Sometimes the writers know when something is too serious so they make it silly just rid themselves of the stress of heavy writing.
Honorable Mention
Black Butler Omake Theater
Honestly it was the only good thing to come out of season 2.
10. Rock Lee's Burning Youth from Naruto
Because Rock Lee's performance needed more hamming up, not to mention the poor stoic Neji being a comedic punching bag.
9. Nurse Witch Komugi from SoulTaker
How does a magical girl idol show spinoff from one of the most underrated horror anime of all time?
8. Adventures of the Tiny Goddesses from Ah My Goddess
Because boredom, they need to do something when Keiichi is at college so they play with the shrine's resident rat.
7. Chibi Attack On Titan from Attack On Titan
Everything from chibi school to the usual tropes associated with chibiness, doesn't escape the fact that it span off a show with brutal deaths.
6. Full Metal Panic Fumoffu from Full Metal Panic
This was better than the main series as Souseke attempts to endure school life with only his military history as guidance. Hilarity ensues.
5. Sock Puppet Theater from Noir
When ADVFilms was still around they to had a sense of humour, so they turned this classic piece of thriller into a sock puppet show.
4. SSS Conversations from Madlax
And from the same dub as Noir comes a showcase of phone conversations making fun of everything from old horror films to spy thrillers.
3. Black Lagoon Omake from Black Lagoon
They made Revy a magical girl, genderswapped the cast and turn them into younger versions of themselves just for fun.
2. SD Gundam Original from UC Gundam
I make that clear, the original and probably the oldest example, it's weird, soooo weird.
1. Lodoss Island from Record of Lodoss War
This anime is grim so lets make everyone chibi, play with chibi dragons and just generally have fun. Of all the spinoffs this is the most unexpected.
With the top 100 anime ready to go, there are obvious anime that didn't make it in so lets look at ten that didn't make it.
This is not in order but I will mention the 101st anime.
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
speaking of 101st, this was my choice if there were no comments at all, a complex love story from a perspective of a natural cynic, but it's one of those need to see season 2 anime.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Being honest this anime looks worst every year as the flaws become more apparent but at the very least I can still consider it ground-breaking.
Persona 4
The game did it more justice but still good.
Grenadier
The manga did it more justice and between this and Trigun, Trigun was the stronger story.
Beyblade
If it weren't for them bringing it back as Metal Beyblade I'd have put it on the list pronto.
Creamy Mami
I found it boring but her contribution to the shojo genre cannot be ignored.
Galaxy Angel
One of many shows I just find fun and nothing else.
Attack On Titan
I can't get too mad at a show for being a gateway anime but I still find that this show got more absurd as it went along.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
What no children's card games? In all seriousness it's hard to decide on what the strongest series of this anime was and there were a lot of bad calls with this franchise.
My Hero Academia
I've not seen it. Blame the UK for not releasing season one on dvd. And before you say Netflix or Crunchyroll, I have to pay for a house now so regular payments to those services are off the table.
More second opinions on shows that I found new respect for or feel differently about after another try. Four shows as usual.
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
If you read my last review on the Looney Tunes top ten, I learned what SNAFU stood for, and knowing that meant that I learned what the overall punchline of this show was which makes me understand it a lot more than I used to, I will still insist on seeing Season 2 but learning about the nature of SNAFU makes the show that much better to watch.
Penn Zero Part-Time Hero
I wrote that this show is extremely underrated but I go further and say "WHY IS IT UNDERRATED?" it's brilliant, it certainly needs just as much if not more love than what other shows are getting on Disney XD and it's abyssmal time slot doesn't help.
Attack on Titan
I wrote that Attack on Titan was a series that grabs your attention but whether you keep that attention is dependent on your overall opinion of the story but another look and I miss the most obvious power that Attack on Titan has and that's bringing new people into anime who may have written it off, I have friends who ignored anime for years and suddenly want to try it thanks to Attack on Titan. My experience is still the same but I respect this a whole lot more than Sword Art Online.
The Raccoons
I still like the Raccoons but it hasn't aged very well, I gave it a passing review two years ago but in all honesty it feels like such a product of it's time that it's like watching a relic, I'd say the same about a few other shows as well.
Now onto the next review, a major one as well, time to digest Attack on Titan.
100 years ago, humanity was brought to the brink of extinction by the sudden appearance of the Titans, giant humanoid monsters who eat humans for no reason. The remains of humanity are stuck within the walls of the remaining cities until a huge Titan breaches one of the walls, bringing the Survey Corps into action, a team which focuses on the exploits of Eren Yeager, Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert as them and their comrades fight the Titans flying around like Steampunk Spiderman. However this proves to be a one sided battle as Eren gets eaten, however the Soldier returns as a Titan, with more questions than answers.
Attack on Titan does a fantastic job of drawing you in instantly with it's awesome theme song, shocking scenes of death from those getting eaten, along with the dramas of watching humanity fight for it's survival but the longer you go through Attack on Titan the less effective that becomes.
If you watch a horror movie enough times it loses it's ability to scare you and eventually becomes laughable, the same can be said of Attack on TItan as the Titans themselves cease being scary and become an absolute joke, in fact they look like giant naked stoner zombies to me. This goes the same for the humans as well as it becomes a tired melodrama by the time you finish the series.
The problem with anime these days is that they are very well made but have a tendency to miss the point by the time they finish. Attack on Titan is the same breed as Sword Art Online, they are really well made but they just couldn't keep it that way, they had to go off track and because of that it's pretty much ruined, but at the very least Attack on Titan does last a lot longer than Sword Art Online before it gets to that stage.
Not seen the dub but have been told it's good.
Final Verdict: The show is really effective at attracting it's audience but depending on how invested you are in the story will decide whether you like this or not, I don't like it, but there are plenty who do.
It's double list time, and we kick off with a best and worst villains in an anime, let me clarify that this is based on all villains within an anime not just one individual, with that out the way lets begin.
Dishonorable Mentions
Black Butler: Alois Trancey is one of the worst characters ever made but one bad villain isn't enough to put a whole series on this list, especially when he isn't canon.
Negima: Fate Averruncus was overused but really the show didn't have enough villains to justify it being listed.
Shaman King: Hao Asakura is a scary guy but I find him annoying, again one villain isn't enough for this list.
10. Trigun
My issues with Trigun's villains come from the fact that the early ones don't live up to the standard the series set out. Trigun is an excellent series and it should really grab you straight away and the first few episode villains fail to do that.
9. Digimon
Digimon has a problem with originality, the villains are either obviously dark looking devils or goofing comedy villains such as Elvis impersonator Etemon. The sad thing is, Digimon can do terrifying the villains, it's just that the creative team don't seem to use them often and their really good ones like Machinedramon don't last five minutes.
8. Dragonball
The franchise has a history of some goofy looking villains, the picture of Majin Buu says it all, but the real problem with Dragonball's villains from the original to GT is that older villains are made to look redundant very quickly; considering how terrifying many of them were built up to be only for them to be utterly humiliated later on is a very sad way to go, even Broly gets it bad and he's utterly terrifying.
7. Bleach
Bleach has some utterly terrible villains, couple of stand out ones include a professional wrestler and "Mr Self Insert Character" such a horrific standard for a series that started with some great characters only to fall from grace so horribly.
6. Naruto
Saying that Naruto isn't any better, for a while now, especially recently, they've made the villains completely boring, I can't pick out anything from Madara, Obito or Kaguya that I actually enjoyed, what's worst is that these are main villains, I'm not even going to begin on the filler ones.
5. Fairy Tail
I love Fairy Tail but my god are some of their villains really bad, I remember finishing Edolas arc thinking "There's a villain called Sugarboy?" other than the Oracion Seis, female villains and big name villains, the rest are really bad and stops me naming Fairy Tail best anime.
4. Panty & Stocking
In a series this colorful and crazy, you stick with complete opposites to the main cast, you kind of expect a series named Panty & Stocking to have a bit more too it than that but you'd be quite shocked to find that under it's anarchic sense of humor it's very grounded.
3. Attack on Titan
I can't help but laugh at the Titans these days, they look so goofy. A series with such shocking imagery fails to have ever lasting impact when another episode depicts the same creatures looking stupid. I remember one Titan running to the Benny Hill theme music in one AMV.
2. G Gundam
In a series so used to playing stereotypes, it can't make a decent villain other than Master Asia who you could argue isn't a full villain. The Devil Gundam doesn't look any better and side villains such as Gentle Chapman, Michelo Chariot & Prime Minister Wong can be best described as an aging drug addict, a rejected Street Fighter II character and an arrogant movie star respectively. Seriously this is billed as a fighting anime, you can do better than this Gundam.
1. Needless
Take your pick from these villains, either clones of Adam Blade or moe girls. Any other choices are quickly killed off. Again this series is crazy yet this is the best you can do with villains? Clones and little moe girls? My God do you lower the standards in anime Needless.
