The Top 100 Anime of All Time (According To Japan)

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Japan just voted on the top 100 best and greatest anime series of all time... and it's a whole bunch of WTF.


First place TIGER & BUNNY 2011
Second place TIGER & BUNNY The Rising the Movie version 2014
3rd place Madoka Magica 2011
4th place lovelive! (TV Animation 1st Stage) 2013
5th place lovelive! (TV Animation 2 Stage) 2014
6th place TIGER & BUNNY The Beginning Theater version 2012
7th place Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion 2006
8th place Cardcaptor Sakura 1998
9th place lovelive! The School Idol Movie 2015
10th place Osomatsu
11th place Gintama 2006
12th place Joker · Game 2016
13th place Legend of Galactic Heroes 1988
14th place Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995
15th place Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 2008
16th place Is your order a rabbit? 2014
17th place Mobile Suit Gundam 1979
18th place Digimon Adventure 1999
19th place PSYCHO-PASS 2012
20th place Sword Art · Online 2012
21th place CLANNAD ~ AFTER STORY ~ 2008
22nd place Girls & Panzer 2012
23rd place Haikyuu 2014
24th place Detective Conan 1996
25th place Hyouka 2012
26th place Madoka Magica Theatrical Version [New Story] The Tale of the Rebellion 2013
27th place Fullmetal Alchemist FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 2009
28th place Attack on Titan 2013
29th place Space Battleship Yamato 1974
30th place Revolutionary Girl Utena 1997
31st place Bungo Stray Dogs 2016
32nd place The Prince of Tennis 2001
33rd place lovelive! Sunshine !! 2016
34th place Cowboy Bebop 1998
35th place Steins; Gate 2011
36th place Natsume's Book of Friends 2008
37th place Fate / stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] 2014
38th place The Star Child Poron 1974
39th place Future Boy Conan 1978
40th place Mobile Suit Gundam SEED 2002
41th place K-ON! 2009
42th place The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Phase 1) 2006
43rd place Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 2007
44th place Lupine The Third Castle of Cagliostro 1979
45th place Bakemonogatari 2009
46th place Ghost in the Shell STAND ALONE COMPLEX 2002
47th place Sound! Euphonium 2015
48th place Free! 2013
49th place Girls & Panzer Theatrical Version 2015
50th place Fate / Zero 2011
51st place Your lie in April 2014
52th place SHIROBAKO 2014
53th place Pokémon Giratina and the Sky Warrior 2008
54th place Nausicaä Valley of the Wind 1984
55th place Gintama '2011
56th place Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% 2011
57th place Your Name 2016
58th place K-ON! ! 2010
59th place Castle in the Sky Laputa 1986
60th place Sailor Moon Bishoujo Sentai 1992
61th place Re: Zero 2016
62th place Free! - Eternal Summer - 2014
63rd place High ☆ Speed! - Free! Starting Days - 2015
64th place Katekyo Hitman REBORN! 2006
65th place Yu Yu Hakusho 1992
66th place THE IDOLM @ STER 2011
67th place Haikyuu Second season 2015
68th place Is your order a rabbit? 2015
69th place Mob Psycho 100 2016
70th place Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blood Orphans 2015
71th place Fullmetal Alchemist 2003
72th place ONE PIECE 1999
73th place Macross F 2008
74th place Shounen Hollywood 2014
75th place Farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi 1978
76th place Cardcaptor Sakura (Phase 2) 1999
77th place Angel Beats! 2010
78th place Mushishi 2005
79th place Urusei Yatsura 1981
80th place Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinkinto 2016
81th place K 2012
82th place Kuroko's Basketball (1st Period) 2012
83th place We still do not know the name of the flower we saw that day. 2011
84th place HUNTER × HUNTER 1999 Ranked
85th place Pokemon TV Series 1997
86th place Armored Trooper Votoms 1983
87th place The Twelve Kingdoms 2002
88th place Blood Blockade Battlefront 2015
89th place Hetalia The Beautiful World 2013
90th place Nadia secret of the blue water 1990
91th place Mononoke 2007
92th place Kill ラ キ ル KILL la KILL 2013
93th place Inuyasha 2000
94th place Urusei Yatsura 2 Beautiful Dreamer 1984
95th place Dennou coil 2007
96th place JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders 2014
97th place AKIRA 1988
98th place Super Dimension Fortress Macross Do you remember love? 1984
99th place Gan to Gon 1974
100th place Tatami Galaxy 2009.

Link to original article by NHK 【総合ベスト100】ベスト･アニメ100投票結果発表｜ニッポンアニメ100｜NHK
 
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I remember seeing some of the early results for this and yeah it's a bad list.

This is what happens when fanboys/girls get to vote for this sort of thing. Critics might not always know best but there lists are often much more subjective and balanced. This list is unfortunately mostly useless, thats not to say it's not filled with mostly good shows but the ranking of them is pretty out of whack.
 
Yeah I saw this list a while back, keep in mind as with all these types of popularity polls it's more a indication of which fan-base is more active but still interesting nonetheless.
Also:
Female top 10:
1. "Tiger & Bunny"
2. "Cardcaptor Sakura"
3. "Osomatsu-san"
4. "Joker Game"
5. "Love Live! The School Idol Movie"
6. "Mobile Suit Gundam"
7. "Detective Conan"
8. "PSYCHO-PASS"
9. "Haikyu!!"
10. "Attack on Titan"

Male Top 10:
1. "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"
2. "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion"
3. "Love Live!" (1st season)
4. "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
5. "Love Live!" (2nd season)
6. "Gintama"
7. "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2"
8. "Is The Order a Rabbit?"
9. "Legend of the Galactic Heroes"
10. "Revolutionary Girl Utena"
 
Funnily enough got part 1 of tiger and bunny today having never seen it but that list to me is shocking no toradora or chobits!!! Have they watched them?
 
I can't help but feel that "best x OF ALL TIME" lists should always introduce some kind of strong negative bias the newer the thing being voted for is, like a vote for anything made in the last five years should only count as 0.1 of a vote for anything made longer ago than 20 years, with a sliding scale in between. Otherwise you get results like that bloody BBC Great Britons poll that Princess Diana came third in. Princess Diana. Best known for being a toff people felt sorry for. 3rd greatest person Britain has ever produced in thousands of years of history. Greater than Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton.

Madoka, Osomatsu-san and Code Geass are pretty good. But they're not best of all time good (I can't speak for Tiger and Bunny and Love Live but I get the feeling the same applies).
 
This list doesn't make much sense to me.
I would of thought more well known series that would of made the cut like
Dragonball z
Naruto
Bleach
One piece
Fairy tail
 
Watanabe Ken said:
It's supposed to say Hyouka, dame you Google translated.
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Just like
"High Queue!!" is Haikyuu!!
"Tatami Half Mythology College" is Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei/The Tatami Galaxy
"Advance Giant" is Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan
"Cancer and Gon" is Gan to Gon
"What is your name?" is Kimi no Na wa./Your Name.
"Mononoke Mai" is Mononoke
"Nadia in the Mushi no Sea" is Fushigi no Umi no Nadia/Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
"Twelve nationalities" is Juuni Kokuki/The Twelve Kingdoms
"Yu Yu White Paper" is Yu Yu Hakusho
"Re: Starting from Zero World Life" is Re:Zero
"Bloodfield Frontline" is Kekkai Sensen/Blood Blockade Battlefront
"Boys Hollywood" is Shounen Hollywood
"Mobsilco 100" is Mob Psycho 100


Denny Fisher said:
This list doesn't make much sense to me.
I would of thought more well known series that would of made the cut like
Dragonball z
Naruto
Bleach
One piece
Fairy tail
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On a list of manga, sure. But this is a list of anime.
 
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kuuderes_shadow said:
Just like
"High Queue!!" is Haikyuu!!
"Tatami Half Mythology College" is Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei/The Tatami Galaxy
"Advance Giant" is Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan
"Cancer and Gon" is Gan to Gon
"What is your name?" is Kimi no Na wa./Your Name.
"Mononoke Mai" is Mononoke
"Nadia in the Mushi no Sea" is Fushigi no Umi no Nadia/Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
"Twelve nationalities" is Juuni Kokuki/The Twelve Kingdoms
"Yu Yu White Paper" is Yu Yu Hakusho
"Re: Starting from Zero World Life" is Re:Zero
"Bloodfield Frontline" is Kekkai Sensen/Blood Blockade Battlefront
"Boys Hollywood" is Shounen Hollywood
"Mobsilco 100" is Mob Psycho 100




On a list of manga, sure. But this is a list of anime.
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In hindsight I should have checked them after "Google translated them" but I'm a lazy get. But have no fear I shall correct them promptly, do feel free to point others out if you see any.
 
The others are mostly things that are easy to work out - Galactic Heroes Legend -> Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Lupine the Third -> Lupin III, that sort of thing.

Not sure what 38th should be, though.
 
Hoshi no Ko Poron - Wikipedia for those who prefer the original title when searching.

I don't think Chobits or Toradora should be anywhere near the list. Likewise Bleach has had negligible cultural relevance, especially given that the poll was only done this year. It's interesting to see which older series weathered the recency bias best; the lack of things like Rose of Versailles is jarring!

I think that Madoka, Geass and Osomatsu-san do all deserve their places, though. They were all major cultural phenomenons over in Japan and still get merchandise and hype; naturally they still have active fanbases too. Removing the duplicates (e.g. standalone movies based on series which also charted) would have been nice. I freaking love Tiger & Bunny but both of its films don't deserve to join it in the top ten and it's far from being the only example of this.

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