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After War Gundam X (TV) Excellent A great show, it really doesn't deserve the reputation it's received just because it was foolishly cancelled. Of all the Gundams I've seen this is my favorite.
Android Kikaider - The Animation (TV) Excellent
Angel Links (TV) So-so Angel Links isn't a bad show, but it isn't a great one either, it's just okay. The plot is interesting but the first half, for the most part, is a villian of the week kind of thing. The Villain of the Week is pretty much a constant through episode 10. Although the plot picks up around episode 7. Also it's a rather fan-servicey series and the main character (Meifon Li) has G-Cup breasts which you may or may not like. While it's not a must see, it's not one that should be avoided at all costs, it's just there so check out if you want to and if not you're not missing anything really special. One last thing, the ED (True Moon, I believe) had a great rhythm and such but the singer could not sing, she was flat and sounded kinda bored.
Angelic Layer (TV) Very good
Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution (TV) Very good
Argento Soma (TV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms (TV) Masterpiece
Aura Battler Dunbine (TV) Very good
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Excellent
Berserk (TV 1997) Very good
Blue Gender (TV) Very good Great show. However it starts off too slow but it picks up by episode 11 and gets really good by episode 18.
Blue Seed (TV) Good
Blue Submarine No.6 (OAV) So-so
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Masterpiece
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Very good
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Excellent A great series. It has great characters and each with interesting back stories. And show suffers from only one bad episode (Session 19: Wild Horses).
Crest of the Stars (TV) Good
Cromartie High School (TV) Excellent
D.N.Angel (TV) Decent
Dai-Guard (TV) Very good
Descendants of Darkness (TV) Good
Digimon Adventure (TV) Excellent The show starts of slow but quickly builds up steam and becomes incredibly good. It really picks up with the Myotismon(Vamdemon) arc which begins in the mid-20's. And remains pretty strong plot-wise until the end of the series.
Digimon Adventure 02 (TV) Good Digimon Adventure 02 has a good story but it was just executed poorly. It spend too much time with arc, it could have easily been done in about 15 episodes but was stretched to 21, which caused the final arc to feel rushed. That and it never fully explains the Dark Ocean which is relatively important to the plot.
Digimon Adventure: Born of Koromon (movie) So-so
Digimon Frontier (TV) Decent Frontier was a great attempt at adding something new to the Digimon universe, having the children become digimon. It was executed very well in my opinion. But my biggest complaint about the show is that in the late-20's-early-30's it basically became "The Adventures of Takuya and Kouji". The ending is noticably rushed and with good reason the show was cancelled in Japan so the writers lost 4 episodes.
Digimon Tamers (TV) Excellent Tamers was excellent. It had a great storyline and while focused mainly on the three main characters it also gave a fair amount of spotlight to the other characters. Though the last arc was very Juri-centric and rather dark.
Digimon Tamers: The Adventurers' Battle (movie) Decent This movie was okay, it wasn't the greatest. It was just a nice little side story.
Digimon: Data Squad (TV) Very good
Digimon: Diaboromon Strikes Back (movie) Decent This movie was the last look at the Adventure storyline. It was pretty good.
Digimon: Our War Game (movie) Decent Our War Game provided as a nice way to bridge the gap between Adventure and Adventure 02. The movie was pretty good but the animation style was rather ugly.
Digimon: The Golden Digimentals (movie) So-so A nice little OOC movie, it was interesting. And it was nice that Seraphimon and Magnadramon got little cameos.
Digimon: The Movie (U.S. movie) Not really good It was a good idea that Saban had to release the 3 Digimon movies (well the 3 that were available at the time) in America, but I dislike how they decided to link the 3 movies so they had a similar plot during each. Movie 3 was made to be out of continuity and trying to fit it in with the show just made it kinda confusing, that and while it was a nice attempt at trying to link the 3 movies it just
DNA² (TV) Very good
DNA² (OAV) Very good
Dragon Ball (TV) Very good
Dragon Ball Z (TV) Good Dragon Ball Z is a pretty good show. The show starts off strong and remains that way through the first 2 sagas (Saiyan Saga and Frieza Saga) the 3rd Saga (Android/Cell) was pretty good but by the last Saga (Buu) it was incredibly stale and repetitive. I reccomend the first 3 sagas of the show but I don't reccomend the Buu saga at all.
Fafner (TV) Very good
FLCL (OAV) Bad I don't see why everyone calls this show a masterpiece. Haruka was just annoying, when her true motives were revealed I could care less. The only character that I liked was the one with the big eyebrows all the other ones annoyed me.
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Excellent
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) Excellent
Fushigi Yugi (TV) Masterpiece
Fushigi Yugi (OAV) Good
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV) Good
.hack//SIGN (TV) Good A very complex show, but I liked it but it's not a favorite.
Heavy Metal L-Gaim (TV) Very good
Hellsing (TV) Very good
Hikaru no Go (TV) Masterpiece An awesome series. It's my new favorite. It is also very addicting. I highly reccomend it.
Infinite Ryvius (TV) Very good
Inuyasha (TV) Excellent
InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler Awful
InuYasha: The Final Act (TV)
Kikaider-01: The Animation (OAV) So-so
Knight Hunters (TV) Very good Weiß Kreuz definitely was dark. It had some great plot twists but the first arc is much more interesting than the second. The second arc is enjoyable but it just isn't as good as the first. None the less it's a great and interesting show and I reccomend it.
Magic Knight Rayearth (TV) Decent
Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) Excellent
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (TV) Good A great series, while it is a little more fantastic compared to other Gundam series it still manages to hold its own. The plot is interesting & has a great, surprise twist to it.
Mobile Suit Gundam (TV) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season (TV) Excellent
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition (OAV) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OAV) Masterpiece Good show, while it starts off slow it leads to a great (and sad) conclusion.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (OAV) Very good Interesting, if definitely fulfilled its purpose. Which was to fill the gap between Mobile Suit Gundam and Z Gundam.
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (movie) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (TV) Excellent At first SEED seems like its just an updated Mobile Suit Gundam, but it is more than just another "UC rip-off". However, up until episode 29 or so the show seems to drag and is rather predictable but that's not to say it doesn't have it's moments. However with episode 29 things definitely start to pick up (thanks to some suprise deaths) and show becomes very interesting. So don't be discouraged by the somewhat dull first half and stay tuned through the second half because it gets good, very good. The second half stays strong to the end. The end is great in many ways but a let down in others. But all in all, I recomend SEED.
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed C.E.73: Stargazer (ONA) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (TV) Good This show had the potential to be awesome, but it fell flat in many areas. Shinn, who was the main character gets sidelined about halfway through as Kira once again takes the spotlight. The pacing and momentum of the storyline are really hurt by the excessive amount of flashbacks and clip shows. It seems like director just ran out of steam in the late 30's. The last 10 episode seemed like Fukuda did not know just how he wanted to end the series. The show got of to a strong start, dragged it's feet for most of the teens and early 20's but quickly picks up steam by the late 20's and keeps going strong through the 30's but drags its feet for the last ten and gives an abrupt and unsatisfying conclusion.
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Special Edition Good
Mobile Suit Gundam UC (OAV)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (TV) Good Wing had a lot of potential but in my opinion it wasted it by taking to much plot points from the Universal Century (UC) storyline and it didn't take the time to develop the characters. Ikeda pushed the characters to the background and let the plot have center stage. The characters acted to fit the plot, the plot didn't act to fit the characters causing them to become flat and undeveloped.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (OAV) Decent Endless Waltz developed some of the plot points that the series didn't that and it also gave the five Wing boys some much needed background. But just like the series it ripped a lot from the original UC storyline.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition (movie) Decent Although this was essentially the same as OAV version it added a few things in but overall it's just like watching the OVA a second time.
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (TV) Good
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (movie) Decent A good movie, a fitting closing the to the original UC storyline. However, Quess is terribly annoying and there are far too much Newtype mystics for my taste.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (OAV) Very good A good series, much more mature than some other Gundam series. This is the Gundam that got me into Gundam.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, Miller's Report (movie) Decent This was okay, it was good approach for a compilation movie. But new footage alone doesn't save it from the fact that it's just a clip show.
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (TV) Excellent
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (TV) Excellent
Monster Rancher (TV) Good Monster Rancher had a good plot but had too many pointless episodes. It could easily have fit into 39 episodes versus the 48 it got. However the ending was very rushed, the entire second half kept building up towards the finale, but there are just so many several filler episodes along the way that the ending just feels very rushed.
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Excellent Evangelion is a great anime. However it is highly overrated, especially in terms of content. Evangelion has a interesting and complex plot. While the religious symbols are ust thrown in to make seem cooler and half the cast has severe issues it still manages to be awesome.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Very good End of Evangelion is quite confusing. It seems the writers were high on crack when they made it. The movie is quite good but it still takes a few viewings to make complete sense (or to at least resemble sense).
Nighthead Genesis (TV) Very good
Outlaw Star (TV) Excellent
Pilot Candidate (TV) Not really good
Project ARMS (TV) Very good Project ARMS is an interesting show. The dub is a little curse happy, but decent over all. My biggest complaint about this series is varying animation quality. Some episodes have spectacular animation, but then it's hideous in the next episode. Also, the animotion gets worse overall as the series progresses.
Project ARMS: The 2nd Chapter (TV)
RahXephon (TV) Very good
Record of Lodoss War (OAV) Very good
Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight (TV) So-so
Reign: The Conqueror (TV) Very good
Rurouni Kenshin (TV 1996) Excellent A great show, it starts of awesome and remains awesome through the Kyoto arc, but after Kyoto it begins to fall apart. Due to the fact that in order to avoid filler during the anime version final manga arc the creators decided to do a bunch of filler until the manga was finished. The fillers start off a being pretty good but soon turn to crap. And by the time they were finally going to start animating the final arc the show was cancelled due to low ratings from the 33 episodes of straight filler. Anyway, I still recommend the show because the Kyoto arc (episodes 28 to 62) is outstanding and the first arc is great as well. But after the Christian arc the show begins to fall apart.
S-CRY-ed (TV) Very good Great show. Interesting, well developed characters and a spectacular plot.
Silent Möbius (TV) Very good
Trigun (TV) So-so
Turn A Gundam (TV) Very good
TWO-MIX: White Reflection (OAV Promo) Good
(The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) Masterpiece
X (TV) Excellent X is a great anime. It has a great storyline, and a large cast. But the size of the cast doesn't stop the show from developing each of the them.
Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (TV) Excellent
Zoids (TV) Very good
Zoids/ZERO (TV) Decent