#TOP ANIME 2017 SHOWS PLUS#
The second season was all the episodes of the first season, plus twelve new episodes, broadcast in chronological order, but there was a story arc that was pretty much the same episode repeated eight times with tiny differences.
The first season was intentionally broadcast out of order, though you can choose to watch it in the proper order if you wish. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is my personal favorite anime of all time. This is where personal bias comes into play heavily.
#TOP ANIME 2017 SHOWS SERIES#
However, the original runs of both series had a much stronger impact on popular culture and how anime was perceived in the west and have earned their spot in this list over their more recent counterparts. The new franchise reboot, Sailor Moon Crystal is much better in almost every way, staying closer to the source material and having much better animation that also better reflects the source material's original art. I want to clarify, this refers to the original series as it aired in North America - though the Japanese version is no less important. Funny coming from a character who was a lousy, lazy, unmotivated popular girl who bullied the nerds in her class. Further editing was also done to make room for a segment called "Sailor Moon says" where the heroine would teach lessons about friendship and responsibility.
They were often marketed together, with the idea that Dragonball Z was the boy's anime and Sailor Moon was the girl's anime (90's marketing, eh?) While both were heavily censored in the west because of violence and sexual themes, Sailor Moon's censorship was also in part due to time restraints, as America and Canada often ran more commercials than it's Japanese counterparts as well as between show programming (In Canada, where the series was translated, it aired as part of a longer program called "The Zone" on YTV, which featured a program jockey and guests talking to the audience and responding to fan mail). Then many Dragonball Z fans went back to watch the first series and it began to get replay through syndication on many networks.ĭragonball Z and Sailor Moon were contemporaries of each other and both gained massive cult success, in part because of each other. While the original Dragonball was aired in North America, it didn't gain popularity until Dragonball Z was released and was wildly popular. But there is no denying that they are among the most popular and memorable series of all time. Yes, the image is fake, but I needed to include both series in the picture.įirstly, I want to state that I'm not a fan of either of these series. Even if the genre survived in Japan, there's almost no way Escaflowne would have been adapted for an American audience without the Gundam experiment being a success. It wasn't until over 15 years after the series debuted in Japan that it was adapted for American audiences as an experiment, airing at almost midnight in some time zones. Mobile Suit Gundam also gave way to pushing more of these shows in the west. Grendizer and Brave Raideen debuted four years earlier, but Mobile Suit Gundam defined a genre and the tropes associated with it. Mobile Suit Gundam certainly wasn't the first Mecha Anime. I never understood it - I was just a kid - and episodes never aired here chronologically, so I could never follow the plot, but there's one thing I do know: Without Mobile Suit Gundam, there would be no Vandread, Crosse Ange, Evangelion, or Escaflowne. I remember watching it late at night because their was nothing else on TV. The previously mentioned Vandread and Crosse Ange are all great shows in their own rights. There are some series out there that do Mecha very well. It is hard for me to be objective though as I stated earlier, I'm not a fan of mecha. Mobile Suit Gundam is, without a doubt, a classic.
This is probably the first entry where I'm trying to ignore my personal feelings. And so begins the downward spiral known as Izumak- er.
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