hey guys! 2016 is just about done.
it's been another amazing year for anime
here are my picks for the top ten anime
of the year!
all of these are anime series that i
really enjoyed and they're definitely
anime recommendations to everyone. let's
get started!
beginning this countdown from the
Creator one punch-man mob psycho 100. the
story for this one centers around Mob
who's very gifted individual. he's got
some extreme psychic abilities. the story
here follows mob as he continues his
daily life. he's really just trying to
find where he belongs in all of this. The
highlight of the show includes Mob's
interactions with all of these psychic powered
enemies. you could think of mob at this
younger psychic powered version of one
punch man. every single enemy seems to
underestimate mob and most of the time
mob is holding back too. he unlocks his max
potential when his emotions hit a
hundred percent. the animation of the
anime during those things is just a
spectacle to see. I went ahead and chose
mob psycho to kick this off for a couple
reasons. I couldn't quite put Mob Psycho in my
top five and i really love the opening
for this show so why not start off with
this. one mob psycho also didn't take off
for me right away. I felt like it was
dragging a bit until the second half. i
know there are several other people who
placed this much much higher so I'm
definitely open to checking this out
again. I got a feeling this will be
higher on my list when I do.
number nine Izetta the last witch.
Izetta the last witch gives us an
alternate telling of history during war
two. We're introduced to Princess Fine.
she's really just trying to secure help
for her nation. along the way things go
south for Fine but thankfully she
manages to run into Izetta. Izetta
happens to be the last surviving
witch in this time period.
it turns out that Izetta and this
princess also have a very long history
together. Izetta ultimately ends up
teaming up with Fine. she pledges to
protect the small nation from the
incoming threat. the story for this anime
has a strong focus on Izetta and her goal.
that's why i don't necessarily see this
anime being for everyone.
how much someone ends up enjoying
Izetta really depends on how much you
become invested in Izetta and her
fight. Izetta is a witch but she's
not all-powerful. her powers are actually
pretty restricted. even when it's a
battle of magic vs technology in most
cases it would really only take a single
shot to take out Izetta. part of having
Izetta on their team has some combining
Izetta and propaganda. the goal is to
display Izetta as this divine being
when in reality that's not really what's
their. overall i ended up really enjoying
Izetta the last witch. it goes in we get
a complete story and then it's done.
number 8 from the trigger studio space
patrol Luluco. if you're someone that
enjoyed the comedy and ridiculousness of
kill kill this anime is a very nicely
condensed version of that. whatever story
we have here focuses on this teenage
girl Luluco. Luluco lives in the city
that's a melting pot for humans and
aliens living together.
Luluco's father is a space patrol officer
and her mother happens to be a space
pirate. Luluco quickly finds herself
also becoming Space Patrol officer to
fight for justice. and that's really all
you need to know. the show is random as
fuck and i love that! for example just
take a look at Luluco's spacesuit power. she
turns into a freakin gun. that's the best
power ever.
I do have to admit that out of all the anime
here. this was definitely a guilty
pleasure for me. a very nice extra bonus
from this anime is that officially puts
together the Trigger-verse. it not only
references every trigger original anime,
all those properties are nicely
connected here. I especially loved the
episode where they visit the Kill La kill
planet. the episodes for this anime are
so short only seven minutes. you could
really binge the whole thing in an hour.
number seven my hero academia. Boku no
here academia season one dropped in the
spring of this year. it introduced us to
this world were pretty much everyone has
some kind of superhero power. the story
here largely focuses around our
protagonist Deku. Deku really admires a
lot of heroes.
he's the ultimate fanboy for them.
unfortunately for him Deku was not
born was any special abilities of his
own. Deku has to go down a different
path and developers unique abilities in
a different way from everyone else.
I personally hadn't heard of this series
before the anime started. I just recall
that leading up to the debut of my hero
academia everywhere online this was
being champion to potentially be the
next Naruto or one piece. so far we
just got one season only 13 episodes. I
found that my hero academia started off
really good.
he gave us very interesting world of
heroes, a lot of likable characters, then
it just suddenly stopped. it really might
have been a better idea to start off
with double the amount of episodes,
something like food Wars, then you could
go ahead and chunk it off to shorter
seasons every following year.
let's see if there's any more momentum
for the series next year. the sequel for
my hero academia set to come out spring
season 2017.
number 6 2016 brought us a wonderful
world of Keijo. in Japan Keijo is considered
this professional sport. the rules are
pretty simple.
Keijo is for girls only sorry guys. during
a Keijo match
everyone is on this platform on the
water. the goal is to knock out your
opponent. the key thing about Keijo is
that the girls could only use our
boobage and asses here.
yeah that's right no hands or feet. like
you'd imagine this does mean that some
girls do have more of an advantage than
others.
the story for Keijo of focuses on nozomi
who's training to become a Keijo
professional. honestly I went into Keijo
expecting something completely full of
fanservice and just plain terrible. the
anime knows how ridiculous the premise is.
how they handle the ridiculousness of it
reminds me a bit of kill la Kill. on top of
the boobage vs butt battles, the top players
in Keijo each have their special moves. It's
similar to a jutsu from naruto or Kido
from bleach. there's a whole lot of them.
i especially love the attack on titan.
seriously Keijo just had me laughing
out loud so freaking much. it did help that
was watching every episode while drinking.
if you haven't done so already
definitely check out Keijo. this anime
kick some major ass!
onto the top five erased. erased tells
us a story of Satoru. the thing about
Satoru is that he has a strange
ability. whenever an accident is about to
happen around him he's suddenly taken
back a few minutes before it actually
happens.
Satoru has taken advantage of this power
that he calls Revival, he's used to
countless times to prevent accidents and
actually save lives.
the meat of the story occurs when he's
accused of murdering someone very close
to him. as he's trying to escape he finds
himself not taken back a few minutes
but years into the past.
Satoru is now steadily himself in a
ten-year-old body in 1988. this time the
root cause of this murder began 18 years
ago. it all began with the death of his
classmate of his. erased boils down to a
murder mystery anime with that
supernatural revival ability thrown in.
the anime series was really hit while it was
airing. i remember thinking that it would
easily be my number one of the year. it
just had a land that ending. so that's
the thing how you feel about you Erased
will ultimately be based on how you feel
about the ending. I honestly had mixed
feelings about it then and kind of do
even now. there still is a lot to enjoy
from this anime series so i highly
recommend checking it out and coming up
with your own conclusion.
my top pick a number for flip flappers.
honestly this was a pretty surprising
hit for me. let me welcome you to the
crazy world of flip flappers/ one day out of
the blue this energetic girl on this
flying surfboard appears in front of
Cocona. that's Papika. we get to see
both of their adventure together as they
travel into the strange world that is
pure illusion.
their goal is to gather all these
crystal fragments that exists here for
this organization called flip flap. at
the beginning of this anime
flip flappers really reminded me a lot
of FLCL. Flip flappers is this
mixture of sailor moon with Dragon Ball Z
elements. Cocona and Papika have their
own power transformations they use these
to kick some tail when things get
serious.
the whole anime is filled with gorgeous
animation when they visit these
different areas in pure illusion.
there's a lot of variety to them. some of
these places remind me a lot of Super
Mario levels like this clock tower area
in particular.
another one is desert ] one that just
screams Mad Max .one of the areas even
just had me saying Fuck No!
at first glance this might not be the
type of anime you would check out but I
highly recommended it.
number three
KonoSuba. this show is freaking amazing!
the story for KonoSuba is similar to
ReZero of this year. we got our main
character Kazuma that one day dies in a
really pathetic way. at the afterlife
lobby Kazuma is greeted by this
charming Goddess Aqua. she tells him that
Kazuma has an option to be reborn in a
fantasy world. of course for the hardcore
gamer the choices obvious. as a bonus the
goddess Aqua will grant Kazuma one thing to
take into this fantasy world. after
getting super annoyed after Kazuma ends
of selecting her the goddess aqua. so
that's what we begin.
Kazuma his new best buddy aqua find
themselves in this RPG type of fantasy
world. they got monsters, different type
of quests, different player classes,
several skills that everyone is able to
learn, and even raid bosses. the story for
KonoSuba is just a complete blast. they
play around with a lot of ideas of this
fantasy world and just poke fun of it
throughout the series. i found myself
laughing so much with this series.
there's a lot to love. in all this fantasy
world turns out nothing like Kazuma
hoped. he really should have made a better
pick too. aqua is completely useless. both
her and her invisible underwear. Kazuma
might actually have ended up in hell.
every single person he teams up with is
more useless than the next. KonoSuba boils
down to this adventure of the asshole
Kazuma, the useless airhead goddess aqua,
the very perverted holy night darkness,
and the little wizard miss michael bay.
this is definitely a must-see show and
it's also a great combination with ReZero.
thankfully the sequel for KonoSuba is coming
out next year!
pretty awesome there's going to be more
explosions to look forward to.
number two shouwa Genroku Rakugo
Shinjuu. Surprised? i'm a little
surprised myself that this anime ended
up here. after finishing this anime i
think it's well deserved. this anime is
simply a story about life.
it focuses on the story of two best
friends. we get to see their journey and
struggles as they move through the world
of Rakugo.
so what the hell is Rakugo anyway? I
honestly had no idea before going into
this. Rakugo is a form of Japanese
storytelling on a stage. the performer
uses mostly hand gestures and also
changes in their voice to portray all
the characters in their story.
it doesn't sound too exciting from the
get-go but this anime does a wonderful
job showing their performances.
throughout this whole anime i didn't
really find myself rooting for any
particular character. both of our two
main characters as well as everyone
around them are pretty flawed
individuals. we as an audience do have
this bird's eye view into their lives
and I just think the series does an
excellent job is showing this to us. the
whole series makes you reflect on your
own life.
there's countless times in their lives
where the characters make what are
simply in the moment choices.
later on we get to see how much of a
significance this had in their lives.
it ultimately determine the path they
went down in life. it really makes you
think about some of your own choices
that you made in life.
what are some of your own choices that
you made that led you to where you are
now? I didn't realize how invested i had
become the lives of these two guys until
in the end of the very end. it hit me
pretty damn hard. I was just completely
in tears on the second last episode. in
all this series is one that i highly
recommend especially if this sort of
anime doesn't sound like something you'd
be into.
number 1 ReZero. narrowing down the list for
the top ten anime was pretty hard but
honestly choosing number one was super
easy.
ReZero got me right from the first episode
and just wouldn't let go. Our story for ReZero
focuses on Natsuki Subaru. Out of the
blue one night
Subaru finds himself transported into
this fantasy world.
Subaru has no idea how things work in
this world so quickly find yourself
getting his ass kicked.
thankfully in accordance to fantasy world
rules
subaru is saved by this half Elf girl.
As a thank you
subaru teams up with her to search for
something that was stolen from her .just
a few hours later the two find
themselves in a horrible situation.
subaru and the girl are sliced open and
murdered. Subaru just got to his world
and already died so quickly or did he?
subaru awakens to a very familiar scene.
it looks like the same time as when he
first arrived to this fantasy world. it
seems that subaru in a way has respawned
in this world after dying. there is just
so much to love about ReZero. i already even
did a half-hour deeper breakdown after
its finale. let me just go ahead and
mention a few key things. to start off
the story and writing. without going deep
into spoilers there is a certain mystery
at the beginning of the series. subaru
and us as the viewers are trying to piece
things together over several episodes.
this in particular was executed pretty
damn well. there's also several small
things that are placed here and there
throughout the anime. these things range
from character expressions, a small hint
of something thrown into what someone
said, or simply things in the background
that are foreshadowing things to come. if
you guys have already watched it, I would
definitely recommend we watching the
series when you get another chance.
the little subtle things that stand out
alone is worth the re-watch.
as for the characters we got the
main characters Subaru.
love him or hate him they did an
excellent job and making you feel the
tragedies that this guy goes through
both physically and especially mentally.
a little bonus for myself was just
that Subaru really reminded me of
myself a lot. let's also not forget the
maids Rem and Ram. by far the best girl
in the series the lovable Rem won the
hearts of a ton of people. and one of the
best things about them was both of the
twins banter together when they were
first getting to meet Subaru.
there's also the very lovable spirit
puck. this kitten is freaking adorable.
i'm just wondering why havrmt they
made a plush of this yet? they would make
a freaking killing. any way i could go on
for another hour so let me just wrap it
up.
ReZero is as close to a masterpiece as
possible but it does have some flaws. the
biggest issue that ReZero does have
is just the amount of unanswered
questions that were left with. ReZero is not
a complete story. it really only covers a
fraction of the whole intense story from
the light novel. for me
just the thought that someday we're
gonna get a sequel lessons this an issue
for me. on the other hand i do see some
other people not being satisfied with
all these questions left at the very end.
so come on guys let's make season two
happen! go out by the novel, some ReZero
underwear, the upcoming ReZero game and
let's not forget about that life size
Rem statue. Rem is the best go after all.
if anyone's interested in a deeper break
another series i do encourage you guys
to check out my full half-hour review on
it.
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of the anime i did recommend on here!
don't forget to take a look at the
upcoming anime in 2017. there's a bunch
of sequels coming! have an awesome new
years i'll see you guys later!