This is in my top five.I liked the show from the start very original it mixed funny and action. The show was great the filler episodes were not terrible.
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1/ Samurai Champloo
2/ Elfen Lied
After that i'm not too sure - I've seen Gantz, Berzerk and Neon Genesis Evangelion in their entirety too. They were ok but I prefer my top two.
If you disagree god will reach down from the heavens & bust your chops. That's science.
1) Neon Genesis Evangelion is by far my most favorite anime. The first time I watched/finished the entire series (including the movie) is still the most powerful experience I've ever had. I won't say the most pleasant, but by far the most moving and powerful. Hell, I still get teary eyed on my 15th+ viewing.
2) Cowboy Bebop: Brilliant, epic, masterful. I re-watch this series more than NGE.
3a) Samurai Champloo: like Cowboy Bebop, the mix of story, characters, and music is great, but it's just quite as brilliant as Cowboy Bebop
3b) Gundam "War in the Pocket": this is ALMOST above Champloo because this miniseries does a REALLY good job at executing a pretty mature story about who is good/bad in war.
5) The idea of Gundam Wing, lols. The English dub is utterly unwatchable, but even the subtitled Japanese original presents a lot of interesting ideas about politics and war. The main issue is that they get very complicated and muddled toward the middle and end.
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since you didn't say series I'm going to count movies
1. Samurai Champloo
2. Cowboy Bebop (movie was kinda meh though)
3. Case Closed
4. Afro Samurai + movie
5. Akira
Coincidentally, those are the only 5 (or 6 rather cause of AS:R) shows/movies associated with anime that I like. I don't mind manga though, and after reading most of Death Note by the time the anime was on TV, the anime was kinda boring to me. It relies a lot on twists and suspenseful moments and knowing all of them ruined it. FLCL is up for debate too, dunno how i felt about the anime, but I have the manga and I wouldn't mind trying the show again.
It's my second favorite behind Cowboy Bebop. I'm not a very big and well-rounded anime fan and I've watched a lot of things that I like a lot, but only a few that I LOVE, so either I haven't watched much of the right stuff or I'm just kind of particular. It's hard to imagine anything measuring up to Watanabe's work for me, though. (For one thing, I like that both shows he's done tell a good story without drawing it out into an incredibly long series. I guess that's kind of unique for anime...in fact I can't even think of any American shows that were allowed to just stay short and sweet like that.)
"Ah, you've come to read my trousers!"
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
FLCL
Trigun
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Mid-range. I liked the characters (their plot armor I liked less) and the music and the look of it, but I didn't think the series as a whole worked that well and some of the episodes were pretty dull + repetitive. The outside narration was a distraction more than anything.
1. Cowboy Bebop
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
3. Death Note
4. Durarara!! (first season)
5. Paranoia Agent
6. Samurai Champloo
7. Attack on Titan
8. Witch Hunter Robin
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