With the end of 2012 comes a chance for anime fans to reflect on the most entertaining titles of the year – and as usual their choices provide plenty of interest for those who may yet have missed out.
1. Hyouka
2. Sword Art Online
3. Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
4. Kuroko’s Basketball
5. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
6. Tari Tari
7. Fate/Zero 2
8. Inu x Boku SS
9. Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo
10. Jormungand
11. Mysterious Girlfriend X
12. Accel World
13. K
14. Ixion Saga DT
15. Robotics; Notes
16. Ginga e Kickoff!!
17. Girls & Panzer
18. Nisemonogatari
19. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
20. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
21. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
22. Humanity Has Declined
23. Sankarea
24. Bodacious Space Pirates
25. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
26. Sengoku Collection
27. Medaka box
28.TSenki Zesshou Symphogear
29. Koi to Senkyou to Chocolate
30. Psycho-Pass
31. Arcana Famiglia
32. Campione!
33. Magi
34. Amagami SS + Plus
35. Ano Natsu de Matteru
36. Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne!
37. Teekyuu
38. Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
39. Dog Days’
40. Total Eclipse
41. Acchi Kocchi
42. Little Busters!
43. Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne
44. Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru!
45. Natsuiro Kiseki
46. Smile Pretty Cure!
47. Busou Shinki
48. Shinsekai Yori
49. Zero no Tsukaima F
50. Another
Shit list.
This list is a trash for not including Horizon. And the main reason I checked this is for Horizon.
this list just looks like the most random assortment of shit. like did half of these even air in 2012?
Ah, I remember when I cared about these list, and thought they meant something. Especially without any knowledge of who voted.
10/10 pollsters know that you can get a list to say whatever you want and slap whatever title on it you want, and 10/10 adults know that the vast majority of kids who care about such rankings don’t have the breadth of viewing experience to know what entertainment really is yet.
Keep rolling those dice, pollsters..
JoJo in #20? Impossibru!!!
Where’s Kokoro Connect at?
There hasn’t even been 20 entertaining anime this year, let alone 50.
And SAO at #2? Ha. Total fail.
K? Most Entertaing? How can this be…the series started good, then quickly started to deteriorate…well, at least they did mention Jormangand and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, which are two of the best action anime of the year…IMO…
K…..
it’s like they ran out of cool animation effects like halfway through the 2nd episode, then it just got annoying.
Um.. as voted by whom? How old were they? How many of 2012’s anime did they actually watch? Because what I’m seeing here is the usual “15-year olds who watch under 5 anime a year” list.
I suspect many of the voters are actually just marketing drones hired to vote for [insert anime we’ll forget about in 3 months].
Invalid list sure is invalid.
biglobe lists : best reminder ever about not letting others decide for you
the most boring KyoAni show ever and it’s still more entertaining than any other studio’s works. that’s when you know you’re dominant.
Lupin doesn’t even rate a mention.
What the fuck is this shit?
No Shirokuma Cafe.
I can’t even…
no smile precure
then fuck you
凸（￣ヘ￣）
Let’s see.
4 Seasons with 12+ Anime Series Each
that’s 48… and yet I seem to be missing a few of the series that I liked this year. One that I’m currently watching: Zetsuen no Tempest. I thought that Studio Bones did a great job on it so far, and I like where it’s going.
Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! was a fun little series, very different. Very high on the Moe’ factor, but I think it worked in this case. Not always impressed by everything I see from any given studio. Good work KyoAni.
Fate/Zero, I would argue was definitely better than any Fate/Project that has ever been worked on in the past. I especially found myself getting into a few of the characters like Rider and his master… And there was a great plenty of neck-breaking entertainment to go around.
There are a number of these that I didn’t watch, simply because I ran out of time. However, I find that I’m often in the minority when it comes to liking the lesser-popular series, and yet I find them entertaining. Strange.
Hagure Yuusha no Ethestica>>>> not on list.
ToLove Ru Darkness>>>> also not on list…
Zetsuen no Tempest >>>> also not on list….
But somehow-
Zero no Tsukaima makes it (it’s low, but still…)
Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne (So people have a Sister/Brother fetish… perfectly normal)
A few of these that were listed I’m perfectly okay with like Fate/Zero, Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!, and Haiyore! Nyaruko-san…
Something about dead people intrigues me into watching Zetsuen no Tempest.
Hagure Yuusha no Ethestica just reminds me of Demonbane without the Mecha. And To Love Ru is just naughty… I can’t wait to see the DVD/BD release…
(They should just release a hentai already though…. I don’t actually like watching hentai, but in this case I might make an exception.)
Robotics Note should be ranked much higher!!!!
i wonder what people think about mirai nikki since it’s nowhere on the list
apparently, not much, considering i haven’t heard a damn thing about it since it started airing.
Jojo not being #1
Those who consider SAO entertaining have barely seen any good anime in their lives.
It’s clear the Japanese are into quantity over quality.
I haven’t had time to watch. The shows that had the funniest stories about them should have been on top.
Wainting for “Top 50 Most Boring Anime of 2012”, that could be almost the same list?
So when in Sankaku gonna start putting up its own polls? Given an entirely new set of results to complain about.
For something like this, let each voter select their top 10, allocate points per rated value, total it all up, and voila! instant controversy.. I mean ad views.. I mean clearly superior rating system.
All my hate to this list.
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I misread that for being most “embarrassing” seeing SAO making the lost made me happy, You can imagen my dismay upon seeing it was titled “Entertaining” as opposed to my original beliefs.
No binbouugami ga…. Fail list
No saki achiga-hen episode of side-a… .fail list x 2
New Saki sucks dick
It’s unbearably boring.
sa fuq you smoking m*
ho w come teru raeping everyone is boring
Hyouka – interesting ?! Sure, if by “interesting” you mean “FUCKING BORING”, then yeah.
Damn right!
At least, Medaka-chan get a good position ^^
What an ass backwards list…
Everyone forgot aquarion evol already? I thought it was very entertaining.
I don’t know if Hyouka deserves 1st place on the list.
I loved it to bits, but it was only truly entertaining until after the homemade horror film investigation fiasco.
To be honest, I only watched it because I wanted to see whether or not there’ll be romance between the two main characters, everything else was rather boring. Certain episodes really dragged on, too. Almost like they had to fill up the 22 ep. scheme they chose but ran out of ideas halfway through.
Very similar for me: the film episodes were the ones that convinced me as well.
(i had been following it because i sensed potential and because i like the slow pace and the mood).
Another was pretty entertaining, definitely doesn’t deserve #50. After watching Hyouka, it reminded me that episode of Naruto that caused me to stop watching the show itself. They were on a mission to protect that old geezer’s bowl, that’s right, fucking bowls…..
Why were you watching the Naruto fillers? O_o
KyoAni did it again.
*applause*
Another…I should rewatch it.
Yuru Yuri and Chuunibyou will seem to top it off for me. Also, really enjoy Sakurasou.
22. Humanity has Declined.
Perfect. I don’t even care about the others.
That shit made it.
i dont know about hyouka since i didnt see it yet
but SAO is definitely entertaining
my mood for anime this year have been waning off
only SAO entertained me now, which previously was gintama and bimbougami ga
a lot people keep on comparing SAO and Fate Zero here.
indeed maybe Fate Zero writing the best for this year, but it still sleep inducing to me. talking about entertaining, definitely SAO better than Fate Zero. even the not so into anime will find SAO better than Fate Zero. only hardcore anime watcher that watch to look for story loop hole cant apreaciate SAO
I am not a sports fan, but I have to ask: what makes Kuroko’s Basketball so appealing? It’s definitely the most beloved sports anime I’ve seen in a while.
Accel world should be a bit higher but i guess 12 isn’t bad.
no space brothers…fail.
meotards list!!!
Dont expect mucg of those brainless sheep
k-on is not on the list, that is weird lol.
what you watch k-on on 2012? you slowpoke!
after looking thru the list. i realised that 2012 wasn’t such a good year for anime fans…
having watched 90% of them, i couldn’t find an anime in the list that i could say “WOW, that was great and truly entertaining!”
This is why we can’t have nice things.
2. Sword Art Online
3. Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
5. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
41. Acchi Kocchi
50. Another
I definitely enjoyed 😀
All the other ones I either drop after 2 episodes or never bothered trying to finish…
I’m surprised and pleased Mysterious Girlfriend X is so high up the list. Wish there’d been a second season…. 🙁
Me too!
(well at least there’s a manga)
JoJo need’s to be WAAAY higher IMO.
SAO is just overhyped
SAO: “The Most Disappointing Piece of Shit of the Year.”
Sword Art online over Fate Zero, yea…ok. Fail list.
How about a fail list that don’t fail list top 10 or top fan boy fan girl poles questionaires no one bothered to ever look at? Heheh.
Well I agree with the top 1 but how in the world comes that SAO is higher than F/Z?
Simple, because there are more people that likes SAO than Fate/Zero.
first because of the demographic SAO is basically a shonen while F/Z is a seinen.
Frankly, I’m still waiting till they do a huge crossover including (but not limited to) F/SN, Tsukihime,KNK. Until then, TM needs to step it up
01:04
Neet wizards disagree.
There’s also a surprisingly large amount of people that didn’t watch F/S Night or played the game too so the impact of F/Z was lessened.
all lists made by anyone else but me are invalid at all.
Also known as the “older people have jobs” effect.
While the positions of certain anime series are highly controversial and disputable, as always, we aren’t talking about the best anime of this year, but the most entertaining one. I don’t know about you, but I think that Fate/zero is infinitely better than Sword Art Online in terms of most aspects; storytelling, dialogue and theming. But I can see why SAO is above F/z for one reason: atmosphere. Nothing gets my adrenaline pumping more than Kirito screaming like a madman while charging at the enemy and the main theme kicks in.
SAO makes your virginity shield x 100000 better you cant get laid on that anime
I want to bury my head and weep every time Kirito goes apeshit, but yeah, to each their own. I can see SAO being more entertaining but not for the reasons you’re mentioning — it’s one of those shows that just IS entertaining. It doesn’t require a brain, and most otaku can relate because nearly all of them play or have played MMORPGs. It’s a dream otaku scenario.
Kirito overacts his rage. ALL THE TIME.
I don’t know about you, but when Kirito is charging at the enemy screaming like a madman, I burst out laughing. Every time. But then again, doesn’t that mean the show is literally entertaining? I doubt that’s how the authors meant it to happen, but that’s the reality.
I cant see the swagness of Hagure Yuusha no Estetica in the list probably just my eyes
Cant believe that train wreck of a show Zero no Tsukaima F made the list though
didnt watched all of them but i think some of them are overrated like sao and hyouka, but its a matter of taste, everyone has his own tast and wants to see other anime on the top or higher in the list
Fate Zero should be at the top, not moe shit, oh wait, it’s Japan…
NO HIGHSCHOOL DXD AND BINBOUGAMI GA!? WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE WATCHING ALL YEAR?
Hyouka!
Fuck yes!
Ahahahaha!!!! Thank you Japan!
You are welcome moe sheep
Where’s nichijou??
5. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
Those dreams of the guys in the hot air balloon,
and the falling hair “squares” was some of the funniest shit I’ve seen In a long time!
I laughed for friggin’ hours on that one!
WaZZZZiiipept.
That’s what I’ve been wanting to know!
Nichijou was funny as hell.
Sakamoto ROCKS!!
MWH
“Lies, damned lies and these polls”
Polls are a statistic
Actually polls were made to fuck up society. There hasn’t been a poll that actually made COMMON SENSE since…ever.
You are ruining the punchline.
Amagami SS+, Kaibutsukun and Mysterious Girlfriend X should be higher. Binbougami and Space Brothers not listed is a fail
I think MGX is high enough.
no Binbougami and no Yuru Yuri…
fail list
No Yuru Yuri… I haz a sad….;-;
no smile precure?
another is at number 50 fail list
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Fucking boring Hyouka @ 1 ??? hahahahaha, this shit moe crap was better than fucking sleeping pills!!!
Your comment gave me Carcinoid syndrome.
Your comment, it gave me cancer.
these posts made me go to WebMD
this post gave me progeria
The whole site and its gimmick is just “What’s your favorite xxxx” junk and generic ones like this in between “Favorite deformed character” random ones…
It’s no different then the forums here or the like so yeah, the results don’t matter much..
I agree. There are things to complain about in this list.
agreed, another should be top 20 atleast
Heh, that “Final Destination wannabe”? Manga was better taht’s why it’s lower.
if that’s the argument, then Another was infinitely better than the shit Hollywood calls the Final Destination series XP
P.AS. Works bitches, the new game in town that’s here to stay 🙂
Top 50 of 2012? Get the fuck outta here.
You know this list fails if a KyoAni show is ranked #1, and yeah WHERE THE FUCK IS BINBOUGAMI GA!?
Pretty much this. And the fuck Hyouka? Really? Really?! While I would agree that some parts of Hyouka were pretty entertaining a lot of it were incredibly boring and the mysteries were mostly trivial. <_<
Animation and story from KyoAni is as good as it gets. Don’t know why you people hate anything that has good character designs.
Only sheep say that.
Only moetrads sheep complain!!
Kyoni shitty fanboy
Pretty sure the sheep thing to do would be to worship kyoani like every other sheep even though everything they have made since clannad has been utter trash.
that tells us that your taste in anime is utter shit and so, get the fuck out.
I don’t worship KyoAni but I still enjoy watching Hyouka. In fact, Hyouka is the only anime that I’ve watch that’s from KyoAni
acchi kochi is more entertaining than rank.41
hyouka the most boring show ever tops this list.
Immediate fail list.
Hyoka mystery- “OMG! who tied my grandpas shoes 20 years ago?!”
So according to the list Binbougami ga is not entertaining at all…
What about K anime. That, Code:Breaker, Magi was good, and Zetsuen no Tempest all deserve to be higher (then again i haven’t watched half the anime in the top 10 =P
for a moment, I was appreciating the fact that Zero no Tsukaima was so close to the bottom (felt bad about Another, though)…. until I realized that there are usually more than 50 titles in a year, and some of the ones not present (and thus out-done by Zero) include Binbougami and Highschool DxD… fucking hell! DX
It was number 0 in the list.
Force comedy…
“Binbougami ga!” is the same as “Gintama”. So it should be at the list.
“exempt”
Other than the people that run this website, and a few vocal vans, I don’t know of anyone that actually liked that show.
Shame too. I wanted to like the show. It was just so…incredibly not funny.
Akarin at the top, but no Yuru Yuri…
There is no one on top!!
Classic …… No ever sees Akarin
;_;
You need to get your eyes checked. There is Kise Yayoi, Nyarko, and some white haired girl I don’t recognize.
The white haired girl is Horizon Ariadust from Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon, which is also missing from the list.
these results ill never satisfy anyone …
Kurokos basketball is pure win, as is sao but im a little surprised btooom didnt make it.
Chuunibyou sucks, cute ? -0/10
1. Hyouka
Yeah/// NO.