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  1. JoJo's Bizzare Adventure
  2. Monster
  3. Vinland Saga
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[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Frieren

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Also while I dont care for comedy anime most of the time I have to agree with other posters that Nichijou is absolute peak.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
  1. Evangelion
  2. Steins;gate
  3. Madoka
[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

I can't believe I had to scroll to the bottom to find Steins;Gate.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago
  1. Dragon Ball
  2. Digimon
  3. Sailor Moon

I also enjoy JoJo and Medabots.

Maybe i missed it, but no Cowboy Bebop on anyone's list?

Shame!

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
  1. Shinsekai Yori
  2. Psycho-Pass (season 1 only)
  3. Samurai Champloo

Honorable Mention: Revolutionary Girl Utena.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago
  1. Golden Kamuy
  2. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
  3. Ghost in the Shell: Stand-alone Complex

with an honorable mention for berserk because it would make top 3 if we were talking manga not anime.

A. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

B. Patlabor

C. Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

1- The

2- Girl

3- Reading dis

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wolfs Rain

Trigun

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

(I am an old)

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Wolf's Rain is oddly appropriate for the world we live in given the climate thing and techno feudalism.

I always loved the "rip your heart out and stomp on it" ending of it, too.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wolf's rain was a runner-up in mine but I haven't watched it in so long I don't think I can accurately judge it.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

It ends up in my rotation at least every year or so. It's really a comfort anime for me, having gotten into it while dealing with some early identity crises and heavily identifying with the wolves.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

God, that's a tough question. After thinking about it for a while I think these are my top 3:

  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
  2. Jojo's
  3. Fullmetal alchemist (it's not terribly complex or deep, but 99% of what it sets out to do, it does extremely well)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)
  1. Gundam (1979)

  2. Dragon Ball/Z

  3. Berserk

Pretty ho-hum taste but I am who I am.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It drives me nuts that two of your three top anime are manga adaptations where the manga is a lot better lol

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not arguing with you there!

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'll give you the fact that the Dragon Ball and Berserk (97) anime both have amazing scores that make reading the comic more enjoyable since I can often imagine the music in my head lol

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[–] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago
  1. 3-gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion)
  2. Ping Pong the Animation
  3. Revolutionary Girl Utena

I have a type. I've got a few 10/10 that I juggle around 2 and 3, but 1 is still 3-gatsu.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm gonna say......

  • Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
  • Sakura Quest

None of those are on my "official" list of favorites, which I frankly haven't actually touched in years — and for all I know the Chunibyo and Haruhi light novels are better than the anime — but the whole idea of "favorites" is kinda nonsense, anyways, right? A lot of people, myself included, hear the word "favorite" and basically end up running a computer program in our Linux-ass brains in order to sort through eeeeverything of the specified category, to try to scientifically measure some vague idea of "most liked", and then we'll inevitably feel bad when this program fails to do the impossible, and we just sort of have to wing it, as if "winging it" represents some sort of "betrayal" of... Pff, I dunno, fictional characters? Our past selves? The collective efforts of the many talented people who worked on these things that we're awfully fond of but just didn't "make the cut"? Something like that.

No, the true meaning of "what are your top three favorite..." is generally just a fancier way of saying "please name any three that you like of..." — where nobody's going to judge or correct you for what you say, as long as it can start an interesting conversation, or says something deeper about you or your overall preferences. In which case even just rambling about my own linuxbrain problem with the concept of "favorites" probably reveals more than plenty about the rationale for at least one of my picks, if not two of them.

[–] camaron30@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1.Revolutionary Girl Utena.

2.Monster, it used to be my favourite but Utena has really grown on me.

3.Evangelion.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Evangelion

Hibike Euphonium

Those two were easy picks, but I can't really think of a third anime that I think is equally meaningful to me

[–] vehicom@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago

hibike euph my beloved. I also really liked the movie based off it, liz and the bluebird

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Probably Frieren The Slayer, Haibane Renmei, and Nichijou, but they're all so different I can't really rank them in any particular order.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Nichijou gang

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I'd most likely go with Kara no Kyoukai, ACCA-13, and Mushi-shi.

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago
  1. Sailor Moon
  2. Dragonball
  3. Serial Experiments Lain

I mostly just watch my comfort shows

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago
  1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
  2. Monogatari Series (!!ANIME BULLSHIT ALERT!!)
  3. Katanagatari, probably
[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. Mushishi
  2. The Tatami Galaxy
  3. Kino's Journey (2003)

(No. 4 would be Serial Experiment's Lain)

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  1. Gurren Lagann (specially including the movies)
  2. Evangelion (including the movies, I absolutely love them)
  3. Revolutionary Girl Utena

Bonus: 4. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 5. Dungeon Meshi

I can't express how much I love Gurren Laggan, i really need to rewatch it. The second movie is just

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I loves the show but never got around to watching the movies. Didn't even know there was more than one.

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Gurren Lagann? There's only two movies. The first one is a retelling of the first half of the anime, with a few differences towards the end, and the second one is a different retelling of the second half. If I had to describe it, I would say its as if they simply turned it up to 11.

I absolutely love it and recommend anyone that has seen the anime to watch it.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. Turn A Gundam

  2. Mobile Police Patlabor (TV) - I'd cheat and throw in the OVA episodes that complete this one

  3. Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked

Edit: the second Ideon movie edged out the original Gundam show when I was thinking about it more lol. Amazingly influential movie!

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  1. Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  2. JoJo's Bizzare Adventure
  3. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
  4. Delicious in Dungeon

Joke pick: Speed Racer

Yeah I chose more than 3, fight me, nerds.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Joke pick: Speed Racer

chair-stomp Now listen here, 1960s anime is not a joke!!

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. Nichijou

  2. Zeta Gundam

  3. Medabots

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Medabots

Medachad fans unite gigachad

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

The Phantom Renegades would be a sweet name for a The Warriors style gang.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No order, excluding Ghibli:

Gunbuster/Diebuster (only 12 episodes total so deal with it).

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Evangelion

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago
  1. Sangatsu no Lion

  2. Kaiji

  3. Toradora?

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. Bocchi the Rock, 2. Digimon Ghost Game, 3. Jojo.
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Digimon was my close 4

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