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Ah! My Goddess (TV) Very good
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy (TV) Good
Ah! My Goddess: The Movie Good
Air (TV) Good Looks, feels, and tastes like Kanon 2.0.
Aishiteruze Baby (TV) Very good By law, I am required to describe this anime as "heartwarming." It may therefore surprise you how heartwarming it actually is.
Akane Maniax (OAV) Good Gai Daigoji meets Akane? Count me in for the second and third episodes.
Akira (movie) Good Required viewing, I suppose, but I won't feel too put out if I don't see it again.
Alien Nine (special) Very good Would you like some unspeakable strangeness with your cuteness? You would? Then we have the show for you...
Android Ana Maico 2010 (TV) Very good Light and fluffy. Has almost nothing to do with the manga version (which is borderline hentai.)
Angel Heart (TV) Good
Angel Tales (TV) Good
Angelic Layer (TV) Good
(The) Animatrix (OAV) Good
Appleseed (movie) Good
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Excellent Among the greatest comedies. It has randomness to make you laugh and characters to make you care.
Azumanga Daioh - The Very Short Movie Excellent
Azumanga Web Daioh (ONA) Excellent
Baccano! (TV) Good
Battle Athletes Victory (TV) Very good
Berserk (TV 1997) Very good
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) Very good
Boogiepop Phantom (TV) Excellent
Bottle Fairy (TV) Very good Not for the diabetic.
Boys Be... (TV) Good
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (TV) Very good I prefer the designs used here to the ones from the original OVA. Perhaps I am insufficiently old-school, but so what?
Cardcaptor Sakura (TV) Very good
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie 2: The Sealed Card Very good
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie Good
Castle in the Sky (movie) Decent
(Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV) Excellent
Chibits (special) Good
Chobits (TV) Good
Cinderella Boy (TV) Decent
Clannad (TV)
Clannad After Story (TV) Very good
Claymore (TV) Decent
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Very good
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Excellent
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Excellent
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Excellent
Coyote Ragtime Show (TV) Decent
D.N.Angel (TV) Very good
Daicon films (special)
DearS (TV) Decent
Densha Otoko (live-action TV) Very good
Denshin Mamotte Shugogetten (OAV) Good
Dragon Half (OAV) Very good
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (TV) Not really good Neon Genesis Tenchi Muyo!--I mean Dual!--isn't a bad idea, but it suffers badly from the scourge of unfunniness.
El Cazador de la Bruja (TV) Good
El Hazard: The Alternative World (TV) Very good
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World (OAV) Excellent It IS actually funnier in English, making it a rarity indeed (cf. Shinesman.)
El-Hazard: The Wanderers (TV) Very good
Elfen Lied (TV) Excellent On the surface, this show seems dark, but when you watch it, you will discover that, deep down, it is EXTREMELY dark.
Ergo Proxy (TV) Very good
Escaflowne: The Movie So-so
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (movie) Excellent
Excel Saga (TV) Very good Parody, thy name is Excel. Sure, it largely ignores the manga, but it has Nabeshin!
Final Approach (TV) Decent
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie) Very good
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie) Not really good
FLCL (OAV) Masterpiece All you have to do to understand FLCL is this: listen to the dialogue and write down every ninth word that is spoken. Taken together, these words produce a large anagram that, when properly arranged, will reveal the meaning of the show, as well as a surprisingly good recipe for lobster bisque.
Full Metal Panic! (TV) Very good I'm not a mecha fan, but the action in FMP! is compelling enough to sustain my interest in between filler episodes.
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TV) Very good
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) Excellent The filler episodes were the best part of FMP! season one, so they decided to make a series of nothing but filler episodes.
Full Moon o Sagashite (TV) Very good It's cute and depressing; heartwarming and dark. What's not to like, really?
Full Moon o Sagashite: Cute Cute Adventure (special) Good
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Excellent
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa Very good
Futakoi Alternative (TV) Good
Gakuen Alice (TV) Good
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (TV) Good
Galaxy Angel (TV) Very good The first series in a long journey of blessedly plotless comedy. To the producers of Galaxy Angel, killing off the characters and having them all alive again in the next episode is as nothing (well, it worked for Wile E. Coyote.)
Galaxy Angel A (TV) Very good
Galaxy Angel X (TV) Very good
Galaxy Angel Z (TV) Very good
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) Masterpiece
Genshiken (TV) Excellent Japanese fans may differ in the details from American fans, but they're really the same. You know these characters.
Genshiken 2 (TV) Very good
Ghost in the Shell (movie) Decent
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) Masterpiece
Girls Bravo (TV) Decent
Golden Boy (OAV) Very good Remember, by repeatedly saying the word "benkyou," you can accomplish a wide variety of impossible things.
Green Green (TV) Good
Green Green (OAV) Good
Green Green Thirteen: Erolutions (OAV) Decent
Grenadier (TV) Decent Ahead, Mr. Sulu, cheese factor 9.
Gunslinger Girl (TV) Very good I prefer Noir (q.v.,) but Gunslinger Girl does make for an interesting portrait of girl assassins in a group.
Gunsmith Cats (OAV) Very good
Gurren Lagann (TV) Good
.hack//Legend of the Twilight (TV) Good
.hack//SIGN (TV) Excellent Filled to the brim with people sitting and talking about computers, philosophy, and reality. If you don't like that kind of thing, I can do nothing to help you.
Haibane Renmei (TV) Excellent It's quiet; it's cryptic; it's ABe. It's beautiful. To be honest, though, just stick in girls with angel wings, and I'll watch about anything.
Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite (TV) Good
Hanaukyo Maid-tai (TV) Good
Hanaukyo Maid-tai OAV Good
Happy Lesson (TV) Good
Happy Lesson (OAV) Good
Happy Lesson Advanced (TV) Good
Happy Lesson The Final (OAV) Decent
Happy World! (OAV) Good Angel + heavy fanservice = well, you'll see.
Haré+Guu (TV) Excellent Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun and games and surrealism. Drugs probably will not help you to understand it.
Haré+Guu Deluxe (OAV) Excellent
He Is My Master (TV) Decent
Hell Girl (TV) Decent
Hellsing (TV) Decent Yes, Alucard is a badass, we GET it. Wasn't this show supposed to be about a newly-created vampire?
His and Her Circumstances (TV) Masterpiece It may lack an ending, but what's there is pure gold. Even the way they run out of money is genius.
Hitsuji no Uta (OAV) Decent
Honey and Clover (TV) Good
Honey and Clover II (TV) Decent
I'm Gonna Be An Angel (TV) Very good
Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san (special) Good
Ichigo 100% (TV) Good
Ichigo 100% (special) Good
Idol Project (OAV) Not really good
If I See You in My Dreams (OAV) Decent
Iketeru Futari (TV) Good
Infinite Ryvius (TV) Very good
(The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV) Excellent Tylor: Genius, or Fortunate Idiot? The world may never know.
Itsudatte My Santa! (OAV) Good
Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie) Good
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Final (OAV) Excellent
Kamisama Kazoku (TV) Decent
Kanon (TV 1/2002) Good
Kanon (TV 2/2006) Very good
Kasimasi - Girl Meets Girl (TV) Good
Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren (movie segment) Excellent
Kite (OAV) Decent
Koi Kaze (TV) Good
Kurenai (TV) Excellent
Last Exile (TV) Excellent In a world with a steampunk look and anti-gravity flying machines, uh... things are happening. I have nothing further. Just watch it, already.
Last Order Final Fantasy VII (OAV) Decent
Leave it to Kero! Theatrical Version (movie) Very good
Library War (TV) Very good
Living for the Day After Tomorrow (TV)
Love Hina (TV) Good Certainly not bad, but the manga is vastly superior. Experience both, if you like, but if you only have one, make it the manga.
Love Hina Again (OAV) Not really good Falls apart while trying to shove an ending into a confined space. Why did they try?
Love Hina Spring Special - I Wish Your Dream Good
Love Hina X'mas Special - Silent Eve Good
Lucky Star (TV) Very good
Lucky Star OVA Very good
Lunar Legend Tsukihime (TV) Very good "You killed me, so now you have to be my bitch" is not really a sentence you want to hear.
Lupin III: Island of Assassins (special) Good
Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar (special) Good
Lupin the 3rd: Napoleon's Dictionary (special) Good
Maburaho (TV) Good
Madlax (TV) Very good Feels like Noir 2.0, but I don't mind. Madlax and Margaret become interesting in their own right.
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) Excellent Gainax takes on the parody-an-episode trope and does a bang-up job. This one does have a story; it just doesn't fill up all the available time.
Mahōjin Guru Guru (TV) Good Utterly goofy, and at times, surprisingly filthy. Any fan of console RPGs should watch.
Mahoraba ~Heartful days~ (TV) Very good
Mahoromatic - Automatic Maiden (TV) Very good Don't like fanservice? Keep moving, keep moving...
Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful (TV) Good
Mahoromatic: Summer Special Very good
Maison Ikkoku: Kanketsuhen (movie)
Mamotte Shugogetten (TV) Good
Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) Excellent This space opera is by turns hilarious and compelling, and the characters are excellent.
Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness Very good
Megazone 23 Part II (OAV) Decent
(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) Excellent
Memories (movie) Very good
Millennium Actress (movie) Excellent
Minami-ke (TV) Very good
Minami-ke: Okaeri (TV) Good
Momo: The Girl God of Death (TV) Decent
Monster (TV) Excellent This show is based around the saying: "No good deed goes unpunished."
MoonPhase (TV) Good
Moyashimon (TV) Excellent
Mushi-Shi (TV) Decent
My-HiME (TV) Very good A little confusing, but pretty good.
My-Otome (TV) Very good
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) Good
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Masterpiece Best ever? You bet. It combines drama, action, pathos, abnormal psychology, epic tragedy, and goofy comedy into a single entity that will rip out your soul, then return it to you, slightly burnt. Watch, and become involved in the characters' lives; they are more tragic than yours, but also more interesting. Furthermore, if you don't see any piece of yourself reflected in any of the cast, I suspect you're just in denial.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) Masterpiece That's right, I said "Masterpiece." It's Evangelion, plus a string quartet that plays Baroque music--can't go wrong.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Masterpiece Take the soul-burning of the TV series and multiply it by about ten. This movie is unrestrained in its violence and frank in its sexuality, so send the immature minds away.
NieA_7 (TV) Very good
Ninja Nonsense (TV) Very good Subtitled "The Nonsense Kunoichi Fiction," and what nonsense it is! The show never attempts to cobble together a plot, which is all to the good.
Nodame Cantabile (TV) Very good
Noir (TV) Excellent It's like a ballet, with guns, and a huge body count.
Nurse Witch Komugi (special)
Oh My Goddess! (OAV) Good
Oruchuban Ebichu (TV) Very good "Look, son, it's a cute hamster cartoon a--OH MY GOD!" Delightfully filthy, subversive, and hilarious.
Otaku no Video (OAV) Excellent
Outlaw Star (TV) Good
Paradise Kiss (TV) Not really good
Peach Girl (TV) Good
Petite Princess Yucie (TV) Good
PetoPeto-san (TV) Good
Planetes (TV) Excellent Realistic spaceflight? In an anime? Is that allowed?
Please Save My Earth (OAV) Weak
Please Teacher! (TV) Very good
Please Teacher! (OAV) Good
Please Twins! (TV) Good
Pom Poko (movie) Bad Ugh. Aside from the pain-inducing testicle-stretching of the male tanuki, this film is so disgustingly preachy that I can hardly stomach it.
Popotan (TV) Good
Porco Rosso (movie) Very good
Princess Mononoke (movie) Excellent
Princess Tutu (TV) Excellent
Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) Very good Takes the drugs that Excel Saga was on and puts those drugs on drugs. Not for the faint of heart (or the faint of butt.)
R.O.D -The TV- Excellent
RahXephon (TV) Weak I'm sure that the RahXephon defenders out there might say that if I could just see past the similarities of this show to Evangelion, I'd like it. Well, I can't see past those similarities, because they're ENORMOUS. They block out the sun. Better animation or not, I find RahXephon to be a pale imitation of genius, populated by poorly-cloned characters who don't interest me in the slightest.
Re: Cutie Honey (OAV) Good
Read or Die (OAV) Very good
Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) Excellent This show can be a bit hard to get to, but I give many bonus points for the sheer audacity of some of its more unusual symbolism.
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie Very good
Riding Bean (OAV) Good
Rocket Girls (TV) Very good
Rozen Maiden (TV) Good
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Excellent I don't think you're SUFFICIENTLY depressed, so have a seat and watch KgNE. It's a great romance gone badly, badly wrong.
Ryoko's Case File (TV) Good
Saber Marionette J (TV) Good
Samurai Champloo (TV) Very good
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Very good
School Days (TV) Very good
School Rumble (TV) Very good
Scrapped Princess (TV) Excellent
Seraphim Call (TV) Good
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Excellent
Shadow Star Narutaru (TV) Very good
She, The Ultimate Weapon (TV) Excellent
Shinesman (OAV) Very good
Sister Princess (TV) Decent
(The) Slayers (TV) Good
Slayers - The Motion Picture
Solty Rei (TV) Good
Someday's Dreamers (TV) Very good
Speed Grapher (TV) Excellent
Spice and Wolf (TV) Decent
Spirited Away (movie) Very good
Spriggan (movie) Bad
Stellvia (TV) Very good
Strawberry Marshmallow (TV) Very good
Strawberry Marshmallow (OAV) Good
Suzuka (TV) Good
Tenshi no Shippo Chu! (TV) Not really good
They Were 11 (movie) Decent
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (TV) Decent
Those Who Hunt Elves (TV) Good
Tokyo Babylon (OAV) Decent
Tokyo Godfathers (movie) Very good
Toradora! (TV) Very good
Trigun (TV) Excellent
Trinity Blood (TV) Very good
Twin Spica (TV) Excellent A touching school story that happens to involve space. Comes complete with a nicely tragic backstory and a thoroughly endearing main character.
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (movie) Good
Vandread (TV) Very good
Vandread: The Second Stage (TV) Very good
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) Decent
Welcome to the NHK (TV) Excellent
When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) Very good
When They Cry - Kai (TV) Good
Witch Hunter Robin (TV) Masterpiece
(The) World of Narue (TV) Good
X (movie) Weak
X (TV) Good
Xenosaga: The Animation (TV) Decent
Zettai Shonen (TV) Decent