Best Anime Series of 2013 – Meta-ranking from around the Web

Posted: January 20, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Anime, Series, Top Ranking | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 26 Comments

Best of 2013

After some data collection, here is my top 10 list for the best anime series in 2013. Similar to the previous list, I have excluded series that have not finished in 2013 (hence the likes of Kill la Kill and Log Horizon are not in the list). See Appendix for the sources I use and the methodology to give rise to this list.

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Best Anime Series of 2002 – All About Haibane Renmei & Azumanga Daioh

Posted: November 24, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Anime, Series, Top Ranking | Tags: , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

2002

I’m really interested to look at 2002 because the year contains one of my favourite series (Azumanga Daioh) and the series that came out on top on the decade list I made (Haibane Renmei). I want to know how they actually rank against other series and am rooting that they do well! Below are a list of the top 10 series from this year based on the various Western source. I have also interested a few interesting findings from this research and an initial comparison with the 2ch list, which produce markedly different results.

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Best Anime Series of 2007 – Top Ten Best-Rated

Posted: September 30, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Anime, Series, Top Ranking | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

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After a few posts on AKB48, here it is back on an anime topic. Many people on the netsphere considers 2007 to be one of the best, if not the best years of anime. They certainly contain some of the most well-known animes, both widely and within specific anime community (Death Note, Gurren Lagann, Lucky Star, Nodame Cantabile among them). Therefore, this is the year that I am particularly interested in seeing which anime series comes out on top.  Note that similar to other analyses I did recently, I am considering an anime to be of a particular year based on when it finished, thus Code Geass, Death note and Nana (all released in late 2006) are considered as 2007 anime in my book.

Without further ado:

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Best Anime Series of 2012 – Meta Analysis From around the Web

Posted: January 20, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Anime, Series, Top Ranking | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Pic 2012 titles

Another year, another set of animes to analyze. Similar to previous years, I try to collect as much data from around the web as I can to see what are the best anime series in 2012. Coming into the exercise, I have no idea what good series there are that I should follow so this yearly analysis benefits me as much as anyone else. I hope a few of you also find some use in it too!

Below is the final list of anime based on all the sources (listed in the appendix at the end)

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Best Anime Series of 2011

Posted: February 21, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Anime, Anime 2011, Series, Top Ranking | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 25 Comments

We are now in 2012 and that tells me that it is time to visit all the polls, wrap-ups, ratings of anime in 2011 and see which one is rated above all others in 2011. I still like having a comprehensive ranking that I can personally look to with some confidence for the best animes to watch over the last year (considering I’m so far behind and have not heard of most of the top 10 before I wrote this!). Unlike 2010, there seems to be a consensus that 2011 is a very good year for anime with as many as five titles acclaimed as the best in the last few years. The roster at the top is more loaded with a clear consensus on what the top animes are. I sure cannot wait to watch them alll!

I have now also extended the data research to cover MAL among others, making the list more comprehensive that the 2010 version.

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