The Greatest Anime of All Time: Poll

monellia · 25-05-2009 1:36pm

That is shocking that Azumanga Daioh is getting more votes than Serial Exp Lain! I enjoy my light-hearted slice of life animes as much as anyone, but for me truly great animes have to have a more substantial plot, with some sort of a message. Anime is an art form like any other, and great art should affect you in a way that makes you think, makes you feel, moves you...

I voted for Spirited Away anyway. You should make another poll including all the other animes people mentioned in this thread. Then we can take the winners from each poll and merge them into a new poll

There are some glaring omissions like Bleach, Ghost in the Shell, Death Note and Akira. I would also like to nominate Grave of the Fireflies, Shingetsutan Tsukihime and Saikano.

Butterscotch · 25-05-2009 3:58pm

monellia wrote: »

Anime is an art form like any other, and great art should affect you in a way that makes you think, makes you feel, moves you...

In that case then RahXephon should be in the poll as that anime moved me and it had gorgeous art in it. Gunbuster should also be in the poll as that anime is a classic and very touching.

I also noticed the lack of retro anime in the poll such as Gunbuster, Galaxy 999 and a big big anime Gundam. I haven't got into Gundam yet but it is very popular anime and a classic one and Code Geass would of been a good one.

I geuss it would be a hard one doing a poll of the best anime ever as they are so many different tastes therefore, the one best anime ever would never be chosen.

I am not going to vote as I like five animes in that poll in different ways and I haven't seen the rest.

cherryghost · 26-05-2009 5:11pm

monellia wrote: »

That is shocking that Azumanga Daioh is getting more votes than Serial Exp Lain! I enjoy my light-hearted slice of life animes as much as anyone, but for me truly great animes have to have a more substantial plot, with some sort of a message. Anime is an art form like any other, and great art should affect you in a way that makes you think, makes you feel, moves you...

I voted for Spirited Away anyway. You should make another poll including all the other animes people mentioned in this thread. Then we can take the winners from each poll and merge them into a new poll There are some glaring omissions like Bleach, Ghost in the Shell, Death Note and Akira. I would also like to nominate Grave of the Fireflies, Shingetsutan Tsukihime and Saikano.

i gave a month open for nominations, and the people spoke. nuff said really

cherryghost · 29-05-2009 9:06am

2 days left! looks like the bebop done it :pac:

crótach · 02-06-2009 7:12pm

Otaku Girl wrote: »

So many good ones,but Evangelion gets my vote.

where's evangelion on the poll? i didn't see it.. unless it's in japanese there

voted for mononoke instead, terrific anime too!

monellia · 02-06-2009 8:19pm

crótach wrote: »

where's evangelion on the poll? i didn't see it.. unless it's in japanese there

voted for mononoke instead, terrific anime too!

It's right there with 6 votes ya dozy character

Overheal · 04-06-2009 6:34am

rigged poll tbh: not a gundam entry in the entire lot.

crótach · 04-06-2009 12:35pm

monellia wrote: »

It's right there with 6 votes ya dozy character

Ah jaysus I must be blind! doh!

Guess I was looking for "Neon Genesis..." before it

Xenoronin · 04-06-2009 5:26pm

Full Metal Alchemist really should have scored higher tbh. Such an epic anime with a great ending unlike Evangelion which requires you to watch it a few times so you can figure it all out. (I still downloaded the entire series and the movies though so I do like it

)

Ghost in the Shell deserved a place on there imo.

Art_Wolf · 04-06-2009 6:17pm

*cough* I am sure you mean you loved watching the entire series and movies

Xenoronin · 04-06-2009 10:04pm

*cough* of course, that is exactly what i meant, thanks for clearing that up for me *cough*

Funky · 11-06-2009 3:49pm

what about a greatest manga of all time poll?

tread_softly · 12-06-2009 4:39pm

Funky wrote: »

what about a greatest manga of all time poll?

alas, anime is more popular i fear, and i think most of people who post on this forum watch rather than read.

not that there's anything wrong with that, i love anime but i prefer manga. it's where the majority of anime came from anyway and (in most cases) the manga is superior to the anime that succeeded it.

BlitzKrieg · 12-06-2009 6:21pm

tread_softly wrote: »

alas, anime is more popular i fear, and i think most of people who post on this forum watch rather than read.

considering most prefer subbed animes I guess they like to do both

Funky · 14-06-2009 2:44pm

tread_softly wrote: »

alas, anime is more popular i fear, and i think most of people who post on this forum watch rather than read.

not that there's anything wrong with that, i love anime but i prefer manga. it's where the majority of anime came from anyway and (in most cases) the manga is superior to the anime that succeeded it.

yea true, it's a bit of a shame. even though i'd watch more anime than i'd read manga i've never got as hooked and craving to know what happens next in an anime as i have in some mangas. each to their own though!