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5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) Decent
Ah! My Goddess: The Movie Decent
Air (TV) Weak
Air (movie) Bad
Air In Summer (special) Awful
Akira (movie) Very good
Angel's Egg (movie) Very good
(The) Animatrix (OAV) Decent
Appleseed (movie) Awful
Aquatic Language (special) Very good
Arcadia of My Youth (movie) Not really good
Aria the Animation (TV) So-so
Armitage III (OAV) Decent
Ayakashi - Samurai Horror Tales (TV) Very good The Goblin Cat story is a complete masterpiece. Those three episodes are transcendental.
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Good
Azumanga Daioh - The Very Short Movie Decent
Azumanga Web Daioh (ONA) Decent
Baccano! (TV) Masterpiece
Bakemonogatari (TV) Decent
Barefoot Gen (movie) Very good
Barefoot Gen 2 (movie) Very good
Bastard!! (OAV) So-so
BELLE (movie) Very good
Berserk (TV 1997) Very good
(The) Big O (TV) Good
Big Windup! (TV) Very good
Black Jack (OAV) So-so
Black Jack 21 (TV) Good
Black Jack The Movie Not really good
Black Lagoon (TV) Decent
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) So-so
Blood: The Last Vampire (movie) Not really good
Blue Gender (TV) Not really good
Blue Gender: The Warrior (movie) Awful
Blue Seed (TV) Awful
Blue Submarine No.6 (OAV) Decent
Bodacious Space Pirates (TV) Good
Bodacious Space Pirates The Movie: Abyss of Hyperspace Good
Boogiepop Phantom (TV) Not really good
(The) Boy and the Heron (movie) Good
Bubblegum Crisis (OAV) So-so
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (TV) So-so
Cannon Fodder (movie) Very good
Carole & Tuesday (TV) Excellent
Castle in the Sky (movie) Very good
(The) Cat Returns (movie) Good
Cat Soup (OAV) Very good
Catnapped! The Movie Good
Cencoroll (movie) Very good
(Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV) Good
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (movie) Not really good
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Weak
Comedy (OAV) Very good
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Very good
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Good
Crest of the Stars (TV) Good
Cromartie High School (TV) Very good
Daicon films (special) Very good
Darker than Black (TV) Decent
Dead Leaves (OAV) Decent
Death Note (TV) Good
Den-noh Coil (TV) Very good
Devilman Lady (TV) So-so
(The) Diary of Tortov Roddle (ONA) Very good
Digimon Adventure: Born of Koromon (movie) Excellent
Digimon: Our War Game (movie) Excellent
(The) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (movie) Masterpiece
Drop (movie) Good
Durarara!! (TV) Very good
Eden of the East (TV) Good
Eden of the East: Paradise Lost (movie) Good
Eden of the East: The King of Eden (movie) Good
Egao (special) So-so
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World (OAV) Decent
Elfen Lied (TV) Bad
Elfen Lied (OAV) Awful
End of the World (OAV) Weak
Ergo Proxy (TV) Decent
Escaflowne: The Movie Weak
Eternal Family (TV) Good
Eureka Seven (TV) Decent
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (movie) Good
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (movie) Good
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (movie) Decent
Excel Saga (TV) So-so
Fantastic Children (TV) Good
Figure 17 (TV) Decent
FLCL (OAV) Masterpiece
Flowers of Evil (TV) Decent
From the New World (TV) Masterpiece
Full Metal Panic! (TV) So-so
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TV) Good
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (OAV) Decent
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) Excellent
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Very good
Fullmetal Alchemist: Chibi Party (OAV) Decent
Fullmetal Alchemist: Kids (OAV) So-so
Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection (OAV) So-so
Fullmetal Alchemist: Seven Homunculi VS State Alchemists (OAV) So-so
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa Not really good
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) Good
Gasaraki (TV) So-so
Gauche the Cellist (movie) Very good
Ghost Hound (TV) Excellent
Ghost in the Shell (movie) Very good
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie) Weak
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) Excellent
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (TV) Excellent
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) Very good
Giant Robo (OAV) Excellent
Gilgamesh (TV) Weak
Gin Rei (OAV) So-so
Ginga no Uo URSA minor BLUE (OAV) So-so
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) Masterpiece
Golden Boy (OAV) Very good
Grave of the Fireflies (movie) Masterpiece
Gunbuster (OAV) Very good
Gunbuster 2: Diebuster (OAV) Very good
Gungrave (TV) So-so
Gurren Lagann (TV) Good
Haibane Renmei (TV) Masterpiece
Hajime no Ippo (TV) Very good
Hajime no Ippo - Champion Road (special) Very good
Hajime no Ippo - Mashiba vs. Kimura (OAV) Very good
Heat Guy J (TV) So-so
Hellsing (TV) So-so
Higan (OAV) So-so
Hijikata Toshizo: Shiro no Kiseki (OAV) So-so
Honey and Clover (TV) Very good
Honey and Clover II (TV) Very good
House of Five Leaves (TV) Good
Howl's Moving Castle (movie) So-so
Humanity Has Declined (TV) Not really good
Infinite Ryvius (TV) Decent
INTERSTELLA 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (movie) Not really good
Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie) Very good
Junkers Come Here (movie) Decent
Kaiba (TV) Good
Kakurenbo - Hide & Seek (movie) Not really good
Kamichu! (TV) Good
Kanon (TV 2/2006) Weak
Kemonozume (TV) Good
Key the Metal Idol (OAV) Not really good
Kids on the Slope (TV) Very good

Everyone is so goddamn pretty in the opening theme. And man, that montage is just fucking perfect. So much energy and movement.

The show's pretty, cool, too, even though lapses into easy melodrama a bit too much, and the ending/epilogue is arguably a bit too sparse. While it's sad that Ritsuko could not have been given more substantial role beyond being a metaphorical cheerleader for Kaoru and Sentaro, Watanabe nails the various anxieties and (art and social) clashes between them. And I love how important music is shown to be in their lives. The jazz is much more than a mere gimmick to grab people in with the animation's choreography: it conveys just how captivating the music is for these characters.

Really hope to see more good stuff from Mappa.

Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) Excellent
Kimagure Robot (TV) Decent
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World (movie) Good
Kino's Journey (TV) Good
Kino's Travels: Life Goes On (movie) Decent
Koi Kaze (TV) So-so
Kujira no Chōyaku - Glassy Ocean (movie) So-so
Kurau: Phantom Memory (TV) Decent
Kurenai (TV) Decent
Labyrinth (movie) Good
Last Exile (TV) Very good
Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing (TV) So-so
Little Witch Academia (movie) Very good
Little Witch Academia (TV) Very good
Living for the Day After Tomorrow (TV) Decent
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie) Very good
Macross Plus (OAV) Good
Macross Zero (OAV) So-so
Magic User's Club! (TV) Good
Magic User's Club! (OAV) Good
Magnetic Rose (movie) Excellent
Male (movie) Very good
Master of Mosquiton (OAV) Decent
(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) Excellent
Memories (movie) Excellent
Memory (movie) Decent
Mermaid (movie) Decent
Metropolis (movie) Good
Millennium Actress (movie) Excellent
Mind Game (movie) Masterpiece
Mirai (movie) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OAV) Very good
Mononoke (TV) Masterpiece
Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit (TV) Excellent
Mōryō no Hako (TV) Excellent
Moyashimon (TV) Good
Mushi-Shi (TV) Masterpiece
My Neighbor Totoro (movie) Excellent
My Neighbors the Yamadas (movie) Good
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) Very good
Nekojiru Gekijō (TV) Weak
Neo-Tokyo (movie) Good
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Masterpiece
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) So-so
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Masterpiece
NieA_7 (TV) Excellent
Night on the Galactic Railroad (movie) Excellent
Ninja Scroll (movie) Decent
Nodame Cantabile (TV) Very good
Noein - to your other self (TV) Decent
Noiseman Sound Insect (movie) Very good
Now and Then, Here and There (TV) Decent
Oh My Goddess! (OAV) Decent
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (movie 6) Very good
Only Yesterday (movie) Masterpiece
(The) Order to Stop Construction (movie) Very good
Otaku no Video (OAV) Decent
Other Worlds (movie) Not really good
Outlaw Star (TV) Good
Pale Cocoon (OAV) Masterpiece
Paprika (movie) Excellent
Paranoia Agent (TV) Very good
Parasite Dolls (OAV) Decent
Patlabor 2: The Movie (movie 2) Very good
Patlabor The Mobile Police (OAV 1/1988) Very good
Patlabor: The Movie (movie 1) Very good
Penguindrum (TV) Good
Perfect Blue (movie) Good
(The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) Good
Pom Poko (movie) Good
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (movie) Excellent
Porco Rosso (movie) Masterpiece
(Le) Portrait de Petite Cossette (OAV) Weak
Princess Arete (movie) Good
Princess Jellyfish (TV) Good
Princess Mononoke (movie) Masterpiece
Princess Tutu (TV) Very good
Professor Dan Petory's Blues (OAV) Not really good
Psycho-Pass (TV) Excellent
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (TV) Excellent
Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion Excellent
Pumpkin Scissors (TV) Not really good
R.O.D -The TV- Decent
R20 - Ginga Kūkō (movie) So-so
RahXephon (TV) Decent
RahXephon (OAV) Bad
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio (movie) Weak
Re: Cutie Honey (OAV) Good
Read or Die (OAV) Very good
Requiem from the Darkness (TV) Decent
Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) Very good
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie Decent
Robot Carnival (OAV) Very good
Roujin Z (movie) Very good
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honnêamise (movie) Excellent
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Awful
Running Man (movie) So-so
Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection (OAV) So-so
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) Very good
S-CRY-ed (TV) Good
SaiKano: Another Love Song (OAV) So-so
Samurai Champloo (TV) Very good
Scrapped Princess (TV) Good
(The) Secret World of Arrietty (movie) Very good
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Excellent
Shadow Star Narutaru (TV) So-so
She and Her Cat (OAV) Very good
She, The Ultimate Weapon (TV) Decent
Shigurui: Death Frenzy (TV) Excellent
(The) Skull Man (TV) Good
(The) Sky Crawlers (movie) Good
Space Dandy (TV) Excellent
Space Dandy Season 2 (TV) Excellent
Space Pirate Captain Herlock The Endless Odyssey (OAV) Weak
Spice and Wolf (TV) Decent
Spirited Away (movie) Excellent
Spring and Chaos (movie) So-so
Spy×Family (TV) Very good
Steamboy (movie) Decent
Step Up Love Story (OAV) Weak
Stink Bomb (movie) Excellent
Summer Wars (movie) Excellent
(The) Super Dimension Fortress Macross (TV) Very good
(The) Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (movie) Very good
Superflat Monogram (movie) Decent
Tachikomatic Days (OAV) Decent
Tales of the Street Corner (movie) Good
(The) Tatami Galaxy (TV) Good
Tekkonkinkreet (movie) Very good
Texhnolyze (TV) Masterpiece
Time of Eve (ONA) Excellent
Tobira o Akete (OAV 1995) Decent
Tokyo Godfathers (movie) Very good
Trava (OAV) Very good
A Tree of Palme (movie) Not really good
Trigun (TV) Decent
tsuritama (TV) Decent
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Very good
Twilight Q (OAV) Good
Un-Go (TV) Good
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (movie 2) Very good
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (movie) Good
Vampire Princess Miyu (OAV) So-so
(The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) Good
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) Good
Welcome to Irabu's Office (TV) Good
When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) Decent
Whisper of the Heart (movie) Masterpiece
(The) Wind Rises (movie) Excellent
Windy Tales (TV) Good
Witch Hunter Robin (TV) Decent
Wolf Children (movie) Excellent
Wolf's Rain (TV) Excellent
Wolf's Rain (OAV) Excellent
X (movie) So-so
X (TV) So-so
Xam'd: Lost Memories (ONA) Decent
Zipang (TV) So-so