Top 10 Spring 2010 Anime – Angel Beats Beaten
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 24, 2010 10:49 JST
- Tags: Angel Beats!, B-Gata H-Kei, Comparison, K-ON!, Precure, Rankings
Fans of Angel Beats have been aghast at a ranking of the best anime of spring 2010 which manages to completely omit the anime in favour of such classics as the latest Precure.
The survey, conducted by Japanese anime portal AnimeOne, is predictably headed by a certain non-moe anime:
1. K-ON!!
2. Durarara!!
3. Working!!
4. Heartcatch Precure!
5. Ookiku Furikabutte
6. Giant Killing
7. Katanagatari
8. B-Gata H-Kei
9. Yojouhan shinwa taikei
10. Kaichou ha Meido-sama!
Contrast to the recent Dengeki ranking.
The question on the lips of fans is of course “Whither Angel Beats?”
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Different strokes for different folks I guess. I think we all know what people around here stroke.
I can understand different strokes but I thought everyone hated Katanagatari?
They do? It's one of the most refreshing anime I've seen in ages. Definitely merits its spot in the top 10.
Yeah Katanagatari is pretty good. What surprises me is Heartcatch Precure being there. I never watched it, but it gave the impression of a show for young girls or creepy old men.
I'm shocked that the Japanese otaku acknowledge the genius in the arthouse-anime-of-the-year in Yojouhan shinwa taikei, aka Tatami Galaxy.
It's free in Youtube. Can't afford to miss nor one has an excuse to.
Meh.. Probably a mix of young girls and men.. though really its show with a weekend morning timeslot alongside Sentai plus Kamen Rider aka Super Hero Time.
The reasons I could think of for those that voted for it are..
1) Nana Mizuki fans
2) DFC (lots 8D *drools*)
3) animation director & character designer for ojamajo doremi(ok that's my personal reason)
4) actual little girls who watch the show
oh hell, at least this seasons precure's story is pretty funny and OP/ED is catchy. For a magical girl anime, Precure fight scenes always had a little bit of shounen influence in them. Enjoy!
-just a passing through Precure Anon, (who'll forget about this post in 5min)
Heartcatch Precure most definitely is rock solid this season. Some of the best animation work right now is in Heartcatch Precure. Sounds crazy but it's true. IMO the best Precure show aside from the first Precure season.
True, I saw a gif of one of the girls (I dunno which one, her color was yellow though) transformation sequence, and it was surprisingly awesome.
What this listing shows more than anything else is that anime fans LOVE exclamation points !!!!!!!
I stopped watching Precure after season 2. Seems I have to check the latest one.
While I love angel beats. Heartcatcher is really really good. This time, unlike Fresh, we actually have a reliable translator. So fans who don't speak JP can actually watch it. Except it might be calling that lying wombat ladholyman a translator is a bit of a stretch.
It was sorta lonely last season, when only us JP speakers were interested in Precure.
We have to switch our mindset to Japanese's way to understand..
Yeah you need a severe head injury.
Japanese's mindset is K-ON is more moe than Angel Beats, thus diverting the main bulk of the audience to the former's show. So who are the main bulk of the audience? Retarded loser otakus
^ so you fit into that category too.
WHERE ARE YOUR ANGEL BEATS NOW?!
~not all caps
On my HD. ^_^
on my internet, making westen otakus proud.
ditto
Different strokes.... what now you tell me someone likes to stroke molten lava?
I mean, Precure? Of all things?
I finished Yojouhan shinwa taikei and I'm only watching katanagatari
Katanagatari is brilliant.
It's a sad thing that Angel Beats isn't on the list but wait... where's Highschool of the Dead?
Btw, KyoAni needs to turn Himeko Tachibana into a main character.
Sorry I didn't read the list Himeko is so distracting.
They definitively should at least give her at least a couple of spotlight episodes.
@JohnHayabusa It says spring anime.
Tis true, but to be this different in rating really makes you wonder who's statistics are more reliable, or even reliable at all.
At least they both agree that Working was a good anime...
Statistics aside, Working!! was indeed great....but Angel Beats was (imo) one of the best of the season, and certainly better than K-ON!! (mind you, I myself like K-ON!!).
Agreed. I like K-ON!! Nothing against it, but the story really lacks any punch (its another slice of life anime's with a bit less comedy and more Moe).
I think last season had some really good series.
Our cocks?
They all got a !!
i watch anything as long as it has exclamation marks at the end of the name!
@motaku96
That comment is a stroke of genius. ^_^
hey giant killing is in there oO im kind of impressed, those otakus sure knows whats good for them xD
The survey doesn't match the sales numbers of K-on getting clobbered in dvd/blu-ray sales or ratings for that matter..
Hah.. What a fucking crock!
moe moe kyun rules !
Working FTW ! :3
I have a feeling AnimeOne be trolling as at least Angel Beats had a decent story; K-ON only has its "non-moe" blobness.
Tisk-Tisk
At least they both have working high on the rankings.
>Angel Beats
>decent story
pick one, one of the weakest points and what was done the worst in Angel Beats was its story.
Indeed, they cut so many corners.
Indeed, the series really needed to be longer than it was. Each episode started and finished a new arc which is absolute rubbish...
Here's to hoping Kyoto decides to step in and remake it like they did with Kanon, cheers.
It couldn't be helped. In the end, they did pretty well with the story (especially with only 13 eps). I too, however, would love to see what they could do with say...26 eps..
I agree. The ending felt very rushed. Not much was told about how people decided that they had the desire to move on.
I think it should have been a 26 episode as well to really cover the story. And the whole episode 12 was rather iffy to me.
I'm seeing a pattern here... The more exclamation points an anime has in its name, the better it must be!
It's clear that if Heartcatch Precure only had three exclamation marks, it would have come first.
All you need to do to make a really successful anime is to call it "AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
You might run into copyright problems with that name. There's an indie game called "AAaaaAAaAAaaAahhh!!!"
Although an anime about people base jumping could be fun.
Yeah, but mine has more exclamation marks, thus automatically dodging copyright issues and also magically making it ultra popular.
although im not a big fans of Angel Beats...
it is impossible for anime like precure or even B Gata H Kei can top up angel beats
B Gata was still more entertaining to watch than Angel Beats, for me personally. While I do despise Angel Beats, I do question why it does not appear on this listing at all. Just a little suspicious, given it's strange popularity and fandom.
Except Heartcatch Precure this season is VERY good. Very charming, nice and simple character-dilemma-of-the-day and the animation is jawdropping. All that, I can't really say for Angel Beats which just dropped the ball with its final few episodes. Also too many characters just coming and going with the way the story was created.
I am not surprised -_____-
still K-on! FTW :D
Let's go K-ON!!
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Personally, I hated Anbel Beats.
Really? Then how did you feel about Angel Beats?
About the same as when I see typos on the internet. IT MAKES ME RAGE.
Terrible. Didn't like that concept at all.
It sucks as well.