Anime meme

[salinea]

ganked from flo_nelja

Go through the list and check off the titles you have watched. For our purposes, "watching" a title means that for TV and OVA series, you have to have seen at least one episode. For one-shots, you have to have seen the whole thing. At the end of each genre/category, add up your sub-total. At the very end, add up the sub-totals to come up with your grand total. If your grand total is 80 or over, congratulations -- you are an obsessive anime watcher!

An Editor's Note: not all the titles listed here are great, and some are even steaming piles of crap. Titles on the list are here because they are either 1) genuinely good, 2) insanely popular, 3) good examples of the genre, or 4) just plain notorious. Good anime obsessives should be able to watch series with any of those qualities.



Action and Adventure
() hack//SIGN
() Airmaster
() Battle Arena Toshinden
(x) Bleach (i've seen like a few bits of episodes, badly dubbed)
() Blood+
() Burst Angel
(x) City Hunter (way too many)
(x) Cowboy Bebop
(x) Dragonball (way too many as well)
() Flame of Recca
() GetBackers
() InuYasha
() Lupin III
() Mai-HiME
(x) Naruto
() One Piece
() Tenjou Tenge
(x) TRIGUN
() Saiyuki
() Yu Yu Hakusho
Total Here: 4/20

II. Comedy and Parody
() 2x2 = Shinobuden
() Adventures of the Mini Goddesses
() Azumanga Daioh (haven't, but I read the manga :))
() Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
() DiGi Charat
() Dragon Half
(x) Excel Saga
(x) Fruits Basket (isn't that more of a dramedy though?)
() Galaxy Angel
() Here is Greenwood
(x) Kodomo no Omocha
(x) Kyou Kara Maou! (dropped after 20 episodes or so)
() Midori Days
(x) Ouran Koukou Host Club
() Pani Poni Dash
() Project A-ko
(x) Ranma 1/2 (another one I watched a lot as a kid)
() Tenchi Muyo
() Those Who Hunt Elves
(x) Urusei Yatsura
Total Here: 7/20

III. Drama and Miscellaneous
() Beck (read a big part of the manga, actually this is on my to-watch list)
() Full Moon wo Sagashite
(x) Gankutsuou
() Genshiken (read two volumes of the manga, didn't like it)
() Glass Mask (original or new)
(x) Haibane Renmei (watched two episodes, was terminally bored)
() Hitsuji no Uta
() Honey & Clover (read the first volume of the manga, hated it)
(x) Kaleido Star
() Last Exile
() Le Portraite de Petite Cossette
() Monster
() Paradise Kiss (read the manga)
(x) Princess Mononoke
(x) Read or Die OVA
() Speed Grapher
() Twin Spica
(x) Weiss Kreuz (watched the OAV only, didn't find it very compelling)
(x) Wings of Honneamise
() Yakitate!! Japan
Total Here: 7/20

IV. Ecchi/Mature
() Agent AIKa
() Cutey Honey
() Ebichu
() Golden Boy (I read the manga for a while)
() Grenadier
() Hand Maid May
() He Is My Master
() Iketeru Futari
() La Blue Girl
() Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose
() Mahoromatic
() Mezzo Forte
() Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
() My Dear Marie
() Najica Blitz Tactics
() Negima
(x) Puni Puni Poemi
() Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (saw short sequences ^_^)
() Wicked City
() Yumeria
Total Here: 1/20

V. Fantasy and Supernatural
() Angel Sanctuary (read like half the manga)
() Aquarian Age
() Berserk (read a good bit of the manga)
(x) El Hazard (saw exactly one episode)
() Final Fantasy Unlimited
(x) Fullmetal Alchemist
(x) Howl's Moving Castle
() Magic Knight Rayearth (read the manga)
() Mushishi
(x) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
(x) Record of Lodoss War (one of the first OAV I watched)
() Scrapped Princess
(x) Slayers (several times!)
() Tales of Eternia
() Trinity Blood
() Tsubasa Chronicle (read the manga)
(x) Vampire Hunter D (several times too)
() Violinist of Hamelin
(x) Vision of Escaflowne
(x) X: TV
Total Here: 9/20

VI. Historical and Alternate History
() Anne of Green Gables
() Basilisk
() Barefoot Gen
() Chrono Crusade
(x) Grave of the Fireflies
() Fire Tripper
() Kaidomaru
() Legend of Condor Hero
(x) Millennium Actress
() Nadia - Secret of Blue Water
(x) Ninja Scroll
(x) Otogizoushi
(x) Peacemaker Kurogane (I need to finish watching it, too)
(x) Porco Rosso
(x) Rose of Versailles (all my childhood!)
() Rurouni Kenshin (read the manga)
() Samurai 7
(x) Samurai Champloo
() Steel Angel Kurumi
() Victorian Romance Emma (read the manga)
Total Here: 8/20

VII. Kids and Family
() Angelic Layer (read the manga)
(x) Astro Boy (oh boy, a long long time ago)
() Beyblade
(x) Castle in the Sky
() Detective Cona
() Digimon
() Doraemon
() Hamtaro
(x) Kiki's Delivery Service
(x) Kimba the White Lion (a long time ago too)
() Monster Rancher
(x) My Neighbor Totoro (never finished, found it boring *ducks*)
() Pokemon
(x) Samurai Pizza Cats (sometimes I think I'm the only one who even remember this)
() Sazae-san
() SD Gundam Force
() Sonic X
() Speed Racer
(x) Spirited Away
(x) Yu-Gi-Oh (does having watched a lot of the abridged count? anyway, I probably caught enough bits of episodes too)
Total Here: 8/20

VIII. Magical Girls and Boys
(x) Cardcaptor Sakura
() DNAngel (read the manga)
() Earth Girl Arjuna
() Elemental Gelade
() Hime-chan no Ribbon
() Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
() Magic Users Club
() Magical Girl Pretty Sammy
() Magical Stage Fancy La La
(x) Mahou no Star Magical Emi
(x) Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (dropped it after 5 episodes on account of being boring)
(x) Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok
() Ojamajou DoReMi
() Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo
() Pretear
(x) Sailor Moon
() Saint Tail
() Tokyo Mew Mew
() Ultra Maniac
() Wedding Peach
Total Here: 5/20
I kinda makes me sad how so few of the magical girls I liked as a girl are there, I think Emi's the only one (I was teen/pre-teen by SailorMoon and CCS's time)

IX. Romance
() Ah! My Goddess (read a few volumes of the manga)
() Ai Yori Aoshi
() Air
() Ayashi no Ceres (read the manga)
() Boys Be
() Chobits (read the manga)
() Fushigi Yuugi (read the manga)
() Hana Yori Dango (read the manga, watched the drama)
() His and Her Circumstances
(x) Kimagure Orange Road (my childhood! I loved this as a kid!)
() Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
() Love Hina (read a few volumes of the manga)
(x) Maison Ikkoku (I should stop screaming "my childhood" now, I guess?)
() Marmalade Boy (read the manga)
() Peach Girl (read the manga)
() Piano
() Please Teacher!
() SaiKano
() To Heart
() Video Girl Ai (read a few volumes of the manga)
Total Here: 2/20

X. Science-Fiction
() Appleseed
() Blue Seed
() Bubblegum Crisis
() Crest of the Stars
(x) Galaxy Express 999 (yeah...)
() Gundam (any)
(x) Macross (any) (Macross +)
() Outlaw Star
(x) Patlabor (some episodes of the series and the third movies)
() Planetes [je préfère le manga]
(x) Please Save My Earth
() RahXephon
() Saber Marionette (any)
() s-CRY-ed
() Soukyuu no Fafner
() Space Battleship Yamato
() Stellvia
() Transformers (any)
() Voices of a Distant Star
() Xenosaga: The Animation
Total Here: 4/20

XI. Shounen-Ai and Shoujo-Ai
() Ai no Kusabi
(x) Descendants of Darkness
() Earthian
() FAKE (read the manga)
() Fish in the Trap
() Galaxy Fraulin Yuna
(x) Gravitation
() Haru wo Daiteita
() Kannazuki no Miko
() Kizuna (read many volumes of the manga)
() Lesson XX
() Loveless (reading the manga)
(x) Maria-sama ga Miteru
(x) Mirage of Blaze (hahaha, that was a blast)
() Oniisama E
() Seikimatsu Darling
() Song of the Wind in the Trees
() Sukisho
() Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito
() Zetsuai/Bronze (read the manga, or part of it, I try to forget)
Total Here: 4/20

XII. Sports
(x) Ace wo Nerae
() Ashita no Joe
() Ayane's High Kick
() Baki the Grappler
() Battle Athletes
() Buzzer Beater
(x) Captain Tsubasa
() Eyeshield 21
() Ginban Kaleidoscope
() Hajime no Ippo
(x) Hikaru no Go
() Initial D
() Major
() Monkey Turn
() One Pound Gospel
() Prince of Tennis
() Princess Nine
() Slam Dunk
() Suzuka
() Wild Striker
Total Here: 3/20
i might have watched more but i'm too lazy to hunt the name they might have been broadcasted as in French.

XIII. Surreal and Psychological
(x) Akira
() Betterman
(x) Boogiepop Phantom (one episode)
() Elfen Lied
() FLCL
() Gantz (read one volume of the manga)
(x) Ghost in the Shell (movie or TV)
(x) Hellsing (two or three eps)
() Jigoku Shoujo
() Karas
() Madlax
() Melody of Oblivion
(x) Neon Genesis Evangelion
(x) Noir
(x) Paranoia Agent
(x) Perfect Blue
(x) Princess Tutu
(x) Revolutionary Girl Utena
(x) Serial Experiments Lain (one ep)
() Texhnolyze
Total here: 11/20
so Utena and Princess Tutu aren't in Magical Girls?

TOTAL: 65/260

Hmmm.

Comments

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

I kinda makes me sad how so few of the magical girls I liked as a girl are there, I think Emi's the only one (I was teen/pre-teen by SailorMoon and CCS's time)

Motto! And I thought the 80's were like the golden age of the magical girl genre :-C WHERE'S CREAMY FOR FUCK'S SAKE. But honestly I'd really score low on this meme I think - too little oldies :-) I'm so not caught up. I was watching Death Note with the corner of my eyes yesterday - okay, I couldn't pay attention because I was in full deadline panic, but I couldn't help but think "o hai myspace emos".

Mmmh, Utena totally belongs in "Surreal and Psychological" IMO. It's too subversive to belong in such a very recognizable genre like magical girls.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly Creamy! Not to mention Gigi! Well, there's a lot of oldies that were popular in Western Europe in the 80's in general that are missing there ^^

but I couldn't help but think "o hai myspace emos".
ROFL. Not a bad description of Death Note

Well, I agree that Utena is surreal and psychological, but when i think in terms of genre, I dunno, it's a deconstruction of Magical Girls, and it heavily references Roses of Versailles... so I wouldn't have thought of it that way. Princess Tutu is totally a Magical Girl though.

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

there's a lot of oldies that were popular in Western Europe in the 80's in general that are missing there ^^

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I would have come up with rather different choices had I made this meme - I guess it really depends on what has been available in Europe vs. the US or something. Then I'm pretty sure a Japanese person would have made another list as well. (relatedly: check out secret #170, lol!)

I have problems in fitting Utena into a genre exactly because it steps so often into deconstruction and metatext - it's a bit of a one of a kind thing, and I think it shows in its achieving cult status while having little or no apparent influence over later series (at least as far as I can tell, my involvment in anime fandom has gradually decreased since the early 2000's). And talking about works that influenced SKU, I don't remember if you saw Kanashimi no Belladonna?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Then I'm pretty sure a Japanese person would have made another list as well.
Oh, yes, definitly.

(relatedly: check out secret #170, lol!)
LOL yes it's exactly that. Were we Italians and French really the only ones to have access to such a broad number of anime? awww.

I don't remember if you saw Kanashimi no Belladonna?
I haven't seen it, but I remember you talked about it at length once, and you posted, I think it was the trailer? It looks fascinating. I didn't know it was Ikuhara that had worked on it! Cool!

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

No, it isn't actually by Ikuhara (but Osamu Dezaki was in it! Omg!), but wikipedia says it was the film that made him want to go into animation in the first place. There's a lot of themes and visual concepts that are *so* Utena it hurts IMO, only 30 years earlier. I had found the file here, unfortunately it's Real Media, but an .avi might be up on torrent. Idk, my router is fighting all my attempts to install any p2p software D:

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was quick and misread it. Thanks for the link!

Idk, my router is fighting all my attempts to install any p2p software D:
That's sad :(

[luzisrighthand.livejournal.com]

No dragonball? :P

Ranma 1/2 / Sailor Moon saw a few eps as a kid
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away

Planetes
I love that series, anime seems well suited for SF, however no other SF anime has interested me enough as I dislike mecha/ emo or mind powers which are stronger than weapons/ uberships and the only fan service I care for is space ship porn. I would love see a big space war as a anime in which resources, strategy, tactic and giant fleets shape the outcome of the war.

4! :D

[luzisrighthand.livejournal.com]

eh 5...I can't count

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Dragonball's up there, you missed it! :)


There are many many types of anime, and Sturgeon's Law's tough :)

[haremstress.livejournal.com]

You lost the Action/Adventure section; I went and got it from the person you got this from. XD For a while I was utterly horrified that the editor had left out Cowboy Bebop! Phew.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

I noticed that, too. Here it is.

Action and Adventure
() .hack//SIGN
() Airmaster
() Battle Arena Toshinden
() Bleach
() Blood+
() Burst Angel
() City Hunter
() Cowboy Bebop
() Dragonball
() Flame of Recca
() GetBackers
() InuYasha
() Lupin III (any)
() Mai-HiME
() Naruto
() One Piece
() Tenjou Tenge
() TRIGUN
() Saiyuki
() Yu Yu Hakusho
Total Here: /20

[haremstress.livejournal.com]

lol, such a huge loss. XD

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

I'm a guy. Not watching a lot of those would be a great loss, to me at least!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

My action adventure section is there, but I guess people can't see it for some weird reasons of coding O_o

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

My action adventure section is there, but I guess people can't see it for some weird reasons of coding O_o

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

I think I might actually have you beat on this meme, even after you correct it for missing the action/adventure section.

BTW, there are a few shows that you haven't seen that I'd recommend.

Comedy--the Tenchi Muyou OVA, Tenchi Universe, or any of the movies.

Drama--Last Exile.

Ecchi--Ebichu and Puni Puni Poemi.

Fantasy--Scrapped Princess and Trinity Blood.

Magical Girls--Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (the OVAs, but only if you watched the Tenchi Muyou OVAs first) and Saint Tail.

Romance--Please Teacher! (at least you read the Chobits manga; I'd be very surprised that you considered yourself a CLAMP fan and didn't have contact with Chobits and Angelic Layer).

Science Fiction--Voices of a Distant Star.

Surreal--FLCL.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

My action adventure section is there, but I guess people can't see it for some weird reasons of coding O_o

Actually, I watched Puni Puni Poemi! Of those I'm vaguely curious about Scrapped Princess. I think I might actually have watched an ep of Last Exile and didn't like it.

I'm not crazy about harem romance so anything Tenchi based doesn't interest me, or Please Teacher!
Didn't much like Chobits either.

[cafecomics.livejournal.com]

so Utena and Princess Tutu aren't in Magical Girls?

Princesse Tutu devrait totalement être dans la catégorie magical girl. Mais elle tient plus de la magical girl traditionnelle à la Gigi/Emi/Creamy/Vanessa qu'à la version moderne combattante en groupe à la Sailor Moon/MKR/Pretty Cure...

(pis Sailor Moon est une fusion de magical girl et de tokusatsu à la Bioman, PGSM achevant la boucle)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Princesse Tutu devrait totalement être dans la catégorie magical girl. Mais elle tient plus de la magical girl traditionnelle
C'est bien vrai ça ^^

[cafecomics.livejournal.com]

Bon, certes, c'est Drosselmeyer qui prononce à chaque fois ce qui tient lieu de formule de transformation mais pour le reste, tout y est. :-)

Dans la catégorie "sports", "Ace wo Nerae" est passé dans le club Do sous le titre "jeu, set et match !"

[solesakuma]

Oh, no Saint Seiya. ;;

You didn't like Honey & Clover? I adored it enough to download the anime.

And I know many people who remember Samurai Pizza Cats. Hey, I even know people who roleplay characters from there.

[dizilla.livejournal.com]

106... XD I'll prolly do this when I get the chance to see the break down.