What the hell does "dubbed or otherwise" have to do with anything? Well if you insist...
My all-time favourite anime is without Millenium Actress. I call it "the Citizen Kane of anime" only it's much less boring than Citizen Kane. It's really, really fantastic, like everything Satoshi Kon does (Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, Paprika). But that's a movie so if you want something more TV-series-ish...
My favourite anime TV series is SaiKano. It will rip out your heart and stomp on it. If you've never heard of it then PLEASE take my advice- don't look it up, don't find out anything about it, don't even learn what the english title is. Just download the first episode or get a friend to show you it on DVD while hiding the box and you avert your eyes from the DVD menu until you get to the end of that episode. It will BLOW YOUR MIND. (Unless you hate love stories, you macho, hard-case twat.)
CRITICAL ADDENDUM: ONLY watch SaiKano subbed. The dub is utterly HEINOUS.
My all-favourite dubbed anime, that is, assessed purely on the quality of its dub, is either Cowboy Bebop or Hellsing. Mostly because both are series in which the characters would obviously not be speaking Japanese (especially Hellsing, which is set in England) so it can actually get away with dropping all Japanese elements from the scripts and also have really good performances (especially Crispin Freeman as Alucard). I froth at the mouth every time a series set in a Japanese high school gets a crappy dub where they switch out all the cultural references and replace the honourifics with poorly-conceived english equivalents (word to the wise, translators- there ARE no english equivalents to Japanese honourifics. Either leave the Japanese ones in or don't dub it.)
My all-time favourite anime is without Millenium Actress. I call it "the Citizen Kane of anime" only it's much less boring than Citizen Kane. It's really, really fantastic, like everything Satoshi Kon does (Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, Paprika). But that's a movie so if you want something more TV-series-ish...
My favourite anime TV series is SaiKano. It will rip out your heart and stomp on it. If you've never heard of it then PLEASE take my advice- don't look it up, don't find out anything about it, don't even learn what the english title is. Just download the first episode or get a friend to show you it on DVD while hiding the box and you avert your eyes from the DVD menu until you get to the end of that episode. It will BLOW YOUR MIND. (Unless you hate love stories, you macho, hard-case twat.)
CRITICAL ADDENDUM: ONLY watch SaiKano subbed. The dub is utterly HEINOUS.
My all-favourite dubbed anime, that is, assessed purely on the quality of its dub, is either Cowboy Bebop or Hellsing. Mostly because both are series in which the characters would obviously not be speaking Japanese (especially Hellsing, which is set in England) so it can actually get away with dropping all Japanese elements from the scripts and also have really good performances (especially Crispin Freeman as Alucard). I froth at the mouth every time a series set in a Japanese high school gets a crappy dub where they switch out all the cultural references and replace the honourifics with poorly-conceived english equivalents (word to the wise, translators- there ARE no english equivalents to Japanese honourifics. Either leave the Japanese ones in or don't dub it.)
