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BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (TV)
Black Butler (TV)
Broken Blade (movie series)
(Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV)
Chihayafuru 2 (TV)
Chōyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi (TV)
D.Gray-man (TV)
Daily Lives of High School Boys (TV)
Darker than Black (TV)
Death Note (TV)
Den-noh Coil (TV)
Durarara!! (TV)
Eureka Seven (TV)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV)
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV)
Hayate the Combat Butler (TV)
Hellsing Ultimate (OAV) Excellent Rating is for OAVs 1-3 only. Completely on a whole different level compared to the TV series.
Hetalia - Axis Powers (TV)
His and Her Circumstances (TV)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (TV)
Junjō Romantica (TV)
Kodocha (TV)
Love Live! School idol project (TV)
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie)
Magic Knight Rayearth (TV)
Martian Successor Nadesico (TV)
Michiko & Hatchin (TV)
Mōryō no Hako (TV)
NANA (TV)
Otogi Zoshi (TV)
Penguindrum (TV)
Planetes (TV)
Polar Bear's Café (TV)
Princess Princess (TV)
Psycho-Pass (TV)
Pumpkin Scissors (TV)
Red Garden (TV)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV)
Rozen Maiden (TV) Decent Not a particularly outstanding series, but interesting enough. Rating is for season 1 only.
Sailor Moon (TV)
Samurai 7 (TV)
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV)
School Rumble (TV)
Sengoku Basara - Samurai Kings (TV)
Sket Dance (TV)
Sorcerer Hunters (OAV)
Space Brothers (TV)
(The) Story of Saiunkoku (TV)
Thundercats (U.S. TV)
Tiger & Bunny (TV)
Touch (TV)
Unlimited Psychic Squad (TV)
Wandering Son (TV)

Seen all Rating Comment
Ah! My Goddess (TV) Good
Ah! My Goddess: The Movie Good
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (TV) Very good
Antique Bakery (TV) Excellent Really well done and sticks pretty closely to the manga story. Some people were bothered by the CG animation backgrounds, but I didn't mind, especially since the manga-ka does very limited background art. I love Ono; he's so cute!
Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution (TV) Decent Eh. The band's music was TERRIBLE. Action scenes were fun though. And the soundtrack (minus band songs) is pretty awesome.
Azumanga Daioh (TV) Masterpiece One of my favorite series of all time. Great school comedy with hilariously memorable characters.
Baccano! (TV) Excellent Unique setting in 1930s America and great animation. Bloody violent. Literally.
Basilisk (TV) Very good Completely predictable R&J type anime. But ninja magic powers are fun.
Batman: Gotham Knight (movie) Good Mix of good and simply all right. I do appreciate them keeping the original B:TAS VA for Bruce.
Big Windup! (TV) Excellent
Big Windup! Season 2 (TV) Excellent
Black Lagoon (TV) Very good Very good action anime with modern day pirates.
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) Excellent An even better second season with creepy "vampire" twincest and simply kickass gun-toting nuns. Also a trip for Rock back home to Japan that doesn't really go all that well.
Bunny Drop (TV) Masterpiece
Cardcaptor Sakura (TV) Very good Drags a little long in some places with filler, but a really adorable children's anime without being over the top cutesy.
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie 2: The Sealed Card Good
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie Good
Ceres, Celestial Legend (TV) Decent Bloody violent anime, especially shocking after watching not nearly as violent Fushigi Yuugi. Also creepy incest. Yech.
Chihayafuru (TV) Masterpiece
Chocolate Underground (ONA) Decent
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Excellent A classic, must-see anime.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Very good
Cross Game (TV) Masterpiece
D.N.Angel (TV) Good Bishie eye candy that I almost dropped in the middle due to episodic plots, but am glad I stuck it out through because the friendship developments that come later on are really well done.
Densha Otoko (live-action movie) Good
Descendants of Darkness (TV) Decent Ehhhhhhhh... shounen-ai, of sorts... but it didn't really keep me interested. However, watching the dub provided no end of hilarity with the terrible voice acting and actor choice.
Detroit Metal City (OAV) Excellent Fabulously crude and hilarious. Totally ruined my vocabulary for the time being with all the cussing. Marathoned this and laughed all night. Don't be eating during any "Demon Jewel" scenes, btw.
Eden of the East (TV) Good
Emma: A Victorian Romance (TV) Masterpiece Absolutely beautiful story of an upstairs/downstairs relationship in Victorian England, of all places. Stunning detail. A lot of love went into this anime.
Fake (OAV) Good This needs to be expanded into a real series. It would be SO much better. One of my favorite manga, and they took the least interesting, most blah storyline out of it.
Fruits Basket (TV 1/2001) Excellent Another classic, must-see. Pretty boys, great story, cute animals, good humor, and just a very touching anime.
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Masterpiece
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa Very good
Fushigi Yugi (TV) Very good
Fushigi Yugi (OAV) Decent
Fushigi Yugi (OAV 2) Decent
Fushigi Yugi Eikoden (OAV) Decent
Genshiken (TV) Good
Getbackers (TV) Good
Ghost Hunt (TV) Very good
Giant Killing (TV) Excellent
Gravitation: Lyrics of Love (OAV) So-so
Haibane Renmei (TV) Excellent
Hajime no Ippo (TV) Masterpiece A shocker. I really thought I would hate it, and it currently ranks number one on my anime. Ippo is amazing. Fighting music is awesome. Sat on the edge of my seat during some fights. Some people may get turned off by the animation style, but it really does suit the boxing gym characters.
Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (TV) Excellent A highly enjoyable additional season to HnI/Fighting Spirit. The latter half of the series though focused entirely on Takamura, so Ippo fans may be disappointed.
Hanasaku Iroha - Blossoms for Tomorrow (TV) Excellent
Hatsukoi Limited (TV) Excellent A surprisingly fun ecchi high school romance. Normally avoid ecchi like the plague, but the situations were so funny and felt mostly real, and the characters interesting, that the fanservice was only a minor annoyance. A very pretty anime, too, with a soft palette, and the characters are very distinctive looking.
Hellsing (TV) Good Liked the first half, didn't like the second half so much. Found out later, second half was not canon. Enjoying the OAVs a lot more, plus the animation is better in the OAV.
Here Is Greenwood (OAV) Very good
Honey and Clover (live-action movie) Decent
House of Five Leaves (TV) Excellent
Initial D (TV) Very good
INTERSTELLA 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (movie) Very good
Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie) So-so
Jormungand (TV) Good
Kaleido Star (TV) Excellent
Kids on the Slope (TV)
Kino's Journey (TV) Very good
Kirepapa (OAV) Good
Kuroko's Basketball (TV) Excellent
Last Exile (TV) Masterpiece
Library War (TV) Excellent
Lovely Complex (TV) Very good
Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (TV) Very good
Magic User's Club! (TV) Good
Magic User's Club! (OAV) Very good
Maid Sama! (TV) Very good
Midori Days (TV) Very good
Mirage of Blaze (TV) Decent
Mirage of Blaze: Rebels of the River Edge (OAV) Decent
Mononoke (TV) Masterpiece The Medicine Seller returns from Bakeneko/Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales in five more short arcs with more exquisitely lovely paper art.
Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit (TV) Masterpiece
Moyashimon (TV) Excellent
Moyashimon Returns (TV) Very good
Mushi-Shi (TV) Excellent Utterly gorgeous relaxing anime about a man who travels around collecting various "spirits" or helping people escape/deal with the effects of them. Hard to marathon, easier to watch 1-2 eps. at a time.
My Little Monster (TV) Very good
My Neighbor Totoro (movie) Very good
My-HiME (TV) Excellent
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (TV) Very good Pretty good magical boy anime. And I like the incorporation of Norse mythology.
Natsume's Book of Friends (TV) Very good
Natsume's Book of Friends (TV 2) Very good
Natsuyuki Rendezvous (TV) Weak
Ninja Scroll (movie) So-so
Noir (TV) Good
Occult Academy (TV) Decent
Oh My Goddess! (OAV) Good
Oreimo (TV) Not really good Overall this was rated Not Really Good because I loved half of it and despised half of it. It also ended up in the not worth buying side because there's just too much bad over the good. Loved the otaku fandom jokes. Hated the sis-con crap.
Ouran High School Host Club (TV) Masterpiece Satirizes the bishie/reverse harem anime splendidly. I loved Haruhi, the anti-stereotypical female lead amidst a sea of beautiful, silly men.
Outlaw Star (TV) Very good
Paprika (movie) Very good
Paradise Kiss (TV) Very good
Paranoia Agent (TV) Very good
Ping Pong (live-action movie) Excellent
Prétear (TV) So-so
Princess Jellyfish (TV) Excellent
Princess Mononoke (movie) Excellent
Princess Nine (TV) Excellent
Princess Tutu (TV) Masterpiece
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (TV) Masterpiece
R.O.D -The TV- Very good
RahXephon (TV) Masterpiece Complex, beautiful, and above all, a love story. I normally find mecha very uninteresting, but RahXephon managed to snag a top 5 spot of my all time favorites. Episode 19 will rip you apart.
Ramen Fighter Miki (TV) Good
Ranma ½ OAV Good
Ranma ½: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China (movie) Good
Ranma ½: Nihao My Concubine (movie) Good
Rayearth (OAV) Not really good
Read or Die (OAV) Excellent It's ME. With magic paper powers. I can't help but love this anime.
Redline (movie)
Rideback (TV) Very good
Ristorante Paradiso (TV) Very good
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) Masterpiece
Salaryman Kintaro (TV) Good Actually would've rated it higher, except the whole mother/daughter fighting over Kintaro, with the daughter being 14, and then having the daughter be a nude model and having salarymen drool all over her completely put me off the anime. I managed to finish it out, but by the end, I had sort of lost all interest and stopped rooting for Kintaro. In a weird way, it was almost a harem anime for adults with all the women fighting for Kintaro's affections.
Samurai Champloo (TV) Masterpiece
Say "I love you." (TV) Good
Scrapped Princess (TV) Very good
Sensitive Pornograph (OAV) Not really good
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Very good
Shonen Onmyouji (TV) Very good So glad they decided to finish releasing this in the US. IIRC, this was marketed as shounen-ai-ish, but it really isn't. It's a story about friendship, even if the anime is full of bishounen spirit guardians. I really enjoyed this anime.
Skip Beat! (TV) Excellent
Sorcerer Hunters (TV) So-so
Soul Eater (TV) Very good
Spirited Away (movie) Excellent
Super GALS! (TV) Very good
Taisho Baseball Girls (TV) Very good
Tokyo Babylon (OAV) Not really good
Tokyo Babylon 2 (OAV) Not really good
Tokyo Godfathers (movie) Very good
Toradora! (TV) Masterpiece Possibly the best romantic comedy anime ever made. Unpredictable, amazingly real, complex characters, non-stereotypical behavior and story. I probably cried as much as I laughed.
Transformers (U.S. TV) Very good
(The) Transformers: The Movie (U.S. movie) Good
Trigun (TV) Very good
Trinity Blood (TV) Good
tsuritama (TV)
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Excellent
Witch Hunter Robin (TV) Good
X (movie) Decent
X (TV) Very good
Yakitate!! Japan (TV) Excellent

Will not finish Rating Comment
07-Ghost (TV)
Accel World (TV) Weak
Amnesia (TV) Bad
Ayakashi - Samurai Horror Tales (TV) Excellent I would've given this a masterpiece, but I've heard the other two arcs are not very good at all, so this rating is for the Bakeneko arc only (minus one point for not being only Bakeneko). The Bakeneko arc (eps. 9-11) is a fabulous piece of art, with an excellent storyline.
Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman (TV) Weak
Basquash! (TV) So-so Started off strong, but degenerated into fanservice spectacle and I gave up. Really good ending song though.
Blast of Tempest (TV) So-so
Bleach (TV) Very good Was extremely good all the way through the Soul Society Arc, and then the filler killed it. Even when they returned to canon episodes, they kept interspersing filler until I got fed up and quit. Plus the animation quality dropped so much, it completely irritated me and made watching it a chore, not a pleasure. I'll just stick with the manga.
Code:Breaker (TV) Weak
D4 Princess (TV) Bad Saw part of this in an anime club, and it was just stupid to even bother finishing.
Earl and Fairy (TV) So-so
Excel Saga (TV) Not really good Too weird.
Fate/stay night (TV)
From the New World (TV) So-so
Gakuen Alice (TV) So-so
Gilgamesh (TV) So-so This actually didn't look so bad, but then I lost interest in the story somewhere, and there's too much more interesting anime out there for me to bother.
Gravitation (TV) Not really good The blond guy is a cold bitch, and the pink guy's a big baby. Boring as hell.
GUNxSWORD (TV) First episode did not grab me. Van looks like a plain ripoff of Spike Spiegel, which didn't help. Did not like character designs, except for Van's. Bored.
Happy Lesson (TV) Bad Hate harem anime.
Humanity Has Declined (TV) Weak
Inuyasha (TV) So-so Too effing long to get involved in. The world looks kinda cool, but as soon as I saw that necklace shatter into five billion pieces I gave up.
ItaKiss (TV) So-so The main guy is such an arrogant prick, I can't tolerate the main girl being all love-love about him. She's a spineless airhead. Apparently he does get better later on, but I don't even want to bother with this.
Kasimasi - Girl Meets Girl (OAV) So-so I don't think yuri is my thing. Concept was too weird, with the aliens and such.
Kimagure Orange Road (TV) Not really good Didn't look interesting, and the animation style is too dated for my tastes. I can make exceptions, like for Here is Greenwood, but the storyline just didn't hook me.
Knight Hunters (TV) Awful Bishies and my favorite VA couldn't even overcome the crappy animation and completely terrible storyline.
Kokoro Library (TV) Awful Too girly and the sisters are weird.
Kyo kara Maoh! (TV) So-so
Level-C (OAV) Weak Yech. Too porny. And the guys weren't even good looking.
A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (TV) So-so Too cutesy and kiddish.
Loveless (TV) Not really good I hate loli/shouta anime.
Macross Frontier (TV) So-so Potentially a really really good looking series, until all the flagrant fanservice with Sheryl drove me away. Really a bummer, because aside from the annoying fanservice, the anime looked quite interesting.
Magikano (TV) Pathetic fanservice harem anime. Not even funny.
Major (TV) Decent
(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) So-so
My Sexual Harassment (OAV) Bad WAY WAY past my comfort zone!
Nabari no Ou (TV) Decent
Naruto (TV) Very good Like Bleach, Naruto was a lot of fun, up until the final battle between Naruto and Sasuke. Then like 100 eps of crappy filler followed. When Shippuuden finally started up, they dragged out the episodes SO much, and dropped the art quality correspondingly (except for Sakura's big fight; that was pretty cool), I gave up in frustration. I mean, really, how long were Kakashi and Naruto in that stupid tree canyon?
Naruto Shippūden (TV) Good See Naruto.
Night Raid 1931 (TV)
Nighthead Genesis (TV) So-so Younger brother was too whiny, and animation wasn't all that. Got terrible reviews from people who did see it, so I didn't bother.
Otaku no Video (OAV) Not really good ... not my thing, I guess.
Pokémon (TV) Too old for Pokemon, although I wouldn't mind giving it a chance, subbed.
Pretty Cure (TV) Weak Too cutesy girly.
Project A-ko (movie) So-so Too many boobs.
Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (TV)
Ranma ½ (TV) Very good I really liked this at first (it was the first anime I saw and recognized as anime), but when I found out it went for over a hundred episodes, I stopped. Especially since it doesn't really progress anywhere. Ranma and Akane never get together, and she never figures out Ryoga is P-chan. What's the point?
Rurouni Kenshin (TV 1996) Excellent All the canon episodes were excellent, especially the entire Kyoto Arc. Everyone I know has said the third season is a complete waste of time and total filler, so I just ended while it was good, and bought all the manga instead. I rated this an Excellent for the canon episodes, although it really should be a Masterpiece, if it wasn't for all the filler.
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (TV) Decent Too silly to ever watch seriously, but I gave it a decent for nostalgia. I saw this when I was pretty young, and this is probably the first anime I ever saw, without knowing what anime was. I thought it was super cool. I recently saw a clip on youtube, and laughed my self silly.
Saiyuki (TV) Not really good Crappy animation lost my interest.
Saki (TV) The mahjong parts were great. The unnecessary over the top fanservice was not. Ruined a potentially interesting anime.
Sakura Diaries (OAV) Bad Watched part of this on a whim, but it's too sexual.
Strawberry Eggs (TV) Weak Too much fanservice.
Sword Art Online (TV) Not really good
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (TV) Decent Like the Inuyasha necklace, I threw up my hands when the feathers exploded. Very pretty to watch, but too bothersome to follow.
Vampire Knight (TV) So-so A very pretty anime, full of bishies, but the angst and emoness drove me crazy.
Welcome to the NHK (TV) So-so Too much innuendo.
xxxHOLiC (TV) Good Extremely beautiful to watch, but with no story arc, it didn't hold my interest.