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

[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 :(