What is your Top 10 Anime of All-Time?

[talkwithtim]

Hey there Kumoricon fans! I'm putting together an article about the Top 10 Anime of All-Time and I'd like some input from you! If you have a few minutes tell me your top 10 list and a brief description why these are the 10 best of all-time.

I'm talking about anime that has had a major impact on the industry or fan base, anime that is classic, must-see for n00bs, and amazingly creative works of art. The best of the best of the best.

I will be compiling the results for my article and I'll be pulling quotes from your descriptions if I find them interesting. Thanks for helping out! 

[Blue Leader]

Lets see now...

1. Mobile Suit Gundam
The original "Mobile Suit Gundam" that started it all. It showed a futuristic though believable war that I feel really drew people into it. It had a great story, believable characters (many of which you could "connect with"), lots of action, and was really ahead of its time. A true classic.

2. Kaleido Star
No where near is old as Gundam, Kaleido Star is and always will be one of my favorites. Kaleido Star was another fantastic but believable series that followed a young girl who was trying to make her dreams come true, but had to trudge through all of the trials and difficulties that came with it. Nothing is ever easy, and this series showed it.
Not to mention it was something quite different from what you usually see in anime. Really, how many series do you see about acrobats and other performers on a stage?

3. Ghost in the Shell
You can probably start to see a pattern here. A futuristic war on terrorism, and yet still kept its believability. Nothing was too bizarre in this movie (and later a series), and while everything was very high-tech it showed a future that could easily happen.
It was full of action and drama, and had characters that you could relate to in many ways. It also showed the darker side of the technological advances and cyberisations that are even happening today, and showed how we could (and possibly are) losing are humanity the more we try to perfect ourselves digitally.

I'll post more as I think of them...

[camname21]

To Love Ru - recently seen, was great.  "Cute & Sexy" type of anime for all those guys out there..

[talkwithtim]

Any other suggestions for what could be considered the 10 best, must-see, anime movies/series of all time?

Possibilities:
* Princess Mononoke
* Ninja Scroll
* Cowboy Bebop

[Mr_Mustash]

I see polls like this a lot for a lot of different things, but I don't think there can be a "top 10" of really anything. I mean sure we can vote on things in polls or buying things with our money, but it all comes down to a matter of preference. Everyone likes different things so everyone's list will be different. If you really want to figure this out you should have everyone submit a least of exactly 10 animes they think are the greatest and then take a weighted average of them.

1. [Worth 10 Points]
2. [Worth 5 Points]
3. [Worth 4 Points]
4. [Worth 3 Points]
5. [Worth 2 Points]
6. [Worth 1 Point]
7. [Worth 1 Point]
8. [Worth 1 Point]
9. [Worth 1 Point]
10. [Worth 1 Point]

So you take every anime that people list and then add all of the points up. At the end of the poll the top 10 are the ones with the most points.

Hope this will help you on your search for the top 10.

- Patrick

[Mr_Mustash]

My Top 10:
1. Gankutsuou
2. Noein
3. The Place Promised in Our Early Days
4. 5 Centimeters Per Second
5. Eureka Seven
6. Ergo Proxy
7. Pale Cocoon
8. Darker Than Black
9. Dennou Coil
10. Cowboy Bebop

Runners Up:
Spice and Wolf
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Azumanga Daioh
Chi's Sweet Home
Chobits
FLCL
Ghost Hound
Hidamari Sketch

[Man of the Public]

Top 10 in No Particle Order
Big O
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
Black Lagoon
Shin Magzinger Z
Shin Getter Robo Armageddon
Lupin The 3rd
One Piece
Captain Harlock
Trigun
Azumanga Daioh

Honorable Mentions
Baccano
Casshern SinS
Lyrical Magical Girl Nanoha
The Skullman
Cromartie High School

[NARUNIK]

My Top 10:

1. Gankutsuou
2. Noein
3. The Place Promised in Our Early Days
4. 5 Centimeters Per Second
5. Eureka Seven
6. Ergo Proxy
7. Pale Cocoon
8. Darker Than Black
9. Dennou Coil
10. Cowboy Bebop

Runners Up:
Spice and Wolf
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Azumanga Daioh
Chi's Sweet Home
Chobits
FLCL
Ghost Hound
Hidamari Sketch

YAY for Eureka Seven!
Oh and Spice and Wolf is a really good one! It just leaves you off with cliff hangers..

1.Eureka Seven
2.Naruto Shippuden
3.Naruto
4.FullMetal Alchemist
5.Spice and Wolf
6. Tatakou Shisho-Book of Bantorra
(The following are my animes as a little kid.
7.SONIC
8.Megaman
9.Digimon (The one where they actually transform into the Digimon)
10. Pokemon (The original version)

[oslapedo]

I read more manga than I watch anime but here goes. :O
~ Blood+

~ Code Geass
~ Clannad
~ Case Closed: Detective Conan
~ Ghost in the Shell/SAC
~ Poke'mawn until May's episodes
~ Digimon's first two seasons
~ Ceres: Celestial Legend
~ GALS!
~ The Blank of Haruhi Suzumiya

Hmmm.

[Vampire-Kameko]

MAJIN TANTEI NEURO NOUGAMI (FTW <3)
Kuroshitsuji
Sailor Moon: Stars
Shugo Chara
DOGS: Bullets and Carnage
Ouran High School Host Club
Blood+
K-ON!
Ceres: Celestial Legend
Code Geass

I'd probably change it but from off the top of my head, that's what I got. d

[~boogiepop~]

1. Baccano!
2. Boogiepop Phantom
3. Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
4. Haibane Renmei
5. Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
6. Last Exile
7.Escaflowne
8. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
9. Serial Experiments Lain
10. Trigun

~ GALS!

I thought I was the only one who had seen all of this :O

[oslapedo]

You might be- I haven't seen all of it, just as much as I could while it was on ondemand

But I love it anyways~

[StarryShay]

Higurashi~
Shuffle!~
Shugo Chara~
Kuroshitsuji~
Code Geass~
Super Gals~
Pokemon~
Chobits~
Air Gear~
Baccano~

[Vampire-Kameko]

Higurashi~
Shuffle!~
Shugo Chara~
Kuroshitsuji~
Code Geass~
Super Gals~
Pokemon~
Chobits~
Air Gear~
Baccano~

I wanna watch Higurashi!!! ;o; Maybe I'll download it somewhere! >8D

[The_Geek]

Clannad
Kuroshitsuji
Tales of the Abyss
Hellsing
Deathnote
Tsubasa/xxxHolic
D.Gray-Man
Strawberry Panic!
Jigoku Shojo
Tales of the Abyss