Top 20 Coolest Anime
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 7, 2013 16:57 JST
- Tags: Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Rankings, Retro, Tiger and Bunny
“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
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Ghost in the Shell made it on there? Humanity might be worthy of surviving after all...
Characters: Cool
Action: Cool
Soundtrack: Cool-gasm
Yoko Kanno cool-gasm or Kenji Kawai?
Both! (but more Yoko)
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?
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.
but... she wasn't human
Umm... yes she was?
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.
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 :P 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.
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?
Garbage? yeah, probably that is why it is so influential in the cyberpunk aesthetics (The matrix was directly inspired by it).
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
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
Scryed? now that's funny!
how come sancom dosen't have a vote sytem for its users?
Because the lists would come out worse.
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..
Fuck Tiger & Bunny, how is that crap ahead of Bebop? Fail!
Scryed over Bebop has already made this list shitty without me even saying where the fuck is TTGL, FLCL, Yu yu Hakusho, etc.
>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.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is not on this list. Some faith in humanity restored!
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.
Yeah, I like NGE, but I don't think it should go on this list.
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.
Still can't deny that SEED still have one of the coolest Mobile Suit designs
Tominofag detected!
no Darker than Black.
Shameful
Almost as shameful as DtB's second season!
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!
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.
LOL, I laughed so hard. Scryed is probably the worst shit I've ever seen.