The greatest anime EVAH.

[heartkys13]

I love how the majority of you guys have some really great taste in anime =D.
but then there are "YOU GUYS" ( and you know who you are) who have posted: bleach, naruto, Dragon ball GT, and high school of the dead, etc.
You folks need to go do something to fix your brains, these are bad anime. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you need to go watch more anime, then you'll know why your wrong.
on topic: most of my favs come from the toonami and early adultswim era on cartoon network: Gundam wing, DBZ, Big O, Outlaw star, Gundam 8th MS team, Trigun, FLCL, Rurouni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo etc. Hellsing Ultimate and gurren lagann are pretty cool. But I don't think i have a singular favorite. Bebop is tough to beat.

Trigun =D *cough* Anyway...

High School of the Dead can burn in a fire yes...

But, I'd like to address Naruto and Bleach. (GT wasn't terrible... but it was far from good)

Well... mostly Naruto. (Bleach is pretty good... but I only feel like talking about Naruto... and I've only read the manga of Bleach)

I'd like to point out that Naruto is actually a great anime. It has some very interesting characters, great animation, and at times... an amazing story.

I don't think I really need to explain much of the story to anyone... but I WILL if need be. The only major flaw of this anime is... designated protagonist syndrome. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome

I'm pretty much saying... the main cast is boring and annoying. That doesn't make it a bad anime. Especially because it has sooo much "good" characterization to make up for it. Why do you consider it a bad anime? Have you watched a lot of it?

Edit: Oh. The anime also has a lot of BORING filler. Even so, it's still a nifty anime.

I don't agree with it having great animation, the only time I would ever consider it good is when it peaks during a few select fight scenes. the rest of the time it's so generic and boring. The anime doesn't do the art style of either bleach or naruto justice. In my eyes there is no excuse for this, if they aren't going put the effort in then they shouldn't be making it at all. I mean I guess I could some what understand if they were under time constraints, but if that was the case then they should stop making poorly written filler. However people can like what they want to like; I just thing you're wrong.

 

[Sux2bu]

Myself i like the SLIGHTLY realistic kind that are skewed just enough to be interesting so TTGL is a little...suck. So my 2 cents goes to Code Gauss and Ghost in the shell respectively.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Well, it's this thread again. Heh.

Ah well!

#1: Full metal alchemist
#2: Bacanno!
#3: Toss up between Death note and Claymore.

 

[Ima842]

Neon genesis evangelion also Gantz
<spoiler=gantz>don't watch this with your grandma srly dude also the episodes 1 to 22 were awesome, the rest were filler but still good

 

[01011001]

Asking this is like asking for the greatest game ever, most people are just going to reply with 'HURR DURR I LIKE HALO' or 'HERP-A-DERP MODERN WARFARE 2'. Similarly, you'll get a thousand responses to this saying 'DURRHURR BLEACH IS BEST ANIME EVAR!' Encompassed in this question are all the associated problems too. Anime is far too varied and diverse for there to be one answer.

And, while these people are perfectly entitled to their opinions, they are also wrong. Everyone knows (even if they don't realise it) that Darker Than Black is the best Anime ever.

But seriously everyone, stop just reeling off your stock answer and start actually considering your opinion properly. Death Note, as far as I could tell, was about an emo actually crossing the line between sanity and insanity, and wasn't very interesting. Ghost In The Shell lacked direction and didn't really have a story. Bleach is 70% filler and don't get me started on Naruto.

My list of top anime by genre is as follows:
Action: Black Lagoon
Science-fiction: Darker Than Black
Horror: Helsing OVA
Romance/drama: Clannad

Oh Hell yeah! Darker than black is my fave anime of all time!

 

[Udyrfrykte]

"Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann", really?

I haven't even heard of it before, but I saw the "last fight" or something posted here earlier in the thread.
A superhuge thing/mech TAKES TWO GALAXIES AND SMASHES THEM TOGETHER AND IT AS A WEAPON?? Reminds me of the Falcon punch anime clip. I don't think i've seen Chuck Norris jokes that were that exaggerated.

Wow.
???

 

[pyramid head grape]

Trying to be less fanboy but I wood have to say one piece only anime so far to make me cry :C
then...

hitman reborn
fairytail
darker than black
clannad
naruto (manga only hate the anime to its core)
D.gray man
hellsing

Thats about it.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

Patlabor
VOTOMS
Redline
Super Robot Wars: The Inspectors
Macross Plus
Macross Frontier
Gun X Sword
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Sengoku Basara
Gundam 00
Turn A Gundam
Baccano!
Durarara
Ghost In The Shell
Gasaraki
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Sentou Yosei Yukikaze

and finally, Legend Of Galactic Heroes

EDIT: The new Gundam Unicorn OVA's are turning out to be fuhreeeking amazing. Sucks that they come out once a year, but I havent been this impressed with a gundam series since Wing.

your mileage may vary there, granted visually it looks great, but story wise so far it just feels like UC fanwank, especially with all the blatant shout outs and the deliberate foray into the the 'true art is angsty' and 'darker and ediger' territory