Mine:

  1. JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure
  2. Monster
  3. Vinland Saga
    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]English
      7•5 months ago

      Wolf’s Rain is oddly appropriate for the world we live in given the climate thing and techno feudalism.

      I always loved the “rip your heart out and stomp on it” ending of it, too.

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)English
        6•5 months ago

        It ends up in my rotation at least every year or so. It’s really a comfort anime for me, having gotten into it while dealing with some early identity crises and heavily identifying with the wolves.

  • 9to5 [any, comrade/them]English
    10•5 months ago

    Legend of the Galactic Heroes

    Frieren

    Puella Magi Madoka Magica

    Also while I dont care for comedy anime most of the time I have to agree with other posters that Nichijou is absolute peak.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]English
    10•5 months ago

    God, that’s a tough question. After thinking about it for a while I think these are my top 3:

    1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
    2. Jojo’s
    3. Fullmetal alchemist (it’s not terribly complex or deep, but 99% of what it sets out to do, it does extremely well)
  • camaron30 [he/him]English
    8•5 months ago

    1.Revolutionary Girl Utena.

    2.Monster, it used to be my favourite but Utena has really grown on me.

    3.Evangelion.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]English
    8•5 months ago

    I’m gonna say…

    • Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
    • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
    • Sakura Quest

    None of those are on my “official” list of favorites, which I frankly haven’t actually touched in years — and for all I know the Chunibyo and Haruhi light novels are better than the anime — but the whole idea of “favorites” is kinda nonsense, anyways, right? A lot of people, myself included, hear the word “favorite” and basically end up running a computer program in our Linux-ass brains in order to sort through eeeeverything of the specified category, to try to scientifically measure some vague idea of “most liked”, and then we’ll inevitably feel bad when this program fails to do the impossible, and we just sort of have to wing it, as if “winging it” represents some sort of “betrayal” of… Pff, I dunno, fictional characters? Our past selves? The collective efforts of the many talented people who worked on these things that we’re awfully fond of but just didn’t “make the cut”? Something like that.

    No, the true meaning of “what are your top three favorite…” is generally just a fancier way of saying “please name any three that you like of…” — where nobody’s going to judge or correct you for what you say, as long as it can start an interesting conversation, or says something deeper about you or your overall preferences. In which case even just rambling about my own linuxbrain problem with the concept of “favorites” probably reveals more than plenty about the rationale for at least one of my picks, if not two of them.

  • NoYouLogOff [he/him, they/them]English
    8•5 months ago
    1. 3-gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion)
    2. Ping Pong the Animation
    3. Revolutionary Girl Utena

    I have a type. I’ve got a few 10/10 that I juggle around 2 and 3, but 1 is still 3-gatsu.

  • AernaLingus [any]English
    7•5 months ago

    Evangelion

    Hibike Euphonium

    Those two were easy picks, but I can’t really think of a third anime that I think is equally meaningful to me

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]English
    7•5 months ago
    1. Mushishi
    2. The Tatami Galaxy
    3. Kino’s Journey (2003)

    (No. 4 would be Serial Experiment’s Lain)

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]English
    7•5 months ago

    Probably Frieren The Slayer, Haibane Renmei, and Nichijou, but they’re all so different I can’t really rank them in any particular order.