Dengeki provides what its users consider the top animated movies of (fiscal) 2009, a list which may prove controversial amongst Haruhi fans…
1. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
2. Summer Wars
3. Macross F – Itsuwari no Utahime
4. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha – The MOVIE 1st
5. Tales of Vesperia – The First Strike
6. Suzumiya Haruhi no Shōshitsu
7. One Piece Film Strong World
8. Up [by Pixar]
9. Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars
10. Kara no Kyōkai 7 – Satsujin Kōsatsu
My only problem with the position of the Haruhi movie is that Macross F is above it. I will reserve my impression of the Macross F movie though, since I haven’t seen it, but if it’s anything like the last third of the television series, I will most likely despise it.
Oh, no. Please don’t tell me Kara no Kyoukai 7 is below the likes of One Piece and some Pixar s♥♥t I’ve never even heard of.
If you haven’t heard of UP, then that’s your problem. It is actually a very good movie. That said, I too would have liked Kara no Kyoukai to rank above it, as I love the movie, and all the other 6 movies in the series as well, though to be honest the 5th movie is perhaps even better than the 7th.
Evangelion it’s just retelling the same crap story from some 15 years ago again!
And it’s still one of the best stories ever told despite being 15 years old. And I say “despite” because you seem to think it is a bad thing, personally, I think many of the oldest stories of humanity are among the best ever.
what about ‘Ponyo on the cliff by the sea’?
(hayao miyazaki)
That’s from 2008.
Not surprised by the ranking.
Evangelion 2.0 and Summer Wars were always contenders for the top 2 spot, though this is the first time I’ve seen Eva 2.0 beating Summer Wars. Maybe Dengeki’s overseas subscribers helped tipped the scales in Eva 2.0’s favour? Considering Summer Wars has yet to be shown outside Japan.
The influence of anime in Japan itself is plain to see as Oscar-winning “Up” only ranked 8th in Top 10 Animated movies of the year.
(I guess this should also be considered as a compliment for Pixar, with its meaningful and actually quite mature stories alongside its CG animation skills managing to break into the anime dominated Japanese market. )