My anime list, no matter on MAL or Melative, has finally reached the 50 completed entries mark. Whereas Melative generally clumps seasons together to just one entry, the number there is one less than needed. But hey. With exceptions of Miyazaki’s works I watched all these anime from Fall 2008 to now, Fall 2009. I am now just one more time the same away from the noobness level of your average aniblogger. And so, why not catch the flame of Hontou ni and list my Top 5? Considering that today the first, again surprisengly tiring week of school after the holidays ended, and I haven’t posted a thing for so long, I think such an easy post can be forgiven.
Let’s not hesitate, there are just five of the Top anyway:
- The place promised in our early days
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Steamboy
- Lucky Star
Their placement was really difficult. I have many more favourites, and they’re all equal to each other.
So, I placed Makoto Shinkai’s The place promised in our early days on place #1, because it touched not only my heart in the right place, but also my brain. I like the multiversum theory and find it likely true, while the romantic inside of me was crying and jumping during the whole film.
TTGL had almost the same effect on me, although shounen is shounen and just can’t beat Makoto Shinkai, at least not for me.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was the one that gave me the most food for thoughts as aftertaste, on my own being, my development, on others and many other things. This aftertaste and this rants lasted for weeks after I finished the series… There wasn’t much place for romantic, but instead for demology, psychology, and giant monsters, and that compliments itself, I think.
I adore the steampunk genre and Steamboy is the best of steampunk anime I know. Moreover I like the UK and strange but useful inventions. That’s why it got the 4th place.
And at last, Lucky Star. I can rewatch it again and again. In fact, anime that leaded me into the ‘otakuism’ — though now I know that it’s not really true, one need much more money to be a real otaku — it is like in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind: one’s first book becomes one’s best friend for life. The same here with anime. Lucky Star is my friend forever.
This art mine list, simple as it is, and now I give the staff further. According to Stripey now one can tell something about me and my personality. Well, go ahead.
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I don’t know about personality, but the list and everything in this post gave me one response.
»has finally reached the 50 completed entries mark.
SO FEW!!! It’s, like, dire! Go watch a lot more anime!
It’s sad that this post makes one come up with ‘dire.’ However, I can’t and won’t watch more than I already do at the moment, because I have school, I have dev, I want to have eyesight.
I don’t think 50 is so few, too. I mean, it’s quite a lot, in one year at least.
I rather envy the blossoming neophyte anime fan. Everything seems so new and fresh, and you can cherry pick the best shows from years past per recommendations of more seasoned otaku.
I don’t even remember what the 50th anime I saw was. I just didn’t think of keeping track back then. When I joined MAL, I was surprised I’d already seen over 200 titles.
Indeed, thanks to the onii-chans around I get to see much less crap shows^^ That’s a big plus of being a noob.
50 in a year?! That’s incredible my yearly average is probably pitiful x)
Anyway, I so need to see The place promised in our early days, I saw 5cm per Second, thought it was pretty but not much more, but at the time, I really wanted to see The place promised in our early days more and I still do.I’m surprised to see Steamboy on your list. I guess your reasoning explains why it is there, but I just didn’t see anythign that great about the film. Well, as a recommendation for no particular reason, if you haven’t already seen The Sky Crawlers, I really suggest you give the film a try I think you’ll enjoy!
I was about to say ‘what? only 50 animes!?’ But it’s a great achievement of 50 animu a year. I don’t know how many anime I watch per year but Im pretty sure it’s less than 50.
Yeah, 50 series in a year is pretty impressive. I don’t know if I completed 50 series in my whole life.
5cm per second was incredibly good, but as I rather prefer ‘good ends’ I like The place promised in our early days more. I recommend it to you.
If my memory serves me right Katsuhiro Otomo spent 10 years working on Steamboy, the characters, the a-bit-alternate world are deep and well-thought-through, the story is good and, I don’t exactly know why, but the picture after-story while the credits is just fascinating me. I didn’t yet see The Sky Crawlers but I plan to.
I’d say this means you’re quite the mainstream anime fan.
That hurts me a little bit since I dislike everything ‘mainstream.’ But well, I suppose I’m mainstream under mainstream-haters.
I couldn’t remember what I already saw/read –_-…
That’s why you joined Melative, my friend. And yeah, why did you ‘MelBook!’ me back then? I didn’t quite get the humour ^__^;;
I’m surprised to have more completed anime than you considering how much trouble I have sitting down to watch anything. But I’ve been trying for a bit longer than you.
Anyway, congrats to you.
Recently I find myself coding stuff rather than watching anime, although some current anime are pretty good. When there’s a new episode of Railgun or Nyan Koi I have no problems sitting down to watch them.
By the way, you wrote ‘who cares’ about your gender on your about page, but if you wouldn’t mind me I’d ask. I just want to know whether one, in this case me, can guess one’s gender by the way he/she writes.
Well, I’m willing to answer questions via e-mail. I just see no reason to post my personal information in public. Feel free to e-mail me your guesses instead.
So weird! I didn’t have your blog in Reader wtf D:
Anyhow, (playing catchup) … I’d say those titles are pretty mainstream, but Lucky Star sticks out haha. It’s a good choice I guess, and why not ^^
I should probably make a top X, seems fun.
Also, 50 series in a year is a lot! Considering my completions since 2006 (27, 34, 27 in 08), that’s basically double! DOUBLE YEAR! lol
Anyhow, Melative doesn’t group all seasons, Darker Than Black, for instance. Only some stuff like Haruhi and White Album, which are basically continuances of the initial season. The extreme seasonal split would be seasonalizing everything, such as Keroro or Gintama which have a number of seasons D: It can fall either way ^^
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