Your Top Five Anime Series/Movies/OVAs

w00t, first thread in this category. I am soon many of you will come to know that's how I roll. Anyway, in this topic you share you top 5 favorite anime of all time, whether it be movies or a TV series. you can also change your shit anytime you want of course.

Here's my top 5. This is bound to change as I watch more fantastic anime. Also feel free to give reasons why they're your favorites.

Welcome to the NHK (probably my favorite as of now. just an amazing series and I feel it can resound with us all)

Code Geass (both the first and second season were so fantastic. It just kept getting better and more ridiculous as it went on)

Baccano! (I admire Baccano! because of how intricately all the stories of the characters are woven together, and how they connect. Plus the action is badass)

Berserk (this is more of an old favorite than anything. the ending will mindfuck you)

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (while the original anime, the one that deviates from the manga, was very good, Brotherhood is even better. People claim its predictable but I don't think it's the ending that determines how good it is. It's the journey you take with the characters along the way, and there are so many to love and hate)

So there it is. I can't wait to see what everyone else posts, though i supsect Naruto will be a popular choice.

Detective Conan: Longest running series that is still interesting to this day... especially when they make it relevant to the plot (best episodes EVER!!!)

One Piece: Another Long Anime. It evokes emotions and the characters are some of the most funest and best I seen in quite awhile... they make having a adventure so exciting and interesting I wanna be a pirate now!

Clannad: After Story: BEST ANIME EVER! I HAVE NEVER FELT THIS CONNECTED TO CHARACTERS BEFORE. IF YOU ENJOY SLICE OF LIFE THIS IS YOUR ANIME. ANY OTHER EMOTION HEAVY ANIME WONT HOLD A CANDLE TO THIS SHIT EVER!!! (You kinda have to watch the 1st season 1st though (which is average) but it's well worth it!)

Yu Yu Hakusho: A Classic... More characters that you can connect to and it's a simple and clean anime that is great for any new comer to anime.

Naruto: (Not shippuden)... grand series with... you guess it more boss characters... so much potential for its second series to be average... the original naruto had many different characters and styles damn good people I tells ya)

(Not really my top 5 but just copy pasta off my anime list. There is also Brotherhood which would bump either Naruto or Yu Yu Hakusho off this list, TTGL, Lucky Star Code Geass, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya are also honorable mentions.)

The 5 that come to mind for me are.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Code Geass

Baccano!

Dragonball Z

Trigun

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Naruto/Shippuden

Clannad/After Story

Gurren Laggan

???????

One Piece and fullmetal alchemist brotherhood

dragonball z

naruto and hunter x hunter

deathnote

bakuman

I don't watch much anime but when i did i really enjoyed these:

Code Geass

Fullmetal Alchemist

One Piece

Death Note

Best OVA ever:

Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal

Oh yeah I can't believe I forgot Death Note, I only listed the best ones I remember.

Detective Conan, and I agree with JJ. When this series reach the actual plot episodes it becomes just an epic series that you can't miss. This is my absolute favorite series. I've been caught up in the manga since. What makes this series even better? The movies actually go along with the story unlike most movies for an anime. This series is lasting so long, but this is a must read/watch series.

Naruto Shippuuden, kinda dragged out too much with fillers, so I just watch the big episodes now

Full Metal Alchemist/Brotherhood, doesn't even need describing...just. Awesome

Soul Eater, still one of the best series out there. Even if the series ended while the manga continued. Amazing fight scenes and music with a great storyline

Best Wishes, I still don't know how I really even got back into this series. Was dragged out so much in the past I quit pre-season 6. My friend suddenly told me he watched the new series released and everything that was wrong was fixed. So I told my friend here I can really trust and he agreed so I tried and it surprised me so I've been caught up in it since.

really the only series I watch nowdays

Fruits Basket (yeah sounds gay and is mostly a girl anime, but the story is really captivating)

Trigun (I don't need to say anything about this one, shoot the soundtrack alone is pure awesomeness)

Samurai Shamploo (Thought at first I found this series boring, I decided to give it another try and it quickly became one of my top animes)

Vandread (Short series only lasting 26 episodes, but actually ended up watching the whole series on a single weakend, which is something because I can't be infront of a tv for more than 2.5 hours)

FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (I mean come on, like you know... great shaitza)

and newly added
Eden of the East (The whole series is only 11 episodes and two movies, which I still need to see the last movie)

Others that are closely to my top 5

Are:
Gunslinger Girl (season 1 only, animation in season 2 was crap)
Sekirei (Boobs for the Win,Also season 1 only, story in season 2 became much more cheesier)
Desert Punk (Good Stuff...)

^ No shame in Fruits Basket, DR. I'm actually a huge fan of the show. It's got some of the best humor I've seen in an anime, and very strong characters. I've been meaning to get into the manga because the anime ending didn't satisfy me. Also been meaning to check out Eden of the East for awhile now.

Anyway, just finished watchin Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad. Easily my new favorite of all time. Maybe because I love music and the series is about a band....but it just blew me away. It's the only anime I've wnated to rewatch instantly after finishing it.

Yup, I've been trying to get into the manga too. Just to lazy to remember about it.

I read the manga up to chapter 80 something I think, I lost track of where I was when my browser crashed though and haven't read it since.

fma the best

damn

Top five?

Hmmm...

Dragonball Z

Saint Seiya

Naruto

Yu Yu Hakusho

Inuyasha

Iri wrote:^ No shame in Fruits Basket, DR. I'm actually a huge fan of the show. It's got some of the best humor I've seen in an anime, and very strong characters. I've been meaning to get into the manga because the anime ending didn't satisfy me. Also been meaning to check out Eden of the East for awhile now.

Anyway, just finished watchin Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad. Easily my new favorite of all time. Maybe because I love music and the series is about a band....but it just blew me away. It's the only anime I've wnated to rewatch instantly after finishing it.

Hows the anime? I know the manga goes further than the anime but I really enjoyed the series

4 Beck btw

Jet wrote:

Iri wrote:^ No shame in Fruits Basket, DR. I'm actually a huge fan of the show. It's got some of the best humor I've seen in an anime, and very strong characters. I've been meaning to get into the manga because the anime ending didn't satisfy me. Also been meaning to check out Eden of the East for awhile now.

Anyway, just finished watchin Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad. Easily my new favorite of all time. Maybe because I love music and the series is about a band....but it just blew me away. It's the only anime I've wnated to rewatch instantly after finishing it.

Hows the anime? I know the manga goes further than the anime but I really enjoyed the series

Dude the Beck anime is pretty dope. Easily one of my favorites. It's realistic and more a slice of life show and the whole pace is just really chill. I thought it was a nice change from all the action/fighting anime out there.

I haven't checked out the manga yet but I really need to because I instantly wanted more after watching the TV series.

I got pretty far in the manga (past where the show ends), but I never finished it.

I read it a couple years ago. Used to read a lot of manga back then. I was really taken in by the series as well. I dont remember how far the anime went but a certain someones death really hit me. A great slice of life that Beckanno is partly named after. Got me to notice the Koyuki type of protagonist more. I think youll really like the manga, had a lot of feeling all the way through. I read it all within the week it was so good.

Jec wrote:Top five?

Hmmm...

Dragonball Z

Saint Seiya

Naruto

Yu Yu Hakusho

Inuyasha

Dude saint seiya is awesome, I've been looking for the Mexican Dub. So far I have only been able to find different Spanish dubs(Spain and Argentina)

Nice list as always D, really hasn't changed much over the years.

DasJudeBär wrote:

Jec wrote:Top five?

Hmmm...

Dragonball Z

Saint Seiya

Naruto

Yu Yu Hakusho

Inuyasha

Dude saint seiya is awesome, I've been looking for the Mexican Dub. So far I have only been able to find different Spanish dubs(Spain and Argentina)

Haha I watched a lot of anime in spanish as a kid, Saint Seiya too. Was even watching DB GT before Z premiered on Toonami here.

Top Five eh

this is gonna be like choosing your favorite son, damn it, here it goes

1- Dgray man, hate me all you want but this is my favorite Anime ever, why? because I feel strongly connected to Allen Walker not only for his eyes, (I had a cataract in my right eye, then I got an operation to fix the eye, but because I was born with it my eye never developed sight properly therefore I can only see properly with my left eye, which is Allen's cursed eye which allows him to see the souls of the damned) also he in himself is the continuous struggle between good and evil, and I believe duality is imprinted in the heart of every human being and in reality is mental sanity and the strength of your values (also the shaping way society around you works) which make you be either good or bad, which is also something in the lines of what ends up happening to Allen and I can see myself struggling to to what's right every day of my life too

2- Neon Genesis Evangelion, specially the RoE
not only this Anime was ground breaking on the idea of Humans fighting their way to survival against god, but the whole seele scheme, the relationships among the characters and the whole psychological/psychotic background was great

3- Full Metal Alchemist, both, brotherhood and the original
even tho I can't even come close to consider myself an alchemist I do believe
everything that once was mystical is now replaced for things more physical
and alchemy is the explanation for most of the difference in development in ancient cultures reason we seem to be going at a slower pace in modern civilizations, then again I have brothers and a Mother I would give my life to protect and save from anything, so I felt like Edward for being the older brother all through the series and it was shocking how much it touched the fibers of my heart

4-Trigun, what can I say, Brothers, Futuristic Environment and space traveling, rebuilding of human society, for its time it was so far from the rest, and even to this day remains one of the best series out there, sense of humor was awesome and Vash will always be my favorite Goody goody goofy character

5-Ergo Proxy, even tho I'd never watch this series ever again
the existential self realization involved in the plot of this anime blew my mind so hard plus that ending and how it all came together

again, reducing it to 5 was more a torture for me because there are like 20 more Anime I could say are my favorite but here it is