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Japanese animation has managed to have a huge impact on an international level, this is a list of the anime series that have transcended history.Deathnote (2006) ... Code Geass (2006) ... Stein's; Gate (2011) ... Berserk (1997) ... Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) ... Cowboy Bebop (1998) ... Mushishi (2005) ... One Piece.More items...•
Anime Top 10Top 10 Best Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)#titlerating1Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.082Steins;Gate (TV)9.043Clannad After Story (TV)9.028 more rows
1 – FLCL (2000) ... 2 – Spirited Away (2001) ... 3 – Fruits Basket (2001, 2019) ... 4 – Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002, 2004, 2020) ... 5 – Fullmetal Alchemist (2003, 2009) ... 6 – Mushishi (2005) ... 7 – Nana (2006) ... 8 – Paprika (2006)More items...•
Top 50 Most Viewed#titlerating1Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)8.652Death Note (TV)8.783Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8948 more rows
Demon Slayer has been the Most Popular Anime in Japan for 18 consecutive weeks with Attack on Titan on the second spot. We have compiled the list of Top 10 Most Popular Anime in Japanese Streaming Services for the first month of 2022 based on GEM Partners' recently released Monthly Streaming Popularity Rankings.
30 Best Anime Shows Of All Time RankedOne-Punch Man.Dragon Ball Z. Toei Animation/YouTube. ... Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Sunrise/YouTube. ... No Game No Life. Madhouse/YouTube. ... Pokemon. OLM/YouTube. ... Paranoia Agent. Madhouse/YouTube. ... Elfen Lied. Genco/YouTube. ... Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World. White Fox/YouTube. ... More items...•
What Are the Most Popular Anime of All Time?Dragon Ball.One Piece.Pokemon.Naruto.Death Note.Detective Conan.Attack on Titan.Sailor Moon.More items...•
Anime took off in both Japan and America around the same time. While animated shows had already found some popularity in Japan, the first major hit that made its way to the USA was Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy (known as Mighty Atom in Japan). The show premiered in Japan on January 1, 1963.
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One Piece, the best-selling manga of all time, is the most searched for show in all of the United States. According to the report, the beloved show following the Straw Hat pirates “had the most search volume across the country by a mile.” The anime was the most searched for in a whopping 25 states.
Top 20 Most Popular Anime of All Time#1: “Dragon Ball” franchise (1989-)#2: “One Piece” (1999-) ... #3: “Naruto” franchise (2002-) ... #4: “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” (2019-) ... #5: “Pokémon” (1997-) ... #6: “Death Note” (2006-07) ... #7: “Attack on Titan” (2013-) ... #8: “JoJo's Bizarre Adventure” (2012-) ... More items...
Sazae-san - 7,701 episodes Recognized by the Guinness World Records, this anime holds the world record for the longest-running animated TV series. The show is about a mother named Sazae-san and her family life.
Anime is a medium that constantly presents diverse experiences, making room for various emotions and opinions , leaving a permanent mark or one momentarily. With anime, the possibilities of experiences are almost endless. Then, more often than not, the medium has placed some influences on an individual. Aside from individual experiences, some anime has shaped the standard of the medium itself. These anime have paved the way for the everchanging medium it is today.
The first magical girl anime was Sally the Witch in 1966 but, Sailor Moon became the poster child for the genre after its premiere in 1992. Since then, it has been the most influential contributor to the ongoing popularity of the magical girl genre in anime.
Akira broke down the stigma of "all animation is for kids" by introducing mature themes and graphic imagery to the medium. Not to mention popularizing the cyberpunk genre and influencing a breakthrough in typical narratives for the industry itself.
It's not the first of its kind in Japan but assuredly paved the way for anime to make its mark in the West. The series pioneered the foundation of the majority of shounen anime today.
An explosion annihilates most of Tokyo city and leads to WWIII in 1988. Now it's 2019, and the city, Neo-Tokyo, is the restored version. However, despite its restoration, Neo-Tokyo is a gang and crime-ridden dy stopian, cyberpunk world. One of the gangs is "the Capsules," and two of the members are the main characters in the story, also. Several events lead to another, and the explosion from before is about to happen once more.
Similar to Akira 's cyberpunk theme and Neon Genesis Evangelion 's philosophy of existence, Ghost in the Shell interpolates both aspects quite well. It's a successful narrative that inspired anime after it and even movies like The Matrix.
There was even a CGI movie made here in the States. Astro Boy looks and feels like old school Mickey Mouse, and Mickey Mouse is as American as you can get. Astro Boy laid the foundation for anime and also shows there isn’t much of a gap between Japanese media and American media. Both complement each other and mix to create shows that are not labeled as anime. Anime would do better if it wasn’t labeled as a niche interest. Astro Boy laid that groundwork.
The DragonBall series was one of the anime (in addition to Sailor Moon, and Gundam Wing) that opened America to anime, much like Bleach is keeping it open.
Because it is so popular. Bleach is a bridge between kiddie anime and more adult anime series. Along with other series, it is breaking the (still existing) idea that all anime is echii or hentai. Bleach is action packed ( a boon in America) and sprinkles just enough anime-centric elements that it won’t put off those new or hostile to anime.
Ghost in the Shell influenced the Matrix series and other science fiction. It also was one of the first movies and series to cross over to the larger non-anime audience. Ghost showed Americans that anime had more diversity than action shows like DragonBall and children’s shows like Pokemon.
Hayao Miyazaki was many people’s first exposure to anime. Princess Mononoke told the story about what happens when the environment loses its mystique. Studio Ghibli long wowed American audiences at the big screen, but Princess Mononoke held a special draw…on dvd . It was the best selling anime for a time in 2001.
Voltron wasn’t considered anime at all. Voltron was on cable tv’s Saturday morning cartoon line ups. It was the precursor to the much more popular Pokemon. Interestingly, the show was actually an edited version of the Japanese anime Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairrugger XV.
This is the most influential anime in America. Like Naruto, Pokemon isn’t even considered an anime. After hitting the US back in 1999, it is still as popular as ever. It features cute critters and teaches friendship and perseverance. Pokemon also inspires kids to draw their favorite critters or make up their own. Yes, Pokemon isn’t Cowboy Bebop or even a good show for adults, but it is a testament to how far anime has come in the US. Once a niche, anime is now part of pop culture and the American childhood.
Sometimes anime combines two of the furthest possible ideas together. Girls und Panzer takes school age girls and combines it with tank warfare. The ridiculousness of the idea illustrates how anime isn’t afraid to experiment.
Kekkaishi plunges us into the world of Japanese folklore and cake. You can’t forget cake. Kekkaishi starts slow with far too many cake jokes before it picks up. It’s world is interesting and features many monsters and creatures from Japanese myths and legends.
Parasyte explores what it means to be human and the roles humans play in the environment. A race of creatures called parasytes begin to take over humans. They like to take over the human brain so they can completely control the host. Shinichi Izumi’s right arm is taken over by one of these parasytes. The characterization of Shinichi makes this anime stand out. He is believable and lacks the usual boneheaded shonen personality (impulsive, overly protective, and action oriented). Shinichi acts like a normal person with doubts, weaknesses, and resolve.
Shinichi Izumi’s right arm is taken over by one of these parasytes. The characterization of Shinichi makes this anime stand out. He is believable and lacks the usual boneheaded shonen personality (impulsive, overly protective, and action oriented). Shinichi acts like a normal person with doubts, weaknesses, and resolve.
Overt mentions of experience points and leveling up makes you wonder if the anime is yet another world within a video game. 11 Eyes has some of this, but it is a case study in how execution and lack of time can hurt a story with potential.
Trigun is one of those strange mash ups. Science fiction and the wild west. The mix proved more popular in the United States than in Japan.
Fill with good fights and good plot (canon plot anyway), Kenshin leverages its setting in ways that make it feel authentic .
Kill la Kill features the tense rivalry of Ryuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuin.
The long-running Naruto series has been referred to as one of the “big three” anime because of its wild popularity around the world, and for good reason. It’s full of action-packed fight sequences, hilariously fun moments, and dramatic scenes that pull at your heartstrings.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion features animation studio Sunrise and a story by Goro Taniguchi (s-CRY-ed, Planetes) and Ichiro Okouchi (Eureka SeveN, Planetes) and character designs by the legendary manga creators CLAMP. The story is a military drama with intricate plot lines and robotic action about the character Lelouch and his journey to overthrow a totalitarian regime that has invaded Japan.
Dragon Ball Z. Dragon Ball Z was a gateway drug for many a young anime fan, and for good reason. The series isn't particularly deep, as it basically revolves around superhuman martial artist Goku and his friends testing their mettle against an increasingly powerful and outlandish series of foes.
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. There are no magical girls or mechas to be found in Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun -- just an incredibly sweet slice of life story. Chiyo Sakura, a high schooler, has a crush on her older classmate Umetaro Nozaki.
Samurai Champloo, like Cowboy Bebop before it, was mostly episodic, and while its overarching story isn’t anything to write home about , the individual arcs of each of its three main characters were engrossing to follow, with equal amounts of emotionally resonant story beats and literal off the wall action. –Mitchell Saltzman
This show invented the Rom-Com/Harem comedy genre. Without it you can say goodbye to much of the romantic genre in fact. This anime gifted many of the troupe we see today (rich classmate that can buy everything, the tsundere, etc.)
An anime television series that was released in 1982, Super Dimension Fortress Macross featured a love triangle among its major characters, plastered against the backdrop of battles that existed between aliens and humans. When shown in the US, it was re-titled Robotech. It rose to fame because of Linn Minmay, the pop star idol in the show, along with transforming air fighter units called Valkyries.
The pilots in this series were more closely allied in compared to those in Gundam. This had a total of 49 episodes and borrowed its storyline from another series entitled War and Peace.
Paranoia Agent is very different from any of your average anime. It can also be pretty hard to keep track of, and there are some parts that are very... strange. The anime could also sometimes be trippy and disordered and also be labeled as creepy. In MY opinion I do not believe it was scary, but as a warning you should be prepared for creepy things.