Top 10 Anime Which Revolutionised The Anime World
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 8, 2011 17:39 JST
- Tags: Evangelion, Gundam, Haruhi, K-ON!, Mecha, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Rankings
Anime fans provide a ranking of the titles they regard as having had the most “revolutionary” effect on the anime world.
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
3. Gundam
4. Haruhi
5. Tiger & Bunny
6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
7. K-ON!
8. Space Battleship Yamato
9. Code Geass
10. Pokémon
It is interesting to note that most of the list is comprised of anime originals.
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How the hell did Madoka revolutionize anything? And in that regard, how did K-on?
The only thing they created are just more crazy fanatical fanbases.
K-ON definitely made the whole moe phenomenon as popular is it is today. And it's inspired a lot of "cute girls doing cute things" shows that never would have been made if K-ON wasn't so successful.
Agreed on Madoka though.
Actually, I'd say Luck Star was what caused the Moe phenomenon.
To top it off, Tiger & Bunny shouldn't be on that list. Its too new to "revolutionize" anything, same with Madoka. Madoka was basically a Horror/Betrayal anime like Higurashi.
If anything Voltron should've been on there for making Robo-combining cool. And Speed Racer should be on there for being the first one to really introduce Anime to the American market.
I thought the same thing about Lucky Star and Tiger and Bunny. Although I think other mecha anime should be placed up there before voltron. Like SDF Macross
Sure, Lucky Star was popular with otaku. But K-ON was far more successful and, more importantly, brought moe into the mainstream. That's what makes it a "revolutionary" anime.
Getter is what made robot combining cool (and made robot combining period), not Voltron
"Speed Racer should be on there for being the first one to really introduce Anime to the American market."
And do the Japanese anime fans care for the American market?
Surprisingly, the raking is quite accurate this time. Replace Higurashi with DBZ maybe. But why Tiger & Bunny... WHY???
Lol madoka? Not sailomoon? Which started the magical girl theme evolution.
@Aso Tamaki
True, K-ON was far more successfull but moe was already extremely popular before. Same goes for SoL anime with girls. K-ON didn't revolutionize anything, it strengthened an already existent trend at most.
I really like some of the anime on that list but only NGE and Yamato can be described as some kind of revolution.
NGE, Gundam, Yamato, Pokemon are the most revolutionary from the list.
As for others, they're just popular things that already were there; some of them just made the industry move more into one direction or the other.
So how did Pokemon revolutionize the industry? If it's for the fighting pets, then Digimon is what started it first with the fighting version of tamagocchi.
DBZ? No, just no. DBZ didnt do shit and thank god, because it would've been a horrible influence since it sucked.
Except it only influenced pretty much every Shonen Manga from then on. Whether or not it's your cup of tea is a different story entirely.
The liks of Eiichiro Oda, Kishimoto and Tite Kubo have all listed Dragon Ball as being one of their primary inspirations for their works.
Just saiyan. ;)
Dragon Ball and.. "Dragon Ball Z" are two entirely different series. Don't confuse them, please? Like Kanon and Kanon (2006) are different.
Actually the manga was just Dragon Ball.
Some of those Animes that are on the top of the list had good concepts. K-ON! just shouldn't be on the list. I am sorry, because didn't do anything special other then attract males who like the concept of girl's talking about food and school for god sake take a cooking class.
I guess Ranma 1/2 and Tetsujin 28 didn't get on the list they were not that good.
I don't understand why isn't there any Studio Ghibli shows?
Or does it have to be a TV series to count...
Dbz IS legendary. There is a good reason why there over 9000 games based on the series!
00:17 09
Yes Kanon was a waste of time and money, while Kanon (2006) was worthwhile.
The manga and the anime are also two different things. And there exist differences between the adaption called dragon ball and the other adaption called dragon ball z.
Dragon Ball Z is just the anime version's way of saying "and now for a time skip!" There is no differentiation in the manga version.
Just like Naruto Shippuden is really just Naruto Part 2. It's just an anime marketing ploy I say.
what about the original macross? back in those days, it hit us with modern pop music and love/drama within a mecha genre.
It in the full list at #12, right behind Cream Lemon..
Cream Lemon should be on second place instead of Madoka.
sorry, no, long before there was k on, or lucky star, there was card captor sakura. that maanga/anime started the whole moe movement.
Then you are wrong. K-ON didn't inspire the "cute girls doing cute things CUTELY" sub-category of slice-of-life. That was accomplished by Azumanga Daioh.
agree Azumanga Daioh
Agree
I Think that classics Like Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor moon, Slayers, You're under arrest and even Dragon Ball have more merits than some Moe-blobs like k-on, Madoka and such...
Wrong, Lucky Star was the most successful anime of 2007, the hardest hitting anime season ever since it brought Darker Than Black, Higurashi, Black Lagoon, and so many more hugely popular anime, Lucky Star still triumphed.
K-ON would be nothing without Lucky Star or Azumanga Daioh as both practically defined the slice of life genres. When i first watched K-ON before the moe craze explosion all I could notice was that the characters just stole traits from Lucky Star and Azumanga. K-ON didnt revolutionize anything. It was just recycled concepts with cutesy attractive characters. And unfortunatly thats all otakus care about these days.
Look. I never said K-ON started a genre or was the first anything. The fact is that it has been by far the most successful. The sales of the actual anime DVD/Blu-rays alone show that, but when you add in all the merchandise, nothing comes remotely close. You can't deny that. Mention those two shows to the average person and then mention K-ON.
As you should know, $$$ means everything so since then the companies have been pushing even more of these types of series to try and capitalize on K-ON's success. That is called having an impact on the anime industry whether you like it or not.
Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh didn't define the slice of life genre. They defined the slice of life with cute girls genre.
They may not have defined it but they were more popular and spawned more similar shows than pretty much anything else before them.
I don't see the big draw to K-On, it had it's moments but I felt it to slow and not interesting enough. I do like school girl slice of life series but K-ON was more of a K-Off for me.
Azumanga Daioh, I'd consider this the first "Moe" school girl anime. Now IMOH it was a great funny series which really dove into not only each members personal lives but their group interactions as well. Lucky Star was a newer version of Azumanga Daioh I feel.
Lucky Star and Azumanga started the whole slice of life with cute girls.
Also no DBZ it set the standard for Shonen genera.
There would have been no Bleach,Naruto, and One piece without DBZ and Inuyasha also has a lot to owe.
Plus no Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2 which pretty much invented the Harem genera.
"Shonen" isn't a genre, it's a demographic. Shows as diverse as Yu-Gi-Oh! and Azumanga Daioh are officially "shonen;" a classification based on nothing more than their target market.
If you mean fighting-themed action-adventure shows, then you would be correct that DB/DBZ had a major influence. However, if anything, Fist of the North Star had an even greater influence there (and influenced DB itself).
Tenchi did pretty much invent the modern harem demographic. With Ranma, though, I'd say you have the right author, but the wrong story: Urusei Yatsura had nearly as much of a harem vibe going as Ranma did. Coincidentally, UY also pretty much invented the magical girlfriend genre. Takahasi also contributed heavily to anime/manga romantic comedies with Maison Ikkoku.
I suppose we should give the respondents some credit for getting two two series from before 1980 onto the list this time, unlike, say that list of "unique" shows we just had that didn't have a single title from before Y2K.
Urusei Yatsura invented the harem genre
K-ON? Pokemon? NO WAY! For retards yes, but for everything else, NO WAY!
Pokemon is for kids. If you want to think of kids as retards... well that goes to show your own maturity.
Kids ARE retards Hurrrrr
Pokemon DID inspire hordes of imitators. It more or less created the anime genre of shows with kids battling it out via proxies (even if the games ripped off Shin Megami Tensei).
It doesn't matter how GOOD the show was. It matters whether the mix of anime after it was different than before it.
By that token, it's a pity the influences of some of those shows (Yamato, Gundam) weren't longer and stronger.
A "-0" vote? What?
Anyway, the only thing I find K-ON to revolution is the tendency of having those small eyes.
Compared to other moeness that possesses large eyes.
Are you srs? The whole "cute girls doing cute things genre" is WAYYYY older than K-on :\
Infact, the description for Mashimaro is "cute girls doing cute things" came out 2 years before K-on in both anime and manga.
And this isnt even including the other shows it rips of like Lucky Star, Azumanga, Minamike, and the dozens of other shows that predate K-on by years.
K-on didn't revolutionize shit. K-on gave us yet another moe blob cast with yet another cute idiot, and yet more cute "shy" characters which shameless otaku have blown completely out of the norm.
It was Azumanga Daioh that started this shit. It was far from the worst, but AFAIK, it was the first plotless "let's stare at cute teenage girls in nonsexual contexts while we all masturbate furiously" show.
but there were plenty of shows doing that before K ON, actually i think K On came after the moe bubblu burst
Madoka is there because it got the mahou shoujo's formula and threw it on the garbage making it a lot darker... Pretty much what NGE did to the mechas.
wrong getter is not the one its IDEON
hidamari has more moe than K-On
K-ON created Moe-Bloob. which makes every anime after it became K-ON like for a while
while Madoka, dont know. Making Magical girl died is not so Revolutioning
There should be Ghost in the shell in that list, It particuraly set standard for Cyber punk world
and also, DORAEMON. it revolutionize how a group should at least have 1 girl, 1 Bully big guys, 1 dude with glasses
K-On created moe blob? No, no it didn't.
I'm pretty sure I first heard "moe blob" for mentionning Mikuru from Haruhi. Like, moe and cute but useless and irritating.
"K-ON created Moe-Bloob. "
I smell a newfag.
agree with Ghost in the shell set a very high standard
I'd agree that K-ON created moe-blob. Before then, people weren't utterly sick of moe (and the fans that were making the industry churn out so much of this crap) and so the phrase hadn't been coined. K-ON is the absolute opposite of revolutionary!
Modoka was overrated. No complaints from me about a magical girl show that wasn't afraid to treat its audience like adults, and it was certainly pretty to look at. But it reminded me far too much of Alien Nine, and barely held a candle to Revolutionary Girl Utena in any department.
Cyberpunk is something that anime had plenty of examples of prior to GitS. But it's odd that the top 10 has no examples of something that anime is so well known for.
What did Haruhi, Tiger & Bunny, Higurashi and Code Geass contribute?
More retarded fans? This can't be considered as revolutionary. K-on? Tiger and Bunny? Madoka? Pokemon?
They could have added Dragonball, Astroboy, Doraemon, Goldorak and others in the list...
Excuse me but Pokemon certainly breaks grounds in introducing immortality of Ash! But if that was the case why didn't Conan get in hmmm the plot thickens. Or maybe for the most seasons of a title Ever
As for Madoka don't get me wrong I though it was Godly, but just too new, it's legacy remains to be seen as how long fans will be able to remember it but for now it only hold the same title as every "best of the season" show possesses
Haruhi sure why not, as if it didn't make my skin tingle if to think if God ever got bored and decided to take take form as a cute girl(Kyon, yes I am envious) not to mention the fact of her Godly power activating subconsciously
Higurashi... I guess cause it brought killing intent closer to the audience ever before, sure other titles have displayed Gore and brutality before but Higurashi lets you seep into the story as the main character for the arc and then...Bam needle for dinner
Code Geass it was just epic in so many ways
K-on? Personally i think Konata herself would be able to beat all four any day but ya more weirdos grabbed on to that one so watcha gonna do?
OmG,... I guess the oldfags are really dying out.
How could Sailor Moon and Ghost in the Shell, & & & Cowboy BeBop get omitted?
This is a scandal!
{insert Sulu troll face here}
Higurashi is SO FUCKING MUCH MORE than blood and horror, dammit!! Read the novels, you ALL!!
see u said it urself, read the novels. so its the novels that hv all the others. but this list is about anime...
u get my point :)
Well, the anime wasn't that bad. Umineko anime was BAD, but Higurashi was awesome.
Also, i'm reading the novels right now (tatarigoroshi-hen) and they are very very emotional. Higurashi anime, you don't exist anymore!! asdñkasd. Sorry for my bad english...
Isnt sazae-san much longer than conan in terms of episode and season count with over 3000 episodes?
Yes but no one other than old people care about Sazae-san
The four are further down at #15, 22, 24, not there but Mazinger Z is at 21.
these titles sure brings back good memories...
Goes to show the average Japanese anime viewer cares more about trends than the history of the indrustry.
I found the big plot "twist" in Madoka extremely trite, even though I usually like that kind of plots.
I guess you could say it revolutionized the mahou shoujo genre, but I think it's more like mahou shoujo only in name...
Where is Cardcaptor Sakura? It started the so called "imouto-moe" if I recall correctly.
#12 macross
#13 galaxy express 999
#14 one piece
#16 CARDCAPTOR
#17 Nanoha
#19 utena
#20 Death note
#22 Astro Boy
#23 Ashita no Joe
#27 Gurren Lagann
#30 Getter
#36 AKIRA
#41 Kurokami (wat?
Galaxy Express had no successors. Great anime aren't necessarily revolutionary.
if mahou shoujo then in dat case wouldn't nanoha be more fitting that madoka. it was did introduce that mahou shoujo's were not all cutesy and using cutesy magical wand type + the idea of her 'friendship' i think it deserves its place rather than madoka, sides the strength of the franchise already shows, 3 anime seasons, 1 movie, 2nd on the way, weiss scharwz cards, psp games, mangas and etc
Nanoha wasn't the first of the serious drama-type Magical Girl shows. You also have other popular Magical Girl anime like Arjuna, Princess Tutu, and MY-HIME, the last of which was coming out around the same time as Nanoha and making just as much of an impact.
As for comparing Nanoha's franchise material, Madoka has been creeping up on it quickly. Aside from only being new, so it lacks animated sequels, it has two spin-off manga, a PSP game, playing cards, figures galore, stuffed animals, and the mascot has definitely made more of a merchandise impact than Nanoha's cute mascot ever did.
As for Madoka being "revolutionary," though, I definitely believe it has the potential to do so... but it's not quite there yet. You don't see many deeply layered anime out there like Madoka anymore, so it might have the effect of sticking in fans' minds. However, just being good and having lots of layers to it doesn't guarantee it a spot on this list 5-10 years from now. It will also take time for people to make it a "norm" and luck to keep it alive (whether it be from anime critics or its addicted fans). Still, I'm rooting for it!
if u are talking abt mahou shoujo i'd say sailor moon. hell it got ppl interested in teenage jap girls in sailor uniform.
Sailor Moon is revolutionary, yes. After all, it established much of the formula that Madoka played upon. =P
agree Nanoha should be in the list
Yes, Sailor Moon should be on the list as it was a defining moment in mahou shoujo anime... it really made it "boom" so to speak... tho, really they should also have really old animes on here to... As they were the start of it...
lol ...No Tezuka?
they should have put School Days there...
School Days... maybe. It had its moment of craziness, but the overall School Days series doesn't do anything new for the genre. The original game followed the formula most of the time, anyway. It just happened that they played upon the crazy endings in the anime...
I'm just wondering where the hell SDF Macross is on this list...
1. Astro Boy
2. Gundam 0079
3. Nausicaa the valley of the wind
4. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
5. Akira
6. Doraemon
7. Space Runaway Ideon
8. Sailor Moon
9. Dragon Ball
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dammit my list is even better than that shit...
Remember unlike most foreigners Japs don't really have much time in watching back logs of anime So Your list I for one kind of appreciate, Normal anime watching Japs won't even get the chance
Hokuto no ken should be on that list too, while the anime didnt hit as hard as the manga, the effect was and.. is still felt, it set up the standards of shounen per se.
Hell no one ever did an evil/not evil bad guy as badass as Raoh, closest to him is Dio Brando.
But if it wasnt for HnK as a whole, shounen would have existed from 80s to 90s.. where it was killed by the anti thesis of the badass character "Shinji" from eva, which spammed the intensive lame ass character for a while.
Name 5 anime obviously inspired or influenced by Hokuto no Ken, with NO debt to its predecessors.
I can think of two, and a few debatable ones.
much more accurate list AVEN.
Ah... Even I have to agree with this... considering the fact that this list is more factual than anything else.
Damn Straight.
have to agree... most of them seems really unique and started tendencies
I don't agree on places, but indeed decent lest (unlike the topic one).
Nausicaa had some lasting visual impact, and the legacy of the creation of Studio Ghibli, but other than that didn't have a lot of direct impact.
Macross is part of the revolution started by Gundam. Ideon is descended from both Gundam and Yamato, and was part of a wave of similar shows as pervasive as moe is now.
Sailor Moon is spot on, though. Not sure about Doraemon.
Dragon Ball, probably. Was there anything with the DRAG-ON BALL Z interminable setup fight anime format before that?
No Lupin the 3rd and Cobra?
shame!
Yeah, lost all merit at Madoka..
Be honest, it changed nothing and revolutionized nothing..
Actually it did rev the way we see moe....hmm............-_-
Card Captor Sakura ftw
and Dragonball
They belong up there
madoka is suck
What.The.F**K?
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion - No argument...
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica - The fuck? Where's DBZ?
3. Gundam - Well, duh this franchise is loved for 30 freaking years old(Gunpla)
4. Haruhi - ......
5. Tiger & Bunny - HOW? I need EXPLANATION on "Revolutionised The Anime World"
6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Loved this one personally though
7. K-ON! - Really? wait oh..Haruhi reference (Moe+UBER FANBASE)
8. Space Battleship Yamato - Classic
9. Code Geass - Not that I care but it was awesome indeed.
10. Pokémon - No. 10 How? The game practically sells like hotcake!
yea i was wondering the same The rest of the list is fine
replace K-on and madoka with death note and Gurren lagan and i think were set
Queens Blade could be on that list
for creating the surge of blatant fan service/borderline porn anime being adapted
ladies vs butler
qwaser
high school of the dead
samurai girls
manyuu
to love ru
Pokemon should clearly be ranked #1. It's the only one that has impacts outside of the creepy okatu circles. A generation of kids the world over has memorized hundreds of pokemons, instead of their schoolwork... It has made the post 90s generation the intelligent young adults you see today.
TRUE! Madoka is a stupid anime
K-ON? Pokemon? NO WAY! For retards yes, but for everything else, NO WAY!
indeed.. popular =/= revolutionary.
Disregard ranking
Acquire logic.
Troll list is troll.
Also... pokemon... WTF! anything that funimation/4kids does ecomes crap in the process.
this list is bullshit, except from some obvious ones, most people so far agree the ones that are bull.
for that matter, gundam should be on top, cuz NGE was based on the fact that gainax was trying to make something as badass as gundam.
theres a lot of things in today that was influenced by gundam >:U
Tiger & Bunny is quite revolutionary since it has a whole new level of product placement into anime by just selling characters to companies.