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Last edit: 2021-12-27
I try to add enlightening commentary, but let's face it:
I'm far from perfect.
For cartoons that are not listed in the encyclopedia please click here.
    EDIT: 2020-12-31
    I have seen two three videos that examine the concept of "classics" from distinctly different perspectives:
  1. Gigguk | Garnt Maneetapho

  2. Mother's Basement | Geoff Thew

  3. Bonsai Pop | Mike ?
EDIT: 2020-04-11
In this video YouTube user Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho) talks about SAO in the context of gateway anime.
    2 Videos That Share a Common Theme:
  1. "The Greatest Thing Anime Has Done"|Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho)
  2. "A Love Letter to a Place Further than the Universe" | Isla McTear (Line/link added 2020-06-24)
EDIT: 2020-06-10
3 Different Perspectives On the Importance of The Ending EDIT: 2021-05-10
Geoff Thew ("Mother's Basement") has a fascinating video essay on the concept of "sakuga".
EDIT: 2021-12-27
10 Anime That Are Fantastic But Hard To Recommend
Anime only continues to get more and more mainstream, but these are 10 anime we wouldn't want to recommend even though they're great.
By Jacob Buchalter (posted on cbr.com on 2020, Mar 30)
Seen/Read All (public list)▲▼ Rating▲▼
Colorful (movie) Excellent
Corpse Party Missing Footage (OAV) Excellent
Pretty gruesome.
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls (OAV) Masterpiece
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  • Interesting how around the 7:15 mark everyone just stands there.....

  • I was going to rate it at 10/11 (Excellent) because of both the OP & ED, but then I saw the episode #4 epilogue.
    I felt compelled to bump it up a notch......

Theron Martin wrote:
For all of the ugliness that goes on, Corpse Party still shows the limitations of what animation can do with a horror format. The additional layer of unreality just makes it too hard for it to generate much actual scare factor. Weak story development and characterization also hamper the production; to see this kind of content done much, much better in that regard, check out “The Bloodstained Labyrinth” arc of Ghost Hunt. Still, the series absolutely nails its main selling point – its graphic content and the visuals supporting it – and that is, indeed, all that really matters.
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Corpse Princess: Aka (TV) Very good (dub), Excellent (sub)
    Pros:
  1. Makina Hoshimura has great legs (and most of the girls are in mini-skirts, too! :p ).
  2. Meaningful suffering/death.
  3. Nice OST!
Con: Graphics are meh.
Corpse Princess: Kuro (TV) Very good
The ending is just very odd..... (Was the manga not completed at the time?)
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Excellent
Jack Johnson's video essay is mandatory viewing!

Geoff Thew's analysis of the OP

"A Painfully Honest Review of Netflix Cowboy Bebop" (also by Geoff Thew)

ninety-minute video essay

Super Eye Patch Wolf

The Cinema Cartography

Tristan "Arkada" Galant

Soul

Beyond Ghibli

3 hrs 45 mins

Steak Bentley

Sage's Rain

Bonsai Pop

ProfessorViral

Ygg Studio

Nadamas

The Amagi

After Hours

Bennett the Sage

Wisecrack

Tristan "Arkada" Gallant ("Glass Reflection")

Cowboy Bebop Proves That We Need Pain| Foundation for Economic Education

You're Gonna Carry That Weight: A Cowboy Bebop Video Essay| Ladyknightthebrave

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Excellent (sub), Masterpiece (dub)
If you liked the series, then you'll probably like the movie as well (Just be warned, though: There's no Julia here.).
Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth - The Animation (TV) Very good
CROSS ANGE Rondo of Angel and Dragon (TV) Good
Dance in the Vampire Bund (TV) Very good (dub & sub)
Darker than Black - Kuro no Keiyakusha: Gaiden (OAV) Masterpiece (dub & sub)
  1. Hei and Yin are ambushed by a team from the organization. (11/11)
  2. Move and counter-move; the would-be ambushers are ambushed. (11/11)
  3. Everyone is betrayed by a contractor who kidnaps Yin. Evil knows no limits. (11/11)
  4. The death count is real and consequential. (11/11)
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (TV) Masterpiece (dub & sub)
  1. Goodness goddess, is every episode going to have a body count like this? (11/11)
  2. By the goddesses, human life in this world is cheap! (11/11)
  3. Who can you trust? (11/11)
  4. Well, at least no one died this time; but it's a bitter and cruel world. (11/11)
  5. Preparations for battle are made; which side will emerge victorious? (10/11)
  6. Another contractor dies; the episode is surprisingly psychological. (10/11)
  7. Hei kills a Russian contractor; but Hei is trying to preserve Sou's empathy by limiting her killing as much as possible.
    • 16:30| How does Suou undo her bindings while running away? [CON]
    • Tanya is murdered in front of Suou. [PRO]
    Ranking ep.#8 at 11/11.
    • 12:25| Internal monologue
    • Suou's mother mistakes her for Shion because Suou died 8 years ago.
      Rating at 11/11.
    • More internal dialogue
    • So Suou finds out from her genetic mother that she (Suou) is a clone while Shion reveals to his father that he implanted the original Suou's memories into the clone. Shion may or may not be a psychopath.
    (11/11)
    • Another family member dies.
    • Things are being wrapped up; no surprise there; this is the penultimate episode, after all.
    (11/11)
  12. All of the plot threads are seemingly wrapped up. (11/11)
Dead Leaves (OAV) Good
Death Billiards (movie) Excellent
Death Note (TV) Decent
Haven't seen subtitled ver.
It's basically a morality play.
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