Best anime of the last decade 2000-2010

Ones that are simply good:

• The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya
• The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
• Cross Game
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Clannad (including After Story)
• Katanagatari
• Full Metal Panic (all three seasons)
• Anime.Fullmetal Alchemist (the anime original ending)
• Axis Powers Hetalia
• Kimi Ni Todoke
• Ah My Goddess (Movie and season combined)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuild 1.0 (not Rebuild 2.0) - took points off for being a remake- but hey it's EVA

Honorable mentions and/or I found particularly enjoyable:

• Lucky Star (a show about nothing that was funny)
• K-On (nostalgia)
• Read Or Die OVA - Books are Badass!
• Chrome Shelled Regios (Felli, just Felli)

Tried to put them in a rough order. Give or take a position or two depending on my mood.

Probably a bunch more that I missed or that I am forgetting.

edited 1st Jan '11 7:21:31 AM by Sackett

Hello people! Have we forgot Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex? I would have said Code Geass overall if the second season was as good as the first.

Mine are Clannad, Air, Kanon, Naruto, Bleach, Yu Gi Oh, Yu Gi Oh GX, Yu Gi Oh 5 Ds, and several, SEVERAL other I can'tthink of right now.

edited 1st Jan '11 7:32:21 AM by Demongodofchaos2

I don't get that K-On Nostalgia thing. Isn't that show from 2009?

Also, I just watched Higurashi and it's pretty good too.

edited 1st Jan '11 7:37:41 AM by nohaynicklibre

K-on evokes nostalgia in the viewer for those carefree days of highschool.

It's one of the reasons it's so popular.

@shiro: Oh shit, I forgot SAC.

Ah. I think Azumanga does a better job in that field.

AzuDai is targeted at people who are actually in high school.

In no set order, Azumanga Daioh, Welcome To The NHK, Baccano, Code Geass, B Gata H Kei, Seitokai Yakuindomo, KOn, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, Death Note, and . . . damn it, one more and I have ten! ;_;

Ah well.

Kurau Phantom Memory, House Of Five Leaves, Mushishi, and Gankutsuou.

edited 1st Jan '11 2:35:57 PM by Miijhal

Do I even need to mention my certain winner, or do you people know me well enough to know what I'm here to post?

Don't forget Ouran HSHC! The character development is phenomenal and the humor is perfect and copious.

We should get a crowner going and vote on this.

Darker Than Black and High School Of The Dead

From the ones I've already watched:

• Code Geass
• Kara No Kyoukai
• Lyrical Nanoha (first two seasons)
• Azumanga Daioh
• The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya

If choosing an absolute single anime series out of that decade, for me, it's Planetes, without any doubt. (Excellent mention to Uchuu No Stellvia, Mujin Wakusei Survive and Toradora, though.)

Movie-wise, I'd say The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

edited 5th Jul '11 7:29:39 AM by AceNoctali

It has got to be FLCL for me, I just love everything about the series.

I'm surprised so many people are listing Code Geass...I guess the backlash against it was more of a vocal minority? In any case, it's definitely high on my list too.

Apart from that, for me, hmmm...Spice and Wolf, Clannad, Bakemonogatari...I'm sure there are a few others, but I can't bring them to mind at the moment. (Admittedly, I like Spice and Wolf more for its source material than for the anime itself. The anime didn't really do it justice.)

Hayate No Gotoku

...That's quite difficult, since it covers most of the anime I watch^^'

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (+Lagann-hen), The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya (+Disappearance), Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple, To Aru Majutsu No Index... And special mentions for Koreha Zombie Desuka and Kamen No Maid Guy which are awesome but too short ><.

For mangas...That would be too hard, so I'll just put the one everyone else will forget : The Legend Of Koizumi, because SUPER-ARYAN HITLER FTW it's the most over-the-top manga I ever read, and probably the Most Triumphant Example of Serious Business ever.

edited 5th Jul '11 3:18:05 PM by DhanaRagnarok

It should be 2001-2010. *

Anyways, I'd go with Spirited Away, Summer Wars, ARIA, The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Rebuild Of Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0, and Tokyo Magnitude 8.

edited 5th Jul '11 3:41:05 PM by Pokénatic

Turn A Gundam ended in 2000. It counts!

2001 and beyond? Ugh...tough one...I haven't enjoy much of the newer things (TTGL was good but I wouldn't call it the best...)

I've been having more fun with 80s and 90s than anything the 2000s spit out...

edited 6th Jul '11 4:45:43 PM by Thorn14

I'd have to say Bakemonogatari.

Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt, Samurai Champloo, Paranoia Agent, Durarara, Black Lagoon, Ghost In The Shell:Stand Alone Complex, Full Metal Alchemist, (Both the 2003 anime and Brotherhood.) Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Big O, Five Centimeters Per Second, the Rebuild Of Evangelion flicks and what is probably my all time favorite anime, FLCL.

It's been a hell of a decade.

Edit: Derp Madoka came out this year.

edited 28th Aug '11 11:34:05 AM by Firestorm

Fuck it, I'm going to go with Hellsing Ultimate. It's not even halfway done in English and I still love it to bits.