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5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) Excellent
Afro Samurai (TV) Very good
Ah! My Goddess (TV) Good This really is the happy-go-lucky, nothing-can-go-wrong show. Every encounter Ah! My Goddess presents is whimsical and almost suggesting that you should be nothing but relaxed watching this anime.
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy (TV) Good Continuing on the first season, Flights of Fancy allows the Keiichi and Belldandy to enjoy a seemingly normal lifestyle with the addition of a few new bright faces. By the end you might be as sick as I was of hearing Keiichi spurt out, "Belldandy!"
Air (TV) Very good Of Key's productions, this is the saddest; which is an accomplishment if you have seen the other series. Other things that come to mind include: confusing, two plots, why a raven, and beat 'em when they're down.
Akira (movie) Good Endless destruction, psychic powers, anything but simple.
Android Kikaider - The Animation (TV) So-so
Aquatic Language (special) Good
Ar Tonelico (OAV) Weak
Aria the Animation (TV) Very good
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Excellent Azumanga Daioh provides top-notch character development, which is the perfect thing to include when you are making a slice of life anime.
Baby Blue (movie) Good Fireworks, a grenade, a passing train.
Baccano! (TV) Excellent
Beast Wars: Transformers (U.S. TV) Good Home of the most annoying catch phrases, including: "Eee-yesssss", "For the Royalty!", and pretty much anything Inferno says.
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (TV) Excellent Some people wonder may look at the cover of a CD album and wonder, how did this band get to where they are now? Well, BECK answers this with a slice of Japanese life and an interesting twist of English speaking characters. The road to making it big within underground rock isn't easy, provides much amusement, and gives us an exclusive listen to some catchy tunes.
Birdy the Mighty: Decode (TV) Good
Black Lagoon (TV) Excellent A top-notch action show with enough piracy and explosions to keep you watching. Melding into the mindset of the crew of Black Lagoon is uncomfortably easy and invigorating, allowing us to be recruited along with Rock almost immediately after the torpedo-to-helicopter scenario.
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) Excellent
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) Weak Beating a kid to death with a hauntingly, violent club is a gimmick that gets old qquuiicckk! A line where violence and fan service is definitely crossed in this show, amusing only a strange few.
Blue Gender (TV) Not really good It's as if the PR and creative heads of Starship Troopers created an anime.
Bokura ga Ita (TV) Good
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan Second (OAV) Bad More episodes of what should have been an OVA consisting of -nothing- more than 3 episodes to begin with.
Chaos;HEAd (TV) Decent
Chibits (special) Decent
Chobits (TV) Good Artificial intelligence, should this love exist, where should it stop.
Chobits (OAV) Good
Clannad (TV) Excellent An anime that knows just how to hook you in, Clannad first catches you buy throwing in a plethora of comedic devices, shakes you up by introducing a lovable cast, then spreads you across the mattress, ready to do with you as it pleases with it's onslaught of tear-jerking drama sequences.
Clannad After Story (TV) Masterpiece
Claymore (TV) Very good Slowly succumbing to a monstrosity, wielding no future, everyone kneels before the reaper.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Excellent
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Masterpiece
CODE-E (TV) Good Imagine His and Her Circumstances, then continue to imagine that Miyazawa sends out strong, electrical pulses every time she experiences a strong emotion; pulses that seem to destroy nearby electronics. I give you... Code-E.
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Very good Every cowboy has his day, and this is no different. Cowboy Bebop explodes with cool, rhythm, and the easiest anime to bridge the gap between those of us who speculate or hate anime, and those of us who remember this show as ecstacy.
Darker than Black (TV) Very good
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (TV) Good
DearS (TV) Decent
Death Note (TV) Excellent A madman's puppet show, a genius's future, how it all came upon him.
Detroit Metal City (OAV) Very good
Di Gi Charat (TV) Good
Doorbell (movie) So-so Doppleganger, a race, how much we know our friends.
Durarara!! (TV) Masterpiece
Eden of the East (TV) Very good
ef: a tale of melodies (TV) Masterpiece
ef: a tale of memories (TV) Masterpiece
Elfen Lied (TV) Excellent
Eureka Seven (TV) Masterpiece
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (movie) Very good
(The) Familiar of Zero (TV) Very good
(The) Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons (TV) Very good
(The) Familiar of Zero: Rondo of Princesses (TV) Good
Fate/stay night (TV) So-so
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie) Decent
FLCL (OAV) Excellent
Fruits Basket (TV 1/2001) Excellent
Full Metal Panic! (TV) Very good
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TV) Excellent
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) Excellent
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Excellent
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) Masterpiece
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa Masterpiece
Ga-Rei-Zero (TV) Very good
Gantz (TV) Very good
Genius Party (movie) Good
Genshiken (TV) Excellent
Genshiken (OAV) Very good
Genshiken 2 (TV) Excellent For those of us who have dabbled into the life of an otaku or have even tried expanding that into a future career, Genshiken seems to hit home almost too accurately, allowing us to laugh, cry, and become frustrated right alongside the members of Genshiken as most of the cast enters the working world and the hardships that lie within.
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) Masterpiece
Golden Boy (OAV) Very good
Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun (TV) So-so
Grenadier (TV) So-so Cleavage clip, love and peace.
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV) Excellent
Gunslinger Girl (TV) Very good
Gurren Lagann (TV) Masterpiece This anime is the saying "larger than life".
H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~ (TV) Good
Haibane Renmei (TV) Very good Haibane Renmei is the sole crafter which works with a loom of mystery.
Happy Machine (movie) Very good The cycle continues, where imagination begins, the patchwork vagabond.
Haré+Guu (TV) Excellent
Haré+Guu Deluxe (OAV) Excellent
Haruka Nogizaka's Secret (TV) Good
Hatsukoi Limited (TV) Excellent
Heaven's Lost Property (TV) Good
Hell Girl (TV) Very good
Hellsing (TV) Very good
His and Her Circumstances (TV) Excellent
Honey and Clover (TV) Masterpiece
Honey and Clover II (TV) Masterpiece
Ichigo 100% (TV) Good
Ikki Tousen (TV) Not really good
Isshoni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako (OAV) Worst ever
Isshoni Training: Training with Hinako (OAV) Worst ever
ItaKiss (TV) Excellent
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Final (OAV) Excellent
K-ON! (TV) Excellent
Kämpfer (TV) Good
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (TV) Excellent
Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox (TV) Not really good
Kanon (TV 2/2006) Excellent Truly the ultimate sad girl in the snow anime.
Karin (TV) Excellent
Kasimasi - Girl Meets Girl (TV) Decent
Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de (TV) Decent
Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You (TV) Excellent
Kimikiss pure rouge (TV) Good
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World (movie) Good
Kino's Journey (TV) Excellent The people of the land, a shot in storytelling heaven, riding the infinite rails.
Kino's Travels: Life Goes On (movie) Good
Kurenai (TV) Excellent How families keep the curve, integrating worlds, transpose the truth as violent the storm.
Library War (TV) Excellent
Looking Up At The Half-Moon (TV) Excellent
Love Hina (TV) Very good
Love Hina Again (OAV) Good
Love Hina Spring Special - I Wish Your Dream Good
Love Hina X'mas Special - Silent Eve Good
Lovely Complex (TV) Very good
Lucky Star (TV) Excellent It's all the aspects of Genshiken meets the carefree, explorative nature of Azumanga Daioh.
Lucky Star OVA Excellent
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) Good
Mahoraba ~Heartful days~ (TV) Excellent
Maria Holic (TV) Very good
(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) Excellent
Midori Days (TV) Excellent
Minami-ke (TV) Very good
Minami-ke: Okawari (TV) Very good
Moyashimon (TV) Excellent
Mushi-Shi (TV) Masterpiece Beautiful. Every single episode is mysterious and beautiful. No hyper teenagers to worry about, no diabolical schemes to ruin the Sunday paper, just ingenious queries into the life of the mushi.
My Bride is a Mermaid (TV) Excellent
Myself; Yourself (TV) Decent
Nagasarete Airantou (TV) Good
Naruto (TV) Decent
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow So-so
Natsume's Book of Friends (TV) Excellent
Natsume's Book of Friends (TV 2) Excellent
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Very good
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Excellent
NieA_7 (TV) Good
Nodame Cantabile (TV) Excellent
Nodame Cantabile: Finale (TV) Excellent
Nodame Cantabile: Paris (TV) Excellent
Nyan Koi! (TV) Very good
Ouran High School Host Club (TV) Excellent
(The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) Excellent
Planetes (TV) Masterpiece
Please Teacher! (TV) Decent
Please Teacher! (OAV) Decent
Please Twins! (TV) Good
Please Twins! (OAV) Good
Princess Mononoke (movie) Very good
Princess Tutu (TV) Masterpiece
Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) Very good
Rosario + Vampire (TV) Decent If the back-and-forth-calling-each-other's-name gag doesn't bother you, then enjoy the life of a human who has to attend a school filled with monsters and keep his secret that he is a human. Awkward, but definitely funny. Rosario + Vampire could have used more of a macho guy who fights too much as a sidekick, that would have been entertaining.
Rozen Maiden (TV) Good
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Good
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) Very good
Samurai Champloo (TV) Excellent
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Very good
School Days (TV) Not really good
School Rumble (TV) Excellent
School Rumble Sangakki (OAV) Good
School Rumble: 2nd Semester (TV) Excellent
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Good
Seto no Hanayome (OAV) Excellent
Shakugan no Shana (TV) Good
Shakugan no Shana (movie) Weak
Shakugan no Shana SP: Koi to Onsen no Kōgai Gakushū! (OAV) So-so
Shakugan no Shana-tan (OAV) So-so
Shanghai Dragon (movie) Excellent
She, The Ultimate Weapon (TV) Very good
Shigofumi - Letters from the Departed (TV) Decent
Shion no Oh (TV) Good
Shuffle! (TV) Decent
Skip Beat! (TV) Excellent
Soul Eater (TV) Masterpiece Is it possible to enjoy a show too much? This and more you will be asking yourself as you watch this stylish new bones production. Filled with intricate scythe maneuvers and a unique cast, the possibilities for entertainment are endless.
(The) Supreme Hecate-tan (OAV) So-so
Sword of the Stranger (movie) Excellent
Tenjho Tenge (TV) So-so Starting off strongly, you'd think Tenjho Tenge would be a sure fire way to beat boredom, but the show finds a strange way to drag itself out. Literally the show can be segmented into 1/8 main story, then 3/4 flashback, and finally another 1/8 continuation, in this exact order. Enjoy the first 1/8, then break out the crunchy snacks as you follow one of the longest flashback sequences you might ever experience.
To Love-Ru (TV) Not really good
Tokyo Marble Chocolate (OAV) Good
Toradora! (TV) Very good
(The) Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk (TV) Good
Trigun (TV) Very good
True Tears (TV) Very good
Umineko - When They Cry (TV) Very good
Vampire Knight (TV) Decent
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) Good
Welcome to the NHK (TV) Very good Can Sato possibly make every wrong decision possible? Yes, apparently he can. From addictions to pornography, online gaming, and galgae, to escaping the life of a hikkikomori, many events will enter through his front door and most likely allow you to see the same sad deprivity that we all have once felt in some of these situations. Warning: when ANN categorized this as a dark comedy, they meant it; so prepare yourself for the desperation that only some of us have felt.
When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) Excellent Don't pay too much attention to the opening scene, just remember the shock and intensity that follows you as you watch it. This is the same bundle of feelings you will feel over and over again as the town of Higurashi continues through the day. Paranoia and and comedy are just a few things that will appear in the crazed murder mysteries of this town.
When They Cry - Kai (TV) Good
When They Cry - Rei (OAV) Excellent
Xam'd: Lost Memories (ONA) Masterpiece