| Quite a lot of gems on there so that's decent except the ranking is extremely strange. Honestly I wouldn't think the general consensus is like that over there but aye different strokes. |
| The responses to this list are pretty hilarious. Of course the Japanese aren't going to have the same tastes as weeaboos. The top anime on MAL just plain aren't the top anime over there. Yes, believe it or not, FMA:B is not the masterpiece many of you think it is, and SAO is not the lowest piece of crap many of you think it is. And I'm not saying the opinions on these are entirely wrong, but the overwhelming love or hate of many of these shows has more to do with groupmind that actual objective analysis. Take a look at this site. It's sort of a MAL equivalent: https://www.anikore.jp/pop_ranking/ Note the positions of shows like Steins;Gate, Bakemonogatari, Attack on Titan, and SAO. There are many similarities to the rankings on MAL, and some of the same shows are in the top 10/20/100 etc. But it demonstrates very well how the Japanese don't think FMA:B is the god of all shows and just how many more them love SAO than hate it like here. Now, I'm not acting like that site is the end all site for all Japanese anime rankings, but it does prove a point. Their group taste is significantly different than MALs group taste (and IMO they have better taste). I also think one of the huge flaws in MAL that has to be accounted for is that ratings for subbed and dubbed versions of anime aren't separated. An anime that is an 8 subbed can easily become a 7 dubbed. MAL has nothing to compensate for this problem. It's no different than how the PC version of a game might be terrible due to being a bad port of a console game (or visa-versa), even if that game on console was fantastic and highly rated. Sites like Metacritic separate the ratings based on platform. I really think MAL should do the same based on subs and dubs. You could still have an overall combined rating, but it would be interesting and possibly enlightening to see the separate sub and dub ratings. |
| Omne Solum Forti Patria |
| Turns out Love Live is to the Japanese anime community what Gintama is to MAL. In all seriousness, as is the case anywhere in the world, popularity is going to be a gigantic factor. In a country where people aren't constantly discussing things like Fullmetal Alchemist and Death Note it's hardly surprising that they won't have the same positive skew as they do over here. Likewise, they don't have the same negative backlash from sections of their community to attach to SAO and Love Live. It clearly just never became a thing over there. |
TheRealBailey_Feb 6, 2018 2:24 AM
tsubasalover said: The list for ranks 101 to 400 has also been announced on the official website prior to the announcement. I can't find death note even in this rankings and I have to say how death note is the most popular in the world but is not even 400 in Japan (how death note became popular?!) And when you compare these two (http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime/anime100/ani_report/female.html & http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime/anime100/ani_report/male.html) the overall rankings is similar to female rankings and this shows that most of the voters were females and it's not accurate |
mhkrMar 25, 2018 4:47 PM
| Pokemon is one the #85 place behind, so that means Pokemon isn't really popular in Japan at all, right? And the Pokemon movie Giratina and the Sky Warriers was really good man, being place on the top #53 was really good!!! And the Digimon (one of my favorite chilldhood shows) being on #18 place was pretty good, because of Digital works and the animals creatures as digital beings!!! (Sorry for my poor english) |
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| At least Madoka in the Top 3. :3 |
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| Lol the fact that a Pokemon movie ranks above Kimi no Na Wa among others speaks volumes. |
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| STROOOOONGLY disagree with the list, but i see why most of those would be high up, except... joker game srsly? why? |
I think I don't know wtf I'm doing. Maybe. Probably. |
| I'm glad that Japan loves Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica. God bless Japan. |
| BANZAI NIPPON. Nippon is the Land of freedom. Nippon is the Land of Peace. Nippon is the Land of Justice and Prosperity. In Nippon, we trust. We love Nippon, we love Anime. Anime love us, Nippon love us. 日本 I believe in freedom of expression. |
| I'm a bit disappointed Violet Evergarden didn't make it into the list. I have lost my faith in this humanity. |
Ethan_07Nov 18, 2018 8:52 PM
Ethan_07 said: I'm a bit disappointed Violet Evergarden didn't make it into the list. I have lost my faith in this humanity. This was before Violet Evergarden |
  Don't worry about being lame now, you were always lame anyway!  |
| Koe no Katachi, Death Note, Oregairu...? |
Siyara said: Wow...that's one useless Top 100 anime list Useless in what way? The purpose of this list is to let people know which anime are favoured in Japan. That purpose was accomplished, so it's not useless. Did you mean to say you don't like the anime in this list? What would you have preferred to see? |
| I love how two different animes take up most of the top 10. Xd |
| Wow the Japanese have awful taste in Anime. |
| I'm surprised that people still reply to this thread even though this thread was made 1 years ago....... |
| I'm rather surprised about the lack of Saint Seiya. It inspired so many other series that it should have been here... even One Piece was partially influenced by it, and a ton of series reference it in one way or another (Gintama outright parodies it, and a few series use the poses and such). At least The Legend of Galactic Heroes, Gundam, Yamato, Bebop, Macross, Ghibli films, Sailor Moon, One Piece, Votoms, Nadia, Jojo and Akira made it. Honestly, though... why add Sailor Moon and cut Saint Seiya? Sailor Moon is basically a genderswapped version of the latter - they're the origin for the whole magical boy/girl genre. |
| "Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light." -Belgarath, Pawn of Prophecy (David Eddings) My Candies:        |
| Oh my, I never expected love live to be that popular.. Maybe I've been living under a rock |
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Cashdax said: HAHAHAH, people saying everyone else's taste but theirs is shit XD HAHAHA - I was scrolling down, reading posts, thinking, "I wonder why everyone thinks they're qualified to judge this list - all they're doing is saying everyone else's taste is shit..." and then I read your post. As they say, great minds think alike. |
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Beldarius said: I'm rather surprised about the lack of Saint Seiya. It inspired so many other series that it should have been here... even One Piece was partially influenced by it, and a ton of series reference it in one way or another (Gintama outright parodies it, and a few series use the poses and such). At least The Legend of Galactic Heroes, Gundam, Yamato, Bebop, Macross, Ghibli films, Sailor Moon, One Piece, Votoms, Nadia, Jojo and Akira made it. Honestly, though... why add Sailor Moon and cut Saint Seiya? Sailor Moon is basically a genderswapped version of the latter - they're the origin for the whole magical boy/girl genre. SS placed 123 in this ranking, not that bad considering the excessive recency bias of it and the fact that it was never that popular in Japan back in the 80s to begin with, and pretty good when considering that it placed even ahead of more popular shonens like DB, Naruto and Bleach... |
| Can't believe Naruto is not on the list. |
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PoeticJustice said: bad list. Madoka Attack on Titan Definitely shouldnt even be on here. wtf tiger and bunny? AoT is one of the many who deserved to be in top 100. Not like Hibike or SAO. Only a hater would say such a thing. But yeah this is MAL. |
MomentayJan 26, 2019 3:29 PM
| Merciful lies or painful truth? |
Momentay said: PoeticJustice said: bad list. Madoka Attack on Titan Definitely shouldnt even be on here. wtf tiger and bunny? AoT is one of the many who deserved to be in top 100. Not like Hibike or SAO. Only a hater would say such a thing. But yeah this is MAL. Hibike deserved to be there but yeah this is mal member |
Arkab said: SS placed 123 in this ranking, not that bad considering the excessive recency bias of it and the fact that it was never that popular in Japan back in the 80s to begin with, and pretty good when considering that it placed even ahead of more popular shonens like DB, Naruto and Bleach... To be fair, Bleach kind of stopped being popular when the whole X-Cution arc started. At least I completely gave up on the franchise by then. ...I haven't even started on Naruto or Dragon Ball, yet Saint Seiya is my favorite franchise. I guess that's pretty weird for a westerner, but eh, my country's anime and manga selection has always been limited. ...Oh hey, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors is rank 173. That's surprisingly high. It ranked higher than Dragon Ball (255), Dragon Ball Z (176), Naruto (288), Naruto Shippuden (218) and Boku no Hero Academia (242). Wait... WAIT, Cyber Formula is rank 145? Are you telling me one of the most obscure Sunrise series actually outranked Naruto and DBZ? Cyber Formula is my favorite anime alongside Saint Seiya, so this makes me happy. Speaking of "recency bias", it's rather impressive how this obscure show from 1991 is that high up. |
BeldariusFeb 7, 2019 6:39 PM
| "Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light." -Belgarath, Pawn of Prophecy (David Eddings) My Candies: |
| East or west we can all agree that Gintama should be #1 for no apparent reason. |
| I'm astonished how far up Psycho Pass is. |
| animate Times announced best anime of Heisei era and Tiger & Bunny also tops in it. UtaPri is on the highest for idol anime (#3 in general) https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1556427695 |
tsubasaloverApr 28, 2019 3:42 AM
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| I had underestimated how popular Digimon is in Japan making it in top 20. |
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| Here's one more user who hadn't even heard of Tiger & Bunny which holds 3 places in top 10. To be honest, I haven't bothered to fully watch any of the top 10 anime on this list. It looks like the original Mainichi link doesn't work anymore, so now you can find the whole list in Japanese [url=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ニッポンアニメ100#ベスト・アニメ100] here on Wikipedia[/url]. The page also has separate lists for female (on right) and male voters (in the middle) in addition to the general one in Top100. You can click the divided lists open under the title 総合順位. If we squeeze the list a bit (by combining the franchise to the highest rank it got), we can fit Evangelion(!!) and get a Top10 as follows: #1 Tiger & Bunny (x3) #2 Madoka★Magica (+1) #3 Love Live! (x3 +1) #4 Code Geass (+1) #5 Cardcaptor Sakura #6 Osomatsu-san #7 Gintama #8 Joker Game #9 Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu #10 Neon Genesis Evangelion I'm glad that also a few of my other favorites are so high like Clannad: After Story, Natsume Yuujinchou, FMA: Brotherhood, Psycho-Pass, and yes, even SAO. The only thing I'm a bit sad about is the lack of Parasyte, but I'm glad it got to the presentative animes of the year in that other listing. |
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| Hunter X hunter is in 84th place and FMAB is in 27th place. What even is this list? Not to mention sword art online is higher on the list than Fate/Zero and Steins;Gate... It's not a bad show but better than Cowboy bebop? |
| *16 Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? I see NHK is a rabbit of culture as well |
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| *12 Joker Game Looks like Japan still does have that war sentiment. |
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| Seems like from this list, certain top animes may shift downward or disappear as time goes by... |
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