Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no Tobira

Basically a Letterboxd vs MAL comparison for 2023.
It's an interesting look into how normal people view anime.

no recaps no short films basically
"Most Popular Anime Film" aka more than 100k watched and how popular it is right now (March 2023) on Letterboxd (as that's how sorting by Film Popularity works and I'm lazy)
I've also labelled movies with less than 5k ratings as "niche" so now you can blend in with normal people.

11 (22%) of the movies were produced by Studio Ghibli.

The only entry you wouldn't expect is Comet in Moominvalley.

Shoutout to the bunch of movies I had to remove when I realized I missed a few stuff (Redline and Aria the Benedizione)

More mature stuff without common anime tropes.

Some cyberpunk inspired anime series.

IT'S THE RETURN
OF THE SPACE COWBOY

Just some classic physical cels and hard work.

Disclaimer: some of these i'm not 100% positive if they include cels so let me know if i added something i shouldn't have (I put most suspect at the bottom).

Try to get the blu-ray or 4K of these works, if possible (after you've checked them to see if you like them), because the high resolution scans clean and really help bring out the texture of some of these backgrounds. And yes it looks better on physical media than streamed even if it's HD (if that's something that matters to you).

Ordered somewhat by aesthetic preference.

Every anime I could find that still used cel animation during the early 2000s

The intent of this stack is to provide a complete history of Sunrise animation in a single course, meant to fit inside the framework of a 3 credit class with an expectation of 90 hours of out-of-class material over the period of a 15 week semester.

Adaptions of manga, or novels will be mostly excluded unless the creators themselves worked at Sunrise like in the case of Dunbine, or Arion. This means extremely notable, and historically important series, such as Cyborg 009, Ultraman, City Hunter, Inuyasha, Planetes, Sgt. Frog, and Gintama will all be excluded, despite the critical artistic contribution of this works on Sunrise's style. A truly dedicated academic would, at the minimum, watch some of the City Hunter, Inuyasha, Sgt Frog and Gintama side content since they were incredibly important on influencing Sunrise studio direction.

This course would ideally be taken alongside a thrice per week hour long lecture, breaking down the lineage of Sunrise's works, and how they influenced one another to build what we have today. As a result, there may be a series you feel is critical, or exceptionally great, but it will be excluded in favor of discussing the series role and relationship to the studio due to the limitations watching long form weekly series made for weekly broadcast. Sunrise is unique in that many of their major series have movies, or OVAs that summarize or recap the main franchise to give viewers a soft entry to understanding the work. However, there are of course serious works like Giant Gorg, Vifam, Pazer World Galient, Ronin Warriors, Jushin Liger, the entirety of the critically influencial Brave Series, most alternative Gundam series (which would be left to their own "Gundam" course), Garasaki, Infinite Ryvius, s-CRY-ed, Big O, Tiger & Bunny or even Love, Live! that would be discussed in class even if they aren't going to be watched.

This is a developing experiment, so please contact me if you have any suggestions, or questions.

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out in 2001.

2000: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34774
2002: TBD

An extension of https://myanimelist.net/stacks/4296 (All anime that used to be #1 rated), showing all anime that were in the top 10 (or rated a 9 or above) at some point. Description will have the day they first entered along with the rank they attained and what score, along with the highest rank and score it attained. Note: The highest score isn't necessarily the score it had when it had the peak rank. Found with the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/). The website has existed since November of 2004, however the earliest crawl on the Wayback Machine is on May 11, 2006. If anyone knows how to access a copy of the website before that date, please send me a message, I'm very curious.

Note: In the early days of MAL (from November 7, 2006 until August 26, 2007), there wasn't a unified top 10 list, but instead 3 separate lists for TV shows, OVAs and movies. So I'm counting the top 10 for TV series and top 5 for OVAs and Movies. I've organized them by date entered, though it's a bit sloppy and front loaded from the initial creation of the site, I apologize.
If anyone notices any issues, please let me know!

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35388
This list, but for manga: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34596
This list, but for movies: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/42391
This list, but for the most popular anime: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41787

List Of Anime with Space Opera Theme.

All 2000s anime entries that mainly used cel animation, as opposed to digipaint, for all their episodes.

A mix of 80's & 90's ova series that I have seen.
Some great, some not so much... you be the judge of what's good though.

This list contains all those anime that have been dubbed into Latin Spanish from each available decade.

- 2000: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39767
- 2002: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39769
- 2003: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39771
- 2004: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39772
- 2005: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39776
- 2006: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39777
- 2007: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39778
. 2008: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39781
- 2009: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39782

It includes all kinds of sci-fi anime subgenres from dystopian, utopian, aliens, space operas, comedy, dark and psychological etc. A variety of selection to explore the world of my favourite genre which is sci-fi. It includes extremely serious nerve wrecking stories to absolutely light hearted fun ones.

Series which played on the various Encore and Starz channels. Ordered alphabetically by their English titles.