Yeah, these weird Japanese ones for kids. I'm still shocked by the amount of people who still just ignore the medium. There is a huge variety of genres to choose from for all ages and it's not just like school girls, tentacle rape, or Dragonball. If you like film I urge you to give these a go!
I deceided against a "Top 10" and limited the choices to one movie per director. Most of these guys have a rich body of work worth checking out.
(And no, these are not obscure, it just takes a lot more to make an animated film than some indie movie..)
-The End of Evangelion – dir. Hideaki Anno:
He is not only a great anime director but has also made some great live-action ones aswell. To enjoy the despair ahead you'll have to watch the TV series though. No worries, not only is it great but you will be rewarded with one of the most striking animated films to date. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLoNOYcVQU
-Princess Mononoke – dir. Hayao Miyazaki:
Having seen most of his films, Mononoke was the first for me and it stuck with me the most. I guess it is a bit different than his usual works given the setting. The struggle between living with nature in harmony or taking control over it is a lot more than just good versus evil. A beautiful epic for sure. Luckily the now retired master has made some other great films aswell so there is one for everyone.
Grave of the Fireflies – dir. Isao Takahata:
Except for this Takahata doesn't seem to enjoy the same fame or popularity as his Studio Ghibli Co-Funder friend Miyazaki which is a shame really. His movies are a lot more grounded and you know what you're at. I thought about including the terribly underwatched Gauche the Cellist but this sucker is just such a tear jerker that it should depress about everyone (and it's based on a true story).
Millennium Actress – dir. Satoshi Kon:
I'm still saddened by Kon's death. Not one of his works isn't exceptional. Just watch them all! MA was his love letter to the actress Setsuko Hara which I'm sure you recognize if you saw her on screen once, such a captivating presence (best known for Tokyo Story).
Ghost in the Shell – dir. Mamoru Oshii:
I'm still amazed by how many people love The Matrix but have not seen Oshii's manga adaptation despite the Wachowski being quite open about it's influence. The second movie is great aswell and so is Stand Alone Complex. The score from Kenji Kawai makes it even so much better. The man also directed the first OVA series ever and some other good ones like Angel's Egg and Patlabor 2. When it comes to live action, Avalon is not bad either but he can sometimes be a hack and make something like Assault Girls... Try to find the basset hounds.
Summer Wars – dir. Mamoru Hosoda:
The director started out with some credits on Digimon before he found success in 2006 with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The virtual world found in Summer Wars is very much an extension of a movie he did for the show. While it's though for me to pick between this and Wolf Children I found the story here quite touching in regards of multiple generations in the family coming together where as the other is more about the mother.
Akira – dir. Katsuhiro Ohtomo:
Akira was one of the first anime movies I saw when I was younger. If you like scifi and action there is no reason for you not to see it. The maniac Kaneda became with his powers is still referenced (intentional or not) in other movies today. A balanat rip-off of the exploding Tokyo is also shown in Resident Evil Afterlife. It just became 25 years old this year and predicted the 2020 Olympic's in Tokyo ;). It was also the reason for a (short-termed) hype for anime in the US. Just go and watch it ffs!
As for other works by Ohtmo I would say watch Steamboy if you want some steampunk (and pretty animated ice) or Rojin Z for a more slice of life scifi.
A Letter to Momo - dir. Hiroyuki Okiura:
A suprisingly overlooked movie. It took Okiura over seven years to create together with (mainly) Production I.G. doing the hand-drawn art. It features a loveley color palette and has a story similar to what you find over at Ghibli. While it drags a bit early on it works as a whole (and is yet another touching story). The other movie credit the director has is the more well known Jin-Roh (created by the guy abit further above, Oshii) where I can see why people enjoy it a lot (a darker red riding hood) it isn't one of my favorites and is an extreme opposite to Momo.
Ninja Scroll - dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri:
It's basicly the Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' roll of chanbara cinema and for exactly that reason it was quite popular not too long ago at least among teens. My opinion might be still based from when I was younger but it's a fun and stylish action flick with lots of ultra violence. Kawajiri contributed a short to Animatrix so you might have seen something of his. Wicked City is also one of the more well known oldschool anime movies where you will see a "human" venus trap in action ;P.
Time of Eve: The Movie - dir. Yasuhiro Yoshiura:
Science-fiction authors (and the Japanese) have always been interested in relations between humans and androids. This movie looks at this in a great setup: Having a café with one simple rule; No discrimination between humans and robots. Inside, human looking androids are indistinguishable by appearance (they are forced to have indicators on their heads outside) and can act independently from their owners. Since I'm a sucker for the kinds of stories where the line between man and machine is blurred I enjoyed this a lot and I think it's a strong sci-fi movie even outside the medium of anime (if you're not just an action guy).
(FYI: The movie is an extended version of an OVA series by the same name)
As for other works by Yoshiura: I'm not really a fan of the other short ones, Patema Inverted however looks pretty great.
This is my own ranked and ordered list of the best/dankest anime that I've watched so far in my illustrious Chinese-cartoons-watching-career. If it's in the Top 50 (make it even Top 100), you better watch it ASAP because well... I do have phenomenal taste ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
More in-depth list is over at MAL http://myanimelist.net/profile/dankzel
•Ver Neon Genesis Evangelion hasta el cap 24.
•Ver TEoE (hasta el min 1:18:20, o hasta que rei, kaworu & shinji aparezcan y haya un bosque de fondo).
•Ver capítulos 25 & 26.
•Terminar TEoE
•Rebuild of Evangelion 1, 2, 3
Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD!
Source: http://366weirdmovies.com/category/weird-movies/
/u/StopReadinMyUsername on reddit created a list called "1001 'GREATEST' MOVIES OF ALL TIME" in 2015.
Since this list is still very popular, he posted an updated list on reddit in April 2020.
For this list he combined the average scores from IMDb, Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic, and tweaked the results with data from Letterboxd, iCheckMovies, TSPDT?, TMDb and IMDb.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/fswg60/by_combining_the_average_scores_from_imdb/
Best Anime of the 90's according to ANN's Bamboo Dong, Mike Toole, Justin Sevakis & Zac Bertschy. Ten titles each. Sorted from 1 to 10.
Available as a two part Podcast:
Part 1: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2012-06-15
Part 2: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2012-06-19
Source: IMDB
Filter: Votes >= 10000
Order: Votes Descending
Date: 2014-08-23
A selection of films, famed for their decision to throw convention out of the window. This list pays homage to the great surrealist films from the history of cinema.
This is a list of every movie that has made an appearance on the Top 250 list since the beginning of the site in 1996 through 2024. I will maintain a changelog below for when new movies are added to list.
List made using data from IMDB Top 250 History - https://250.took.nl/
Changelog - https://bit.ly/2E0i6w4
Odd Entries Explained - https://bit.ly/38dS0Ul
From the breakthrough of Akira in 1988 through the exquisite films of Miyazaki Hayao to the recent blockbuster Your Name, Japanese animation has captivated audiences around the world. But anime’s history runs deeper still. Here we select 50 titles that celebrate its full, fascinating riches.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/rise-of-anime
The greatest films ever made, as voted by MUBI’s global community of film lovers.
https://mubi.com/lists/the-top-1000
A list of little over 100 Japanese, Chinese and Korean animated movies
Establishing the best anime movies can be tricky. After all, despite now being one of the most ubiquitous cultural properties of the 21st century, anime, thanks to over a century’s worth of the medium’s evolution and reinvention, is especially difficult to define. From the five-minute shorts of Oten Shimokawa in 1917, to the feature-length animations produced during World War II, to the pioneering production cycles of Tezuka in the ’60s and the auteurist innovations of the likes of Miyazaki and many others towards the latter half of the last century, anime has morphed through countless phases. Amateur efforts, nationalist propaganda fodder, niche cultural export turned eventual global phenomenon: Each iteration conforms to the shape of the times in which it was produced. Television expanded the medium during the 1960s, birthing many of the essential genres and subgenres that we know today and forming the impetus for the anime industry’s inextricable relationship to advertising and merchandising from the 1970s onward. The arrival of home video catapulted anime to its commercial and aesthetic apex, fanning outward from island nation of Nippon to the far shores of North America and back, before again being revolutionized by the unprecedented accessibility of the world wide web throughout the ’90s and early aughts. Anime film owes much to the evolving means of production and distribution throughout the late 20th century, the breadth and audacity of the medium’s content widening and contracting along with its running time to cater to the emerging palettes of audiences both new and old, at home and abroad. But where does one begin to tackle the aesthetic and historical precedent that anime film has left on pop culture and global entertainment in the last century?
This list is an attempt to do just that: to create a primer of 100 of the most influential and essential films that Japanese animation has produced, and to offer a thorough aesthetic, technical and historical breakdown of why these film matter. With that aim in mind, Paste is proud to enlist the curatorial talents of Jason DeMarco, on-air creative director of Adult Swim and co-creator of Toonami, whose unique role in anime’s emerging popularity in the West has helped to hone this list. Given the shared evolution between anime film and television and the aforementioned significance of the home video revolution, this list includes not only traditional features but also original video animations made for home video (OVAs) and anthology films— with the stipulation of each entry having at some point premiered in theaters. It is our hope that in creating this list we have created an entry point for both the expert and the layperson to trace the rich history of anime’s legacy on both film and popular culture, and to offer newcomers a comprehensive guide through to learn, rediscover, and explore the fullness that the genre of Japanese animation has to offer now and into the future.
Source: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/the-100-best-anime-movies-of-all-time.html?a=1
There isn't a more beautiful list than this one tbh:heart:
Items to be updated. Please don't like the list. It's just for use with a script as I'm still too lazy to implement the auth just for this. Thank you.
The ultimate collection of anime movies!
I don't update this often so if you want something added please leave a comment.
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World-famous animators pick the best animated movies, including Disney and Pixar movies, cult movies, anime and more
Timeout's list of 100 greatest animated movies. Available at: http://timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies'
Source: http://www.imdb.com/list/pVQCkiZoP9c/
35 movies missing from source.
390 Animes/Hentai shows or movies (10,076 epis)
Inuyasha
Bleach
Naruto +Naruto Shipudden +Boruto
One piece
Black clover
Hunter x hunter
Sword art online
Tokyo ghoul
Attack on Titan
Fairy tail
High school of the dead
World end
Bento
Monster musume
High school dxd
My girlfriend is a shobitch
One punch man
Bungo stray dogs
Erased
Parasyte
Tokyo Esp
Promised neverland
Boku no hero academia
Kill a kill
Akame ga kill
Angel of death
Dr stone
Demon slayer
Devil is a part timer
Fullmetal brotherhood
91 days
Black bullet
World trigger
Death note
Trinity seven
Servamp
TsukiPro the Animation
Last Hero Inuyashiki
Chivalry of a Failed Knight
Twin Star Exorcists
Devils Line
Hinomaru Sumo
My Wife is the Student Council President
Phantom in the Twilight
Assassination Classroom
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
Corpse Party
Dance In The Vampire Bund
Gamers
Gurazeni
Dororo
Charlotte
Scums wish
Goblin slayer
Plunderer
Seven deadly sins
Another
Haikyuu
Yuri on ice
Mob psycho
Future dairy
Lord of Vermilion
Nyan koi
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Prison school
Golden boy
Shiki
Kabaneri of the iron fortress
Zombieland Saga
Oyasumi Sex (hentai)
Shigokare: Ecchi na Joshi Daisei to Doki x2 Love Lesson!! The Animation (hentai)
Joshi ochi! 2-kai kara Onnanoko ga... Futte Kita!? (hentai)
Angel Beats
Kengan Ashura
Vinland saga
Kaguya-sama love is war
God of high school
The Rising of shield hero
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime + Slime diaries
Darwins game
Gungrave
Serial Experiments lain
Deadman wonderland
Keijo
Samurai champloo
Perfect blue
Batman ninja
Tekken: Bloodline + Tekken Blood vengenance movie
Wonderful days
Brotherhood Final Fantasy XV + Final Fantasy movies -3 in total
Resident Evil Movies -3 in total + infinite darkness series
Starship troopers movie series -2 in total
Appleseed movie series -2 in total
Dragon nest warriors + Thrones of elves
How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
Magi
The Radio Wave-Like Girlfriend
Noragami
Btooom
Overlord
Talentless Nana
Jewelry the Animation (hentai)
Garden of words
Flavors of youth
Absolute Whiteness: Magical Girl
Mememe
Amakano (hentai)
Neon genesis
Disastrous life of saiki
Devilman crybaby
Misfit -Demon king academy
Iizuka-senpai x Blazer: Ane Kyun! yori The Animation (hentai)
Ichinen Buri No The Animation (hentai)
Rikujoubu Joshi wa Ore no Nama Onaho!!! (hentai)
Too Hot For Teacher (hentai)
Aldnoah zero
How not to summon a demon lord
Cautious hero
terror of resonance
Kime Koi! (hentai)
My Matchmaking Partner Is My Student and a Troublemaker (Hentai)
Noblesse
Baki
5 centimetres per second
Fog Hill of Five Elements
Food wars
Rezero
Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun
Saint Slut Academy (hentai)
Babylon
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers
Tormented: Revenge Hypnosis (hentai)
Fuzzy Lips (hentai)
Hantsu x Trash (hentai)
Jimihen!! Pure Heterosexual Exchange That Changes a Reserved Girl (hentai)
Nosewasure: Onna Kyoushi Chuuzenji Ayano no Inutsu na Kore kara (hentai)
Anoko to Iikoto (hentai)
Bokura no Sex (hentai)
Shoujo ramune (hentai)
Burn the witch
Jo Jo
High School Girl Prostitution School Festival (Hentai)
Daraku Reijou The Animation (Hentai)
Crazy Over His Fingers: Just the Two of Us in a Salon After Closing (Hentai)
Boku Dake no Hentai Kanojo The Animation (Hentai)
She Has Sex with Anybody (Hentai)
Ore wa Kanojo wo Shinjiteru! (hentai)
Gintama
Ushio and Tora
Blood of Zeus
Konosuba
Gunslinger Girl
Black Butler
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
Tokyo Ravens
Dorohedoro
Rainbow: The Seven from Compound Two Cell Six
Irregular at magic high school
Beastars
The Way of the Househusband
Dota Dragons Blood
Monster
Eden zero
Paranoia Agent
D gray man + hallow
Seirei Gensouki
The founder of diabolism
I Became a Kuro-Gyaru so I F***ed My Best Friend (Hentai)
Mom's Friend Caught Me Stroking Myself The Animation (Hentai)
Super crooks
Re creators
Sol Levante
Sagurare Otome The Animation (Hentai)
Blue Exorcist
Midori
The sword of the stranger
SSSS.Gridman
Record of Ragnarok
High rise invasion
Elfen Lied
Re main
Burning Kabaddi
Banana Fish
Trese
Blue Literature
Guilty Crown
Peach Boy Riverside
Voices of a Distant Star
Allargando The Animation (Hentai)
Dishonor Student (Hentai)
Cyclops Girl Cypu
Cross Road
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Someone's Gaze
Your name
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Shelter
Jobless Reincarnation
Jujutsu Kaisen
Great Pretender
Kemono Jihen
Wonder egg priority
Redo of healer
Altair: A Record of Battles
Daily Lives of High School Boys
Grand Blue
Kurozuka
Ultramarine Magmell
Hotarubi no Mori e
Please Take My Brother Away
Death Parade
Summer Ghost
Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Wolf Children
The Anthem of the Heart
Megalo Box
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Castlevania
Kakegurui
Blue period
Fire Force
Claymore
Saint Young Men
Mahjong Soul Pon
Odd taxi
Kuroko's Basketball
Classroom of Elite
Bright: Samurai Soul
The White Moon
False Memory
Beyond Creation
Takano Intersection
Sorairo Utility
Kowaremono: Risa Plus The Animation (Hentai)
Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy
Your lie in april
Miru Tights
The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
When I Woke Up, I Became a Bagel Girl!
Honobono Log
Destiny Child
Gokicha!! Cockroach Girls
Obey me
Landlord is in Puberty!
7 Seeds
Colorful
Nyanko Days
Blood-C
Bubble
Ne Zha
The Bat Man of Shanghai
All Saints Street
Dogeza: I Tried Asking While Kowtowing
Gleipnir
Blast of tempest
Maoyu: Archenemy and Hero
Bikini Warriors
Skeleton Knight in Another World
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
I'm Kodama Kawashiri
Code Geass
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody
Pompo the Cinephile
Interspecies Reviewers
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
Battle Game in 5 Seconds
Heaven Official's Blessing
Tomodachi Game
Vampire in the Garden
A Silent Voice
Welcome to Demon-School, Iruma-kun
Blade of the Immortal
Puparia
Robot on the Road
Good Morning 2007 1 min video
Hill Climb Girl 2014
Pupa
Tawawa on Monday
Housing Complex C
The Boy and the Beast
Lu Over the Wall
Harem in the Labyrinth
I'm Quitting Heroing
ID: INVADED
Sunday Without God
Afro Samurai
Ride Your Wave
Deji" Meets Girl
Natsunagu!
Promare
Platinum End
Shigurui: Death Frenzy
Love After World Domination
Komori-san Can’t Decline
Osama Ranking
Modest Heroes
Tokyo Godfathers
X men
Iron man
Wolverine
Kill Bill: The Origin of O-Ren
Return of the Blossoming Blade (PV)
Omniscient Reader (PV)
Ghost Theater (PV)
Doom Breaker (PV)
Refund High School (PV)
YT Izzo Bikes (Ad)
The Senior Class
A day before us
Ganbare Douki-chan
Lookism
Scissor Seven
Spy x family
Fate
Unlimited Psychic Squad
Hal
Spirited Away
Hello World
Massara short film
Proof of us short film
The Executioner and Her Way of Life
Violet Evergarden
Chainsaw Man
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Summer Time Rendering
The dog & the boy
Laughing under the clouds
The wind rises
Paprika
Child of Kamiari Month
Paripi Koumei
Shiro, the Giant, and the Castle of Ice
League of Legends ; Tales of Runeterra & Arcane
Takt Op. Destiny
Akudama Drive
Mary and The Witch's Flower
Tomorrow's Leaves
From Up on Poppy Hill
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Howl's Moving Castle
Grave of the Fireflies
The Secret World of Arrietty
Ponyo
Belle
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Darker than Black
Blade Runner: Black Out
Mashle : Magic and Muscles
Dragon Ball
Hetalia
Road to you
Taisei TV commercial "Vietnam · Noi Bai Airport"
Suzume
Neurosi5
Wonder Garden
Rain in the Sunshine
Lovers 1 min video
Rain Town
Paulette's Chair
Petals
Typhoon Noruda
Spring Herald
Fumiko's Confession
Harmonie
Chronus
Jellyfish Restaurant
ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
Neko to Wakai se na
Tentai Kansoku
COLORs
ME!ME!ME!
(OO)
Afternoon Class
Tokyo Revengers
Dance with Devils
My mother the animation (Hentai)
Meru the Succubus (Hentai)
Mesu Saga Persona (Hentai)
Fandeltales - The cursed prince (Hentai)
Araiya-san! Ore to Aitsu ga Onnayu de!? (Hentai)
Sazanami Soushi ni Junketsu wo Sasagu (Hentai)
Jingai-san no Yome
Ophelia
Terra Formars
48x61
Vivinos -Alien stage videos
Artistic trip? Surrealist? Uncommon pacing? Super deep? Maybe all at the same time? It should be here.
Sakuga-porn anime are not here, or if they are, it's for other reasons (sorry mob and TTGL I love you very much)
Ten Great Anime Feature-Films
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