1. Ergo Proxy / Deadman Wonderland (tied: happily married)
2. Basilisk
3. Gungrave
4. Shigurui
5. Samurai Champloo
6. Howl's Moving Castle
7. Death Note
8. Wolf's Rain
9. Hellsing
10. Bleach (ugh... just 'cause it was my first {excluding Pokemon as a child} and it opened my door to many great animes. It was good at first though... Ah Bleach I hope you're proud of yourself, being invited to dine at the top ten table, eating all the food and constantly soiling yourself. Contrats.)
I'm going to forget something or change my mind in 5 minutes but here is the alpha.
1. Kara no Kyoukai
2. Katanagatari
3. Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (The original adds to the pacing and understanding of the characters though)
4. Serial Experiments Lain
5. Code Geass
6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
7. Bakemonogatari
8. Samurai Champloo
9. Blood+ (Ergo Proxy)
10. Jigoku Shoujo (Arakawa Under the Bridge)
(Ties, if they can be permited)
This is a sketchy list because Anime is so closely tied to other mediums.
Specifically manga, light novels, and visual novels.
I mention that because Fate Stay Night would have made at least 4 if I could judge it by the Visual Novel, but the anime is a pale shadow.
I also feel compelled to mentioned things like Bakuman and Dance in the Vampire Bund where the manga is top of my list but never looked into the anime.
In no particular order, and including manga:
World God Only knows (way above everything else)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Mahou Sensei Negima (manga)
Death Note
Claymore (Anime)
Pandora Hearts
Cage of Eden (manga)
My little Sister can't be this cute (manga)
and for the same reason as yaz1410, Bludgeoning Angel Dokuru-chan. It's not good, but excluding pokemon it introduced me to anime. I don't know why I watched this, I really don't, but I don't regret it.
FLCL
Toradora!
Baccano!
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Full Metal Alchemist (first anime, not Brotherhood)
5 Centimeters per Second
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Death Note
Rebuild of Evangelion
Oban: Star Racers
Summer Wars deserves mentioning, which only just doesn't make it into the list. :/
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/ten-anime-films-you-should-see-before-you-die (not by me, but exactly answers what you asked. i haven't watched all of them. i also like "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" - all pretty mainstream but meh)
Spirited Away
Ghost in the Shell (first movie and first season of Stand Alone Complex)
Dennou Coil
Aria
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Azumanga Daioh
Maria-sama ga Miteru
Hidamari Sketch
Boogiepop Phantom
Ichigo Mashimaro
Yeah, including movies skews the listing a little. Oh well.
[sub]I wish somebody would adapt some of Junji Ito's work. Production I.G could pull it off.[/sub]
Cowboy Bebop
The Girl Who leapt through Time
Princess Mononoke
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex
Full Metal Alchemist (the orginal anime series)
Grave of the Fireflies
Kaiba
Millenium Actress
5 cm per second (sp?)
Would make my list of "Really the best, must see, no-i-don't-care-if-you-don't-like-anime-you-still-gotta-see-it Anime"
let's see... while I do like the following very much, I'm not sure if I'd rank them amongst my top favorites. However, since this is a thread for "top ten of all time", their global influence can not be denied.
Dragon Ball (arguably the most well-known manga in the world)
One Piece (Dragon Ball's unquestionable successor and pretty damn good in its own right)
Pokemon (like it or hate it, this thing essentially helped trigger the anime boom over a decade ago and still goes strong to this day)
Yu-gi-oh! (another one that's had a pretty big influence, plus it happened to give birth to Abridging)
Cowboy Bebop (another title that helped the spread of anime's global popularity... though personally, I can't help feeling it's just slightly over-rated due to the fact that Cartoon Network just happened to pick it up at the right time and place it in its initial Adult Swim line-up... and we mustn't forget that before Adult Swim, they already featured a somewhat straightforward space drama, albeit highly edited for broadcast, in Outlaw Star... but that aside, it certainly has several merits all its own)
Now getting into some more personal choices...
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (almost obligatory Miyazaki title, I'd be willing to say this was my favorite of his)
Air (the first of the Key/KyoAni joint projects, and IMO, better than its successors)
Unlike the successors (aside from Angel Beats, though that wasn't with KyoAni), this shit doesn't cop out on its ending.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (what can I say? It was a damn fine movie from an up-and-coming director)
Digimon Tamers (reasons explained below)
Madoka Magica (I'm usually opposed against voting for stuff that was very recent as I suspect a bias that would eventually fade over time, but even so, this was a damn awesome series that made me feel something about an anime that I haven't felt in years... being a dark yet tastefully-done deconstruction of a usually saccharin-induced, cutesy genre helps; also, Yuki Kajiura has been unquestionably my favorite composer for a long time now)
...I'm not usually good at picking favorites, especially a set number of favorites. That said, there're certainly others worth a mention (like Haruhi and Texhnolyze), but for now, I'd go with those 10.
GUVNA6 said:
Digimon seriously? please tell me that was a moment of madness
hey, don't be hating. When it comes to children-targeted merchandise-driven anime (which, when you think about it, even the likes of Gundam tends to fall under), Digimon's quality is pretty top-notch. Each series tells a pretty fascinating story, and they rarely seem to sacrifice said story in favor of pulling off its marketing gimmicks (especially the third series, Digimon Tamers, which a lot of people would consider the best one). Hell, even at it's worst (like the end of 02... or pretty much the entire English dub), it still manages to be better than a lot of anime I've seen.
Question, does My Little Pony count?
I still applaud it for having the most likeable female characters in any animation and perhaps any show I can find.
On the note of animation though, the whole "having a female character not namely defined by 'HAS TITS!'" did give me a warm, fuzzy feeling that I cured via seppuku.
CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC, Y U NO EASILY AGREED UPON?
Oh...and "Soul Eater", "P+Sw/G", and..."Mahou Sensei Negima" left me wondering "WHAT THE F--" for long enough to grow fond of.
I'm going to restrict my list only to series that don't have their own manga. That's because those usually are good BECAUSE of said manga, and the manga in question is usually better, but I digress. So, no One Piece, Hellsing or even Fullmetal Alchemist.
Oh, and no movies, because if I included them then half would be Satoshi Kon's stuff and the other half studio Ghibli's stuff.
10 - Higurashi no naku koro ni (1st season only)
Began incredibly suspenseful and well-paced, but already showed signs of getting tired by the end of the first season. The Second season had a few good episodes mixed in with a complete and total destruction of any horror and suspense, and pacing, and quality.
9 - Noir
Despite some filler episodes in the beginning, this series quickly picks up the pace, managing to be very violent despite almost no blood, and with some interesting characters.
8 - Samurai Champloo
With so many samurai series around it's very difficult for any series of that genre to stand out, but this anime manages it by not taking the setting seriously, mixing a lot of influences and changing mood drastically to make quite a unique series.
7 - Boogiepop Phantom
Intelligent series that is incredibly tough to understand. Still worth watching and it never really gets boring. Mixes horror and superheroes in a very unconventional way.
6 - Serial Experiments Lain
Horribly confusing and with weird pacing, definitely not for everyone, but still surreal, unique and with a very characteristic art style. Just be sure to know what you are getting into before watching.
5 - Baccano
Again weird pacing but not as confusing as the two before. The movies resemble "Lock, stock, two smoking barrels" sometimes, but go deeper and have much more variety and impact while never loosing its frenetic energy.
4 - Ergo Proxy
Weird plot (sensing a pattern here?) but incredibly well animated and very original. One of the few series that you can comfortably call philosophic. Even if you don't care for Kant or Nietzsche the characters are still interesting and the action is still fun.
3 - Darker than Black
This is one of the most fun series I've ever seen. The pacing is very good, the action is well-thought out and interesting, the characters are great. Still manages to be deep and has a surprisingly good ending (although opinions will differ on this).
2 - Cowboy Bebop
This is the series that introduced anime to the west for many, many people, and with good reason. It's entertaining, smart, sometimes funny, sometimes sad but never once does it get stale or boring.
1 - Kino no Tabi
That this series is still so little known is a crime. Simple, yet deep. Beautiful yet terrible. Bizarre and yet familiar. I'm not saying this just to be hip or pretend I'm better because I like something obscure, this is THE BEST anime I ever saw in my life. The animation is good enough, but the story, pacing and directing is simply superb. Do yourself a favor: watch this, because you will never see anything like it ever again.
My top ten (in no real order)would be:
Escaflowne (the show. that movie really pissed me off.)
dot hack//sign (also the Roots, and legend of the twilight.)
Princess mononoke
Aquarion (hoping for a sequal)
Blood + (can't wait for a sequal)
Bleach
digimon season 1&2 (3 was for me a let down)
Pokemon season Kanto, orange islands, & Johto. (after that i couldn't keep up)
Speed grapher
Dragon ball (Also Z, and GT)
i can think of so many more but you only asked for 10.
Well the thing about Berserk is the anime has a very small budget so it got cut short so they ended up canceling it at the point where the whole story leading up to the first episode was finishing. If you read the manga they have alot more details and the art is glorious the man is the most brilliant inker I have ever seen also the story doesn't get cut off infact it is still going to this day.
As for digimon I grew up on that show and it is a awesome kids anime one of the best out there that and medabots I would say
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