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How much of the top 50 do you feel actually deserve their high rating?

Of the things I've seen, which admittedly doesn't include the top 2 titles or most of the list -- the only ones I truly think deserve their place in the list are Princess Mononoke and Cowboy Bebop. As both are truly comprehensive works of art, and the latter has been unbelievably influential. And even though I didn't particular like it, I do think the original Evangelion anime should by in there somewhere. Simply by virtue of how much of a game-changer it was.

I don't know that I would rank anime based on being game-changers alone. I'm personally an advocate of the idea that the greatness of an anime should be judged on it's story's effectiveness in reaching across cultural boundaries and it's art's ability to express across cultural boundaries.

For instance, I don't agree that Princess Mononoke is very good at these. In fact I think it fails miserably at this. I'm not the only viewer who was completely lost as to the overall meaning and purpose of the story.

It's a good point that grouping movies and series together is sometimes an unfair or imperfect comparison. The Top 50 Series like you have and the Top 50 (or even 25) movies would be interesting lists to have available.

For everyone, we should keep in mind that what we have right now in our Top lists is what can be done automatically by the programmers. To keep that up to date manually or even adding in additional database elements to allow more diverse or separate sorting like we're suggesting is probably a daunting task.

Also I want to point out to new readers visiting this thread that we're not making our own Top 50 lists, and certainly we're not re-ordering anything. We're just adding qualifiers (movies vs. series, originals vs sequels) that we think will help improve the lists. This is by no means an invitation to start adding your own top 50 list. But if you do have a suggestion that you think is interesting or helpful by all means jump in on this.

I thought Eva 2.0 may not belong on this list not because it's an alternate retelling of the original but because it's a sequel of Eva 1.0. This then confused my judgment of the 2nd Gurren Lagann movie, so I left it alone. Plus, I can absolutely agree with Eva 2.0 personally, because unlike most of 1.0 it was such a surprising and interesting departure from the original series. I felt like it stood on its own.

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