# What are your top favorite animes and why?

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**Created:** [December 3, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-favorite-animes-and-why/1025351 "2025-12-03T01:42:50Z")\
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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> **Tower of God** - There’s a tower you have to get to the top of and then you get your wishes granted. I’ve just started S2, but S1 ends with a _serious_ twist.

I’m _seriously_ torn about watching this - I have it in my Hulu watchlist, but I’m so far ahead in the fan-translations of the printed version (I also have 2 bound editions of the printed, officially translated version) that I think I’d be wanting more, and pissed about the inevitable cuts.

And the teeth grinding moment from the twist after having read it a dozen times. Good storytelling, but teeth grinding.

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My top anime would have to be:  
**Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood** - I love the grand scale of it, the characters and all of it, I also liked the other FMA but it pales in comparison IMO.  
**Future Diary** - There was something about it that was deeply tragic, that and the mystery and the twists and turns just had me in a grip.  
**Gurren Lagann** - I watched this at a dark time in my life and it helped me. Very inspirational story about moving on, and never giving up ect.  
**Attack On Titan** - This story marinated with me over the course of 8 years, as my world view grew the story just resonated more and more with me.

And for some reason my brain categorizes 100+ episode anime differently. But I’d like to add **Dragon Ball Z** , **Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure** , and **Naruto**.

Also I prefer to read manga more than anime because I enjoy the artists… well art. So my favorite mangas:

**Tokyo Ghoul** / **Choujin X** - I started with the anime and loved it, only to find that the manga is much better! (Give us a better anime adaptation!) Also _Ishida Sui’s_ watercolor cover art is phenomenal.  
**Chainsaw Man** - Just need to get past the ridiculous motivations behind the MC in the beginning and it is truly exceptional in the story it is telling. And I deeply love _Fujimoto’s_ art style.  
**Berserk** - I like the 1997 anime and the movies are good in a vacuum. This manga will go down as certainly one of the best of all time and for a reason. The Conviction Arc is one of my favorite arcs in all of fiction. RIP _Miura_. I still haven’t read his last few chapters cause I am just not ready for it to be over.  
**Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure** - _Araki_ is the only mangaka to be featured in _The Louvre_ for a reason.  
As well as anything by **Junji Ito** and **Tite Kubo**

HM: **Mashle** , **Delicious in Dungeon** , **Heavenly Delusions** , **Fire Force** , **Jujutsu Kaisen** , **Prison School** , and **Vinland Saga**.

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