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Welcome to the Robazoid Anime Ranking Project! Over the next few months I'm going to do rankings and write-ups for 275 anime (260 where I've finished at least one season, 10 dropped anime, and 5 standalone anime movies) as well as my top 100 anime characters. I will also be taking one anime recommendation per person, but more on that later.

I'm not sure how much interest there will be in this. I post comments in the anime topic every time I finish something and my MyAnimeList scores are easily viewable (though quite a few need to be updated now), so my opinions are hardly a mystery. Still, I think there's a difference between "I liked this anime" and actually seeing it reach the top 20. I've watched quite a few shows I doubt anyone will care about too, so we'll see how this goes. Hopefully a few people will follow along! There's a lot of stuff I want to talk about to set up this up, so please bear with me.

Ranking: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T2EPEpQ4K17ZP_HXtYfm5uGTWG9I8_gI5AixegBRto8/edit?usp=sharing
Write-Ups: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-nFiPImntSMbRTWRe2RcVu1vJ00nJLVrsKXDtBNVIgw/edit?usp=sharing
MyAnimeList Profile: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Westerlyn
(If you have a MAL account, add me as a friend!)

SPOILER POLICY: The write-ups for anime will be kept as spoiler-free as possible. Part of this depends on your threshold for spoilers, though. If I complain that a one-season anime ends on a cliffhanger or that a romance doesn't progress much, some might consider those spoilers. I'll never spoil late twists or big scenes or anything like that, but I will mention specifics and give my overall feelings, so fair warning on that. Character write-ups, however, will be spoiler-filled. If I like someone well enough to talk about them, I want to be free to talk about their whole story. Character write-ups will have clear spoiler warnings. Obviously a character in a lighthearted comedy anime will have way less to spoil than one from a drama anime, but I'll still post spoiler warnings for all of them just to stay consistent.

TRIGGER WARNING (and not the anime studio Trigger either): Some write-ups mention sexual assault or rape. I tried drafts tastefully talking around those aspects, but it just felt odd. I don't know if anyone needs a warning like this, but I wanted to be respectful.

ANIME RANKING
10/10 Perfect Tier (10 anime)
9/10 Amazing Tier (20 anime)
8/10 Great Tier (30 anime)
7/10 Good Tier (40 anime)
6/10 Above Average Tier (30 anime)
5/10 Below Average Tier (30 anime)
4/10 Mediocre Tier (40 anime)
3/10 Disappointing Tier (30 anime)
2/10 Bad Tier (20 anime)
1/10 Terrible Tier (10 anime)
Dropped Tier (10 anime)
BONUS: 5 Standalone Anime Movies
BONUS: Recommended Anime

Not counting dropped or bonus stuff, I basically have a top 100, 60 near average, and a bottom 100. I haven't hunted down every extra OVA or movie or even completely finished all of them, but I have watched at least one season in each. My memories for some of these anime have long since blurred. I'm using GMUN's archive website to find the posts I made back when I finished them and, where necessary, doing extra research to jog my memory. I'll do the best I can. Sorry if some write-ups suck or if I misremember anything. That said, I've watched or rewatched almost 90 anime just this year, and that number will rise as I watch more during the ranking.

TOP 100 ANIME CHARACTERS

I'll also be ranking characters! I'll post their write-ups right after their anime is ranked, which means the character list will be filled in haphazardly rather than in order. It wouldn't make any sense to talk about an anime and then finally talk about a character from it a long time later. The vast majority of my favorite characters are in the upper half of the ranking, so we won't see any for a few weeks. I also want to mention that, whenever it makes sense, I'll use the Japanese "Last-name First-name" order, and I'll use spellings from MyAnimeList just for consistency (unless the spelling is super dumb or something).

RECOMMENDATIONS

I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I see someone start a ranking topic, whether it's games or movies or anything, I always have some personal favorite that I hope they've experienced. Usually they haven't. Well, I don't want anyone to feel that disappointment here! I'll watch one recommended anime per person, with a few stipulations.

-The anime must be available on one of the following streaming services (Crunchyroll, HiDIVE, Netflix, Prime Video, or even Funimation and I'll get to it whenever that anime moves over to Crunchyroll). I'm not morally against pirating, I just don't really know how to do it and I don't have a VPN and I dunno, this is just easiest.
-The anime must be a complete experience on its own. What I mean by this is, no individual arcs from the Pokemon anime and nothing like Kingsglaive that's meant mostly as a prequel to Final Fantasy XV. I'm going to watch the anime you recommend and nothing else, so I don't want it to be one small part of some way bigger thing.
-All seasons of the anime combined must be a reasonable length, preferably fifty episodes or less. Sorry to anyone who wanted to make me watch all of One Piece. I don't have that kind of time. If you're afraid something might be too long, feel free to ask! Just don't feel too bad if I don't want to commit to it.

To help you pick something, the spreadsheet linked at the top of this post has a tab listing what I've already seen alphabetically and another organized by season. You can also check my MyAnimeList account, and if you have one of you own you can compare what I've seen vs what you've seen really easily. I have several shows partially finished under On Hold, but don't be afraid of picking those if you want to. That usually just means I was watching too much stuff at once and they got lost in the shuffle. I also barely remember anything from most of those, so I'll start them all from the beginning. I'm nearing 5000 total episodes, but some of my friends on MAL have four times that amount so I know there's still plenty of anime left for me out there.

There are a lot of big-name anime that I haven't seen, and recommending those is fine. However, what I hope for is that everyone will choose something they truly love, no matter how strange or niche it might be. Also, to anyone who wants to troll me by recommending garbage, I'll drop anything I absolutely hate so you won't waste too much of my time. I think it'll be fun to see whose anime I ultimately rank highest, but this isn't a competition and you don't necessarily have to pick the one you think I'll like best. I just want this to be something enjoyable for everyone, and to expand my anime horizons in directions I may not have found on my own. Depending on how many people recommend something, this might also take way longer to finish than the rest of the ranking. Please be patient with me.

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The last thing I want to talk about might seem obvious, but I still want to get it out there. This ranking is 100% my own personal opinions. I'm going to rant about several that I know are some people's favorites. I'm sure my favorites are on a few people's most hated lists too! I'm not ranking anime on their intrinsic quality, if such a thing even exists. I'm ranking them based purely on how much I enjoyed them, which can be a nebulous and unfair thing. It's okay if we disagree, and I'd love nothing more than to have discussions about it. I just hope we can do it without dismissing each other's opinions too harshly. Playful mockery is a lot more fun.

Phew, this post is really long. I guess that's to be expected when combining three different rankings into one. Without any further rambling, it's time for mini write-ups for my ten dropped anime!