I don’t watch many anime series cuz many of them are based on comics and comics are almost always better BUT
I do have lots of anime screencaps on my hard drive so let’s list Top Anime (If You Judge By Number of Screencaps I Took)
RANMA 1/2 has Nabiki Tendo, one of fiction’s greatest characters with history’s greatest hair style. She loves money! When I was a teenager this was everyone’s favorite anime cuz it was funny and had boobs and perverts.
Evangelion is good, it is probably the only anime series I’ve watched to completion more than once and it has lots of great shots of garbage bags and traffic lights and conbini food.
Armor Hunter Mellowlink has the Scopedog from VOTOMS but it’s much shorter than VOTOMS and is more violent so I’ve managed to watch at least 3/4 of the episodes. It’s cool when Mellowlink makes things blow up. Big fan.
Legend of Galactic Heroes was one of the first things I ever torrented, on-line. It was a real ordeal. They were rips of ancient VHS fansubs. I think only the first 40 or so episodes were available? Maybe I am misremembering there. But I spent years waiting for someone to release the rest of the series. And eventually that happened but I didn’t watch it cuz I tend to avoid things I enjoy.
Cutie Honey is what cartoons look like in my dreams. It’s ugly and gorgeous and every episode is kinda disgusting. I own the DVD box set. If you come over we can watch it together but once we start you’re not allowed to stop. All or nothing.
Urusei Yatsura is a contender for greatest sitcom of all time and is probably better than Ranma and I think it’s okay to say that I want to marry Lum’s mom. I think we should all celebrate this dream of mine.
That Cartoon About the Bad Little Girl Whose Name I Can’t Remember was a big hit in Anime Club and I made the greatest gif of all times thanks to it.
Oh yeah it’s Chibi Maruko-Chan. Glad I named that file way back when. Good job, me.
Gatchaman was a cartoon I watched before I knew what anime was and I thought everyone looked very cool. I liked the sorta-sideburns and their bellbottoms. I thought “I wanna dress like that when I grow up.” That didn’t happen. I was never the kinda guy you’d want to see in tight white trousers. This show was so much better than Voltron, everyone who piloted a Voltron was a fucking nerd.
Dragon Ball isn’t nearly as good as Dr. Slump but I’ve only seen one episode of that anime (and it was amazing) so I am putting Goku on the list. Dragon Ball Z is not to my taste but the first few volumes of Dragon Ball are very good, I think, and I woke up at 5AM every Saturday one summer so I could tape the English dub off syndicated TV so let’s put it on the list, why not, it’s important to me I suppose.
I like NORMAL THINGS in a normal way…and I like it!!