Japanese fans choose their all time favourite anime

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At the 10th anniversary of the Japan Media Arts Festival (sponsored by Japan's National Agency for Cultural Affairs), fans were asked to vote (in a web poll) for their favourite anime TV series and movies.

Of the below list, a critically acclaimed and popular 100 were originally selected and then fans were asked to vote for their favourites. The results are as follows:
  • 1. Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)
    2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Movie)
    3. Laputa - Castle in the Sky (Movie)
    4. Mobile Suit Gundam (TV)
    5. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie)
    6. Mushishi (TV)
    7. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV)
    8. My Neighbor Totoro (Movie)
    9. Full Metal Alchemist (TV)
    10. Ghost in the Shell (Movie)
As for the "write-in" poll, in which otaku were invited to vote for series that didn't make the original 100 cut-off, the following results were found (the list is typically dominated with anime created post-2000):
  • 1. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
    2. Cowboy Bebop
    3. Twelve Kingdoms
    4. Planetes
    5. Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
    6. Rozen Maiden
    7. Air
    8. Aria
    9. Eureka Seven
    10. Scryed
 
Is there an english list of the top 100? Plus, its good to see Mushishi in there, my list would have been totally different, but Im not big on Ghibli films or Evangelion.
 
Never heard of the number 1 write in, and Air is just poor in my opinion guess my Otaku tastes differ from the Japanese.

I see Studio Ghibli did well in the top 10 poll though

And a major well done for GITS SAC I love that series


I would love to see how the English 'Otaku' list differs but I'm sure Studio Ghibli and Cowboy Bebop would fare just as well
 
McIcy said:
Never heard of the number 1 write in, and Air is just poor in my opinion guess my Otaku tastes differ from the Japanese.

I see Studio Ghibli did well in the top 10 poll though

And a major well done for GITS SAC I love that series


I would love to see how the English 'Otaku' list differs but I'm sure Studio Ghibli and Cowboy Bebop would fare just as well
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The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is just a new fad Japan are in at the moment.
 
To be honest the only reason I posted this list is because Mushishi made the top 10 (it made the top 10 for manga as well). It's a wonderful series deserving of all the credit that comes its way.
 
Xelis said:
McIcy said:
Never heard of the number 1 write in, and Air is just poor in my opinion guess my Otaku tastes differ from the Japanese.

I see Studio Ghibli did well in the top 10 poll though

And a major well done for GITS SAC I love that series


I would love to see how the English 'Otaku' list differs but I'm sure Studio Ghibli and Cowboy Bebop would fare just as well
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The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is just a new fad Japan are in at the moment.
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My thoughts exactly. Nausicaa and Bebop on the other hand are still holding their own after all these years...says it all really.

It's always good to see Mushishi get some well-deserved attention - that's top of my licencing wishlist right now.
 
Martin said:
Xelis said:
McIcy said:
Never heard of the number 1 write in, and Air is just poor in my opinion guess my Otaku tastes differ from the Japanese.

I see Studio Ghibli did well in the top 10 poll though

And a major well done for GITS SAC I love that series


I would love to see how the English 'Otaku' list differs but I'm sure Studio Ghibli and Cowboy Bebop would fare just as well
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The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is just a new fad Japan are in at the moment.
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My thoughts exactly. Nausicaa and Bebop on the other hand are still holding their own after all these years...says it all really.

It's always good to see Mushishi get some well-deserved attention - that's top of my licencing wishlist right now.
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Second on my Licensing list, SOMEONE LICENSE MONSTER!!!!!
 
Kind of surprised to see S-Cry-Ed up there. It is a fantastic series but it always struck me as being under-the-radar so to speak with a very low-key fanbase.
 
A lot of the stuff in the top 10 seems strange to me, but who are we to second guess Japanese tastes? The Miyazaki movies in there are particuarly head scratching. Nausicaa and Laputa? They're both pretty average really. Mobile Suit Gundam? Perhaps if Otaku stopped revering its classic franchise status and opened their eyes, they could realise that actually, it's pretty goddamned awful (there are only a handful of truely essential Gundam series IMO). As for Ghost in the Shell... SAC is brilliant, but is the movie really all that?

Not that I'd read anything into this list. Japanese fans seem to be pretty damned fickle. Where are you now, best evar anime series Nadesico?
 
kupoartist said:
The Miyazaki movies in there are particuarly head scratching. Nausicaa and Laputa? They're both pretty average really.
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As somebody who is not a fan of his work, Laputa is his only movie that I can say I enjoyed.
 
WTFDaveMustaine said:
kupoartist said:
The Miyazaki movies in there are particuarly head scratching. Nausicaa and Laputa? They're both pretty average really.
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As somebody who is not a fan of his work, Laputa is his only movie that I can say I enjoyed.
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Laputa is a bit of a "catch all". There's nothing particuarly clever or exciting about it, it's just enjoyable. But 3rd best Anime ever?
 
Nausicaä would be up there for me - its my favourite Miyazaki movie. If just for the artwork - it transcends a lot of his other films simply on that sense of "feeling". The post apocalyptic landscape is outstanding.

Along with Laputa (specifically the first time we see the floating city and meet its robotic gardener), Miyazaki captures something extremely special and fragile in his art.
 
Paul said:
Nausicaä would be up there for me - its my favourite Miyazaki movie. If just for the artwork - it transcends a lot of his other films simply on that sense of "feeling". The post apocalyptic landscape is outstanding.
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The artwork in the film just seems horridly stale to me. The Pallette is very, very limited when compared to later Ghibli movies, especially from Totoro / Fireflies and forward. The Manga may be in black and white, but it has a million times more detail. On the whole, Nausicaa (the movie) feels to me a lot like Mononoke's poor cousin. The art is inferior, the characters lack nuance, the combat is unexciting (as is the case with a lot of fighting in early ghibli, it's very cartoon-like) and the plot lacks the intriguing ambiguity of Mononoke AND the Manga. In Japan, I would think they think in terms of "Mononoke the Nausicaa copycat", because that's the mistake that many people make. Whoever did it first did it right. (though Mononoke is apparently 12th on the list)
 
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