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Excellent Rating Comment
Akira (movie) Very good (edit.dub), Excellent (sub) + Story, Really great experience watching in a cinema (My 1st!), Big-haired religious fanatic dies
- Ending is not quite satisfactory
Overall: 8.5
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Excellent + Characters, General warm fuzzy feeling, Sakaki and cats, Nyamo and her drunken speech, Insane music
- Not enough
Overall: 9+
Haibane Renmei (TV) Excellent + Great premise, Character designs, Powerful ending, Open questions
- ?
Overall: 9
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) Excellent + Nausicaa, Story, World, Yupa
- ?
Overall: 9
Paprika (movie) Excellent + Paprika and her forms, Dreams and reality, Music, Daring to be different
- I felt a bit sorry for the detective guy
Overall: 9+
Princess Mononoke (movie) Excellent + World building, Lady Eboshi and her town, Premise
- The bad guys weren't punished enough and I actually expected that here
Overall: 9
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Excellent + Lain, Computers, Philosophical content, Mindscrew, Music
- Ending, Perhaps too hard to follow sometimes :)
Overall: 9
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Excellent + World, Story, Decisions, The similarities between Youko and Shokou, The best and most powerful ending episode (39) I have ever seen, Voice Acting, Music
- Unfinished, Some weird animation in one of the key scenes, Taiki arc were a bit slow
Overall: 9++
One of the cases when the adaptation is way better than the original. It is worth reading though. My absolute favourite anime.
When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) Excellent + I was actually scared during the first two and last arcs, Opening theme, The mystery and its presentation
- Comparatively weaker third arc, Off-key animation, Purists also complain about adaptation decay
Overall: 9-