Top 30 Anime That Got You Into Anime
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2014 16:26 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Evangelion, Haruhi, K-ON!, Rankings, Sword Art Online
Masses of anime fans quizzed on which title it was which got them hooked on anime in the first place have given pride of place to a certain popular anime series it seems…
The ranking, with a voting sample of 10,000:
1. A Certain Series
2. Sword Art Online
3. K-ON!!
4. Gintama
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion
6. One Piece
7. Sailor Moon
8. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
9. Kuroko’s Basketball
10. Clannad
11. Prince of Tennis
12. Shingeki no Kyojin
13. Card Captor Sakura
14. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
15. Dragon Ball
16. Code Geass
17. Full Metal Alchemist
18. Detective Conan
19. Space Battleship Yamato
20. Monogatari series
21. Mobile Suit Gundam
22. Naruto
23. Free!
24. Yu Yu Hakusho
25. Angel Beats!
26. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
27. Doraemon
28. Shakugan no Shana
29. Digimon Adventure 01
30. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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Legit list.
K-On! forever
Pretty believeable list. A lot of good anime into that list, and a few bad ones...
But too many recent Animes, seems like many voters are only quite new to Animes.
It's a good thing. Getting new users is important as they'll bring in more money.
Nobody who is a real fan wants to waste time voting when they could be watching more anime.
Time didn't stop after the year 2000. There are always new people.
lol, who the hell only got into anime until after watching Free?? Guess there's a lot of pervy girls out there who can be easily swayed to the otaku world if presented with some wet bishounens.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
way too many new series. needs more classics.
Seriously???? No Akira??? Ghost in the Shell Movie???? Neon Genesis Evangelion?????? What the fuck is this list even...
I loved Akira (the manga series mostly), but it never poked my interest in anime (at the time).
This isn't a best of all time list, I doubt most people got into anime through masterpieces.
I can certainly agree with this list since most of the ones on top made me look at anime in a more detailed view and made me differentiate anime from normal cartoons.
Though old school mecha still gave me that first taste. Voltes V, Daimos, Mazinger Z, Gundam series, Raijin Oh etc. Not to mention stuff like Dragon Ball, Sailor moon, YuYu Hakusho, Slam Dunk.
Those were the ones that started it for me.
Kids these days... No ELFEN LIED?!! seriously? Got about 6 my friends hooked on anime with it.
Yup, I cut my teeth on Elfen Lied too. Although i had seen some anime shows and movies prior to that, only after Elfen Lied did i become addicted.
lol same for me, even friends who usually did not watch anime watched it
This is a japanese list, Elfen Lied was extremely popular in the west but not so much in Japan
i saw some anime before elfen lied, but yes, EL made me an otaku, i was 24 or 25 years old, before friends show me some realy shitty shows, which made me to hate anyme for a time, like naruto and shit when i was 20, man im getting old, this sucks
You were 20 before you were 24 or 25? This sucks, indeed :D
I never saw Elfen Lied as a kid, thankfully. But thankfully I did see Elven Princess.
Whoops, I meant Elven Bride.
Kids of elfen laid.....Not Genocyber and Captain Harlock?, classic of the noobtakus posers of this days.
Genocyber? Watch Urotsukidoji if you wanna talk violence, kid.
No Fumoffu? shit list
No Cowboy Bebop ? Seriously? Go fucking die in a fire, hipsters.
This list is from Japan. I think in Japan you'd be more like a "hipster" for watching Cowboy Bebop.
Of course because there was no Anime before NGE and Sailormoon, Like, those are the only ones mentioned from that period.
Akira
GITS
Saint Seiya
Slayers
Captain Tsubasa
Mononoke Hime
Nanoha
Plastic Little
There are many more which names I currently don't remember, BUT FUCK YOU SANKAKU Who makes those lists ?
Fire them NOW !
Unbelievable how many great anime is NOT BEING MENTIONED !
Who pays for this ?
Names !
I'll settle the scores !
Anime exposure worked completely differently in Japan compared to the west, I don't know how everyone is surprised by this list... and even in the west, there WAS anime here before Sailor Moon and DBZ (definitely before NGE). Even stuff as old as Astroboy and Gigantor (Testujin) was shown outside Japan and was very popular, it's just that most of the fans of anime (at least most kids that watched them) from the 60s to the 80s probably just saw them as any other cartoon next to Flinstones and Bugs Bunny and didn't realize/care that they were from Japan and were called "anime" there, so most fans of anime from those eras probably didn't use them as a gateway.
Hard to say. Star Ocean Ex, Kimagure Orange Road or Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin. Kimagure & Ginga were something I watched as a child and really liked them, but didn't realize there were anime until much later. Star Ocean Ex was the first anime series I knowingly watched and started to obtain specifically anime after it.
Digimon Aventure 01's there, but no Pokemon? WTF? Also, no Dragonball Z?
No Elfen Lied?!?!?
Another sh*t list.
Yeah, it was Elfen Lied for me and it surely impressed a bunch of other people I know as well. Even if it wasn't the first show I saw. Although looking back at it now, it's mainly nostalgia that keeps it afloat. It's not objectively speaking so great.
This list isn't shit. It's obvious most of the voters are kids who have only been around to watch anything for a few measly years.
I agree - mostly kids are smashing the "vote" buttons on random sites :(
Elfen Lied almost made me want to quit watching anime, ugh what a pile of crap that was.
In its defence, i had to watch an english dubbing (and not an original subbed like i prefer)
Where is Boku no pico?
fuck yourself...
I believe that is the point of the anime, isn't it?
H.M., is that you?
Ah... Adorable Pico. So many faps...
The internet is never gonna let anyone forget it. 100 years from now it'll still be a lame obligatory joke even when the lists have become unrecognizable compared to now.
had to google boku no pico, i was expecting an anime from like the 60's. years ago bible black had this spot in the ongoing joke.
Where's Rurouni Kenshin.
Get it through your head, kids.
Sankaku gets their top lists from Japanese sites. Some very random. If it wasn't popular there, it's not going to be on the list. Looking at you, Cowboy Bebop.
Also, all these lists tend to be stuff that's been popular in the last decade, not taking older series into account.
Personally mine is Ranma 1/2.
Hm, Doreamon is still on the list, and that one according to the internet started in 1979... although the last episode was in 2005.
So yeah, could be that shows that ended in 2004 or before aren't on that list.
That sure doesn't explain why Urusei Yatsura isn't on the list, unless the only people voting are all teenagers pretending to be distinguished by voting for some more classic anime because they saw a few episodes of it when they were kids.
Sankaku can literally make up every list entirely themselves, randomly, and still keep this site running the way it is. The lists would still be just as useless and pointless. I mean hardly anyone even notices where these list come from as it is, so what would the difference be? The sad truth...
what's A Certain Series?I've been to international forums for years,certainly this series isn't a lot to talk about.
Its the To Aru Index/Railgun. Those two.
Sword Art Online being so high is telling. The old guard of anime are gone then, if this many young idiots are dominating it with their inexperience.
Man, fuck it
Rurouni Kenshin got me into manga fucking fast man