Japanese Media Art Top 100 (Anime)

It's named "top 100" but they only release 50, hahaha...

This was a campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Japanese Cultural Bureau's Media Art Festival. Anyone can vote online. The 4 categories were art, entertainment, animation, and manga. They're each divided into decades and each decade had it's own list of nominees. Anime got the most number of votes amoung the 4 categories. 80402.

As an anime and manga fan, I voted, of course, hehehe... I even got some friends to vote. So here's the result of the anime category. (Sorry, I'm sure I've mispelled lots of them.)

Animation

• 1. Evangelion (90's)
• 2. Nausicaa (80's)
• 3. Laputa (80's)
• 4. Gundam (70's)
• 5. Lupin the 3rd, Castle of Caliostro (70's)
• 6. Mushishi (00's)
• 7. Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex (00's)
• 8. My Neighbour Totoro (80's)
• 9. Full Metal Alchemist (00's)
• 10. Ghost in the Shell the movie (90's)
• 11. Dragon Ball series (80's)
• 12. Princess Mononoke (90's)
• 13. Akira (80's)
• 14. Spirited Away (00's)
• 15. Doraemon (70's)
• 16. Full Metal Alchemist, the Conqueror of Shamblla (00's)
• 17. Porco Rosso (90's)
• 18. Legend of the Galactic Heroes (80's)
• 19. Crayon Shin, Revenge of the Adult Kingdom (00's)
• 20. Gundam, Shaa's Counter Attack (80's)
• 21. Card Captor Sakura (90's)
• 22. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (00's)
• 23. Kamichu! (00's)
• 24. Patlabour the movie (90's)
• 25. Gundam Z (80's)
• 26. Hoshinokoe (Sound of the Stars) (00's)
• 27. Patlabour (80's)
• 28. Galaxy Express 999 (70's)
• 29. Nadia the Secret of Blue Water (90's)
• 30. Manga Japanese Folklores (70's)
• 31. Crayon Shin, Sengoku Battles (00's)
• 32. Grave of the Firefly (80's)
• 33. Conen the Future Boy (70's)
• 34. Howe's Moving Castle (00's)
• 35. Yamato series (Star Gazer) (70's)
• 36. Wings of Oneamis (80's)
• 37. Slam Dunk (90's)
• 38. Sailor Moon series (90's)
• 39. Gundam Seed (00's)
• 39. Keroro Gunso (90's) Keroro tied with Gundam and they're both #39.
• 41. Gun Buster (80's)
• 42. Doraemon movie series (80's)
• 43. Yuusha series (90's)
• 44. Cowboy Bebop (90's)
• 45. Samurai 7 (00's)
• 46. Nadesko (90's)
• 47. Heidi (70's)
• 48. Urusei Yatsura (Lum) (80's)
• 49. Astro Boy (60's)
• 50. Lupin the 3rd, first TV series (70's)

Un-nominated works can still get votes through comments. Here's the result.

• 1. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• 2. Cowboy Bebop
• 3. 12 Kingdom Chronicle
• 4. Planetes
• 5. Tokio Kakeru Shojo
• 6. Rozen Maiden
• 7. Air
• 8. Aria
• 9. Eureka 7
• 10. Skride

Evangalion came in 1st without much surprise. Studio Ghibli is strong!! 8 titles! If you count the ones related to Miyazaki, there're 10!

Cool, Nausicaa came in 2nd. I though Full Metal Alchemist would do better, but... hmm... I guess this isn't bad at all. Considering the manga, TV anime, and the movie all got in the first 20.

The Gundam seires is a die-hard. The surprise is The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It wasn't nominated, but ended up as #22.

The manga category continues in the next post...