| Want to see | Comment |
| Aria the Natural (TV) | |
| Aria the Origination (TV) | |
| Aria the OVA ~Arietta~ | |
| Barefoot Gen (movie) | Own the DVD, currently in viewing queue. |
| Black Lagoon (TV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. |
| Boogiepop Phantom (TV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. |
| Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. (Alexander Dumas is also an awesome author.) |
| Human Crossing (TV) | |
| Kurau: Phantom Memory (TV) | |
| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (TV) | I blame my interest in Nanoha on A's Combat Zero. (Look it up at YouTube if you're interested.)
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| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (TV) | I blame my interest in Nanoha on A's Combat Zero. (Look it up at YouTube if you're interested.) |
| Maria Watches Over Us (TV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. |
| Maria-sama ga Miteru (OAV) | |
| Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th Season (TV) | |
| Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ (TV) | |
| Mushi-Shi (TV) | |
| Outlaw Star (TV) | Watched this on Toonami, but that was an awful long time ago and I don't remember much. Bought the DVD set, and plan on watching this sometime in the near future. |
| Perfect Blue (movie) | |
| Rebuild of Evangelion: 3.0 (movie) | |
| Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (TV) | |
| Someday's Dreamers (TV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. |
| Welcome to the NHK (TV) | Reading the manga before I watch the anime. |
| When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. |
| Yukikaze (OAV) | Own the DVDs, currently in viewing queue. |
| Seen all | Rating | Comment |
| Area 88 (TV) | Good | Rated relatively high only because I like planes so much. Don't bother buying this if you don't like watching aerial dogfights or action anime in general. |
| Aria the Animation (TV) | Excellent | It's a girls-in-gondolas anime, what's not to like? |
| Azumanga Daioh (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| Blue Submarine No.6 (OAV) | Good | |
| (The) Cat Returns (movie) | Excellent (dub & sub) | |
| Cowboy Bebop (TV) | Excellent | |
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | Excellent | |
| Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone (movie) | Very good | Viewed at Hawaii International Film Festival Spring Showcase 2009. It's almost identical to the first six episodes of the TV series, but with CGI and some minor changes. (Still worth watching, especially if in a theater.) |
| Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance (movie) | Excellent | Screened at Hawaii International Film Festival 2009. This film makes it clear from the first scene that it will not be following the story of the TV series, and actually tops it. |
| First Squad (OAV) | Decent | Screened at Hawaii International Film Festival 2009. |
| FLCL (OAV) | Excellent | |
| Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa | Decent | Do not recommend buying this unless you are a diehard FMA fan desperate for more animated goodness. |
| Ghost in the Shell (movie) | Very good | |
| Grave of the Fireflies (movie) | Masterpiece | Only watched this once in 2003, but I'd say that's enough for several more years at least. Isao Takahata deserves far more respect than he gets.
(Note: How much you like this movie directly depends on how much you care about Seita and his actions. Some consider him an idiot, some [like myself] consider him a kid trapped by events beyond his control.) |
| Haibane Renmei (TV) | Masterpiece | Personal favorite that I recommend everyone watch. |
| Hal & Bons (OAV) | Good | Stop-motion animated episodes of two dogs drinking beer together and chatting with a talking piece of mochi. Each episode is nothing more than dialogue between the three characters, and it's remarkably entertaining. Viewed at the 2006 Hawaii International Film Festival, no idea if/when this will get an R1 release. |
| Howl's Moving Castle (movie) | Good | I consider this to be Miyazaki's worst movie to date, mostly because the plot doesn't flow as well as should, and the anti-war message is overblown. Still worth buying, but the book is much better. |
| Kamichu! (TV) | Masterpiece | "Mitsue-chan, I became a goddess last night." Funimation has been kind enough to rerelease this, so do them the favor of buying it. |
| Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) | Excellent | |
| Kino's Journey (TV) | Excellent | A series of vignettes as told by a traveler on a motorcycle, so there's no substantial overarching plot. Limited by 25-minute episode length, but overall an excellent buy. |
| Last Exile (TV) | Not really good (dub & sub) | Do not recommend buying due to the rushed and poorly done ending, which is a shame because I liked the first twenty-four episodes. |
| Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie) | Very good | |
| Millennium Actress (movie) | Masterpiece | Film directed by Satoshi Kon, probably the second-least confusing of his work. |
| My Neighbor Totoro (movie) | Masterpiece | |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) | Excellent | An excellent movie doomed to forever live in the shadow of its more expansive manga counterpart. Watch the anime, then read the manga afterwards to avoid disappointment. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) | So-so (dub), Very good (sub) | Notorious for having non-symbolic items interpreted as symbolism, but has an excellent cast of interesting characters. (Sub version preferred.) |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) | Bad (dub), Weak (sub) | Alternate retelling of the TV series and part of End of Eva. Not worth buying, unless you're a major Eva fan. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) | Not really good (dub), Very good (sub) | As indicated by the title, watch only after seeing the TV series in full. This movie is necessary for the ending to make sense. |
| New Hal & Bons (OAV) | Good | Stop-motion animated episodes of two dogs drinking beer together and chatting with a talking piece of mochi. Each episode is nothing more than dialogue between the three characters, and it's remarkably entertaining. Viewed at the 2006 Hawaii International Film Festival, no idea if/when this will get an R1 release. |
| NieA_7 (TV) | Very good | Slice-of-life anime similar to Haibane Renmei, with plenty of comedy to go around. Sadly, it seems to be the least-known of the four anime Yoshitoshi ABe was involved in. |
| Noir (TV) | Decent | An anime worth buying if you like action and girls shooting people, not something that interests me unfortunately. |
| Paprika (movie) | Masterpiece | Film directed by Satoshi Kon, who was kind enough to appear at the Hawaii International Film Festival when this movie was shown there in 2006. |
| Paranoia Agent (TV) | Excellent | Series directed by Satoshi Kon. Mostly a commentary on modern Japanese society, so not recommended for people beyond hardened anime fans and those familiar with Japan itself. |
| Planetes (TV) | Very good | If you like hard sci-fi, there is no anime harder than Planetes. (To my knowledge, at least.) |
| Pom Poko (movie) | Excellent | Tanuki + Takahata = Win. |
| Porco Rosso (movie) | Excellent | |
| Princess Mononoke (movie) | Very good (dub), Masterpiece (sub) | Sub version strongly recommended over the dub. |
| Scrapped Princess (TV) | So-so | Liked it right up until the point it changed from a fantasy anime to a sci-fi anime (about halfway through the series), then it was mostly down hill from there. Don't recommend buying this. |
| Serial Experiments Lain (TV) | Very good | |
| (The) Sky Crawlers (movie) | Excellent | Viewed at Hawaii International Film Festival Spring Showcase 2009. |
| Spirited Away (movie) | Masterpiece (dub & sub) | |
| Texhnolyze (TV) | Good | Exceptionally bleak and depressing anime (in the same class as Grave of the Fireflies) with a slow start (6-7 episodes to get going.) Worth buying if you can stand that sort of thing. |
| Tokyo Godfathers (movie) | Excellent | Film directed by Satoshi Kon, who deserves more attention than he seems to get. Three homeless bums find an abandoned infant on Christmas Eve in Tokyo, hilarity ensues. What's not to like? |
| Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) | Excellent | |
| Zipang (TV) | Very good | Sending a modern JMSDF destroyer back to the Battle of Midway sounds like the set-up for some super-nationalistic and propagandistic story, but Zipang is nothing like that. Mildly disappointing ending (it seems to be setting up for a second season that was never made), but definitely worth buying overall. |
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