“Anime” and “cool” in the same sentence may still strike some yokels as oxymoronic, but that has not stopped anime fans from voting for what they believe are the coolest anime of all time for this latest ranking – which not only again manages to include “that” anime, but even manages to see some recent blockblusters displaced by venerable classics…
The ranking:
1. Scryed
2. Tiger & Bunny
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Black Lagoon
5. Ghost in the Shell
6. Fate/Zero
7. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
8. Samurai Champloo
9. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
10. Kuroko’s Basketball
11. HUNTER X HUNTER
12. Blast of Tempest
13. Blue Exorcist
14. PSYCHO-PASS
15. Gintama
16. Fist of the North Star
17. Star Driver
18. Persona 4 the Animation
19. Jing King of Bandits
20. Ben-To
>Tiger & Bunny
>cool
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Star driver? make a robot look totally gay is cool? lol wtf happen to this world.
Pd: I remembed Scryed more to the opening who looks like a Ricky Martin song
were trigun at
Baccano? Anybody? That was ice cold if you ask me
SAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO missing…
How about Karas?
Zetsuen no Tempest made it on the list? I’m positively surprised.
I literally “pfffft” when I saw Scryed at #1. List is a joke not matter what follows that.
And where is K-on! in this list?
Scryed? I thought it was a waste of time.
yey samurai champloo. that’d number one in my book. xD then samurai jack.
Awesome. Might get me some bluray bebop.
I Find the Lack of Dragon Ball in this list Disturbing.
Ack…. no, *Cough* mind melting, horrible memories returning… must not remember, no… NO! puts gun in head, BLAM! im dead
Not sure if trolling or actually serious…
You guys misspelled a few on the list.
It’s T R I G U N, not Scryed
And Hellsing is not spelled Kuroko’s Basketball.
OMG!! FINALLY SCRYED IS MENTIONED ON A LIST!! THIS ANIME IS FUCKING AWESOME!! And props to Gintama it’s easily a masterpiece!!
Forgot Magipoka ;3
Big O deserves an honorable mention.
Roger Smith is one of the coolest, smoothest, classiest motherfuckers in the game.
after all that smooth motherfucker is pretty much Japanese Bruce Wayne.
No Gurren Lagann = Invalid list
first two are crap and Samurai Champloo should be higher
I only see one of those i own the dvd set for. I do also have one of the persona ps2 games.
20 cool anime, imo:
Fist of the North Star
Ghost in the Shell
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Bastard!
Black Lagoon
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Samurai Champloo
Fatal Fury The Motion Picture
Lupin III (I’m not ordering but this should be #1!)
Wolf’s Rain
Noir
Tekkaman Blade
Street Fighter II The Animated Movie
Gurren Lagaan
Bubblegum Crisis
Berserk
Ninja Scroll
Hellsing
Vampire Hunter D
I like your list better.
How come Cowboy Bebop to be in #3 ?!?!
Scryed was interesting but it’s hardly good enough to be number 1
Almost all of these deserve to be here or are acceptable… but I’d personally put Tekkaman Blade on my list.
What about Cromartie? It’s so cool that it breaks the coolness threshold and just becomes hilarious for it.
Ben-to?
Really sankaku…….
Not bad, not bad.. but.. what the hell? where’s Akagai?!
Well I’m glad jojo bizarre adventure is there one of the most enjoyable animes this season, haven’t had chance to see anything else that worth watching lately , so sick of watchin cute anime
>Scryed
I’m sorry. What?
Watch it it’s pretty awesome.
it is pretty awesome, but NOT enough to be on top, it shoulb be TTGL (wich is not even i the list oddly enough, must be the ending a lot of people got pissed by it)
Actually, it’s pretty terrible.
Fuck yes, Jing king of bandits, my favorite manga of all time cant believe some one in japan remembers it.
Scryed over Bebop has already made this list shitty without me even saying where the fuck is TTGL, FLCL, Yu yu Hakusho, etc.
LOL, I laughed so hard. Scryed is probably the worst shit I’ve ever seen.
Wow a list I can actually agree on, it is litteraly a first
JoJo and Fist of The North Star are there. I am proud to shed manly tears.
Other then the lack of TTGL I’m ok with this list.
scryed was one of those short series that I watched in animax, it was good but never leave a strong impression on me, my 2 favourites where mushishi and hell girl but those aren’t “cool”,neither hunterxhunter (old or new?) so doesn’t matter,at least gankutsuou or last exile should be here
Ben-to? Wow.
And for once justice has been served with Samurai Champloo.
No Gurren Lagann
no berserk? wtf? guts is the coolest anit-hero of all anti-hero anime history
Cool story bro, but needs more Great Teacher Onizuka.
Seeing the classics like FotNS makes me happy.
Hokuto no Ken is there, I’m pleased
15. Gintama
*JUST DOOO IT!*
and helluva lot other cool catchphrases. Plus there’s Norio Wakamoto among the cast; if that ain’t considered cool, nothing else is.
Seriously, Scryed was awful. How does it keep making it onto these lists?
I agree, Scryed was horrible. The premise looked interesting at the start, but they pretty much failed at everything, from the art to the writing. I kept watching it, thinking it was sure to get better, but it just kept getting worse as the series progressed. Then, it ended terribly.
I really liked Scryed, so long as we’re not talking about the horrendous manga adaptation. The anime was fun though.
That’s weird, someone doesn’t share the same opinion as you.. how could this be?!
Ghost in the Shell made it on there? Humanity might be worthy of surviving after all…
Characters: Cool
Action: Cool
Soundtrack: Cool-gasm
GitS — SAC was cool.
The 1995 movie was garbage, because they took out all of the elements that made the main character human and interesting, turning her into a brooding killing machine reminiscent of Spawn.
Garbage? yeah, probably that is why it is so influential in the cyberpunk aesthetics (The matrix was directly inspired by it).
but… she wasn’t human
Major Kusanagi was most certainly human. She did have an entirely cybernetic body, but her brain was still normal. Granted, almost everyone had cyberization done to their brains so they could interface with the world. It is this part that can be hacked or used to read/write data to the actual brain. This is sometimes called the Shell.
In the movie, they start by showing a body being formed from nothing. This is not the major, but just shows a cyborg body being made.
If you follow the original manga for it, you find that near the end, she abandoned her last human part, her brain to merge with an AI and become something else. The new her then had bodies all around the world that she could “upload” herself into. These were all her and only one could exist at the same time. However, she does run into a different variation of herself.
From what I know she doesn’t have a normal human brain either, it’s either heavily modded or entirely synthetic.
Would a sentient machine that’s capable of human thought process and possessed personality, traits, memories etc be human?
if she had a brain, than still human…
i dont know how movie version handled it, i watched it so long ago and care so little about it… its a good movie, just not one i like
she’s a cyborg that’s entirely synthetic… part of the film is about her not believing that she has any human part remaining in her and that she questions the memories she has as being entirely fabricated… that’s why they purposely made her into a character that rarely shows emotions
and no I don’t believe in the soul 😛 I only use the term as figuratively speaking…
That’s actually arguable. If you don’t believe in the existence of some kind of soul, she’s not actually human, as she doesn’t have any human parts, just a machine, constructed to replicate a certain human.
Umm… yes she was?
Wasn’t the movie the original work and SAT a derivative? So it’s more correct to say they added those “human” elements to appease fans.
What??? The original work was the 1989 manga. SAC is much more like the manga than the two movies.
Well it is “GHOST” in the Shell.
As a fan of both SAC and the movie adaptations – I will interject. You’re wrong the movies were imo superior to SAC (only slightly) they had a better soundtrack although Yoko Kanno’s was insane as well the + portrayal was unmitigated by the episodic constraints of a series.
The Major wasn’t exactly emotional in SAC either
Yoko Kanno cool-gasm or Kenji Kawai?
Where’s INITIALLLLLL DDDDDD? A anime that encourages youths to participate in reckless street racing is surely enough to justify a spot on this list? Right?
Both! (but more Yoko)
They still missed Gurren Lagann.
#33 tied with the hitman reborn thing
It’s my only complaint about this list other wise it’s actually pretty good.
I think the overzealous fanboys ruined TTGL coolness
No Trigun? Wtf?
Maybe if you only counted the first half of Trigun. Counting the whole thing… not cool.
This is easily the best way to voice my opinion, as well.
No Trigun? No Harlock?
Kuroko in?
Sir, we’ll have to bomb ’em
Scryed? now that’s funny!
No K-On?
wohohoho! JJBA? Tiger and Bunny? Bebop? and about 10 or so more? You guys are making up for your streak of shitty list these past few months! This list is approved awesome!
NO tengen toppa?? wtf is this top?!
how come sancom dosen’t have a vote sytem for its users?
Trolls will be voting stupid things, just to ire fans.
Wait, so you’re telling me that’s not what happens on these other toplists?
It’d be interesting to see what happens, actually..
Because the lists would come out worse.
No one mentions how scryed is on top? Ughh that anime was, not even close to that good.
I’m guessing it’s on top because of the theme music, which was pretty damn catchy. Still, the story was way too inconsistent or poorly executed at a lot of points.
It’s about a 6/10 overall. It got really stupid once the mainland was involved that the powers started evolving.
What they should’ve done was force Kazuma to gain some level of personal growth by having to fight smarter, not give him an unstoppable trump card!
17. Star Driver
KIRABOSHI!
Code Geass is there but no Gundam? Insanity man
Which Gundam series are you thinking of where they were “Cool”? Wing?
Wing, the 08th MS team, 0083? they were all pretty cool
Whoa, finally a list I can agree with.
1-9 is ok after that the list get f’d up
Fuck Tiger & Bunny, how is that crap ahead of Bebop? Fail!
so I only watch 4 out of them all… and Ben-to was far from what I’d consider “cool” ..
No FLCL? WTFITS?
This is all “american” standards.
FLCL is an American favorite.
It’s not cool. It is sub-zero.
To good for the Cool-Wall.
Ice Age is the coolest, anyway.
WHAT THE HECK
You got that shitty Ben-To show
But no Kamina and Gurren Lagann SMH
Ben-To was a load of shit. I can honestly think of a dozen other anime that deserves that spot more.
Was expecting to see Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann in the top 20.
That’s because TTGL is more GAR AND BAMF than “cool”
And JoJo is more FABULOUS than “cool”, yet it’s on the list.
I share your dilemma
Is it bad that I’ve never seen the anime but when you put fabulous like that I assumed you wanted it read in a stereotypical gay voice?
a lot of missing titles, but at least some memory was shown here.
but i miss Lupin III in this list!
See, you only need the right specific question for the votings to please the ones stuck with nostalgia.
I can’t see Gunsmith Cats anywhere… this list is inaccurate.
What the hell is that?
It’s about two girl bounty hunters, one of which is a loli that worked as a prostitue when she was like 13 and uses explosives and the other one that uses guns. They also have a gunsmith shop.
The manga > the anime in this case as well, but the english version was horribly handled. The first release mirrored everything, while the omnibus kept most of the mirrored version’s translation (including the left > right stuff). They also changed a bit of the loli’s story to make it seem like she was taking drugs to try and grow bigger when she was taking them to stunt her growth.
Lookithat! Cowboy Bebop has made it, what a sight.
WOW, GITS, Bebop and Fist of the North Star came on one of sankakucomplex lists ; D btw for me these 3 series should be on first 3 places
no Trigun..
cowboy bebop shits on that.
also, manga>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>animu
Scryed at no 1? whaaaaa
Neon Genesis Evangelion is not on this list. Some faith in humanity restored!
Yeah, I like NGE, but I don’t think it should go on this list.
It’s good, but not “cool”.
Indeed faith has been restored. At least they can see it.
Eva = Meduka = Lain = Edgy, but not cool.
Lain being edgy.
10/10 would mad again.
Have to agree. Looking back on that anime, I didn’t understand/like it when I was a kid, grew up and now that I understand it I like it even less.
then you still have the tastes of a child.
And no Gundam Seed too…
Gundam Seed wasn’t cool.
Mobile Suit Gundam was cool.
Tominofag detected!
Still can’t deny that SEED still have one of the coolest Mobile Suit designs
no Darker than Black.
Shameful
Almost as shameful as DtB’s second season!
Sigh… SankakuComplex always make me question, “Who are making the list?”
read it again
“…but even manages to see some recent blockblusters displaced by venerable classics…
The ranking:…”
the part “The ranking” is marked in orange as a hyperlink. It goes to the source of the list.
Check the link. It’s http://anime.biglobe.ne.jp/userranking/title/40681/
No GTO?? This list is totally useless!
Onidzuka? Cool?
You’re kidding. Onidzuka’s temperature is -273,3 degrees Celsium. It is not cool, it is not even cold. It is absolute zero.
Nothing can be colder.
Onizuka wasn’t “Cool.”
You must be joking. I’d put GTO right behind Bebop in this list, without Tiger and Bunny, of course.
anime…and in english dub…no comments
The anime, or the manga… because IIRC the anime (especially the english dub) being… terribifuckus.
Not joking at all. I had to force myself to finish it, which is never a good sign.
Ok what the fuck do those japs have against TTGL???
List is almost complete, its only missing Gurren Lagann.
Why isn’t Detective Conan on this list? I mean he’s “Cool-Guy” and speaks really good Engrish!
What?? A poll from Japan that isn’t a “wtf were they thinking?”?
I guess that, since most of these titles never end up on any other lists, that Japan doesn’t really like “cool” anime, even if they themselves find those anime cool. It’s gotta be cute all the way.
How is there no classic Gundam on here. Mobile Suit Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Gundam 0083. Any Gundam series except for G-Savior or any of the Gundam Seed are cool. This list is f*#@ed up!
What, no Akira?
The movie sucked the real star was the fucking awesome bike
I don’t really think of “cool” when I remember Akira. Aside from the cool bike, I just think of “fucked up” lol
Lol @ Kuroko Basket…
Kuroko is insanely cool. One of the best sports anime/manga ever.
How do you define an anime has “cool”, isn’t it kinda vague to define an anime like that? since coolness is subjective ? sometimes i wonder about these lists, i really do…
They’re not even “lists”, they’re not even made by some anime critic with some knowledge about most anime in the past 50 years. They’re just polls, which is another word for “popularity contests”. They reflect the general opinions of the userbase of whatever Japanese site they’re from, and there aren’t even that many votes either.
But for once, the poll actually came out with some admirable results. Sure, it’s subjective.. if you’re that crazy, you can find something like “K-On” to be cool, but honestly there are just certain anime that make most people think of the word “cool” immediately, while others make you think “cute” or “funny”. If I saw K-on topping this list, I’d have ignored every future poll on this site from then on, but thankfully even the voters of these polls have enough sense to give some cool anime their due as being actual cool anime, at least.
how the fuck did Scryed get on this list?
Blast of Tempest (Zetsuen no Tempest you mean… quit using Americanized names… it’s so insulting.)
This is the first time I’ve seen this series listed in one of these polls. I take it that since they’ve added a female pseudo-lead to the show that could make things kinky, they’re NOW willing to accept some “Coolness” to it?
There’s nothing “insulting” about using Americanized names. Its a translation. “Zetsuen” means nothing to some people but “Blast” give you an idea of what you’re in for. I’d only label it insulting if it was a bad translation.
Afro Samurai please!
Wasn’t that technically American made?
Well it’s technically still Japanese styled animation (meaning “anime”), right?
Not that I find it to be cool enough for this list…
1. K-On!
Boku no Pico!
ZA WARUDO!
Where is City Hunter ?
Code gayass is up there, but not Trigun. You disgrace your family, kill thy self
Mmm, trigun does not really it cool honsetly
Nicholas D. Wolfwood.
IRRELEVANT AS THERE IS NO KYOANI!
Give it up moetard
Cool is non existent in the world of moecrap or kyoanishit
Kyoani = cool….?
HAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHA!
Don’t know if sarcastic or stupid.
They also made Munto, some INCREDIBLE magic battles in there
Full Metal Panic the Second Raid
guess who made it ?
Here is a little hint,
Kyoani
but it doesn’t change the fact that the made nothing cool since.
Goddammit Kyoani, for all that is good in the World, make more FMP.
Full Metal Panic the Second Raid IS NOT COOL!!! Fantastic but not cool, plus its from an era in which kyoanishit had not yet sold its fuckking soul to licifer-tan!! or sa-tan .
Look up the definition of cool, no wonder kyoani-tards have pretty screwed up standards, cannot even tell whats ool or not.
stupid surely
Because kawaii desu desu uguuuu
SHutup moetard!
Cool does not exit in the world of moecrap and its pansies faggots girly fans.
when jojo get all 8 parts animated it will be number 1 ^^
No Onizuka? This list is shit.
Onizuka was shit. I had to force myself to finish it. The only likable character was Kanzaki because she was the only one that wasn’t a moron.
While we can all agree that Kanzaki was one of the best characters, Onizuka himself is the definition of cool.
gotta agree. Onizuka is the antithesis of cool. Still liked the manga though.
Onizuka was a 22yo Retired Virgin Gang member that gets humiliated at every turn and then makes an ass of himself immediately after the mandatory 10 seconds of cool he has in each episode.
He NEVER plays it cool.
Haganai, K-ON, Tamako Market, OreImo!
where??
These are the shows I would tell the world I’m watching!
If these animes are all you can think of, you seriously need to watch more anime.
Please tell me you’re not serious.
oh he is totally serious.
social awkwardness, modern music, mochi and incest are the coolest things since slice bread!