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Wervyn's Anime

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5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) Very good Very moody, melancholic, and criticized for having a plot that moves at roughly the pace suggested by the title. I enjoyed this, it had good characterization and production values, but ultimately it's just one more on the "required viewing" list for anime classics, and as far as those go it's nothing outstanding.
Akira (movie) Excellent It's been ages since I actually watched this so the given rating may just be nostalgia talking. That still makes it an iconic introduction to anime movies for me, though.
Android Kikaider - The Animation (TV) Very good
Baccano! (TV) Excellent The amount of time I've spent rewatching this actually suggests it may be a candidate for masterpiece level, for me. In any case, Baccano! is a really fantastic show, brilliantly executed and strikingly unique in the anime world. I have yet to tire of watching and recommending this show, and the dub was really excellent.
Basquash! (TV) Good Colorful, boisterous, and ultimately trying to juggle too many things at once and not entirely succeeding. This was fun to watch precisely because it is unabashedly kitschy, but it never really went beyond that, though it seemed to be trying.
(The) Big O (TV) Excellent Despite never having finished the second season, I must say the first was really great stuff. This is one of those nostalgic Toonami anime that reminds me of how great Cartoon Network used to be (and by turns how much of a shithole it is now).
Black Lagoon (TV) Masterpiece Black Lagoon fits snugly into one of my favorite story categories, which I've come to refer to as "A Bunch of Guys on a Boat". See also Cowboy Bebop and Firefly, but generally this encompasses very character driven plot, with a subtle story undercurrent. The extreme black and gray morality of the show also makes it a lot of fun (if occasionally brutal) to watch. And episode 7, "Calm Down Two Men", contains one of my favorite dialogues in any story ever, it's just brilliantly executed and extremely moving. So yeah, this one's at the top of my stack.
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) Excellent I have to admit this one made a better impression on me dubbed; the whole Tokyo Arc became unintentionally hilarious in Japanese, since Toyoguchi Megumi, bless her heart, sucks at English. This really killed the moment for me in a lot of cases, or at the very least I couldn't take it seriously anymore. But even without that, this particular set of stories didn't move me in the same way the first season did. Which still means it's pretty excellent, but I couldn't award it a 10/10 anymore.
Blood+ (TV) Very good Strong start, plodding middle, some cool stuff towards the end and then a rather lackluster finale. At least in my opinion. There was a lot about Blood+ that I really liked, it was very stylish, had great production values, usually avoided cliche and didn't pull its punches (holy crap Riku). But not always, and sometimes it just got rather muddled. And the ending, while not necessarily bad, felt like a waste of good potential to me.
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) Good
Blue Submarine No.6 (OAV) Very good
Bokurano (TV) Very good
(The) Boy Who Saw the Wind (movie) So-so
CANAAN (TV) Good
Chrono Crusade (TV) Good
Claymore (TV) Very good
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Excellent
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Good
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Masterpiece
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Masterpiece
Coyote Ragtime Show (TV) Very good
Darker than Black (TV) Excellent
Death Note (TV) Excellent
Den-noh Coil (TV) Excellent
Dragon Ball Z (TV) Decent
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (movie 8) Very good
Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (movie 1) Decent
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (movie 12) Good
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (movie 4) Not really good
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (special) Good
Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (movie 3) Not really good
Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (movie 2) So-so
Eden of the East (TV) Excellent
El-Hazard 2: The Magnificent World (OAV) So-so
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World (OAV) Excellent
Elfen Lied (TV) Decent
Eureka Seven (TV) Excellent
Excel Saga (TV) Good
(The) Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons (TV) Weak
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie) Good
FLCL (OAV) Masterpiece
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Excellent
Ga-Rei-Zero (TV) Very good
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) Masterpiece
(The) Garden of Sinners (movie series) Masterpiece This is one of the most amazing anime I've ever seen, the production is just exquisite, the music is gorgeous, and I love the story. Individually ranked, some of these movies are less impressive than others, but as a complete whole (and especially with such monumental entries as Paradox Spiral), it's peerless in the current market. This may not be a series for everyone, but it's definitely a series for me.
Ghost in the Shell (movie) Excellent
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie) Excellent
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) Excellent
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) Excellent
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) Masterpiece
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV) Good
Gungrave (TV) Masterpiece
Hametsu No Mars (OAV) Awful
Hellsing (TV) Very good
Hotori - Tada Saiwai o Koinegau (special) Very good
Innocent Venus (TV) Good
Kaiba (TV) Excellent
Kurenai (TV) Excellent
Last Exile (TV) Excellent
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (movie) Good
Madlax (TV) Very good
Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) Excellent
(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) Excellent
Mind Game (movie) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (TV) Excellent
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (TV) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (TV) Decent
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (TV) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition (movie) Good
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (OAV) Excellent
Moyashimon (TV) Very good
Natsu no Arashi! (TV) Very good
Nodame Cantabile (TV) Very good
Noein - to your other self (TV) Excellent
Noir (TV) Excellent
Ouran High School Host Club (TV) Very good
Outlaw Star (TV) Decent
Paranoia Agent (TV) Excellent
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (TV) Good
(The) Phoenix -Space- (OAV) Weak
(The) Phoenix: Chapter of Ho-o (movie) Decent
(The) Piano Forest (movie) Very good
(The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) Excellent
(Le) Portrait de Petite Cossette (OAV) Good
Princess Mononoke (movie) Excellent
R.O.D -The TV- Very good
Read or Die (OAV) Excellent
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) Excellent
S-CRY-ed (TV) So-so
Samurai Champloo (TV) Excellent
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Very good
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Excellent
Shadow Star Narutaru (TV) Decent
Shangri-La (TV) Good
She and Her Cat (OAV) Good
Speed Grapher (TV) Very good
Spice and Wolf (TV) Very good
Spice and Wolf II (TV) Excellent
Spirited Away (movie) Masterpiece
Tenchi in Tokyo (TV) Weak
Tenchi Muyo! (OAV 1/1992) Excellent
Tenchi Muyo! GXP (TV) Good
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki (OAV 3/2003) Good
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (OAV 2/1994) Very good
Tenchi Muyo! The Night Before The Carnival (OAV) Very good
Tenchi Universe (TV) Good
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV) Very good
Trigun (TV) Excellent
Trinity Blood (TV) Good
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Excellent
(The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) Excellent
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) Very good
Welcome to the NHK (TV) Excellent
When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) Very good
Witch Hunter Robin (TV) Good
Wolf's Rain (TV) Very good
Xam'd: Lost Memories (ONA) Excellent
Xenosaga: The Animation (TV) Good