Your Top 5 Anime Series/Anime Films and Manga Series

[Aleksei]

1. Outlaw Star
2. Gundam
3. Big O
4. Cowboy Bebop
5. Elfen Lied


This list is perfect, don't f with it.

Honorable Mention: Gunslinger Girl

[Leandro]

Wow, I must watch this Honeamise film, it's mentioned so many times.

not much experience with anime/manga, but let's go:

Anime:
Yu Yu Hakusho - I was 12 years old, and I loved it. This series got a sensational dubbing when first aired here in Brazil, I can remember some of the lines to this day, Koenma was hilarious.
I don't have any exposition to anime series besides what was aired on national tv, lol.

Film
1. Akira - My dream is to watch this movie in a theater like the one where Gaijin Punch goes to, with those robust sound equipments. The soundtrack to this movie is from another realm, more so than even the spectacular visuals.
Akira is one of my most watched films, I lost count already.
2. Grave of the Fireflies - Rando, this film kicked my ass too. I actually watched a second time just to test my manliness, and got my ass kicked again.
3. Perfect Blue
4. A Viagem de Chihiro (I don't know the original name or the english one)
I've seen Ghost in the Shell recently, and while I liked it enough, I thought I would be more impressed. Maybe I would have been more impacted by it if I had seen it during the nineties.

Manga
1. HunterxHunter - There's something magical about it's simplicity. I read up to the Greedy Island conclusion, and it was the most fun I had reading a kiddie story.
2. Akira
3. Domu
4. Rurouni Kenshin
Death Note was good up to a certain part. I disliked much of it afterwards but persevered to the end.

[tinotormed]

Seems there were also otakus in this forum.

Anyways, here's mine:

Anime Series:

5) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
4) Toradora
3) Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2) Love Live! School Idol Project
1) Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai

Haven't read manga since however.

[Bananamatic]

TV series:
Martian Successor Nadesico
G Gundam
GaoGaiGar(including Final)
Super Robot Taisen: The Inspector
I don't know, possibly C3-bu or Gravion Zwei?

OVA:
Mazinkaiser(+the movie)
Mazinkaiser SKL
Hades Project Zeorymer
MD Geist
Getter Robo Armageddon

don't read manga, haven't really seen any movies(or they sucked like the Nadesico one)

would rewatch all someday

[cj iwakura]

Series:

• Serial Experiments Lain
  Sailor Moon
  Bubblegum Crisis (2032, the original)
  Madoka Magica
  Weiss Kreuz

Manga:

• Initial D
  Ranma 1/2

(I don't read much manga...)

Movies:

• Princess Mononoke
  Porco Rosso
  Ninja Scroll
  Vampire Hunter D
  Whisper of the Heart

[DaneSaga]

Series:
Berserk
Dirty Pair
Galaxy Express 999
The Rose of Versailles
Space Pirate Captain Harlock


OVA:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Bubblegum Crisis
Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Years
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal
Area 88


Movies:
Patlabor 2
Nausicaa
The Wings of Honneamise
Perfect Blue
Ninja Scroll/ Dagger of Kamui (I just can’t decide)


Manga:
Nausicaa
Akira
Planetes
Berserk
Violence Jack

[drauch]

^Nice list. Any fan of Jack is a friend of mine.

[PurpBullets]

cowboy bebop
gegege no kitaro
dororon enma kun
time bokan
shin chan


妖魔 (1989)


子連れ狼 (1970)

[drauch]

妖魔 (1989)


子連れ狼 (1970)

Oh, okay.

[Raytrace]

at this period in time:

Movies
Royal Space Force
Patlabor 2
Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
The End Of Evangelion
Venus Wars

OVAs
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War In The Pocket
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
Area 88
Bubblegum Crisis
Metal Skin Panic: Madox 01

TV Series
Mobile Suit Gundam
Space Battleship Yamato
Legend Of The Galactic Heroes (strictly speaking an OVA, but comon :p)
Dirty Pair
Steins;Gate

Manga
Blazing Transfer Student
The Rose Of Versailles
Battle Angel Alita/Last Order
Moeyo Pen
2001 Nights

Honourable Mentions (in general):
Space Adventure Cobra
Galaxy Express 999
Memories
Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Gunbuster
Super Dimension Century Orguss
Kishin Corps
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

[CIT]

Anime (series):

1. The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi No Umi No Nadia)
2. Ghost in the Shell SAC
3. Gunbuster
4. Shigurui
5. Claymore

Manga (series):

1. Blade of the Immortal
2. Dance till Tomorrow
3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
4. Devilman (the orig. by Go Nagai)
5. BLAME!

Anime (films):

1. Galaxy Express 999
2. My Neighbour Totoro
3. Ghost in the Shell
4. Wolf Children
5. Perfect Blue

[blackoak]

I've been using this thread to fill in the gaps of (ostensibly) good anime I've somehow missed or otherwise forgotten about. Saw Venus Wars and Windaria this week. Venus Wars was nicely animated, but a bit tiring by the end, and the story was more interesting in the first half. Glad I saw it though. I loved the sumptuously colorful animation for Windaria, and the story was a charming if wholly forced tragedy. Funny to see ugetsu monogatari surface again.

In the queue thanks to this thread, Patlabor, Dagger of Kamui, and Bubblegum Crisis. Have to think about my own top 5 a bit more. Tenshi no Tamago is certainly #1, hehe.

[drauch]

I definitely agree with Venus War. Absolutely love the animation, character design, and overall feel through about 2/3s of the movie. I can't help but feel like the end sort of falls off the track and loses pace a bit. Still, I definitely love it, and wholeheartedly recommend Discotek's amazingly clean and crisp DVD re-release in the states. Looks absolutely gorgeous. Easily one of the nicest transfers for older anime I have ever seen on DVD.

[Raytrace]

yep the art is really amazing I think - especially the chase scenes in the post apocalyptic shopping mall area.

so much detail in every frame (but still great movement).

http://r4ytrace.tumblr.com/tagged/venuswars