| Seen all | Rating | Comment |
| Aria the Animation (TV) | Decent | Nice, but I was unable to find a character to truly like. |
| Azumanga Daioh (TV) | Masterpiece | The greatest series of all times overall, at least for middle-aged men. |
| Azumanga Daioh - The Very Short Movie | Excellent | Lavish animation is gorgeous, but the compression of the short format all but eliminates the gateway feeling which made the definitive Azumanga so great. |
| Azumanga Web Daioh (ONA) | Very good | I wish they used the original seyuu. |
| Banner of the Stars (TV) | Excellent | The best tension of combat ever. Let down by stock reuse. |
| Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) | Bad | The vilest anime I have ever watched ... in full. |
| Bottle Fairy (TV) | | |
| Chobits (TV) | Good | Overstretched. Also, what about their kids? |
| Dai-Guard (TV) | Very good | Characters are real stars. Goes beyond the monster of the week. But... robot goes magical eventually. |
| Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (TV) | So-so | The prototypical weak harem lead resurfaced in many shows since this one. Fiesta echoes Mitsuki II, for example. |
| Ef - a tale of memories (TV) | Excellent | Inspirational, moving, touching. Fell short of masterpiece due to useless gimmick imagery and disconnected main stories. Warning: has sex (but a happy one). |
| Elf Princess Rane (OAV) | Not really good | This runaway comedy could not run away with humor even with the help of runaway tobogan in gondolas. |
| Excel Saga (TV) | So-so | Was one of favourites, but did not age well. It turned out that I do not like the inbred and self-referential humor after all. And there was nothing else in it. |
| Fate/stay night (TV) | Very good | Tragic love, I eat that stuff up. The battle royale problem was muted, and only "bad" guys died, so it's acceptable. Nice pace, I could not put it down. |
| Fighting Fantasy Girl Rescue Me: Mave-chan (OAV) | Decent | Needs a second edition, XX rated. Rei stays, which is a cop-out. |
| Figure 17 (TV) | Very good | Not as gory as I was expecting, but the story is that of mortal danger and 10-year-old coping with it. Not a light viewing. |
| Fruits Basket (TV) | Good | Toru is shown the limits of her power, fails to recognize them. And then it all just ends. |
| Futakoi (TV) | Decent | First half is dumb; drama starts late; ending resolves little. But it could be worse. |
| GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class (TV) | Very good | |
| Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (TV) | Masterpiece | Strongest, brightest, most wholesome, most live characters in years. Sharply told story. |
| Ghost in the Shell (movie) | Very good | More symbols than in Akira (see Kaedrin's review w/ tree of life). |
| Gurren Lagann (TV) | Masterpiece | Wonderful characters, including the 2nd echelon. Great art (just a shade simplified for 2008). Strong, engaging writing and plot. The finale buries the ghost of "GAINAX Ending". |
| Haibane Renmei (TV) | Masterpiece | Best storytelling; Sento Chihirono of series. |
| Hanaukyo Maid Tai OAV | Good | They should've done a real extension and concluded the story instead of doing 3 episodes of pure filler. Still, ep.14 was nice. |
| Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite (TV) | Decent | Good story (samurai story in drag), sharper animation (a whole generation jump actually), far and far away more solid and professional remake. Yet somehow it loses some of the simple charm of the original. Triplets suffered the most, I cry for them. Also, raging lesbians were overdone. |
| Hanaukyo Maid-tai (TV) | Good | Animation from 1990s, poor video transfer from VHS, yet somehow beautiful and cute character designs. Lively and expressive facial distortions, unsurpassed in the remake. However, allergy to women was a bad mistake (rectified in the remake). |
| Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san (special) | So-so | Omits too much, should learn from YKK and Strike Witches OAVs. SW has a story, Hoi-hoi San doesn't. |
| Jubei-chan - Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch (TV) | Good | "Want to See" |
| Jubei-Chan 2: The Counter Attack of Siberia Yagyu (TV) | Decent | Lots of good action, bearable angstiness, but the plot was ruined by poor ret-con with the original. |
| K-ON! (TV) | Good | |
| Kamichu! (TV) | Very good | Story is extremely slow and watered down. Animation is often sketchy, despite lofty pretentions elsewhere. A creepiest character design in a long time is provided by Miko Saegusa. Yurie is lovely. Comedy is good and saves the show. |
| Kokoro Library (TV) | Weak | Incest, lolicon, and lesbians in one convenient package. Very thin story. |
| Last Exile (TV) | Decent | |
| Lucky Star (TV) | Good | The anime rides on in-references, but it's getting better over time. The change of directors helped, evidently. Ep.11,23 are good. |
| Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) | Good | Beautiful in its nostalgy slideshow ED, karaokable lyrics. |
| Magikano (TV) | Decent | Healthiest, most beautiful girls in the first half. Second half is a total waste. |
| Mahoraba ~Heartful days~ (TV) | Excellent | So much heart. Makes the mental disease look cute. |
| Maria Watches Over Us (TV) | Not really good | Nasty art, nasty music, overblown emo for no good reason, yuri in ep.10. Some life lessons for little girls. |
| Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) | Good | True pseudo-classic (1996). OK, so the plot is holey like hell, but so what... Alas, seems sagging midway after the harem settles in. I consider the ending adequate, the main story was finished. |
| (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) | Good | Kyon is no rebel. Ryouko is. |
| Memories (movie) | Very good | The Canon City segment was my favourite, but it's hardly an anime. The art reminds of "Pilot Brothers" and other Russian animation. See "Triplets From Billeuve" for an example. The Magnetic Rose was very solid. The Stink Bomb pumped the bedlam appropriately, but it's just not my bag. |
| Midori Days (TV) | Very good | The concept works for 4 episodes, and then what? Historical interest: animation of Ayase was revolutionary. |
| Millennium Actress (movie) | Very good | A wonderful example of an artsy movie. No rewatch value. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (OAV) | Very good | The futility of sacrifice was nicely played. Love makes a woman stronger, ditto. And Norris is badass, even if futile. Extra ep.12 was garbage. |
| My Neighbor Totoro (movie) | Very good | Children's world, 1950s or 60s in rural Japan. |
| Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow | Very good | A rare case of series-based movie which does not suck. |
| Natsu no Arashi! (TV) | Very good | |
| Natsuiro no Sunadokei (OAV) | Good | Surprisingly decent for 2-episode OVA. Naturally, it's quite compressed. |
| NieA_7 (TV) | Not really good | The very definition of awful animation, weak or non-existent story. |
| Ninja Nonsense (TV) | Good | Girls please the eye very much. Comedy, laughs. Yes, Onsokomaru is pervert, but everything is done so nicely. |
| Nodame Cantabile (TV) | Excellent | Quality art, quality story about people who happen to study classical music. |
| Patlabor The Mobile Police (OAV 1/1988) | Very good | This is how anime is supposed to be. Unfortunately, it's episodic. |
| Pokemon - Mewtwo Returns (special) | Not really good | So, in the end everything is reset? Way to sustain continuity. |
| Porco Rosso (movie) | Excellent | Movie level animation (duh). The story of survivor's guilt was well done. |
| RahXephon (TV) | Good | Great tragedy, better Eva than Eva, and a love story that forms the backbone of the story. Everyone dies. But then a world reset happens. |
| Ramen Fighter Miki (TV) | Very good | No story, no tsundere, no mecha... only pure comedy gold. |
| Read or Die (OAV) | Weak | The Bond theme ensnared me, but the promise was hollow. The only saving grace is the tragic and self-redeeming character of Nancy. But she's not the protagonist of the story, and the rest was rather trashy. |
| Rocket Girls (TV) | Good | Wonderful story, sympathetic characters. Awful production values, animation. The 3D in first episodes was among the worst I have ever seen. Dozens of unforced errors in 2D. Characters deform all the time and do not look like themselves. The story kept me watching, but the execution cries for a remake by Ufotable or KyotoAni. |
| Sakura Wars: The Movie | Bad | Glorification and whitewashing of brutal military dictatorship and its xenophobic society. |
| Samurai 7 (TV) | Good | Won't make Akira Kurosawa proud, but a good, solid fanfic. The idea of Jedi fails. |
| Sekirei (TV) | Good | Surprise of the 2008 Summer season. Mild fanservice, decent story, attractive characters (Tsukiumi, dump that loser Minato and be my wife). |
| Serial Experiments Lain (TV) | So-so | Causes nausea and retching presumably due to color key and flicker acting on the brain. Story needs a lot of explanations, which in turn need a lot of "I.D." type of postulates. Not dumb by a long shot, but rather disjoint and intentionally hallucinatory. |
| Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (TV) | Excellent | The best work of Tatsuo Sato: impeccable writing and direction. OP is controversial. |
| Shrine of the Morning Mist (TV) | Good | |
| Someday's Dreamers (TV) | Very good | Competent storytelling. The orwellian government was scary. |
| Sora Tobu Yureisen (movie) | Good | 1969 was a good year. |
| Spirited Away (movie) | Masterpiece | Miyazaki blossoms to his fullest when he stops hating and bashing. |
| Stellvia (TV) | Very good | Genuine 26 episode story. Let down by symathetic portrayal of attempted murders. P.S., Rinna deserves her own series as much as Sasami does. |
| Stratos 4 (TV) | Good | Airplanes were awesome. Story - solid. Girls - healthy. |
| Strawberry Marshmallow (TV) | Decent | Forced acting, artificial setting, clumsy messaging. Good humor, nice computerized art. |
| Strike Witches (OAV) | Very good | Preposterous... As someone said, more of "heroic poetry" than a coherent story. Yet highly amusing. |
| Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (OAV) | Very good | This is how the classic anime was back then. Plus, Funaho FTW. |
| To Heart (TV) | Good | Wholesome. Shiho is pure love despite her show-business aspirations. Do not miss DVD extras! |
| Toradora! (TV) | Very good | |
| (The) Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk (TV) | Good | Quite a bit of filler, but not bad otherwise. Typically bad Gonzo's 3D. AHMEEEEEY! |
| Vandread (TV) | Very good | Lots of problems (too magical, bad 3D, etc.), but a good story. I can see it being someone's favourite. |
| Vandread: The Second Stage (TV) | So-so | Goes good for a while, but the stupid yapping ruined the ending. Also, solving life's biggest problems by constipating hard enough. |
| Whisper of the Heart (movie) | Very good | |
| Windy Tales (TV) | Excellent | If only there was a story... |
| Witch Hunter Robin (TV) | Good | American TV miniseries, only animated in Japan. Hardly an anime. |
| X (movie) | Awful | |
| Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (OAV) | Good | The adaptation was too timid and constrained, with lots of copy-the-manga-for-no reason bits sticking out like bad hair. Short size hurt, lines were not touched upon (for example, the gun was no explained at all). |
| Will not finish | Rating | Comment |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (TV) | | Cannot be given a consistent rating: first two eps are excellent, then series degenerates into a b-list harem. Aoi is lovely and powerful, but she can't carry the show by herself when the story stinks so much. |
| Air Master (TV) | Weak | |
| Allison & Lillia (TV) | | |
| Angel Tales (TV) | | Dumb, but oddly engaging. Still, dumber than Futakoi. |
| Arjuna (TV) | | Hateful environmentalist propaganda packaged into an anime: no, thanks. Good music though. |
| Bamboo Blade (TV) | | |
| Black Cat (TV) | Bad | |
| Black Lagoon (TV) | | Dropped, seen 3. Most beautiful 2D animation ever, better than most features. Unknown if story goes anywhere. |
| Bleach (TV) | | |
| Blue Gender (TV) | | Action flick, post-acopaliptic world, love story. A solid midfielder. |
| Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (TV) | | The sake-drinking chick is actually pretty funny, but they should've given this a story. |
| Cowboy Bebop (TV) | | I might have seen all actually, but I can't even remember now. I was so tired by the end... Thank god it's over. Next! |
| DearS (TV) | | |
| Dennō Coil (TV) | | |
| Dominion Tank Police (OAV) | So-so | Seen on pirate cable back in early 90s, it was ordinary even back then. |
| Dragon Ball (TV) | | |
| Dragon Ball Z (TV) | | |
| EX-Driver (OAV) | | Neat flick for dumb little boys. Roll-bar broke, my foot. |
| FLCL (OAV) | | Dumb. Overhyped. Excel Saga wannabe. If you have to break the 4th wall, you have exhausted other options, and you lose. |
| Galaxy Angel (TV) | Decent | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) | | 3D was annoying, worse than in WHR. |
| Gravion (TV) | Weak | Weak writing and campiness ruined the show. It's not even good when considered as a parody. |
| Heat Guy J (TV) | | Poorly made, silly cop story. And look at those gigantic noses! Van and Hitomi are getting envious now. |
| Hidamari Sketch (TV) | | abandoned, seen 8. A nice 4-koma adaptation, but the integration is not at Azumanga level. It's more like a Lucky Star without otakuism. Pathetic animation did me in. |
| His and Her Circumstances (TV) | Good | Begining was nice, so I'm glad to stop after about 6 eps. |
| Hyakko (TV) | | |
| IDOLM@STER: XENOGLOSSIA (TV) | | - suspended, seen 8. Mai-HiME + mecha, only better; but no good love. Nyoro~n. "The girlmecha thing" is becoming a main theme gradually. |
| Inuyasha (TV) | | Starts well, but how many goddamn shards are there?! |
| (The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV) | | Slapstick is not my cup. |
| Kanon (TV 1/2002) | Weak | All girls are defective (expect the main one perhaps). |
| Kimikiss pure rouge (TV) | | |
| Kodocha (TV) | | Nice production, not my taste. |
| Kyōran Kazoku Nikki (TV) | | |
| Love Hina (TV) | | If they resolved the story in 13 episodes, it would be something. The iconic harem comedy which stopped being iconic. Watch Zero no Tsukaima instead if you're into harem. |
| Mahoromatic - Automatic Maiden (TV) | | |
| Melty Lancer (OAV) | | |
| Minami-ke (TV) | | |
| My-HiME (TV) | | - suspended, done 6. Tragedy keeps ramping up, so... |
| Myself ; Yourself (TV) | So-so | |
| Nodame Cantabile: Paris (TV) | | |
| Noein - to your other self (TV) | | - suspended, seen 4. Patchwork of stolen elements. Crazy production list. Curious pencil art on main characters. Team Rocket FTW. |
| Panda! Go, Panda! (movie) | | |
| Pani Poni Dash! (TV) | | Becky is not sympathetic at all. I fail to see the attraction of the story. The art was awesome, but... |
| Please Teacher! (TV) | | Silly and boring. |
| Pokémon (TV) | | |
| Pretear (TV) | | |
| Princess Tutu (TV) | | - dropped, seen 2. Terrific anime, but not for me. |
| Ranma ½ (TV) | Decent | Might be all right in 26 ep, but milked to death over 7 seasons. |
| Rumbling Hearts (TV) | | |
| Rune Soldier (TV) | | I wanted to finish this some time ago, but I was told it hasn't got much of anything. Sort of like Scrapped Princess. |
| Rurouni Kenshin (TV) | Decent | |
| Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (TV) | | This was an extremely rare case when the deep rework for American market was better than the Japanese original. Jessie's treachery was the only good storyline in the whole thing. |
| Sailor Moon (TV) | | |
| Sakura Wars (TV) | | Not as nasty as its companion movie. Pays attention to characters. |
| Samurai Champloo (TV) | | |
| School Rumble (TV) | | Dropped after 4. Very straightforward. Good jokes in theory, but nothing else. |
| Scrapped Princess (TV) | So-so | Raging mediocrity is the motto of this series. |
| Sengoku Majin GoShogun (TV) | | |
| Shakugan no Shana (TV) | | - suspended, done 4. No judgement - waiting for complete release. |
| Speed Racer (TV) | | |
| Strike Witches (TV) | | |
| Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy (TV) | | |
| Tales of Symphonia the Animation (OAV) | | |
| Tenshi no Shippo Chu! (TV) | | What a disaster. Watch the original instead. |
| Tentai Senshi Sunred (TV) | | |
| ToHeart - Remember my memories (TV) | | Weak and ponderous. |
| Trigun (TV) | | Lots of people ask me to re-evaluate this silly space western, so the jury is out. But it's LONG. |
| (The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) | | |
| Voltron (TV) | | |
| (The) World of Narue (TV) | | |
| Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na -Crescent Love- (TV) | | - suspended, done 7. This is not very hopeful... Feena is tremendous, her man provides a good back-up, but the show overall is weak. A rare jewel of OP. |
| Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (TV) | | Ruined by the power inflation. Good action up until the end of the tournament, but then creators should've jumped into a well.
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| Yukikaze (OAV) | | I'm an airplane nut, but this is too silly even for me. |
| Zettai Karen Children (TV) | | |
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