Everyone has a top 5 list, but Stripey tacks a question on it and it’s an easy post, so I bit; what does your top 5 anime list say about you? I’ve not thought about what my favorites are for a while. Thinking about it for a few, today my top 5 are:
- Cowboy Bebop
- Princess Tutu
- School Rumble
- 5 Centimeters Per Second
- FLCL
From the list above, I guess I like anime where the dream ends or the wish didn’t come true. School Rumble might be the odd one out as a comedy, but I think there’s enough bittersweet, misconnection, and this bird has flown to fit, though I’ve only seen up to the end of the second season. Besides, Harima is too funny not to put Rumble on the list. All the shows pretty much have a catchy tune in there as well.
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Cool! My #1 is definitely Cowboy Bebop as well. I’ll have to think deeply on what the other 4 are, but Tora Dora is definitely one of them.
I wonder what it says about me…
I had an easy time with the top 4. It started to get harder to figure out what the number 5 was. If I had to do the list everyday the five spot would change often.
Ah Top5s!
Ive never been good at putting up those lists and they actually put me under alot of stress.Other people might throw out their lists in seconds but I have to think about the list quite deeply.
When im posting a list i want a definite one and not something half hearted.
Ahh like I said Ive never been good at those ^^
They are! The first four were pretty easy for me to decide on. But the deciding on the last I had it in the back of my head for an afternoon while I did other things. That said, I think depending on my mood, anything from 5 to 10 would change.
Another thing thats quite important is are you putting the anime on your list because you really like it or because you want to project a certain image of yourself through that list and pick the animes because of that.
Ack…lets see my old Animelist Toplist has the following ones:
GTO
Black Lagoon
Welcome to the NHK
Baccano
Monster
and even there I cant really say if this is even close to a definite list ^^;;;
GTO and Welcome to the NHK are shows I greatly enjoyed. Haven’t seen Monster and half of Black Lagoon and Baccano. So I don’t have a guess as to what your list says about you.^^
The question might have some impact, but on a generic, here’s my ten favorite anime, all of these would be in the top 10.
I’m not sure if I could actually find some kind of a formula to describe myself through my top 5 unless they stuck to a specific patten or something otherly obvious. Say if they were all comedies, I could say I’m a happy person or I enjoy laughter.
Regardless, far from watching everything I own back to back in one big Otaku world breaking session, & nitpicking my thoughts on each show against the others. My Top 5. stands as this……
FLCL. – Forever my No. 1! FTW! Beans!
His and Her Circumstances.
Azumanga Daioh.
Now and Then, Here and There.
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- List Subject to change on a thought by thought basis. : )
Anyway, gtg! Late for something outside the internet!!!!! & Anime…….. Catcha’s!
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My top would be :
1 . Higurashi
2 . Gundam Seed
3 . Jigoku Shoujo
4 . Kanon
5 . My Hime
Is Princess Tutu that good ?
Yes! Princess Tutu is really well done, but as with everything people have different tastes. I like your 1, 4, and 5. The other two I haven’t seen.
Animes where dreams end and wishes don’t come true. I don’t think I’ve seen one like that, but that’d definitely be my type of anime. I’m a pretty gloomy person, I suppose.
The usual happy ending stuff doesn’t do it for me, that’s why I hate most endings.
Cowboy bebop is in my top 5 list too.
This is an interesting idea, may have to make such an analysis myself.
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My list would probably be….
1) Genshiken
2) Ergo Proxy
3) Kanon
4) Cowboy Bebop
5) Chobits
Making these lists is tough, first because there are so many anime on my “to watch” list that I have a feeling would make it on this list. Second because there are series like Death Note that if i could chop the 2nd half of the series out it would be here.
Not sure what this says about me…. This list would probably change depending on my mood, this is the first time i have tried to put a top 5 together.
I have now seen Cowboy Bebop……. Wow. Just Wow. No wonder people like the show. ,some cool shite. Nevertheless, My list still stands.
btw. I love Ed. She is Amazing. & yet, so sad…..
Ed is Ed! Great character.
For a good number of people in the US, Bebop was their gateway into anime fandom, so it stays high in esteem, plus it is a really good show. I’d seen quite a bit of anime before Bebop, but it (and Evangelion) turned me from someone who would watch anime, to someone who sought anime.
Ah nice. Ya I can see why; & Eva yes. that & Nausicaä is what steamrolled me into Anime.
Ooowh…. ,A Top 5/10 AMV list one day, when the month is slow.
-oh hey, cudos too with HappySoda. It’s an awesome site ya! Look forward to many more seasons from super rats, good sir.
catcha!
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Great taste of anime. I will be watching FLCL next.
That’s a great list!
I agree with your pics but I definitely think Rorouni Kenshin and Gundam Wing should be in there
Ah, 5 Centimeter per second. Love that show.
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I think what’s interesting is that when it comes to shows that are of a supremely high quality, perhaps they say less about us than we think. I’m looking at “Cowboy Bebop” and “FLCL,” and thinking that lots of people find different things in those shows all the time.
I can safely say for myself I don’t relate to most Bebop fans. I am very interested in Faye’s changing throughout the series, and I find it hard to keep track of that. I think many of the fans I’ve encountered assume they relate to her or not and leave it at that.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your list – your recommendation of School Rumble is noted, and I’ll check it out for sure.
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You’re probably right about that. It’s really just a gimmick to post a favorite anime list. And, it wasn’t all that bad an exercise if it gets you to consider School Rumble.