Blog Talkback: Toons of the 2000s: Top 5 Anime That Made It To U.S. TV

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GWOtaku and crew give us the Top 5 Anime That Made It To U.S. TV! Don't forget to check out the rest of rabroad's Toons of the 2000s blog project.
 
wow, nice to see Gungrave getting some honors and junk, well deserved i say, it really is an amazing anime. Its a surprise to see Ghost in the Shell in there too, also, i was under the impression that both the Ghost in the Shell movies and the TV series were based of the manga, i dint know the anime was based of the movie, surprise surprise (for me anyway). Anyway, the other 3 series is exactly what you would expect from something like this, so yeah.
 
Man I just never saw what was good about ghost in the shell aka the cure for insomnia in anime form. Ghost in the shell, be in manga, movie or Tv show form has always bored me. I mean Duke did bring up my problem with the movie, only the Tv show bored me just as much. Probably because I watched the wrong episodes. After all when I desided to give the show a chance I catch an episode which is pretty much a 23 minute animated internet chat room, yay how exciting, pass. Yes I watched a few more episodes after that but they were pretty dull too.

I can accept it on the list since it has a huge fan base and people like it but to see it as nuraber one, oh well i'm disappointed.
 
The Cowboy Bebop movie? Cheaters. If that counts, why doesn't The Month of Miyazaki or the various runs of Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika on Starz?
 
I was waiting for this, and it looks like it couldn't have come on a better day, considering what other anime-ranking business started today on these forums. I was glad to see Samurai Champloo on there, but with all the praise Cowboy Bebop was getting in the regarRAB to both that and Gungrave, I was somewhat surprised to see it not get the top spot, and infinitely more surprised to see the movie snag the second spot, with the series nowhere to be found. FLCL was an excellent choice to put on there. While I was a little disappointed that bebop didn't get nuraber one, Ghost in the Shell would definitely be on my list.
 
Heh, no cheating here. I do believe the wording was "top 5 anime...", not "top 5 anime series..."

It's not a matter of something not counting. As I wrote there's no shortage of deserving anime from this decade that made it to TV, so a top 5 list is inevitably going to be a tough contest.

Ahem. There you go.
 
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Yeah, well you suck then for choosing that overrated Cowboy Bebop movie over a friggin' masterpiece like Spirited Away.
 
Can't speak on TG or Paprika, but Miyazaki will get his due in the near future...

Personally, I loved "Chat! Chat! Chat!"


The Bebop series was ruled out on a technicality. Though it was aired here after the year 2000, it was made before then, so it was ineligible.

It just didn't make the cut. Actually, the #5 spot was between Gungrave and Last Exile. Paranoia Agent, R.O.D. the tv, and Gundam 00 were also in the mix as well.
 
Holy god! Someone else who actually would consider Last Exile in their running for best...

That clinches it, I'm going to have to check out Gungrave now cause all the other picks were basically exactly what I would have said as well in the same order and Gungrave is the one thing on the list I hadn't seen.
 
In addition to the above comments, Spirited Away did make it to the Top 5 Animated Features list. (you are all reading all the Toons of the 2000s articles, right? ) Avoiding too many repeats was something that was kept in mind for these lists, too, to avoid looking like we were just using the same list 10 times.

I marathoned Cowboy Bebop not too long ago, dropping the movie between eps 22 and 23, and I find that I like the series and the movie even more than I did at the time. I think most of my problems with the movie are that last half-hour, which was the part that was supposedly tacked on at the last minute. The big dogfight is wonderfully animated but completely pointless in the context of the movie, and can be cut entirely without any serious impact. There's also more noticeable padding once you pass the 90 minute mark, which is why the movie kind of falls down in the home stretch. It's an exceptionally good 90-100 minute movie that was crammed into 2 hours.
 
That explains it. I figured "Anime That Made It To US Television This Decade" meant it first aired on US TV in the 2000s, not that the anime was both made and got its US TV premiere in the 2000s. Fair enough.
 
The general rule on all these "Best of 2000's" lists is that we want to keep it strictly to this decade, so we're trying to avoid anything made before the year 2000.
 
I for one am so glad that overrated anime franchises like Inuyasha and Naruto didn't make this top ten list.

Even though I love Shonen franchises like Dragon Ball and One Piece, these days I'd prefer to try out something more like the shows/movies in this list.
 
Pretty good list, but I disagree about GITS being #1, also Im personally suprised that Trinity bloood Didn't make it, that was a great series!
 
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