The Top 5 Anime Thread + Discussion

[Corty]

Has system? If it does, then it's insta-turn off for me.

Kinda, but not stat heavy story, it's isekai into a game stuff. I dislike littpg just like you but if you liked log horizon this shouldn't be a problem either

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I'm always bad at trying to name favorite anime. I will just pick a few I watched recently and loved.

1. Re Zero
2. Frieren
3. Eminence in Shadow
4. Chainsaw Man
5. The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten

 

[So_Indecisive]

1. Blue lock: I recently watched the first season and I caught up with the manga and it's completely subversive. While other sports anime talk about teamwork, blindly working hard and believing in yourself and all those flowery nonsense, bluelock completely spits on those.

In the world of professional football(or as the Japanese blasphemously calls it 'Soccer' the only thing that can push you to the top is the strength of your ego) most of what is covered in this anime wouldn't actually work in real life because it's anime What'd you expect but all the progress every player made is completely earned. No sudden awakenings and all that bullshit(except that one time with Nagi) it was just them piling up the things they knew little by little until a qualitative change was reached.

2. Violet Ever garden: Wholesome, WHOLESOMEEEEE. enough to make a grown man like me cry. A beautiful blend of storytelling and awesome visuals thatt has you completely immersed in the world.

3. My Hero Academia: this has always been one of my favourites but it's only recently this got to be my top 3. Season 5 and 6 gave me goosebumps. I felt awesome, I was terrified, I even cried( just a little barely a few drops I swear). When All for one got fleshed out I understood why he was deemed a demon king, this guy is a literal king, the freest man in that world a smiling demon that leaves disaster in his wake and a charisma so grand he had thousands following his will without the slightest bit of coercion.
The fights were amazing, the enemies nigh insurmountable and it made me remember why I got infatuated with the concept of heroes when I was a child.
Sure the fandom of MHA is insane and filled with perverts who ship every breathing thing under the sun but it's an amazing show.

4. Grandblue/Daily lives of high school boys: it's comedy and its absurd. Is it really fair to lump these two together because I really can't decide which is better so let's just cheat and make these two my top four.

5. Darling in the Franxx: Yeah the fact that I had to think for about 3 minutes and filtering through tens of animes I watched means this is my actual number 5. It's been four maybe 5 years since I watched this but immediately I thought about it it kicked everything else to the curb. The relationship between the male and the female lead is somewhat nah it's toxic but it seems like the kind of acid you'd willingly submerge yourself in. This is the only mecha anime I watched to the end

 

[So_Indecisive]

There no system in moonlit isekai.

Yeah moonlit isekai is just painful I really want to stab the goddess and all the heroes are rotten

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I will not be able to explain why I like them.
1. Gungrave.
2. Cowboy Bebop.
3. GTO.
4. Trigun.
5. Hellsing Ultimate.

 

[l8rose]

My top five would probably be:

1. Blueseed - The first anime I ever watched from beginning to end. The protagonist was a plucky teen who had two powers. One was to detect the weak spot in the monsters they needed to kill and the second was that she could kill them all by performing a ritual that would unalive herself. There were some joke episodes but it toed the line a lot about the morality of asking someone to willingly die to save the world.

2. Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 - A neat science fiction story about women in mech suits. It's kind of like the "magical girl" animes but more for adults. The fights were cool and the whole revelation that the mech suits were alive (in a sense) was pretty fun.

3. Blood: The Last Vampire - There are a bunch of anime in the Blood series but this one sticks out to me because it's basically Vampire family drama but ramped up to eleven. I really liked the concept of Saya's species even if it led to one of the most f-ed up plot points in an otherwise pretty standard vampire story.

4. Blood Trinity - Another sci-fi with vampires. Only the vampires were the descendants of Mars colonists who were "enhanced" by nanobots. This one also boils down to Vampire family drama with an included Civil War in the background. It was pretty fun because the protagonist was one of those characters who is only serious when he needed to be. And the characters were pretty fun (like the cyborg who was the last of its kind).

5. Ergo Proxy - The first anime I watched from beginning to end with my other half. A weird post-apocalyptic story with the surviving humans living in a dome and two of them getting kicked out (with a third companion being a robot that gained free will in a religious-like moment). They end up going from dome to dome, discovering that the humans in the other domes are all dead (pretty much) and the robot/AI/whatever that was supposed to be monitoring the other domes have all gone insane. Plus the main character goes from being a confused sanitation worker to god (basically).

 

[Woolen_Monkey]

I've never watched demon slayer????

 

[dummycake]

5 - Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Amazing power system, amazing characters, great world building, and I want to kiss Kurapika.

4 - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
The gayest and manliest anime with the writing of a genius.

3 - Death Note
This is one of those rare anime that could be watched by anyone and slowly introduce them to the world.
It's a great story that still gets debated after all this years
(Kira was wrong btw)

2 - Gurren Lagann
I cried with this one, so it gets a high position automatically.
You cum with the fight scenes and cry with the dialogue.

1 - Serial Experiments Lain
Changed my life, I don't need to say much.

Honorable Mentions:

- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Naruto (Classic and Shippuden)
- Dragon Ball Z
- Dragon Ball GT
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Mushoku Tensei

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I've never watched demon slayer????

Same.

 

[LuoirM]

I never watch anime in my short and lame lifetime, stopped enjoy entertainment as a whole but back in like 2014 when I do, I remember everyone of them. So if you were to read this list, remember these 5 are probably the only out of like, 8 or 9 I've ever watched.

Top 1: Ouran Highschool Hostclub
Top 2: Kaichou wa Maid-sama
Top 3: Assassination Classroom
Top 4: There's this one anime, romance, about people in a special class, EX or S idk. The top 1 in the class/school is the MMC, top 2 is the FMC who are in love definitely, there's this awesome character in the bottom of the special class or something that have the potential to be top 1 (he's really pro) but decided not to because he has to be the legal guardian of 2 other classmates? I like that scene where he shows his power
Also there's a scene where FMC make rice or something idk
Top 5: Between MHA and OPM

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Bakemonogatari, black butler, steins;gate, wandering witch elaine and sukasuka in a random order

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Honorable mentions:
higurashi (loved the first half and the second felt eh)
death note (same as above)
devil is a part timer (come to think of it, my first isekai)
blue exorcist (I barely remember it but I remember it was funny)
overlord (prefer the novel)
Kobayashi dragon maid (cute and memorable but not even remotely life-changing)
Himouto (same as above)
Mirai nikki (I am very based)
Happy sugar life (nah I just like over the top yandere)

 

[AnonUnlimited]

That should be @Anon2024 top 5. With the list filled with ntr.

I resent that!

Romance? Gardevoir + Trainer
Action? Officer Jenny and Team Rocket

Seriously, Pokemon is something that grows in you. I'm 33 back then, and I felt a strange satisfaction when I learned Ash is already the World Champion.

I was just saying that Pokemon gets way more mature during Sinnoh, and way more awesome after B+W

 

[CarburetorThompson]

1: Gundam the origin ova. Just really hype story that follows a revenge obsessed sociopath protagonist which is pretty rare.
2: One punch man season 1. Probably my most rewatched anime, great animation, and it’s a 21st century fictional setting story which I'm a huge fan of
3: Chivalry of a failed knight. Perfect trash power fantasy anime.
4: Love After World Domination. A rare Japanese comedy that I actually find funny, combined with great animation and action.
5 Fate UBL. The only fate I’ve ever watched and feel the need to watch. The pacing of the show is something I really enjoy and try to emulate when writing.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

3: Chivalry of a failed knight. Perfect trash power fantasy anime.
4: Love After World Domination. A rare Japanese comedy that I actually find funny, combined with great animation and action.

I did not expect to see these two.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I did not expect to see these two.

My favorites are always based on how much fun I have when watching something

(also I tried to only put 1 Gundam show on the list because if I didn’t it would just all be Gundam)

 

[RepresentingWrath]

My favorites are always based on how much fun I have when watching something

Chad move. But I was mostly talking about how those two are lesser-known compared to majority of what I've seen here. I would even call them obscure.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

I resent that!

I was just saying that Pokemon gets way more mature during Sinnoh, and way more awesome after B+W

Haven't watched Pokemon since the Alola arc, but that show's one of a kind to me.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Chad move. But I was mostly talking about how those two are lesser-known compared to majority of what I've seen here. I would even call them obscure.

Ah, there are a lot of good but obscure animes, especially from pre-idol era (90s to early 2010s).

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Ah, there are a lot of good but obscure animes, especially from pre-idol era (90s to early 2010s).

Yep. However, Rakudai Kishi is relatively new, 2015, while Love After World Domination is new 2022.