The top 20 anime to most stimulate, edify, educate and expand the minds of viewers – assuming such a thing is possible as all anime viewers would doubtless agree to be so – have been rankificated by fans, leading to a rather high quality list for once.
1. Death Note
2. Kaiji
5. Monster
7. Psycho-Pass
9. Parasyte
10. Mushishi
11. Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
13/12. Toaru Majutsu no Index
13/12. No Game No Life
14. Bakemonogatari
15. The Tatami Galaxy
16. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
17. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
18. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
19. Pumpkin Scissors
20. Paprika
70s Dog of Flanders anime.No matter how you become a HPITA(huge pain in the a$$),all dogs go to heaven and you are not.
Some anime are in the top 20 just because the fad of the moment . (Shingeki no Kyojin, NGNL, …)
No Game No Life in the same list as Monster and Mushishi. I weep.
Boku no Pico. No, i’m dead serious!
idiot that joke is too old learn new one moron
There are so many titles missing from this list.
Air. Honey and Clover. Usagi Drop. If Evangeline counts, why not Steins;Gate? And Black Lagoon is specifically about Existentialism. Yukio references Sartre.
So a few points for even having this as a list, but zero points for the result.