1. Dragon Ball Z
2. Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Death Note
5. Trigun

I’ll go ahead and knock out the ‘normie that watched anime on TV twenty years ago’ list.

I’ve got a handful of others I’ve seen and liked, plus some older and newer ones I plan to watch. But I need to really branch it out a little.

Recency bias go!

1. Konosuba
2. Dragon Ball Super (the ToP is the best arc, fight me nerds)
3. JoJo
4. Solo Leveling (the only series that made me go out and buy the Manga to see what happens next)
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Disclaimer: I’ve only watched like 10-20 so I can’t exactly say it’s the best of all animes

1. Steins Gate

2. Spy x Family

3. Death Note

4. Code Geass

I don’t think I really watch enough to fill out all “top 5”

Honorable mentions:

• The Promised Neverland (S1 ONLY)
• Detective Conan - Was nostalgic for me, I remember watching it in the Mandarin dub, I loved to like pretend to be a detective as a kid, now its kinda… eh
• Re Zero: Great premise… then story got boring and the special ability of the MC gets used less, and the story became much less fun… don’t think I even cared to finish s3

I get very picky about watching stuff, so if the premise reads slightly boring, I don’t watch it. Which is precisely why I only have about a dozen or so Animes watched.

Sailor Moon
Apothecary diaries
Dragon Ball
Reincarnated as a slime
Dan da dan

Obviously the first of those is a have to, rest is to be changed as it comes and goes :D

• One Punch Man
• Sakamoto Days
• FMA: Brotherhood
• Way of the Househusband
• (I haven’t watched it in like 15 years, don’t judge me) Hetalia but that was because I had unmedicated ADHD and was in middle school

Wait. Does Castlevania count? If so I put that as my last entry instead.

1. Mushishi
2. Samurai Champloo
3. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
4. FLCL
5. Madoka Magica

Im ready for the hate, but I content myself that I’ve gotten through these before having kids:

• Fullmetal Alchemist

• Hellsing

• Voltron (80s, I think I saw them all)

• Serial Experiments: Lain

And since having kids:

• Neon Genesis Evangelion

• One Punch Man

• Trigun
• Mushishi
• FMA:B
• Little Witch Academia
• Violet Evergarden

In no order.

These are ones I end up rewatching with pretty regular frequency. I don’t claim they are the best, but they are what I enjoy the most.

1. Frieren
2. Reincarnated as a Slime
3. FMA: Brotherhood
4. Saga Of Tanya the Evil
5. Goblin Slayer

In no particular order (subject to change):

• Steins;Gate/0
• FMA: brotherhood
• Haikyuu
• ReLIFE (webtoon better than the anime adaptation)
• Shangri-La Frontier

1. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006 & 2009) - amazing in every way. Every arc is perfect and it’s the greatest character study ever in the medium of anime.
2. Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (1998) - this one is Hideaki Anno’s best work. The same depth of characterization as Eva but without the scifi or action.
3. Hibike! Euphonium (first two seasons, 2015 & 2016) - kinda a retelling of Aim for the Ace (1973) in my mind. Really great characterization.
4. March comes in like a lion (2016-2017) - another fantastic drama and hits really hard emotionally.
5. Nana (2006) - more drama. This one has a great vibe and has a really unique feeling of yearning and incompleteness… Mostly because it’s forever incomplete.

No order:

• Michiko to Hatchin
• Kaiji
• Inuyashiki
• Hajime no Ippo (both anime and manga)
• Initial D

Also I would add One Piece, but particularly, I’m not a fan of the anime series. I’m a constant reader of its manga, making theories and so on.

In no particular order:

• Gintama
• One Piece
• Steins Gate
• Golden Kamuy
• Fruits Basket

1. Madoka

2. Frieren

3. NGE

4. Ghost in the Shell: SAC

5. Haibane Renmei and/or Serial Experiments: Lain

Cowboy Bebop, FME:Brotherhood, Steins:Gate are good too. 5 is not enough.

Lemmy! Give me your power to overwrite everyone’s tier 0 choice!