Does this show deserve No 1?

adnan_ said:
FMAB is the most consistent anime whether its plot, animation or music. It checks all the boxes, other than that, it also has a wide appeal. The No. 1 anime should be the representative of the whole Anime so whether its FMAB or AoT it does not matter as both are excellent in those matter. Personally I like AoT way more than FMAB bc I enjoy AoT much more than FMAB. But FMAB also deserves this spot. Btw FMAB's rating has dropped a lot since I joined MAL, it was 9.26 but now its 9.17.

georgemehh1 said:
In my opinion HxH deserves the #1 spot. Maybe if it will finish and the anime will get a sequel, fmab will finally be replaced

Draconic137 said:
The problem is it seems very unlikely to be finished and u don't want the face of the anime to be unfinished right?

PhillyThaNL said:
ive seen a lotta newer watchers saying it’s overrated, and every single person that says that hasn’t finished the show, they probably just add it to their completed and give it a lower score so AoT can top it. but that’s just my opinion

noellie said:
Personally I would say that #1 should either belong to Monster or to LoGH

Draconic137 said:
I've watched FMAB twice its a beautiful show and I'll definitely watch it again as time passes it's not dissapointing in any area tbf

PhillyThaNL said:
ive seen a lotta newer watchers saying it’s overrated, and every single person that says that hasn’t finished the show, they probably just add it to their completed and give it a lower score so AoT can top it. but that’s just my opinion

adnan_ said:
I have also seen many who said that bc I also think so too but its entirely subjective and its also wrong of you to assume that they just put it on completed without watching it [you should just ask the last plot twist of fmab to confirm that]. And its not only fmab whose rating got lower, rating of every show which are in the top 10-15 have also decreased.

PhillyThaNL said:
that’s actually smart, imma start asking them that instead of just assuming it, thanks for the idea man

Ryustar123 said:
In my opinion gintama really deserves to be at number spot cause of how unique and great as a shounen it is season 4 of gintama is the best season of anime I've ever watched and that season has 2 of the best shounen arcs in anime history in my opinion so yeah gintama defo deserves to be at number 1 else I'll go with Hunter x hunter Chimera ant arc is the most thematically represented arc ever so yeah it is also a worthy anime for number 1 but yeah I can see why fmab is at number 1 cause of how consistent through out the story it was so yeah it also deserves to be at number 1 but I m going with gintama and hxh

Draconic137 said:
Personally I'd say yes it deserves no 1 spot i liked some animes more for example death note and hxh but they have problems hxh never ended and even tho i think death note is perfect majority ppl don't like it after a certain someone dies now let's talk about gintama i don't think gintama should be no 1 either becoz its not for everyone and it's long too some ppl say naruto well naruto is great but has alot of themetical problems and asspulls another anime is one piece it has alot of pacing issues i won't talk about shoujo animes becoz I've not seen many and they are too different to be compared some other animes ppl often bring up are monster and code geass for code geass I'll just say that there were some characters which weren't handled really well and the starting of s2 is kinda shaky and monster is an old anime and finally we have Aot which is really good but it isn't finished yet and the ending is pretty controversial.

There are many mangas if adapted properly have the chance to replace FMAB for example berserk, vagabond, jojos p7 etc etc what are ur opinions?

mark_montoya505 said:
What kind of question is this if it didn’t deserve it it wouldn’t

PhillyThaNL said:
but Gintama in it’s entirety takes 60 episodes to get really good, before that it’s just alright, slow and kinda boring. so i would have to disagree with u on that.
Also most Shounen anime r very unique in their own right, have u ever seen another pirate anime (other than One Piece)? what about anime soul reaper anime(other than Bleach)? there r very little ninja anime and no anime about titans (other than AoT). there’s also no other anime about an alchemist, well there is that Jean D’arc one but that one was just terrible so we don’t talk about it.

Draconic137 said:
Personally I'd say yes it deserves no 1 spot i liked some animes more for example death note and hxh but they have problems hxh never ended and even tho i think death note is perfect majority ppl don't like it after a certain someone dies now let's talk about gintama i don't think gintama should be no 1 either becoz its not for everyone and it's long too some ppl say naruto well naruto is great but has alot of themetical problems and asspulls another anime is one piece it has alot of pacing issues i won't talk about shoujo animes becoz I've not seen many and they are too different to be compared some other animes ppl often bring up are monster and code geass for code geass I'll just say that there were some characters which weren't handled really well and the starting of s2 is kinda shaky and monster is an old anime and finally we have Aot which is really good but it isn't finished yet and the ending is pretty controversial.

There are many mangas if adapted properly have the chance to replace FMAB for example berserk, vagabond, jojos p7 etc etc what are ur opinions?

Ryustar123 said:
ok I have to disagree with you too cause it doesn't take 50 eps to get good its good from ep 3 as it's a comedy anime at first so I don't think so setting an episode it gets good from there will be right for gintama as it isn't proven facts as comedy is subjective and I m one of the example that gintama doesn't take that much time to get good (2) yeah I've seen many shounen every shounen is unique in there own way but most of them use the same troupe like mc will be a teen will gonna have a goal , there will be a training arc , if mc rage he'll defo gonna win it and gintama doesn't have these kind of troupes which I hate now as I've watched those tropes in every other shounen except gintama (3) what sets gintama apart from other shounen are you can't discribe what it actually is about cause in reality it's about nothing it doesn't have any specific goal where it have to go and all that things it doesn't even have a plot lol it's mostly episodic and whenever the serious arcs come they happens cause of a certain reasons not because of plot and that reason becomes the plot of the story (4) I never seen any shounen mc who's a 27 years old lazy guy who just wants to pay his rent he has no special abilities never used power of friendship for winning any battle etc .the point is that you haven't even watched gintama and are pointing out it don't deserve to be there and I just given the reason why it deserves to be at number one and what makes it so unique again I ain't bashing your fav shounen just for the sake of gintama every anime is unique in there own way and I just told that how gintama is unique in its own

GreiLugaj said:
Most long time anime fans would disagree with Fmab being number 1, it’s probably a phenomenal anime for new fans, but the more anime you watch the more you realize Fmab is far from a perfect series. Either way as I mentioned it is a great series for new fans, so in some aspects it definitely deserves to be number 1.

PhillyThaNL said:
okay let’s just agree that my whole statement is invalid bc i haven’t finished Gintama yet

laurastgn said:


Well it's a good anime especially because there are quite many episodes and none of them is really boring but I know many 14-20 episodes anime that are better...I gave it a 7/10

Ryustar123 said:
nah I see your point I won't say your opinion is invalid cause after all it's an opinion so yeah your opinion isn't invalid in my opinion lol

PhillyThaNL said:
i haven’t gotten to the good part yet, it’s still pretty slow and comedy based rn

Ryustar123 said:
you'll eventually get on that part just enjoy the fun raid and take it slow watch whenever you feel like watching it you don't have to hurry and have fun :)

PhillyThaNL said:
thanks, i’m trying to take my time with it. it was nice talking to u and hearing your opinions, stay safe and have a good day.

Jkappele said:
that’s not true actually, it’s been beaten by other animes like Kizumonogatari, Hxh, Gintama, aot, and owarimonogatari, but FMA fans keep attacking those shows to keep FMA at number one. Pretty annoying bc in terms of enjoyability I definitely enjoyed those shows more.

adnan_ said:
FMAB is the most consistent anime whether its plot, animation or music. It checks all the boxes, other than that, it also has a wide appeal. The No. 1 anime should be the representative of the whole Anime so whether its FMAB or AoT or S;G it does not matter as they are excellent in those matter. Personally I like AoT, Gintama and S;G way more than FMAB bc I enjoy AoT, Gintama and S;G much more than FMAB so naturally I want either AoT, Gintama or S;G to be at the top which is entirely subjective . But I can understand why FMAB is No. 1. Btw FMAB's rating has dropped a lot since I joined MAL, it was 9.26 but now its 9.17.

Xenon162 said:
i totally agreee dude, it is ONE OF THE BEST shounen, btw why has the rating dropped by so much?

Highonthighs said:


Aot has the consistency of a year old baby's crap with diarrhoea
That is not it's strong suit, it just sails on it's shock value.
Not saying it's bad, i legit loved the first season and picked up the manga, just that it has nothing more than hype and shock value to it