.
elfen lied is shit anyway
Sigh… Japanese otaku have such a poor taste in animes nowadays 🙁 It’s frightening, because this has big influence on what kind of shows are being made… The hell with animes, that are nothing more than moe imouto pantyshot fanservise BS! It was fun for a while, but it’s sickening now…
It’s not so much their taste but rather that obnoxious fixation on what’s running “at the moment” this poll is taken. Sometimes you find all-times classics in those polls, but that’s rare. Japan’s otaku are very much like mayflies where nostalgia/attention span is concerned.
These lists would be better with an explanation as to why the anime should be on the list. Like Pokemon started a new genre, Sailor Moon popularized the magical girl genre and so on.
Well, it’s a list of anime that young people need to know if they want to avoid non-fashionable or cool anime.
Lol EVERYONE should know Dragon Ball Z 😛 Even if they aren’t anime fans
I understand that there´s a pretty big divide betwen America, EU and Japan when it comes to what should be considered “essential” wiewing, but any such list missing Lupin III, Leiji matsumoto, Go nagai, Ozamu Tetsuka and Rumiko takahashi is severly lacking.
Otaku, remember your roots!
The people that contribute to these lists can’t be called “otaku”. They’re just kids who think they know things. Otherwise they wouldn’t pretend the stuff on the lists represents weighty concepts like “anime you should know”
No Elfen Lied? No Clannad?
This list is bull$hit!
clannad -> anything by Key
lol i like number 11
It’s not surprising that the list has
K-on
Haruhi
Bakemonogatari
Madoka
Index
There usually on every list. Im just kinda surprised that Ano Hana wasn’t there on the list with these ones
The fun thing, they appear in both best and worst anime lists. And always take top marks.
What a crock of shit!
I can’t believe I didn’t see FMA or Steins Gate on the list or at least in the top 25
Where’s cowboy bebop???
If Clannad didn’t manage to place in top 25 then forget about this ranking
why madoka? it sucked….
So apparently I fail as a fan. Nearly half of these things I don’t know, and another fourth I have little to no interest in…
Where are you Sailor Moon?
She’ll be back as soon as they release the new anime.
K-ON! above Evangelion,stopped reading right there. This recent trend in anime is just sad, either moe garbage or hentai.
Lol I KNOW THEM ALL ! XD
Yu Gi Oh?
Anyone?
Yeah where is yugioh that shows popular as hell
holy crap no lol
“Anything by Key”
lol okay
where do these idiotic lists come from… why is it worth even paying attention to them?
I am getting old it would seem. I haven’t seen half of these. It doesn’t help that I haven’t seen much the past almost 3 years.
Seriously, where are the Slayers, Sailor Moon, Ruroni Kenshin, Samurai X Trust and betrayal, and Tenchi Muyo! ? There are many others, but those are what immediately jump to mind.
Ah well, at least a few oldies are in there to appease the elderly such as me.
No Death Note in the list = this list is BULLSHIT!
an excellent list by and for the young fruit fly just getting into anime.
If you mean, what those fruit flies recommend to each other instead of asking someone with a worthwhile opinion, then I agree.
No Cowboy Bebop OR Inuyasha!?!?!
WHERE THE HELL IS DEATH NOTE?!?!?!
Not enough TTGL.
Everyone forgot Magipoka.
Anything by Key! is cheating…
Naruto not in the list. Faith in otaku restored.
Where’s Trigun? Tenchi Muyo?
….sigh.
What’s funny is that K-ON!, as well as most “slice of life” anime are pure garbage. Proof that anime today just keeps going down hill.
Gintama.
adding animes that are younger than 1 year makes this list hilarious
Adding Hyouka which hasn’t even finished yet is hilarious
No Legend of Galactic Heroes
No Ranma 1/2
No Gatchaman
No Lupin III
No Kimagure Orange Road
No Nadesico
No Slayers
No Sailor Moon!!!
But K-On is at the top of the fucking list.
Yeah. Fuck this.
I’ve watched 376 anime titles. I’ve seen 11.5 titles on that list, and two of those were utter crap. It’s almost like this list was complied by puerile idiots with no knowledge of anime history. Oh, wait.
And listing Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai instead of Genshiken is like going into a steak house and ordering a salad.
And what about:
Lupin the III
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Martian Successor Nadesico
Sailor Moon
Fullmetal Alchemist
Haibane Renmei
Rurouni Kenshin
Full Metal Panic
Slayers
Hellsing
Revolutionary Girl Utena
12 Kingdoms
Shakugan no Shana
Minami-ke
Cardcaptor Sakura
“Top 25 Anime All Anime Fans Should Know”
No, no, no. This is a list of “Top 25 Anime All Otaku Should Know”. Anime “Fans” are the type that watch Ghost in the Shell and other intellectually stimulating anime.
Even real otaku know better that this. This is really more “top 25 anime anime cool kids must know”
madoka is too bad to be known.
No Cowboy Bebop?
No Monster?
No Ghost in the Shell?
No Azumanga Daioh?
No Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood?
Oh well, not that I expected better. 🙂
At this point, I’ve completely given up on Japanese anime fans.
Or Saint Seiya, Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Ranma 1/2, Capitain Tsubasa, Nube, etc etc. Sigh, I still remember when otakus knew what the hell was Fumoffu -_-.
BTW I watched half this list and have 5 of them on my “To Watch List”, and Madoka is none of the above.
only thing worth on the list, motherfucking dragon ball, forever the better anime/manga.
k-on in 1st position? well, what i cant wait for that stupid faggos fans of SHIT-ON?
Only missed 2 anime and some key’s … not bad
K – ON is soooooo fucking shiit. Dear god. are you kidding me, and its always on the tops, for wrst, for the best, for whatever the reason. fuck off. choke and die.
I like this list because Detective Conan is on it.
already knew this list would be rubbish but at least i expected to see death note in the list
is Aquarion good ?
decent ending 😕
Aquarion is a meh anime. Probably more on the bad side then good. I’d say don’t waste your time because there’s better stuff to watch then Aquarioni
No FMA (either version), no Hellsing Ultimate, no Sailor Moon, no Cowboy Bebop, no Trigun, no Ghost in the Shell… yep list is crap.
Tengen toppa gurren lagann as well
You have me for most of those but… Trigun? Really? That mediocre piece of garbage? It had eight great initial episodes and then devolved into low-budget tripe. You may as well list Gokudo instead for all the fail it was.
Nobody talks or cares about Hellsing Ultimate and Trigun anymore. Anime fans aren’t required to have seen Sailor Moon.
This isn’t your personal favorites list.
I’d go with the original Hellsing before Ultimate, but otherwise yeah.
No K-on twice on the list? D:
No Sleeping with Hinako?
Come on…
No Tetris?
I still don’t see why Madoka even deserves mention in half of these top lists. It was just a bunch of shock value and wangsting.
So, by “know,” does it mean you don’t have to watch it? Because then I’m totally ok with that.
I’m not sure about the ‘should’ term either. Should like ‘had better’, or ‘would’?
When the persons were asked “What anime fans should know”, did they have to choose from a list with 25 animes?
No, it’s just that they only asked people who haven’t watched anything but the most popular anime of the last few years.
No Card Captor Sakura or Sailor Moon? 🙁
Which would you feel more comfortable recommending to a friend? A series attempting to portray itself with unusual art carrying an interesting, yet somewhat gruesome plot, a series about a ten-year old girl in love with her gay brother’s boyfriend, or a Mazinger Z monster-of-the-week series with teenage schoolgirls in skimpy costumes instead of giant robots?
No, because last year’s twelve episodes of girls suffering and crying is apparently way more important and should be in every top list.
By any chance, do you mean Madoka? XD
Did you think they meant Black Rock Shooter?
K-ON first? I thought that was passé now.
The movie isn’t that old.
Not a list if K-ON isn’t in it!
When i saw K-ON at the number 1 spot i knew this list was gonna be full of crap.
Astroboy is the best anime.
Nuff said.
Cowboy Bebop?
SEL and Haibani?
Jojo?
Lupin?
Where are you?
Forgot Ghost in the Shell, sorry.
6. Hyouka?
That’s not even finished yet ffs
k0n SHIT again? NO WAY!
Guys like when they see cute girls that don’t (and won’t ever) have a boyfriend. This leaves hope to otakus.
It’s all in the language, but unless you mean some mantis-inspired rituals, the gallivanting girls are the more amicable. Not sure if it works that way in games or manga, though.
Hope? What part of “won’t ever” do they not understand? If all you’re doing is fantasizing about someone, you can just as easily imagine up a netorare story to fuel your nightly spanking.
Sheesh, it’s like people don’t even want to try being creative anymore.
to make it easy…
everything by KyoAni, SHAFT and Manglobe
Only if you prefer style over substance. Which makes sense if you’re the kind of kid that contributes to these lists.
Funny how “the big 3” are not on the list.
“The big 3” are manga, not anime.
Im pretty sure Bleach, Naruto, and Once Piece are animes too…
K-ON! is also a manga…
i dont feel accomplished…. this list.
Makes sense. I certainly know OF K-On, even if it bores me to tears to actually watch.
Cute merchandise, though. Nice to recognize it given the proliferation.
No [insert anime of choice]?
Where is INITIALLLLLLLD !? Everything anime fan should be informed of various Japanese vehicles and of various driving techniques for effective street racing.
I’ve tried that tecniques. Now my MR2 is just scrapmetal.
“Those anime all anime fans should know, as judged by anime fans”
And 95% of anime fans are idiots, nuff said.
95% of everyone are idiots, nuff said.
*’nuff.
FTFY, idiot. Use a placeholder for those letters that you took out to shorten the word. By just saying “nuff said,” you suggest that nuff is a person or sentient being and by that choice, you need to capitalize the “N” to refer to the name properly.
That way they can safely sleep under the kotatsu.
IB4 people complain about the list because they disagree with it.
Less about disagreement and more about having no idea why they should know these anime; because some kid who’s only watched a few anime voted for them on some random list?
I still disagree with this list…
It goes especially weird with those last places.
The list ranks K-On higher than Eva.
The list is, by definition, a steaming pile of elephant feces.
To be fair. This is a “should know” list. With K-ON’s publicity, it’s hard not to know.
>11. Anything by Key!
How the hell does that work in rankings?
Let’s see…..
Air, Kanon, Clannad (the maserpiece), Angel Beats, Little Buster, Rewrite (probably in some years later after Little Buster) cramped in one and doesn’t need to fill the list.
Angel beats invalidates your argument.
Of those, only Clannad could even remotely be argued as a “must see”.. and then only because of After Story.
I know, right ?
“Anything by Key!” was a great show, it should be way higher on that list.
Are we going to discuss again the typical short-term otaku memory?
Just pretend this is a bunch of chan-loving 13 year olds talking to each other and it makes sense.
It’s actually not short term memory, it’s just that the new animes are generally better than the older ones.
How would these people even know, if they obviously haven’t watched them?
Seriously give or take 4 or 5 of them most of these animes are at least 4 years old. Not really short term memory.
>short term memory
>sees K-On, Evangelion and Haruhi in top 3.
Ok.jpeg
Evangelion is the exception
No. Anybody knows they can’t remember for longer than one season. And yes, this list is totally crap as usual.
I’ve noticed these lists are mainly filled with anime that have the type of fans that feel they need to make people aware of that anime’s greatness. Kinda like religious fanatics.
K-ON appears in so many lists it’s kind of hard not to know about it. lol
Yep!
That’s actually what dominates almost all of these lists.
K-ON in first place. Stopped reading.
But most of these are older than one season.
Yes, but cowboy bebop didn’t make the list, so it is incomprehensible that this list is valid and true.
Yes, it does appear to be a very schizophrenic list. I do agree with basically everything on the list, just not the order of importance. But then again, what else is new, I gave up on lists long ago.
Well, I know K-ON! suck balls, every animefan should know this.
Was I really the only one too bothered by the christian thing to enjoy/watch Haganai? I don’t want to be reminded of that shit in my anime.
1. K-ON!
3. Haruhi
7. Bakemonogatari
8. To Aru Majutsu no Index
12. Lucky Star
17. Toradora!
ORLY!!!!! yeah sure, i prefer to be blind before seeing or knowing one of those.
So you’ve never even watched them. Ahh so you’re one of those idots. You just blindly hate things that are popular. I think it’s pretty safe to say that especially with the animes that you listed
C’mon, man.
Wether you like it or not Haruhi and Lucky Star aren’t so bad.
You lost me at Toradora. Everything else I agree with.
Bakemonogatari was that good, assuming you actually know Japanese. I wouldn’t want to read it in subtitles considering how wordy it was, but really most of it really was something special.
But then opinions are like assholes, because everyone has one. I couldn’t stand Lucky Star and would just as soon see it immediately replaced with Azumanga Daioh (which I enjoyed far more), and Index’s 2nd season was so abyssmal that the very words in the title are tainted, but to each their own.
I know Japanese and it wasn’t what it’s cracked up to be. It ends up being pretentious, rather than just stylized in the original “moonspeak”.
Hey i actually like To Aru Majutsu no Index. At least Toma will fight a chick and kicks peoples ass instead of having to be protected by females like all the other harem crap out there.
you sir are a idiot and and ass Lucky Star is a clasic
It’s only classic in it’s circle. That’s like saying Twilight in a classic.
Lucky Star is classic, but not all classics are good.
agreed, also the first chapter of lucky star……is atrocious, i get so bored that y throwe away the rest of the DVD, i couldn`t get it!
Blindness would be a great improvement to your current state.
yeah you better off be blind.