Top 25 Epoch Making Anime
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 28, 2013 03:08 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Card Captor Sakura, Evangelion, History, Legends, Rankings
The anime which fans believe of historic importance and well deserving a place in the annals of anime history have been enthusiastically voted on, leaving an astonishingly well balanced list for once…
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. Card Captor Sakura
3. A Certain Scientific Railgun
4. Mobile Suit Gundam
5. Cowboy Bebop
6. K-ON!
7. Clannad After Story
8. Akira
9. Strike Witches
10. Mushishi
11. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
12. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
13. Sword Art Online
14. Gurren Lagann
15. Ano Hana
16. Air
17. Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo’s Counterattack
18. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s
19. Natsume’s Book of Friends
20. Clannad
21. Accel World
22. Scryed
23. Angel Beats!
24. Bakemonogatari
25. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
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Did you just... comment before looking at the article? :/
It is.
Glad to see Card Captors as number 2 <3
where is dragonball?
Railgun way up there?
And where is our beloved Lesbian Stripper Ninja from GITS?
What kind of bullshit is this? No Ghost in the Shell? WTF?!
aannnnnnnnnd there we have the obligatory "no ghost in the shell" rant in every list.
what's the big deal with Ghost in the Shell?
Its essetially Spawn/Batman with tits; nothing but a brooding lead character who kicks some ass every once in awhile and has a few cool gadgets; then goes back to brooding. Unless you're referring to SAC. Which was true to character, but 10 years too late.
Like it or not, it fits the list because it IS epoch-making, something that helped influence or change the industry in a direct way.
... where is my LOGH?!
Personal Favorites aside, there are quite a lot of titles that just spawned a new "strain" in their direction, instead of really opening an epoch in and of itself. Still, have seen quite worse lists i guess.
No Naruto/One Piece/DBZ..oh, Never mind, I see SAO/AW on list.This list is corupted.
Naruto/One piece/DBZ overhyped crap.
Where is Sailor Moon?
Love Hina??
i'll put sailor moon #1 just for chibiusa
Without Sailor Moon we wouldn't have magical girls these days.
If we didn't have Cutey Honey we wouldnt have Sailor Moon.
And without Sally the Witch we wouldn't have Cutey Honey, lol.
Without Sailor Moon we wouldn't have sentai style magical girls like Precure series. Before Sailor Moon a magical girl series usually consisted of only one girl and many of them didn't fight physically (Cutie Honey being the exception of course) but with magic. Sailor Moon established the formula of sentai mixed with mahou shoujo which forever changed the genre.
if we didn't have fanboys we wouldn't have problems
Sailor Moon is only popular in the US and some European countries. I think it's one of the few japanese shows that got so many episodes only because it did so well outside Japan. No one in Japan even remembers it, lol.
Actually, there were shows like Minky Momo and Mahoutsukai Sally long, long before Sailor Moon. Even if we just considered the more action-oriented mahou shoujo series, as Anon 4:05 already stated, that was preceded by Cutey Honey.
And Majokko Meg-chan
Magical girls were around before Sailor Moon. A more accurate way to describe it would be "Without Sailor Moon we wouldn't have magical warrior girls.
Without Sailor Moon, we'd have been stuck with some shitty yaoi (swimming) animes.
As much as I like Railgun, I see it on the list and I'm all "lol no"
Railgun? K-ON? No, just NO!!!
wheres Aku no Hana on the list ?
It hasn't even gotten halfway through the series yet, there is no way it can be called a masterpiece when it's 4 episodes in. Just because you like something doesn't mean that it's worthy of something before everything else so please keep your head out of you're ass.
Or maybe you can't read sarcasm? There's a thought.
Internet:
A) Sarcasm doesn't come through.
B) It is as stupid as you think it is.
Pick one.
As much as I don't like K-ON you'll have to admit this anime kind of marked the "rise to power" of "Moe-Blob" type of anime...
No, it didn't. It just was the pinnacle of moeblob (until now). Others paved the path for K-On.
Who the hell down-voted you? I thought you were making a great point. While it's true that K-ON! did spark a huge following, it hardly started the rise in moe marketing. Did everyone just forget shows like Haruhi and Nanoha existing a good few years prior to K-ON!'s existence? Though, if any one show could be credited for it all, that would probably be AIR.
Agreed. It was "Air" in Jan 2005 that paved the way for Kyoto's run of high-cost, high-production-value bishoujo anime. It should be higher, and "K-on" lower.
after bishoujo, now is bishounen era
Azumanga did moe blob before K-ON.
Personally, I didn't mind railgun because it was entertaining. That said, I thought K-ON was the worst piece of crap that the anime industry could handle. No actual story or plot development. As a character driven story, they were all flat characters and even the humor wasn't that great. For me it only lasted 4 episodes before I couldn't take it anymore.
You must be God tier because I turned that shit off about a minute into the first episode and never looked back!
Actually, I would agree that Railgun doesn't belong on there. It's still fairly recent and, at least so far as I know, doesn't seem to have sparked some massive, industry-shifting standards in the time it has been around.
Mind you, I liked Railgun.... though, I didn't think it matched up to Index (the first season, anyway). And in case anyone asks, my opinion on K-ON! is rather mixed: don't hate it, have a guilty pleasure for cuteness, but do think it's been over-hyped a tad much (especially in that it was flaunting the KyoAni name).
K-On!'s ok with me, but Railgun is just an Index-Spin-off consisting of nothing but filler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_character
That's because series 1's manga ran out of manga material at episode 14, and then the rest were filler episodes and original stories.
The Railgun S that's airing now is what should had been season 2. Just pretend the original season 2 (episode 15-26) never happened.
K-On is really an epoch making anime, it started the era of moe.
#1 is not debatable but no Kanon or FLCL.
No Ghost in the Shell, Lain...
I can agree with K-on. Moeblob counts as anime as well. And K-on seems to be something very special for them.
But... Strike witches, ano hana, natsume, scryed, what's "special" about them...? 1 anime is enough from Key Visual Arts. Same for Kawahara Reki.
No city hunter, no record of lodoss war, no dragon ball, no hokuto no ken, no macross, no touch ? no credibility.
No Ranma 1/2 but Sword Art Online? God...
Once again the list reflects the fact that otaku have quite short memories... Although it also shows that there are at least some people who remember "some" epic anime from the last millennia.
K-On is propably on this list as it is the one that defines moe anime but I think it still should be replaced by Lucky Star as it was the one that started it...and like it or not, it had impact on anime industry.
Railgun is here only because it's popular but it has done nothing truly revolutionary and thus should not be on this list.
Pokemon movie should just be pokemon, it is one of the series that brought anime to the west in masses, for good or worse, it deserves a spot.