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The end of the year is here and it’s time for the ninth Annual Reader’s Choice poll. Do you have a favorite series you’d like to see win? Are you just curious to see what everyone else enjoyed this year? Either way, the microphone’s in your hands now. Make your vote count.
As per the usual, there will be two polls for you to vote on this year – one for regularly broadcast TV series, and another for OVA/movies. We’re asking you for your top 5 picks in each poll, which should stop the results from being heavily skewed towards the mega-popular shows. This year we have an astounding 190~ TV series/shorts and 100~ OVA/movies/specials for you to choose from, so make sure you look over the entire list before deciding. Keep in mind that like all entertainment, anime is subjective. There is no one size fits all here. Please respect the opinions of others, even if you may disagree vehemently with them.
Criteria-wise, the following is what was used to decide what shows did (or did not) make it onto these lists:
- For a regular broadcast TV series to be considered, it has to have finished airing in 2014. The idea is that you can’t truly judge a series until it’s over, so shows such as Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu, Log Horizon 2, Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road will appear on next year’s poll. Series with a second season coming but a clear stopping point in the one we’ve already seen are included.
- For OVA/movies, it has to have been released on Blu-ray/DVD in 2014 to qualify, ensuring that viewers outside of Japan have had a chance to watch it. This mostly pertains to theatrical offerings. The difference from TV series is that they don’t necessarily have to be complete to be included, since it can take several years for an OVA series to finish. That’s why Gundam Unicorn is appearing again this year.
As far as we’re aware, the anime series list is complete, barring a handful of shows that are animated but unlike “typical” anime. The OVA/movie list is less so, but this is by design; there are lot of really niche OVAs that aren’t really worth considering and there is a tendency for series in this category to be delayed or released at different dates, so accuracy will vary greatly. If you feel there’s something that deserves consideration, isn’t listed, or is listed but shouldn’t be, please leave a comment or send me (Zephyr) an email or tweet at me (@ZephyrRC) and I will add it in as soon as possible. Please note that the first comment in this post will keep a list of shows added, so keep an eye on that before voting.
With that said, vote away. Time’s ticking.
Note: The polls will close at midnight PST on Thursday, January 1st. This means the morning of the 1st, the second it turns into 12:00:00AM PST on the 1st, and 8:00 AM GMT on the 1st. Results will be posted in the Best of Anime 2014 post, which will be written by myself and Stilts (the two active writers who have watched the most anime this year).
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List of Poll Additions/Removals/Modifications:
Hanamonogatari and Tsukimonogatari combined into one category.
Kaguya-hime no Monogatari added to OVA/Movie.
After staff debate, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works will be moved to 2015 to be considered with its second cour.
Removed duplicate entry of Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow OVA.
Added Detective Conan: Ijigen no Sniper to OVA/Movie.
Added Kuro no Sumika: Chronus to OVA/Movie.
What about making separate vote for shows that did not get blogged on this site.
I feel like they just cannot compare in vote amount. May be you should cast vote like shows that should have been blogged?
It doesn’t matter whether a show’s blogged here or not. Nanatsu no Taiza & Shingeki Bahamut aren’t blogged but they’re 2 of the most popular shows this season. Even more popular than Mushishi, Akatsuki no Yona, Grisaia, Chaika, World Trigger and Argevollen which are all being blogged here.
What we’ve found is the show being blogged here doesn’t usually have a major effect on the final result. Those shows people liked will continue to (and have historically) receive(d) the proportional votes they should, so it should be fine unless someone decides to spend all day attempting to rig the polls in favor of a particular show.
Shouldn’t Aldnoah.Zero be removed too? Cause I’m sure that it was announced to be split-cour before it finished airing the first cour.
That’s clearly a designated sequel with the first season receiving a clear stopping point.
Fate/Stay is more questionable because it’s essentially just taking a break between seasons. We’ve removed Fate/Stay for now as a result.
Who in RandomC has watched Ping Pong?
If you’re talking to the authors, I’ve watched it. As did Enzo. Unsure about the rest.
If I already voted for F/SN: UBW, do I have to submit my votes again, or are the other 4 choices still counted?
Other four choices will still be counted.
Woohoo End of the year poll is here 😀
Hunter x Hunter is my top 2014 anime. Such a masterpiece.
Yes, pretty much my pick as well. There`s nothing that comes close to HxH this year, even though it was a great one for anime.
I`m sorry, I had forgotten about Ping Pong the Animation. It`s the only anime I would vote over HxH.
There were a lot of shows that I enjoyed, but only a handful that I could really justify voting for here, so I went with No Game no Life, Log Horizon, Unlimited Budget Works, Prisma Illya, and Chuunibyou.
Don’t the poll results need to be hidden? :hmm
I laughed when I saw Psycho Pass 2 on the list. Good one guys.
Aldnoah Zero
No game no life
Fate/stay night Unlimited blade works
Tokyo Ravens
Gundam Build Fighters
Too many to choose from! Oh well, time to marathon again to decide what to vote for.
If you are having trouble deciding what to vote for due to number restriction, please don’t hesitate to vote for the less known ones you enjoyed over the ones that you know everyone will vote for. There is really not much point to add another single drop to a full bucket.
Anime list was bit disappointing this year …mostly followed sequels of already established anime….
2015 please astonish me!!
Hunter x Hunter is a given. Now deciding the other 4 shows will be difficult.
Aldnoah Zero
No Game no life
Fate/Stay Night UBW
Gundam Build Fighters
Nagi no Asukara
So much to choose from indeed for 2014! Psycho Pass 2, Log Horizon were on the top of my list too.
fate stay/night is not in the vote, it’s still not finished, so better revise that choice
Any reason Shirobako is missing?
Shirobako is Two Cours. It will be counted for next year.
I thought split cours were counted during the year that they finished, so why is Unlimited Blade Works being counted for this year?
It’s a tricky case. We counted Fate/Zero together after the 2nd season aired in a different year, but that was a case where it was announced before hand they would be doing it this way. UBW wasn’t done in this fashion, so I ultimately felt that it should be split into two sep. entities.
It may be changed over the course of the next few hours as we debate internally about it though.
EDIT: After staff debate, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works will be moved to 2015 to be considered with its second cour.
It was indeed announced it would be split cour before it began airing, with the release date of Spring 2015 even for the second season, so I’m glad you guys decided to count it as 2015.
I really liked Aldnoah.Zero S1. Let’s see how S2 turns out.
Meee too!!! Really exciting for Aldnoah S2 😀
I really wanted to vote for Witchcraft Works. I can’t do it though. Too much quality this year.
Choose up to 5 ?
5?
THIS
IS
SO
FRIGGIN’
HARD
MATE
Atleast gimme 15 choices.
cross ange? i know its controversial but im enjoying it so far
It’s a carry over to 2015.
No Game No Life
Nagi no Asukara
Ao Haru Ride
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii
Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de
Were the ones I honestly liked above the rest. Honorable mention to WCW and UBW >.>
I can’t really say I understand the Aldnoah Zero love. It’s fun to watch, but god forbid I turn my brain on while watching it cause then some stuff seriously doesn’t add up for me.
And that first half ending…holy no thank you.
Hype basically. This poll will be dominated by whatever the most hyped shows were which is how it always goes in reality.
Well that’s a shame. You think people would notice how effing convoluted the entire plot is.
Interesting plot…nearly God awful execution if you ask me.
Too many stupid characters doing stupid things I guess. It’s just annoying when only about 3 of the characters in the show are decently smart. It’s not just a high school student is smarter than the rest of the cast, it’s that 95% of the rest of the class is just plain dumb.
This to a T.
I’d enjoy this show sooo much more if it actually felt as though humanity had legitimately been preparing for war with Mars.
They’ve been preparing for this moment prior to Inaho’s birth but SOMEHOW he’s their only hope. Or was….
Nonetheless, something tells me certain individuals survived that cliff hanger.
cast*
Yeah that’s kind of what kills it for me more than anything is how poorly they handle what is supposed to be it’s core concept. It’d be great if Inaho had some Char like antagonist who could match him one way or another or even a Schneizel from Code Geass which I feel it has more in common with than Gundam, but he just doesn’t (Slaine does not function well as a rival at all since they barely interact or even fight much over the course of the cour) and it feels like he mostly succeeds out of convenience and his opponents just being complete idiots in robots with literally one gimmick weapon that makes no sense for interstellar warfare and conquest. With Gundam the whole mass production Zaku thing made sense as an invasion force and they at least had more than one weapon to take advantage of even if they weren’t the most powerful mecha around compared to what the Federation came out with later on, but with Aldnoah you get these oversized robots with a rocket punch or barrier or something and once Inaho finds some way to neutralize it they’re just kind of like “well he got rid of my one weapon, time to stand here and die I guess”.
It’s not really even as close to exciting as I had hoped it would be, especially considering there’s just so much of people just standing around in their mechs for whatever reason. The Earth Army guys just seem to stand there motionless shooting and getting mowed down (at least make it look like they’re putting up a fight), the saber guy at the docks just stands there waving his energy blade around and apparently nobody can do anything about this at all except Inaho, the countess chick just stands on a rock firing rocket punches at an immobile ship it somehow can’t manage to sink instead of actually going up and destroying it and then the last guy just has all those same gimmicks himself and gets a whole transformation sequence where he’s just standing there and then when he fights Inaho is just standing their in a hallway while Inaho just shoots him when he has to drop his barrier to fire off the rocket punches and the big bad mech goes down like that having barely accomplished anything.
Aldnoah just kind of has some of the most boring fight sequences for a mecha series with a budget I’ve seen in a while and they really should have put more effort into them instead of just having cool music blaring in the background while things are happening.
@John Hunt ^
It’s more like Inaho is the Char for all of the Martian pilots. Skills and tactics against superior machines, and all that.
I do wish the other Earth pilots could be something other than just cannon fodder, though.
At least it was fun to watch. I was waiting every week to a new episode. So few series make that effect on me at least.
If there’s one thing I noticed just by observing the titles this year, what was popular, what wasn’t and the overall execution of various things it’s that Hype kind > everything else now. Like there’s a lot to just be said for titles that have nothing really going for them coherency or plot/character wise or just kind of focus on the same old topics and ideas but manage to focus their energies on getting people to comment and pay attention to them and keep up a certain level of animation budget and action.
I think South Park’s 2 part season finale “#REHASH” really did a good send up on the whole phenomenon if you haven’t seen it because it’s not just anime where it’s happening. Social media has really changed how media content from games to movies, to television gets done and produced what the priorities for content creators are becoming and changing to adapt to in order to take advantage of the new media era and it’s potentials. Things like story content, interesting characters and their journey’s are really just kind of secondary to being loud and in your face and constantly coming up with ways to shock, scare or make the viewers feel an intense emotion for long enough to hold their attention before shifting gears again.
Shame but it is what is is and it’s only going to continue to get more like that I think so you either just have to learn to live with it or block it out and just stick to what you enjoy and like to watch.
You answered your own question at “fun”. Anime is a largely disposable form of entertainment for me, but A.Z’s one of the few shows that actually made me anticipate what would happen.
@Tori
From a general standpoint, while hype tends to help series in polls like this, it’s not the do all end all. If that were the case, SAO would’ve won easily two years ago, Shin Sekai Yori would’ve never hit the top 3 last year… the list goes on. It needs to be emphasized that vocal out pourings for shows doesn’t always translate into votes.
I understand that you and a few others replying to you may dislike the show, but that and the poll’s validity, as well as others views (which haven’t even been mentioned here) regarding the show, and the fact that some may just like a show for entertainment value are all separate things to be considered.
I say vote for now and see how the results come out. You might just be pleasantly surprised.
WHERE IS GARO HONOO NO KUIN?
or i m just blind
Garo is continuing in the Winter.
ok ty
Anyways voted
Aldonoah as my 1st pick
Madan no Ou to Vanadis 2nd pick
Log 3rd pick
No game no life 4th pick
Sword art 5th because of GGO arc (didnt really like that over emotinal drama at the end of season)
Black bullet and Garo right behind the line I guess
I m not sure why so many vote fate but I liked movie much more
I ended up with 4 that I was sure of, and then another 4 or 5 all competing for that last vote spot, all of which I’d like to vote for, but none of which really stood out above the others. Random die gave Mushishi the final vote.
Bit of a tough year for anime but if I can still come up with a Top 5 it can’t be all bad. I have a feeling mine is going to look vastly different than most since I’m not necessarily into all the big hyped up titles that get the most buzz, but I came up with:
TV:
Space Dandy
Ping Pong
Gundam Build Fighters
Knights of Sidonia
Haikyuu
Honorable Mention:
Jojo
OVA/Movie:
Kaguya Hime no Monogatari
Short Peace
Gundam Unicorn: Over The Rainbow
Kaze Tinchu
Giovanni’s Island
Honorable Mention:
Patema Inverted
Good choices, especially Ping Pong.
This poll made me realize I’ve barely seen any OVAs, movies, or specials this year. Wow.
As for my favorite TV series in 2014:
Hunter x Hunter
Ping Pong
Mushishi
Knights of Sidonia
Space Brothers
This was way too tough for me. So many good anime this year.
Biting my tongue, I decided on:
Anime:
Fate/stay Night
Hunter x Hunter
Log Horizon
Nagi no Asukara(I was a sucker for this)
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures
Although I was really a fan of:
No game no life
Amagi Brilliant park
Space dandy
Nisekoi
Magi
Not to mention that I watched atleast half of the anime on that list and liked most of them.
For Movie/OVA, it was easily Persona 3 and Madoka.
And crap, I forgot to mention Shingeki no Bahamut -Genesis-, the most underrated anime of the year.
Man, I wish we could vote for 10 shows. Especially when there’s been 190 TV series this year.
Is it okey to vote for just 3 shows or does it have to be 5?
You can do however much you wish up to 5 choices. Just note that you can only vote once, meaning once you cast your ballet, even if you only did 3 out of the 5 choices, you won’t be allowed to vote again.
Hiatus X Hiatus for me was the best anime of the year with the best Shōnen Arc ever “Chimera Arc”
We all know Glassleep is the anime of 2014.
Pupa is the true masterpiece of 2014.
They all pale in comparison to Mahou Sensou, the true golden classic of this year!
Barakamon
Kill la Kill
Mushishi Zoku Shou
Ping Pong The Animation
Space Dandy
Shouldn’t UBW like, not be on the the poll as it finishes in 2015?
Anyway, there were a ton of good anime for me this year yet not many I could consider favorites. Quite a few potential favorites began this fall, but most of them are 2-cour(not that that’s a bad thing). 2014 is mostly a large, equal ground of good for me. Basically, I only have one that I could call a favorite, which is Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus. At so-so distance, there’s Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii. Those are the only thing I’m gonna vote on otherwise I’d have an incredibly hard time choosing from almost everything I watched this year.
But I’d like to give special mentions to a certain show, one that I consider quite bad, namely Mahouka. It made me realize how harsh I was with the 1st season of SAO and made me appreciate the much more superior SAO 2 even more. Mahouka may have been a very boring anime but I’m eternally grateful to Lord Tatsuya-Stu for the enlightenment He bestowed upon me.
Also, special mentions to two shows that fall into the ridiculously awesome category, Brynhildr & Twintails.
All in all I don’t mind an year like this, with a bunch of good but very few great shows. This fall seems to deliver on the later category anyway.
After staff debate, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works will be moved to 2015 to be considered with its second cour.
That’s a pretty massive game changer for the poll considering that’s like the absolute hypest of the hype shows. Pretty much frees up the top spot now.
1 Akame ga kill
2 Fate/stay night UBW
3 Sword art online 2
4 Tokio ghoul
5 Trinity seven
Yeah!
Regardless of the outcome, just realizing I had to choose from more than 5 that I’ve actually seen made me appreciate what an awesome year this was for shows.
If you can even pick 5 to begin with, you win.
Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)
Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyou
Majokko Shimai no Yoyo Movie
Mushishi Special Chapter “Hihamu Kage”
Natsume Yuujinchou: Itsuka Yuki no Hi ni OVA
My top 5.
Hunter x Hunter 2011 – I started this really late into it’s run. (March of this year , I believe.) All I can say is that I took a long time to finish that last arc simply because I didn’t want it to end. I can only imagine just how bad it was for people who were watching since 2011.
Haikyuu – I tend to shy away from sports anime/manga and didn’t start this until it was halfway through it’s run. I pretty much had to check out the anime that managed to bring Divine out of retirement and I’m so glad I did. Can’t wait for the second season.
Nagi no Asukara – Easily the best original Okada Mari show since AnoHana. It clearly had moments that were over-dramatized but it had so many things going for it that I couldn’t help but like it.
Fate/Stay Night: UBW – What can I say? It’s not quite as strong as Fate/Zero, but it’s still a really good story. Spring can’t come soon enough. (I’m not looking forward to Nasu’s Gil though.)
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun – Best comedy of the year. The characters were great and all came together to help shape this into one of the most entertaining shows of 2014. Wouldn’t mind a second season (more Mikorin!) as well.
Parasyte would also be up there were it not continuing into 2015.
A couple other shout outs go to:
No Game No Life
Magi s2
Tokyo Ravens (Might have even been in top 5 had it’s first half been as good as it’s second)
Log Horizon s1
Zankyou no Terror
Won’t comment on ova/movie since I don’t watch too many of those. Madoka movie was the best of what I did watch though.
Favorite 5:
Barakamon
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Log Horizon Seasons 1 and 2
Ping Pong the Animation
Other favorites:
Aldnoah.Zero
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei
Free! Eternal Summer
Gin no Saji Season 2
Hanamonogatari/Tsukimonogatari
Sakura Trick
Seitokai Yakuindomo*
Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis
Knights of Sidonia
Strike the Blood
Others:
Inari Konkon Koi Iroha
Kuroko’s Basketball Season 2
Nisekoi
Zankyou no Terror
aldnoah.zero
fate/kalied liner
strike the blood
gundam build
twintails
side note:
really liked gundam-san, but 1 minute episodes only served as fun snack every once in a while.
I forgot that Seitokai Yakuindomo* came out this year. Wow. Thought that was last year for some reason.
I didn’t know they did an oav for Moretsu Pirates. Thank you for letting me know about it.
(I have a penchant for unpopular shows)
A movie, actually.
Hunter X Hunter 2011
No game no life
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Kuroshitsuji : Book of Circus
Tokyo Ghoul
Special Mention for Gugure! Kokkuri-san that doesn’t even get half the attention it deserves.
I’ll just inherit Enzo’s will and say:
1. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
2. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
3. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
4. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
5. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Just kidding, they’re all number one.
Enzo is right. Hunter x Hunter is one of the most well-written anime shows I’ve come across.
AGHHHHHH!!! FIVE IS NOT ENOUGH!!!! SO MANY GOOD SHOWS!!!
Hunter X Hunter’s an easy pick because that’s the best shonen series ever.
For the rest, Log Horizon, No Game No Life, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and Space Dandy. The best ‘people trapped in a game’ story ever, a show that embodies fun itself, the best comedy of the year and a bastion of creativity that never ceased to be refreshing. Easy picks, really.
Already predicting next year’ll have Parasyte in its top list, cause damn that show is good.
Not so sure about what I voted… There were some good animes this year but nothing that I REEAALLY liked. Last year had great shows like Shinsekai Yori, Monogatari Second Season and PSYCHO-PASS 1. this year…. Meh.
I voted Anyways so… (In no particular order)
-Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
-Ping Pong the animation
-Space Dandy
-Kuroko no Basuke 2
-Kill la Kill
Other shows that i liked.
-Selector Infected/Spread WIXOSS
-Aldnoah.Zero
-D-Frag
-Hanayamata
-Magi Season 2
-PSYCHO-PASS 2
-Nagi no Asukara
-Sabagebu!
-Shingeki no Bahamut
BestOva/Movie (I don’t watch a lot of these)
-D-Frag OVA
-Date a Live Encore OVA
-Madoka 3: Rebellion
-Rakuen Tsuihou/Expelled from Paradise
-Kill la Kill Special.
Shows that I need to watch/Finish
-Free Eternal Summer
-JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
-Mushishi.
-No Enzo, I WON’T Watch HxH… too many episodes. Maybe in a couple of years.
I didn’t watch too much Anime this year and that’s probably the reason why I think this was an “OK” year
My top five:
1. Ping Pong (only Yuasa can defeat the might of Mushishi)
2. Mushishi (excellent, beautiful comes very VERY close to first place)
3. Silver Spoon (this anime makes me feel like no other)
4. Haikyuu (amazing sports anime with great characters, plot and production values)
5. Jojo’s (David has done such an outstanding adaptation I cannot believe it)
honorary mentions: log horizon, yowapeda, nozaki-kun, hunter x hunter
Nice to see some love for Haikyuu! I thought it was an extremely well done sports anime.
DAMIT!! i F&^Ked UP!!! i didnt see HUNTER X HUNTER and picked some other trash….DO OVER!!!!!!
Plenty of good shows this year (even if it’s hard to remember some :P). Nevertheless for me the top 5 (in no particular order) go to:
Hunter x Hunter
Sidonia no Kishi
No Game No Life
Space Dandy
Log Horizon
Enjoyed many others, but these 5 IMO exemplified creativity in their respective genres or how to do commonplace tropes correctly in an entertaining fashion.
Hunter X Hunter
Sidonia
Mushishi
These are for sure my fav, I want to say aldnoah just for sheer rollercoaster ride that it was as my 4th but my fifth is gonna be hard pick.
Favorite Anime this Year:
1. Inou-Battle
2. D-Frag! (best comedy of the year)
3. Nagi no Asukara
4. Hunter X Hunter
5. No Game No Life
Favorite OVA/Movie:
Little Busters! EX (the Tokido Saya arc was better than Refrain and Refrain was really good)
Feels like there were a lot of great comedies this year, hard to cut some out while leaving room for more serious anime.
I don’t remember if this was discussed before, but shouldn’t shorts be their own category? It’s kinda hard to compare a short to a full episode, and even if I thought the short was more consistently enjoyable, it’s hard to give one a nod over a slightly-less-enjoyable regular show. I left one spot on my ballot for a short (Seki-kun), but I feel like they would be better served with a separate category.
@Zephyr/RC Staff:
Why are there two entries for Strike Witches in the OVA/movie poll?
– Strike Witches Operation Victory Arrow Vol. 1: St. Trond no Raimei
– Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow OVA
Those are the same thing – right?
Other than that, curious to see how the voting turns out.
Whoops. Removed.
(All in alphabetical order – I can’t imagine assigning numbers.)
Top 1-5:
No Game No Life
Space Dandy
Tonari no Seki-kun
Yowamushi Pedal
Zankyou no Terror
Top 6-10:
Barakamon
Isshuukan Friends
Log Horizon
Nagi no Asukara
Tokyo Ravens
Watched 78 shows this year. Missed 17 I wanted to watch/need to finish.
Any other high rollers? 🙂
1- D-Frag! (Very funny and unique)
2- Gin no Saji S2 (better than S1 and it’s been a while since an anime gave me strong feelings)
3- Hunter x Hunter (2011) (What a great anime, especially the middle arcs)
4- Barakamon (Enjoyable)
5- Ping Pong (or Psycho-pass 2, No Game no Life, Chuunibyou, Aldnoah) Difficult last spot. All of these were fun but not “amazing” like the first 4.
Animes that I didn’t watch but I’m not considering thanks to this thread: Gundam Build Fighters, Inou-battle, Sidonia, Haikyuu.
but I’m now considering*
Also I feel like all the people complaining about the anime list being lackluster this year are probably ones that don’t like slice-of-life or generally light-hearted anime. Because this year kicked ass with those, and as a fan of this genre, I’m happy 🙂
Finally someone else acknowledges Silver Spoon.
Haha yeah when I did my post I was surprised that you were the only person in the comments that voted for it. Seeing your list again, I think I’ll also consider watching jojo and Mushishi since many are voting for them. I never gave them a chance either. It seems I missed many good anime.
1: Hunter x Hunter
2-5(in no particular order): Haikyuu, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru & Kill la Kill
For me it was like Hunter x Hunter &… the rest. Lots of good shows this year but nothing that really stands out.
Done voting
I voted for those good but not so famous series
My top 5 had to be (in alphabetical order):
1. Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
2. Mushishi Zoku Shou
3. Ping Pong the Animation
4. Space Dandy
5. Sidonia no Kishi
It was a year filled with a good number of B-pluses and a truckload of other worse shows, and so these 5 anime just stood out naturally to me.
No Shirobako in the Poll?
See above. It’s a 2015 carry over.
Aldnoah Zero. As for the other four, I just randomly choose.
well , you sure have missed a lot of good stuff
My favorite 5:
No game no life
Gundam Build Fighters
Kill la Kill
Zankyou no terror
Hunter X Hunter
Man, the bottom half of the list is stacked with shows I really enjoyed. The “S” section and below really made the top 5 a really hard pick. Space Dandy, Shingeki no Bahamut, Sidonia no Kishi, Soredemo, in addition to Tokyo Ghouls, Tonari no Seki kun, and Uchuu Kyodai.
Final 5 ended up as:
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki kun
Gin no Saiji 2
Shingeki no Bahamut
Space Dandy
Uchuu Kyoudai
Yeah I tend to be in the same boat a lot since as I mentioned above I’m usually not big into the otaku stuff that tends to get really popular and hyped up and that the majority seems to hold up as the cream of the crop. For me it’s kind of funny because when you get a poll like this that takes a sample I usually end up looking at the shows just above the middle of the pack which tends to be my sweet spot. Like for example the shows most people would rate 5 or 6 out of 10 for the most part tend to be my favorite shows whereas the shows people rate 9/10 out of 10 tend to be ones that I end up rating 5 or 6 out of 10 or which I’m possibly not even interested in in the first place or couldn’t finish for one reason or another.
I am astonished that Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper is not included in the movie list. It is after all, an animated movie and should have qualified for the poll.
The list is not guaranteed to be complete. Some OVA/Movies/specials do get lost in the shuffle of manually creating the poll, so yeah.
Added it in.
#1 : Hunter x Hunter
#2 : Barakamon
#3 : Tokyo ghoul
#4 : Mushishi
#5 : Psycho pass 2 ( since unlimited blade works has been moved to 2015 )
No Doubts the ranking would be
1. Akame Ga Kill
2. SAO
3. Nanatsu no Taizai
Anime
Mushishi S2
Ping Pong the Animation
Kingdom S2
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Uchuu Kyoudai
OVAs and Movies
Kaze Tachinu
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
Mushishi Especials
Tiger & Bunny 2 – The Rising
Madoka Magica Movie 3
(Unfortunately, I couldn’t watch Kaguyahime no Monogatari, otherwise, it would probably be on this list)
Wow, considering the vast amount of anime this year. it’s hard to make a choice. Especially my top 3 favourite show.
I Can’t rank my favourite anime by number. Well, if it must be ranked it’s must be like this.
1. Jojo Bizzare Adventure, Haikyuu, Space Dandy.
I Know it’s kinda absurd, but it’s difficult to asses the greatness of JOJO, the most dramatic sport Haikyuu and the absurdly funny Space Dandy. I Think my head can’t take this anymore. lol
Other than the top 3, i think Tokyo Raven, Barakamon, Aldnoah Zero, and Kill la Kill is among top 10 anime this year.
KOKORO PYON PYON
MUST VOTE FOR LOLIS
I’m just secretly giggling that no one here has mentioned Mahouka, which certainly deserves a mention as major disappointment of the year. I just haven’t watched enough shows to decide if it’s THE disappointment of the year.
I went with the ones I really enjoyed this year. In no order: Log Horizon, Tokyo Ravens, No Game No Life, Amagi Brilliant Park and Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. Apparently comedy is the way to my heart! To be fair, I don’t think either of them would be ranked as AOTY (though Log Horizon and NGNL might make the list) but they were really, really buttloads of fun and charmed the hell out of its audience. 2014 FTW!
So many great shows… I could have taken 10 choices easily or more…
But my absolute top 5 for now is, in no particular order:
Kill-la-Kill – for being at same time epic, hilarious and unashamedly ecchi – NUDIST BEACH!
Log Horizon – for cast of great characters, and reminding me why I love MMO’s
No Game No Life – for taking game theory and making it EPIC.
Sidonia no Kishi – for hard sci-fi take at mecha genre, coupled with awesome battles
Zankyou no Terror – for having the audacity to have a go at current political situation, even if in a flawed way.
It has been a great year!
Can’t vote on unfinished series, but can vote on split cours… K.
Hunter X Hunter
Mushishi
Sidonia
Zankyou Terror
Kingdom S2
I read the list too fast and missed Ping Pong and Uchuu Kyoudai, I feel ashamed.
HxH
Mushishi
Sidonia
Ping Pong
Space Bros
Had a slightly difficult time with that one. Top 5 would probably be
Amaburi
Log Horizon
YuukiYuuna
No Game No Life
Inou Battle
Madan no Ou earns a personal honorable mention for being different and having strong characters, yet not living up to expectations (and also because I’m biased, so there).
Haven’t watched many OVAs this season though, so didn’t really vote meaningfully there.
Hard to pick this year, many can be in my Top 5. Not in order though…
Psycho Pass 2
No Game No Life
Aldnoah Zero
Kuroko no Basuke 2
Tokyo Ghoul
Not many OVAs I watched this year… The results will help me find good ones…
Aldnoah Zero (although I don’t know what the second half will bring us)
Mikakunin
Soredemo
Barakamon
Sword Art Online II
got say that i have more problem voting for OVA and movies, only 5 vote is pretty tough
My top 5 excluding leftovers:
1. Nagi no Asukara
2. Bokura wa minna kawaisou
3. Barakamon
4. Zankyou no Terror
5. Sabagebu
Honorable mentions:
6. Ping Pong
7. Kill la Kill
8. Mikakunin
9. No Game No Life
10. Zvezda
Absolutely Disgusting:
1. Dai shogun
2. Mahou sensou
3. Ore twintails
4. Mahouka
5. Black bullet
In alphabetical order:
Amagi Brilliant Park
Barakamon
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
No Game No Life
I’m a sucker for comedy, slice-of-lice, or series about finding your place in the world. This has been a good year for me 😀 I must say, this is the first time I could easily pick 5 (though I did debate whether Illya’s second season should’ve been there…)
Guys? Where’s Kuro no Sumika: Chronus (OVA – Anime Mirai)
Added.
Wondered why the votes were closed, and people were talking about last year’s animes. Turned out I bungled and accidentally clicked on Best of Anime 2013
My top 5: Kill la kill, Barakamon, Space Dandy, Sidonia no kishi, No game no life
Almost made my top 5: Gin no Saji S2, Isshuukan Friends, D-Frag!, Hitsugi no Chaika, Seitokai Yakuindomo*
Series: NGNL, Ping Pong, Sabagabu, Saki, Yuuki Yuuna
OVAs/Movies: GuP, GJ-bu, iM@S
Special mention to Gochiusa & Yama no Susume for providing fuwafuwa dose for this year.
Idolm@ster movie and Wake Up Girls movie?
Have yet to see them in torrent
Nagi no asukara
haikyuu
barakamon
gekkan shoujo
gin no saji 2
I already voted, but I missed Nanatsu no taizai? It doesn’t seem to be on the list?
2015 Carry Over.
Presumably Hamatora the animation and RE:Hamatora were combined into one as the option ‘Hamatora’?
Yes. Same goes for Chaika, WIXOSS, and the two Monogatari series.
I voted anyway, I was just double-checking. Thank You !!!
There is just no doubt about it, Hunter x Hunter deserves this year.
Other personal tops this year: Haikyuu!!, Ping Pong, Log Horizon, Space Dandy, Kill la Kill
1. Mushishi Zoku Shou
2. Ping Pong The Animation
3. Space Dandy
4. Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
5. Barakamon
1) Hunter X Hunter
2) Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brother)
3) No Game No Life
4) Bakaramon
5) Nagi no Asukara
1)Hunter X Hunter
2)Gundam Build Fighters
3)No Game No Life
4)ALDNOAH.ZERO
5)Sidonia No Kishi
1. Hunter x Hunter => obvious reasons, best shonen anime I have ever seen
2. Space Dandy => Watanabe-fueled exercise in exploration of creative limits of anime
3. Nobunaga Concerto => so underrated, a true gem of this year
4. Sidonia no Kishi => gripping storyline, interesting chars & art style
5. Noragami => just an all-around enjoyable supernatural story & chars
Honorable mentions:
– Ping Pong
– Rage of Bahamut
– No Game No Life
after seeing the last 2 episodes of Rage of Bahumut, have to promote it into top 5, and demote Noragami into Honorable Mentions.
what a finale for Bahamut. if you haven’t seen it, go watch it; great anime.
Should have a reader’s top 5 most disappointing/worst of the year poll too…
I’ll say that probably wouldn’t work out well.
don’t really understand. “most disappointing” at least should pose no major issues. “worst anime” i can see might be contentious, but “most disappointing” shouldn’t be.
How do I vote?
Look under the Blog entry? There are 2 Pols. Perhaps you have a Firewall running or Ad-Aware
Well, Rail Wars was not Bad. But for my taste they took really late the right track for me. so, if i could i would give Rails Wars from Episode 7 on a 8/10. For Story and Atmosphere. The earlier ones (only for the first Bombing attempt) did not catch my interest. Even if they here and there used the Girls to trow Ecchi on the Fans
You are making it hard for me, removing my two top anime of the year to 2015 😛
1) Fate/Stay Night UBW
2) Parasyte -the maxim-
So without two best anime, rest of my list and my votes go to:
3) JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
4) Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
5) Mushishi Zoku Shou
6) Hanamonogatari + Tsukimonogatari
7) Log Horizon
Witch Craft Works, Amagi Brilliant Park and No Game no Life fixed.
The other two… between Aldnoah, Sidonia or Shingeki no Bahamut.
1) Gin no Saji S2
2) No Game No Life
3) Sidonia no Kishi
4) Barakamon
5) Bokura Wa Minna Kawaisou
and because i have to mention these two
– Nagi no Asukara
– Zankyou no Terror (i still remember those piercing amethyst eyes….)
1. Hunter x Hunter 2011
2. Ping-Pong
3. Sidonia no Kishi
4. No Game No Life
5. Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus
They need to stop splitting cours already. Deciding on UBW is easy enough but what about Aldnoah? It’s second half doesn’t air for two weeks. And Sidonia’s second half until the spring.
Side Topic:
Since you added this OAV in the Poll: Mouretsu Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace
I got there an watched it, well first what i noticed Erika’s Face is a bit different, or it is my memories? Anyway, that is not that important.
As fas i understand, this OAV do not have real “Climax”. And in the end we get a Transformer Robot Anime. Well, what make the Anime so great? Slice of Life of a Pirate girl?.. Dunno, but this OAV do not even come near the real “Soul” of the Anime. Before you turn your backs on the Anime, thinking the Anime is not better. You really should give it a Try. This Storyline here missed something important… that you find in the Anime
Trust me
They even go there an exchanged Erika’s smexy Red Spacesuit to an “normal” Yellow one… Buhhhhh!!!! 🙂
https://randomc.net/image/Mouretsu%20Pirates/Mouretsu%20Pirates%20-%2026%20-%20Large%2028.jpg
Kuroko no Basuke 2
Nagi no Asukara
Love Live 2
No Game No Life
Haikyuu
Gundam Build Fighters, Mikakunin, Inou-Battle, RE:Hamatora and Tokyo Ravens are at my next list but since it’s just the best 5 for me, I had to choose those that made my weeks every episode aired or those that brought me the most excitement/joy/thrill.
OVA:
Tamako Market
Ano Natsu de Matteru
Nisekoi
…these 3 so far. Still having trouble deciding & recalling for other 2 that I enjoyed these past months.
Nozaki and Sakura Trick are the shows I watched to relax. They provided the best entertainment in terms of being easy to watch.
Having just finished marathoning Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken, I strongly recommend giving it a try if you are willing to watch the 3 minute episode shows.
My top 5 choices are in alphabetical order:
Gin no Saji Season 2 (Silver Spoon, Season 2)
Mushishi Zoku Shou
Nobunaga Concerto
Ping Pong the Animation
Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers)
A few more shows that I enjoyed missed the cut. My choices are generally known quantities with the exception of Nobunaga Concerto which I was curious on how on they are going to adapt an award winning manga on Oda Nobunaga while knowing full well that there has been an overload of Oda Nobunaga variations and a number of them being eye-rolling ones at that. Came away mighty impressed on how it was smartly reimagined to also dovetail with history. Got sucked in and cursed and raged when it was cut short at 11 episodes.
No Game No Life (Absolutely loved it – the rest are in no particular order)
Gundam Build Fighters (I’m glad I gave it a shot after reading RC users saying it was pretty good since I originally dismissed it as a “kiddy” show)
Hunter X Hunter (The end of the Chimera arc was beautiful)
Sidonia no Kishi
Kingdom Season 2
Others I enjoyed:
Amagami Brilliant Park
Inou-Battle
Kuroko no Basket Season 2
Ping Pong
Nagi no Asukara
Aldnoah Zero (mainly for the OST; everything else felt like a shallow hollywood action flick)
As for the OVAs, I only watched Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin and I’m planning to marathon Gundam Unicorn later. Wouldn’t really be fair for me to vote if I’ve only seen one OVA out of the whole list.
Series(not in order)
Tokyo Ghoul = even if they’re not faithful on animating the manga
Bakaramon
Psycho Pass
Kill la Kill
did i vote for aldnoah.zero instead for Hunter X Hunter? o.O can i take back my vote?
OVA
i only watched Unicorn
but ill vote for Book of Murders when i watch it.
There were so many to choose, it saddens me but it seems nothing comes close to Hunter X Hunter. For the next few years H X H will be a lighthouse for anime and I hope it also serves as a guide to follow,as it was such a masterpiece.
Thought we could only choose one,my mistake I was in a hurry,then my choices are:
Hunter X Hunter
Sidonia no Kishi
No Game no Life
Gin no Saji
Tokyo Ghoul
[Tamako Love Story] for my best Movie of the Year.
This year did not have too many good anime but the once that were good, were REALLY good!
Zankyou no Terror was great…until Five showed up.
Had no idea Gin no Saji means Silver Spoon. Would have voted for it otherwise…
So many good shows, truly an awesome year for anime !
It was so hard to pick only 5 shows… but i gave an attempt:
– No game no life (concentrated awesomeness in each second of animation)
– Kill la Kill (because Gainax is now called Trigger)
– Nagi no Asukara (visual slap at each scene and tearjerker, P.A Works, thank you)
– Shingeki no Bahamut (maybe the most underhyped show of the year, i’m eagerly waiting for the next show from Mappa)
– Sword Art Online II (okok… i know, this one is not objective at all and this season could have been better, but i’m an SAO addict, nothink can be done about it)
Honorable Mentions (should have been 10 picks !)
– Akame Ga Kill (never boring, can’t wait to see who will die on the next episode)
– Hitsugi no Chaika (Bones, what else ?)
– Log Horizon (Database ! Too bad the animation isn’t on par with the universe and story behind LH)
– Amagi Brillant Park (Kyoani is back ! At least they’re Free from the K-On niche.)
– Aldnoha Zero (Or… give me the f***ing OST already, i don’t care about the show !)
Anime
Fate Kaleid Liner
Kuroko no Basket 2
Mekaku City
No Game No Life
Tokyo Ravens
Honorable Mention
– Akame ga Kill
– Amagi Brilliant Park
– Aldnoah Zero
– Why Fate UBW isn’t here ?
Movie
HxH Last Mission
Little Busters EX (OAV)
Madoka Magica III
Persona 3 Spring
Sora no Otoshimono
Thank you for the in-depth and through anime feedback.
You Guys have really made it another great year and we hope that you continue to write and bring us more of your views.
Thanks RC writers. Happy New Year to you guys.
Why can’t I give my five votes to HunterxHunter?
Please add Yozakura Quartet Tsuki ni Naku in the ova/movies list, I want to vote for it.
Just 1 Shingeki no Bahamut.
HxH
Space Dandy
Gin no Saji
No Game No Life
Noragami
Watching this list, i noticed that this was a better year than i thought, with some really awesome animes.
Sidonia no Kenshi, Aldnoah Zero, Akame ga Kill, Tokyo Ravens, Tokyo Ghoul, Terra Formars, Zankyou no Terror, UBW, Isshuukan Friends, Hitsugi no Chaika, Rokujouma no Shinryakusha and of course Psycho Pass Extended Version…
I must say that even in the OVA department it was actually quite good with Date a Live: Encore, Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! and Buddy Complex taking the prize 🙂
#1 : Hunter x Hunter
#2 : Barakamon
#3 : Mushishi
#4 : Tokyo ghoul
#5 : Psycho pass
I’ll cast my votes for Locodol, SoniAni and GochiUsa fir shows; even though these shows weren’t well covered here, they were relaxing and worth watching in every regard. As for OVAs, Gundam Unicorn and Girls und Panzer are my picks.
A failure to cast at least one vote for Tonari no Seki-kun is an admission that you’ve lost your inner child. That is all.
Shingeki no Bahamut: From now on this is my gold standard for game adaptions. Practically everything was done right; characters, pacing, action, plot, animation, and music. I particularly loved its homages to western movies and fantasy, they’re rarely done in anime, let alone so well.
Kill la Kill: High voltage action, comedy, and fanservice. Kill la Kill may not have been a particularly deep story or philosophical work, but it was a ton of fun with some nice messages underneath.
No Game No Life: This was a trashy, fanservice riddled, reference-laden, self-insert wish fulfillment power fantasy, but I’ll be darned if it wasn’t absolutely hilarious and engaging.
Sidonia no Kishi: Space operas, let alone of the hard sci-fi variety are not terribly common in anime. Even less common are good ones like Sidonia. It had an excellent plot, solid characters, and great action sequences throughout.
Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu: I can’t decide if this show is stupidly brilliant or brilliantly stupid, but either way I found it utterly hilarious. Like Kill la Kill it takes a ridiculous premise and runs with it, delivering action and comedy while sneaking in some moral lessons and subtle jabs at anime culture.
@Twintails
I wouldn’t call those ‘subtle’ jabs at anime culture. Those were as explicit as they can get. I loved how they used them. Creepy bugs with fetishes that they announce with pride. I’m with you on this as part of my top 5 picks.
True, now that I think about it, subtle is perhaps the least suitable word for describing Twintails. Self-deprecating perhaps.
Ore twintails is not brilliantly stupid nor stupidly brilliant, it’s just plain stupid, the comedy is dull and every “joke” is predictable and retarded, all the supposed humor and that thing of “making fun of some tropes” is just bad executed. The production values and the overall quality is terrible, the animation started fine but became shit, the music was generic and the characters were just plain boring. Most people actually watched it because of the tag “gender bender”, I was not enough mentally ill to “enjoy” this thing.
Reading most of the previous comments I’m starting to think that just like me, some people forgot about Bahamut since it wasn’t finished when the poll was made > <
Uchuu Kyoudai – Probably one of the most educational anime I have watched in a while
No Game No Life – Word
Kill la Kill – Fashion comes at a cost
Nagi no Asukara – I am so glad that it is not R.D.G.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun – Chiyo-chan, fighto
My top 5 picks would be –
HxH
Haikyuu!!
Barakamon
No Game No Life
Mushishi Zoku Shou
Shingeki no Bahamut (Rage of Bahamut)
Kill La Kill
Barakamon
No Game No Life
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
What should win: Mushishi Zoku Shou
What is going to win: Akama ga Kill
1. Mushishi Zoku Shou (Masterpiece, when this aired I had yet to watch the first season. I’m so glad my eye fell on this series)
2. No Game No Life (What can I say, the shots angles and rising tension of some of the games was very well executed. Hoping for that second season)
3. Aldnoah.ZERO (Urobutcher made a great first and last episode
4. Log Horizon (Log Horizon makes any MMO player want to play his/her favorite MMO again. The story is very well written imo)
5. Space Dandy (This is imo a big mixture of everything anime can and has to offer. A piece of art)
Honourable mentions
– Kill la Kill
– Zankyou no Terror
– Tokyo Ghoul
– Barakamon
There are many more, but this is the top of this year!
Akame no Kill!
Hanamonogatari + Tsukimonogatari
Kill la Kill
Log Horizon
No Game No Life
No UBW?
MY GOG MY GOD I LOVE SAO EVER.
MY EPIC TOP—-
1 SWORD ART ONLINE 2-3-4
2 TOKYO GOUL
3 TOKYO ESP
4 GLASSLIP. FCK YOU NAGI NO AZUKARA
5 FATE KALEID LINER PRISMA ILYA 2WEIIIIIIII
6 DATE ALIVE 2
7 DRAMAtical Murder
8 Hitsugi no Chaika LOLI!!
9 Inazuma Eleven GO MARIO Galaxy
10 Log Horizon 2 BY MY DEEN, FUCK YOU UFOTABLE
11 Mahou Sensou
12 NORIN
13 PUPA CENSORED VESION
FUK ME KIRITO-KUN..
Aldnoah
Bokura wa minna kawaisou
HunterxHunter 2011
No Game No Life
Uchuu kyoudai
1. Barakamon
2. Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou
3. Log Horizon
4. Amagi Brilliant Park
5. Inou-Battle wa Nichijou no Naka de (this one was a hard choice… There are about 8 shows that I could put in this position)
A great year for anime, I wish I could have saw more.
Respectfully, my top 5:
1. Haikyuu!!
2. Barakamon
3. Gekkan Shouko Nozaki-Kun
4. Shingeki no Bahamut
5. Space Dandy
1.Ping-
2.Pong
3.The
4.Animation
5.Space Brothers.
For movies ‘d go with Jigen Daisuke’s grave. I didn’t watch many though.
we need more ping pong love here.
Shingeki no Bahamut
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun
Sword Art Online II
Amagi Brilliant Park
Hitsugi no Chaika (both seasons)
Akatsuki no Yona and Shirobako would have been contenders if they had been completed. I know my list is heavily slanted towards the end of the year, but I consider the most recent anime season to be one of the best in a long time, and I found a lot of the shows I liked earlier in the year to be ultimately disappointing.
The two anime that I personally truly hold personal to my heart are JoJo: Stardust Crusaders and Ping Pong the Animation.
I don’t think I will be truly prepared for the second cour of JoJo. The fights are inventive and watching the protagonists travel around the world, bond, and get themselves in wacky situations make it truly memorable. Araki’s imagination is limitless.
Ping Pong The Animation caught me by surprise. I did get into Ping Pong at some point with a friend but I found it to be more then just about Ping Pong. The characters were well written and the story was great and leaves you feeling spiritually uplifted. The art style can turn off some people but the emotions it can garner out of you as each character comes to terms with their dilemmas and find what they can get out of life is worth the watch.
My other 3 votes go to HxH(It’s HxH), Mushishi Zoku Shou (Very beautiful stories with the poignant ones really sticking to you), and Hajime No Ippo:Rising (Sawamura Ryuhei has gotta be one of the most despicable and memorable villains).
Hard to choose best 5 but I’d have to pick:
* Mushishi Zoku Shou – AOTY, glad my favorite anime has returned and will finish beautifully with a movie in the summer.
* Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis – Was not expecting it to be that fucking epic. Good job Mappa!
* Barakamon – Very enjoyable and a surprise hit for me
* Nagi no Asukara – One of PA Works best works imo
* Dead tie between Noragami and Sidonia no Kishi
Hunter x Hunter 2011 is the greatest shonen anime ever and one of the greatest anime of all time.
i could only pick 2 for the anime part and 1 for the ova/movie part, there must have been more then 2 animes worth mentioning from this year(tokyo ghoul doesn’t do it in my books yet ive seen the small hype) hope the best of 2014 puts me in a good direction for what i could catch up on 😀
and for once i didn’t vote for the monogatari series, i felt hanamonogatari was crap and haven’t watched tsukimonogatari yet
silly me i forgot to write what i voted for, sidonia no kishi and kill la kill
Hunter x Hunter is a good choice, if you’re looking. It’s a cut above most shonen anime I’ve seen. And based on the comments, a lot agree.
Series :
Ping Pong The Animation
Mushishi Zoku Shou
Uchuu Kyoudai
Jojo
Gin no Saji
Movies/OVAs
Kaze Tachinu
Kara no Kyoukai Mirai Fukuin
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Movie 3
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Movie 7
Kaguya-Hime Monogatari
All in all hasn’t been a great year for anime. Though on The Movie/OVA front the quality of the stuff has improved from last year.
My votes for Best Anime 2014:
1. Hunter x Hunter (2011) (One of the greatest manga stories of all time! This re-make is nothing short of excellent!)
2. Kill la Kill
3. Uchuu Kyoudai
4. Haikyuu!!
5. Ping Pong the Animation
Regrets: Golden Time, PSYCHO-PASS 2, Mushishi Zoku Shou, Log Horizon, Sword Art Online II, Hanamonogatari + Tsukimonogatari, Yowamushi Pedal, Tonari no Seki-kun, and many others…
My votes for Best OVA/Movie 2014:
1. Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled from Paradise (If you like Suisei you’ll love this one!)
2. Kaze Tachinu
3. Suisei no Gargantia: Meguru Kouro, Haruka OVA (Episode 1)
4. Kaguya-hime no Monogatari
5. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai Movie
Regrets: Ghost in the Shell ARISE Border 3 + 4
1 Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live. Masterpiece. Ending wasn’t as over the top as season2’s though.
2 Gundam Build Fighters. Another masterpiece
3 Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizokin
4 Persona 4 The Golden
5 Kenzen Robo Daimidaler
1 Kaguya Hime no Monogatari, dominates everything in every aspect by far.
2 Moretsu Pirates Abyss of Hyperspace, I hope there’s a second season soon.
3 Tiger & Bunny The Rising, idem
4 Yozakura Quartet Tsuki ni Naku 2&3. Really great animation.(Couldn’t vote for it since you guys didn’t add it but no worries)
5 Pretty Rhythm movie. Only ~10 minutes of new content but had some of the funniest things I saw this year
There was tons of good shows this year, still a lot I wanna watch.
#1-5 In no particular order:
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Haikyuu!!
Barakamon
Shingeki no Bahamut
#6-15 (also not in order):
Gin no Saji S2
Ping Pong the Animation
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Yowamushi Pedal
Log Horizon
Kuroshitsuji -Book of Circus-
Sidonia no Kishi
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii
Nobunagun
Tokyo Ghoul
I only voted Kingdom c8
Ping Pong AOTY.
A technical question, why is Aldnoah Zero (part one) listed but not Fate Stay Night UBW (part one)? Both are similar in that they’re only the first half of a 24 episode series which have taken a break.
Aldnoah
Gin No Saji
Gekkan Shojo Nozaki Kun
Haikyuu
Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso
If I could I would’ve voted 20 or so, but oh well.
After a process of elimination I finally voted for those:
Mushishi Zoku Shou
Jojo
Haikyuu!!
Amagi Brilliant Park
SAO II
Log Horizon, Chaika, Akame and a few others were also close. Good thing Yona is not on the list, because I would on my wits’ end. TOO MANY GOOD SERIES.
Can’t wait for the results and the “Best of 2014”!
umm…where are the results? I don’t see a post for Best of Anime 2014 in the “best of anime” section.
Patience. We’re working on it. It should be out soon(TM).
No Game No Life
Nagi no Asukara
Tokyo Ghoul
Amagi Brillant Park
SAO 2
I feel 2014 lacks a “series of the year”
2014 was super shitty for anime..
except for Haikyuu!