Shioxus said:The biggest difference between our top 100 and the Japanese top 100 is pretty simple (IMO). Their's seems much more based on enjoyment. Love Live and Tiger and Bunny wouldn't be that high on any voting list from the West because they aren't deep and meaningful shows.
Despite elitists calling every anime viewer that hasn't seen their favorite anime casuals, in the West viewers prefer things that have some meaning behind them.
That, and a large majority of western viewers like Shounen anime because they are "cool" and "hype".
Aside from Gintama, which in and of itself is a parody of all things shounen more than an actual shounen, there isn't even 1 shounen anime in the top 20 for the Japanese list. It seems to me that the Japanese aren't as caught up in shounen hype, as it's something most viewers (there) outgrow.
Not to say shounen and meaningful anime are bad or wrong to enjoy, but those are the two main reason our lists are so different.
In the US at least, if I were to post on almost any anime site that Love Live was my favorite anime (it's not) then I'd just get a bunch of elitists coming in explaining to me how wrong I am, and shounen fans telling me that their favorite shounen is better. Just take a look at any of the various anime threads on this site. Almost all of them devolve into elitists talking down to people and shounen fans with poorly constructed posts (and usually poor English) telling people their shounen is better.
This thread itself is almost entirely just those two fanbases talking about the Japanese having poor taste and not understanding the medium that they themselves created.
I'm not talking down to Western fans in general, look at my top 5 list. 4 of those anime are pretty common to see on top 5 lists on this site, so I'm no different (the exception being Beck, as I don't see that on many people's Top 5 lists).
My main point here is that people acting outraged because the Japanese list doesn't conform to the Western anime tastes is incredibly silly because we want much different things out of our anime than the Japanese audiences do.
With all that out of the way, I am surprised to see Tiger & Bunny at #1. Didn't know it was that popular like... anywhere? Haven't seen it myself. Also, thought I'd see Doraemon in the top 20 since I constantly hear people in the US talking about how popular it is in Japan. All in all this is an interesting list! I'll have to check out some anime off of it!