9.8 - Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
9.8 - Neon Genesis Evangelion
9.7 - Made in Abyss Movie 3: Fukaki Tamashii no Reimei
9.7 - Ashita no Joe 2
9.7 - Ashita no Joe
9.7 - Psycho Pass
9.6 - Made in Abyss
9.6 - Fate/Zero 2nd Season
9.6 - Fate/Zero
9.5 - Texhnolyze
9.5 - Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa
9.4 - Ping Pong Animation
9.4 - Shoujo Shuumatsu Roykou
9.4 - Cowboy Bebop
9.4 - Mushishi Zoku Shou
9.3 - Mushishi Zoku Shou 2nd Season
9.3 - Mushishi
9.3 - Kara no Kyoukai 1: Fukan Fuukei
9.3 - Sonny Boy
9.2 - Bakemonogatari
9.2 - K-On!!
9.2 - Higashi no Eden
9.1 - Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru
9.0 - Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Innocence
9.0 - Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex
9.0 - Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
9.0 - Koukaku Kidoutai
8.9 - Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen
8.9 - Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen
8.9 - Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen
8.8 - 3-gatsu no Lion
8.8 - 3-gatsu no Lion 2nd Season
8.7 - K-On!! - Movie
8.7 - K-On!
8.7 - Mind Game
8.6 - Kaiba
8.6 - Space Dandy
8.6 - Space Dandy Second Season
8.5 - FLCL
8.5 - Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai
8.5 - Gake no Ue no Ponyo
8.4 - Mawaru Penguindrum
8.4 - Kill la Kill
8.4 - Hyouka
8.3 - Tenshi no Tamago
8.3 - Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei
8.2 - Tamako Love Story
8.2 - Tamako Market
8.2 - Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
8.2 - Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon S
8.1 - Seirei no Moribito
8.1 - Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
8.1 - Samurai Champloo
8.0 - Aria the Origination
8.0 - Hibike! Euphonium
7.9 - Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor the Movie
7.9 - Serial Experiments Lain
7.9 - Boogiepop wa Warawanai
7.8 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
7.8 - Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
7.8 - Hyouge Mono
7.7 - Uchouten Kazoku
7.7 - Kurenai no Buta
7.7 - Tokyo Godfathers
7.7 - Gake no Ue no Ponyo
7.6 - Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
7.6 - Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otomen
7.5 - Usagi Drop
7.5 - Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san
7.5 - Gintama: The Final
Chihiro Ito
Atsuko Tanaka
Tetsuya Nishio
Urobuchi Gen
Tomazaku Seki
Hiroyuki Yamaga
Masaaki Yausa
Kensuke Ushio
Kevin Aymeric
Shinichiro Watanabe
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Toshio Masuda
Ei Aoki
Masaki Hiramatsu
Shingo Natsume
Akiyuki Shinbou
Kenji Kamiyama
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Kazuki Nakashima
Masahiko Ootsuka
Shuuichi Ikeda
Mari Fujino
Here is a summary of why certain series or movies were added or removed from my favorites list.
Most entries under 10 minutes will likely not be rated.
One - Objectively, it is 2 or 3, but subjectively it's opposite of my favorite list. I hate them as much as I love the chosen ones, and their existence only tarnishes the shows that are so special from almost every perspective. They miserably fail at all objective evaluations or at least one, which I adore about this medium. For example, like a pretentious soundtrack, superficial themes are so poorly executed and repeated that many times that it's impossible to take them seriously, and they just become an offense to the fiction. Or how this kind of crafted piece of media production-wise shows the worst side of the medium. Two - Morally incompetent fiction that is not faithful to its integral laws and traditions or does not promote morality as in - dramatization without belief or else opinion untested by honest drama. "A true moral fiction is a laboratory experiment too difficult and dangerous to try in the world but safe and vital in the mirror image of reality in the writer's mind." - John Gardner, "On Moral Fiction." Three - The shows that are objectively so bad they instantly break any immersion or their existence does not have any real purpose or meaning behind it beside easy cash grab or revive some popularity about itself like, for example, recaps or short specials. Because of that, subjectively, I did not care about anything happening inside or outside the show. Four - The shows are subjectively good, which means I liked some parts of the show a lot, and the show mostly achieved what was it trying to go for. But, it never tested itself beyond typical and save stuff, or my immersion could have been constantly broken because, objectively, it is consistently inconsistent. Here and there, it can have excellent animation sequences and one or another well-written character. Still, the script can be full of contrivances, plot holes, barely believable settings, and headache-inducing dialog. Or, another way around, it can look atrociously, but it can have a tight script, fantastic characterizations, and consistent world-building. Five - The rarest score because I barely stumble on shows that subjectively contains one thing that I passionately dislike or multiple numbers of things I dislike on a surface level. For example, character design, characters themselves, chosen themes, soundtrack, jokes, voice acting, 3DCG, animation type, world, etc. After watching them, I almost instantly forget about them, and I don't care how deep they are, how good the animation is, or at the end of the day, no matter how objectively good they are. Six - The shows that are subjectively good and objectively good or even excellent. Seven - The shows that subjectively and objectively are excellent but still contain both minor subjective and objective issues, and, because of those issues, I could not add them to my honorable mentions or favorites lists. I recommend watching shows with such a score to everybody because they: are entertaining, the staff is passionate about projects, have amazing storytelling, have are ambitious production, genuinely moving.
All entries in the favorite list have a minimum objective score of 9. All of those shows contain life-like characters or stories that can teach a lesson that never will be forgotten, and I care for those characters as they would family members. Finding a flaw in such work could only be called nitpicking because inconsistency would not affect the show, break any immersion, or downgrade the whole experience.
Eight - Honorable mentions list contains shows that are almost perfect and live rent-free in my head, but not as much as 9 or 10 Nine - The shows that touched me so profoundly where not a single person in my life could, but I could not follow its lesson because of my immaturity or hatred towards myself. Ten - Best of the best, holiest of the holiest, they taught me that it does not matter how shitty of the person I am or how deeply rooted problems run in my veins, or even I would be at my lowest, there is always something in my life I can always look forward to - it is to sit down and rewatch something so irreplaceable that even for that moment, it can make me feel "alive" or even somewhat "special." because even as a simple viewer I was part of its existence.
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