Amongst the plethora of anime released each year, fans have chosen the few classics that stand the test of time and which any self-respecting anime fan would be wasting their life by missing out on.
1. CLANNAD
2. Ano Hana
3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
4. Gintama
5. K-ON!
6. Angel Beats!
7. Bakemonogatari
8. Natsume’s Book of Friends
9. Neon Genesis Evangelion
10. Toradora!
11. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
12. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
13. Nichijou
14. Fate/Zero
15. STEINS; GATE
16. A Certain Scientific Railgun
17. Detective Conan
18. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
19. Ginga e Kickoff!!
20. Gundam Seed
21. Hanasaku Iroha
22. Eureka 7
23. Shinryaku! Ika Musume
24. Gurren Lagann
25. Acchi Kocchi
Eureka 7 shouldnt be considered an anime.
Not even a thing.
It starts awesomely and then goes converting into shit faster than you can figure it out.
List invalidated totally now.
majority of them sux
Where’s Mushishi?
🙁
Some of them I can understand but K-ON? Aside from hardcore sex deprived otaku actually enjoy that moe-blob garbage? Serious question.
I just can’t get into it at all I’ve tried. What do people see in it?
This list is just for normal audience’s who mostly watch mainstream anime, any Shinkai Makoto works are better than number 3.
Oh, thank God there’s no SAO.
Ummmm….
Where’s School Rumble?
Seto no Hanayome?
Ahaha! Ahaha! … Shit.
Lol watching half of these seem like a waste of time.
I’m beginning to think that they just draw titles out of a hat to make these lists.
no Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon, no School Rumble and Durarara!!… list invalid
Gundam seed is gay
Dafuq Detective Conan *facepalm* waste of time and why is railgun instead of index sad ….
As soon as I see Gundam Seed and Haruhi, i know this list is sh*t…
Oh a new author on sancom
We seriously have the overrated piece of shit that is Railgun on here and not Index which is way better?
no Cowboy Bebop and GTO? less than half of this is actually worth watching
Terrible list no to everything
no mirai nikki e,e
Very lame set. I’d rather read manga.
Gundam Seed is one of the most atrocious Gundam series ever, what the fuck.
Only in the heads of you freaking Tomino-fags!
Most overrated anime of all time? Yeah, that’s Clannad!
don’t they ever stop
“fans have chosen the few classics that stand the test of time”
2. Ano Hana
3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Huh?
I may love both of these series, but it’s far too early to call them “classics that stand the test of time”…
WHERE IS HOKUTO NO KEN? OMAE WA MO SHINDE IRU
You wa cock
without daragon ball and card captor sakura this is pure bullshit
where kyoukai senjou no horizon…
stop with the 16. A Certain Scientific Railgun
!!! it is only a spin off from to aru majutsu no index, when will you understand???
not to speak of kon….i liked the music but as anime ….
Another short attention span list not going back more than 3 years, save few exceptions.
Gintama.
You won’t have enough life to endure the laugh.
> not to watch anime
> to waste life
Does not compute.
If you find engaging in the things you like is a waste of your life, then enlighten me, what’s not wasting your life?
Too many people like it only due to it’s can’t hurt them. Not love but prison this way.
No Fairy Tail? No Guilty Crown? No Soul Eater? List invalid!
Fairy tail=most generic shonen ever. Must miss anime #1.
[quote]most generic shonen ever[/quote]
Your point? Half the shows on the list are generic.
oh come on, the only reason to wathc clannad is to know how bad it is…
Wait Gundam Seed is on there but not Mobile Suit Gundam or Zeta? i dont even want to live on this planet anymore >~>.
I can bet the at least 25% of the people that answered the survey misread the question like I did.
How I read it: Top 25 anime you’re wasting your time by watching…
I realized my mistake after seeing the list…
Seriously Suzumiya Haruhi … Well the good thing is the list didn’t include that god damn piece of shit SAO.
honestly… you have the worst taste in anime, why do you even have a job at sankakucomplex….. this is sad, i might even quit this site now. most of the ranking lists lately on this site are full of cute girls doing pointless things or over dramatic nothingness…. sometimes you guys have decent lists/selections… ive seen 15 of the anime on here back when i first started watching anime and now realize most of them are shit and a waste of time… i am a huge gundam fan..seed is shit, y is seed on here and not 0079/or zeta…where are the good anime like kenshiro, berserk, jojo, jormungand or do you only post mainstream derp and moe anime?
No Blood-c?
GUNDAM SEED ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/
SEED? REALLY???
seen many of these
Surprisingly the list could be worse…
I already knew at least 10 of the titles that would appear without even looking at the title of the list. And surprise: they are not even “classics” as the article says, just the same “popular” animes that appear on each and every list regardless of anything (and it is funny how they are mentioned as “having passed the test of time” when they have barely had a few months aired).
God, these japanese Otakus never learn, do they…
AMALAYER
Watched almost 50% of these, watched the first episodes of both Haruhi & Bakemonogatari after hearing how good they were but just too weird for my tastes. Did just finish Fate/Zero though which was awesome especially in comparison to FSN.
Right.
Because watching anything drawn by hand is going to change your life.
No, you waste your life by watching it in the first place. Not to say it’s all bad, but goddamn. Go out and live life, don’t live it through your torrent collection.
Wolf and Spices??? Wtf one of the better animes ever made D:<
Spice and Wolf 😛
Ookami to Koushinryou.
Ookami = Wolf
Its translated right to left xD
Gundam Seed? Just who the hell making this list… a complete retard I must say.
3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
9. Neon Genesis Evangelion
10. Toradora!
11. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
24. Gurren Lagann
The rest are just a waste of time. And to this list I would add: Berserk, Zeta Gundam, Rahxephon, Durarara!!, Darker than Black, Hellsing Ultimate, Ghost in the Shell, Rumbling Hearts, Gungrave, Cowboy Bebop, You’re Under Arrest, World Only God Knows, Claymore, Chobits, Black Lagoon, Elfe Lied….
Never have I wanted to see characters die as much as watching NGE.
The only thing good about NGE is the fanservice art, talk about bait & swap.
That but with Madoka, and the soundtrack was the only thing good.
Loved Berserk, but damn it Japan! There’s more to the story then the first fricking arc!!! Quit repeating it!
I’m a Space Opera nerd so ‘Heroic Age’ & ‘Legend of the Galactic Heroes’ should be near the top too.
YMMV doesn’t even begin to cover it. Pretty smug title for a list that’s basically the same as ever other list on SC.
Hagure Yuusha and Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls if you want anime where the hero isn’t a total loser… 🙂
CLANNAD is on the top, nothing else matters 🙂
pretty much this
Haven’t watched clanned but i’ve heard it’s beautiful enough to make you cry. I’d watch but i don’t want to cry my ass off. Plus drama anime isn’t much to my liking since it vastly annoys me to the point of getting headaches.
There’s plenty of signature Key drama there to make you retch if you’re not into that. It’s basically AnoHana for people who like Key and “serious business” wham moments.
The drama is outweighed by the events. Although the first season is more comedy based and the second season is Serious business, Not going to lie I cried like a bitch.
lol, for once I would like to see a link or source where all these so-called top 10, 15, 20 or 100 comes from and what or who these ‘fans’ or ‘anime fans’ are.
There is a link. There has ALWAYS been a link.
No it isn’t. Otherwise, you’d tell us.
Detective Conan? Yeah, im totally wasting my time by NOT watching 600 episodes of repetitive filler.
As someone who recently watched all the (canon) episodes, I have to say when DC gets serious, it really keeps you at the edge of your seat. I would even dare say it’s really good.
All in all, I’d say I enjoyed myself. Like 50% of the time was wasted and the other 50% was awesome.
not even a mention of Monster?
We’re still talking about _supposedly_ good anime. Opinions may differ a little, but bringing up outright shitty anime?
Monster “shitty”… lol Pls die!
I was confused about that word once, too. Apparently shitty really means something bad, not to be confused with “the shit”.
yeah.. and like FMA:brotherhood, they did the entire story to boot!
I was trying to watch Gintama.. but received an email from a Japanese company about how I should not be downloading it and would be taken to court if I didn’t stop, then they had provided a link to a website where I can pay to watch it.
*_*
There really does need to be a better way than Torrents to watch anime that otherwise you cant buy in your own frikkin country.
Haven’t you ever heard of a fucking anime site dude?
Railgun. . . . .BUT NO INDEX!?
You have to be kidding me.
Railgun gave the best characters in the series far more spotlight than the main series. Also, having a likeable protagonist goes a long way.
Too bad it went nowhere with those things. Once you strip away the three or four episodes that had anything to them, it’s just another ecchi fanservice anime. The only reason it was more popular was because it focused on the girls rather and reduced the guy to comic relief. Unless you think that “drugs are bad, mmmkay?” theme was enough to redeem it, I guess.
seriously, railguns a damn spin-off. . . .
railgun was made just for the moe and yuri factor. Index was for the ecchi but mostly story. Now you can see where japans real taste come into play. Not that we haven’t know this for ages already anyway.
I have, and I don’t see the problem with that statement. No one watched Railgun for anything except fanservice, and there was precious little else there except some incredibly silly DBZ-style fights and a couple of “friendship” moments that people try to pretend they watched it for.
You obviously haven’t seen it.
fuk man the only reason people watched index was because of Misaka. So of course railgun would be better.
You got it wrong. Index was first and people only watched Railgun because of Mikoto and Kuroko. Two very good reasons, mind you. But the rest of that anime was just plain shit.
Agreed the story bored the shit out of me. There was too much moe and not enough story so i stalled halfway though.
index not as good as misaki misaki.
Chill the fuck down people, seriously clearly the author of the site is trolling, Its becoming a trend to this site.
SEED…
…gg no re
I see no GTO or Berserk or Jojos Bizzare Adventure and gurren lagann is VERY low on the fucking list i am not surprised that K-on beat it. holy shit japanese are retarded
Japan loves Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure and it’s in every hobby store I don’t know why didn’t it make it in this list.
Watching 625-minute manga commercials like Berserk arguably IS a waste of one’s life.
Anime you ARE wasting your life by watching: all of them
You said yours, right ? Now turn to your Naruto, Bleach & One Piece total mainstream and never-ending series. Will you, dude ?
Here I thought people would at least agree about CLANNAD. Or FATE/Zero. Or Gurren Lagann.
I don’t know anymore.
If there’s anything I’ve learnt from the comments on these type of posts, it’s that all of the lists are completely horrible.
Agreed. This list is 95% lame.
Provide us YOUR list, then. I need a good laugh. Come on, dude; Entertain us…
HUEHUEHUE UR SO ALTERNATIVE LOL UNPOPULAROPINION.JPG
indeed but al least is safer than drinking and doing drugs, not to mention the hazardous work.
who needs culture when you have weed
The Zentradi.
at least if you drink and do drugs, you can get SEX
So people either watch anime or do drugs and drink?
Which one of those are you? Ah it does not matter, by your answer it seems that the effect is the same…
That’s so bad it’s good.
@22:56: Yes, all sex automatically leads to AIDS.
And AIDS with it . . .
So, I might have miscounted, but only two shows older than 10 years. Really? REALLY? So this is just another bullshit two-chan list made by newfag otaku, like every other list on Sankaku.
Ehm.
FLCL
Tylor
Nadesico
Sailor Moon
Utena
Lupin
Onii-sama e…
Harlock
Haibane Renmei
Lovely Complex
Akazukin Chacha
Slayers
Windaria
FMA
Kenshin (well, at least the Kyoto Arc)
And I’m sure I missed some
Never finished Nadesico but i want to
Wasted my life watching Gurren Lagann. god damn that was bad.
I wasted my life reading your comment.
It started out okay, but then one of the two only likable characters died and the other one stopped being likeable. After that, I just stopped watching.
You’re not alone, I fucking hate that show. It was such a let down and just plain boring.
The anime was good. But whoever wrote that ending was a complete dumbass. That ending alone fucked up the whole series. But then again when kamina died it fucked up the whole series anyway.
I’ve seen 8 of those
… it’s kinda redundant but…
… and you’re here why?
No love for legend of the galactic heroes…
Yeah… Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel is a bad anime. It was an OVA but it had barely any animations to speak of. Also the story sucked ass and Yang Wenli just wouldn’t die until I stopped caring and when he finally died it wasn’t even in a satisfying way.
LOGH “bad”, “LOGH” story “sucked ass”… Hahahaha, oh man… pls just DIE!
LOGH is a big shit!
That’s what I wanted Wenli to do. But he took his freaking time.
The piece of shit is way too old, no way am I watching that.
Don’t worry in wasting your time with the Legend of Overrated by folks trying to be cult in the internet Galactic Heroes.
Well, your fucking loss! But it seems you are a brat anyway so LOGH would be far too much for your autistic little brain!
Old though it is, its one of the greats.
lol.. always amusing to read those rankings…
mostly like drawing out of a pot there..
and where the heck is Kanon…
Happy to see sword art online isnt here. Sugu was the only thing that saved that series and made is slightly watchable. And even she snubbed the good guy who liked her alot because he wasn’t cool enough so she could go for the much cooler guy (who was her ‘brother’ btw). Series wasn’t accurate to the gamer world but at least was accurate in its depiction of women.
Stein’s Gate at 15??? Geez…I feel sick…
el psy cuntgroo
Better go back to fapping to TLR “Plot” then.
Certainly none of that garbage
How about the top 25 (or more) lists people don’t give a fuck about?
At least Gintama’s in top 5 (shoulda been 1) and that I’m happy.
All these lists, regardless of prompt, have the same small set of anime.
I assume it’s due to my own good taste that I haven’t watched the vast majority of those listed here.
no death note what the heck
Because the DN-Anime was more appealing for western countries, I think.
80% accurate list
Why is Gundam SEED so damn popular? I am a hardcore Gundam fan, and I have watched nearly all of the shows (some of them keep eluding me), and while SEED is an okay show with some excellent music and mecha designs, it is nowhere near the best the franchise has to offer.
If any Gundam show should make this list, it should be either the original 1979 series or Turn A. While they are both still glorified toy commercials, they have more of an emphasis on story and characters, rather than relying on how colorful the art is or how many Gundams could be thrown in just so Bandai can make models out of them, which, unfortunately seems to be the standard with most Gundam shows nowadays. SEED included.
Ano Hana? Seriously? That was the biggest pile of crap I’ve ever had the displeasure to watch.
You must be a very sad and bitter person. My advice: Kill yourself!
That’s OK. I know some kids like Naruto instead of good anime. No biggie. To each their own.
What exactly is wrong with Naruto, besides the fillers?
No it wasn’t
No Macross.
No life.
wait Eureka Seven is on the list.
i only agree with some of those, the rest are a lost of time to see.
Gundam seed? What, am i missing my inner emo and lazershow?
Several of my favourites as well as several series I fucking despise.
Again, where’s Pokemon?
So, basically I haven’t wasted my life then?
*Phew*
you’ve done it by posting here and watching animes
Gintama is on this list. This pleases me.
Kinda surprised Gurrenn Lagann is as low as it is, though, considering all the things I’ve heard about it and fapped to.
(Gintama needs more fap materials)
Strikes Witches deserves to be in the list.
Disagree. And if it deserved a spot it would be there, so it looks like I’m in the majority this time.
I’ve seen them all and half of them is more a waste of time…
I agree completely, watching any anime is a waste of time.
I think that good things in this list are 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 18 an 21.
How the hell did Acchi Kocchi even get in this list? lol
Why the hell isn’t it in the top 10?
Ready for down vote.
Tweeny Witches
Girl Who Leaped through Space/Time
Martian Successor Nadeisco
Hell Girl Jigoku Shoujo
Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon
Kung Fu TV series.
KoiKoi 7
Akikan
Kakaku no Regious
Animation Runner Kuromi
Steins Gate
Master of Mosquiton
Hand Maid May.
Kurenai
Kanokon
Minami Ke
Thats just some I found on my girlfriends puter…
Real loose girlfriend if all that can fit up her puter
Yeah, like Ano Hana, that piece of shit
I agree Ano Hana was quite a disappointment. I have NO CLUE why ppl like it that much. Goddamn anime fans lately are frikking incomprehensible
I enjoyed AnoHana, but I will say this: any time I hear “noitaminA”, I think “pretentious, overhyped bullshit”. AnoHana was an exception (at least IMO), but nonetheless, it sickens me how people go on about these shows being the most intellectual of intellectual anime just because of what fucking block they aired on.
I think you don’t have eny friends…
Friends are for losers!… Wait, let me try that again.
don’t talk about your mom that way
This would be the top comment no matter what anime was on the list.
I agree with top 7 in no specific order. Didn’t see gintama maybe I should. 10 12 and 21 were cool. didnt see some others.
The sankakus dont like the popular stuff because they are cool and hardcore.
Eureka 7 is amazing but im not to sue about the second season of it Ao. I’ve only gotten half way though it and plan on finishing it later but from what i’ve seen it’s about a 5/10. Lets just say that the time travel factore screwed the second season up.
Fun fact: people who watch popular anime (or any TV show) just because they are popular also think the same of themselves. So, conclusion: everyone is cool and hardcore…? No, I think I will go for “Japan =/= rest of the world”. Makes more sense.
The us just needs their pop culture to bounce back. ‘freedom’ caused everything to get overly sexualized and it lost its bite.
I’m not sure where the argument over American pop culture came from but I don’t disagree. But it depends on who you ask. If you ask me and people who hang out on sankaku of course you know the answer you going to get. But don’t forget outside of the otaku world the majority of people don’t give a sht about Akihabara, Japan, or Japanese culture. While the US is still technically the most influential place on Earth. In fact pretty much all of Japans pop culture including animation originated in the us.
@Taylor: At least “popular=good” can still be argued for the most part in regards to Akihabara’s sub-culture. Do you think the same can ever be said about American pop culture any more?
Thats a tough point for you to argue because most people watch the popular stuff for no other reason than its good. It did become popular for a reason. Finding a person who likes clannad because its popular is harder than finding a person who likes it just because its good. But how easy is it to find a person who hates and rages against the popularity of naruto and bleach. Even the author of this website uses the term ‘narutard’ like all the cool hardcore people do haha.
Gintama is definitely worth it. The first season is mostly comedy-type episodes, then the second season starts with the arcs that can get downright depressing or manly-tears-inducing.
This is mixed in with a liberal helping of dick jokes and toilet humor. Just had a touching revelation about changing yourself for the better? Prepare to be followed up by penises being swollen after pissing on a space worm.
Such is the brilliance of Sorachi-sensei.
haha ok Ill check it out.
I wasted my life watching Gundam Seed.
Ginge E kickoff was not a life watcher xd
still better than beverly holls 90210
Where’s INITIALLLLLL DDDDD??!
I’m with ya dude.
Still better than K-On
The fact that Gundam Seed is on the list negates the list entirely
Elevens LOVED Gundam Seed, much the same way the NA audience loves reality TV shows.
I heard they hated Wing but we in america loved Wing.
Destiny was fubaring it up a lot sooner then the end lol.
Dn’t know why the whine factor is high on this comment, but the analogy is sound. I think Destiny had a better idea, but FUBAR’d it up in the end.. again.
Still better than 00.
S1 is godlike. S2 is the shitty one.
The first (and only) episode of S2 was Great Science Fiction w/ the weight of stupid dumbassary that is S1 to finally drag it down.
S1 much better than SEED, S2 not as good as the first but better than Destiny…
I didn’t want to waste my life watching anything Gundam
Spin on it fool. The very FIRST 1978 episode of Mobile Suit Gundam puts Every completed or ongoing show out now to task.
Does not. At least not if you watched it in this century. Memories get kind of blurry with time, so don’t rewatch even the first episode if you treasure that particular memory.
smart man
Dumb shitter, really.
Still better than madoka
lol. Ever since Leon got fired. These lists have been getting better…that’s odd.
Other than the fact that this list had already been posted by Leon before?
Leon got fired?
Was it that fucking idiot who always spammed the front page with articles about To Love Ru? Its about damn time he’s gone. Shit all he ever did was post about To Love Ru’s every fucking chapter when it was the same damn shit every ch. Everybody down voted me when i said the guy should stop spamming the front page with the To Love-Ru all the damn time because he has a fetish for To Love-Ru.
I approve with most of this list… for once.
Eureka Seven is on the list.
All is right with the world.
Now though to just have Bones unfuck it by making a third season to revoke AO.
Bones may be the enemy to its own sequels, but perhaps there’s a kind of cosmic rebalancing if they attempted a third season on something.
If the pattern holds, they would actually ruin the awful. Double negative and all that.
never did i feel that my life was wasted more nor my emotions bludgeoned more pointlessly than while watching eureka seven. star driver was way better than that shit.
While I do disagree greatly with you (bias as i love Eureka Seven), comparing it to Star Driver is dame da. ZEN ZEN DAME DA.
They aren’t in the same league. :c
“Top X anime of X season / year / century”
“Omg omg I love those anime, they roooock!!!111one”
*ctrl+c*
“Worst X anime of X season / year / century”
*ctrl+v*
“Wtf is that piece of cr*p, this sucks”
Logic.
Fine list, saw most of them; but, in the same genre, “Ef” is a much better anime than Clannad, and it’s not on the list.
I would agree that the ef series (especially a tale of melodies) are tremendously underrated, but I’m not sure I’d say it was “much” better than Clannad. Personally, I loved them both, but they are very different stylistically, and it’s hard to compare them objectively.
K-ON is just a waste of time to watch.
For the first time I can actually agree with this list. Not perfect, there’s more than 25 great anime series, but this is all good, quality anime even non anime fans would enjoy (mostly).
now K-on that’s a waste of life to watch
No Naruto???
No, no. I will tell you what was a really a life-wasting, time-consuming anime.
BLEACH. Went on for almost 8 years. Plot and plot, story-arc to another. Yeah…
Where is the ARIA series in this? As always, BS list.
Madoka on a list of must-watch anime.
Fucking laughable.
Haruhi and Evangelion totally overrated and a waste. I wouldn’t even recommend them to my worst enemy.
then you have now class my son
then you hav no class my class my son
These are mostly newer titles..They didn’t have classics like the older Gundam series and Fist of the North Star
Because nowadays those classics are life wasters. Even the good ones are pretty boring most of the time.
I would put in there in no specific order
Dragon Ball series
Sailor Moon series
Saint Seiya series
Captain Tsubasa series
Ranma 1/2 series
.Hack//Sign (first season, have yet to watch the others)
of course it comes down to personal taste
You’re definitely wasting your life if you watched K-ON!.
how was madoka good? lesbian part?
The shock value girl getting her head bitten off part.
Only watched 3 out of 25.
And you here… why?
all life was wasted for only watching anime.
Wow an acualy real list. Code Geass, Gundam Seed, Gurran Lagan, Higurashi, and Madoka. Some of my fvroite anime of all time.
Congrats on the first good list. I would like to see a few more classics like Cowboy Bebop, and no Eva, but its a good start.
This is actually a really solid list. Well done, Japan.
Hanasaku Iroha?!?!?! WTF!!!!!
And no Ranma 1/2 or Usagi Drop? I’m dissapointed.
and tsukihime???!
The visual novel was great and I here that one gets a remake. They should definitely pull off a tsukihime anime next. Would be awesome.
*cough*Shingetsutan Tsukihime*cough*
Created by some type of moon (oh look, a pun…) around 2000, Geneon made it into an anime series in 2003.
Also see ‘Carnival Phantasm’: Everything related to Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime.
Know your effing masterpieces 😉
And all hail Akiha-sama!
@Anon: There is no Tsukihime anime, that’s why there isn’t a link to it. It’s just in your imagination.
I’m pretty sure only the manga started in 2003. I watched Carnival Phantasm and pretty much everything Type-Moon related. I know about visual novels like Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, FSN, FHA and that new one, which was released only last year. Than there’s the LNs and stuff.
See, I’m a really big Type-Moon fan. I would know if there was a Tsukihime anime. But there isn’t. You must be confused.
What the friggin hell?
Where’re the last posts and the link to Tsukihime anime??
Give this man the right to watch his fav game animted!
(Or simply search for
lunar legend tsukihime complete
which will show you everything you need!)
There is no such thing as tsukihime anime. ufotable should do one as their project.
You better check that again…
It doesn’t exist.
Shitty k-on! again? NO WAY!
You waste your life watching anime. Period.
wheres death note
No Gits, no cowboy bebop no good anime…. “great” list once again.
oh there are gits here
ALL animes are time waster dude….
Yeah… a new proof that Japanese otaku doesn’t have a long-time memory:|
Japanese otaku “graduate” with time. It’s not a case of bad memory, it’s a case of simply not watching old anime because there’s enough new ones to choose from.
this is news? always interestedin the new stuff like young lolis
i second that
*looks though list.K-ON? *skips and reads the rest of list
you can bet k-on! will be/is in the “top 25 anime you’re wasting your life by watching”
I love clannad and all but there are more important animes, tengen toppa for one. Which isn’t even on the list. smh
wait never mind.
no cowboy bebop? this is stupid you know xd
This list is crap because it havent cowboy beebop in it.
Higurashi? COME ON! This is fucking retarded. It’s the absolute worst visual novel adaptation I’ve ever seen!
Yes, even worse than the Umineko anime.
I’m so mad right now.
Dafuq?
No Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
Hell, it wasn’t even in the Top 50.
There is something very wrong with any of those are not being included.
Cowboy Bebop is underground in Japan. Many of its episodes weren’t broadcast due to its violent content.
A girl gets her head bitten off on Japanese TV and BEBOP is considered violent content?
only anime i remember seeing from the 90’s that were hyper violent were ova and hentai. So, yes. Bebop was considered violent at the time.
I wasted my life watching Code Gaess. It is seriously the worst anime I’ve ever seen and I’m the only one who hates it and sees it as childish and contrived psuedo-intellectual bullshit. It’s like the Anime equivalent of Hunger Games.
i think you meant “Hunger Games the movie”
watched first eps of bakemono 3 times, fell asleep 3 times
3. nope.
7. absolutely not
10. nope nope nope!
MY life is saved becasue I’ve never watched these steaming piles of shit.
Also why isn’t Lucky Star on the list!?
“I’ve never watched these steaming piles of shit.”
This statement invalids any points you make.
You’re joking I hope.. you just picked out 3 of the best ones on that last other than Clannad and Haruhi
Nah, it’s important to watch at least one SHAFT show. That way, whenever you encounter annoying animation in other shows, you can at least tell yourself, “well, at least it’s not SHAFT”.
I’m sorry but Clannad is not that good it got really boring half way through
Indeed it is. A real boring show.
yep, the protag keep going after the worst choice too. The follow-up sequel topped off the stupid.
It ended very strong. It really is a must-watch title for anyone who likes romances.
Well pardon me you stupid hardcore otaku bastards that voted on this list, but I know what I like and what I don’t!
Fuck K-On!, Angel Beats, NGE, Haruhi, Steins;Gate, Detective Conan, and all the slice of life/moe shit on that list (except toradora because that was actually well thought out).
Ya know what isn’t on this list that should be? Ghost in the Shell at #1. But it didn’t even make it into this 50 because people who actually vote on this stuff have no taste.
Pretty much why Cowboy~ and GintS isn’t remembered is probably the vapid tastes of the fickle otaku crowd. I do remember that the former had episodes canceled and barley got noticed. But seeing how well it did overseas, we got a movie! The later brought so much notice too, that a British company (Manga Entertainment) semi produced the two series.. and maybe even the first and second movie.
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ya gotta understand that both shows (but not the first GintS) where done at the beginning of the overseas storm of interest for Anime. But like all storms, it died painfully in 2006 w/ the final nail topping it all off when Newtype USA canceled itself in January 2007 w/ a piss-ant notice on the BOTTOM of the LAST PAGE
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Farwell~ bye bye
I never read Newtype, so I don’t see how that effects it that much.
What I think has been killing it in foreign markets is the latest trend toward flooding every season with schoolgirl animes ever since Haruhi came out.
wait, we got to vote?
they should hold polls for us to vote on 😀
Ghost In The Shell was fugly. That’s why.
Are you talking about the Original Movie or the Series? Cuz I can kinda understand your distaste for the visual style of the Original, but everything after it looked great.
Besides, the story and action is the real driving point of the series.