Anime fans have been polled as to which anime they think have the most spectacular and well produced battle scenes – providing plenty to please fans of giant robots and SF, and for once even including “that” anime…
1. Gundam Unicorn
2. Ghost in the Shell
3. Evangelion 2.0 You Can(not) Advance
4. Macross Plus
5. Fate/Zero
6. Broken Blade
7. Guilty Crown
8. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
9. Fullmetal Alchemist
10. Cowboy Bebop
11. Gundam 00 Season 2
12. Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon
13. Black Rock Shooter
14. Code Geass Akito the Exiled
15. CANAAN
16. Rurouni Kenshin
17. Girls und Panzer
18. Moribito
19. Blood-C
20. Macross Do You Remember Love?
No Black Lagoon? Does not compute. ERROR ERROR ERROR
Wow, can’t believe they remembered Macross Plus and Do You Remember Love! Actually, can’t believe they NOMINATED Do You Remember Love, its action scenes weren’t that fantastic anyway. Where’s Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust?
Heeey Guilty Crown in the list – my favorite anime ever!! i think just kara no kyokay deserves be in here too.
Sword Art & Shana
What!? No Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt!!!!!!!!
jus gonna say im highly disappointed about the lack of DB or DBZ naruto bleach(ichigo vs aizen i mean come on)its just ridiculous. however fullmetal code geass and rurouni kenshin deserve what heyve received though maybe a little higher oh and cowbow bebop sucked… a lot
Best Battle Scene chart without SAO is invalid
You can’t be serious.
Fuckin’ finally a list that I can agree upon.
Can’t help it that Naruto’s fight with “Pain” and Sasuke’s fight with Itachi came to mind right away.
Not ashamed of it. Though the anime changed a bit during them they were choreographed quite well.
Ichigo’s first fight with Kenpachi was pretty decent also let alone his last fight with Ulquiorra.
It’s not necessarily the actual fight scene that gives weight and emotion to the actual scene but the context.
And Naruto and Bleach framed their fight scenes in, in my humble opinion, an unparalleled way. I loved them.
MWH
And where is Soul Eater
The fighting scenes in Berserk Movie II were amazing. I think it deserves to be in the list.
where the hell is Tengen Toppa GL??
nice to see broken blade on that list aswel as macross plus it still has the best battle of out of all macross
NO STRIKE WITCHES!?
C’MON!!!
Strike Witches have a lot of good battle scenes!
I swear to god, cowboy bebop is such an overrated anime
By americans, of course.
An anime with american culture, american music and american looking characters is the dream for they.
Samurai Champloo is way Better than Cowboy Bepop. And hiphop is more cool than jazz.
Magipoka isn’t on the list???
I don’t know if we can include motion pictures, but I liked the fighting scenes in Ninja Scroll and Street Fighter The Animated Movie a lot.
Girls und Panzer?!? Wha…what is this, I don’t even…
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad anime but…on this list?!? Especially since it’s missing series like Black Lagoon and Trigun (and Strike Witches)!!! …I would even go as far as to say that even Bleach(in the beginning especially), Naruto and Fairy Tail have had better fights.
I’m happy to see Bebop for, among many reasons, that this was the first (of a resounding two) anime I could actually get my dad to sit through.
Cowboy Bepop is the mot overrated anime in this site. period.
Gundam 00 Season 1 have way better battle scenes than season 2.
Who watched episodes 23, 24 and 25 know what I mean.
No Samurai Champloo? List is ass.
where is Hellsing ?????? It’s battle scene is more epic than half of the list !
Alucard’s “zero” mode and the “awakening” of Seras…daaamn, this list i forgetting a lot.
No Black Lagoon?
Cowboy Bebop deserves the top slot especially
for the shootout in the church between Spike and
Vicious.Also the gun battle at the end.
But what about Black Lagoon and the shootouts
in the bar between Revy and company and Roberta.
Balalaika, the nuns of the Ripoff Church,
The bowling alley at the end.
Actually the whole series is a running gun battle!
They torpedoed a Hind attack helicopter with a PT boat! One of my all time favorite scenes!!
Hell yeah, Black Lagoon!!!!
How about the big throwdown between Rebbie and the maid? EPIC!
Gintama? :O
Birdy the Mighty had some fucking awesome fights. As did Noein. But I guess no one cares.
First few mins of 1st episode Noein was badass. I saw that a few weeks ago. Gonna be watching the series soon.
I’ll have to agree with you there about birdy. It did have some pretty awesome fights. Never watched noein though. :p
Where is Baki? D:
Does no one in Japan remember Toki vs Raoh?
Putting Cowboy Bebop as the headline image to draw in American fanboys. Sounds like typical Sankaku journalism to me.
WTF? Where is DBZ?? Isn’t the show like 99% battles?
DBZ in short…
Fast repetitive beating on ground!
*constipation!*(power level up!)
bad one liner!
fast repetitive beating in air!
shoot (useless) balls of light!
*more constipation! …this time from uranium apparently*(beacuse they glow!)
even worse one liner!
more repetitive beating on ground/air
some supe-hyper-duper-ultra-sure-kill-move!(that usually fails to kill after the first time)
victory!/lose!
one more bad one liner!
Boring battles.
For moetards, yes.
Gun-Do Musashi has the best fighting scenes ever made.
/serious
Angelic Layer.
still makes me squirm from the chills just thinking about that final battle.
Oh yeah, that one had suprisingly cool battles…
Where are Gurren-Lagann and Gintama in there? D:
No Shana?
hellsing ultimate
Maybe its not on the list because hellsing ultimate is an ova so it may not count as an “anime” or anime series.
And it takes a year for 1 episode so everyone forgets it. :p
Another good list, give it some slack – compared with the usual lists we get here, this is quite fine.
Kannagi kung fu scene?
So glad Moribito made it on there at all. Doesn’t have a ton of fight scenes, but the ones it does have are pretty amazing.
Guilty Crown huh
That’s a surprise, although it was pretty decent.
even if everbofy here hates naruto, somebody has to admit that their fight scenes are way better than blood C, black rock shooter and many others that are in this list
Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon???!?!? Are you serious? The anime has not fight scenes, is based on weird characters having political discussions
“..weird characters having political discussions”
Maybe this is considered action scene in Nihon?
I’d add:
Berserk
Big-O
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun
Samurai Champloo (mentioned)
Black Lagoon (mentioned)
Sora no Otoshimono (few battle scenes, but they were pretty good)
Sekirei
Nooo, they forgot about Kenshiro!
I thought the fight between Koshka and Inaba from Usagi-chan de Cue was pretty good. Production values weren’t all that great, but the fight was awesome.
Best comment in the whole thread.
Mostly because I’d never expect someone to post anything even along those lines, but also because I agree.
Girls and Panzer? Geass? No samurai champloo or sword of the stranger.
What I was expecting, this is japan
The best fight scenes IMHO are the ones from Kazemakaze Tsukikage Ran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvIYphUhTn0
The fights have a lot of Chambara / Wuxia vibe and you can actually see what’s happening. No mumbo jumbo like dragon ball where there is a lot of fireworks.
The anime itself looks like an action anime for girls, but it is a nice short lil’anime.
Bleach, Naruto, sacred seven and medaka box
YES! Of course Gundam is on top with Unicorn!
NO TORIKO???
no kenshin?
La blue girl ep 4?
The lack of Kurokami on this list is pretty depressing. That was an anime whose only point was well animated, choreographed fight scenes.
Canaan > black lagoon, girls und panzer is good but nothing greatly amazing to make this list.
Invalid list is invalid.
Cowboy bebop and breakblade should also definitely be higher then GITS.
Gits is beter by far
Where is “Karas”.
Another bullshit list.
No kara no kyoukai… :/
Kicking ass in a kimono never looked so good.
Ditto. Shiki was awesome in KnK.
Guilty Crown? Srsly, that was shit, and I know about 20 anime with better fighting scenes…
then name the 20 animes with better fighting scenes.
No Berserk second movie – list is invalid.
bleach
naruto
one piece
enough said…
trol o huge moron
No FMP? At least this time it’s pretty decent.
And it shows that modern anime cannot be compared to the older shows 🙂
Excuse me while I barf at the lack of Kara no Kyoukai. Paradox Spiral and the end of Oblivion Recorder had some of the most beautifully choreographed fighting that I have ever seen.
What?
No Constipated & 20 episode for 1 battle –> DBZ
&
No mentions of the mech that shook the entire universe –> TTGL
&
No love for the Terminator Maid action –> Black Lagoon
and then I see in that list Girl & Panzer, CMON ANIME FANS, you shitting me?
How the fuck can they create such a list WITHOUT FIST OF THE NORTH STAR, GRAPPLER BAKI AND BERSERK??
What? No K-On?!
No K-ON?!
trol K-ON is shit
For some of these the battle scenes are probably the only redeeming quality.
Also Girls und Panzer? How’d that sneak in there?
Ghost in the Shell.
Open water Bad guy vs Kusanagi with Thermo-optic camouflage.
Kusanagi vs Battle Tank.
Both scenes AMAZING.
Girls und Panzer in the list, DTB is not. Well.. fuck.
Specially DTB second season. “Powerless” Hei is seriously badass.
Oh, and add some Revy & Roberta for me…
no Champloo, no Gintama, no Shigurui, no Airmaster, no Yu yu Hakusho, no s-CRY-ed, no Afro Samurai, no Jubei-chan, no Blood+, no Black Lagoon
this list was shit before the list was even made
I FORGOT ABOUT s-CRY-ed, freaky but good stuff, and you damn right the spirit detective should have been on that list!
At last, a good list with classics in it. Well, when ppl talk about good fight in anime some moe crap not getting in it and this is a reason this list is good. And yes it could be better but there is just not enought space for all good anime so just pretend this is best they could to do.
Outlaw Star should have made it for some of the space battles. Those were pretty bad-ass, and actually used all three dimensions well.
And why FMA but not FMA:B?
No Gurren Lagann?
For shame, Japan.
As long as F/Z is on the list I’m happy. Ufotable really went all out with those battle scenes, they’re just breath-taking.
Unicorn.
This list for some title is ok but where are Kyoukai, Karas, Gundam seed, Guandam 08th team, Hellsing Ultimate?
I agree AND add NANOHA
Nanoha shooting that bitch all the way through the ship…just-awesome.
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FIST OF NORTH
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You are already dead
Muda da.
MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDANUDA!!!
Queen’s Blade would top my list. Those battles overload all of my senses. :3
And you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen two Sekirei fighting in a public bath.
Noir?
Homura’s epic firepower?
I think I would have liked to see Madoka on the list, even if just for Homura’s and Mami’s fight scenes. I’ll never forget Mami’s musket twirls…
But then Nanoha didn’t make the list either, so I’m guessing magical girls were precluded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xryoNr_qhyI
sword of the stranger.
DYRL make the list, and is 29 years old this year?
Fuck yeah!
Here’s 2 reasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-90zCZtH9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24
well well, now this is a list K-On can never dream to top of!
This is my best scene of Cowboy Bebop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctgS2mG40Kc
Seirei no Moribito, Sword of the Stranger, Samurai Champloo? This list makes me wanna vomiting just looking at it.
I take a little back. Seirei no Moribito is up there. It’s just so low that I still wanna vomit.
Cat Shit One should be on there.
Where is Kara no kyoukai?
Where it belongs (not on the list).
Needed a novel’s worth of explanation to figure out the rules of engagement kind of diminishes the impact. Canaan is probably a better fit for the list regardless.
but its about battle scenes not the whole anime, if its just battle scenes Kara no Kyoukai fits just fine.
The fight scenes in Girls und Panzer reminded me of the car races in Initial D, sometimes all you have to do is pan to the spectators awe like expressions as their heads swivel following the cars, but when they pulled that stunt where they buried the Stug in the snow to get a hit on the other sides flag tank, I had a flashback to when Tak used the gutters like rails to pass the GTR.
uh.. where the hell is dragon ball z? what kind of list is that
I’m just surprised that none of the 100+ shonen anime made it in! XD
DB? DBZ? Naruto? One Piece? Bleach?
Not saying this is good or bad, just saying it’s really funny!
Personally, my list would be full of fighting game adaptations (SF2:TAM, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, KOF: Another Day…)
oh, and… um…
FIST OF THE NORTH STAR??!
Everyone will just have to sit back and wait for them to finish the new Berserk Films…Lol
Nice to see Moribito up there. Balsa’s a beast.
fights were rare but when they threw hands in Moribito shit got real
.. seriously? Girls und Panzer ? The “battles”(if we can even call them that) are subpar and predictable at best.
Same can be said about quite a few others.
They’re just plain idiotic. Russians had more tanks, much better tanks, much better position and their lolis were cuter, but they still have lost!
А ведь они так и не спели “Три Танкиста”!
The Boondocks.
retarded show…
The fights are still over-the-top badass.
Not_anime
Why not?
Hajime no Ippo?
Boxing isn’t fighting. I’m fairly certain that’s the theme of at least 1/3 of the manga.
Uh… yes, yes it is. It’s just one of many forms of fighting. Do it right instead of just taking hits and you’ve got yourself one hell of a show.
A list with Bebop and no K-ON a fail list, it is not.
There is hope for my Nihon-jin brothers from another mother. (Not joking.)
The best is that K-ON is not in the list
battles in unicorn is what made me rewatch it several times
Gantz….. maybe
What no JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure? What happened? Must be too new a series to be mentioned?
*waits for obligatory “What no K-On!?” comment*
Have they ever seen those epic fights between HTT and cakes?
K-On’s battle of the bands for epic confrontation?
…Ugh, I think I died a little just typing that.
http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b452/bayu18049/K-ON-yui-yandere.jpg
Not a SINGLE MENTIONING OF TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN?
I am disappointed in you all.
Agreed. No Hokuto no Ken, no Gurren Lagann,. No G-Gundam, or Casshern, Or DBZ or Outlaw Star. This list has Cowboy Bebop, but it’s number 10 when it should be top 3.
Seriously Japan, just stop making these lists. You guys don’t know anything and have zero taste.
Don’t forget about Jojo
Ooh, Casshern was impressive. It was like watching a tiger and bunny put in one cage.
Gurren Lagann’s fights generally boiled down to:
Giant Drill!
Giant Drill didn’t work? Then BIGGER Giant Drill!
Bigger not enough? Then DRILLS FROM EVERY SOCKET ATTTTACKKKK!
MORE DRILLS!
BIGGER DRILL!
BIGGER ROBOT!
BIGGER DRILL ROBOT!!!
Don’t get me wrong, I love the series, but fights were all won with hot-blood and deus ex machina. Not its strongest point.
You didn’t watch TTGL to say this.
Why change what is working? 🙂
Well, TTGL fights are entertaining, but the entertainment comes more from its setting, the drama, the characters, etc. The show makes you feel pumped up, so even a simple punch makes you go “FUCK YEA”
Not saying the fighting is bad or the show is bad, but without the whole experience, just looking at the fighting itself, it just isn’t the same.
Try this: watch it with the sound off, and fast forward/skip when it’s the characters talking/showing off to set up just why TTGL/Simon is so awesome, and he’s about to awesomely kick ass.
No more Simon making badass speeches
No more WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM
No more shouting your moves on the top of your lungs.
yea but every time i try to watch TTGL without sound i already know what its supposed to sound like so i still get pumped. 🙁
And the robots throwing galaxies remain intact
Anyone else thought the fantasy battle scenes in Chuunibyou were pretty awesome? The first “battle” between Rikka and her sister was brolic
For once Cowboy Bebop makes the list and it should as it had some great battle scenes.
No Nanoha? no go. No Macross Frontier? No go……..what the….Macross Do You Remember Love? ok, they got one right at least.
Nanoha was mainly “KABOOM.”
Macross Plus admittedly belongs where it is. It has the best animated battles of any Macross to date, hands down.
Frontier is probably just further down the list, but really it’s no Plus.
May be true, may not be but the only reason Macross Plus is on the list is because it came out on bluray recently. Any Japan list is dominated by what has been released in the past year or so.
BTW, the Frontier movies blow away anything Macross has ever done. The Daedalus attack in that is god-like. I’d also put up Klan’s revenge on the Bajira from the series higher than anything in Plus.
It’s probably combined with nostalgia factor considering Plus was the first Macross to use CGI to animate fight scenes. But the 2 Frontier movies battles are just pure epicness.
This. Macross Plus (movie version) has undeniably one of the most GAR scenes in anime history.
No Mami vs Charlotte? And I don’t think there are any good battle scenes in Code Geass R2. Or more like I find nothing special about it.
There is nothing noteable about R2 other than how badly it managed to drive a good series into the ground. I’d have rather seen the first season just in general.
I think you mean Mami vs. Charlotte’s familiars. The battle with Charlotte herself wasn’t near as well-choreographed or fluidly animated, and is mainly noteworthy because “that” had to happen.
http://goo.gl/g7Rxg
http://goo.gl/Mw80H
If Mami vs Kyouko deathmatch gets animated, I think it would easily make this list. Being magical girl is suffering.
Mecha fights. After a while, it’s all fucking metal cans clashing with each other.
Code Geass at least deserves credit. They actually took the time to DRAW those metal cans during a period when everyone else started to just go with CG.
Darker than Black?
Wait wait wait wait WAIT. You mean to tell me bebop actually made it on a list?
Yes. But that actually is a bad thing if you think deeply about it. It means Japan WAS aware of its existence, thus, making its absence from other lists even worse than it was when they were published. So… good for it being on the list, but now japanese otakus left themselves even more in shame than before.
Honestly, I don’t care about their opinions. I’m just shocked it was even on their radar to begin with.
Samurai Champloo T_T
Samurai Champloo is boring. just kinda feels like a whole show of filler but it may have some good fights dont know thou cant get thru it every time i try i end up doing something else.
don’t forget seirei no moribito from the same company :/
That’s the first thing I thought as well! WTFFF How could they not include it>?
Where the fuck is Black Lagoon? Fucking japs.
@22:50: I LOL’d hard at that statement.
How about INITIALLL DDDDD? Intense battle scenes between street racers driving recklessly down Japan’s mountain roads FTW
Champloo is so underrated 🙁
Manglobe anime are so underrated ;_;
Champloo is better than Bebop, also.
Bebop and Champloo are the heads and tails of..I dunno….something hot.
Enjoy them both, bitches!!!
I prefer Faye to Fuu personally…
Femme Fatale to Femme Flounder
IT IS TOO, you jazz freak.
IS NOT!!! You hiphop freak.
@06:57
Get out, red neck.
Gintama also got a good fighting scene
ya good fighting scenes but not the best fighting scenes.
Where’s K-ON?
personally i found the gintoki and katsura vs the harusame pirates in the benizakura arc to be the best back to back bad ass animation i have ever seen.
Please enlighten us.
you need to see more animations
Everything about Gintama is bad ass, you’re just rating down because you’re idiots whos last sexual encounter was with your mouse, only thing you need to see is reality 🙂
haha Mugen’s “Break dance” fighting is awesome. My favorite episode is the “Weed” episode.
No K-ON? Gotta be invalid for sure.
No Gintama!?
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica should be on it!
Wait! Where is k-on? a list without kyoani is invalid!
What anime are they talking about when it says “that” anime?
Bebop. It’s loved in the West, but relatively unpopular in Japan. It never ranks for anything, hahah.
most likely Cowboy Bebop, since that’s the anime that several people on this site bitch about any time it’s excluded from a list (plus, the image used should be a dead giveaway).
Mind you, I thought it was a good series myself, but I do think it’s over-hyped by the western crowd a tad much. Everyone needs to keep in mind that it’s not near as popular in its homeland, and it’s popular over here (to the point of becoming one of the only anime that’s even remotely mainstream) mostly because it’s been re-run to death on Adult Swim.
Or maybe because Japanese otaku have terrible taste and us hairy barbarians know better.
oOOo im american, i’ always right. Everyone else is wrong.
Yes, yes. I HAVE AWESOME TASTES. EVERYONE ELSE’S TASTES SUX. Spin us another yarn why don’t you.
No idea. I’m intrigued as well.
Durarara!! where? Shizuo x Izaya are by far the best fight scenes I have ever witnessed.
Durarara? Best battle was in first episode, where Selty took down 4 men with her bike. Instead, Baccano had lots of good fights.
PANZER 4
SAO ch. 20 Kirito vs Eugene. That’s the best battle scene in last years.
Almost all of the animes listed there have way better fight scenes than SAO…best battle scene in last years? Fate/zero says hi in 2012.
It was nothing compared to many episodes of Cowboy Bebop or some of the epic battle scenes in Ghost in the Shell.
Cowboy Bebop the Movie fight scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-524oeRyiY
I’d have to disagree and say that Kirito vs. Deathgun was a lot more intense. At least in my head.