# What are your top favorite animes and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
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Now that I’m in front of my computer instead of on my phone, I’m going to expand my list: [I wrote this up back in June](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-anime-discussion/1019703). * * * * * * Some of my likes and dislikes. **Freiren** of course is nearly perfect, especially for and old Middle Earth fan like me. Story is from the perspective of an over 1000 year old elf mage. She was in the party the defeated the big evil 50 years earlier. There is a strangely powerful scene where she makes a whole field of flowers bloom. This doesn’t win a battle, or accomplish a great deed, it just ends up paying respect to one of her now dead human companions. **Konosuba** is a fantasy isekai comedy. I put it on par with Futurama for humor. It is a lot of fun. **Spy X Family** is a fun spy comedy series taking place in 1960s Central Europe like place. I can’t describe it without spoilers, but it is really fun. I watched but didn’t like **Deathnote** in the end, none of the characters were interesting or likeable to me. Oh, I hate **Demon Slayer** , that style and even the drawing are nothing I like to watch. But if we’re going older, **SteinsGate** is an incredibly good timey-wimey story with many great characters. So good. Some lesser known (I think) excellent animes are: **Ascendance of a Bookworm** , about a young woman named Urano who dies and is reincarnated as Myne, a frail, five-year-old girl in a world where books are scarce. Myne, determined to surround herself with books, sets out to create them in this new world, facing the challenges of a low literacy rate and a rigid class. There is a climatic scene in season 2, I think, where they made grass growing epic. To achieve this was remarkable. An older fantasy rom-com called **Spice and Wolf** was really good with some of the best dub work I’ve heard. A remake with more story was done in the past year, but it wasn’t as good as the older one. A minor agriculture goddess takes up with a merchant in this one. A decent place to start looking for top animes: [Top Anime - MyAnimeList.net](https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php) [Top 100 Anime Series Of All Time](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls057577566/) Highest grossing series: [https://www.cbr.com/highest-grossing-anime-franchises/](https://www.cbr.com/highest-grossing-anime-franchises/) If this takes off at all, I’ll add more. Discussion for [Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delicious-in-dungeon-dungeon-meshi/998903) * * * * * * **Apothecary Diaries** is excellent, Maomao is a fun character. It is a fun detective show. I enjoyed both **Dandadan** and **From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman** which is much better than first impressions. The last is somewhat fan-servicey though. But the main character is anything but a lech at least. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-favorite-animes-and-why/1025351)._