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5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) Excellent
Akira (movie) Excellent
Angel Sanctuary (OAV) Not really good
Angelic Layer (TV) Good What can I say? I just like CLAMP. Even when it's totally predictable. Even when they stretch a 4 episode hackneyed idea out over 26 episodes. It just makes me feel good.
Baccano! (TV) Very good
Barefoot Gen (movie) Excellent Though the animation quality and the storytelling is sub-par even for the early '80s, the story and characters are so provacative, memorable and important that it belongs on any "must see" list.
Barefoot Gen 2 (movie) Excellent Though the animation quality and the storytelling is sub-par even for the early '80s, the story and characters are so provacative, memorable and important that it belongs on any "must see" list.
Batman: Gotham Knight (movie) Weak
Berserk (TV 1997) Excellent Holy F@#$! I'm super late to the party on this one, but wow that was awesome.
Bubblegum Crisis (OAV) Decent Nothing that has the feeling of "Blade Runner" is ever going to be my thing. But as those things go, this isn't half bad.
Cardcaptor Sakura (TV) Good
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie 2: The Sealed Card Good
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie So-so
Castle in the Sky (movie) Excellent
Cencoroll (movie) Good As animation eye-candy, it's wonderful; as a story, it's imaginative but ultimately doesn't work. Not that most people who watch short subject films are bothered by that, but I am. Atsuya Uki is clearly very talented and I hope he can find an equally talented collaberator to compliment his strenghts and weaknesses.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (movie) Very good
Chobits (TV) So-so
CLAMP School Detectives (TV) So-so
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) Good Why does everyone have such a hard time staying dead?
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Good Seriously. How many times do you have to kill someone before they fucking die? And this isn't even a zombie series.
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Excellent
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Excellent
Darker than Black (TV) Very good
Death Note (TV) Excellent This rating refers only to the first half of the series. The second story arc was just a poor attempt to keep a good thing going after it had gone.
Eden of the East (TV) Very good
Eden of the East: The King of Eden (movie) Very good
Elf Princess Rane (OAV) Decent I miss the mid-90's. They were such simple times, when words like "logic," "continuity," and "motivation" didn't seem to phase us at all.
Elfen Lied (TV) Excellent
Elfen Lied (OAV) Excellent
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (movie) Very good
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (movie) Very good
(The) Fantastic Adventures of Unico (movie) Decent Sometimes it's better to remember than re-live. I saw this (dubbed) several times when I was about 9, and I LOVED it. Now that I'm in my twenties I'm sad to say it doesn't hold up very well. It's got some cute characters and a touching moment or two, but the story is stagnant and the animation only so-so.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie) Good It finally brings closure to a wonderful video game that always felt like it had a lot of loose ends
FLCL (OAV) Good
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Excellent
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) Good Not as good as the first, but it still has a lot to recommend it. Or maybe it is as good as the first, but having seen the first I am unable to shake the feeling that this is the incorrect version. At any rate characters and relationships that exist in the first neither change or develop; the fun of this version is in getting to know new characters and seeing well known friends in different situations.
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa Excellent
Ghost in the Shell (movie) Good
Giant Robo (OAV) Excellent
Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe wieder (TV) Weak
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) Very good It avoided so many of the pitfalls of time travel movies...until the last 10 minutes, when the story just disintegrated. Still it was beautiful, thoughtful, and well told.
Grave of the Fireflies (movie) So-so
Gunbuster (OAV) Excellent
Gunbuster 2: Diebuster (OAV) Good
Gurren Lagann (TV) Excellent LOVE & PEACE & ROCK MY SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gurren Lagann the Movie –Childhood's End- Good The new animation is worth seeing and full of awesomeness, but I think the story is much more satisfying in the TV version.
.hack//Legend of the Twilight (TV) So-so
.hack//Liminality (OAV) Good
.hack//Roots (TV) Not really good
.hack//SIGN (TV) Not really good
Haibane Renmei (TV) Very good
Hellsing (TV) Decent I'll admit that Alucard is pretty friggin awesome when he lets loose, but the story is boring, most of the animation is pretty crappy, little is explained, and the more interesting plotlines are dropped entirely.
Here Is Greenwood (OAV) Very good The first two episodes are good, the next two are exellent, and then the last two are only mediocre; I guess that averages out to very good. At any rate I'm very glad I saw it and I get the happy feeling when I think about it.
Horus - Prince of the Sun (movie) Good I would really like to see the sub of this. The dub felt like something got lost in translation, but the art is phenomenal for it's time (even if there are a few montages of pans over still frames).
House of Five Leaves (TV) Good Beautiful animation, likeable characters, but nothing happens.
Howl's Moving Castle (movie) Masterpiece
Iria - Zeiram the Animation (OAV) Good
(The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV) Excellent
Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) So-so I understand that this movie is technically better than many of the movies that I have rated above it, but I find it to be completely unengaging. I do, however, really like the score.
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (movie) Decent It's not well made and the first half is pretty boring, but by the end it's quite touching. Just think what could have been if they had paid for better animation and a good writer.
Macross Plus (OAV) Very good It's rare to see Hand Drawn and CG melded together this well. The story falls apart a little in the last episode, but some of my favorite segments of animation coincide with some of my least favorite plot points.
Magic Knight Rayearth (TV) Not really good To save time, just imagine any run of the mill RPG Storyline and then watch the last 2 episodes. I promise you won't miss anything of value (expcept for the appearance of Mokona who you can see be even cuter in Tsubasa Chronicles).
Meine Liebe (TV) Not really good
Memories (movie) Good
Metropolis (movie) Decent Beautiful artwork, no tension/no care
Minami-ke (TV) Good It's a blast. Best watched with other people who are also in the mood to laugh.
Monster (TV) Very good It took way too long for this to become entertaining, but it was worth it.
MoonPhase (TV) Good
Mushi-Shi (TV) Excellent
My Neighbor Totoro (movie) Excellent
My Neighbors the Yamadas (movie) Decent
Naruto (TV) Decent I survived the Naruto filler episodes.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) Masterpiece
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Masterpiece
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) Very good Unnecessary, but interesting. No matter how they edit the series together I always find it completely engrossing.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Masterpiece
Ninja Scroll (movie) Good
Noein - to your other self (TV) Very good
Now and Then, Here and There (TV) Excellent
Otaku no Video (OAV) Good
Paprika (movie) Good
Paranoia Agent (TV) Excellent
Patlabor: The Movie (movie 1) Very good
Perfect Blue (movie) Bad
Phoenix (TV) Decent
(The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) Good
Please Save My Earth (OAV) Masterpiece
Pokémon: The First Movie (movie 1) Awful
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (movie) Not really good Clearly I didn't like it; clearly it wasn't intended for me.
Porco Rosso (movie) Decent
Princess Mononoke (movie) Masterpiece
Reign: The Conqueror (TV) Not really good Ridiculus. But for some reason I just couldn't turn away.
Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) Good
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie Very good Only one problem...I don't think I would like it nearly as much if I hadn't seen the whole series first, and I found the series kind of tedious to watch.
Roujin Z (movie) Good
Rozen Maiden (TV) Good
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Decent It's a whiney soap opera story that doesn't have enough substance to fill more than about 4 episodes. But it's well animated, the non-linear storyline is incredibly well handled, and it's surprisingly well dubbed.
S-CRY-ed (TV) Good
Sailor Moon (TV) Very good
Sailor Moon R (TV) Good
Sailor Moon R: The Movie Good
Sailor Moon S (TV) Good
Sailor Moon S: The Movie Not really good
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Not really good The premise is interesting, but I had a hard time following most episodes, and did not feel rewarded when I succeeded. There are some really funny jokes here and there, but mostly I just sat thinking "WTF?"
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Not really good
(The) Sky Crawlers (movie) Weak
Space Battleship Yamato (movie) Bad
Spirited Away (movie) Masterpiece
Steamboy (movie) Very good
Summer Wars (movie) Good
(The) Super Dimension Fortress Macross (TV) Excellent
(The) Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (movie) Good
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: The Movie (OAV) Decent
They Were 11 (movie) Decent
TO-Y (OAV) So-so
Tokyo Babylon (OAV) Decent
Tokyo Babylon 2 (OAV) Good
Tokyo Godfathers (movie) Good
(The) Transformers: The Movie (U.S. movie)
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom Good
Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations (OAV) Excellent
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (TV) Excellent
Tsubasa: Spring Thunder (OAV) Good Why is there clearly a huge gap between Tokyo Revelations and Shunraiki? Are they planning on filling that gap? Yes I read the manga and know essentially what happened, but there are serious differences between the anime and manga versions of the Tokyo arc. So how do these pieces connect? What gives?
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Excellent
Urusei Yatsura: Only You (movie 1) So-so
Video Girl Ai (OAV) Very good
(The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) Good
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) Good
Welcome to the NHK (TV) Good
Wolf's Rain (TV) Excellent
Wolf's Rain (OAV) Excellent
X (TV) Excellent
xxxHOLiC (TV) Very good It's the only anime I've seen where I like the manga better, but it's still so fun!
xxxHOLiC: Kei (TV) Very good Why did it have to end so soon?
xxxHOLiC: Rō (OAV) Very good
xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki (OAV) Very good