I think Attack on Titan is my favorite action movie/tv-series/anime of all time? Maybe? I’m not sure yet, because it will depend a lot on how it ends. But up to the first 3rd of the final Season, I’d say it’s one of the best I’ve seen in terms of story telling, action, characters. A good action movie/series needs you to care about the characters, and it needs for the action to be exciting, and for unexpected stuff to happen, and Attack on Titan is the best for that reason, I think.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is probably the best angsty teen drama I’ve seen. I haven’t rewatched it since the early 2000s, but at the time I’d never really seen anything like it that actually dwelled into the psychology of being a teenage boy, including the extreme horniness you feel all the time, and insecurities and the awkwardness, and the desire for action and to be a hero. It was just aces. WTF ending put a little bit of a damper on it, but not much.
Haikyuu!! is probably the best sports anime I’ve seen. But again, I haven’t watched the last season yet, only the first 3rd of the last season, so maybe it’s the best, but it will depend on the ending. My only criticism is that it should have been shorter. I feel like they could have told the same tale in a more taut way and shortened the emotional arc of the characters to one season and it would have been better for it.
One Punch Man and Konosuba are probably the funniest comedy animes I’ve seen. Both were just really funny. Unfortunately both are pretty unfinished. Hopefully we’ll get good final seasons out of those one day.
Erased is one of my favorite animes of all time overall. Just exquisite in terms of story telling and how the story unfolds. (I haven’t watched the last 3 episodes of Season 1, or anything of season 2, so maybe it’s less than perfect if you watch those).
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is also another favorite. It’s an anime about making anime, and it’s really good at that!
Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World is another favorite, of the genre where a hero gets transported to a fantasy world. This is my favorite one in that genre. Again, the story telling chops of this anime just floor me. It can be comedy one minute, and then go into deep horror the next, and the show handles it so deftly that I’m just awed. The music and animation have a lot to do with it. I’ve seen in both Japanese and English. I never thought the dub could be as good as the original Japanese, but it really surprised me. I think it’s just as good. But again, it’s not finished it. Hopefully the series will finish strong, but the first two seasons have been great. Especially Season 1.
