Anime fans have rendered their verdict on the best anime of 2012 – although with a distinction of such incredible merit at stake, there have been some understandable concerns about irregularities in the 35,000 votes cast…
The ranking, with votes:
1. Kill Me Baby (1920)
2. Yuru Yuri ♪♪ (1538)
3. Hidamari Sketch Honeycomb (1514)
4. Little Busters! (1358)
5. Chuunibyou (1249)
6. Tari Tari (1244)
7. Hyouka (1168)
8. Sword Art Onlin (1131)
9. Kuroko’s Basketball (1130)
10. Accel World (1126)
11. Psycho-Pass (993)
12. Kamisama Kiss (931)
13. Sakamichi no Apollon (912)
14. Robotics;Notes (909)
15. The Ambition of Oda Nobuna (901)
16. Zetsuen no Tempest (900)
17. Milky Holmes 2 (875)
18. Ixion Saga (848)
19. Oniai (847)
20. Tsuritama (833)
21. Binbougami-ga! (828)
22. Upotte!! (814)
23. Kokoro Connect (780)
24. Dog Days’ (770)
25. Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? Of The Dead (753)
26. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (720)
27. Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo (706)
28. Mankind Has Declined (684)
29. Girls und Panzer (643)
30. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (632)
31. Medaka Box (496)
32. Code:Breaker (404)
33. Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate (398)
34. Shinsekai Yori (381)
35. Natsu-iro Kiseki (370)
36. Acchi Kocchi (362)
37. Hiiro no Kakera (359)
38. Total Eclipse (356)
39. Campione (347)
40. Busou Shinki (304)
41. Rinne no Lagrange (299)
42. BTOOOM! (293)
43. K (283)
44. To Love-Ru Darkness (240)
45. Amagami SS (238)
46. Imouto ga Iru! (225)
47. Ore no Imouto: True Route (186)
48. Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere 2 (173)
49. Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. (147)
50. Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero (139)
Those wondering about the sudden (though perhaps not undeserved) surge in popularity of Kill Me Baby need look no further than the efforts of the Vippers in their “Let’s make Kill Me Baby Number 1!” thread – although that it managed to inspire such mischievous dedication is perhaps quite a recommendation in and of itself.
Meanwhile moeblob fanciers may just discount the top 3 as the result of vote-rigging otaku factions…
Oniai beat Acchi Kocchi? Faith in Japanese taste in anime: lost.
kill me baby? pfft.
sword art onlin? pfft
acchi kocchi deserver more
I’m glad Sword Art Onlin made the list and Sword Art Online did not.
so much trash, and no ok things like another, sankarea, fate/zero, tasogare otome x amnesia, jormungad, arcana familia, magi?
Kill me baby! No seriously, kill me baby!!
Kill me baby! No seriously, kill me baby!!
Biglove doit again, another more epic fail list ever.
i think that to love ru is low because the censorship.
who bets that the blue-ray will be the best selling blue ray of all the times?
Girls und Panzer and Chuunibyo were best IMO.
Fate/Zero isnt on the list, automatically invalid.
Seeing “Top Anime of 2012” as title and “Moe” on tags is a bit depressing… I mean, do not get me wrong: I have nothing personal against moe, but really, when one single gender of any form of entertainment is THAT dominating in a single year… you know something is wrong.
And the worst part is that this year is not showing any sign of changes on this pattern. “Variety” is slowly getting pushed off by “Popularity” (more like “Mainstream” though) in current anime, if you ask me.
Just my opinion though, hate if you will.
Top FIFTY anime of 2012? Really? This is like asking what are the top 50 brands of toilet paper in a store. They’re all disposable and will be forgotten in 6 months.
Oh wait, most of them you already can’t get the merchandise for in Akihabara anymore because as soon as they’re off the air, they’re yesterday’s news.
So…I’m looking at this list and wondering…Where is Fate/Zero?
Kill me baby bored me to death. (even though i really enjoyed the manga)
Not that i care about these 2ch lists :3
After seeing the top picture I really dont care.
what a terrible year for anime.
4 panel manga as top of list.
all hope in humanity is lost since that retardenss is on top and jojos is so low
Well, Azumanga was a 4 panel manga and was a great anime.
But, yeah. Kill Me Baby was crap.
Jojo? Don’t make me laugh! Bad anime adaptation.
is there a better site with interesting news from japan and insane stuff from china?
those endless stupid uninteresting posts of meaningless lists and cheap “xxx is playing with her pussy(cat)” is going on my nerves.
8. Sword Art Onlin (1131)
“Onlin”? xD
my god such a horrilbe list
Oh the list is upside down!
why no news about Girls un Pantsu…owh…I get it… no panty shot. They got tanks though and Ika Musume singing Katyusha.
OMG it’s bizarre that kill me baby is first
As expected, there’s no way to take this list seriously, even if you can last beyond the top top before you’re rolling on the floor and laughing.
Robotics;Notes is only half way over…
And so far it’s actually quite disappointing.
Sad that Joshiraku didn’t even graze the list.
Binbougami-ga! and Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo ranking so low compared to some of the shit up there.
No Jormungand either!? As always polls are disappointing.
I agree no Jormungand!! List is almost Bullshit!!!
Jormungand is a cheap copy of Black Lagoon.
Jormungand > Black Lagoon
Because hardbody
man, i got a lot of anime to watch! stupid job, taking up so much time.
HAPPY NEW EVERYONE!
YEAR XD
Kill me baby was so damn good, maybe is not the best anime of the year but is such a shame that it was a total failure in dvd/blu-ray sells even in rating…
I agree
We should of had magipoka season 2 by this year.
I stopped reading the moment I saw Kill Me Baby as number 1.
Yuru Yuri is 2nd so all is well on this list.
Why does Miho have a prosthetic leg in that image?
What a horrible list. As usual.
I believe Highschool DxD also deserves merit on the list
BTOOM! was so enjoyable surprised it is so low on the list. Was it the censoring?
Troll list much?
butthurt spotted.
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/all?filter_mode=anime&year=2012&to_year=2012&include_types=1,6,5&include_tags=none&exclude_tags=none&include_status=none&sort=rank&order=asc
Better. A-P list, filtered for only 2012 OVA, TV and Web in Rank order.
It’s not so bad…
If this was a list of top American cartoons, My Little Pony would be #1 and it would only be a Top 10 list because America doesn’t even produce 50 cartoons.
Japanese only produce 10 anime a year. They then change the hair colors and the school uniform slightly, and bang – you gots 50.
You guys know, these polls are never SanCom’s personal polls right? You want to hate someone for these polls hate the Japanese fans… I honestly think this one is fairly accurate by numbers from what I’ve seen.
>Kill Me Baby
>best anything other than best boring letdown of the year
Worthless poll is worthless.
I loved Kill Me Baby. It’s not in my top 5, but still I’m happy to see it at the top.
at always that list make no sens.
Sakamichi no Apollon 13th? Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo 27th? As normal, this list is invalid.
Just make sancom list already instead of this shit where everyone cries or boost their ego because their top shows are different
where is TASOGARE OTOME AMNESIA? THE BEST OF 2012?!
I know, right?
I also enjoyed Sankarea and Nazo no Kanojo X.
Nazo no Kanojo X was the best I’ve seen in a LONG time. Fucking need more of it!
WTF? Have people seriously already forgotten everyone’s favorite toothbrush incest anime, Nisemonogatari? Get it together, Japan!
That’s better~!! <3
Accel World > Sword Art Online
That’s all I have to say
That’s like arguing which is better: shit or crap.
Accel World can die in fire.
this is actually true, although fanboys will disagree and trashtalk AW for the same and even more flaws SAO has.
If you say so. The whole Noumi arc in AW was incredibly painful to watch. AW was written later than SAO so it should have less technical problems. One of the main ones being that SAO was originally a short story resolved in the first book with a huge time skip. AW is linear and has time to properly build the narrative, characters, and their interaction.
got bunch of stuff on this list but neither Nyaruko nor Danshi Koukousei…
Kill Me Baby?
Hadn’t even heard of this until I saw this list
nothing special..
I liked Kill Me Baby. Top 10 anime though, not really.
How about, Sankaku makes it’s own chart? This will require some kind of voting system.
Joshiraku was best in 2012. There’s no voting needed to figure that out.
What about Sankarea and Nazo no Kanojo X along with Dusk Maiden of Amnesia??
Shit
Shit
and more shit.
Try again.
Yes, that would be definitely interesting.
Then compare the results with the AniDB and ANN scores!
IMO polls are the most missing feature here.
I agree 110%! Sankaku needs to compile their own charts.
“SanCom’s Top 50 Anime of 2012!”
Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? 🙂 It would be interesting to actually have charts to compare rankings like these.
And that would be any less biased? I can already see it… #1 on every list possible would be cowboy bebop just cause.
Eh, I like COWBOY BEBOP but it’d be nowhere near my personal top 10, if that makes you feel better.
I mean, I post at SANKAKU COMPLEX, half my top 10 would be slice-of-life moeblobs.
#1 Smile Precure
#2 Aikatsu!
#3 Death Note
#1 wold prolly be star trek: TNG
What’s the relation between sankom and moeblobs? Now, if you’d said loli related anime…
And you will be bitchin about it because K-ON is not #1
There will be bitching if K-ON isn’t on the list.
They will bitch if K-ON is #1.
not by you Anonymous
Why not? IP voting.
Says the anon.
I’m confused by the article image rollover. What series is that image from?
Binbougami and JoJo are out of the top 20. What kind of people ranked these?
Binbougami ga! deserves to have a higher ranking. It is one of the best anime of the year.
Binbougami so low on the list, wtf?
And that shi-tastic pile of lame-osity ‘Little Busters’ is so high! This is no list, this is a mountain of crap.
Wait a second. Could it be? I bet this is a Chinese list, or maybe a list from those filthy Koreans.
Couldn’t watch Kill me baby. It’s really boring. Dropped on the first episode.
Preach it, brutha.
Yuru Yuri ♪♪
Kill Me Baby, Really all I heard about it was that it was boring so I didn’t bother watching and now I found out its super popular. So it looks like I missed out on something good.
It was funny. Reminded me of Lucky Star.
Akihabara was filled of Kill Me Baby while it was airing, so yeah it’s popular.
you really didn’t. Unless you’re a masochist that’s it….
well i stopped following the list a long time ago..
and yet u still come in and comment on it…
Sankaku sucks donkey balls
What’s a wolf run ?
You suck Wolfrun’s donkey balls!
this is a fuken troll list LOL
kill me baby~
yay
25 and 48! Thank You!
Sankcom lists rank right up there with Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy and The Easter Bunny as things one can lend creedence to.
No Fate/Zero = Invalid List
Seriously people who have NEVER finished watching Kill Me Baby will never ever get why its so good. Pfft. Seriously, why do we care what you caucasian otaku wannabes think anyway.
It’s really hard to take this list seriously, with Fate/Zero missing…
MY GOD WHERE THE FUCK IS JORMUNGAND
I WANT MY MUSCLED BABES RIGHT NAO!
BULLSHIT that To-Love-Ru Darkness made the list with all that censors covering up 100% of the show’s plot
Yeah! Where the fuck IS Jormungand?!
This isn’t the Top 50 Anime of 2012 list, this is the Top 50 Anime of 2012 If You Are 13 Years Old list.
rofl
THE FUCK ON SAO VS AW AND WHEN AW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SAO ANYTIME!
That crap in first 10 positions, and most better titles below …
Ehh
I’m a little surprised/depressed not to see NAZO NO KANOJO X/MYSTERIOUS GIRLFRIEND X make the top 50. If you can get past the drool-tasting, Mikoto Urabe is one of the more interesting female characters to have appeared in an anime in quite a while and those dream sequences are mindblowingly weird.
It was definitely my favourite of 2012. I guess because I have a drool fetish, but regardless, Urabe is probably one of my favourite characters of all time!
Didn’t watch any of the top 50… And not regretting it.
Sakamichi no Apollon is good. Specially for the music
Haven’t watched any anime. I come here for the china explosions, japanese school bullying, ‘murica bashing, and photo galleries.
we are 2 then my friend! 2012 was the year of the low quality anime.
lol then what the hell did u watch alot of good stuff is listed, although the rank is messed up
you don’t have to follow the seasonal animes like a groupie, there’s a world of anime outside of 2012. I watched like 1 or 2 episodes of a couple of series from 2012 and OMG, anime has really gone down the crapper…. -__-
Typical otaku hipster leave him alone .
You use 1 or 2 episodes to dismiss the 250+ series that aired this year…
I’ve been catching up on a lot of older stuff people recommended for me.
As a general rule I filter out stuff that’s labeled as MOE, Slice of Life, and Ecchi. The only thing that Didn’t have that this year was Eureka Seven AO. And to be honest, that series kinda let me down once the quartz gun came into play.
Most of the people are whining because Fate/Zero or Madoka’s Movies isn’t the number 1 of the list.
Madoka and Type/Moon fantards are the worst.
BRACE YOURSELVES!
TYPE MOON FANBOYS ARE COMING!