Japanese fans choose their all time favourite anime

At the 10th anniversary of the Japan Media Arts Festival (sponsored by Japan’s National Agency for Cultural Affairs), fans were asked to vote (in a web poll) for their favourite anime TV series and movies.

Of the below list, a critically acclaimed and popular 100 were originally selected and then fans were asked to vote for their favourites. The results are as follows:

• 1. Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)
  2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Movie)
  3. Laputa – Castle in the Sky (Movie)
  4. Mobile Suit Gundam (TV)
  5. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie)
  6. Mushishi (TV)
  7. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV)
  8. My Neighbor Totoro (Movie)
  9. Full Metal Alchemist (TV)
  10. Ghost in the Shell (Movie)

As for the “write-in” poll, in which otaku were invited to vote for series that didn’t make the original 100 cut-off, the following results were found (the list is typically dominated with anime created post-2000):

• 1. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
  2. Cowboy Bebop
  3. Twelve Kingdoms
  4. Planetes
  5. Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
  6. Rozen Maiden
  7. Air
  8. Aria
  9. Eureka Seven
  10. Scryed