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Aa Megami-sama: Tatakau Tsubasa (special) Good
Ah! My Goddess (TV) Decent
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy (TV) Very good
Akira (movie) Very good (edit.dub), Excellent (sub) + Story, Really great experience watching in a cinema (My 1st!), Big-haired religious fanatic dies
- Ending is not quite satisfactory
Overall: 8.5
(The) Animatrix (OAV) So-so
Aquatic Language (special) Good
Arjuna (TV) Not really good
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Excellent + Characters, General warm fuzzy feeling, Sakaki and cats, Nyamo and her drunken speech, Insane music
- Not enough
Overall: 9+
Banner of the Stars (TV) Very good + Jinto and Lafiel, Strategies, Other great characters
- Battles, Ending
Overall: 8-
Banner of the Stars II (TV) Good + Lafiel's decision, Admiral Spoor, Jinto and Lafiel as usual, Lafiel's family's backstory
- Stupid worldbuilding, How did we end up here storytelling
Overall: 7
Banner of the Stars III (OAV) Decent + Jinto's storyline with Martine, Family dinner, Depictions of humans regarding abhs
- Military storyline
Overall: 6+
Battle Royale (live-action movie) Masterpiece
Berserk (TV 1997) Good
Black Lagoon (TV) Decent
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) Good
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) Bad
Ceres, Celestial Legend (TV) Decent
A Certain Magical Index (TV) Decent + Mikoto and Touma interactions, Mikoto arc, First arc, Amnesia somewhat surprisingly, City
- Most of other arcs, Every single villain having decent motivations, What Church?, Judgement is way beyond silly
Overall: 6
Chrono Crusade (TV) So-so
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Very good + Cool, Flawed heroes, Shirley
- Too many mecha, sometimes unplausible plans, Mao, Diabolus ex Machina was just that
Overall: 8
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Very good + Ending, Jeremiah, Academy scenes, Reveal about Marianne
- Too idealistic politics at the end, Rolo was irritating
Overall: 8+
Comedy (OAV) Very good
Crest of the Stars (TV) Very good + Jinto, Lafiel, Story, Abh, The funhouse
- Unnecessary swords, Lafiel's mother's identity
Overall: 8-
Eden of the East (TV) Very good + Premise, Characters, Phones, Plot
- Disney death, Too many Johnnies
Overall: 8
El Cazador de la Bruja (TV) So-so
Elfen Lied (TV) Good
Elfen Lied (OAV) Good
Ergo Proxy (TV) Decent
Excel Saga (TV) Very good
FLCL (OAV) Good
Full Metal Panic! (TV) Very good
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TV) Good
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (OAV) Good
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) Good
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Good
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) Very good
Ghost Hound (TV) Very good
Ghost in the Shell (movie) Very good
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie) So-so
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) Very good
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (TV) Good
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) Decent
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) Masterpiece + Animation, Story, Relationships between characters, Showing the consequences of time travel
- Not as much + as others...
Overall: 10-
Gokusen (live-action TV) So-so
(The) Gokusen (TV) Good
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV) Very good
Haibane Renmei (TV) Excellent + Great premise, Character designs, Powerful ending, Open questions
- ?
Overall: 9
Hayate the Combat Butler (TV) Decent
Hayate the Combat Butler!! (OAV) Not really good + There was Hinagiku in it...
- This was just like the eipisodes in the series proper which irritated or bored me to death
Overall: 4+
Hayate the Combat Butler!! (TV) Very good + Plot, Romantic part of plot, Hinagiku, No filler
- Not quite good enough for better marks, Grandmother arc, Stupid alien arc
Overall: 7.5
Hellsing (TV) Good
Howl's Moving Castle (movie) Decent
(The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (OAV) Decent + Main storyline, Yamamoto, Ending
- Boring and cliché fillers, Only continued in novels, Dom's character derailment in the second episode (seriously WTF?)
Overall: 6
(The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV) Very good + Tylor, Humour, Yamamoto, Worthy opponent Dom, Story, Empress, Special mention to proper Soyokaze episode.
- Empress' love, Mind mission, Twins to a degree, Fighter pilot guy
Overall: 8++
Kakurenbo - Hide & Seek (movie) Very good
Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) Good
Kurau: Phantom Memory (TV) Very good + Kurau and Christmas, Ending theme, World building, General warm fuzzy feeling
- Ending, some character designs
Overall: 8-
Living for the Day After Tomorrow (TV) Decent
Lucky Star (TV) Very good
Lucky Star OVA Good +/- Slightly worse than original, can't really remember
Overall: Make it 7.
Lunar Legend Tsukihime (TV) Good
Magic Knight Rayearth (TV) Not really good
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (TV) Decent + Fate's secret (too bad I was spoiled on that), Magic, Nanoha sometimes
- The first episodes were painfully boring, Nanoha's classmates, Chrono
Overall: 6
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (TV) Good + Action scenes, "White Devil", Animation, Plot
- Catgirls, Poor monster wasn't given a chance, Hammer with flexible shaft
Overall: 7
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (TV) So-so + Some of the action, Some of the plot, Cool factor
- Most of the action, most of the plot, Generic and boring foes, Child protagonists were way better (Faaate), Bad beginning, Rollerblades, Reinforce Two instead of One, etc...
Overall: 5
(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) Masterpiece + Animation (details and details and details), Story and its presentation, Ending (as it is...)
- Ending is a bit less powerful if one reads the books, Episode order on DVDs
Overall: 10
Mind Game (movie) Good
Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit (TV) Very good
Moyashimon (TV) Good
Murder Princess (OAV) So-so
My-HiME (TV) Very good
My-Otome (TV) Decent
My-Otome Zwei (OAV) Not really good
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) Excellent + Nausicaa, Story, World, Yupa
- ?
Overall: 9
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Good
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Good
Noein - to your other self (TV) Very good
Ouran High School Host Club (TV) Good
Paprika (movie) Excellent + Paprika and her forms, Dreams and reality, Music, Daring to be different
- I felt a bit sorry for the detective guy
Overall: 9+
Perfect Blue (movie) Very good + The blurring of the line between reality and hallucinations, multiple surprises
- Animation, running a lot with serious wounds
Overall: 8
(Le) Portrait de Petite Cossette (OAV) Decent
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live-action TV) Good
Princess Mononoke (movie) Excellent + World building, Lady Eboshi and her town, Premise
- The bad guys weren't punished enough and I actually expected that here
Overall: 9
Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) Not really good
Read or Die (OAV) Weak
Red Garden (TV) Good
Requiem from the Darkness (TV) Good
Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) Good
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie Decent
RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne (TV) Bad + Maeno family, Some of the action, Human world's future
- Story, Ending, Lots of absolutely gratuitous nudity and sex
Overall: 2+
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Decent
Sailor Moon (TV) Good
Sailor Moon R (TV) Decent
Sailor Moon R: The Movie Decent
Sailor Moon S (TV) Good
Sailor Moon S: The Movie So-so
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (TV) Good
Sailor Moon SuperS (TV) Decent
Sailor Moon SuperS (special) So-so
Sailor Moon SuperS Plus - Ami's First Love (special) Weak
Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie Not really good
Sasameki Koto (TV) Very good + Realistic portrayal of schoolgirl lesbians, mood, first episode, some jokes
- First episode is way better than the rest even if the rest is still good, Manaka, animation sometimes
Overall: 8-
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Decent
Scrapped Princess (TV) Decent
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Excellent + Lain, Computers, Philosophical content, Mindscrew, Music
- Ending, Perhaps too hard to follow sometimes :)
Overall: 9
She and Her Cat (OAV) Very good
Shigofumi - Letters from the Departed (TV) Very good
Spirited Away (movie) Masterpiece + Animation, Story, World building, Cool creatures, Chihiro
- Perhaps a bit slow beginning
Overall: 10
Strawberry Panic! (TV) Good
They Were 11 (movie) So-so + Premise, The concept of Frol (nothing new, but still)
- Ending, Plot twists were so twisty that I couldn't remember if I was spoiled before or guessed them in 5 minutes, '80s designs, lots of minor things. Also boring.
Overall: 5-
Trigun (TV) Very good
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Excellent + World, Story, Decisions, The similarities between Youko and Shokou, The best and most powerful ending episode (39) I have ever seen, Voice Acting, Music
- Unfinished, Some weird animation in one of the key scenes, Taiki arc were a bit slow
Overall: 9++
One of the cases when the adaptation is way better than the original. It is worth reading though. My absolute favourite anime.
Umineko - When They Cry (TV) So-so + First three arcs, Mystery aspects, Interesting story
- Fourth arc ruins it, Just stopped ending, Some irritating characters
Overall: 5
(The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) Good
When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) Excellent + I was actually scared during the first two and last arcs, Opening theme, The mystery and its presentation
- Comparatively weaker third arc, Off-key animation, Purists also complain about adaptation decay
Overall: 9-
When They Cry - Kai (TV) Very good
Whisper of the Heart (movie) Very good
Witch Hunter Robin (TV) Decent