Anime fans sought to provide a ranking of the most influential, historic and memorable anime ever to grace the medium, resulting in a rather impressive list of undisputed classics both new and old.
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. Mobile Suit Gundam
3. Space Battleship Yamato
4. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
5. Card Captor Sakura
6. K-ON!
7. Dragon Ball
8. Sailor Moon
9. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
10. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
11. Pokemon
12. Astro Boy
13. Lupin III
14. Ghost in the Shell
15. Mazinger Z
16. Lucky Star
17. Spirited Away
18. Princess Mononoke
19. Future Boy Conan
20. Akira
21. Doraemon
22. Touch
23. Sazae-san
24. Magical Princess Minky Momo
25. Macross: Do You Remember Love?
oh well Dragonball and Sailormoon should be in the top 3 together with neongenesis evengelion, for one simple reason. those series did rule the whole anime scene outside of japane for decades, also detective conan, one piece and naruto but those series are least important. Many dudes and artist in the West also love Yoko littner or yoko ritona from guren lagann, so thats also an important series i guess :3
you should have mentioned black rock shooter, since hatsune miku definetely influenced like about 90% of anime artist of today
also K-ON! and Lucky Star schould be definetely above suzumiya haruhi. haruhi simply fuked up and doesnt deserve that spot anymore :0 there was certainly better moe animes
speaking of “certainly” i just remembered to aru majutsu no index which influenced the scene as well pretty much
K-on??? lol… I pity this list.
Lucky Star and Haruhi were great… but not epoch-making.
There are some good “epoch-defining” anime on this list, but epoch-making? I think the author is confused. Or maybe the translation is incorrect.
Neon Genesis Evangelion took first.
And all is right with the world.
How the f♥♥k did Evangelion rank 1st, and Gundam rank 2nd? There’s absolutely no denying the influence Eva had on anime, but without Gundam mecha anime would all still be fucking 30 minute toy commercials. And why the hell are Evangelion and Gundam so high on the list? Whoever complied this list must have really loved mecha, or is mecha just that big a deal in japan?
What? No “Yu-Gi-Oh!”? Invalid list is invalid.