Anime Survey 2001

Well, I did this way back when on orochinagi.com....

The format is simple, you just put your choices down according to the catagories I set before you. After a while, I'll take all the choices and take the highest voters. I'll post the results at a later date. Thank you for your voting. I'm putting my choices just to get it started. It doesn't necessarily have to be anime, it can be american cartoons as well.

Best Animation Quality:
(My standard for a high quality animation is something along the line of 12fps)
Historically Based (takes place in the past): Princess Mononoke
Present Based (takes place in the present): Akira
Future Based (takes place in the future): Vampire Hunter D

Best Music:
(Gots to haves the music!)
Music that is not the theme song (sometimes it's different than the theme)
1) Trigun
2) Crayon Shinchan
3) Vampire Hunter D

Theme music:
1) Trigun
2) DragonBall Z
3) Sin: the movie

Best Main characters:
1) Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
2) Shinnosuke (Crayon Shinchan)
3) Goku (DBZ)

Best Villain:
1) Vegeta (DBZ)
2) Millions Knives (Trigun)
3) Buu (DBZ)

Best Supporting:
1) Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)
2) Goten (DBZ)
3) Touji Suzuhara (Evangelion)

Best Plot:
1) Trigun
2) Crayon Shinchan
3) 08th Mobile Suit Team

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Trigun
2) DBZ
3) Crayon Shinchan

Alrighty then. I know it's quite a bit, but It seems rather necessary...

Happy voting.

Best Animation Quality: Ninja Scroll
Present Based (takes place in the present): Katsuhiro Ottomo's Memories
Future Based (takes place in the future): Spriggan

Best Music:
1) Akira
2) Katsuhiro Ottomo's Memories
3) Ghost In The Shell

Theme music:
1) Neon Genesis Evangelion
2) Ping Pong Club, first season
3) Ranma 1/2 Anything Goes

Best Main characters:
1) Kusinagi (Ghost In The Shell)
2) Gau Bannon Of The Black Howling (Shadow Skill)
3) Captain Tylor (The Irresponsible Captain Tylor)

Best Villain:
1) Tessai (Ninja Scroll)
2) Anyone from Urotosukidoji
3) The Dragons Of Earth (X)

Best Supporting:
1) Rei (Fist Of The North Star)
2) Ken (Street Fighter V)
3) Snorlax (Pokemon)

Best Plot Movie:
1) Katsuhiro Ottomo's Memories
2) Akira
3) Running Man (A.K.A. Neo Tokyo)

Best Plot Series:
1) Ping Pong Club
2) Evangelion
3) Trigun

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Ninja Scroll
2) Spriggan
3) Akira

(in no particular order)

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Best Animation Quality:
Historically Based (takes place in the past): Ninja Scroll
Present Based (takes place in the present): Jin-Roh
Future Based (takes place in the future): Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Best Music:
(Gots to haves the music!)
Music that is not the theme song (sometimes it's different than the theme)
1) Berserk
2) Giant Robo
3) Record Of Lodoss War/Gundam 0083 (tie)

Theme music:
1) Gundam 0083 (Men Of Destiny)
2) Outlaw Star (opening theme)
3) Record Of Lodoss War TV opening theme

Best Main characters:
1) Gatts (Berserk)
2) Amuro Rey (Mobile Suit Gundam)
3) Yagyu Jubei (Makkai Tensho/Ninja Ressurection)/Taiso (Giant Robo) (Tie)

Best Villain:
1) Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam)
2) Alberto (Giant Robo)
3) Cell (DBZ)

Best Supporting:
1) Piccolo (DBZ)
2) Rukawa Kaede (SlamDunk)
3) Kaji (Evangelion)

Best Plot:
1) BERSERK! (any other choice is WRONG)
2) Mobile Suit Gundam (UC timeline only)
3) Giant Robo

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Berserk (the best, and it always will be)
2) Mobile Suit Gundam (A '10' to Berserk's '11')_
3) Giant Robo ('nuff said)

animation quality:
past: Princess Mononoke
present: Akira (really isn't present, but you put it there so...)
future: Cowboy Bebop

music:
1. Cowboy Bebop
2. Trigun
3. unsure

theme music:
1. Cowboy Bebop
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion
3. Trigun

Main characters:
1. Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
2. Spike Spegel (Cowboy Bebop)
3. Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury movies)

villan:
1. Millions Knives (Trigun)
2. Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam)
3. Legato Bluesummers (Trigun)

Best supporting:
1. Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2. Nicholas D. Wolfwood
3. Tie: Millie Thompson and Meryl Stryfe (Trigun) (They're really a set, neither would be as good without the other)

Plot:
1. Trigun (It takes a couple of really sappy messages, and makes them deep and meaningful)
2. Mobile Suit Gundam
3. Cowboy Bebop

Overall favorites:
1. Trigun (If you haven't seen it, DO IT NOW!!!)
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Mobile Suit Gundam

Best Animation Quality:
Historically Based: Record of Lodoss War
Present Based: Card Captor Sakura
Future Based): Akira

Best Music:
Music that is not the theme song
1) Love Hina
2) Bakuretsu Hunter
3) Slayers

Theme music:
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) DragonBall
3) Evangelion

Best Main characters:
1) Lupin
2) Parn
3) kid Goku

Best Villain:
1) Zenigata
2) Majin Vegeta
3) MD Krauser

Best Supporting:
1) Jigen
2) Goemon
3) Fujiko

Best Plot:
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Evangelion
3) Castle of Cagliostro

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Lupin
2) DB
3) Bebop

Best Animation Quality:

Historically Based: (tie) Kiki's Delivery Service, and Blood: The Last Vampire
Present Based: (tie) My Neighbor Totoro and Tenchi Muyo In Love
Future Based: (tie) Gundam 08 MS Team, Akira, Blue Submarine No. 6, and Neon Genesis Evangelion

Best Music:
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Trigun
3) Bubblegum Crisis (OVA)

Theme music:
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Trigun
3) Neon Genesis Evangelion

Best Main characters:
1) Trunks (DBZ)
2) Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
3) Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Best Villain:
1) Kagato (Tenchi Muyo!)
2) Char Aznable (Gundam UC Series)
3) Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)

Best Supporting:
1) Gohan (DBZ)
2) Kiyone (Tenchi Universe)
3) Carrot (Sorcerer Hunters)

Best Plot:
1) Gundam Movie Trilogy
2) Neon Genesis Evangelion
3) Tenchi Muyo In Love

Overall Favorite Anime:
1) DBZ
2) Tenchi Muyo!
3) (Tie) Cowboy Bebop and Trigun

and a new one that should be added:

Favorite Lesser-Known Anime:
1) Those Who Hunt Elves
2) You're Under Arrest
3) DUAL! Parallel Trouble Adventure

*note: The anime titles on this list are only those that I have seen in their entirety. Other titles which I haven't fully seen yet (such as Generator Gawl, Utena, City Hunter, Slayers, etc.) are not on the list.

I'm only a casual anime fan, so I'll only pick one for each.

Best Art Quality:

Blood: The last Vampire

Best Music:
Akira

Theme music:
Cowboy Bebop

Best Main character:
D

Best Villain:

The Twins in The Professional: Golgo 13

Best Supporting:

Faye

Best Plot:

Castle of Coglistro (sp?)

Overall Favorite Animes:
1.) Vampire Hunter "D"
2.) Battle Angel
3.) The Professional: Golgo 13

best animation quality:
cowboy bebop

best music:
cowboy bebop
rurouni kenshin
evangelion

theme music:
cowboy bebop
evangelion

best main characters:
vash
kenshin
ranma

best villians:
hazanko (outlaw star)
maijin buu
hajime (rurouni kenshin)

best supporting:
akane
sanosuke
faye valentine

best plot:
ranma
flame of recca
trigun

overall favorite animes:
rurouni kenshin
cowboy bebop
ranma 1/2

Best Animation Quality:
Historically Based (takes place in the past): Record of Lodoss War
Present Based (takes place in the present): Gasaraki
Future Based (takes place in the future): Macross Plus

Best Music:
Music that is not the theme song (sometimes it's different than the theme)
1) Record of Lodoss War
2) Macross Plus
3) El Hazard (OVA)

Theme music:
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Gasaraki
3) Macross Plus

Best Main characters:
1) Parn (Record of Lodoss War)
2) Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
3) Tylor (The Irresponsible Captain Tylor)

Best Villain:
1) Char (Mobile Suit Gundam)
2) Katsuhiko Jinnai (El Hazard)
3) Leilong or Shimi (Outlaw Star)

Best Supporting:
1) Yamamoto (The Irresponsible Captain Tylor)
2) Celcia (Those Who Hunt Elves)
3) Masamichi Fujisawa (El Hazard)

Best Plot:
1) Those Who Hunt Elves
2) The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
3) Gasaraki

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Yamato (Star Blazers)
2) Record of Lodoss War
3) The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

Gunsmith Cats, everything else blows.

A couple other titles to add to my little-known anime list:

1) Shinesman
2) Sol Bianca- The Legacy (also a candidate for best animation)
3) Gunsmith Cats (thanks for reminding me, Sifl.)
4) Photon- The Idiot Adventures
5) Area 88

And here's another addition to my list:

Best Guilty-Pleasure Anime (aka, an anime that was so bad [or wrong], yet you couldn't stop watching it):
1) Plastic Little
2) Variable Geo
3) Burn-Up W
4) Ninja Cadets
5) Hyper Dolls

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: insaneben ]

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: insaneben ]

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: insaneben ]

ok then

future based: cowboy bebop, akira, ghost in a shell, and mobile suit gundam

present based: love hina, magic users club, ranma 1/2, trigun

historically based: rurouni kenshin, ninja scroll, princess mononoake

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: El_Duque ]

Originally posted by Blaine:
<STRONG>Best Animation Quality: Ninja Scroll
Present Based (takes place in the present): Katsuhiro Ottomo's Memories
Future Based (takes place in the future): Spriggan

Best Music:
1) Akira
2) Katsuhiro Ottomo's Memories
3) Ghost In The Shell

Theme music:
1) Neon Genesis Evangelion
2) Ping Pong Club, first season
3) Ranma 1/2 Anything Goes

Best Main characters:
1) Kusinagi (Ghost In The Shell)
2) Gau Bannon Of The Black Howling (Shadow Skill)
3) Captain Tylor (The Irresponsible Captain Tylor)

Best Villain:
1) Tessai (Ninja Scroll)
2) Anyone from Urotosukidoji
3) The Dragons Of Earth (X)

Best Supporting:
1) Rei (Fist Of The North Star)
2) Ken (Street Fighter V)
3) Snorlax (Pokemon)

Best Plot Movie:
1) Katsuhiro Ottomo's Memories
2) Akira
3) Running Man (A.K.A. Neo Tokyo)

Best Plot Series:
1) Ping Pong Club
2) Evangelion
3) Trigun

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Ninja Scroll
2) Spriggan
3) Akira

(in no particular order)</STRONG>

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I completely agree with Blaine.

Blaine, you seem to know your anime fairly well. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> Most people haven't heard of Otomo's Memories. Do you watch and fansubbed anime? By the way, Gennosuke the Ronin, Akira is very much set in the future, not in the present. It takes place in "Neo Tokyo" after "World War 3". Ya know what I'm saying? There's even a date given at the beginning of the movie to make it clear that it's not set in the present. G. the Ronin, I like most of your choices, but lost all faith when I see how much you like DBZ. I think the animation quality is not so great on average and the plot is nothing to write home about. I think it just screams mediocrity IMO.

Best Animation Quality:
Historically Based: Princess Mononoke
Present: X
Future Based: Cowboy Bebop

Best Music:
1) Macross Plus
2) Rurouni Kenshin (OAV)
3) Card Captor Sakura

Theme music:
1) Record Of Lodoss War (TV)
2) Love Hina
3) Eva

Best Main characters:
1) Sakura (CCS)
2) Lupin (Lupin III)
3) Sana (Kodomo no Omocha)

Best Villain:
1) Saito Hajime (Kenshin)
2) Jinai (El Hazard)
3) K9999 er... I mean Tetsuo (Akira)

Best Supporting:
1) Rei (Eva)
2) Kero (CCS)
3) Gendo Ikari (Eva)

Best Plot:
1) Eva
2) Kare-Kano
3) Kenshin

Overall Favorite Animes:
1) Kenshin
2) Eva
3) Macross Plus

Best Quality Pa: Inu-Yasha
Pr: FLCL (You really have to look, but it's pretty much 100% rendered.)
Fu: Cowboy Bebop

Best Music: DBZ
Violinist of Hameln
FLCL

Theme Music: Excel Saga
Maze~Bakunetsu Jiku
Dragon Ball GT

Main Characters: Canti (FLCL)
Maze (Maze)
Excel (Excel Saga)

Villains: Il Palazzo (Excel Saga)
Perfect Ii-Shenron (DBGT)
Original Majin Buu (DBZ--actually destroys the Earth)

Supporting: Nabeshin (Excel Saga, based on the producer of the anime, Watanabe Shinichi)
Raiel (Violinist of Hameln)--KING OF NOSEBLEEDS~!
Aisha Clanclan (Outlaw Star)

Plot: Maze
FLCL
Cowboy Bebop

Overall Favorites: FLCL
Maze
Excel Saga

Animation Quality:
Past- Princess Mononoke (nothing else comes to mind)
Present-Escaflowne (Yes, it is in the present...)
Future-Cowboy Bebop (BGC Tokyo 2040 looks pretty sweet...at least on the first DVD)

Music:
1) Cowboy Bebop (duh)
2) Vision of Escaflowne (Gotta love that Yoko Kanno)
3) Akira (Gotta love Kaneda's theme I tell you!)

Theme:
1) Cowboy Bebop (duh! x2)
2) Outlaw Star
3) Tie: NG Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (novelty of BGC theme could wear off)

Best Main Character:
1) Spike Spiegel - Cowboy Bebop (I see a pattern...)
2) Gene Starwind - Outlaw Star (Such a fun character)
3) Vash the Stampede - Trigun (Love and Peace!)
4) Lupin (The Wolf, enough said)

Best Villian:
1) Dilandua - Escaflowne (Moero! Moero!)
2) Char Aznable (It's only a lolita complex! No big deal!)
3) Alberto - Giant Robo

Best Supporting:
1) Roco Benaro - Cowboy Bebop (Waltz for Venus- Only one episode, but still the best character, Andy was good too)
2) Kei - Iria (Think that was her name...the girl that follows Iria around, you know who!)
3) Yamagata - Akira ("What the hell are you talking about? You sound like a damn crackhead!" and he has the best bike)
4) Misato - NG Evangelion (Drinks beer...nice butt <IMG SRC="smilies/drool.gif" border="0"> )
In dead last: C-Ko (Dear god...someone please kill that girl!...C girl that is...)

Best Plot:
1) Vision of Escaflowne
2) NG Evangelion
3) Wings of Honneamise (Someone had to say it)
(And unfortunately...Cowboy Bebop has apparently has no plot except for in a few episodes...)

Overall Favorite (Series):
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Vision of Escaflowne
3) NG Evangelion

Overall Favorite (Movie):
1) Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Haven't seen but....I'm biased...)
2) Akira
3) Wings of Honneamise
4) The Silent Service (Best submarine anime I've seen...also the only submarine anime I've seen)

Originally posted by Wolf:
<STRONG>I completely agree with Blaine.

Blaine, you seem to know your anime fairly well. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> Most people haven't heard of Otomo's Memories. Do you watch and fansubbed anime?</STRONG>

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<IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">. I've been watching Anime for...about 14 years now, not just in the sense that we all did by watching Transformers but I was physcially aware of these movies and series from Japan when I was about 8 or 9. It's kinda cool to look back and realize that I saw Akira in 1989...right after it came out.

I used to get all of my stuff and advice on stuff to get from a place called Time Tunnel, a little comic shop about 5 miles from my house.

I went there a couple months ago, because I missed it and wanted to see how it changed.

It closed up 2 or 3 years ago. I was pretty disapointed.

I'm not SUPER knowledgable anymore...I've been outta the loop for 2 or 3 years but I do my best to stay on top <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Memories was FANTASTIC I was so pleased that I could just puke.

I put it down as 'present' even though two of the segments really appear to be in the future...mainly because I liked Stink Bomb the best <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">.

I do get fansubs once in a while. I used to get them and talk shop with people in the old WBS.net, I still talk to a guy I met there years and years ago and once in a while he'll hook me up with something new and cool...he's where I got Memories from.

I'm really glad to see someone else knows Memories and how very very good it is.

One of my bigger disapointments in life is the fact that, to my knowledge, it was done all on computers and therefore I can never own a Cel from it.

Oh well...I do CG too, so I guess it's a real-life example of "Live by the Sword/Die by the Sword".

Thanks for noticin', I'm always glad to someone else who appreciates the finer titles.

Wolf: Just for the record... according to Akira, WW3 took place in 1988. The actual story takes place thirteen years after. This year.... so... present!

I'm going to let the topic go for another week or so. Then I'll tally the score and see which animes won. Keep the votes coming!