The winter anime season has ended, and the spring anime season has begun. This is a great chance to revisit my rankings. Unfortunately, at present, and largely due to the earthquake, Puella Magi Madoka Magica has not been completed, so its unknown, ultimately, how good the show will truly be. I didn't just want to rearrange my rankings, however. I also thought there was a great way to convey how promising these franchises were, by relating the fact with a * that there was still additional source material the series could draw upon, if it so chose, and thus be continued, and with a + that more anime episodes or movies were currently in production in the series. Series with a + can be presumed to also have a *, just consider + = *^2. When I look at how promising the anime outlook is for these tried and true series, as shown by all these *'s and +'s, I can't help but think that anime will only continue to improve in quality every year.
As always, I'll start with my great anime openings:
1. Clannad *
2. One Piece +
3. Code Geass *
4. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha +
5. Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni +
6. K-On! +
7. Naruto +
8. Dragonball *
9. Haruhi Suzumiya *
10. Crest of the Stars *
11. Kanon
12. Tengen Toppa Gurrenn Lagann
13. Fairy Tail +
14. To Aru Majutsu no Index/ To Aru Kagaku no Railgun *
15. Katanagatari
16. Angel Beats *
17. Puella Magi Madoka Magica +
18. Da Capo +
19. Cowboy Bebop
20. Kobato *
21. Vandread
22. Full Metal Panic! *
23. Working! +
24. Toradora!
25. Record of Lodoss War
26. Bakuman +
27. Sora no Woto
28. The World God Only Knows +
29. Ef
30. Kiki's Delivery Service
31. Hayate no Gotoku +
32. Inuyasha
33. Evangelion +
34. Basilisk
35. Samurai Champloo
36. Galaxy Angel
37. Saki *
38. Uuchuu no Stellvia
39. Major
40. Air
41. Sailor Moon *
42. Ore no Immouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai +
43. Rurouni Kenshin *
44. Prince of Tennis *
45. 12 Kingdoms *
46. Utawarerumono
47. Kimi ni Todoke *
48. Pretty Cure +
49. Mononoke Hime
50. Summer Wars
51. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu *
52. Battle Athletes
53. Zero no Tsukaima *
54. Berserk +
55. Claymore *
56. Bastard! *
57. Amagami SS +
58. Mahoromatic
59. Ranma 1/2 *
60. Valkyria Chronicles *
61. Akane Iro no Somaru Saka
62. Negima! Magister Magi Negi. +
63. Macross +
64. Read or Die
65. Angelic Layer
66. Sora no Otoshimono +
67. Card Captor Sakura *
68. Martian Succesor Nadesico
69. Fatal Fury *
70. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind *
71. Broken Blade +
72. Bleach +
73. Spice and Wolf *
74. Alien Nine *
75. Bakemonogatari +
76. Iria: Zeiram the Animation
77. Guyver *
78. Sora no Manimani *
79. Saber Marionette
80. RG Veda *
This is all subject to change as new episodes or movies for each series are created, new series enter the fray, and my viewpoints concerning the series change. The spring anime season has the following promising new series, at least one of which will probably reach the top 80 eventually:
Nichijou, Dog Days, Hanasaku Iroha, ??? (The first episodes of other series worth mentioning haven't aired yet.)
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