Anime

It's hard to pick a top 10. The top 5 on this list are pretty firmly my favorites but after that there are any number of great shows that could've filled the latter 5 slots.

1. Redline - This movie showed me that an anime doesn't need a complex plot to be awesome.
2. LOOK BACK - Really emotional story about two artists.
3. Kaguya-sama: Love is War - So far this is a perfect adaptation of my favorite romance manga, and my favorite comedy manga. I didn't want to use the term "romcom" simply because I want to emphasize that it excels on both points individually. Here's hoping they continue on to finish the second half of the story.
4. Gurren Lagann - Much like Redline, this show is just awesome.
5. Skip and Loafer - Extremely charming story about a girl from the countryside getting accustomed to Tokyo life. Season 2 airs later this year so it's a good time to catch up if you haven't seen it!
6. Bang Brave Bang Bravern! - Big gay robots.
7. Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Space opera. The worse modern US politics has gotten the more depressing this show has been to watch.
8. Gundam Build Fighters - The most charming Gundam show. Unfortunately some of the jokes and references won't land unless you've watched an ungodly amount of not-quite-as-good older Gundam shows.
9. Eureka Seven - An excellent mech anime held back a little by a slow first several episodes.
10. Mob Psycho 100 - A story about a boy trying to grow up into the best version of himself he can manage.

MOST BASIC LIST EVER

• Trigun
• Spirited Away
• Dandandan
• Solo Leveling
• Cowboy Bebop
• Nausica and the Valley of the Wind
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Trigun Stampede
• Bloom into You
• Gurran Lagan

In no particular order (maybe)

1. Ghost in the Shell (all seasons, even if they had different names)
2. Dragonball Z (you either wanted to be Goku or Vegeta, simple as is)
3. Claymore (short, and holy fuck did it go hard at times)
4. Fullmetal Alchemist (even if it went off-trial, I still loved it!)
5. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (a more-true to the manga release - also dope!)
6. Samurai Champloo (they had Dutch-speaking characters! Also made me learn a bunch of Dutch history and how we used to trade with the Japanese since 1609 because of an Englishman called William Adams (Miura Anjin)!)
7. Alfred J. Kwak (Kwak the Duck - あひるのクワック- my childhood favorite)
8. Ox Tales/Boes (a childhood classic)
9. Dommel/Wowser/Bigger and Better: Dommel & Ron (another childhood classic)
10. Moomins (a Finnish classic!)

In no order whatsoever:

1. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

2. Vinland Saga

3. Jujutsu Kaisen

4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

5. Apothecary Diaries

6. Summertime Render

7. Oshi no Ko

8. Chainsaw Man

9. My Hero Academia

10. Dr. Stone

11. (because I couldn't decide what to ditch from the list above) Dungeon Meshi

0. 100, 銀魂
1. 100, 日常
2. 95, らき☆すた
3. 95, ひだまりスケッチ
4. 92, のんのんびより
5. 92, けいおん!
6. 91, 苺ましまろ
7. 91, きんいろモザイク
8. 91, あずまんが大王
9. 91, ゆゆ式

Honourable mention: こげぱん (very short). Copied from my little text file where I keep track. Ratings purely based on vibes and emotions nothing objective or weighted sum of categories.

Here's my list of top 10 anime.

Saved you a click (roughly ordered by release date):

• K-On - I didn't think that I would be into the Cute-Girls-Doing-Cute-Things subgenre. K-On changed my mind.
• Konosuba - I enjoyed it so much that I had to check out its source material, making Konosuba the first Japanese light novel I've read.
• Cells at work! - It is entertaining and educational. Apparently, the information presented is accurate too.
• Cautious Hero

• The Demon Girl Next Door - I didn't think I would be into the Magical Girl genre. TDGND changed my mind.
• 86 - It left such a deep impression on me; possibly my top anime. Also, it is my favourite "Gundam" show.
• Belle - This is my favourite anime movie.
• The Witch from Mercury - It brought me back into anime after a long hiatus. Without WfM, I may not have watch a number of other top anime.
• 100 Girlfriends - Its source material is the only long-running manga that I'm following. Also, it's quite possibly the only good harem anime.
• Frieren - It is The Lord of the Rings of anime. I daresay it is the best produced anime so far.

Here are other 10/10 anime that didn't make the list.

Some reasons for some of them not being among my top 10:

• they are not as special - see reasoning above
• they do not have consistently 10/10 seasons - e.g. Bofuri season 1 vs season 2
• they lack rewatchability for me - I have rewatched at least some scenes, if not whole episodes or seasons, of my top 10 anime
• they are simply not as entertaining as my top 10

Right now, the anime that has a shot at making it into my top 10 is Medalist. It could very well be my first 10/10, and my favourite, sport anime.

Here are mine's:

1.Chainsaw man

2.Cyberpunk Edgerunners

3.Jujutsu Kaisen

4.Undead Unluck

5.Transformers Armada

6.Jojo's Buzzard Adventure

7.Mashle

8.Kill la kill

9.Fruits Basket

10.Ninja Kamui

I'm still relatively new to anime, having hated on it for my entire life until I actually gave it a chance in 2021, so keep that in mind with my list. I also have a hard time going in numeric order so these are my unordered top 10.

• Ghost in the Shell (the whole franchise)
• Cowboy Bebop
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (specifically Die Neue These)
• Attack on Titan
• Spy Family
• Anything by Makoto Shinkai (especially Suzume)
• A Silent Voice
• A Sign of Affection (don't judge me)
• My Happy Marriage (again, don't judge me)
• Demon Slayer (reluctantly)

I say reluctantly on Demon Slayer because I have my criticisms of it, but the animation and the overall concept are really enjoyable. I just don't like the super tropey "WaTeRbReAtHiNg 254th FoRm! MeNtAl ExPlAnATiOnS!" thing. I know that's pretty common in anime but as a writer and former hater, that still drives me nuts. Show, don't tell.

As for the two "don't judge me" ones, I say that jokingly because my preferences are typically for mature, complex narratives more than romance stories but I feel like both of those are really maturely-written for romance anime. A Sign of Affection was utterly wholesome and My Happy Marriage's Cinderella archetype with magic systems and mild political drama is pretty fun, especially given how gorgeous the art is.

As for GITS, that was my gateway to anime in general. After loving Cyberpunk 2077, I wanted more cyberpunk-themed media. GITS was one of the top recommendations so I decided to break down my barrier and check it out. It ended up completely changing the paradigm for me when it came to anime and it's still probably my number 1 simply because it's so heavily philosophical and beautifully-made.

LOGH Die Neue These was a funny one for me because one of the first anime shows I ever had recommended to me was the original one from the 80s. I couldn't find anywhere to watch it (legally) and so I never really gave it a go until I got a Crunchyroll sub for a bit in late 2022/early 2023. I ended up semi-bingeing it and I really loved it, the story was great and the setting had all the right classic Star Wars vibes for me (but with a more complex plot behind it all).

AoT became a favorite for me because I was looking for something to give me at least some of the same vibes that Avatar: The Last Airbender did, in terms of the epic scope of it all. Aside from a very awful first half of season 4 (screw Gabi), I really loved that one.

A Silent Voice is a masterpiece, not just of anime, but of storytelling. Not many stories can deliver me a true gut punch but that one did. Same with Shinkai's works, all of the ones I've seen have been phenomenal stories with some of the prettiest art and animation I've ever seen.

Bebop is pretty self-explanatory given its reputation. Aside from a semi-underwhelming finale, the world building was great, the art is still some of my favorite and the plot was remarkably well-written.

Finally, we have Spy Family, which is just about the funniest and most wholesome piece of media I've ever seen. That one, I've even succeeded in getting some family members into, to the point where I didn't even have to see Code White alone because they wanted to see it.

No particular order

1. Naruto
2. Death note
3. Full metal alchemist brother hood
4. Apothecary diaries
5. Attack on titan
6. Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song
7. Solo leveling
8. 86
9. Monster
10. Pokemon